Sentences with phrase «largest testing efforts»

Hutton says the Newburgh area blood - testing program is one of the largest testing efforts nationally.

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In addition, Amazon Web Services has one of their largest and most frequent testing regions in Northern Virginia along with their Government Cloud efforts.

The report recommends that efforts to attract CAV manufacturers and academics to the UK should include development of one or more large scale testing environments covering real world urban and rural sites.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

As part of this effort, participants will be «integrated into the larger regional effort to grow» unmanned aerial systems in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley and will have access to «world - leading» infrastructure and testing assets when they come online.

But because we do not know whether the aggression of more recent efforts added value to strategies such as hotspots, there is no way to test the contribution of unaggressive prior efforts to the larger marginal changes over time.

It was a fairly large blast, it occurred in a place where a test wasn't surprising, and the North Korean government made no effort to hide it.

«Even the most advanced and largest - scale efforts to test automated vehicles today fall woefully short of what is needed to thoroughly test these robotic cars,» said Huei Peng, director of Mcity and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M.

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

Further, a significant challenge is that testing new detector materials requires a time - consuming and expensive effort to develop growth techniques for large, flawless crystals.

Taking the large portions and tasty desserts and snacks out of your diet is truly the greatest test of willpower — it's all about the mental effort of always keeping your long - term goals in mind and staying motivated, no matter how monstrous your junk food cravings get.

Matching test questions» biggest advantage is that they allow you to cover large areas of material without having to spend much time or effort on constructing the questions.

The new framework and emphasis on global competencies is part of a larger effort to incorporate the assessment of social skills and abilities into PISA tests.

The Center on the Developing Child is pleased to participate in the collaborative effort to refine, test, and produce professionally crafted sets of the Brain Architecture game, ready to be played in large - or small - group settings.

In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large - scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement.

Among them, in fact, is the nation's largest test - making organization, the Educational Testing Service (ets) in Princeton, N.J.. Its researchers also are experimenting with computer - based tests, as are researchers at the University of Minnesota, although both groups acknowledge that the military effort has...

The article presents a profile of the efforts by Guy Sconzo, the superintendent of Texas» Humble Independent School District (HISD), to increase student performance on standardized tests by dividing the large student population into small learning communities (SLCs) to better provide personalized learning opportunities.

Educators are also calling attention to other problems with questions on New York's Pearson - created Common Core tests — some of which are being posted on social media despite efforts by the company, the world's largest education firm, to monitor students» posts on social media regarding the exams.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

The growing emphasis on large - scale standardized testing in the US would seem to run contrary to this effort.

«As the largest and most experienced nonprofit test developer in the world, it is understandable they would utilize ETS in this effort,» ETS» director of external relations, Tom Ewing, said in an email.

Those working on a project funded by the largest grant in Kansas University history are part of a larger national effort to change the way testing is done at elementary and secondary schools.

This effort will be part of a larger school - and community - based comprehensive treatment model to be developed and tested in years 3 — 5.

The CEA's efforts to push legislation to phase out the Common Core SBAC testing system is important and appreciated but Connecticut's students, parents and teachers also need the state's largest union to take a public and unequivocal position in support of parents and their fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core testing scam.

The NPRM proposed using an automated steering machine be used for the test maneuvers on the truck tractors and large buses in an effort to achieve highly repeatable and reproducible compliance test results.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

So, all in all, I emerged from my research effort willing to advocate a certain amount of research on geoengineering, while also believing that for now and the foreseeable future there should be a moratorium on large scale testing.

With big banks beginning to rethink their addiction to coal, and with investors urging action on climate change, crowdfunding efforts like SunFunder don't just create an immediate impact through the projects they support — they act as a test case for the viability of a much larger expansion of the sector.

Also in April the Farm Credit Administration denied an application by a farm credit lender to engage in farm management; NAR analysts saw the FCA decision as a test case in the association's continuing effort to block large banks from entering real estate brokerage and management.