Sentences with phrase «of a successful model for»

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When Karim and I were childhood friends, we could never have envisioned that we'd be named 2014 California Small Business of the Year and create a successful model for opening inner - city restaurants.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

To build a successful new startup, with new challenges and new competitors every day, it's important to be the model for your team of how to think outside the box.

Spearheaded by highly successful games like Riot Games» League of Legends, PC gaming has moved aggressively toward the free - to - play and in - session transaction model, which allows for downloadable content in the form of micro-transactions.

While many of these strategies can prove successful for a variety of business models, not every tactic is going to be effective for your specific company needs.

But the tactic of trying to hit forestry companies through their customers, of seeking out and winning international attention and the War in the Woods» successful use of civil disobedience became a model for environmentalists around the world.

No ads in our biz model but given successful use of ads by leaders like Mayo to drive traffic to their commercial site, logical to have ad / affiliate features available for subscribers to use / benefit (but not part of our business model.)

Cottle shared insights on workspace expenses, his outlook for the future of coworking and flexible workspaces, and the key factor to run a successful workspace business model.

The WE FOR SHE conference will play an important role in growing our provincial economy and advancing gender equity by giving students a greater understanding of their career options and potential, expanding their confidence in what they can achieve, and giving them a chance to meet dynamic and successful role models.

John continues, «What impressed me about Ravi and his team at RxAdvance is that they have all the essential components for success — a widely proven and successful revenue model, a solid platform and innovative thinking, a proven track record, and deep healthcare domain expertise capable of disrupting traditional paradigms throughout the care continuum.

Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.

In addition, to create incentives for the attainment of clear performance objectives around a key element of our current business plan — the successful launch and commercialization of the Model S — the Board of Directors approved additional options totaling an additional 4 % of our fully - diluted shares as of December 4, 2009, or 10,067,960 stock options, with 1 / 4th of the shares to vest based entirely on the attainment of each of four performance milestones, assuming continued employment through each vesting date.

These «Blue Star» agents will be the first of their kind for MSI, and if successful, the model may scale across Marie Stopes» global system.»

A legal battle with Apple is costing revenue and jeopardizing a business model that for years made Qualcomm one of the most successful chipmakers.

Franchising is where an established, successful business model and name is granted to a franchisee, in return for an investment and a share of their profits.

Methodology The methodology for assessments is based on Micro Focus's (formerly HPE's) Security Operations Maturity Model (SOMM), which focuses on multiple aspects of a successful and mature security intelligence and monitoring capability including people, process, technology, and business functions.

Arsenal Football Club is an example of a successful business model and football club that people will talk about for years to come.

Focusing on successful models is an attractive approach for a narrative journalist, too, because people generally prefer reading emotionally resonant stories about individuals in pursuit of a worthy goal to slogging through lots of dry research and statistics.

Tough articulates as his aim in this book «not to find model programs to replicate» but rather «to extract and explain the core principles of each program to look for a set of common ideas that run through successful interventions.»

A full description of PROBIT's design and methods has been published elsewhere.17 In brief, 31 maternity hospitals and their affiliated polyclinics (where children are followed for routine health care) were randomized either to receive a breastfeeding promotion intervention modelled on the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding of the WHO / UNICEF Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) or to continue the maternity hospital and polyclinic practices in effect at the time of randomization.

Additional research on these topics can provide guidance and tools for promoting successful implementation of evidence - based home visiting and adaptation of program models to different populations and contexts.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

The Midwives Association of Washington State has provided testimonials for successful models of collaborative care: read more.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

Models were developed using the following possible predictors of breastfeeding duration: maternal race, maternal education, paternal education, maternal age, socioeconomic status, 22 marital status, parity, mode of delivery, previous breastfeeding experience, timing of feeding method selection, problems with pregnancy / labor / delivery, breastfeeding goal (weeks), family preference for breastfeeding, paternal preference for breastfeeding, having friends who breastfed, randomization group, 16 plans to return to work, infant's 5 - minute Apgar score, and infant's age in minutes when first breastfed (first successful latch and feeding).

A qualitative study of 21 mothers in the Athens - Clarke County area determined that role models for successful breastfeeding help positively shape the outcomes of mothers of infants.

Nicolas Sarkozy was, for the first time since 1945, an unashamed President of the Right in France, campaigning in his successful 2007 presidential bid for a «rupture» from France's «failed» economic and social model.

Smith, who has led a model of opposition in the Lords for the last couple of years — professional, thoughtful and successful — refers to the facts.

If successful, Iran could become a model for other countries, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, which given the current levels of trauma and distress, are having or will probably witness increasing levels of drug use.

People often point to Daily Kos as a model for a successful blog, since it's one of the top destinations in the progressive political web and features an impressive legion of regular contributors.

It is also, despite the rabid anti-immigrant sensibilities of the tabloid press, a far more successful model than that practised in France, and a far more ethical model for governing a multicultural society.

The editorial emphasized the need for a public financing mechanism modeled on New York City's successful small donor matching program, where the first $ 175 of any donation is matched at a 6 - to - 1 ratio.

New York State has modeled the Certified Application Counselors on successful community assistance programs in New York, as the program is designed for local districts to help meet the needs of county residents by providing assistance in convenient, community - based locations.

«For years we've had requests from families in the Bronx to bring this successful model to their neighborhoods,» said Jenny Sedlis, SCN's director of external affairs, in a telephone interview.

Hawkins cites his run for mayor in 2005 as a successful example of this model.

This two - page brief highlights how the CAC model works, its successful outcomes, the momentum of our movement, and the need for continued and expanded support to CACs serving child victims of abuse.

They say the model will provide the kind of support - access to health care, after - school programs, educational opportunities for parents - that will enable students from low - income backgrounds to be more successful.

Suchanek, parent coordinator for Success Academies, said perceptions of Upper West Success Academy have changed, calling it a «successful model.»

By highlighting and celebrating successful examples of public engagement, AAAS and our partners aim to communicate the importance of such efforts and create models for other scientists and engineers.

Topping the list as our pick for the best non stick ceramic frying pan, this model offers a slew of convenient and premium features to make your cooking experience comfortable and successful.

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Similarly for the K - 12 level, the Committee has highlighted a number of best practices and model programs that were showcased in the NAS report requested by Congress, Successful K - 12 Stem Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Evidence for the Higgs would be the capstone of an edifice that particle physicists have been building for half a century — the phenomenally successful theory known simply as the standard model.

«Maine, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois have been particularly successful in enrolling eligible children with immigrant parents in insurance programs, and are models for the rest of the country,» Dr Seiber notes.

In order to explore the factors that hinder and help individuals transition from long - term residential substance abuse treatment centers to the community, Dr. Manuel and her collaborators, Dr. Obie Nichols and Ms. Erin Palmer, from Services for the UnderServed, Inc., (SUS) conducted a qualitative socio - ecological model - based study, «Barriers and Facilitators to Successful Transition from Long - Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment,» the findings of which were recently presented at the 2016 Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State conference.

It has been noted that women tend to find physician - scientist careers less attractive than men do for a number of reasons: They (1) are concerned that it will be impossible to combine a successful medical research career with childbearing and family life; (2) feel that they have to be better than their male counterparts to be considered equal; (3) receive little encouragement to become physician - scientists; and (4) lack compelling role models.

Understanding the molecular pathway of this accelerated model could lead to more successful drug trials for all ALS patients.

The program is based on a successful series of WCF field schools for African cacao farmers, themselves modeled on similar United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization farmer field schools.

The strategy is modeled on the broadly successful Tech City initiative, which has seen London's «Silicon Roundabout» — a bleak gyratory system in the east of the city — become an unlikely but popular home for dozens of IT startups.

«In this study we have demonstrated how novel concepts initially used to create a successful model of collaborative care for dementia were successfully applied to create the CCRC providing innovative collaborative care for ICU survivors,» she said.