Sentences with phrase «of large scale operations»

In addition to better preserving biodiversity, the researchers point out that in many areas of the tropics small family farms match or exceed the productivity of large scale operations.

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Larger operations tend to have greater profitability, because of economies of scale, but, at the same time, these businesses would likely capitalize more than smaller ones from any innovations.

The 50 - day conflict came on the heels of Operation Brother's Keeper, a large - scale counterterrorism crackdown in the West Bank prompted by the abduction and disappearance of three Israeli teenagers on June 12, 2014.

Perth IT firm ASG Group has boasted a strong financial year on the back of growth in large - scale contracts and a tightening of its operations.

We have carefully scheduled out how much we will need to establish our basic operations and, more important, cover the legal and marketing costs of our larger - scale capital raise.

Small banks are strong supporters of the bill because it scales back many of the Dodd - Frank rules that are much more expensive for them to comply with than the big banks that have large compliance operations.

The company has been investing in farmland since 2004 and operates two large - scale farming operations totaling 28,000 acres of grain production.

While the large scale of PNC's operations mean that your local branch will give you a standardized level of support, your experience here probably won't go above and beyond what competing lenders can provide.

Because it was possible to run large - scale ASIC mining operations, mining became a way for a few small groups of people to essentially control the monetary supply of various cryptocurrencies.

Some of the best changes are those that are operations - based because they can help you improve your business finances on a larger, more sustainable, scale.

While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil war.

In February, Egypt began a large - scale anti-militant operation, mainly in the volatile Sinai Peninsula, the epicentre of a years - long Islamic insurgency.

Here he addresses the critics of humanitarian intervention, He supports the creation of a greater UN reserve force that could be deployed in large - scale operations and suggests how the composition and deployment of such forces could be restructured.

«We laud her firm stand against the destruction of our natural resources, especially by large - scale mining operations.»

Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

During the 1990s, she organized citizens to fight large - scale hog operations being established in Illinois and advocated for stronger regulations of these industrial operations.

Be certain — no matter how large or small your scale of operation, you'll find there is a Foster for you.

«Instead of the more mild flavors of mass - produced cheeses produced in large - scale operations, we carry types that are aged and ripened to achieve certain aesthetics.

The acquisition of Coveris Americas adds significant depth and scale to our existing platform, with flexible packaging operations now expected to be our largest division in terms of TC Transcontinental's pro forma revenues based on its fiscal year 2017.

And being a small start - up operation we do not have the economies of scale the larger fast food or packaged food companies do, and so our pricing is higher than a Lunchable or Happy Meal.

And so Britain finds itself outside the EU on the basis of a competent communications operation - working off large - scale public concern about the prospect of continued membership - but without significant intellectual policy work on which to draw on.

«As we continue to build on the vibrancy of our photonics and optics industry, you'll build a larger scale of operation that will create more opportunities for collaborations for all the local universities and employment opportunities for the students.»

But the spokesman said «it was quite possible to envisage circumstances where the police may need more than 28 days, because the scale of the terrorist threat is becoming larger and more complex, because the scale of operations is increasing and the amount of evidence is growing larger».

Following fresh large scale attacks by Boko Haram terrorists in several parts of the North East and killings of over 200 persons in the last two weeks as well as massive destruction of villages, authorities of the Nigerian Army have instituted a Special Military Court Martial to investigate and try those referred to as saboteurs in the operation.

Operation High - Rise nets 40 arrests Press Release edited from Rockland DA's Office Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced at a press conference on Monday the arrest of 22 individuals and the filing of criminal charges against 18 others on a variety of drug - related charges as part of a large scale undercover narcotics investigation -LSB-...]

Operation High - Rise is the latest in a series of large - scale, undercover investigations into open - air drug dealing in Rockland County.

Large - scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.

«Organic farming needs direction to be sustainable: Weak adherence to recommended practices may be behind the levels of greenhouse gases coming from large - scale organic farming operations.»

But the executives of Big Oil can rest easy for now: Even the most mature biomass - to - biofuels processor — the Hempstead, New York — based Changing World Technologies — is still struggling after five years of operation at large scale.

Better first response medical care, optimized emergency management, and the more ef - fective operation of rescue forces in response to large - scale accidents are the goals that the EU's BRIDGE project is trying to promote (www.bridgeproject.eu).

Throughout the large - scale operation with 350 victims, 50 first responders, 30 ambulances, several helicopters, and a mobile response control center, the interplay of triage components worked perfectly.

«Researchers will be able to make meaningful comparisons between large - scale and small - scale fisheries, nearshore and offshore fisheries, operations in industrialized countries compared to ones in developing countries, seafood aimed at export markets versus seafood primarily consumed locally, and a host of other possibilities,» said co-author Martin Smith, a professor of environmental economics at Duke University.

Large - scale cleanup operations would also require different types of motors, perhaps driven by magnetic fields or electrical current, the authors note.

The difficulty of performing this operation with very large semi-primes underlies modern cryptography and has offered a key rationale for the creation of large - scale quantum computers.

A handful of the purchasers are countries, but most are investment firms, biofuel producers or large - scale farming operations.

The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.

Believers of one conspiracy theory claim that the persistent condensation trails left behind aircraft in the sky — so - called «chemtrails» — are evidence of a covert large - scale spraying operation with sinister intent.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

But the realization that successful large - scale operations have to function like well - run farms raises the issue of competition with food crops for water and land, says agronomist Raymond Jongschaap of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Ian Hart, operations manager at the Anglian offices of the NRA, says there are five possible sites for a large - scale experiment but argues that managed retreat is at «the tentative hypothesis stage».

With the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection planning to begin in January 2014 phasing in a requirement that large - scale food service operations such as grocery stores, universities and correctional facilities compost food waste to increase diversion from landfills by 350,000 tons per year by 2020, anaerobic biodigesters may soon be very important to the state's business community.

Through the integration of such large - scale data sets within computational models, his laboratory is unraveling condition - dependent networks of active regulation process and novel principles on the operation of metabolic networks.

The IFPI says that some of the plants where piracy takes place, especially in the Far East, are used for large - scale counterfeiting operations.

There is a high level of detail to every aspect of the operation and the experience, from the hand painted signs and the technology behind the projections and holograms, to the large scale coordinated shows that happen like clockwork.

IL - 2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey is based around the large - scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II.

As they begin to dig deeper into the events, the more they begin to suspect something far more sinister at play, as they uncover a large - scale covert drug smuggling operation, run by powerful people that will do anything to keep their money rolling in, including taking out a couple of nosy cops.

Prior to Amplify, Krista was a director with Educational Testing Service (ETS), where she was responsible for the client management, research, development and operations of large - scale, international assessment programs.

Manager, Special Projects 510-344-7291 [email protected] Fiona coordinates a variety of operations on the statewide organizing team, including project and large - scale event management, budgeting, organizer recruitment, and other special projects

We are a team of educators, designers, technologists, curriculum developers, product specialists, operations experts, and implementation partners who have run school districts, created award - winning instructional programs, led large - scale deployments across the country, and trained thousands of teachers.

«States and the federal government have a role in changing the way districts support effective leadership in every school;» said Jean Desravines, CEO of New Leaders, Inc. «To scale and sustain school improvement, state and federal leaders must recognize the important role that districts play and promote and model large shifts in organizational culture and operations.»