Sentences with phrase «scale these programs using»

And now, a new initiative launching this week provides a comprehensive way to track, understand and scale these programs using an interactive mapping and database system.

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In contrast, a program using an interleaving learning style would alternate practicing scales, chords, and arpeggios within the same session.

«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.

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.

What is the real story behind the Bank of Japan's quantitative and qualitative using program which begun in 2013 augmented with a negative interest rate policy for large scale purchases of Japanese government bonds?

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

Reducing Food Losses from Farm to Market, October 2014: An introduction to small - scale appropriate postharvest handling practices, with illustrations and resources for you to use in your own training programs.

In the first phase of the program, «smart scales» are being used to measure the food thrown away in IKEA's direct operations at restaurants (in the kitchens), bistros, and Swedish Food Markets.

The pilot program resulted in a 23 - 54 % decrease in food waste over 6 months of using a «smart scale» system.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

I do ask for a couple financial documents, such as an LES or other paystub and copy of WIC or SNAP document, this allows me to ensure that the family can utilize the program and to determine what amount of subsidy is appropriate; I use a sliding scale approach.

Replicating and Scaling Up Evidence - Based Home Visiting Programs: The Role of Implementation Research (PDF - 337 KB) Paulsell (2012) Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development Discusses implementation research in the home visiting field, how research can be used to strengthen programs and improve targeted outcomes, and the conditions and supports necessary for effective implemePrograms: The Role of Implementation Research (PDF - 337 KB) Paulsell (2012) Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development Discusses implementation research in the home visiting field, how research can be used to strengthen programs and improve targeted outcomes, and the conditions and supports necessary for effective implemeprograms and improve targeted outcomes, and the conditions and supports necessary for effective implementation.

HIV Medicine DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2011.00918.x IBFAN - Asia Position Statement on HIV and Infant Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide, Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding.

Policymakers and funders should use the available research on implementation and encourage future work to guide decisions about how to scale up evidence - based programs effectively and support them over time.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Breastfeeding PC has been demonstrated to be an effective intervention (44) and is being scaled - up through widespread use of breastfeeding peer counselors in the WIC program.

The MTA is running out of funds for a controversial program to renovate 32 subway stations, and will scale it back as a result, as most of the program's $ 936 million budget has been used for just 19 stations where the cosmetic improvements have been completed or are underway

Critics of the program's limited scale, including State Senator Diane Savino and Assembly health committee chairman Richard Gottfried, said the governor's plan also relies on an unstable source for the drug's supply, and could potentially use marijuana seized by law - enforcement officials, instead of the purified and specially - grown strains developed to treat specific medical conditions.

«We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to provide the first evidence in the literature of the effects of large - scale teacher retirements on student achievement.

«The committee will systematically review new data on devices and advise on whether additional studies are needed before a device can be recommended for use in the scale - up of male circumcision programs,» says Catherine Hankins, UNAIDS chief scientific adviser.

The researchers then correlated scores on the hidden depression scale with individual trends in internet usage, grouped into three categories: «aggregate,» which indicated how much information was being sent and received over a network, «application,» which indicated the broad category of program that was being used (e.g., email, surfing the web, downloading media), and «entropy,» which indicated the degree of randomness in information flow (essentially, the extent to which someone was sending and receiving information to multiple net - based resources at once).

Still, many in the industry said more research needs to be done — including large - scale pilot projects such as the Los Angeles Air Force Base program — in order to understand if and how V2G could be used.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

For example, the large - scale sequencing program has already started to sequence the genomes of 100 microorganisms found in the human gut, and will build on this by using genomic sequencing to characterize the complex microbial communities found at many sites in and on the human body.

In addition to producing large - scale genomic data, the CIDR program also facilitates the deposition of these data sets in central databases where they can be used by other scientists.

«DNA is easy to program, synthesize and replicate, so it can be used as a special material to quickly self - assemble into nanostructures and to guide the operation of molecular - scale devices,» he said.

This is an impressive application of modern parallel algorithm design and programming — tools that generally will be critical to the optimal use of HPC systems to solve large - scale problems that benefit society.

Diet records were analyzed using a computer program (ESHA Food Processor SQL, version 10.1.1) based on US Department of Agriculture data22 and international GI tables23 using the bread scale (for glucose scale, multiply values by 0.71) 24 with additional GI measurements made on local foods (Glycemic Index Laboratories).

I am so used to vector based graphics programs I just assume they can scale to any size.

But in a large - scale program, we do not know what proportion of the treatment group would actually use a voucher offered to them.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more distrscale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more distrScale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

Since introducing the three targeted programs and implementation model in 2016, Buchanan says the school has seen: improvements across a range of classes using the NAPLAN writing scale of up to 40 per cent; improvements in spelling using NAPLAN assessment and internal data of up to two years within a 12 month period; and its first spike in NAPLAN numeracy improvement for Years 3 and 5 (the two year groups staff focused on through the program).

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.

Instead of trying to use public policy to develop training programs for the workforce of the future, let's instead rest our hopes on a vast array of small - scale, nimble, local solutions crafted by civil - society actors.

Using the Regulatory Impact Scale I created, I show (1) the impact of a state's private school regulations before any school choice program existed; (2) the immediate regulatory impact that comes with the creation of initial regulations for a school choice program; (3) the impact of changes and additions to the regulations for a school choice program as policymakers revisit school choice programs after their first year of operation; (4) the total regulatory impact the school choice program has had on participating private schools; and (5) the total regulatory impact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private schools.

Although she admits that «research shows... that marginally expanding in - school time without improving how that time is used does not improve learning» she is confident that «high intensity summer programs» can do the job, as if any such program could be brought to scale.

Baltimore school officials announced last week that they will scale back the use of a controversial middle school language arts program, after a review panel pointed to flaws in its implementation.

The key is to organize what you do have into a program that is easy for customers to use, supportive of every step of their journey, and can easily scale as your company grows.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

«We'll be developing computer coding curriculum, like «Hacking Minecraft» and «Technology in Music,» to create programming that engages this demographic that we will hopefully use to scale to thousands of other students to get them interested in coding,» Macalalad says.

Topics of discussion will include: • Setting goals and identifying criteria to evaluate programs for efficacy, standards - alignment, and student growth • How to build teacher capacity using data - informed instruction and intentional organizational support structures • Scaling beyond intervention; increasing district - wide adoption and usage of personalized learning programs All K - 12 administrators and educators are encouraged to attend.

Just try to decipher this recent press release about a new study proving «rubric - based assessment can be taken to scale and can produce valid findings with credible and actionable information about student learning that can be used to improve curricular and assignment designs and to increase effectiveness of programs and classes in advancing the most important learning outcomes of college.»

The largest - scale study of the SIG program, using a sample of 190 SIG schools from 60 districts in 22 states assessed the effects of the reforms using a plausible technique for distinguishing cause, but in practice, the estimates from this study were too imprecise to distinguish whether the SIG schools nationally had a similar effect to the ones in California or had no effect at all.

On a four - point scale they rated at three or higher many aspects of their program preparation including a range of aspects of classroom management; language, literacy, and reading instruction (including teaching phonics); ability to teach mathematics; ability to use a range of assessments to improve their teaching and learning; and knowledge of content.

The company provides an array of materials designed for large - scale school programs, as well as easy - to - use kits geared toward parents and families at home.

The company provides an array of materials designed for large - scale school programs as well as easy - to - use kits geared towards parents and families at home.

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Other recent work includes identifying high - performing charter school authorizers for further study, and developing a tool that teacher residency programs can use to model their budgets, improve sustainability, and scale up their programs

Compelling Financial Case: By showing a clear return on investment to state policymakers, scaling the TN SAILS program represented a promising use of state resources.