Sentences with phrase «other global centres»

John Geha, president of Coldwell Banker Canada Operations, says, «It is particularly interesting to compare the affordability levels now seen across North America and other global centres.

Not exact matches

When we had Cisco doing their innovation centres here, one of five in the world, recently we had a couple of other global companies that have come here, they talk about that as being an important consideration.

We are also looking at other areas, such as evaluating the possibility of associating with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Centre for Endowment Consultancy, which will be integrated into our business model.

For more than a decade, the threat of terrorism has contributed to rising oil prices, global instability and insecurity in major financial centres — in other words, it's been a major drag on business.

«After two years of developing global interest in B.C.'s LNG potential, this year's budget has selected four or five other key industries for strategic investment and growth — from the film industry to mining, aerospace, and a Maritime Centre of Excellence.»

The school will be expanding their team of facilitators and moving into other global startup centres in the coming months.

The other part of the stand was a design studio where GPI's Concept Design team were on hand to guide visitors around the high - end designs and print techniques being developed at GPI's Global Innovations Centre.

«As one of the largest global importers, exporters and consumers of wine with total trade reaching # 2.7 billion in 2014, the UK has become a vital trading centre for the global wine trade and a major gateway for other countries looking to access the European single market.

On Thursday 24 November, Professor Corinna Hawkes, Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report's Independent Expert Group and Director of the Centre for Food Policy, City University London, will join Jonathan Dimbleby and other panellists to discuss the economics of nutrition.

In the last year, while other Western financial centres have become less competitive, London has actually strengthened its position as number one in the global index.

What's clear is that the power and dominance of the Silicon Valley — Google and Facebook and a small handful of others — are at the centre of the global tectonic shift we are currently witnessing.

Executive Chairman of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and other stakeholders, who participated in DMCC's second Africa Dubai Precious Metals Forum («ADPMF») in Accra, have agreed among a number of things that, the global air transport industry enacts a plan to ban the hand - held personal carriage of gold in favour of adopting a «cargo only» policy,...

► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.

Professor Dan Davis and his team at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, working in collaboration with global healthcare company GSK, investigated how different types of immune cells communicate with each other — and how they kill cancerous or infected cells.

The research, carried out by Blue Ventures Conservation and staff at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, is the first to comprehensively review the number of turtles currently taken within the law and assess how this compares to other global threats to the creatures.

Lead author Dr Nadja van Ginneken, who completed the research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Centre for Global Mental Health with funding from the Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD programme, said: «Many low - and middle - income countries have started to train primary care staff, and in particular lay and other community - based health workers, to deliver mental health care.

This includes MOUs with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC / UNESCO); the International Maritime Organization (IMO); the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP); the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the State Oceanic Administration of the People's Republic of China (SOA); the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT); the Cluster of Excellence on the Future Ocean at Christian - Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel, Germany; the European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology (EurOcean); the University of Malta; the State Enterprise on Caspian Sea Issues at the President of Turkmenistan in Turkmenistan; and the High Seas Alliance among others.

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

To understand the selection mechanism behind mutations, network - based studies were used to estimate the importance of a mutated protein compared to non-mutated ones in signalling and protein — protein interaction networks.10, 11,12,13 Proteins mutated in cancer were found having a high number of interacting partners (i.e., a high degree of connectivity), which indicates high local importance.10 Mutated proteins are also often found in the centre of the network, in key global positions, as quantified by the number of shortest paths passing through them if all proteins are connected with each other (i.e., they have high betweenness centrality; hereafter called betweenness).11, 12 Mutated proteins also have high clustering coefficients, which means their neighbours are also neighbours of each other.10, 13 Moreover, neighbourhood analysis of mutated proteins have been previously successfully used to predict novel cancer - related genes.14, 15 However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has concentrated particularly on the topological importance of first neighbours of mutated proteins in cancer, and their usefulness as drug targets themselves.

Built on the sloping shores of Lake Ontario, Toronto is arguably the cultural centre of the country — though some would argue for Montreal, or Ottawa... whatever side you decide to pick, Toronto is for sure a global megacity unlike any other, and it is definitely one of Canada's most important cities.

This event builds on the efforts of the North - South Centre (NSC) and other stakeholders to promote global education since the Maastricht Congress Declaration (2002) which established a European strategy framework for improving and increasing global education in Europe to the year 2015.

The Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST), a global leader in metallurgical casting research, is working closely with foundry partner Sarginsons Industries and others on the development of high - performance cast aluminum alloys as part of the Lightweight Energy Absorbing Aluminium Structures for Transport (LEAAST) project.

Conceived by the China Chamber of Tourism, hosted by the Macau SAR Government and coordinated by the Global Tourism Economy Research Centre, the Forum is an interactive discussion platform designed to capture a macro view of the interplay between tourism and other major economies, and the momentum that each builds upon the growth of the other.

No such provincialism here: although the exhibition is firmly rooted in Wales (now in its seventh edition, it has for the past 12 years taken place at the National Museum Cardiff and other nearby arts centres), selected artists not only represent a broad range of national identities, but are also united by their works» concern with what Artes Mundi's director Karen MacKinnon describes as «global issues».

2002 CAB Gallery Retrospective 1999 - 2001, Essor Gallery Project Space, London, UK Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, US Amsterdam Revisited: Adam & Eve On Sex, Tolerance and other Dependencies, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Reaction - A Global Response to 9/11, Exit Art, New York, US Art Aficionado Auction of Cigar Box Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, US Just Remember: It's Vienna, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AT Welfare State International, London, UK Light & Shadows..., Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, DE From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny, FR Coolecção Onnasch: Aspectos da Arte Contemporânea, Museu Serralves / Museu Arte Contemporânea, Porto, PT Conceptual Art 1965 - 1975 from Dutch and Belgian Collections, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NE DIN Art 4 - 560 Künstler und 1 Formular, Museum für Kommunikation, Hamburg, DE 2002 Benefit Silent Auction and Gala, White Columns, New York, US Parole, Parole, Parole, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT Water - Sand — Space, The International Art Exhibition: Sharjah Art Museum, UAE; Städtischen Galerie Wolfsburg, DE Private Views, London Print Studio Gallery, London, UK Collections, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Startkapital, K21 Kunstsmamlung Nordhein - Westfalen, DE 20 Years in Danish Art, Stalke Galleri & Galleri Kirke Sonnerup, DK The Artists» Memory, Stadtische Museen Jena, Kabinett im Stadtmuseen, DE Ideal Avalanche, The Pond, Chicago, Illinois, UK Pièes de Collection / Oeuvres Contemporaines, Une Proposition de Françoise et Jean - Philippe Billarant, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux - Arts de Nîmes, ESBAN @ Hôtel Rivet, FR Hors d'Oeuvre, Artist's Pages, Le Journal de l'art Contemporain en Bourgogne, No. 10, FR Frenetic Interferences a presentation of MEMORY / CAGE EDITIONS, Museum Store of The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US Sens Giratoire Exposition Collective Peintures, Photographies, Installations PASSAGES, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Troyes, FR Ilona Ruegg, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH Kunst und Schock Der 11, September und das Geheimnis des Anderen, Eine Austellung mit Bildern und Texten in Zusammenarbeit mit Lettre International, Haus am Lützoplatz, Berlin, DE Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, Basel, CH Les Horizons du Paysage, curated by François Montliau & Hubert Besacier, Maison de la Culture de Bourges, FR Ansammlungen von Ingrid Wald und Gerhard Jaschke («Freibord»), Sommerallerie, Unterretzbach, AT Out of Print Edição Esgotada, Museu Serralves, Museu de Art Contemporaneâ, Porto, PT De Concert, Oeuvres d'une Collection Privé, Frac des Pays de la Loire, FR What About Hegel (And You)-RRB-?

Dr Colin Morice of the Met Office Hadley Centre said: «The global temperature figures for 2017 are in agreement with other centres around the world that 2017 is one of the three warmest years and the warmest year since 1850 without the influence of El Niño.

Oct 15, 2013 by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies http://www.youtube.com/user/CoralCoE/videos Presentation given at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies 2013 Symposium: Coral Reefs in the 21st Century ~ James Cook University, in Townsville Australia by Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg (21 mins Lecture) Global Change Institute University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 1) The AR5 IPCC Process 2) Recent changes in the Ocean 1950 - 2009 3) Projected changes in temperature and other variables 4) Implications for Coral Reef Ecosystems

This is important because the CAGW now seems to centre around CO2 causing «extreme weather» and the suggested activity by the different agencies to move the global temperature up to the models rather than the other way round.

The 2012 budget cut funding for the measure of industrial emissions, closed an oil spill monitoring facility in British Columbia and a global water quality monitoring centre in Ontario, slashed funding for atmospheric research — resulting, among other things, in the partial closure of a vital research station in the High Arctic — and killed the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which had been created by the Mulroney government.

Given the large uncertainties in the model input parameters as documented in Chapter 8 of the IPCC FAR 2007, the fall in the effective global temperature as published by the Hadley Centre and GSS for 2007/2008, which was not predicted by the models, why are there no definitive studies being made of other model predictions to verify their accuracy?

Which leaves about 400 million in Europe, another 370 million in North America plus another few million in Australia, NZ and a couple of other minor population centres, say about 800 million maximum or about 11 % of the global population to worry about climate change and fossil fuel pollution.

Among other positions, Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is Member of the United Nations Secretary General High - Level Technical Group on Sustainable for Energy for All Initiative; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review; Co-Chair, Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project (GCP); Member of the Board, Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA); Member of the Working Group of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change (AG - APCC); Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme on Technology, and Member of the Earth League.

Scherer's other current or past academic appointments include global professor of law at New York University Law School, visiting professor at SciencesPo Law School Paris and adjunct professor at the Georgetown Centre of Transnational Legal Studies, as well as visiting positions at Bucerius Law School Hamburg, University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Sorbonne Law School, Université de Versailles, Université de Fribourg Switzerland, Universität Würzburg, Pepperdine Law School, Université de Bourgogne, Universität Basel and Université de Paris X Nanterre.

Other visiting and academic appointments include Global Professor of Law at NYU Law School, Visiting Professor at SciencesPo Law School Paris, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Centre of Transnational Legal Studies, as well as visiting positions at Bucerius Law School Hamburg, University of Melbourne, Freie Universität Berlin, Sorbonne Law School, Université de Versailles, Université de Fribourg Switzerland, Universität Würzburg, Pepperdine Law School, Université de Bourgogne, Universität Basel and Université de Paris X Nanterre.

In response to the Schrems decision and other EU Commission and European court activity raising uncertainty around data transfers, top 20 global US law firm Morgan Lewis has opened its own EU data centre in London.

The US on the other hand, while home to Silicon Valley and a key global financial centre, has struggled to implement a Sandbox by the many layers of regulatory bodies that touch FinTech driven services.

The importance of the City of London as a leading global centre of international dispute resolution is also key to the continued success of the financial and many other service sectors.

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