Sentences with phrase «productive use of resources»

It would not be a productive use of resources to reduce turnover rates for low - performing teachers.

Not exact matches

Ultimately all successful entrepreneurs thrive because they put existing resources to a more productive use for profit, whether they're selling a job lot of fancy duvets at an East End market or combining great design and a bunch of previously unconnected bits of technology to invent the iPhone.

The socialist critique has been based on other grounds — specifically, the use of the productive resources which capitalism generates.

Economics is the study of how men and society end up choosing, with or without the use of money, to employ scarce productive resources that could have alternative uses, to produce various commodities and distribute them for consumption, now or in the future, among various people and groups in society.

The study of how individuals and societies choose to allocate scarce productive resources among competing alternative uses and to distribute the products from these uses among the members of the society.

But passive, disorganized neighborhoods proved incapable of converting outside resources to productive use.

The Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources develops and implements policies and programs to ensure Australia's agricultural, fisheries, food and fore stry indust ries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable, and supports the sustainable and productive management and use of rivers and water rResources develops and implements policies and programs to ensure Australia's agricultural, fisheries, food and fore stry indust ries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable, and supports the sustainable and productive management and use of rivers and water resourcesresources.

«This new headquarters is not only a great symbolic achievement for Land Remediation, it is a tangible example of the jobs we can create and resources we can save by embracing sustainable economic development and bringing degraded sites back into productive use.»

«Our results show that increased PsbS expression allows crop plants to be more conservative with water use, which we think will help to better distribute available water resources over the duration of the growing season and keep the crop more productive during dry spells.»

Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat using existing resources.

Still, if some of them ring a bell of recognition within your weary, lab - worn soul then the only solution is to use your free Internet access for something productive — checking out the excellent Web resources for scientific and alternative careers.

These resources comprise a «rice diversity research platform» that is widely used the international rice research community to understand the genetic basis of complex traits, to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in key forms of stress tolerance, and to efficiently utilize natural variation to breed highly productive rice varieties for the future that are more nutritious, resource - use efficient, and stress tolerant than those we currently grow.

But the fact that schools viewed technology as a «luxury good,» and not as an essential instructional tool, is concerning if these decisions were driven by habit and teacher preferences rather than thoughtful analysis of what is best for students and the most productive use of limited resources.

In Chingos's words, «the study strongly suggests that monies restricted for the purpose of funding class - size reduction mandates are not a productive use of limited educational resources.»

The results of using this complete package resource will be positive, productive and effective group work where the children co-operate and collaborate without the intervention of the class teacher!

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

Supply of a product changes when there are changes in either the prices of the productive resources used to make the good or service, the technology used to make the good or service, the profit opportunities available to producers by selling other goods or services, or the number of sellers in a market.

Changes in the prices for productive resources affect the incomes of the owners of those productive resources and the combination of those resources used by firms.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Before the final dice rolling of the round the player with the least resources gets granted the Kings Envoy pawn which can be used during any productive season to either take the same action twice, including one blocked by an opponent, or to let you build two buildings rather than just one.

The project tests resource - efficient and productive land - use management techniques, with a view to understanding the potential impact of a comprehensive set of sustainable agriculture and food security adaptation practices adopted at the community level.

The conversion of energy resources, including both renewables (dependent upon current solar income) and fossils (benefitting from hundreds of millions of years of solar income) for productive uses simply requires more energy and resources than in the past.

Or, how to make conference attendance an effective and productive use of your time, energy and resources

Securing an adequate supply of water is a critical component of every land development project, and every type of productive resource property use, from manufacturing to farming, to viniculture.

• Conduct research activities in area of concern and provide valuable feedback to the management • Write and edit management documentation and assist managers in tracking projects • Assist in the creation and implementation of strategic management plans • Participate in iteration planning and requirements gathering activities • Act as a coordinator between different projects • Make sure that all projects are implemented according to set requirements and guidelines • Keep team members of each project up to date with project status and issues • Provide support to general office duties such as budget reconciliation, correspondence and database management • Assist senior management to set organizational goals and objectives • Use technology to perform mathematical calculations and research activities • Provide internal meetings facilitation with various project teams • Suggest ways to improve internal operations effective and productive • Make sure that all concurrent projects are launched on published schedules • Create and maintain databases for management tracking purposes • Perform data entry services to handle project information • Assist in resolving project design and resource issues to minimize delays • Assemble and analyze statistical data and provide meaningful interpretations • Establish and maintain effective communication with customers to ensure recurring business opportunities • Develop and deliver instructional materials for each individual project • Provide administrative backup support for various positions within the management on a need basis

Real state practitioners who master these tools lead the pack in productive use of time and resources.