Sentences with phrase «processes at all levels of the system»

However, the MTSS process has a broader approach, addressing the needs of all students by aligning the entire system of initiatives, supports, and resources, and by implementing continuous improvement processes at all levels of the system.

Not exact matches

«The ISO 9000 representative [should be] a person who encompasses a genuine and passionate commitment to quality and success, knowledge of processes and systems within the company, and power to influence employees at all levels,» wrote Karapetrovic, Rajamani, and Willborn.

The U.S. federal sentencing process is a point - based system, where the nature of the offences, mitigating factors and other elements are plugged into a sort of mathematical equation to arrive at a numerical «offence level» score.

From procurement through close out, we keep innovation at the forefront of our business, constantly exploring new design approaches and technologies, refining our systems and processes, and fostering a level of communication that results in project cost and time savings.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

The deeper point of the critics of process thought is that subsuming other creatures into the ethical system worked out in modernity to guide relations among people does not change us at the needed level.

Political models should be: (1) relevant — they should reflect the empirical system they attempt to symbolize; (2) economical — they should simplify that which is being modeled; (3) rigorous — they should apply the same operating rules and assumptions of the scheme at every level of the system; (4) combinatorially rich — they should be able to generate webs of relationships or patterns throughout the system; (5) powerful organizers — they should have relevance or correspondence to processes beyond the range of their initial concern; (6) original — they should give insights beyond the highly probable visions of everyday language and experience.

By providing a unifying concept that articulates a common structure of a great number of spiritual quests, the process paradigm I have adumbrated should illuminate and give coherence to the varieties of women's and men's experiences at three levels: the interpersonal; social systems, and institutional structures; and the all - encompassing natural world.

This idea depends on developments in general systems theory, which views «all of nature and all of human activity as a hierarchically arranged structure of levels of interlocked subset systems in which the process of any particular subset system affects and is affected by other subset systems at its own level, as well as below or above it.»

FOOD LOSS Postharvest food losses - occurring at the production, harvest, postharvest and processing phases - are the most important source of FLW in developing countries, due to poor infrastructure, poor temperature management, low levels of technology and low investment in the food production systems, especially the cold chain.

The system is in no way designed to replace manual responsibility and diligence at different levels of the food distribution process.

«Increasingly in the life sciences, developments are based on an understanding of processes at the molecular level, even where the molecules are large and in complex systems,» says Ashmore, «so an increased hiring of folk with a thorough understanding of the fundamentals is taking place.»

She does offer some hope, however: «On the positive side, I think that a multistep process that also includes composting at the end of the system could significantly reduce the levels of antibiotics.

A strategic focus is to continue to develop computational tools (such as KinomeXplorer, NetworKIN, and NetPhorest) and to deploy these on genome - scale quantitative data obtained by, for example, mass spectrometry, genomic, and phenotypic screens to understand the principles of how spatio and temporal assembly of mammalian signaling networks transmit and process information at a systems level in order to alter cell behavior.

Study co-author Katy Sheen, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «These findings will help us to understand the processes that drive the ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.»

To Francis Heylighen, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, consciousness is merely a system of mechanisms for making information processing more efficient by adding a level of control over which of the brain's processes get the most resources.

Therefore, one important question is whether the types of systems that have been described at the psychological level are a good analogue for the way information is organized and processed in the brain.

«This is a system so secure that not even the inventors would be able to crack it since there is no known manufacturing process for copying surface imperfections at the necessary level of precision.»

Although there is a good deal of evidence for some level of dissociation between multiple systems that approximate controlled and automatic processing respectively, with parts of the brain such as areas of frontal cortex (controlled) and limbic regions (automatic) implicated in these processes, it seems highly unlikely that there are dedicated, independent, sub-systems at the neural level that are specific to these modes of processing.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new, more computationally efficient way to process data from the Global Positioning System (GPS), to enhance location accuracy from the meter - level down to a few centimeters.

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together the new generation of scientists who analyse transcription at the systems level, with established scientists whose seminal work paved the way to understanding the transcription process.

Computational biology of today is a broad discipline that helps to bridge the world of single molecules and molecular assemblies with understanding biological processes in living systems at atomic level.

Rather, the defective checkpoint system was left to proceed, and one of its downstream consequences, which was still under normal regulation — and one known to be directly induced by the normal degenerative aging process — was reversed at the structural level, by clearing out the p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells that had accumulated to an abnormal degree in their tissues.

A laboratory animal study published in the October 2003 issue of the «Journal of Ethnopharmacology» found that holy basil leaf extract exerted pain - relieving effects at the central nervous system level, meaning that it modulated levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain that help process pain messages.

The pre-eminent curiosity that I retain regarding health practitioners is that specialists in nutrition on occasion appear to not possess the adequate level of biochemical grounding to explain the vital processes happening at the cellular level during fasting and through manipulation of eicosanoids (fatty acids), conversely from my personal experiences, experts in biochemistry don't apply their vast knowledge of these complex physiological systems to basic fundamentals of nutrition in a sensible, practical sense.

Getting your body to optimal levels of magnesium and allowing these enzymatic processes to run at full capacity can have profound effects on the health of your nervous and endocrine (hormone) systems.

The performance of fire log pose actively stimulates the digestive system, liver, spleen, etc., thus controlling the digestive and metabolic process and helping the body work at its optimal level.

At the same time, kefir is known to regulate the immune system, provide natural protection against diseases, regulate blood pressure, promote production of bile, produce natural antibiotics, improve blood circulation, calm the nerves, strengthen the kidneys, regulate cholesterol level, regulate metabolism, promote weight loss, improve skin tone, cleanse the digestive tract, regulate blood sugar levels, protect the prostate, and slow the aging process.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

CEC helped RPS revise its teacher evaluation process and learn to use student growth measures before implementing PAR; conduct and analyze a detailed system assessment before beginning strategic planning; and develop a data - based decision - making culture at the school level before the implementation of SMART Goals as a school improvement process.

Identify the process of designing and the practice of employing a robust and balanced assessment system at the classroom level.

Can educators at all levels of a system learn how to use feedback with each other to improve teaching practice, and, in the process, create healthy cultures of learning and critical inquiry?

Opponents of the current K - 12 teacher tenure system in California often say the process is too easy, and that, unlike at the university level, it is no longer a professional benchmark that rewards hard work and success in the classroom.

The abuses alleged in the testing process appear to be more a problem related to constant practice and benchmark testing at the school district level than problems with the requirement of the state accountability system, which are benign by comparison.

Such a system of accountability should also be animated by processes for continuous evaluation and improvement that lead to problem solving and corrective action at the local level and that are supported by the state.

The focus of the review process is on the systems, processes, and practices that are being implemented at the school and division levels.

In concert with reforms to teacher evaluation systems across the country, states increasingly require that identification of and plans to meet professional development needs at the teacher level be part of the evaluation process.

We anticipate a final version of the community school implementation standards within the next several months, followed by a similar discussion and consensus - building process around systems infrastructures (e.g. district, county, state, federal level) to support development, implementation and sustainability of at - scale community school strategies.

The beautiful new piano - finish paint process is applied to each new Continental GT by the craftsmen and women at the Bentley factory in Crewe, working alongside the very latest technology in robot paint systems to provide an unrivalled level of detail.

The truth is, unless they actually use cloud computing to process in game graphics or physics to boost what the system hardware is actually capable of, then it doesn't actually level the playing field at all.

Our nomination system is based on an ongoing and thorough process of looking nationally for potential nominators who we know to be deeply committed to the artists in their communities at all levels.

The state of the Earth System (a single system at the planetary level) also involves the oceans, the atmosphere, the cryosphere and very important processes like the surface energy balance and the flows and transformation of eleSystem (a single system at the planetary level) also involves the oceans, the atmosphere, the cryosphere and very important processes like the surface energy balance and the flows and transformation of elesystem at the planetary level) also involves the oceans, the atmosphere, the cryosphere and very important processes like the surface energy balance and the flows and transformation of elements.

Our Planetary Boundaries research identifies that there are also other processes critical to the functioning of the Earth System that are so impacted by human activities that they, too, demand management at the global level.

Industrialized agriculture perpetuates concealment at every level of the process, and rather than focusing on the shocking examples we should be focusing on the system itself.»

Urban agriculture is a dynamic concept that comprises a variety of livelihood systems, ranging from subsistence production and processing at household level to fully commercialised agriculture.

The Realclimate theory thus fails and the temperature gradient from the body of the ocean to the top millimetre and then the atmosphere is maintained at or near to the natural level with the extra warmth being ejected from the system by the enhanced evaporation / condensation and weather processes.

It is indeed true that at current atmospheric levels, CO2 would drop to 50 % of its current value over about 100 years (or perhaps less) if no more were added, so that recycling among the various components of the system were the only process ongoing.

Threshold - The level of magnitude of a system process at which sudden or rapid change occurs.

The organization has also been contributing to the development of the National REDD + process as a partner including the development of System for Land Emission Estimation for Kenya (SLEEK) at technical level.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.