Sentences with phrase «number of targeted projects»

Grants will be awarded to a smaller number of targeted projects, rather than distributing money to a wide variety of nonprofit agencies.

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The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

Cambridge Analytica (CA) delivered data modeling, television targeting and placement, digital ad targeting and delivery, list building, and polling to Make America Number One's (MAN1) project «Defeat Crooked Hillary» (DCH) with the goal of running a cost - efficient and effective nationwide operation.

With the number of wealthy Chinese projected to reach 300 million in just 5 - 10 years, these investors are hoping to target this rapidly increasing group.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced this afternoon that the UK Government is going to delay or cut back a number of modernisation projects planned for Network Rail because rising costs and missed targets make the # 38.5 bn plan untenable.

While Ukip's projected national share of the vote fell, it increased its number of councillors by more than 150 — from just nine in 2010 — by focusing resources on target areas.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Because STEP grants are considered institutional grants, projects are more likely to be funded if the plan intends to boost the number of all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates — thus, making a large impact — as opposed to targeting one discipline or underrepresented group.

Mardinoglu says the team's network modeling approach, which relied on data from the Sweden - based Human Protein Atlas project and The Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) project consortia, can be used in the identification of drug targets and eventually in the development of efficient strategies for treating a number of chronic liver diseases.

There's been progress on several fronts — notably a big reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger — but none of these goals will have been achieved in full by next year, any more than the «goals 2000» project for American K — 12 education met its targets (e.g., «first in the world in math and science») by the stated end point.

The iQUEST project has provided professional development and support for 16 eighth - grade teachers and 14 seventh - grade teachers from schools with significant numbers of targeted student populations (see Table 5).

This is a general reading award that you can present to your students for a variety of different occasions: completing a book report project, reading a targeted number of books, doing well on a comprehension exam about a novel read in class, improved reading fluency, or general improvement in reading.

The TDA said a target was the product of complex modelling which took into account a range of factors, including projected leaver numbers and people being re-deployed from other areas.

The coalition also undertook intensive targeted spay / neuter projects that focused on geographic areas responsible for high numbers of pets entering the shelters.

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

Jiangsu Province already has the largest number of projects and an ambitious target to install 10.75 GW offshore wind power by 2020.

Yet Justice Veldhuis does seem to acknowledge there is an arguable point on whether the 8000 resident threshold is merely an aspirational target or a hard cap (at para 41) but then goes on to more or less crunch the numbers and conclude this development project is not going to push Banff over 8000 permanent residents and therefore this issue has no chance of success on appeal (at paras 42 - 44).

The province's Justice on Target project aims to decrease the number of pretrial appearances, but Lou Strezos, who chairs the CLA's legal aid committee, told Law Times last month that CLA members say long waits for certificates are producing the opposite effect.

Overall, we have had a good first half of FY 2009 - 10, well on target with our projected numbers and are looking to close the year with 20 percent of our overall premium being contributed by Future Freedom Plus.»

His profile also said that to achieve the target of BJP's Mission 272 +, before the 2014 general elections, it handled a «call centre management project — profiling of each and every volunteer / supporter who had extended his / her support to get involved in our Mission 272 + just by giving missed call, SMS, or WhatsApp to our single nationwide toll free number».

The amount of time varies depending on the level of your current and target position, extent of your experience, total number of positions, and overall complexity of the project.

Achievements should include increases of good numbers, decreases of bad ones, major projects, fulfillment of targets several tens or hundreds of percents over 100 %, all kinds of improvements you brought to the company etc..

to support a number of projects in socio economically disadvantaged areas or specifically disadvantaged target groups engaged in collaborative approaches to working with parents of children from birth to 3 years.

PSI aimed to support a number of projects in socio economically disadvantaged areas or specifically disadvantaged target groups engaged in collaborative approaches to working with parents of children from birth to 3 years.

The project funded participating ACCHSs to employ RAs for 6 weeks of data collection for each wave; however, many sites chose to continue recruitment longer in order to meet target numbers.

Parent - training programmes have been shown to be successful in improving a range of outcomes including maternal psychosocial health32 and emotional and behavioural adjustment in children under 3 years of age.33 In the UK, the Sure Start project was launched in 1999 targeting preschool children and their families, in disadvantaged areas, with a number of interventions including good quality play, learning and child care.34 Recent evidence suggests that enrolled families showed less negative parenting and provided a better home - learning environment.35 The findings presented in this paper suggest that successful parenting interventions may improve the transfer of cognitive skills between generations thereby protecting disadvantaged families from unintentionally placing their children at risk of being on a path of continual negativity.

Lenders have been active in financing environmentally friendly projects for years, and now a growing number of lenders are promoting green lending with specific programs that target Energy Star or LEED - certified buildings, Woodwell adds.