Sentences with phrase «model policy designed»

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Entrepreneurs will find all the information they need to design their stock option plans and policies: ready - to - use allocation models, advice from fellow startup founders who've been through it, plus our own perspective as investors.

In a video message Laudemir André Muller, Minister for Agrarian Development, Brazil, talked about a set of public policies for a more sustainable production model, in particular the National Plan on Agroecology and Organic Production, designed for rural development and healthier food.

The model is the first to consider how the effects of climate change impacts — and the policies designed to address them — will produce very unequal outcomes between the rich and poor in the same country.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

As a developmental psychologist trained in child development, prevention science, and social policy, Jones» research focuses on social and emotional learning (SEL) in childhood and adolescence and on creating and testing innovative intervention models and strategies designed to foster competencies that help children become successful.

In addition to writing and co-writing nearly 100 papers and book chapters, she has also co-written three books: By Design: Planning Better Research in Higher Education, and Who Will Teach: Policies that Matter (both published by Harvard University Press), and Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Oxford University Press), which received honorable mention from the American Publishers Association for the best mathematics & statistics book of 2003.

The white paper highlights the importance of creating policy environments that grant innovative educators autonomy, enabling them to design and implement models based on affordable quality and personalization.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education seeks to improve education through the preparation of leading professionals, the design of model education programs, the identification of policies that have local, national, and global impact, and the advancement and dissemination of scientifically rigorous and relevant research.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

Field leaders in other states — including the Compassionate Schools Initiative in Washington state and the Massachusetts Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative, as well as North Carolina pioneer Buncombe County Schools — can serve as sources of model programs and materials, as well as thought partners in new program design.

A Principal at Meketa Investment Group, his consulting work includes investment policy design, asset allocation modeling, public markets manager due diligence, and fund performance analysis, among others.

Brian has been involved with creating policies, models, and criteria for promoting validity, reliability, and credibility in both assessments and accountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisory Committees.

Before becoming education secretary, Gove announced at a Conservative party conference that he wanted to adopt the Swedish - style free school model and designed England's policy to emulate it.

Since joining JFF in 2002, Dr. Vargas has designed and implemented a research and state policy agenda for implementing early college designs; created policy frameworks, tools, and model legislation; written and edited white papers, research, and national publications; provided technical assistance to state task forces and policy working groups; served on a number of national advisory groups; and organized and presented at national policy conferences.

The Education Redesign Lab will be positioned — with early research findings, design models, a constituency, and national visibility — to play a significant role in advocating for policy change at the local, state, and federal levels.

For over 30 years, the Ounce has been a leader in early childhood education — administering model programs, designing innovative policies, and providing high - quality training to early childhood professionals.

The group also released a policy guide for states who are considering new testing models under the new Innovative Assessment Pilot, which highlighted 15 different designs that can be implemented under the flexibility of ESSA.

It presents research, program, and policy information that can inform state initiatives to strengthen parent engagement during preschool through grade 3, such as promising models designed for culturally diverse, low - income families, examples of state parent engagement initiatives, a summary of research, and recommendations.

Because our designs are sensitive to the relationship between classroom practice, policy, and targeted learning outcomes, we can successfully scale up our learning model - based research to create innovative assessment, learning, and evaluation systems for every age and type of program.

It is well worth noting that this engine - developed during the 1950s - is still performing under the bonnet of Rolls - Royce's modern models of the 90s though having been subject to the company's established policy of seeking improvements in design and manufacture.

(In fact, I think most of the standard economic models probably under - estimate real costs because they assume efficient policies (e.g., a carbon tax coupled with a well - designed technology investment program).

No changes are planned for PV, experts point out, because existing policy mechanisms contain a volume - responsive degression model designed to keep annual PV installations within a target «corridor» of 2.5 GW to 3.5 GW.

CCSA is today releasing new model state legislation for community solar and an updated Policy Decision Matrix to guide policymakers in designing community solar programs tailored to their state.

Economic discount rates aside, policies designed to save the planet from more carbon dioxide are based on failed computer models.

He is the lead developer of the OSIRIS model for analyzing and designing policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

Other simulations that are designed for use by policy - makers and / or on the web include the Java Climate Model (JCM — Matthews 2003), FAIR (den Elzen & Lucas 2005), Good Enough Tools (Socolow & Lam 2007), IASSA's RAINS model, DICE (Nordaus 1994, 1999 +) and MAGICC / SCEModel (JCM — Matthews 2003), FAIR (den Elzen & Lucas 2005), Good Enough Tools (Socolow & Lam 2007), IASSA's RAINS model, DICE (Nordaus 1994, 1999 +) and MAGICC / SCEmodel, DICE (Nordaus 1994, 1999 +) and MAGICC / SCENGEN.

Nevertheless, modelling a 2 °C pathway on realistic assumptions will be instrumental to designing and implementing the right policies.

The model is designed to examine long - term, large - scale changes in global and regional energy systems in response to carbon policies.

Economic theory can help with policy design at a conceptual level, while modelling can provide an ex ‐ ante assessment of the potential impact of alternative mitigation policies.

When modelers show what criteria each of their models are designed to forecast over what timescales, and within what margin of error, AND their models have shown a track record of reasonably accurately matching observed conditions; then I will believe the model that has demonstrated such performance is worthy of consideration for formation of government policy.

The results of this model - based study fall in line with the previous work of Idso (2013), who calculated similar CO2 - induced benefits on global crop production by mid-century based on real - world experimental data, both of which studies reveal that policy prescriptions designed to limit the upward trajectory of atmospheric CO2 concentrations can have very real, and potentially serious, repercussions for global food security.

ALEC's new model bill calls for updates to net metering policies to create a fixed grid charge designed to «recover grid costs from [Distributed Generation] systems.»

In this report, ACEEE used its state - of - the - art «DEEPER» energy policy model to examine the economic impacts of three cap - and - trade policy scenarios designed to meet goals for reducing carbon emissions.

It sets out to model carbon pricing scenarios, seeking to determine which policy design leads to the greatest aggregate social welfare under various political constraints.

This document brings report the key messages that emerged from the Third International Off - grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC 2016), including the importance of (1) mainstreaming off - grid renewable energy in national rural electrification strategies, (2) creating an ecosystem to accelerate deployment, (3) designing dedicated policies and regulations for the off - grid sector, (4) unlocking capital for energy access, (5) identifying the right business models for deploying off - grid renewables, (6) innovating to improve accessibility, reliability and range of electricity services, (7) strengthening the sustainability of energy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewables.

ALEC is not only responsible for drafting model state laws attacking renewable energy programs and climate policies, it is also intentionally crafting and supporting Voter ID bills and other legislation designed to suppress people from voting and participating in our democracy.

Weaknesses in several key areas in these models will continue to distort policy design unless collectively addressed by a diversity of researchers.

Third, an alternative was available to them: they could have adjusted their business models to anticipate policies motivating a transition to low - carbon energy by substantially investing in low - carbon energy technologies, constructively engaging in policy design, and taking other steps to reduce the adverse impact of their products.

It may be important to establish design constraints on the development of Flex Time JD models that satisfy other equity or policy considerations — for example, as part of Osgoode's Accessible JD Working Group, we considered as a point of departure that the cost model of Flex Time and full time JD programs be similar, so that neither group of law students is asked the «subdidize» the other, or may feel their Law School experience has been deemed more or less deserving of Law School resources.

The Task Force's current thinking is that the Law Society might design some model policies so that firms that were not in a position to design their own processes from scratch could access the model policy and tailor it to suit their circumstances.

Many home insurance policies cover personal property and, while there's an exclusion for aircraft, «model or hobby aircraft not designed to fly people or cargo» are included in the policy, according to a typical homeowners policy from New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co..

Served as a security consultant and handled all the responsibilities of this position, responsible for supporting and helping the security department of the company, handled the administration of the department, developed and implemented new policies with the help of management, helped in designing and developing new fire security model, provided instructions and suggestions to the department and employees regarding safety, responsible for conducting weekly security tests in the company

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