Sentences with phrase «scaling efforts at»

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.

EN: Can we generalize the results from well - designed, generously funded pilot programs to large - scale efforts at the state or national level?

It's no surprise that we have large and diverse range of Coalition members in Memphis, which has been the epicenter of education reform, with multiple large - scale efforts at innovation over the past decade.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was the first large scale effort at addressing climate change.

Not exact matches

«Medicare is slowly but surely turning its efforts to prevention at a much bigger scale,» said Mike Payne, head of medical affairs at Omada.

Sorry for the rant, but this effort to be hyper local with local pages on Facebook will drive your marketing team and / or it's agencies crazy at scale and it's not worth the time, effort or money.

At Tuck, efforts range from coffee chats with prospective students to large - scale events such as the forthcoming Initiative for Women Symposium.

At the moment, efforts revolve around the nearly one dozen connected devices the company makes, including watches and a connected smart scale.

But rather than using that scale to crush the competition, he has spearheaded an effort called Apollo, aimed at making the advancement of self - driving car technology an open, collaborative process.

We help startups at all stages — from early planning to scaling efforts.

Thanks for your efforts at scaling down recipies - these need to become standard sizes!

This scaling up of certification efforts is admirable, but is coming at the cost of maintaining rigorous environmental standards.

If you caught the first episode of ABC's War on Waste program earlier this year, two things may have jumped out at you: firstly, the scale of food loss and food waste in Australia; and secondly, the incredible efforts that Foodbank and the food industry, including Australian Organic members and clients, are making right across...

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

Like many of his other efforts at this stage, your 18 - month - old is not likely to be dissuaded from scaling the crib if that's what he really wants to do.

At the Wilfrid Laurier Athletic Complex, we were introduced to Kurtis, a student who made spiderman look bad, the way he could scale the wall without effort.

Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous research studies and scaled up as appropriate.

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.

For those campaigns, PACs and parties that opt to use technology not just to better optimize persuasion efforts but to actually build meaningful relationships at scale, a whole slew of traditional campaign pitfalls cease to exist.

The fire was discovered at about 1:15 p.m. on Thursday behind Nice Pak Products along Greenbush Road and firefighting efforts soon scaled up to become a regional effort that included volunteers from throughout Rockland County and received aid from fighters from Westchester, Bergen and West Point.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

A new project at the Alberta oil sands is part of a $ 2 - billion effort to test the technology at an unprecedented scale

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

The image, while an improvement over past efforts, wasn't quite at the atomic scale yet — that required other advances.

That cryo - EM technique dovetailed with Henderson's efforts, and in 1990, Henderson produced the first cryo - EM image of a protein at the atomic scale.

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.

Despite decades of efforts, precisely controlling phase transformations at the atomic scale still poses a significant challenge due to the intricacies of governing thermodynamic conditions with atomic precision.

The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large - scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists.

However, no study has yet managed to quantify the cost and benefit of such efforts at a continental scale.

«We believe that this work will stimulate further experimental and theoretical efforts to design new ways to scale up the synthesis of Ti3N4 at ambient pressure.»

«This study is part of a larger effort to improve our ability to model microclimates in urban areas and other climate phenomena at decision - relevant scales,» Jones said.

More work is needed to extend the new approach to other plant species, and to broaden the effort to include models that look at dynamics at the ecosystem scale, the researchers said.

AAAS has had a long history of supporting more diversity in science - related fields and has noted the setbacks that can occur when courts, state lawmakers, or regulators try to scale back efforts at more inclusive admissions policies.

For years, scientists and engineers have synthesized materials at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity.

With the help of satellite data, the new analysis looked at reefs on a much finer scale than did the effort in 1998, with a 64 times greater resolution.

This study is the first to collect baseline coral restoration survival and productivity data at regional scales including data from 1,000 s of individual A. cervicornis colonies, more than 120 distinct genotypes within six geographical regions to develop benchmarks to fully assess the progress and impacts of the region's coral and reef restoration efforts.

Ickovics and colleagues are currently working with United Health Foundation and UnitedHealth Group, and collaborators at Vanderbilt University and the Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University to address many of these issues and to identify factors that could impact efforts to scale up and sustainability with a new model of group prenatal care, called Expect With Me.

Such large - scale modeling and simulation requires the heft of a supercomputer, and for this effort the team used Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the U. of I.

«There's a big effort to understand friction and control it, because it's one of the limiting factors for nanomachines, but there has been relatively little progress in actually controlling friction at any scale,» Vuletic says.

The cancer hasn't yet shown itself in North Dakota, but mounting evidence suggests that large - scale clean - up efforts should commence immediately, says Michele Carbone, a mesothelioma expert at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu who has worked in both North Dakota and the Turkish villages.

At the other end of the scale are the modest efforts that make use of disused railway lines to join patches of wasteland in inner cities, bringing a taste of the countryside to town dwellers.

«Even the most advanced and largest - scale efforts to test automated vehicles today fall woefully short of what is needed to thoroughly test these robotic cars,» said Huei Peng, director of Mcity and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M.

It is critical to continue and accelerate a robust research effort to develop an HIV vaccine that is at least moderately effective, while also aggressively scaling up the implementation of current treatment and prevention tools, Dr. Fauci concludes.

«Finding these animals is going to take some effort, as our computer - simulation analysis of the data showed that we need more photos from more localities just to get a better estimate of migration patterns at even regional scales,» Dr Meekan said.

At present, there is simply no way to scale up such innovative efforts because there is no larger market for such «premium» credits as well as no interest from aid agencies.

Sharon Squassoni, another board member and director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said nuclear disarmament efforts have «ground to a halt» and many nations are expanding, not scaling back, their nuclear capabilities.

«A recent WHO report on IPV recommended that there is a clear need to scale - up efforts to both prevent IPV from happening in the first place and to provide necessary services for women experiencing IPV,» says senior author Peter A. Muennig, MD, MPH, associate professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

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.

Other researchers at Joslin are conducting large scale genetic screening for novel therapeutic targets to control autoimmunity, which will complement the effort of BAIRT to extend autologous beta cell replacement to patients with type 1 diabetes.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.