Sentences with phrase «scale effort by»

Now, certainly whether these effects will occur is uncertain, but the proper way to deal with this in risk mitigation is to scale effort by the potential cost of the adverse event multiplied by its probability.

In just the past several years, prices here a have already doubled due to a large - scale effort by the Mexican government to develop the area into a thriving tourist location.

During the March «From Shore to Sea» lecture, biologist Paula Power discussed a large - scale effort by the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy to restore the coastal wetland at Prisoners Harbor on Santa Cruz Island.

If anything, it seems to imply the opposite — listing off a series of large - scale efforts by Russia's Internet Research Agency (the name its hackers used) to shape the outcome of the election:

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A recent report, «B2B Marketing Automation Platforms: A Marketer's Guide» by Internet Marketing Depot (free download available here) suggests automation software can be helpful if you need to scale your efforts quickly, or if you have multiple databases that can not be consolidated.

It also helps cost - effectively scale content marketing efforts by identifying existing content written about you that you can amplify, reducing the time / money needed to produce additional content.

By immersing your strategy in big data and artificial intelligence, you can read the right signals, solve for specific problems, and most importantly, scale your efforts.

His team caught Russia trying to interfere with campaigns — for instance by phishing staff — but it didn't understand the scale of the country's overall effort.

Moving forward, South Korea needs to maintain the momentum behind its effort to become the Northeast Asian hub for natural gas trade by building a large - scale commercial storage facility for natural gas and using international cooperation programs.

Greider does his best to highlight hopeful, albeit mostly small - scale, efforts by «pioneers» who are attempting to reform the economy, people in for - profit and not - for - profit organizations as well as academics.

Scale is a key component of this venture — Moringa's efforts are part of Nicaragua's 2.7 million hectare contribution to the Initiative 20 × 20, sponsored by World Resource Institute (WRI), whose objective is to restore 20 million hectares of forests in Latin America.

In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.

The aim of this strategy is for the values shared by the Basque community (such as a culture of effort, commitment, the ability to overcome, a will to transform, and equal opportunities for men and women) to become ingrained in the image of the Basque Country and to act as our «business card» on an international scale.»

In fact, some evidence suggests that focusing on weight loss can actually be harmful to an overweight person's health by tying too much concern to how much weight they lose or keep off — and then making them relapse when the scale doesn't budge despite their best efforts.

The meeting, the first large - scale effort to address prostitution in Wicker Park, was organized by five neighborhood groups.

The reason for NOT expending effort tp «conduct a wide scale attempt» by targeting the subset of non-citizens is that it has been determined time and again that the number of non-citizens that attempt to vote is exceedingly low (but admittedly greater than zero).

This new legislative session comes shortly after General Electric announced plans to move its headquarters from Fairfield to Boston, despite last - minute efforts by Connecticut legislators last year to scale back some business taxes and appease the corporate giant.

The initiative is not quite as large - scale as efforts spearheaded by Councilman Mark Levine and Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson to establish a «right to counsel» — the right to a lawyer in any kind of court, not just criminal courts.

David Miliband said aid efforts by the country's officials have been «inadequate to the scale of the disaster» and warned the situation is turning into a «humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions».

The reduction in test time is part of ongoing efforts by the state and the city to scale back high - stakes testing.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

By late 2012, it adds, «the department had largely stopped developing systems for national roll - out and concentrated its efforts on preparing short - term solutions for the pathfinder» (the small scale trial of the system).

Habib leads the «Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales» project or «ExaSky,» one of the first projects funded by the recently established Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative effort between DOE's Office of Science and its National Nuclear Security Administration.

Scaling distance by bodily effort even plays a role in some culturally - based perceptions.

This effort builds on previous investigations, such as the USGS Central Valley Regional Aquifer System and Analysis (CV - RASA) project and several other groundwater studies in the Valley completed by Federal, State and local agencies at differing scales.

Now, a greater effort to understand its ecological and population history has been made possible by the first, whole - scale genome sequencing efforts of 57 platypuses across Eastern Australia and Tasmania.

Sparked from the efforts of the T2D - GENES Consortium (Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next - generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples; T2D - GENES) to aggregate and share results from large - scale T2D sequence and genotype datasets, the prototype T2D KP was built with seed funding from the NIDDK via the T2D - GENES Consortium and the Slim Initiative for Genomic Medicine in the Americas for T2D (SIGMA T2D).

Jolted by the scale of the catastrophe unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, local leaders appealed to citizens to join in the rescue effort — and they've responded in droves.

As part of its efforts to develop and apply tools for large - scale functional analysis, the BDGP has undertaken a novel gene disruption project based on mutagenesis by transposable element insertion (Spradling et al., 1995).

Sponsors: M.D.B. was supported by Materials Synthesis and Simulation Across Scales (MS3) Initiative at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, funded by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development effort.

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.

Of course with enough time, money and effort most DNA sequences can eventually be built; de novo designed mammalian genome - scale synthesis however will require a drop in cost by orders of magnitude together with technology improvements to enable DNA synthesis without restrictions on sequence composition.

Also, efforts to contain the epidemic would have needed to have been implemented much earlier in the current Zika epidemic to have a major effect - but by the time we realised the scale of the problem it was too late.»

So I really would suggest you take it slowly, item by item, and log your reactions to the same thing raw and cooked, and check quantities, and check combos... it IS hard and laborious and sisyphean, and by way of encouragement let me add it took me months of logging everything in a little notebook kept on the kitchen counter alongside a small digital scale, but the effort's worth it because in the end you'll know exactly what's nay and what's aye and that makes living in a world loaded with food so much easier.

Libra is represented by the sign of the scales — picture the balance (or not) of oppositions fluctuating wildly in an effort to find equilibrium.

But the problem isn't lack of effort or faulty scale — it's likely your liver, which is responsible for removing toxins by turning fat - soluble toxins into water - soluble toxins so they can be excreted through your large intestine, kidneys, and skin.

During this period Dating Factory expanded into the UK and US markets by acquiring some small and medium dating sites with active databases as well as scaling up their marketing effort in those territories.

But during the aerial «dogfight» sequences, the film is something else again: a grand - scale spectacular, the likes of which has never been duplicated, not even by more expensive efforts like Hell's Angels (1930) and The Blue Max (1965).

If you were looking for economy of scale, this debut effort by the mono - monikered writer - director Kogonada had no equal.

The Tree of Life is his latest effort, a film dominated by images of breathtaking natural beauty on a scale ranging from the intimate to the unfathomably vast.

The Commission argued that the report used «a small number of cases to arrive at a generalized conclusion» and secondly, that report was «contradictory» by making «sweeping general assertions about AMISOM culpability» before «exhaustively interrogating the scale and prevalence» and thirdly, that «report lacks coherence in its account of AU's efforts to prevent and respond» to the allegations (AU, 2014, September, 8, pp.1 - 2).

Founded by tech industry leaders and educators in San Diego, High Tech High is undertaking various efforts to scale up its design, which offers a rigorous, personalized program focusing on math, science, and technology, and providing extensive connections to the «adult» world through internships and other means.

The first phase of the project (the phase covered by this grant) proposes a large - scale data collection effort in a handful of urban centers and will focus on two goals.

Efforts to bring the academic results of some of the nation's best urban charter schools to a far larger scale are «sharply constrained» by limits on the supply of talent willing and able to undertake the highly demanding work, argues a new working paper by Steven F. Wilson, a senior fellow at Education Sector, a Washington think tank.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

Only in recent years have we seen serious, broad - scale efforts at cooperation, such as the charter / district compacts now sponsored in 21 cities by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

Minimally effective teachers who chose to stay at DCPS improved their performance by roughly 11 - points on the IMPACT scale, suggesting that threat of dismissal lead to successful instructional improvement efforts.

The already broad and ambitious efforts of developing countries to build their own clean, climate - resilient futures will be supported by scaled - up finance from developed countries and voluntary contributions from other countries.

The materials were developed by the Good Work Project, a large - scale research effort that falls under the Project Zero umbrella and was originally launched by psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, and Howard Gardner.