Sentences with phrase «review current systems»

They also review current systems in order to decipher needs for improvement and addition.

Like we mentioned in the beginning, it's important to review current systems and make positives changes.

Not exact matches

The Teacher Retirement System in Texas, which manages about $ 132 billion for more than 1.4 million current employees and beneficiaries, reduced its inflation rate assumption last month while reviewing its current investment target rate.

«With the amount of content in our systems and the current systems we have in place to review, we have a small amount of mistakes, but that's too many,» Zuckerberg said.

The furious debate about the merits of current and future pipeline projects underscores the need for an evidence - based long - term energy strategy for our country, the conclusions of a new review of Canada's energy systems suggest.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

Easylunchboxes.com is the current winner in our lunchbox system review.

Police are reviewing proposals for a new red light camera system after six years of working with Orland Park's current provider, Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., village officials said.

We are replacing DLA with PIP and introducing a new face to face assessment and regular reviews - something missing under the current system.

They had been the subject of intense debate between George Osborne and the DWP during the spending review period, which saw the chancellor finally cave in to pressure to allow Mr Duncan Smith to fund the switchover from the current system to the new one.

Under the current system they intervene in the judicial review case to contribute their expertise.

Launching the LASPO review this week would be a first step to redressing the acute inequality in our current justice system.

At 10 a.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Rodriguez hold a hearing to examine the current state of the subway system and provide the Council with an opportunity to fully review the agency's 30 Day Reorganizational Report, Council chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

Responding to the announcement that there is to be a review into the current Direct Payments system, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Food, William Powell AM, said:

«Under the Personal Independence Payment claimants will have a face - to - face assessment and systematic reviews — something missing in the current system — to ensure the billions we spend give more targeted support to those who need it most.»

Justice Minister Michael Wills backed the current «first - past - the - post» system after the publication last week of a review of various alternatives.

The Commission will conduct a comprehensive and objective review of the State's taxation policy, including corporate, sales and personal income taxation and make revenue - neutral policy recommendations to improve the current tax system.

The senior Labour MP, who is leading a review of the party's defence policy, was heckled by colleagues at a meeting of the parliamentary party as she set out her progress so far and revealed she was not convinced by the current delivery system.

A review by the former Labour education secretary David Blunkett published in April highlighted the current «absence of transparency» in the English system.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

In making the Justice Department announcement, Rosenstein also said the department would reinstitute next month the Council of Federal Forensic Laboratory Directors, a group of the heads of the government's leading forensic laboratories and digital analysis centers; put in place a system for monitoring examiner's courtroom testimony and regularly review the new standards «to confirm that they reflect current scientific knowledge and best practices.»

Under the current system, chemical companies perform safety tests or farm them out to contractors, then submit data for review at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies.

The current academic funding system, which allocates public money to researchers based on the submission and peer review of countless research proposals, has served science well — but some people believe that the time has come to find more efficient ways to distribute the money.

That review could accelerate efforts to revamp the current system, including schemes to strike at missiles from space.

Neurofibromatosis is one of at least 60 genetic diseases called neurocutaneous disorders that involve the skin, central nervous system, and / or peripheral nervous system, according to a comprehensive review article in the journal Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports by neurologists at Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Working for Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology, Nga will assess the country's current early - warning system, which relies on the Voice of Vietnam and Vietnam Television, and she will review lessons learned in other regions, too.

Competition for funding has become too intense, especially for young scientists, Scheffer and Bollen say, and the current peer - review system is inefficient.

«What I would challenge is whether in fact the current process by which we go through tenure review is inviolate, or whether, in fact, like all the things we do that are built on tradition, there are times when it is worthwhile to reflect on whether it is a perfect system.

«The evidence seems compelling that the brain has these two kinds of learning systems, and the complementary learning systems theory explains how they complement each other to provide a powerful solution to a key learning problem that faces the brain,» says Stanford Professor of Psychology James McClelland, lead author of the 1995 paper and senior author of the current Review.

The role of research integrity in the very structure of contemporary science, addressing cultural practices in its publication system, current ethical challenges in peer review and its consequences regarding the reliability of the research record.

Therefore, the strongest motivation for the current scientific review is the need for a synoptic organization of the available knowledge on the field of interactions at different planetary systems, in parallel with a comparative analysis encompassing the inter-connection among planetary space weather aspects belonging to different disciplines (e.g. plasma variability and its effects on atmospheric heating).

Chambers also reviewed another oxide system of current interest among scientists: the junction or interface between strontium titanate and lanthanum aluminate.

He also used this opportunity to criticize the current scientific model of publishing articles in peer - reviewed journals, claiming that it was a buddy - buddy system and peer - reviewing did not affect the validity of the article.

After reviewing the current performance of the system for dry air seeing compensation, we present simultaneous H -, K -, and N - band observations that illustrate the feasibility of our feedforward approach to stabilize the path length fluctuations seen by the LBTI nuller.

It did make the National Board of Review's top ten — and will likely make the AFI's top ten, as well — but even if Martin Scorsese is nominated for Best Director by the DGA and Oscar, that doesn't guarantee under the current system the film is in for Best Picture.

Reviewing your approaches could mean an improvement in your current systems and processes.

For example, he recently said: «I would argue that nobody has told me that the current system of evaluation, which is performance review, helps anybody.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

«The current regional systems, which have served their purposes, now, in fact, could impede the state's efforts to move quickly to a world - class education system,» Mr. Leininger concluded after reviewing the effectiveness of the regional systems at the request of state legislators.

«The current review system exacerbates this as marks that have been given by one professional are often substituted by another professional with, usually, a higher mark.

A review of staff wellbeing will enable the assessment of the appropriateness and effectiveness of current systems, structures and services in the school that provide support in this area.

This is in contrast to the current modus operandi in which applications for research grants can take a year or more to make their way through the review system and are typically for multiyear projects.

Third, the Department reminds us that current law requires a state's tests to be aligned with its standards, and that the Department has a peer - review system for ensuring that.

In order to understand the significance of the reforms, based on the landmark Gonski review on school funding, you need to understand how the current system works, what's wrong with it and what proposals there are to fix it.

After extensive deliberation that included a review of research and information gained from listening tours, we have determined that the current proposed amendments to the APPR system are based on an incomplete and inadequate understanding of how to address the task of continuously improving our educational system.

The Readiness Project subcommittee charged with reviewing MCAS and assessment expressed an urgent need for substantive change to the current system.

The NUT is calling for an independent review of current accountability arrangements, including the inspection system in England

In his review of the teacher pay study, AEI's Rick Hess analyzes the rigidity of the current system, «In a routine day, a 4th grade teacher who is a terrific English language arts instructor might teach reading for just 90 minutes.

After reviewing this material, developing questions, and collecting more data on the current system, the policy team began to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of many of the leading alternatives to LIFO.