Sentences with phrase «over a system which»

The public accounts committee raised the alarm over a system which allows academies themselves to ensure the effectiveness of their use of public money.

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We have now completed several health studies in partnership with the Geisinger Health System, which provides primary care to over 450,000 patients in Pennsylvania, including many residing in fracking areas.
As the WSJ report notes, Canada is in good shape to accommodate the payment system, which lets iPhone 6 and Apple Watch owners pay by waving their devices over a point - of - sale terminal.
All the information is stored in a central cloud, which gives the system an ever - growing data set and allows it to deliver more accurate readings over time.
The «Wan na Cry» epidemic, which is still far from over, represents a perfect storm of outdated hospital system IT, buggy software, and government surveillance, as my colleague Jeff John Roberts explains.
The company, which develops self - driving and self - parking systems, has seen its shares double in only two years and is up 46 percent over the past year.
However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.
BYD, which is based in Shenzhen, China, boasts selling over 100 storage systems in Australia, which it considers a «strategic market.»
The rights group recommended the two countries instead work together to pursue reforms, adding that, «Kuwait should confront the outcry over deaths, beatings, and rapes of domestic workers by taking immediate steps to reform the kafala system, which traps workers with abusive employers.»
The Verge report offers a good run - down of the technical specifics but, for present purposes, they can be summed up like this: the bitcoin community failed to agree on a system upgrade, which means the ledger's infrastructure faces a growing backlog, and it now takes over 40 minutes to confirm a transaction.
Snap also revealed that it will spend $ 2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years and has custom built its software and computer systems to use Google's computing, storage, bandwidth, and other services, some of which do not have an alternative in the market, the company said in the S - 1 filing.
U.S. safety regulators have demanded that it hand over detailed information about the design, operation and testing of its Autopilot technology following a May 7 fatal crash in which the system was in use.
Over the next 30 days, agencies must report to DHS which, if any, Kaspersky software they currently use to protect government information systems.
As sleep researcher Matthew Walker explains in his book Why We Sleep, losing just an hour of sleep stresses the cardiovascular system, which can tip some folks with heart issues over the edge.
Investors can participate in the potential of companies such as TIO Networks Corp. (TSXV: TNC), an expedited bill - payment processor, which recorded $ 36.5 million in revenues in 2011, an increase of almost 50 % over the previous year, and Verisante Technology Inc. (TSXV: VRS), a medical device company that commercializes cancer detection systems using a platform developed by the BC Cancer Agency.
The company said that it investigated the data breach and has remedied the problem, which resulted in its computer systems going offline periodically over the past few days.
This system, which currently has over 5 million Australians on it, could become a major tool for health providers to strengthen their decision making and care — they will have access to widespread clinical information such as discharge summaries, allergies, and medication usage.
The car maker, which has consistently fallen short of promised production targets and is fighting bad publicity over a fatal crash of a car using its Autopilot system, said 10 days ago it would have positive cash flow from the third quarter.
RIM has dealt with a number of complex technical challenges over the past few months, mainly developing the PlayBook tablet, which runs a new operating system, QNX.
For example, hacks into Home Depot and Target (tgt) over the past few years involved criminals covertly installing malware into store payment systems, which made it easy for them to siphon sensitive customer data.
Awtani added provisioning requirements of public sector undertaking banks have increased with the surge in non-performing assets (NPA) and that there still exists stressed loans in the system which will probably be recognized as NPAs over the coming few quarters.
Kolondra told Fortune that Opera, which is being taken over by a Chinese consortium, has no intention of getting publishers and ad networks to pay for having their ads bypass its blocking system, in the fashion of the controversial AdBlock Plus.
The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300 researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor, studying ways to boost patient response to current immunotherapy drugs.
There are over 21 million Americans with that disease, which costs the United States health care system $ 176 billion annually in direct medical expenses, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
LNG is liquefied natural gas (the same gas that you'd use in your home heating system) chilled to -161 °C, which reduces its volume to 1 / 600th of the volume of gas, making it economically feasible to transport over long distances by ship.
As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.
Despite suffering from a massive hack in 2011, which resulted in losing personal data of over 100 million Playstation users, Sony seems to have mismanaged its cybersecurity system again.
That's the part of the computer system that deals with input and output requests for data, over which software applications sit.
The effects are being felt by some companies that have been in the vanguard of developing 3D printing technology, not just 3D Systems, but also rival MakerBot, which has laid off more than 100 employees over the last seven months.
ForwardKeys, which analyses 16 million flight reservations a day from major global reservation systems, said bookings for international arrivals to the United States over the next three months were 2.3 % higher than last year.
So for the past four years, Bailey has been using virtual PBX system 3CX, which allows him to manage his phone system via software, with features like automated call - forwarding and the ability to take calls on his mobile via VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol); a fancy way of saying that the call is relayed via an Internet connection instead of a phone line.
Some of these public servants are right in saying, «Let's do it right this time» because, remember, the rush job under Obamacare gave us what we're having to deal with today, which is the devastating system that is again lorded over us,» Palin said.
Datapipe started to focus on providing AWS - related services six years ago, but now faces competitors including big systems integrators like Capgemini and Accenture as well as Rackspace (rax), which has been adding MSP - like services in support of AWS and Azure over the past year.
De Nysschen also presided over the effective debut of Cadillac's Super Cruise hand - free highway self - driving feature, which now challenges Tesla's Autopilot as the best semi-autonomous consumer system available.
Currently, going from Stockholm to Helsinki and vice versa would require a travel time of over three hours, which includes the one - hour flight and the additional time needed to go through the airport systems.
(New York, NY) March 24, 2010 — On Deck Capital (www.ondeck.com), a leading provider of small business financing solutions, announced today announced today that over $ 50 million of loans have now been made to more than 2,000 Main Street small businesses using its proprietary performance lending system which evaluates businesses based on electronic performance data rather than relying solely on the business owner's personal credit score.
Our swing trading system for stocks focuses on identifying explosive breakouts primarily in small and mid-cap stocks, in which these stocks typically gain 10 % to 20 % over a 1 — 4 week period.
Gross adds that the global monetary system, which has evolved and morphed over the past century but always in the direction of easier, cheaper and more abundant credit, may have reached a point at which it can no longer operate efficiently and equitably to promote economic growth and the fair distribution of its benefits.
Last September, a boutique firm in Washington, called Zerodium, which sells flaws to governments and corporations, announced a $ 1 million bounty for anyone who would turn over an exploit in Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating system — the same operating system used to power the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.
And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.
Looking over the countries in which such theorizing has been applied, one can not help seeing that the first concern is one of political philosophy, namely, to demonstrate that the economy does not require public regulation to intervene from outside the economic system.
Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.
The British government, which is currently alternating between panicking over Brexit and not preparing for Brexit, originally planned to have to have its very prim and respectable new system for preventing people under the age of 18 from looking at naked people on the internet operating by April 2018.
If there's ever a major problem with your home country's currency or monetary system (which we've seen over the last several years from India to Iceland, Argentina to Zimbabwe) gold will maintain its value and survive the currency crisis.
The United States has lost cases in the World Trade Organization over this system, which differs substantially from that of many countries.
The new «inspection and verification systemwhich Chinese traders are currently implementing, is meant to ensure that no person buys and moves a foreign currency over a limit of $ 50,000.
Standard Blind Spot Information System (BLIS ™), which Volvo pioneered over a decade ago, supports you when you have to change lanes in busy traffic.
Although I have my own, rule - based swing trading strategy, which has been thoroughly explained on this blog and nightly newsletter over the years, my trading system is just one of many types of successful trading methodologies out there.
China's slow move to a market - based system, which has been facilitated by In a country as large and economically important as China, change should be approached over the long - term.
Over the course of 30 years this monthly system accumulated greater profits than a buy - and - hold approach (which, of course, does not in anyway guarantee that it will continue to in the future).
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