Sentences with phrase «recent practice uses»

While Boyce's early work addressed issues of race and gender in Britain, her more recent practice uses improvisation, installation, sound and performance to draw attention to and celebrate cultural difference.

Not exact matches

While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

In a recent article Rob McMillan, founder and executive vice president of Silicon Valley Bank's wine industry practice, was quoted, saying that «the wine industry needs to do a better job on sales and marketing using digital tools.»

Water Birth: A more recent trend, water birthing is the practice of delivering a baby inside of a tub of warm water, though some only use the tub for labor.

As safety experts have told us and the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) explained in a groundbreaking 2011 report, the numerous laboratory incidents involving injury or death that we have sadly had to report in recent years almost always arise not from random mishaps, as the use of «accident» implies, but from specific and often systemic failures to observe accepted safety practices.

Other recent research on geoengineering using solar radiation management has also found that if the practice did begin but was then stopped, it could lead to rapid climate change with potentially hazardous consequences (ClimateWire, Nov. 27, 2013).

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

Reduction of critically important antimicrobials is something the University of Bristol has been working hard on, and over the past six years their farm animal practice has reduced prescribing of these critical antimicrobials, using none in recent years.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

In a recent study now on line, Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers describe the relatively simple technique of fundus photography in human and rabbit eyes using a smartphone, an inexpensive app for the smartphone, and instruments that are readily available in an ophthalmic practice.

But a recent study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that while there are some promising benefits to using yoga, there isn't yet enough evidence to support the practice as a standalone solution for improving mental health and well - being.

The authors of a recent study say that not only do pre - and post-production practices such as time of harvest, use of plant growth regulators, and storage temperature / atmosphere affect tomato aroma, common kitchen practices such as refrigeration and blanching are also detrimental.

The use of uppers to help study for exams — an uncondoned practice that dates back decades — came under renewed scrutiny with a recent front - page story in the New York Times that highlighted the prevalence of the practice.

Lengthy and expensive reviews that are «methodologically robust» but unusable in practice often fail to inform, inspire, or influence.55 A recent systematic review of diabetes risk scores revealed that the authors of most studies were primarily concerned with the intellectual concept of improving the predictive value of the score but had given little or no thought to how their score might be used, by whom, or for what — nor what the implications would be for real people who would be designated «at risk» by the score.56

A recent study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology in November 2017 describes recently discovered rock carvings in the Shuwaymis region of the northwestern Saudi Arabian desert, illustrating prehistoric hunting practices, using dogs as assistants.

Given that many recent studies of B cell biology take advantage of Ig - transgenic (or knockin equivalent) mice for their entire analysis, we do not feel that our use of the approach as one part of the present study is out of line with currently accepted practice in the field.

Starbucks has doubled down on other sustainable initiatives in recent years — stores nationwide are now using greener building practices, sourcing ethical coffee, and reducing food waste — so this is a logical next step.

Even though inhaled corticosteroids are advised only for individuals with the most severe COPD, recent practice has resulted in them being used in less severe cases.

(And who can blame me if we think back to my recent post in which I mentioned that grocery stores have a well - honed practice of using psychological and other tricks to get us to buy more than we might otherwise plan to.)

In recent years some vegetable rebels in the medical field feel that they can cure cancer using only nutrition, while defenders of conventional medicine will make it clear that only the current medical practices can rid the body of cancers and others pathology.

To see if anyone is still sticking with this traditional practice, or if it's totally been abandoned, we used our most recent survey to ask 1,080 Americans if they would wait until marriage to have sex.

The fictional Django and historical 12 Years are recent and widely - seen enough that Birth can't shock us with the horrors of slavery, from rampant use of the N - word to the brutal practice of lashing.

We used quantitative and descriptive methods to examine the programs and practices in 11 moderate - to high - poverty schools selected because of their dual reputation for implementing recent reading reform and for beating the odds by promoting greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement.

This study used data from recent projects to further describe and highlight the steps of the proposed method for analyzing collective development in an online setting and to ground discussions of research and practice.

On this note, see three recent research articles about the EVAAS and its use in practice here, here, and here.

In her most recent post, Cassie Erkens wrote about how we can build efficacy through our assessment practices and how, as she wrote, «The evidence that is generated from classroom assessments must be used to help learners believe that they can produce desired effects by their own actions and beliefs.»

Her recent research on data - based decision making has focused on the ways in which teachers use multiple sources of data to inform instruction, how these practices are supported by district resources and structures, and which practices may contribute to improved student achievement in Title I schools.

None of these countries uses test scores to rank and sort teachers — indeed the Singaporean minister of education made a point of noting at the recent international summit on teaching that they believe such a practice would be counterproductive — and none of them rank and punish schools — indeed several countries forbid this practice.

The rubrics are aligned to the research based practices documented by Drs. Patricia Gandara and María Estela Zárate in their recent publication titled «Seizing the Opportunity to Narrow the Achievement Gap for English Learners: Research - based Recommendations for the Use of LCFF Funds» from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

⇒ The new SAT, «when used in combination with high school GPA, SAT scores are shown to be the best predictor of a student's likelihood for success in college,» [even though recent college admissions» practices refute this unsubstantiated claim.]

Recent research using professional learning community as a variable has shown powerful associations with teacher practice (Bryk, Camburn and Louis, 1999; Louis, Marks and Kruse, 1999; Pounder, 1999; Scribner, Cockrell, Cockrell and Valentine, 1999; Toole, 2001).

This practice has noticeably picked up in recent years, and automakers now use the concours for gauging customer interest in front of those with the money to buy just about any car in the world.

I want to bring to your attention a recent increase in companies practicing deceptive marketing; specifically, they are using letters that resemble government documents to solicit customers.

The use of antibody titer testing to determine immune status for pets has grown enormously in recent years, but shelter veterinary staff, private practice veterinarians, and pet owners still have questions.

The exhibition featured photographs combined with staging elements that were used in his recent exhibitions, and explored how these are interconnected within his practice.

Recent projects such as Crash Pad for the 8th Berlin Biennial, Every End is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and Fin de Siècle at Swiss Institute will be used to highlight aspects from Angelidakis's exhibition practice where the artist becomes curator, the exhibition becomes a medium and the exhibition device an exhibited object.

Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu returns to Performa through a new commission, Banana Stroke, which builds on a recent shift in her practice towards fermenting, dying, or saturating with dirt the paper materials she uses in her collage paintings, and then deploying them in site - specific action painting.

Cridler uses drawing as a practice of «noticing,» and this directly informs her recent work, in which the steel wire or rod becomes a line of inquiry into form, content, and the potential of narrative.

In the recent exhibition «Silent,» Berlin - based duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz used a self - described practice of «queer archaeology» to out archetypes of modern art.

His more recent works, which include print making, painting and installations, still draw on this theme of everyday objects and their changing nature in society and artistic practice, using their pre-defined contextual symbolism as a way to make an audience re-think what we see, and what we know.

Amid the popularity of documentary practices in contemporary art, The Storyteller addresses the use of storytelling as a means of exploring recent political events.

This show includes both the artist's early and recent forays into his pioneering use of industrial resin as a sculptural medium, providing an unprecedented opportunity to chart the development of the most celebrated genre of Alexander's five - decade practice...

Looking at Cindy Sherman's recent photos, I thought, eventually, of what in the lit - crit practice of my college years used to be called «image clusters»: groups of related metaphors and other verbal figures that run through the works of some writers — Shakespeare, Dickens — embedding a mood and character in the language of each text.

Using epistemological analysis as her tool, Seikkula's recent PhD research in philosophy discusses the social and cultural sustainability of artistic practices from a process perspective.

His first solo exhibition was a Sanchez Cotán in Trondheim, Norway in 2009 and recent projects include The devil finds work for idle hands at Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco (2012) and Drawology: drawing as phenomenology at the Bonington Gallery Nottingham, and the co-curation of A Machine Aesthetic at Gallery North, Northumbria University, The Gallery, The Arts University Bournemouth, University of Lincoln, Norwich University of the Arts (2013 - 2014) where eleven contemporary artists were invited to explore the various manifestations, uses and influences of different aspects of mechanisation within their practice.

The Fieldstation series — a term used to refer to an off - site laboratory to conduct research — lends itself perfectly to some recent developments in my practice, and I was very grateful to [Curator] Steven Bridges for his assistance and recognition of these threads.

They are marked by a conscious use of colour and subtle layering, which has become important in my recent practice.

3 - 4PM Curator talk: Vassilis Oikonomopoulos in conversation with Abdulrahman Gazzaz Using recent examples of BRICKLAB's work, Abdulrahman Gazzaz and Vassilis Oikonomopoulos will discuss the role of objects, structures, histories and natures in BRICKLAB's practice