Sentences with phrase «pilot area increased»

Total customer spending in the Bloor Street pilot area increased more than in the area surrounding the pilot and more than in the Danforth Avenue control area.

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Building on pilot initiatives in each of these areas into full - blown programs would help high - growth firms scale - up more rapidly and increase the probability of remaining based in Canada.

The pilot project is an effort to increase recycling in the downtown area, while also raising awareness about the importance of recycling.

«The scheme has significantly increased utility companies» operating costs in the pilot scheme areas,» said RHA chief executive, Richard Burnett.

There was a 23 % increase in the number of children eating vegetables in the pilot areas and an 18 % drop in those eating crisps.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

For example, our Small Step Improvements programme — which helps schools find small, low - cost ways to make lunchtime a better experience for their children — saw average take up increase in all five pilot areas where schools took part.

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DOT is providing California and Delaware with $ 2.4 million of federal support for pilot programs that will examine whether increased police enforcement coupled with paid media and news media coverage can significantly reduce distracted driving over a widespread area.

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As part of a pilot project lead by Earthmark / Green Media Solutions (and supported by NBC's Green is Universal initiative) the production team tried to increase implementation of better sustainability practices in the four areas: Energy, transportation, construction and set materials, and waste.