Sentences with phrase «number of initiatives such»

In the meantime, ORIC has undertaken a number of initiatives such as producing guidelines, pre-populating some of the reports that PBCs need to submit to ORIC in order to comply with the reporting requirements, and providing training.

She has been instrumental in the implementation of a number of initiatives such as the mentoring program, childcare and family leave policies and reduced hours work guidelines.

Deb Group, a leading innovator and supplier of skin care products and hand sanitising solutions, is the lead sponsor for the Handz campaign, offering support through a number of initiatives such as «Make It Your Own».

Despite a growing number of initiatives such as Bitcoin Women's Day, women using bitcoin are still a minority, with over 90 % of bitcoin users in our survey identifying as male.

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The reception centre marked the beginning of a number of other similar initiatives in the region this year, such as helping improve search - and - rescue efforts in the waters around the island.

At the same time, Intel announced similar initiatives, such as its massive Diversity in Technology Initiative, which through a partnership with GirlsWhoCode is helping to provide more educational support to a greater number of young women.

The initiative takes ongoing tests Macy's has been conducting at its «petri dish» of a store in Woodbridge, N.J. — such as mobile checkout in store and new lighting to make shopping more inviting to 50 stores this year — as a launching pad for a series of initiatives it can roll out to a much greater number of stores in 2019.

Struggling economic conditions and cost - containment initiatives led to lower demand for office space and restrained pricing across many Southern European markets including Madrid, Milan, Rome, Athens and a number of smaller markets such as Valencia and Oporto.

There are a number of initiatives developed to address this, such as subsidization schemes for emergency services.

These include initiatives undertaken in a number of key areas, such as, providing clear information for the consumer through the launch of different portion sizes and enhanced product composition labelling, optimising the nutritional content when reformulating existing and / or innovating new products and providing responsible marketing and advertising communications.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

A number of the proposals the governor presented echoed mayor's ideas, including his $ 650 million life sciences initiative, voting reforms such as early voting and same - day registration, adopting salary history blind hiring practices and requiring state contracts to disclose data on gender, race and ethnicity of employees.

He also introduced a number of counter terrorism initiatives, such as the construction of a new firefighter training facility to support the city's first responders, expanded vehicle rental regulations, and a terrorism tip line.

Their program includes a number of components, such as an interdisciplinary training initiative that is designed to help postdocs cross-train in clinical, epidemiological, or basic research.

A number of innovative initiatives are also coming up, such as the SynBio4All platform supported by CRI, which can be described as part MOOC, part open laboratory notebook, and part crowdsourcing discussion platform on synthetic biology.

Our physicians and scientists are working on a number of initiatives, including collecting blood and bone marrow from patients to better understand the causes of bone marrow failure syndromes and MDS; exploring possible genetic factors that guide medical care; collecting blood and bone marrow to identify specific proteins that are faulty and how these defects relate to clinical complications and outcomes; and clinical trials to improve stem cell transplants for disorders such as dyskeratosis congenita.

Both the number of students who choose on their own initiative to attend private boarding schools and the number of families becoming associated with such schools for the first time have increased significantly since 1976.

As we race to the top after having left quite a number of children behind, we have to wonder why so many grand educational initiatives yield such limited benefits.»

The foundation supports a number of what Katzir calls «branded flagship initiatives,» such as the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems or the Broad Institute for School Boards.

At least 28 states have recently enacted early - childhood - education initiatives, and a growing number of others are considering such initiatives.

And we're going through another round today, with initiatives such as «Reimagining Learning,» led by Stacey Childress and her team at the NewSchools Venture Fund; the Emerson Collective's XQ SuperSchool project; Marc Zuckerberg's efforts to «personalize learning»; and any number of technology - centric undertakings like Summit Public Schools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual schools.

There are a number of examples of effective practice in schools but I want to highlight one in particular as it is such a simple, yet measureable initiative.

«We have priced children's tickets to ensure they are very affordable, and created a number of exciting initiatives such as our Bolt ticket for # 9.58 based on Usain's current 100m world record and our London schools offer for the World Para Athletics Championships, which gives 250,000 schoolchildren access to a special discounted package.

Despite the lack of research to support such programs, a number of local and national initiatives are providing impetus for principal pay - for - performance plans.

«To help do this, we have introduced a number of initiatives, such as the Women Leading in Education programme, and in December 2017 we announced an # 1.8 million fund to help schools increase the diversity of their senior teams.

In recent years community colleges have gained meaningful support — from the federal government and from a good number of philanthropic organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation — to develop important initiatives geared toward helping students earn credentials that have labor - market value.

Gray's report points to a number of nationally known charter school organizations, such as Uncommon Schools, and city initiatives in New Orleans and New York City as examples of successful reform that Kansas City's new model could foster.

The push, heavily motivated by federal funding initiatives such as the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, and major education reform philanthropies, seeks to accelerate the rate of improvements in education and the number of United States students succeeding in school, career and life.

Our charitable initiative has benefited a number of national and local organizations, such as the United Way, the American Heart Association, Misericordia, Light - The - Night Leukemia Walks, the American Red Cross, Catholic Charities, the Salvation Army, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Urban Initiatives of Chicago, Alzheimer's Association, Feed the Dream, the Cradle Foundation, Guide Dogs of America and the Anti-Cruelty Society.

TalkTalk TV is already the fastest growing TV platform in the UK with over 1.2 million customers and blinkbox will help accelerate the development of our platform by delivering a number of key initiatives significantly faster, such as offering a TV app to customers for in and out of home access to paid - for content across a range of devices.»

accelerate the development of our platform by delivering a number of key initiatives significantly faster, such as offering a TV app to customers for in and out of home access to paid - for content across a range of devices.»

The Filing Persons look forward to working with the Issuer on operating initiatives such as increasing sales per square foot to peer levels, improving the Issuer's operating leverage and optimizing the number of new store openings.

Training staff, interns, and volunteers is a key part of THL's strategy of helping to grow the animal advocacy movement by increasing the number of committed, trained, animal advocates.189 THL has large and structured volunteer, intern, and campus outreach programs designed in part to help participants become better advocates ready for positions of greater responsibility.190, 191 THL also tries to promote professional development among staff through structured training for managers and opportunities to attend relevant conferences and trainings.192 THL tells us that they try to promote from within as much as possible, and we have observed this in several cases.193 In our conversations with staff, we heard that while staff, interns, and volunteers all have opportunities for training and skill development, such opportunities tend to be much less structured for staff and more reliant on the staff member to take the initiative, which may lead to less overall growth.194

The framework of assessment they have described to us includes important concerns such as opportunity costs, supporting the animal advocacy movement, and alignment with Open Cages» overall strategy.132 Their assessment process also involves asking important questions related to measuring success and failure, such as how they plan to evaluate the program, how long they plan to pilot it, and whether they already have data indicating that they should rethink their strategy.133 Metrics that they use to help evaluate specific programs include the number of restaurants that agree to provide vegan meals in response to their restaurant outreach, as well as the amount and overall sentiment of right - wing press discussion of their legal initiatives.134, 135 These metrics provide useful information, but we think an organization prioritizing among many different interventions could benefit from the use of metrics that are more directly related to their ultimate goals, rough estimates though they may be.

The conference will address a number of critical issues such as how sustainable tourism and local communities can better engage with climate change and biodiversity conservation initiatives.

The discovery of oil in the 1960s led to a boom and the emirate used its resources to diversify into a wide scope of industries and economic sectors with the launch of a number of outstanding initiatives such as the offshore Jebel Ali Free Zone.

Campaign initiatives have made a big impact on a number of artists (Ian McEwan and Antony Gormley have spoken enthusiastically about their Cape Farewell experiences), but many, such as Cornelia Parker, feel daunted by the need to respond to something so huge.

Aivazian has been involved in a number of curatorial initiatives such as Roads Were Open / Roads Were Closed, and has written for a number of publications including Bidoun, the Arab Studies Journal, and AdBusters.

RFF research has informed the design of a number of these policies and RFF experts are continuing to look at how states and regions design climate initiatives, manage issues such as emissions leakage and competitiveness concerns, and balance economic and environmental goals.

Over 100 countries include forests in their NDCs, and strengthened conservation and restoration efforts such as the Moroccan forestry initiatives in the Mediterranean Region and Sahel (AFMS), the Africa Palm Oil initiative, and the growing number of pledges to the Bonn Challenge will help play a major role in meeting the Paris goals.

Manufacturing such a huge number of wind turbines over the next 12 years sounds intimidating until the initiative is compared with the 65 million cars the world produces each year.

The number of such non-state climate initiatives has been growing for years; there are over 11,000 climate commitments from cities, companies, civil groups, and investors in the Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action platform, which was launched just two years ago at COP20 in Lima.

It also contributes to ongoing efforts to foster a common, coordinated response by the United Nations system to climate variability and change, in the light of the 2005 World Summit and a number of newly emerging initiatives and partnerships such as the 2005 G8 Gleneagles Summit to advance the international Climate Agenda.

As we continue to expand our e-cycling initiatives — such as growing our partnerships with manufacturers such as Sony and LG Electronics or increasing the number of e-cycling drop - off centers we have throughout the country — a pledge like this one becomes increasingly important.

We can not understand why initiatives such as the Pre-Application Judicial Education (PAJE) course, which has seen considerable investment over a number of years from both the Bar Council and partners across the legal profession, including the Ministry of Justice, and indeed was a recommendation in the Lammy report, has been omitted from the Government's plan to address inequalities.

OBOR aims to connect Asia, Europe and Africa via land and sea and, while the opportunities for trade and investment along the «Belt and Road» are considered to span most sectors, a noteworthy aspect of the initiative is the number and scale of the infrastructure projects involved, such as those included in the China - Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Discussions around this issue have resulted in schemes such as PRIME — a social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms in September last year, which will see participating firms provide an annual number of work experience placements to eligible students that is equivalent to 50 % of their trainee intake.

Since then, and particularly in recent years, there have been a large number of initiatives designed to curb costs, such as limiting Legal Aid, and the removal of the ability to claim so - called additional liabilities in «no win, no fee» agreements - from paying defendants, costs budgeting and the use of alternative dispute resolution.

We proudly attribute these awards to a number of our initiatives, one being the firm's strong networks such as the LGBT + and Allies Network, Arcus and our BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity) Committee.

Previously, I was expected to do it all — deliver the budget, run a team, deliver the business development initiatives required to keep my team going, and sit on a large number of partnership committees that would arguably have been better run by area specialists (such as marketing) than lawyers.