Sentences with phrase «scale challenges such»

Some biomimicry efforts are tackling large - scale challenges such as supplying energy to an entire building.

Not exact matches

And beyond the rapidly filling competitive landscape, there are the challenges any fast - growth company has in scaling rapidly, such as managing its ever - growing staff.

Scaling such ambitious retail environments is a challenge.

Pragmatism may be preventing Bezos from pulling the trigger on long - rumored initiatives such as same - day delivery and a move into brick - and - mortar retail — two projects that remain tremendous financial challenges, even for a company of Amazon's scale and execution prowess.

Using the best - selling 737 - 8 as the starting point for a new type of 737 could pose such challenges, but may also be cheaper to make because of economies of scale in busy 737 - 8 production.

It is challenging for developers to integrate innovative software such as Segregated Witness (SegWit), the BItcoin Core development team's scaling and transaction malleability solution because almost everyone within the network including miners, node operators and developers have to agree to it.

Today, robo - analyst technology solves the scale challenge and enables a higher level of diligence at such a low cost that ignoring it is unethical.

No group is better prepared to bring such challenges than students of Whitehead, and if the scale of the contrast is greater than Mason would admit, the fruits of continued pursuit of his project are correspondingly more important

However, with such a broad and diverse stakeholder base, a challenge lies before us: How can we drive wide - scale adoption of sustainable best practices?

Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scale.

External affairs director Marie - Claude Hemming said: «Not only must we undertake urgent repairs to local roads, but the scale of the challenge is such that the Government must rethink how repairs and maintenance of this national asset are funded.

The scale of the de-industrialisation challenge was such that, by 2013, Manchester still had 90,000 fewer jobs than it had in 1951.

Such atomic layers are challenging enough to manufacture on a laboratory scale, let alone in industrial mass production.

The challenge is to make such a tiny microstructure stable — and reproducible on a much larger, bulk scale.

Although this is not the first nanonecklace ever made, the new process provides a more general and controllable way of synthesizing such nanomaterials — a useful development, because manipulating materials on such tiny scales is a challenge.

The challenge now, scientists say, is to scale up the process to provide large amounts of hydrogen for various purposes, such as fueling vehicles or small generators.

Creating this ability in engineered systems poses challenges in the design of both algorithms and physical systems that can operate at such scales.

«Obtaining such precise, atomic - level information over length scales relevant to battery technologies was a challenge,» said Quentin Ramasse, Director of the SuperSTEM Laboratory.

As engineers who have designed full - scale vertical take off and landing tiltrotors such as the V - 22 Osprey will tell you — that is no easy task because of the challenging flight aerodynamics.

Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»

Science in the Big League, an essay written by Norwegian particle physicist Egil Lillestol, who has spent a lot of time at CERN, is a great introduction to CERN's multinational environment and the joys and challenges of doing science on such a big scale.

There's also the not insignificant challenge of implementing such solutions globally — otherwise known as the problem of scale — as well as overcoming the reasons of engaging in traditional practices, such as burning the residue in agricultural fields to increase fertility, in the first place.

«Such a small energy scale and ultra-low temperature makes it particularly challenging to realize Majorana zero modes experimentally, and to distinguish these modes from other states.

One challenge with storms in Germany is that climate models have trouble accurately depicting such small - scale features, but a new generation of models that should come into wider use within the next year or two do a much better job, meaning that attribution analyses on such events should become more feasible, van Oldenborgh said.

Although direct seeding is widely practiced in the United States and South America, challenges such as higher yield losses due to weed infestation have limited its wide - scale adoption in Asia.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

This module will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long ‐ term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards.

«It's exciting in the scope and scale of this effort, and challenging in bringing such a large project to completion.»

Losing weight is such a mental challenge, and the scale certainly doesn't help in that respect.

The person - on - person violence has been scaled down this time out, as most of the Hunger Games challenges involve computer - programmed «Fear Factor» perils such as poisonous fog, lightning storms, a congress of mutated baboons, manufactured tidal waves, etc..

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

«We need the tools, the skills, and the awareness of how to think differently and how to develop systems that can be scaled to solve such massive challenges.

Unfortunately, attempts to scale up such programs have proved challenging.

We have also tried the Duckworth scale in an experiment and found that it was uncorrelated with other, behavioral measures of non-cognitive skills, such as time devoted to a challenging task and delayed gratification.

The yet - to - be-met challenge is taking such success to scale.

«This is a challenging time of initiating such a change movement,» says Massachusetts education secretary Paul Reville, referring to the economic downturn, «but the cost of not initiating this scope and scale of change far exceeds in the long run the cost of doing it.»

Therefore, making definitive claims about the outcomes of such programs remains a challenging task.83 Some studies find no link between financial incentives for student achievement and higher test scores, while others see higher achievement for students in systems with performance bonuses.84 A large - scale 2014 study on TIF presented findings on early implementation from 153 districts.

In order to meet future challenges, the authors argue that the East Bay must invest in its core economic assets, such as preparing an advanced manufacturing workforce and scaling up proven work - based learning models like Linked Learning.

However, returning to the focus of the Select Committee's inquiry — the role of RSCs — our recent report illustrates the scale of the challenge they face in identifying new sponsors (such as MATs) to take responsibility for underperforming schools.

Publisher Defendants also feared that the $ 9.99 price would drive e-book popularity to such a degree that digital publishers could achieve sufficient scale to challenge the Publisher Defendants» basic business model.

While there are smaller Oni to battle, and a few different missions such as wave - based survival modes or «kill this many little mooks» challenges, the vast majority of the game's content revolves around those large scale battles, and given Toukiden «s love of recycling monsters, the hours and hours and hours of content regularly threaten to grate.

While it might be hard to provide an accurate experience for such an ambitious game, the sense of scale and the full freedom of utilizing any of the sports challenge gives Steep an edge over any other game in this genre, which isn't really much of an accomplishment considering the lack of competition.

Since then she has been challenged by large - scale commissions, such as the 15 - foot long piece installed in the Music City Center.

Kline's small - scale rendition of a moving train draws the viewer into the painter's challenge as he tries to capture the essence of an object that defies, by its transformational movement, any such representation.

No other institution of its scale and character has such a complex and exhilarating mission — complex because interrelating the differing purposes of an art museum and a center for research and higher education is so challenging, and exhilarating because the possibilities and implications of this combination are so dynamic.

Yet factors such as the embrace of larger institutions to new art, ever - adapting commercial environments, novel forms of social interaction, and the rising costs of living in New York have all created unprecedented challenges for small - scale institutions.

In the wake of such large - scale challenges, foundations such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stepped in with major support through the Warhol Initiative, an invitational funding program launched in the fall of 1999 to support small contemporary visual arts organizations around the country.

Expect vibrant large - scale tableaux that challenge traditional notions of identity in art, such as Mickalene Thomas's restaging of famous works by the likes of Manet and Monet with glittering, provocatively dressed black women.

For the moment, such efforts face challenges, including the persistent inability of computer climate simulations to reliably replicate climate patterns at the scale of states and cities.

Challenges to Creating a Robot That Can Both Fly and Swim First things first, they have to create a prototype, and the team is still facing challenges such as understanding the change in performance when moving from air to water, how to scale the robot to be able to fly using flapping locomotion, and of course how to power Challenges to Creating a Robot That Can Both Fly and Swim First things first, they have to create a prototype, and the team is still facing challenges such as understanding the change in performance when moving from air to water, how to scale the robot to be able to fly using flapping locomotion, and of course how to power challenges such as understanding the change in performance when moving from air to water, how to scale the robot to be able to fly using flapping locomotion, and of course how to power the thing.