Sentences with phrase «regional focus of this research»

Another small, qualitative study involved interviews with nine caseworkers and several child welfare administrators working in three different public child welfare agencies in the Washington D.C. region.18 Although the small number of participants and the regional focus of this research limit our ability to generalize about these findings, they do offer some insights into the reunification decision - making process.

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Apple would have done better to focus on China's regional trends rather than develop the payment service for a global market, says Kitty Fok, managing director of the China group at the market research firm International Data Corporation.

«The biggest winners are likely to be Asian and global financial sector firms with intra-Asia regional capabilities and a focus on securities markets, pensions, insurance, asset management, and cross-border banking,» says Anil Agarwal, head of Asian financial research.

With the addition of the market research tools and capabilities provided through the Beacon United partnership, Co-Sales will be placed on a level playing field with its national competitors, while maintaining a regional customer - centric focus.

He was previously the Associate Director of the North American Integration and Development Center in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA from 1995 to 2006, where his research focused on NAFTA, contract agriculture in Mexico, fair trade coffee in Oaxaca, regional competitiveness of the produce industry, living wages in Los Angeles, and immigration and farm labor in California.

Her research focuses on the intersections between gender, generation and religion in experiences of and responses to conflict - induced displacement and statelessness, with a particular regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, in Ibadan has held a regional symposium focusing on the next generation of cocoa research for West and Central Africa.

A focus on the mentorship of junior investigators vested in issues specific to rural and AI health leads to greater stability, sustainability, and growth of regional research infrastructure.

Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.

All in all, a number of factors that constitute the foundations of AAU research culture have helped to build inspiring research environments at the University; they include complete methodological freedom in conducting research, the recognition of diversity as a value creator, and a focus on strengthening regional, national and international cooperation.

Learn about a study focused on healthy diets for pregnant women, see a campaign aimed at raising awareness for colon cancer, and find overviews of some of our regional and national research centers.

NYSABE offers an annual conference and regional meetings, seminars and workshops focusing on the implementation of research - based optimum practices in Bilingual Education.

Finally, we foreshadow the current research focused on moving beyond improvement in individual schools to improvement of entire systems at the district, regional, state, and national levels.

The module explores these concepts in 14 experiential activities by using research related to the goals of PINEMAP — a regional research, education, and extension program focused on southern pine management and climate change.

→ Action → Invest in our existing public institutions of higher education focusing on improving teacher, counselor, and leader education; and reinvest, reclaim, and refocus the function of regional education laboratories to maintain integrity, relevance, and responsiveness in research aimed at seeking solutions for communities» education problems; and establish the outreach and extension of research findings to ensure their use in educational improvement practices.

It will conduct research in school districts across the Houston area, with a focus on studying issues of regional importance.

Currently, Bridget's research focuses on the status of the image in contemporary culture in a twofold manner — exploring the spaces for the projection of images and our interface with images through curatorial projects such as The Cinemas Project (2011 - 14, and ongoing), which explores the spectral spaces of cinema in regional Australia; and through a growing body of writing and research that seeks to understand the changing technologies of the image, and the convergences of the body and image in relation to political philosophy as well as art practice.

How much spare time each week do you have to read all the relevant credible published science papers already available for years, and read existing reports by govt / science / economic / agri bodies on the subject matters, and read the state of current research / know how of existing anecdotal narrow focused regional / local analysis and the opinions of experts in their particular field... and then deeply think about all that and come to a rational and reasonable conclusion on it all?

Priority will be given to proposals that make comprehensive use of ARM facilities, focus on strategic goals of the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), and have the ability to improve regional or global earth system models.

The overarching goal of this WCRP research effort, led by WCRP's Core Project «Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change» (CLIVAR) as a Research Focus, is to establish a quantitative understanding of the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of regional to local sea level variability; to promote advances in observing systems required for an integrated sea level monitoring; and to foster the development of sea level predictions and projections that are of increasing benefit for coastal zone manresearch effort, led by WCRP's Core Project «Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change» (CLIVAR) as a Research Focus, is to establish a quantitative understanding of the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of regional to local sea level variability; to promote advances in observing systems required for an integrated sea level monitoring; and to foster the development of sea level predictions and projections that are of increasing benefit for coastal zone manResearch Focus, is to establish a quantitative understanding of the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of regional to local sea level variability; to promote advances in observing systems required for an integrated sea level monitoring; and to foster the development of sea level predictions and projections that are of increasing benefit for coastal zone management.

(vi) Focused research initiatives to understand the nature of and interaction among physical, chemical, biological, land use, and social processes related to global and regional climate change.

The majority of his published research has focused on hemispheric and regional snow cover dynamics and interactions of snow cover with other climate elements.

Yet most research in the field has focused on improving predictions of regional ocean warming driven by long - term climate change and short - term climate patterns like the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle.

The consortium will coordinate scientific input and develop plans for future marine hydrate expeditions to conduct research drilling, recovering samples of the formation, logging and analytical activities to assess the geologic occurrence, regional context, and characteristics of methane hydrate deposits along the continental margins of the United States, likely focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic margin.

Process - based studies have focused on understanding the role of the land surface on climate, with research looking into the regional impact of historical or hypothetical (future scenario) land - use change on climate, as well as understanding diurnal - scale relationships between surface fluxes of heat and moisture and subsequent atmospheric processes such as convection and the generation of precipitation.

His current scientific research is focused on regional climate prediction, hurricanes and applications of extreme value theory.

The Chase research group focuses on modeling and observational studies of the effects of the land surface and changing landcover (for example, deforestation, desertification, and irrigation) and their effects on regional and global climate.

And so out of that research that we conducted and focus groups around the country, we determined that the three most important issues for that consumer group, for Aboriginal people living in regional and remote areas were consumer leasing, buying a car and renting things for their home.

He has presented at numerous local, regional and national conferences and has published numerous research articles focusing on the mental health of multicultural groups, specifically Latinos and African Americans.

Cultural Capacity Building Cores: The Northwest Indian Prevention Intervention Research Center, directed by Tom Ball, is focused on preparing Tribes in the Northwest region for the development of their own regional prevention and intervention researchResearch Center, directed by Tom Ball, is focused on preparing Tribes in the Northwest region for the development of their own regional prevention and intervention researchresearch center.

The scales are intended to complement data about the managerial subsystem of a family and are to be used in conjunction with a regional research project focused on home - based work.

The evidence is everywhere: In 2010, A&P, once the largest supermarket chain in the country, filed for bankruptcy; in late 2011, Winn - Dixie, a regional grocer with a focus on Southeastern U.S., was sold to BI-LO; Supervalu Inc., which operates more than 2,500 stores around the country, is on «death watch,» according to David J. Livingston, head of supermarket consulting firm DJL Research.