Sentences with phrase «of urban system»

It is an integral part of the urban system.

Well - prepared leaders, Spence said, will strive to assure that «every single action [they are] engaged in supports that strategy,» marshaling resources to raise students» achievement, to close the gaps in achievement, and to address effectively issues of race and identity that lie at the heart of urban systems» achievement gaps.

Bold experiments in educational governance such as mayoral control of urban systems, «recovery districts,» and charter management organizations

Because there was no evidence that Ms. Cabott's aspirations were in any way consistent with the purpose of offering her employment, her hope to relocate based on the scope of Urban Systems» geographic reach was not an appropriate consideration:

Not exact matches

The cityNEX system is part of an integrated communications and urban surveillance system that includes dynamic outdoor posters, wireless surveillance cameras and wireless telecommunications.

Similar thinking is behind AeroFarms, an Ithaca, N.Y. - based company that has developed an indoor, soilless system of «urban agriculture.»

Philips, for its part, is working with a number of European cities on an urban lighting system that uses sensors to determine optimum lighting levels for the amount of street activity, saving energy while still providing a safe civic environment.

What we're working on now is developing a national brand of locally grown produce that reinforces regional food systems by creating opportunity for local urban micro-agribusiness to augment year - round supply in any metropolitan area.

For decades, urban governments have built information systems that trafficked in huge amounts of data in - house — everything from GIS mapping systems to huge amounts of hoarded traffic stats.

Waymo and Uber are part of a crowded and hotly competitive field of automakers and technology companies aiming to build fleets of self - driving cars that could transform urban transportation systems.

When you hear about innovative companies leveraging hydroponics systems, you might first think of marijuana growers or urban farms.

Jonathan Jackson, founder of Dimagi Dimagi is a technology company that helps organizations deliver health care to urban and rural communities around the world by designing health - information systems and mobile technologies.

Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

Michael Cleland, Senior Fellow with the University of Ottawa's Positive Energy Project, Chair of the Board of Directors at the Canadian Energy Research Institute and a member of the Board of Directors of QUEST (Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow).

We used a combination of commonly used coding systems to create a rural - urban continuum, relying on the Department of Agriculture's Beale Code and Nielsen's Designated Market Area (see Methodology section for more information).

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

Instead of solving problems they have only created new ones, as in the cases of urban renewal and the welfare system.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Every student should be strongly encouraged, if not required, to take at least one quarter of clinical pastoral training and another in an urban internship; the first would help equip him to be a change agent in individual relationship, and the second would help equip him to be a change agent in organizations, structures, and social systems.

When the thickly clotted symbol system of a pre-urban society is replaced by a highly differentiated and individuated urban culture, modalities of religious experience shift.

Alan Weil of the Urban Institute, which has studied welfare reform extensively, notes that the system has been slow to acknowledge the evolution of responsibility from helping the nonworking to supporting those who have advanced in the work world, as Myrna's case illustrates.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

The simulation of the behaviour of military, industrial and urban systems is carried out in the new fields of «operations research» and «systems analysis».

The draft copy of the Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems only reached Urban VIII by a tortuous route.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

These systems provide for moderate levels of meat and dairy, but they do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.

«The UASB plant has reduced the concentration of fruit sugars in the effluent, saving us $ 2 million a year in discharge fees, although there is still some daily discharge to the Queensland Urban Utilities sewage treatment system,» Golden Circle said.

His main fields of scientific interest include food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural, food system analysis, regional and urban food systems, sustainable transitions, ecosystem services, climate change impacts, and climate change adaptation.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.

Unmarried urban fathers are actively involved in taking care of their children, and they may need more support from the health care system, according to a new study by a Northwestern University pediatrician.

The 5 - inch wheels are made of high quality hard rubber, and while the wheels do not lock straight, they have an all - wheel suspension system called Soft Drive, which really does glide over urban surfaces smoothly.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

Inclusion criteria: «all pregnant women aged between 12 to 49 years old, who are residents of community units in Korogocho and Viwandani slums that fall within the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) area, and their respective children (when born)».

The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost after use.

We love that this travel system is equipped to suit urban or rural life allowing you the best of both worlds.

Geoffrey Canada, having grown up in an urban school system himself, had a vision for the city of Harlem and the children that resided there.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

Sub-national government in the form of combined urban authorities and county regions headed by DEEMs will be more easily manipulated by central government than would be a system of local government.

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The contract between the Urban League and Erie County says that the state's database should be «the sole system of record» for case information.

The Roosevelt Island tram, one of the only urban tram systems in the country.

The wage increase announced by Cuomo affects workers of the State University of New York (SUNY)-- but not those within the City University of New York (CUNY), the country's largest urban public university system.

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The minister blamed those he called «urban gorillas» whom he said were in charge of the country's political machinery for manipulating the system.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

Fixing New York City's subway crisis will require taking the drastic step of creating a state - controlled corporation dedicated solely to rebuilding and modernizing the city's teetering subway system, according to a new report from an influential urban research and advocacy group.