Sentences with phrase «reaching impact of technology»

St. Louis Public Library found out the hard way about the far - reaching impact of technology threats.

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The rise of the cloud is having a dramatic impact, making big - data analytics technologies within reach for small businesses and startups.

It's a piece of European Union (EU) legislation that could have a far - reaching impact on some of the biggest technology firms in the world including Facebook and Google.

While new technologies, such as Motif, are helping extend the reach of impact investing to a broader universe of investors, a financial advisor's role in taking a holistic approach to investing is still undeniable.

7:00 p.m. Keynote Address Bruce Flatt, CEO Brookfield Asset Management Topic: «REAL ASSETS: The Place to Be» Takeaways: The real asset industry and where it is headed; value investing in real assets; Brookfield's competitive advantages of scale, global reach and operating capabilities; and technology and its impact on the business.

By developing only low - impact philosophies, ROELMI HPC offers innovative technologies and customized solutions, aimed to reach the highest level of quality, controlling the activity and respecting customers» safety.

As one of the latest advancements in head health technology, the devices are designed to measure head impacts, record impact data, send alerts when threshold is reached, and provide numerical facts for the accurate diagnosis of potential concussions.

«This study underscores the far - reaching impact of robust public - private collaboration in biomedical imaging and bioengineering research,» said Michael Harsh, vice president and chief technology officer for GE Healthcare.

A very interesting initiative that should have a far reaching impact on the economic development of Pakistan is a programme entitled Science and Technology for Economic Development (STED).

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

Recently I was invited to give a talk at the UNAI - START (United Nations Academic Impact — Science and Technology Accelerating Rapid Transformation) conference, on the role of nanotechnology in developing new solutions for energy, water, and health care — problems reaching crisis proportion in our world and requiring urgent action across all levels.

Bullying today is different than bullying of yesteryear with modern technology ballooning the size and scope of its reach and impact.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

As technology advances at an exponential rate, we are reaching a point where we will experience a perfect storm where advances in technology will impact with the state of our pedagogy, and overwhelm our efforts to handle change.

Bryan Hassel and Stephanie Dean of Public Impact believe that technology holds great potential for rural schools — from extending the reach of great teachers and expanding course offerings to the potential cost savings of flipped classrooms and blended learning.

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

Public Impact says an Opportunity Culture creates a plan whereby a team of teachers and administrators at each school choose among models that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to reach more students with personalized, high - standards instruction — a hallmark of great teaching.

Deformation spaces are optimally designed and utilized courtesy of the latest technologies in body design, splitting up the main load paths so that the impact forces are dispersed over as wide an area as possible by the time they reach the extremely rigid passenger cell.

7:00 p.m. Keynote Address Bruce Flatt, CEO Brookfield Asset Management Topic: «REAL ASSETS: The Place to Be» Takeaways: The real asset industry and where it is headed; value investing in real assets; Brookfield's competitive advantages of scale, global reach and operating capabilities; and technology and its impact on the business.

The award honours individuals whose actions and leadership have had a far - reaching positive impact on the environment, in advancing clean energy technologies to mitigate the threats of climate change.

The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.

C) Absent changes in policy, technology and / or economic activity to reduce GHG emissions, the consequent temperature rise in the 21st will reach levels where they have serious adverse impacts on human well being and the health of eco-systems.

The latter process — called decoupling — has already occurred over the past 50 years; but to reach peak impact by the end of this century, we need to accelerate the pace of modernization and direct technological of change towards using high - energy, low - footprint technologies that enable us to economize natural resources.

According to today's research, technology to capture greenhouse gas emissions before they reach the atmosphere would only have a limited impact on the proportion of fossil fuels that can be burned.

Here are some highlights on the predictions offered by the panelists: 1) class actions are not going away; 2) the continued growth of mass commerce will continue to spawn class action litigation; 3) Justice Scalia's death will have a significant impact on class action jurisprudence going forward and the judiciary is likely to get less friendly to defendants in the short - term; 4) technology will make a big difference for the better in managing class action litigation; 5) defendants will continue to come up with creative, far - reaching ways of limiting class actions; 6) plaintiffs» attorneys will continue to bring class actions when a) they think they can make money and / or b) they think they will advance the public good; 7) there will be some good class actions and some horrible ones; 8) look out for states to pass new consumer protection laws similar to the New Jersey New Jersey Truth - in - Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act (TCCWNA); 9) the TCPA and all - natural litigation booms will continue in the near future; 10) The CFPB will broadly define consumer finance services; 11) more class actions will go to trial; 12) what happens with the enforceability of arbitration clauses will have a big impact on the viability of many categories of class actions in the future; 13) look for more class actions in the federal courts in New York state.

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.