Sentences with phrase «national scale required»

Building psychographic profiles on a national scale required data the company could not gather without huge expense.

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Moreover, if Afghanistan really is a problem requiring the application of «all the elements of national power,» then it is a problem that exists on a nation - building scale, making killing more out of place.
This report requires countries to scale up their efforts to monitor and enforce national legal measures.
This strengthens the case that the United Nations ocean protection target be raised from 10 per cent to 30 per cent coverage of MPAs, which will require many more large - scale MPAs and protected areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Most if not all large scale genome sequencing projects are funded by agencies that, now usually the NIH with the National Science Foundation, that require you to release your data immediately.
A new report by the National Research Council finds that in terms of the scale of GHG emissions reductions required to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, the U.S.
Such large - scale modeling and simulation requires the heft of a supercomputer, and for this effort the team used Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the U. of I.
Coordination between NASA and the NSF can be advantageous because (1) the sheer scale of many modern astronomical investigations requires a coordinated national, if not international, effort; (2) the enormous increase in technical, computer, and Web - based capability reduces the barriers to cooperation; and (3) the growing sophistication of researchers» investigations implies that coordination across wavelength bands and across disciplines is required to produce a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the objects and processes under study.
While models with parental education and parental occupation were marginally better at predicting pupil achievement, the potential costs of switching to either of these approaches far outweighed any slight gains.Switching to either approach would require significant investment to collect data, and collecting data on parents» education levels or occupations on a national scale could be a challenge.
Many studies have now been published, and many more presented at national scientific meetings, on methane emissions using techniques which capture the emissions at regional scales and do not require industry permission to sample.
The Flower Garden Banks as a sanctuary is a jewel, and the small areas established for full protection within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary are helpful, but the serious scale of the present assault requires serious — and rapid — response.
The platform acknowledges the scale of the threat to be so large that it will require a leadership response from our country on the scale of our national mobilization to confront the threat of fascism during World War II.
If we are going to have a future, we will need hundreds of principled politicians like Tim Canova for Congress fighting for the national WWII - scale climate mobilization required to save civilization and the natural world.
Bolivia draws strongly and explicitly upon ethical justifications for requiring deep cuts in national ghg emissions by other nations, together with financial contributions and holistic mitigation and adaptation measures, capable of both reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change yet has not identified an equity framework that could be applied at the global scale.
But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.
Bryce doesn't propose a solution, presumably because any solution would require government intervention on a scale so massive as to horrify the readers of National Review.
A transformation on the scale required demands bold national leadership.
I argued that some twenty plus years on from the dawn of the national firm model in the business law context, there was a growing opportunity — at least to my mind — for the emergence of a similarly scaled venture focused on consumer - oriented legal services: family law, personal injury, simple wills, basic contracts and other legal services required by individuals and small businesses.
Suicide, attempted suicide or any intentionally self - inflicted injury of you, a traveling companion, family member or business partner booked to travel with you, while sane or insane; an act of declared or undeclared war; participating in maneuvers or training exercises of an armed service, except while participating in weekend or summer training for the reserve forces of the United States, including the National Guard; riding or driving in races, or speed or endurance competitions or events; mountaineering (engaging in the sport of scaling mountains generally requiring the use of picks, ropes, or other special equipment); participating as a member of a team in an organized sporting competition or participating as a professional in a stunt, athletic or sporting event or competition; participating in skydiving or parachuting, parasailing, hang gliding, bungee cord jumping, extreme skiing, skiing outside marked trails or heli - skiing, mountaineering, any race, speed contests not including any of the regatta races, spelunking or caving, hot air ballooning, or scuba diving if the depth exceeds 120 feet (40 meters) or if you are not certified to dive and a dive master is not present during the dive; piloting or learning to pilot or acting as a member of the crew of any aircraft; being intoxicated or under the influence of any controlled substance unless as administered or prescribed by a legally qualified physician; the commission of or attempt to commit a felony or being engaged in an illegal occupation; normal childbirth or pregnancy (except complications of pregnancy) or voluntarily induced abortion; dental treatment (except as coverage is otherwise specifically provided herein); amounts which exceed the maximum benefit amount for each coverage as shown in the Schedule of Benefits; due to a pre-existing condition, as defined in the plan documents.
Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?
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