Sentences with phrase «of a large project involving»

The work is part of a large project involving biologists, engineers, and mathematicians who are trying to understand how birds fly in order to build robots that can do likewise, without human guidance.

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

That doesn't always mean writing a large check, but it does require thinking through what the ideal outcome should be, the type of work involved and identifying the right audience for the artists who have a vested interest in making the project happen.

Though it was only one of 52 technology companies involved in the project, CGI Federal had been awarded the largest contract (estimated to be worth $ 290 million).

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Another followed a large sample of children of teen mothers who were involved in a child abuse — prevention project, and compared outcomes of various types of early parenting practices.

«I am now involved in the largest project in the history of the company to date,» she is quoted as saying.

From the Department of Environmental Protection, documents and records being sought include studies showing whether New York City is aware that large construction projects that involve the replacement of lead service lines could lead to spikes in the presence of lead in tap water.

The projects the Cuomo administration has allowed to move forward have been along existing right - of - ways, crossed few water bodies or wetlands or involved increased capacity without new or larger pipeline construction.

James, a trustee of the city's largest pension fund, said she would introduce a bill prohibiting the city from signing contracts with firms involved in the wall project.

One of Tolson's research projects has involved determining the home range of the Cuban hutia (Capromys pilorides), Cuba's largest native mammal and one of the few native mammals in Cuba that has not been listed as extinct.

Becoming compliant with the proposed ruling could, according to one HHS official, drive up the cost of doing large - scale trials or surveys because of the extra work involved in ensuring that projects meet the standards required.

This last project, completed in 1990 and one of Starck's largest, involving both building and interior design, is an enormous black granite - clad casket pierced with tiny portholes and topped by a massive 360 - tonne steel shape in yellow steel that Starck calls a «golden flame» but others have described as anything from a huge sperm to a root vegetable.

The maps and discoveries made after examining them are being published February 18 in more than 20 scientific papers in Nature and affiliated journals by a large consortium of researchers involved with the Roadmap Epigenomics Project.

Elliott Main, M.D. who is the medical director of the CMQCC and the presenter of the study at the SMFM annual meeting, explained, «The keys for success were (1) multi-partner engagement, (2) rapid cycle data and (3) use of a novel quality improvement model involving pairing physician and nurse mentors working with five to eight hospitals at a time, all within the construct of a large statewide project.»

He told me about a new project in his lab involving the satellite - based remote sensing of large lakes in Sweden.

The nests containing plastic were among more than 200 artificial nest boxes monitored by MacIvor as part of a large - scale investigation of the ecology of urban bees and wasps, a project involving numerous citizen scientists.

Having a strong understanding of the science behind such a large - scale project is obviously an advantage for people working in IM, particularly when it comes to communicating with the parties involved.

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

Dr. Zeng is collaborating with the NIH in a project that would involve the use of a large compound library in the screening efforts.

It could be an idea for a large - scale project like The Cancer Genome Atlas, a multiyear effort that involved researchers from institutions across the country working collaboratively to catalogue all of the changes to DNA and molecules in more than 30 different cancer types.

Dr. Goldberg is also involved in a number of large - scale projects that bring together teams of experts across the country and throughout Texas to find better therapies for stroke.

Our faculty are also engaged in large scale, multi-investigator projects in breakthrough areas at the interface of disciplines that involve collaborations spanning different fields.

This involves a large and growing number of teams and projects working towards a federated platform (Exchange) to facilitate the matching of cases with similar phenotypic and genotypic profiles (matchmaking) through standardized application programming interfaces (APIs) and procedural conventions.

As you might expect for a major genome center, there are many projects from small family - based studies to large trio studies to massive studies of complex disease involving thousands of unrelated samples.

Lastly, José is currently involved in a large multi-institutional project (A Better Start) in New Zealand, with a leading role in a number of studies aiming to predict, prevent, and mitigate childhood obesity in the country.

DO THIS: After you and your team have met about a large project or assignment, send an email to everyone involved that clearly details the role each of you will play and what you're responsible for — and make sure to copy your boss on that email as well!

For such a small project, there is a decent amount of talent involved, starting with the script and direction by Brad Silberling, coming off of much larger productions in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and the critically acclaimed Moonlight Mile.

Crowd - funded by a passionate community that has been involved in the development process from day - one to create their ultimate racing experience, Project CARS includes the largest track roster of any recent racing game, a huge variety of motorsports to play, a freeform and authentic career mode, world - class graphics and handling, dynamic time of day & weather, and a suite of community features and connectivity that leave the competition behind in the dust.

This large multidisciplinary project involves departments of interior, education, culture, sport, prisons, legal services and many others.

Tinkering is one part of the larger project, which is trying to understand how design thinking (a way to approach problems that is people - centered, creative, and involves tinkering and prototyping) and maker thinking (a DIY way of thinking by making) impact education.

Deb Krizmanich was a team member leading a highly challenging project for a large technology firm that involved senior executives from many divisions around the world and she needed to get all of them together in one room for two days to get some key decisions made.

Extending from that work, we have developed other multimedia case studies for use with preservice and in - service teachers.1 This paper is focused on the development of one case involving issues of team teaching and integrating mathematics and science through a design project, including the following: (a) the development of the case, (b) lessons learned by the teachers and teacher educators through the development and use of the case, and (c) ways this case fits into the larger picture of what we have learned about the use of multimedia case studies.

One situation that particularly annoyed me involved a large scale project that was critical to the success of the business I was involved in.

Rapidly increasing student enrollment rates and increasingly crowded parks are two important impacts of many discretionary development projects, particularly those involving new large multi-unit residential buildings.

I use transition times between larger projects to check Twitter and Facebook, and schedule bigger chunks of time to email my list and other more involved tasks.

In fact, given that indy authors tend to pay editors and proof readers, and want value for money, whereas editors in traditional houses are involved in a large number of projects, and are well - known to spend the bulk of their time in meetings rather than editing, and proofing is contracted out - often to the same proof - readers as many indies use (and some editors care how good it is, and some don't) the standards may well be higher in indy bestsellers.

Some are to some degree antagonistic toward each other, but a few years ago when epilepsy was recognized as a serious breed health concern an international grass - roots effort lead to a large collection of research samples and cooperation among key clubs, foundations and organizations to provide funding for a research project that involves an international collaboration.

The study, known as the Pet Insight Project, is one of the largest technology - facilitated studies of pet health and will involve the study of over 200,000 dogs over the course of three -LSB-...]

Crowd - funded by a passionate community that has been involved in the development process from day - one to create their ultimate racing experience, Project CARS includes the largest track roster of any recent racing game, a huge variety of motorsports to play, a freeform and authentic career mode, world - class graphics and handling, dynamic time of day & weather, and a suite of community features and connectivity that leave the competition behind in the dust.

To truly measure the effect of crunch, we would need to look at a large sample, ideally involving hundreds of game projects.

Virtuos development centers take responsibility for an ever - growing range of projects: from standalone projects involving a few specialists for a few months all the way to large multi-platform full game co-developments requiring thousands of man - months.

The King Bob Videos YouTube channel is undertaking a rather large project involving Super Smash Bros., so the creators of the channel released a teaser for it today.

More recent projects of Bui's have involved large - scale, transformative site - specific installations that created their own sense of dynamic space.

In 2001 Hoyland was commissioned to design a mosaic mural for the Rome Metro as part of a much larger project involving other artists, mostly Italian (his friend the abstract painter Piero Dorazio, among them), and including Patrick Caulfield.

He is working on two large grant projects, one for an Ambiguous Monuments Festival for the city of Philadelphia and another involving a large Mellon Fellowship involving other UPenn and Yale Professors.He has exhibited in many exhibitions such as Documenta, Istanbul, Sao Paolo, Whitney Biennial, etc..

His projects are designed to change over time and often involve collaboration with large groups of people.

He is collaborating with schools around the world in a project that involves covering students» desks with canvases and asking children to draw on them, their creations eventually becoming part of a larger work.

As part of Checkpoint Helsinki's «TO THE SQUARE 2» project, Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar has begun work on a large - scale piece involving 50 volunteers engaged in «performative action.»

Though he begins with research and documentation (of star - gazers in Utah or rap - enthusiasts outside of large cities), projects are ultimately realized in poetic, sculptural installations that involve viewers and present multiple views.