Sentences with phrase «of a larger project on»

As part of a larger project on «Biological Design and Integrative Structures,» researchers at the Plant Biomechanics Group of the University of Freiburg have been working with civil engineers and material scientists to investigate how this specialised structure could be applied in architecture.
The study is part of a larger project on perceptual processes Dr. Kornmeier and Prof. Tebartz van Elst are conducting at the Medical Center — University of Freiburg.
This had led me to do a bit of historical digging into the commercial transaction of the subscription, as part of a larger project on learning's role in the formation of intellectual property concept over many centuries.
Ian Ownbey and Jacob Thornton met while working at Twitter from 2008 to 2012 as engineers (where Jacob co-invented Bootstrap, one of the largest projects on Github).
Data from this study was part of a larger project on family communication and mental health.

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And Gillam notes that he's mostly avoided chasing after large - scale public - sector or tendered projects, although the company is part of a consortium that's signed on to build a $ 90 - million central campus for Barrie, Ont.
Jennifer Fix, an associate at private consultancy Dialog, was working on a large infill project for the City of Regina when she met the principals of a boutique firm known as H.B. Lanarc.
And yes, the Dow has a heavy component of large industrial and energy companies which have recently soared on expectations that President Trump and his administration will sponsor new infrastructure spending projects and oil pipeline expansion.
Cooper & Oxley Builders, which is one of the 10 largest construction companies in Perth, has suspended work on its projects while it reviews its financial viability.
But a poll conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of Maclean's for the Canada Project shows the country's citizens are getting more and more comfortable carrying large amounts of debt — with more of that money coming from family and friends.
Putting your ideas on paper as a client will help you solidify your thoughts and if working on a larger project,, like a new website, starting here can help give you a good idea of the UX (user experience) which is a integral part of the design process.
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.
As a case in point, a $ US2 billion housing construction project gets underway next month on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan's ninth - largest city.
A senior product manager role advertised on Tuesday called for a candidate to shape the future of same - day delivery and «drive large worldwide projects with huge customer - facing and financial impact.»
Although Hadoop is a free and open - source project for storing large amounts of data on inexpensive computer servers, the free version of Hadoop is not easy to use.
When looking at defence stocks, beware of any company with large ties to a single big - ticket project, particularly if that project isn't on solid ground.
Contract positions: Taking contract positions on a per - project basis allows you to earn larger lump sums of money to put toward paying off your debt.
But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.
Perth - based explorer Gold Road Resources will proceed with a pre-feasibility study on its Gruyere project east of Laverton, after conducting a scoping study which found it to be a robust, long life and large - tonnage gold project.
Of late, my consulting practice has focused on larger, longer - term projects.
Spending on state and local government construction projects, which is the largest portion of the public sector segment, slipped 0.4 %.
Based on projected balances in 2050, 39 percent of workers would have accounts large enough to delay claiming Social Security by at least one year.
Boucher says the government's role right now is to absorb some of the difficult, non-recurring engineering costs to make it easier for private investors to take on a large moon prospecting development project.
The objective is to raise more than $ 327 million — which would be Canada's largest mining IPO in more than a decade — and the development of the company's African copper projects is riding on those funds.
Richardson said that while the climate and energy ramifications of the project can be hard to take in, it's important to focus on the smaller engineering problems and the larger problems will take care of themselves.
Weekly goals are slightly larger projects that you probably can't complete in one day, such as working on the design of your website.
Frying pans attached to sword hilts, the world's largest jock strap, bacon - scented soap... the list of weird Kickstarter projects goes on and on, with the media coverage inevitably following.
Instead, managers should work with employees to break down large projects into a series of smaller deadlines to keep the pressure on and the workload manageable.
Proving its technology can work on a larger Timor Sea project would have big ramifications for Shell's perceived dominance of LNG in Asia.
For Canadians the SkyDome became a monument to the inability of the public sector to deliver large scale infrastructure projects on time and on budget.
«They are working on fairly large projects, and if they get it right in terms of execution, they could have decent earnings.
ONE of Australia's largest and most technologically advanced downstream processing projects, the Murrin Murrin nickel / cobalt project developed by Anaconda Nickel Limited, has placed its stamp on resource history.
In 1971, Trump moved to Manhattan and really started catching the attention of the public with his bold architectural designs on larger building projects.
Google is developing a larger, higher - quality, and assumably higher - priced Google Home that would take on the likes of the Sonos Play: 3, according to two sources familiar with the project.
Without a big brand name, small businesses and startups should take advantage of the 11 tips below to beat larger competitors on project bids.
But the steep tumble from $ 100 - per - barrel oil has helped cut short the age of big, multi-year mine developments, forcing companies to shelve other large projects; analysts expect smaller, more modular expansion projects from here on in.
Apache plans to continue an elevated level of activity in the Permian Region during 2018, while continuing to balance capital investments between its larger development project at Alpine High and focused exploration and development programs on other core assets in its Permian region.
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.
Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.
99 «Belkomur nashyol investor» [Belkomur found investors], Gudok, May 30, 2017, http://www.gudok.ru/newspaper/?ID=1375080&archive=2017.05.30; «Proekty stroitel «stva «Belkomura» i glubokovodnogo porta predstavleny ministerstvam i krupnym korporatsiyam KNR» [«Belkomur» and the deep water port construction projects were presented to ministries and large corporations of the PRC], Government of Arkhangelsk Oblast, September 4, 2017, http://dvinanews.ru/-rar64b74; Thomas Nilsen, «Railway, Port on Agenda for China's Vice Premier in Arkhangelsk,» Independent Barents Observer, March 27, 2017, https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2017/03/railway-port-agenda-chinas-vice-premier-arkhangelsk.
One included a $ 750 million contract to a Chicago - based company for work on Exxon's huge Kearl Oil Sands project, one of the largest it has anywhere in the world.
The EU previously has taken issue with China's provision of large - scale subsidies to Huawei, but China's growing role in the Russian economy likely will continue to facilitate Chinese companies» ability to outbid their global competitors on Russia - related projects.123 With Huawei and China Telecom's footprint growing in the Arctic and elsewhere across Eurasia, Western telecommunications firms will likely face growing competition from the east.
Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.
As for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor force.
JULY 2012: Mitchell Anderson, as part of a larger project in collaboration with Tides Canada reporting on Canada's transition to cleaner energy, travels to Norway and a files widely read stories on how that nation has gained far more wealth from its oil reserves than has Alberta.
Content workflow and scheduling: A large part of the managing editor's job is keeping all projects on track and moving everything through the process, from ideation to publication and beyond.
In addition, we may experience greater dis - synergies than expected, and the impact of the divestiture on our revenue growth may be larger than projected.
This large increase in volume is possible because we have increased the number and quality of our sub-contractor teammates who actually swing the hammers and get the hard work done on our projects.
And while most of management's effort to realize value is focused on the Donlin Gold project, it appears to us that investors have totally discounted NOVAGOLD»S 50 % interest in Galore Creek, which could someday be one of Canada's largest and lowest - cost copper mines.
Vinayak Dalmia, Founder of AMBER is working on the world's largest identity project, Aadhaar 2.0, which is the largest citizen identity database covering a population of 1.2 billion in India.
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