Sentences with phrase «of pioneering projects»

As a serving police officer in Lambeth, Jack's work has been influenced by WAVE, leading him to implement a number of pioneering projects, one of these is being adopted across London by the Metropolitan Police.

Digital collectibles have been explored by the crypto community for years (Spells of Genesis and Rare Pepe are two of the pioneering projects in the category launching back in 2015), but a confluence of factors have brought the category to the forefront this year.

In 1976, Alanna Heiss founded P.S. 1 as the latest venture in a series of pioneering projects organized through her non-profit organization, the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, which included the Clocktower Gallery in lower Manhattan and other disused spaces across New York City.

That is the name — taken from an eight - legged horse in Norse mythology — of a pioneering project developed in stages since 1996 at an offshore natural gas platform in the North Sea.

«The power of this pioneering project is in applying world - leading science for the enduring protection of a world - class natural treasure, Lake George.

The elusive night parrot, a species thought to be extinct for about 100 years, has finally been captured and tagged by scientists as part of a pioneering project to safeguard the remaining ground - dwelling birds.

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So many companies have developed such increasingly effective medicines, such as those that treat more hep C strains with far shorter treatment regimens, that Gilead — a pioneer in the field with Sovaldi and Harvoni — is projecting $ 3.5 billion to $ 4 billion in U.S. sales from these kinds of drugs in 2018, a dramatic drop from nearly $ 13 billion in 2015.

Altech said it had also applied for the project to be given «pioneer status - high technology», a Malaysian investment incentive classification which delivers tax exemption on statutory income for the first five years following the start of commercial production from the plant.

Ultimately, The Antidote concludes that these pioneer scientists innovate because they must, not because someone found the capital, or made sense of a project on a spreadsheet.

Just days ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Anthony Levandowski, one of the pioneers of Google's self - driving car project and co-founder of self - driving trucking company Otto, would be leading all of Uber's autonomous car efforts as part of the company's acquisition of Otto.

DECEMBER 6, 2005: Tyee pioneers online crowdfunding by asking readers to donate to a Tyee Reporting Fellowships Fund, with bursaries of $ 5,000 awarded by a blue ribbon independent advisory panel to journalists proposing reporting projects that educate the public on important B.C. issues.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

To pick up on this discussion, post cancellation of the TransAlta's Pioneer CCS project, a number of questions will undoubtedly be raised as to what went wrong and if this is a foreshadowing of turbulent times for CCS in Alberta (and Alberta Climate policy).

The author of Thriving in the Gig Economy is an independent work pioneer and founder of a consulting firm - M Squared Consulting - that relies heavily on independent consultants to staff their projects.

That will usually contain things like the purpose of the project, the needs it intends to take care of upon completion, the amount of money that is required, the length of time the campaign will run for, and the number of tokens reserved for the pioneers of the project.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has lost the man sitting in the technological driver's seat of its pioneering self - driving car project.

Leader with deep understanding of business drivers Business designer - launched Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Legal Entity & CEE region - created 4 SSCs in Poland and Ukraine (functions: Global Customer Care, R&D, Regional Administration and Software Development dedicated to a project for gasoline stations); Built SSC Russia (Customer Care)- shaped pioneering business offers to market requirements — developed managed services for banking and retail industry Pioneer in implementing innovations corresponding to future market trends R&D - introduced biometric solutions integrated with mobile offer in Poland - started SSC idea in Poland (2005 — 2006), implemented expert pull (employees exchange between countries / projects)- launched software for ATM cash management optimizing clients» capital involvement in Poland (2008)

The United Church of Christ is partnering with the Pioneer Valley Project to oversee the situation.

The WP Virtual Islamic School (http://www.witness-pioneer.org/VSchool/index.htm)(WPVS) is a project of Witness - Pioneer, an Internet - based Islamic Organization that is dedicated for the study of Islam through authentic sources.

What I propose to do here is to set down the working faith which the Christian tradition has about health and community; to list some of the pioneer areas where church - related community mental health programs are operating; to outline one such project in order to illustrate the design and plan of such training; and finally to suggest action steps and resources for those interested in going further.

Lessons Learnt From 20 Years of Organic Pioneering Projects in New Member States.

This is an unmissable opportunity to join a well regarded pioneer of bespoke and innovative print and creators of stunning projects for world - class brands.

Fair Trade Original gave details of some of its pioneering fairtrade projects in Asia.

Irish agri - tech business BHSL has agreed a $ 3 million pilot project with the State of Maryland to trial its pioneering manure - to - energy technology which is aimed at transforming the environmental impact of the global poultry industry.

Global ID Group, a pioneer in GMO detection and analysis, has a portfolio of food verification and traceability solutions with global reach (including Non-GMO Project verification).

This could be through culinary innovation, a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability or the economic development of their community; involvement in health or environmental campaigns, the promotion of pioneering cultural projects, or works that benefit society through their positive impact on the food industry.

Georgia is the author of multiple books, her latest: Modern Pioneering: More than 150 Recipes, Projects, and Skills for a Self - Sufficient Life [Clarkson Potter, released spring 2014] has met to rave reviews.

The first phase the pool reconstruction projects included developing architectural plans, using the design features of the new swimming pool at Pioneer Park as a starting point, and the decision was made to rebuild all three pool complexes at one time to lessen the impact on the public.

Space stories: Oral Histories From The Pioneers of America's Space Program An Oral History Project conducted in conjunction with the Houston Chapter of the AIAA and Honeywell Corporation Official...

Alongside Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Allen LaPointe and the rest of the Project Team, Edwardson will help the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project continue its pioneering research into the important roles microbes play in aquarium systems.

Other board members agreed and said this was a good project for the north side of town, particularly since Pioneer Park had been updated on the south end of the village.

Karpowership is a subsidiary of Karadeniz Holding, an industry pioneer in innovative energy projects for the last 20 years, playing an active role in medium to long - term investments in domestic and international markets.

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

With this site, New York State is also pioneering the use of big data and social networking technologies to create transparency around building energy efficiency, drive innovation, and accelerate projects.

WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Jo Comerford, executive director of the National Priorities Project about what the budget deal means.

«As a pioneering mixed - income project targeting tenants earning between 40 % and 100 % of the area median income, this project was a little ahead of its time when it was conceived.

Continuing, the statement noted that the previous administration of Dr. Saraki, the current Senate President, implemented several infrastructural projects such as the Kwara State University, Malete, Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre, International Aviation College, Ilorin, Shonga farms, numerous urban and rural roads and electrification projects, remodelling of the Ilorin Township Stadium as well as pioneered the innovative Community Health Insurance Scheme.

As I began designing experiments to investigate the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen - fixing bacteria, my committee members applauded my ambition to pioneer a project far beyond the scope of my lab, which focuses on plant - pollinator interactions.

«This research is exactly the sort of project we want to spark through Cancer Research UK's Pioneer Awards.

Silver has pioneered spectacles that the wearer can fill with liquid until their vision is corrected, and the OneDollarGlasses project is training cadres of opticians, who travel with ultra-cheap, pre-ground polycarbonate lenses for insertion in simple spring steel frames.

The extra equipment and energy needed to separate and store CO2 mean that neither of the pioneering power projects comes cheap.

«It was especially exciting to work on this project,» he says, because it enabled him to see a place that people knew very little about and gave him a greater sense of being one of the pioneers.

Wildlife biologists AMY VEDDER and BILL WEBER, who married in 1972, conducted pioneering studies of Rwanda's gorillas and co-founded the Mountain Gorilla Project.

«Often, we are privileged to work on extensions of existing areas of research which have been pioneered by great minds in the field, but this project has been different in that we have done a lot of the initial development ourselves.

Following a pioneer and a victim Samaras was the founder of a project called the Tactical Weather - Instrumented Sampling in / near Tornadoes EXperiment, or TWISTEX, which used different instruments to gather data on the elements that make up a tornado, including wind speeds and direction, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.

This team award recognizes the contributions of four Monsanto researchers — Robert Fraley, co-President of the Agricultural Sector; Robert Horsch, co-President of the Sustainable Development Sector and General Manager of the Agracetus Research Campus; Ernest Jaworski, retired Director of the Biological Sciences Program; and Stephen Rogers, Director of Biotechnology Projects at Monsanto's European Center for Crop Research in Brussels, Belgium — for their pioneering achievements in plant biology and agricultural biotechnology, and for global leadership in the development and commercialization of genetically modified crops to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability.

Science historian George Dyson (son of physicist Freeman Dyson) has mined previously unpublished documents and interviews with the pioneering members of von Neumann's Electronic Computer Project to tell what he calls the «creation myth» of the digital age.

Thanks to a new four - year $ 15.8 M grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Columbia Engineering Professor Ken Shepard, a pioneer in the development of electronics that interface with biological systems, is leading a team to do just that: invent an implanted brain - interface device that could transform the lives of people with neurodegenerative diseases or people who are hearing and visually impaired.

In April researchers reported sequencing the entire genome of DNA pioneer James Watson, a project that took only two months and cost less than $ 1 million.

Duckor is a former high school teacher at a nationally recognized high school in East Harlem that pioneered Habits of Mind, which emphasizes interdisciplinary and project - based learning.