Sentences with phrase «more challenging populations»

Flexible funding enables schools with more challenging populations to gain access to more resources so they can take needed steps such as reducing class size, hiring more experienced and effective teachers, and implementing other programs and services to support students with greater needs.

In fact, it seems Ludlow - Taylor is doing an amazing job with a more challenging population.

We can always count on Maureen - she is a great asset to the dog team and works with our more challenging population.

Not exact matches

In addition to the usual dangers of an expanding waistline and the next - day embarrassment of, ahem, excessive festivity, holiday party season presents special challenges to the more introverted portion of the population.

Mayor David Bing plans to challenge the census findings, saying the city can qualify for more federal and state funding if it can get its population count to 775,000.

Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

Yanai, 65, has said he wants to turn Fast Retailing into the world's biggest clothing retailer, a goal made all the more challenging by Japan's declining population.

With an aim to build more listener and client connections, SCA's main challenges were how to monetize community insights with advertising clients, as well as reach regional Australian listeners who make up 36 % of the Australian population.

A Prisons Week spokesperson said: «The Prison Service is facing huge challenges with record populations of more than 85,000 and many prisons suffering from overcrowding.

i expect that for the majority of the population religion is little more than a footnote and held to be true simply because it is what they have been taught and their daily lives never bring a reason to challenge the belief.

«This means farmers are now harvesting more rice per hectare, which not only lifts them out of poverty, but it is contributing towards the world - wide challenge of feeding the estimated global population of 9 billion people in 2050,» said Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.

The retail sector in the Middle East is evolving fast, not least due to its overwhelmingly young population, and retailers face a major challenge in responding to the changing needs of consumers for fresh - cut and convenience products, for local produce, for organics, for online delivery options and for international brands, with many retailers taking on more control of the supply chain by importing direct from the source.

Those neighborhoods have only become more challenged in the last few decades as the population that remains has become more isolated from the rest of Chicago.

Particularly in urban areas, a more culturally diverse population may act as drivers of challenges to old ways of doing things and lead to a more pro-active political culture that seeks to express its own ambitions and agendas and thus challenge — even resist — conventional top - down flows of power, both institutionally and discursively.

This is why CIHT believes more needs to be done to recognise the wider benefits transport plays in people's health and wellbeing, and the role it has to play in tackling some of our big societal challenges such as obesity, the ageing population and social exclusion.

They «get» that an ageing population and ever - more sophisticated medicines and treatments are an enormous challenge whoever is in power.

At 2:30 p.m., the IDC will release a report outlining the financial challenges facing New York's growing senior population and propose policy solutions that will help make life more affordable for seniors, Room 124, state Capitol, Albany.

Whether this now prompts legal challenges or referendums, Andrew Cuomo will now be forever marked as the governor who politically forced a gay marriage law on the people of New York State without bothering to draw a more honest consensus from the population.

She acknowledged the challenges that come with the «Not in My Backyard,» or «NIMBY,» worldview — which the mayor said has hurt the city's proposals to bring homeless shelters to different neighborhoods — noting that given the rising population of New York City, the city has to «build more than people in neighborhoods would like.»

«The fact that 25.4 percent of New Yorkers are obese is a reminder that we need to do more to address the health needs of populations that face the most significant social, economic, and health challenges.

ALBANY — After a full election cycle and more than two years of legal maneuvering, a panel of three federal judges dismissed challenges to the Republican - drawn map of State Senate districts, saying population deviation that tilted numbers upstate were permissible and any allegation of race - based gerrymandering was «purely speculative.»

Still, the lengthier, more physically challenging journeys in some years may explain why populations of these northern fur seals — considered «depleted» under the Marine Mammal Protection Act — have not rebounded in recent decades despite a hunting ban.

So they can't maintain it, and the next time it is challenged — and there is no doubt in my mind it will be challenged severely — it's going to fail again, and the consequences are going to be worse because we've allowed more population and more infrastructure.

The study is one of the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of yoga specifically in military veterans, a population that faces more health challenges and may be harder to treat than non-VA populations, say the researchers.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

I mean, not every zebra of course have, [having] seen many lions eating zebras — but enough zebras do survive, so that their population continues on and that's pretty much the same down with human beings there, though of course in recent years it has gotten a little more challenging because we've become much more cunning and technologically empowered predators than we were before.

The authors conclude that the challenge of over-diagnosis poses a significant issue in this age range when screening is offered on a population basis and suggest a move towards a more personalised approach would be more appropriate.

It was more challenging to ensure that postdocs actually received these appointment letters and that critical information about the postdoc population was captured upon their arrival.

It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major changes in bacterial composition, and from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable change in the vaginal microbiome.

«Singapore is facing the challenge of a rapidly aging population and we are certainly seeing more elderly who turn up at the SGH Emergency Department after falls.

«One of the challenges lies in the fact that more than 90 % of phage populations are as yet unidentified, and therefore considered to be the «dark matter» of the biological world,» said Dr. Hill.

It is not enough to produce more food; we must also simultaneously stabilize the global population and reduce the ecological consequences of food production — a triple challenge.

Treatment and recovery of the elderly population is even more challenging for physicians and other caregivers because these patients are more likely to have other health issues that can complicate their recovery and rehabilitation.

In a study to be published in the July issue of the journal Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Rourke noted that aging for people with HIV may be more challenging than for the general population because of HIV - related stigma, loss of friends and social networks, and the detrimental health effects of the virus and medications taken to combat the virus.

In this month's Physics World, Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, explains how applied physics led to the innovation of flameless cooking in the late 19th century and addresses the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population in a cleaner, more efficient way.

We face the challenge of feeding a planet poised to add the population of two more Chinas by mid-century.

«As the general population becomes more diverse, we are seeing increasing diversity in the population with SCI,» said Trevor Dyson - Hudson, MD, director of SCI Research at Kessler Foundation, and co-director of the NNJSCIS, «and learning that many individuals from minority groups face disproportionately greater challenges.

The cultivation of rice, the staple food of more than half of the world's population, faces challenges including the threat of climate change and the onslaught of pests and diseases.

Since potatoes produce by far more food per unit of land and per unit of water than any other major crop, it is likely that their role will further increase along with the challenge to feed the growing world population.

Further challenges include the identification of signaling molecules that promote the generation of beneficial populations of astrocytes, identification of appropriate stem and / or progenitor cell populations that can be the source of such cells, and determination of whether there are situations in which it is more useful to transplant astrocytes themselves rather than to transplant stem or progenitor cells that might generate astrocytes in vivo in response to signals present in the host environment.

Genetic and trait variation allows populations to adapt more readily to different environmental challenges.

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

If you have been told you have gluten intolerance (over 30 % of the population does, and 90 % or more people suffering from thyroid imbalances and autoimmune and inflammatory conditions are thought to be intolerant to gluten), we've put together a set of gluten resources to help you to determine if gluten may be one of the contributing factors in your health challenges, and to help you avoid gluten and actually enjoy your gluten - free lifestyle.

Presumably Stephan is challenging Gary to address some of the populations who seem to refute his hypothesis: Asian populations that have become more obese while dropping carbs from 75 % to 50 % of diet, or the Pima who remained lean on a high - carb diet for centuries.

«Our members often have faced more challenges finding love than the general population has,» Ian acknowledged, «so it's an incredibly rewarding feeling to know we're able to bring relationships to people's lives.»

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Research [1] has proved that diabetes and liver disease occurs more frequently in the Hispanic population, whereas Asians are more susceptible to Hepatitis B. Medical and pharmaceutical professionals who are culturally aware can deal with these challenges effectively.

The more innovative a school and outstanding its results, the more impossible replicating it looks to educators elsewhere who are struggling with challenging student populations, limited resources, and unimaginative administrations.