Sentences with phrase «pilot experiment in»

Google's Project Loon started as a pilot experiment in June 2013 and the company launched 30 balloons in New Zealand in coordination with local authorities.

Policy leaders, in particular, can (1) support initiatives that expand broadband availability in all of the federally funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers and in state and locally - funded afterschool sites; (2) encourage robust experimentation with digital platforms that allow expanded learning organizations to collaborate, share practices, and connect experiences that kids are having at various expanded learning sites; and (3) support pilot experiments in up to 10 % of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers that focus on integrating evolving technologies.

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Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.

It will also enable financial institutions and fintech players to participate in pilots and experiments in a wide range of financial - services projects.

Tubbs is now piloting a guaranteed income experiment in Stockton with funding from Hughes's organization.

With education and other social services, an ecological approach would favor local experiments, such as the pilot projects carried out in the 1960s with income maintenance.

At the end of her article, Janet says: «The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act authorizes pilot programs in individual schools and districts to experiment with universal free - meal approaches.»

The message: If you have a good idea, don't just throw it into a grant application — do the pilot experiment and get that result in hand.

To control greenhouse gases the Chinese government is experimenting with pilot programs in seven cities and regions that use carbon markets

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

Located almost half a mile underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, protected from cosmic radiation, the sensitive EXO experiment uses 200 kilograms of enriched liquid xenon that could potentially undergo the sought - after decay.

In the experiment reported today, the team carried out a double - blind clinical pilot trial using two adjacent slices taken from 75 breast cancer biopsies.

In this pilot study, 16 overweight and obese participants will be housed throughout the experiment in research facilities to ensure accurate assessments of calorie consumption and energy expenditurIn this pilot study, 16 overweight and obese participants will be housed throughout the experiment in research facilities to ensure accurate assessments of calorie consumption and energy expenditurin research facilities to ensure accurate assessments of calorie consumption and energy expenditure.

After taking a teaching class and working to develop lectures to bridge the lab experiments and the general class (see Part 1), we postdocs enrolled in the University of Alabama, Birmingham, pilot Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program began to find our rhythm.

Loke also mentions that colitis plagues many juvenile monkeys in primate research centers and that he has received a pilot grant to treat diseased monkeys with human whipworm, an as - yet - unpublished experiment that is already returning promising results.

To see whether G. demissa could clean up dirty water in an urban environment, Julie Rose, Eve Galimany and colleagues conducted a pilot experiment.

- NIH should create a pilot program for institutional postdoctoral offices to compete for funding to experiment in enriching and diversifying postdoctoral training, including partnerships with other entities (industry, private foundations, government, etc.).

The frequency of caffeine withdrawal in a population - based survey and in a controlled, blinded pilot experiment

Worthington plays Air Force pilot Rick Janssen, whose decision to take part in a military experiment for the potential benefit of the human race may have unexpected repercussions.

The district's pilot schools, similar to those in Boston, are a key part of the L.A. school board's own experiment with semi-autonomous schools.

According to the Miami Herald, Miami - Dade, Broward, and Pinellas counties are all experimenting with the MOOC format in the current school year, with an expectation that their pilots will expand across the state.

Additional results from the pilot were detailed in the evaluation conducted by the MCPS Office of Shared Accountability after the second year of the experiment.

It is encouraging news, from Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, that New York City's three - year - old pilot project testing the content - rich Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum in ten low - income schools has proved so far, as the Daily News headline has it, «a brilliant experiment in reading.»

In the past few years, a number of states have created and funded pilot programs to experiment with the concept of school restructuring.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

Fryer recently ran a pilot experiment with third graders at P.S. 70 in the Bronx.

Sixteen pilot schools along with several other Lead schools in the English sector experimented with the key concepts of the program of study, as well as school organizational approaches that could be best suited to the strategies required to maximize the effectiveness of the learning environment.

With enrollment projected to grow between 20 and 40 percent over the next 20 years, charter schools have established themselves as a fixture in the U.S. public education system and can no longer be viewed as an experiment or pilot reform.

-- One more thought on ESSA: The law will allow seven states to participate in a new pilot program where they can experiment with more innovative ways of testing and performance - based systems rather than run - of - the - mill state standardized tests for accountability purposes.

This is a pilot program and as such may be expanded or curtailed in the future, but experiments that offer better pricing are certainly appreciated.

MR. ALLAN ADLERYou'll find that two of the major publishers don't make their e-books available for lending through libraries while two others are in the middle of what they call pilot projects where they're experimenting, more or less.

Along with the video projections of her «pilot wave» experiment, the exhibit includes eight large abstract paintings in which Auerbach scraped rhythmic wave patterns into layers of wet acrylic paint, plus a single, extremely delicate sculpture made by the artist out of flame - heated rods of borosilicate glass.

They were there to participate in a pilot program for Menu for the Future, an experiment that grew out of Sustainable Cleveland 2019.

The Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) is a follow on activity form the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) high - resolution sea surface temperature pilot project (GHRSST - PP) provides a new generation of global high - resolution (< 10 km) SST data products to the operational oceanographic, meteorological, climate and general scientific community, in real time and delayed mode.

To cope, the university town of Lund experimented with a pilot student housing unit of 94 square feet back in 2012, and has since expanded the project, building into 22 units arranged in a cluster of bright green micro-apartment blocks.

April covered the company's multimodal experiment earlier (e-bikes designed to be integrated with Ford vehicles), which is still in the prototype stage, but the other initiative now has some wheels under it, thanks to the launch of two pilot programs for ride - sharing and peer - to - peer car rentals.

Bernard has long been a promoter of technology and innovation in the law, and her understanding approach to the often slower decision making processes within traditional law firm, and passionate belief in new innovations and ideas has enabled her to create successful «co-innovation partnerships», allowing lawyers to explore and experiment with pilots and give them the space to adapt and change their thinking for themselves.

The feature proved its worth quickly as we watched it become the most downloaded experiment in the history of Test Pilot.