Sentences with phrase «scale efforts based»

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But the little - known agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been thrust into the spotlight as trade groups mount an unusually intense lobbying effort, seeking to scale back regulations that they say are hampering an industry that could provide a market - based solution to the affordable housing crisis.

Strong words - especially in light of a number of developers working diligently on layer - two technologies, such as lightning network, which push transactions off - chain in an effort to scale for an ever - growing user base.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

On the basis of these findings, the authors conclude that conservation efforts need to be «radically scaled up».

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

Land - based air capture is an effort to enhance this mechanism at an industrial scale so that CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere under controlled conditions.

The individual watershed planning efforts will provide the basis for a scaled - up, integrated Headwaters Basin plan.

In the longer term, Revive aims to nucleate an even larger scale effort that will bring together an expanding number leading scientists, clinicians and biotechnology companies into a national Consortium for stem cell - based regenerative medicine and drug screening.

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).

Coordination between NASA and the NSF can be advantageous because (1) the sheer scale of many modern astronomical investigations requires a coordinated national, if not international, effort; (2) the enormous increase in technical, computer, and Web - based capability reduces the barriers to cooperation; and (3) the growing sophistication of researchers» investigations implies that coordination across wavelength bands and across disciplines is required to produce a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the objects and processes under study.

TCGA, launched in 2005, is a comprehensive and coordinated effort to accelerate the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, including large - scale genome sequencing.

He directs a Genome Data Analysis Center as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, a comprehensive and coordinated effort to accelerate our understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, including large - scale genome sequencing.

Your rate of perceived exertion is a measure of how difficult you find an exercise based on a scale (usually 1 - 10 with 1 representing little to no effort and ten representing maximum effort).

Hot Toys has dedicated its great effort to create the latest Avengers: Infinity War collectibles based on the most up - to - date details, and today Hot Toys is ecstatic to officially introduce the highly movie accurate 1 / 6th scale Thanos collectible figure that Marvels fans eagerly sought after!

Districts are responding: As of spring 2014, four districts nationally are piloting Opportunity Culture models, and one, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, is taking its pilot efforts to scale based on recruiting results and demand from schools.

As vice president, Gray not only advises The Mind Trust's president and CEO on issues of strategy and operations and advances the policy work, he also leads the effort to help this Indianapolis - based and - focused organization build a national network of city - based organizations that will work together to support education entrepreneurs as they scale to new markets across the country.

The content will focus on collective and team - based diagnoses, such as learning from prior scaling efforts and understanding alternative scaling strategies and the tripwires commonly faced.

In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large - scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement.

In launching an unprecedented effort to improve school achievement and other youth outcomes by «scaling up» evidence - based programs, the Obama administration has given education a golden opportunity on the research front.

This paper by Raymond L. Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large - scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches assessement and accountability.

Based on an artistic movement started by Holden and his friends whilst growing up in their hometown of Bedford, MI!MS is a large scale sculptural installation incoporating film, painting, drawing and found objects to trace the history and legacy of their efforts.

At Sperone Westwater, the most prominent piece in Long's exhibition Crescent to Cross was a «large - scale mud work» that recapitulated his effort in Magiciens de la terre, something he has been doing on a regular basis since that show.

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

The year before that, in 2010, the IWC convened as the United States was engaged in a full - scale effort to contain the Deepwater Horizon spill, a tragic ocean - based catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, with terrible consequences for fisheries, livelihoods, tourism, and the habitat of hundreds of marine - based species, including whales and dolphins.

The Five Goods concept, based on Cradle to Cradle ® and described below, will help companies to focus, funnel and evaluate their efforts along those categories, while enabling the users to innovate and scale their efforts.

Work in the Scale - Up and Prototyping program informs the JCAP scientific efforts as to where key performance levers are and also identifies gaps revealed by real - world implementation of an integrated solar - fuels generator based on artificial photosynthesis.

It's a multi-prong approach to reach this goal, which would include Passive House construction along with Decent House / site generation and other efforts contributing to demand destruction, coupled with a shift in transport to non petroleum based fuels (electric vehicles and etc.) Since our focus here is on housing, I really would like to see Decent House scale up for the huge existing housing stock inventory yet to be touched by this approach, along with Passive House lessons applied to new construction, where the basic concept is to shift the burden of maintaining a comfortable, healthy living space toward the envelope, while reducing the intensity of HVAC required.

The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C. - based forest conservation group, could boost the efforts of indigenous groups seeking compensation for preserving forest on their lands, effectively paving the way for large - scale indigenous - led conservation of the Amazon rainforest.

Loure and UCRT's goal is to scale up efforts so that community - based land titling becomes a key component of land use planning and management that balances the needs of Tanzania's people, its environment, and economy.

Compliance efforts, like the U.S. based Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), are more relevant than ever, and new laws in Brazil, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and many other countries have dramatically increased due diligence and formal government investigations on a global scale.

Our problem is how to scale up the effort and its funding base to meet the demand.

The report also recommends an effort to scale up high - quality, evidence - based SEL programs as a core component of education for children.

This paper is the first step in understanding whether these evidence - based programs can produce the change expected of them — what outcomes can be expected if the effects of large - scale implementation efforts mirrored those found in the programs» RCTs?

Further efforts are needed to enhance primary care's capacity to integrate and sustain collaborative care models for delivering high quality behavioral health services to children and adolescents.44, 45 The incorporation of compelling implementation and financial models may help ensure that these evidence - based practices are transported to scale.39

The in - home adaptation of CBT for maternal depression in home visiting programs that Robert Ammerman, PhD and he are disseminating in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Kentucky is an example of efforts to scale - up evidence - based interventions in communities.

«We've got enough for this year to fund the 100 kids, and now we have to raise about another $ 2.5 million for next year, so that's all of our efforts, making sure that we have enough to compete the second year of clinical trials, so that we can have outcomes based on our program and be able to start working on a larger scale with children and their families.»