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Indigenous women also began organizing on a national scale at this time.

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Kate Mitchell, managing director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because of its tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.

However, in the US — at least for now — Big Tech firms lack a regulatory «swimlane» to compete with banks in lending and payments on a national scale.

What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large - scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that «depended on work that had no other object than to keep people at work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained... an approximation of full employment» all without reference to the intrinsic quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction of the work that went into them.»

Our national manufacturing and distribution platform allows us to produce nearly all of our products at multiple facilities and to efficiently serve the needs of customers on a local, regional and national scale.

Day 2 of the Free - from, allergy and intolerance seminar programme at the inaugural Food Matters Live event began with a session on Delivering free - from products in the foodservice sector, and featured speakers from two providers at opposite ends of the size spectrum — a small independent, and a full - scale national casual dining restaurant.

He is also an active member of the BJA University Judo development team, aiming to improve Judo at t universities on a national scale.

Eager to take his death - defying stunt live on a national scale, the X Games will debut a new discipline, big - air skateboarding, in August at the 10th annual games in Los Angeles.

Ramsey's comeback to form isn't going to be instantaneous, in fact he seems to perform on a completely different scale at Arsenal than he does for his national side.

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

The wait for more information on the scale of the problem continues - with Labour expected to publish its first national guess at the damage the transition is causing shortly.

Obama For America pioneered modern digital organizing in 2012, coupled with mobilization at scale, but even they failed to build a national engagement database, complete with every conversation volunteers were having with voters on the ground.

He's rendered himself unelectable on a national scale - how could he possibly appeal to ANY minorities at his point, including gay people (after his AG Cuccelli wrote a memo essentially saying VA Universities could discriminate against gays?).

Or else you'd have to try both jobs at once - and get the same reaction, but on a national scale.

If the Fabians want to raise taxes on higher incomes, they should focus their argument on raising National Insurance contributions at the top end of the scale.

He and researchers at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)-- which is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and based on Princeton's Forrestal Campus — had an idea for solving this problem by using continental - scale data.

But Jacob Taylor, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, says it provides experimental data for «a quiet revolution» in statistical physics, the study of how heat flows both in microscopic systems and on the scale of everyday life.

So, although renewable energy output might be intermittent on a regional scale, it would have a more constant flow at a national scale.

While recent initiatives have attempted to address conservation priorities at global and national scales, most of these focus on developed countries in temperate regions.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working on a small - scale reactor, and Westinghouse has been working on an advanced Generation IV small reactor, the International Reactor Innovative and Secure, which is under review at NRC.

«It's very challenging to go from something that works on the bench to something that works on a large - scale,» comments David E. Chavez, a chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was not involved in the research.

Many postdocs at the Whitehead Institute were paid on an experience - based scale that was set according to the stipend awards granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to postdocs through its National Research Service Awards.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Lab are now working on enhancements to the capture process to bring the technology to scale.

«I think we seriously need to look at natural - gas operations on the national scale.»

«I'm pretty amazed about the scale of exposures and how many people have been followed,» says neuroscientist David Jett, director of the Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Program at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, which is spearheading R&D on several promising methods of neutralizing such agents.

But these days, with many scientists are focused on tracking greenhouse gases produced by human activities at national, regional and local scales, the current monitoring network doesn't measure up.

January 5, 2006 Artist immortalizes atrium at University of Chicago Hospitals On January 6, 2006, New York artist Audrey Ushenko, a member of the National Academy of Design and a professor at Indiana University - Purdue University, Ft. Wayne, IN, will put the finishing touches on her large - scale oil painting of the three - story atrium of the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and the staff, patients, and visitors who pass through iOn January 6, 2006, New York artist Audrey Ushenko, a member of the National Academy of Design and a professor at Indiana University - Purdue University, Ft. Wayne, IN, will put the finishing touches on her large - scale oil painting of the three - story atrium of the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and the staff, patients, and visitors who pass through ion her large - scale oil painting of the three - story atrium of the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and the staff, patients, and visitors who pass through it.

Modeling the impact of cattle movements on transmission dynamics of bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) in the United States at local and national scales.

On January 6, 2006, New York artist Audrey Ushenko, a member of the National Academy of Design and a professor at Indiana University - Purdue University, Ft. Wayne, IN, will put the finishing touches on her large - scale oil painting of the three - story atrium of the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and the staff, patients, and visitors who pass through iOn January 6, 2006, New York artist Audrey Ushenko, a member of the National Academy of Design and a professor at Indiana University - Purdue University, Ft. Wayne, IN, will put the finishing touches on her large - scale oil painting of the three - story atrium of the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and the staff, patients, and visitors who pass through ion her large - scale oil painting of the three - story atrium of the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and the staff, patients, and visitors who pass through it.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Heriot - Watt University in Scotland put the tetrahedral ammonium radical, made from a nitrogen atom and four hydrogen atoms, on the electronegativity scale.

Using large - scale molecular dynamics simulations on NaCl solutions at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the team determined the fluctuations in the charges, electric potentials and fields.

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

At the other end of the scale is a foghorn power ballad called Never Enough, which is repeatedly blasted out by the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson) on a national tour during which she and Barnum have the world's mildest affair.

When seen on a national scale, a dominant power and a compliant population can result in the fascism that's on the rise in Europe at the time of their studies, which also include an attempt to invent a lie detector test.

Jess: During this election season, I had thought a lot about the absence of education from political dialogue in this country, at least on a national scale, and I found that really frustrating.

At most, only one of the more than two dozen states that have tried statewide vouchers and tuition tax credits has yet to demonstrate convincing, measurable success with them, Given this reality, it is hard to make a case for substantially replacing our system of public schooling on a national scale.

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Then, in 1983 along came A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform from President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education to tip the scales.

Students then go on to explore the use of ecological footprint at the national scale through a case study on Switzerland.

By Barney Blakeney The Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has reinvigorated the conversation about gun violence on a national scale.

Researchers at Stanford University recently set about solving this problem by creating a national database that uses a formula to put all the different state tests on a common scale.

At Envision Learning Partners we share the same goal of transforming the educational experience with our educational division, Envision Schools, but we seek to do so on a larger, national scale.

And just as the Facebook debacle raises public concerns about the use of personal data, a new international test of ten and 15 - year - olds is to be introduced by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-- a powerful influence on national education policies at a global scale.

Panelists offered an in - depth look at D.C.'s FCE policies and structures and their journey from trying out national best practices on a small scale to a more systemic approach actively involving over two - thirds of their schools.

At Vanderbilt, for example, we have three federally - funded national centers on school choice, performance incentives, and scaling up effective schools.

While models with parental education and parental occupation were marginally better at predicting pupil achievement, the potential costs of switching to either of these approaches far outweighed any slight gains.Switching to either approach would require significant investment to collect data, and collecting data on parents» education levels or occupations on a national scale could be a challenge.

Symposium presented at the National Conference on Large - Scale Assessment, Snowbird, Utah.

This guide is based on lessons from the National Summer Learning Project (NSLP), the largest study ever to look at whether and how large - scale, voluntary summer learning programs offered by public school districts can help improve educational outcomes for children.