Sentences with phrase «number of alternative approaches»

A number of alternative approaches to one - off professional learning events have been researched, with promising results including: coaching, mentoring and consultation; communities of practice / professional learning communities, practitioner enquiry and action research.

In most cases, having tried a number of alternative approaches, where there are less than straightforward financial matters to sort out, I recommend that my mediation client arranges a short appointment with a solicitor, who has also been trained in mediation (even if they are not practicing or accredited mediators) and fully understands the intricacies of the mediation process and the kind of mediation environment within which the client will be working.

Not exact matches

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has called on HMRC to allow taxpayers a limited number of defaults before incurring a penalty for late submissions under the new proposals for digital tax reporting.1 This can be achieved by allowing those taxpayers a short extension period on those particular occasions.2 The CIOT says such an approach to penalties is more consistent with HMRC's five principles for penalties than alternative penalty regimes that HMRC recently consulted on.3 The CIOT has said that this «cumulative suspension» penalty regime is more likely to encourage compliance, penalise non-compliance and be a proportionate response to late filing.4 HMRC is yet to publish details about the level of the penalties, although it has confirmed that this will be a fixed penalty, irrespective of the size of the business.

[132] An alternative approach is to use the wisdom of the crowd and base a prediction on betting activity: the Sporting Index column below covers bets on the number of seats each party will win with the midpoint between asking and selling price, while FirstPastThePost.net aggregates the betting predictions in each individual constituency.

And it will offer an opportunity to a small number of privately funded fusion efforts that are proposing alternatives to traditional tokamaks and laser fusion approaches.

Zhao added that this stem cell - targeting approach can provide an alternative to many forms of chemotherapy, which has a number of bad side effects.

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

The results indicate that the direct - drive approach used by LLE, home to the most prolific laser in the world (in terms of number of experiments, publications, and diversity of users) is a promising path to fusion and a viable alternative over other methods, including that used at NIF.

After spending their early elementary years on these alternative approaches, in fourth grade, students are suddenly expected to demonstrate mastery of the standard algorithm with large numbers.

In addition, there are a number of trends in education - at - large that directly relate to approaches for learning and teaching which are used in both traditional and alternative settings.

Invite parents to the classroom to show students alternative ways of approaching a problem (e.g., in math: various ways of dividing numbers, naming decimals, etc..)

I wrote more on this topic last year in a series on alternative asset managers — the series focused primarily on my approach to asset management valuations, the level of balance sheet cash & investments in the sector, and a brief run - down of the managers themselves (inc. a number of hedge fund managers).

SoFi has a proprietary approach to underwriting, considering a number of alternative factors including alma mater, professional success, and income.

Some owners have chosen an alternative treatment; for a number of reasons, perhaps their dog may be having bad reactions to the drugs prescribed or perhaps they are just not happy with using drugs and want to find a natural approach.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

Curators Julian Page and Joanna Bryant seek to offer an alternative and thoughtful approach to Gill's photographs, whose practice, established over a number of years in Hackney, East London, continues to surprise.

Its significance was immediately grasped by a number of artists who were searching for alternatives to abstract expressionism's (and especially de Kooning's) more physical approach to paint.

That's why a growing number of clients come to our office asking for an alternative dispute resolution approach to their case.

The Centre's approach is consistent with a number of principles found in A2JBC's Framework for Action, by applying a user - centred approach that takes into consideration the child's own views and preferences; by exploring alternative modes of legal service delivery, such as unbundled services; and by reducing financial barriers to accessing legal help for those who need it.

Enforcing the settlement, achieved through a number of approaches, is an important part of the alternative dispute resolution process... Read more

Eclecticism incorporates therapies from a number of different sources ranging from cognitive - behavioral approaches to alternative treatments such as mindfulness training and meditation.

The number needed to treat to prevent one relapse in Colom et al's study is 4 (95 % CI 3 — 9), which makes this intervention worthy of consideration as an addition to usual treatment in general adult psychiatry settings and as an alternative to more traditional cognitive behaviour therapy and family focused therapy approaches.

From Canada: More Islanders turning to collaborative approach for divorce 21 - Feb - 2016 A growing number of lawyers, mental health professionals and financial professionals on P.E.I. are working to find an alternative approach to divorce through something called collaborative practice: an out - of - court settlement process that helps couples negotiate the terms of separation with a focus on the needs of the family, rather than a win - lose model.

Like a small but growing number of B.C. couples, Ross and her ex-husband turned to this new cooperative approach as an alternative to the emotional and financial damage often involved in courtroom litigated battles.