Sentences with phrase «on a broad scale for»

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

The report notes that while it is a small number of devices, the production does mark a significant step in experimentation with the material on a broader scale for Apple.

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«While an incredibly difficult decision for us given the effect on our core operations, it became clear that we needed to close the Maple operation here in New York and look for a partner with scale — one that would allow us to leverage all that we had built across a broader platform.»

The social media platform made such data grabs easy for app developers — though it began severely restricting them in 2015 — and Wylie saw it as a powerful way to study an entire nation on a scale at once broad and precise.

It may not be possible for such a reality to be constructed for everyone or on a broad scale, for communication with an invisible deity clearly runs counter to the norms of modern culture.

We provide sales and service for a broad range of scales and weighing equipment with a focus on customer satisfaction.

That might not matter on the broader scale anymore; Cuomo pledged Wednesday to serve a full term, which would, if true, seem to end chatter about a White House bid for him in 2016 if Hilllary Rodham Clinton does not run.

But after Monday's announcement, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer criticized the mayor for not expanding solar power more rapidly and on a broader scale.

If this test is successful on a broad scale, the goal is to lower cancer recurrence for colorectal patients.»

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

«Because of this, the Core promotes interdisciplinary and translational research in behavioral neuroscience on a much broader scale, bringing researchers closer to better treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases.»

On its website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls insufficient sleep a public health problem in America, «which may be caused by broad scale societal factors such as round - the - clock access to technology and work schedules.»

I have experienced something similar on a much smaller scale, for when I give friends and other associates my standard introductory «mini-festival» of Hindi popular cinema, the title that consistently connects the strongest is this film — which initially surprised me, considering it's as undiluted an example as any of the very un-Hollywood masala formula: broad, often silly comedy mixed with earnest, tear - jerking sentiment, all peppered with the occasional song and dance over the course of a typically lengthy run time of just over three hours.

And on a broader scale, Graham's character progression throughout the film is a cipher for confronting twisted, broken authority in many arenas — including, of course, scaring up the bravery to confront power - hungry leaders who want to turn the world against you.

Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash Fast Company, May 18, 2011 «Another of the competition's judges, [Senior Lecturer] Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»»

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

Micro-schools do not typically focus on basic literacy and numeracy, which does not bode well for democratizing access, as both scaling and equity require accepting students with a broad range of experiences and incoming abilities.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

«It will be used to help us better understand how children with, for example, English as an additional language perform in terms of their broader education, and to assess and monitor the scale and impact immigration may be having on the schools sector.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Fiske and Ladd argue that North Carolina's letter grades fail to account for the impact that poverty has on academic achievement, and that wrap - around services, like summer enrichment programs and health clinics, are critical to seeing broad - scale improvement in students» learning gains.

The newspaper originated the idea on a broad scale, offering a specific number of page views per month for free, then charging for additional content.

«On a broader scale, BryteWave enhancements also support the continued growth of our includED program and Follett Discover as more and more of our partners look to Follett for solutions that promote seamless access to digital content.»

On a broader scale, student loan debt in the entire UK surpassed # 100 billion for the first time in the country's history.

Well - intentioned as it may be, limiting the ability of schools to require additional counseling as a condition for accessing federal loan funds is detrimental on a broad scale — affecting student borrowers, schools and taxpayers alike.

While the broad economic malaise affected Dover's competitors as well, the Company's lack of scale, its unprofitable tracks, and its reliance on a single facility (Dover) for its operating profit left the Company more vulnerable to undesirable economic conditions and underperformance.

Many of these products were not previously available for portfolio allocations on such a broad scale and are leading to changes in the way they are applied in the development of both large and small portfolios.

On a broader scale, while the global penetration rate for EVs remains very low, the recent growth in EVs should not be ignored.

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The bottom line is that Ardennes Assault finally brings the feeling of grand strategy and broader tactical thinking to bear on a game that has been renowned for tactical gameplay on a smaller, more individual scale.

Vuillard's interest in patterned surfaces and domestic intimacy led him to produce many of his most compelling works around 1900 in two radically different formats: on the one hand, large - scale paintings, conceived as decorative ensembles and commissioned for private, domestic spaces; and, on the other, intimate color lithographs, produced in series and destined for broader circulation.

She chose the opportunity to work at a scale unprecedented for her and on a wall visible to a broad public, including service workers in the building.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

The solution for a balanced lifestyle is easy to discuss and confirm, but very hard to achieve on a broad scale of human affairs.

The idea is to inspire community dialogue around food issues by using the Northwest Earth Institute's «Menu for the Future» course on a broad scale through faith communities, organizations, businesses or, in this case, neighbors gathered by Felicia's friend from work.

Tide gauges located along the world's coastlines that have been recording water levels for many decades or even centuries provide the most accurate source of information on ESL, but they are unevenly distributed (with most of them located in North America and Europe)(Menéndez and Woodworth 2010) hampering broad - scale (up to global) assessments.

We believe this is the first attempt to estimate the influence of mechanical thinning on runoff over multi-year broad - scale restoration projects that accounts for the effects of climate variability.

In consideration of themes and programming for the 2017 congress, the local organizing committee envisions a broad and inclusive view of topics on environmental and sustainability education that will highlight the impact of urban ecosystems and local, place based initiatives that can be translated into practices on a global scale.

In order to achieve economies of scale, China will allow these exchanges to trade on the national carbon market, which will give them greater access to capital and provide more opportunities for investors to trade a broader range of products.

The authors identify four broad investment themes that have potential to scale up finance for sustainable energy, both in OECD and emerging markets: (1) green bonds market development, (2) structures that use development finance institutions» de-risking instruments to mobilize private capital, (3) insurance products that focus on removing specific risks and (4) aggregation structures that focus on bundling and pooling approaches for small - scale opportunities.

The truth of the matter is that if the world reduces the use of fossil fuels there will be starvation on a broad scale, and many more people will die simply because they lack the energy for clean and safe living.

Public support for broad - scale renewable resource assessments or exploration can provide information on resource availability that is key to attracting investor interest.

As humans continue to push planetary limits, are we due for a lot more of this sort of thing, and on a broader scale?

Among the issues reviewed were: • The prospects for air pollution and climate change in the region up to 2030 in the absence of action on SLCPs; • The potential contribution of SLCP mitigation to climate, health and food security, and more generally to economic development; • Feasible mitigation technologies and strategies and opportunities for their implementation at national scale; • The relationship of SLCP mitigation to broader regional air pollution and climate strategies and their benefit for the MENA region.

While our findings do not support those from other studies testing for patterns within countries, they are consistent with results from cross-sectional studies testing for associations between temperature and the SSR conducted on a broader global scale.

We find that the features of the CMIP5 rank histograms, of general reliability on broad scales, are consistent with those of CMIP3, suggesting a similar level of performance for present - day climatology.

Now, another site, Prime Advantage Legal, is offering a similar service for small - and mid-sized law firms, but on a broader scale and with more consistent discounts.

As well as handling a broad range of large - scale, multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes, Nick has advised on a range of internal corporate, regulatory and criminal investigations (including a number of investigations by the SFO) for major corporate clients, including in the professional services, retail and pharmaceuticals sectors.