Sentences with phrase «particular focus of our work»

A particular focus of our work is increasing law firm productivity through the application of Internet technology to the delivery of legal services.

A particular focus of her work in recent years has been the impact of technology and social media on intimate relationships, and has studied topics as far reaching as infidelity, fandom, romantic scripts, pornography, oral sex, and kissing.

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Co-brooders also tend to focus on all the potentially bad consequences of a particular problem, often predicting future catastrophe,» Quartz says, explaining Bastin's work.

Large institutional investors are good at focusing on long - term gains, and pension funds in particular must work to anticipate the needs of contributors decades in advance.

At Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), she worked on the executive compensation team as a senior analyst until 2010, with a particular focus on change of control packages, and analyzed «say on pay» resolutions.

As readers of this blog can tell, I've been spending a lot of my time recently focused on cryptonetworks and blockchains, and in particular, working...

At its best, Oliver's work can be finely particular, through the combination of inventive language and focused imagery, surprising readers into spiritual awareness.

With 25 years experience working with children and families I have a Masters in Social Work, and a particular focus in the realm of healthy attachment.

The STEM fields, in particular, are notorious for being male - centric — to begin to address the imbalance between the genders in work environments, we as a society need to focus first on encouraging girls to take these subjects while in the educational system, in hopes that they will continue on and start forging a career out of them.

Purpose of the Best Practice Examples: The following CSH best practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school setting.

Her art work is primarily focused on human rights themes and in particular the human rights of women and the need for bodily autonomy.

Professor Jill Manthorpe Director, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London A study of those who work with homeless people with complex needs, with a particular focus on the advantages and disadvantages of how people in different jobs work together

«Work should proceed to examine the options of extracting greater public value from the Channel 4 corporation, focusing on privatisation options in particular,» the document read.

Our current work programme includes our first review of VAT, work on the possibility of using accounts depreciation instead of separate capital allowances computations and a broad overview of the business life cycle with a particular focus on forming a business, expanding a business, seeking external funding, including relevant tax reliefs, and disposing of a business.

While each group focuses on a particular threatened plant or animal, Brackett has the Herculean task of bringing their work together to underline and spread a single message — that today's extinction crisis is a global responsibility.

In particular, Panksepp's work has focused on «the possibility that our most commonly used animal subjects, laboratory rodents, may have social - joy type experiences during their playful activities and that an important communicative - affective component of that process, which invigorates social engagement, is a primordial form of laughter.»

Most of the work on gut microbes has focused on bacteria, but Dr. Iliev's research has a particular emphasis on gut fungi.

«For statisticians in particular, we're hoping this opens up a new field of work that would focus on designing new statistics that measure predictivity.»

Another branch of my work focused more on the role of evolution in genetic disease, and in particular understanding why certain genetic diseases persist in the population despite their obvious fitness costs, and what forces are respsonsible for shaping their underlying genetic architectures.

Previously Dr. Martini worked at Shire plc in Lexington, Mass., as Senior Director of Discovery Biology and Translational Research, Mass., focusing on fibrotic diseases of muscle, kidney, skin, lung, bone marrow and metabolic liver diseases, with particular emphasis on different therapeutic modalities for pathway modulation.

Her research work focuses on the neurocognitive basis of autism spectrum conditions, with a particular interest in why people with autism find the social world so puzzling, yet often excel at detail - focussed tasks.

His work focuses on the evolution of metabolism in the three domains of life, with particular emphasis on lipid biosynthesis and membrane - related functions.

Our work combines computational analysis of high - throughput sequencing data, population genetics, and experimental work.We focus in particular on studying genetic effects on the transcriptome traits, which has further applications in other traits at the cellular and individual level.

His work is focused on the understanding and treatments of neurodegenerative disease, with particular emphasis on distinguishing critical mechanisms...

CPDN is unique in providing large ensembles that enable us to simulate statistics of extremely rare events hence the main focus of our work has been on extreme weather and in particular its attribution to external climate drivers.

His work is focused on the understanding and treatments of neurodegenerative disease, with particular emphasis on distinguishing critical mechanisms and treatments of neuronal vulnerability at the onset of disease, or new restorative treatments using stem cells after symptoms.

We also have a major new educational initiative underway, First Two, which works to increase retention of STEM students in their first two years of college, with a particular focus on first generation college students.

My work currently focuses on observations of the ultraviolet light emitted from small stars, and in particular flares of that emission.

Much of my work focusses on the marine environment, in particular reef systems and the deep - sea.

One particular focus in our work is structure, dynamics, and interactions of G - Protein Coupled Receptors (Wu, H.; et al. «Structure of a class C GPCR metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 bound to an allosteric modulator»; Science; 2014; 58 or Alexander, N.; et al. «Energetic analysis of the rhodopsin - G - protein complex links the alpha5 helix to GDP release»; Nat Struct Mol Biol; 2014; 56).

In addition to the soy phytoestrogens that are the particular focus of Dr. Cara Westmark's work, soy infant formula contains a number of alarming toxic ingredients.

Harry's latest project is SuperCharged www.superchargedmovie.com, which is a movie that focuses on some of the exciting solutions to the problems in mainstream science and medicine relating to how energy works in the body beyond just nutrition — in particular — circadian rhythms, light, magnetism and water.

I need to work a full response into another article... but for now... I think the key is to focus not on a particular style of clothing (THIS shirt, THOSE pants)... but on an overall style.

Examines some of the important programs of the Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s and the subsequent response of the Hollywood film community with a focus on three European directors in particular — Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fritz Lang, whose works are compared and contrasted with the products of mainstream Hollywood.

Though I still think the Academy dropped the ball in some areas (Best Actress, in particular, could have been a far richer and more diverse race had the likes of Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas been invited), it's true that, while 2008 hasn't been as rewarding for auteur works as some previous years, we've seen a lot of films either wholly constructed around their performances («The Wrestler» being a prime example) or saved by them (for my money, Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt are the most focused elements of «Rachel Getting Married»).

Honoré's film works best when it focuses on the relationship between Jacques and an AIDS - stricken former lover named Marco (Thomas Gonzalez); a scene in a bathtub that symbolises the end of that particular strand is overwhelmingly moving.

László Nemes» Son of Saul focuses on a group of Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, (the Jewish prisoners forced to work on the Nazi death camps) and in particular, Saul who amid the chaos of his situation, tries to find a rabbi to bury a child who is among one of the many dead from a recent gassing.

Principals should model their own use of digital learning tools to personalize their work with individual teachers, whether through providing feedback immediately after a walk through (a quick email focused on a particular area) or by utilizing data to help a teacher better identify professional learning experiences that may support their growth and goals.

These particular workbook primarily focus on Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication and can be easily adapted to stretch abilities of learners working at a higher level.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

Working with a more experienced teacher will provide novice teachers with mentoring that is focused on the real tasks of effective teaching, and the mentoring will be more applicable if the teachers can discuss particular aspects of a shared curriculum.

«One thing that is special about the Ed School and MBE in particular is that you come to focus and prioritize for the translation of the research and try to see the impact, whereas perhaps those working in traditional neuroscience fields care more about getting the research out,» Zuk said.

Much prior work focuses on what leaders who hold particular leadership positions do in general terms — they sell a vision of leadership, they monitor instruction, etc..

Our work focuses on the many factors that influence the development of language and literacy skills across the life span, with particular emphasis on improving instruction, research, and policy nationally and internationally.

Used as posters, they also create a fabulous FRENCH look and feel to your learning environment, and are great as both a «general» learning display, or for when you are focusing on telling time in your FRENCH lessons - they're a really useful prompt and reminder as you work your way through how to tell the time in FRENCH, focusing on these particular clock times across a series of lessons.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

Or a protocol might focus on particular aspects of a lesson (identifying activities that review, introduce, solidify or extend concepts; clarifying the purpose of whole group, small group, pair or individual work).

Data - based inquiry with an equity lens is at the heart of our work, with a particular focus on the challenges that most impact curriculum design, instruction, and assessment.

Most recently, she has been studying teacher education programs that focus on preparing teachers for particular contexts, such as urban public schools, and exploring the advantages of such focused preparation for new teachers, and their students — work that is...