Sentences with phrase «scale developments including»

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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.

Previous investors were led by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.

Micro Focus software configuration management (SCM) solutions (formally Borland solutions) address the unique needs of large, complex organizations, including large scale parallel development, by integrating disparate tools, teams, and assets into a high performing software supply chain.

Other initiatives have included the development of new rice varieties, improvement of rice farm management, deployment of small - scale farm machinery, and strengthening of rice expertise.

that the overlapping regulations for abattoirs be reviewed and streamlined to support the development of new small - scale abattoirs to better service regional and rural Australia, and include provision for the safe regulation of mobile abattoirs.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

The report recommends that efforts to attract CAV manufacturers and academics to the UK should include development of one or more large scale testing environments covering real world urban and rural sites.

CB12 expressed concerns with several elements of the city's plan, including scale of new development and levels of affordability for new housing.

On Tues., Mar. 20th, during its full Executive Committee meeting, CB12 formally passed the resolution that sought to limit the New York City Economic Development Corporation's large - scale plan for rezoning great expanses of Inwood that would include high - rise, market - rate apartment buildings.

A «wholesale transformation of the energy system» is required, the report says, and given the scale and complexity of the change a decarbonisation target should be included in the energy bill to provide a policy commitment for the investors who will need to provide the capital for the development of new technologies.

The Office of the Queens Borough President provides capital funding that can be used to fund large - scale projects, including but not limited to infrastructure improvements and affordable housing developments, and to purchase smaller - scale fixed assets, like computers, Smart - Boards for schools and meal delivery vehicles.

One of the focuses of a New York Times article is Council Speaker Christine Quinn's questioning of both sides, including her asking opponents of the bill if they'd support it if it were scaled back to only include gigantic developments like stadiums and airports.

It also includes promoting small and medium scale enterprise development; establishing an industrial sub-contracting exchange that will link SMEs to the supply chain of large scale enterprises; promoting export diversification with particular emphasis on non-traditional exports; improving domestic retail trade and promoting domestically manufactured goods («Made in Ghana») goods, among other measures.

As criticism grew louder, and convention business experts doubted the plan, Mr. Cuomo continued to profess confidence in the idea, pointing to Genting's «masterful track record» in pursuing large - scale developments elsewhere, including a $ 4.4 billion casino and resort complex in Singapore that opened in 2010.

A joint environmental review is now underway for the towers, which include a 77 - story building from JDS Development Group at 247 Cherry St.; 62 ad 69 story towers from L+M Development Partners and the CIM Group at 260 South St.; and a 62 - story building by the Starrett Group at 259 Clinton St.. The building sites are all be located in the Two Bridges Large Scale Residential Development (LSRD) area.

Beyond HPC system - software development, additional applications for the Pi Cluster Modules include better simulation of large - scale sensor networks, with flexible I / O to connect the actual sensor devices; HPC network topology research, to improve production performance; and the internet of things.

The team is now seeking support for the continuing development of the Li / S cell, including higher sulfur utilization, operation under extreme conditions, and scale - up.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

In the context of the «European Training Programme in Vaccinology «Fraunhofer IME will provide three different Training Modules including Assay Development and Validation, focused on SPR technology, Process Development and scale up, as well as on Requirements for GMP - production.

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

We use the zebrafish model to study β - cell development due to the small size and optical transparency of its embryos / larvae, as well as the ease of the genetic and chemical - genetic manipulations, including the ability to conduct large - scale small molecule screens.

RMMS has a strategic goal to bring these stakeholders together to achieve a number of regenerative medicine manufacturing aims, including the following: (1) Enabling the Development of scale up tools and reagents; (2) Enabling the development of Standards; and (3) Saamless integration of platform technologies with regulatorDevelopment of scale up tools and reagents; (2) Enabling the development of Standards; and (3) Saamless integration of platform technologies with regulatordevelopment of Standards; and (3) Saamless integration of platform technologies with regulatory pathways.

Such justification would then most likely center on whether, under the introductory phrase of GATT Article XX, a US carbon duty, emission credit requirement or other regulation on imports is applied on a variable scale that takes account of local conditions in foreign countries, including their own efforts to fight global warming and the level of economic development in developing countries.

development of a regional scale earth system model that includes coupling WRF with other earth system components such as ocean, sea ice, land surface hydrology, ecosystem, and chemistry; and

Other initiatives have included the development of new rice varieties, improvement of rice farm management, deployment of small - scale farm machinery, and strengthening of rice expertise.

At local scales, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs) are being developed to help fund climate mitigation actions that may include coastal ecosystem conservation.

Dr. Martin Head - Gordon is an electronic structure theorist who is known for development of linear scaling methods for performing density functional theory calculations, for new methods for calculating electronic excited states, and for advances in electron correlation methods, including the development of widely used density functionals and many - electron wavefunction theory.

Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.

The quantification of local contraction at the micron scale, including its directionality and speed, in correlation with other parameters such as cell invasion, local protein or gene expression, can provide useful information to study wound healing, organism development, and cancer metastasis.

RMMS has a strategic goal to bring these stakeholders together to achieve a number of regenerative medicine manufacturing aims, including the following: (1) Enabling the Development of scale up tools and reagents; (2) Enabling the development of Standards; and (3) Seamless integration of platform technologies with regulatorDevelopment of scale up tools and reagents; (2) Enabling the development of Standards; and (3) Seamless integration of platform technologies with regulatordevelopment of Standards; and (3) Seamless integration of platform technologies with regulatory pathways.

The research and development effort at the IA includes most of the topics presently, and for the next decade, at the forefront of research in Astrophysics and Space Sciences, from the Solar System to the large - scale properties of the Universe, complemented by work on instrumentation and systems with potential use in Astronomy and Astrophysics projects.

Projects already underway on both sides of the Atlantic include the development of two prototype laser fusion plants - HiPER in the UK and Ignition in the US - both of which require numerous large scale, high specification optics.

Lipotype offers high quality lipid analysis services with its Lipotype Shotgun Lipidomics Technology for a wide range of customers and applications including biomarker identification for clinical researchers, pharma and biotech companies, functional food development for the food industry, claim support for the cosmetics industry, as well as for the small - scale profiling needs of academic researchers.

Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach led the development process for the parent survey, guiding a team of researchers, including myself, in designing these scales.

Our plans for implementing the proposed initiative will include the following activities: (1) continuing to build their evidence base to understand for whom their intervention works best and least, and in what contexts; (2) refining their program model with a sharp focus on producing the materials that will be needed to achieve successful replication at scale; (3) solidifying the commitment of the selected scaling champions (i.e., the person who will drive the continuing development of the intervention and its implementation at scale); and (4) building the infrastructure necessary to support effective scaling, including the development of a business plan and training support structure, along with the successful navigation of intellectual property issues.

There are several other scaled - up preschool programs that have been evaluated with well - implemented RCTs and found to have no immediate effects, including Even Start, the Comprehensive Child Development Program, and over a dozen curriculum improvement efforts pitting model curricula against run - of - the - mill programs (see PCER and CLIO).

Schools that partner with LEAP receive professional development support as they build and pilot a personalized learning model to fit their school context, including the integration of an edtech product vetted by a national panel of experts, and then scale key learnings to other classrooms and schools within their network.

The report includes such scores as Scaled Score (SS), Percentile Rank (PR), Instructional Reading Level (IRL), and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).

During her 13 years at Pearson, she was responsible for the planning, management and coordination of the full array of psychometric activities necessary to sustain a large scale assessment program, including test design and development, scaling and equating, item and test analysis, parameter estimation, standard setting, the development of reliability and validity research, report design, and the creation of technical documentation.

Assessments in the pilot programme will include rigorous written and oral assignments, completion of a professional development plan, participation in debate activities, a small - scale research or improvement project, and submission of a portfolio of videos of practice, work samples and reflections.

Assessments in the pilot programme will include rigorous written and oral assignments, completion of a professional development plan, participation in debate activities, a small - scale research or improvement project, and submission of a portfolio of videos of practice, work samples and reflections; full details are included in a later section of this guide.

As in years past, the program includes three grant categories: Development, Validation and Scale - up.

Daro has, among many other things, directed large - scale teacher professional development programs for the University of California including the American Mathematics Project and directed the New Standards Project.

The i3 program includes three grant categories: Development, Validation and Scale - up.

That is why we have focused over the years on taking afterschool to scale across the country, including growing statewide afterschool networks from 9 in 2002 to 41 today, and supporting the development and implementation of the federal afterschool grant program known as the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative.

The other half of the funding would be devoted mostly to statewide initiatives, including professional development for teachers and administrators, the expansion of the longitudinal data system, vertical scale assessment data, developing models for supporting, supervising and evaluating teachers and principals, secondary school reform, and several other initiatives.

(1997) E652: Current Research in Post-School Transition Planning (2003) E586: Curriculum Access and Universal Design for Learning (1999) E626: Developing Social Competence for All Students (2002) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E608: Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities (2001) E654: Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork (2003) E571: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans (1998) E628: Helping Students with Disabilities Participate in Standards - Based Mathematics Curriculum (2002) E625: Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (2002) E597: Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (2000) E564: Including Students with Disabilities in Large - Scale Testing: Emerging Practices (1998) E568: Integrating Assistive Technology Into the Standard Curriculum (1998) E577: Learning Strategies (1999) E587: Paraeducators: Factors That Influence Their Performance, Development, and Supervision (1999) E735: Planning Accessible Conferences and Meetings (1994) E593: Planning Student - Directed Transitions to Adult Life (2000) E580: Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment (1999) E633: Promoting the Self - Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities (2002) E609: Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E616: Research on Full - Service Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E563: School - Wide Behavioral Management Systems (1998) E632: Self - Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities (2002) E585: Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (1999) E599: Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities (2000) E638: Strategy Instruction (2002) E579: Student Groupings for Reading Instruction (1999) E621: Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities (2001) E627: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Educators (2002) E642: Supporting Paraeducators: A Summary of Current Practices (2003) E647: Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self - Determination (2003) E590: Teaching Expressive Writing To Students with Learning Disabilities (1999) E605: The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)(2000) E592: The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)(2000) E641: Universally Designed Instruction (2003) E639: Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning (2002) E572: Violence and Aggression in Children and Youth (1998) E635: What Does a Principal Need to Know About Inclusion?

Commercial PC gaming began with small - scale development in the early days, including one - person designers who turned out hand - craft projects.

Other AgMIP initiatives include global gridded modeling, data and information technology (IT) tool development, simulation of crop pests and diseases, site - based crop - climate sensitivity studies, and aggregation and scaling.