Sentences with phrase «scaling system worked»

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The points system sees would - be immigrants graded on a scale of 100, with points awarded for language ability, age, education, work experience and adaptability to Canada.

At the time, it was a big investment for us to design a system that could work at scale.

Like I mentioned the other day, that system may have worked in the past but since the wide - scale rise of the Internet over the past 20 years, the masses are more aware of what they don't have than ever before.

Creating a system to off - load work will allow you to be more productive and scale your business much faster.

Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.

Project EmpowerMD, a research collaboration with UPMC, aims to create an AI - powered system that can capture and integrate medical expertise at scale by listening and observing doctors doing their work as they meet their patients.

Mr. Handa has had involvement in several international jurisdictions and his professional experience has included: work on primary and secondary IPO listings on the Toronto and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges; experience in various debt and equity financing transactions including convertible debentures, off - take agreements, metal streaming agreements, and, brokered and non-brokered financings; implementation of ERP systems to manage full - scale mining operations; implementation of domestic and international tax planning strategies; and implementation of corporate governance and internal control policies to comply with various stock exchange jurisdictions.

It's about creating a scaling system that generates you additional income days, weeks, months or even years after you've put in the work and get much more than you would receive through your day job.

Fred Wilson describes some of the work required to enable operational scalability in this way: «Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.»

One of the biggest hurdles for this or any other payment system is the need for scale: Using paper bills or coins or even credit cards works, because they are accepted virtually everywhere, and they are a known quantity and have well - established companies (and government regulations) behind them.

has been involved as a private consultant in international horticultural development work since the 1980s, and has been specialising in postharvest technology, food loss reduction and the extension of information on small - scale postharvest handling practices since 1992 as Principal Consultant of the firm Extension Systems International.

Again, we're scaling DOWN — a system based on letting people know where you are is only interesting for folks who actually go places (for most people with jobs and kids, Foursquare would show precisely three locations — home, work and the liquor store).

Colin Ben - Nathan commented: «Employer reimbursements at flat - rates and benchmark scale - rates are intended as an administrative easement but the existing requirement that employees provide receipts for often very small amounts, e.g. meals whilst working away from the normal workplace, adds unnecessary bureaucracy to a system aimed at simplifying the reimbursement of expenses incurred.

However, this Keynesian effect of economic stimulation only works on a large scale; within smaller economic units, economic stimulation may not work because money can more easily flow out of the system.

The Mangano administration, as it works to get other departments on the new online approval system, also has released the first large - scale update of the official countywide procurement policy since 2004.

«The fact that there are still five million people on out of work benefits underlines the scale of Britain's welfare challenge and shows that we are right to radically overhaul our welfare system.

While this system has worked pretty well in the U.S. so far, some worry that a Bhopal - scale tragedy, whether due to an accident or terrorist attack, could still occur on American soil.

«Just like a population census, a large - scale cosmic census allows us to get the full picture of how a system works and behaves,» explains Murayama.

Creating demonstration farms would help, as would carrying out system - scale research to evaluate what works best to adapt specific practices to general principles in different settings.

«We made a macroscale version of this system, at the scale of several millimeters, to see if it worked,» Shepard notes.

Better predictions would require improved climate - measurement tools, more sophisticated climate models that work on regional scales, and a better organized system to integrate all the data, the report concludes.

It works spectacularly well at describing smaller - scale interactions, like planets» orbits in the solar system, but on sprawling cosmological scales, gravity might act differently — the idea behind so - called modified gravity theories.

«This sounds like a clever process, but I'm skeptical about whether it will work at a larger scale or in the uncontrolled environment of space,» says Carter, who has worked on wastewater systems at NASA for 25 years.

Others have devised and even built such small - scale cooling systems, says Leonard Schulman, a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, but the distinction in the new work is that it is self - contained — the qubits do not need to receive instructions from outside the system.

According to MOND, gravity simply works differently on galactic scales than on the scale of solar systems, and we just need to figure out how.

«This is the first work putting together a physics - based estimate on the scale of one of these big rivers, looking at the net effect of nitrate removal in big river systems.»

So, with his wife's blessing and working by candlelight, this self - taught polymath embarked on an ambitious construction project to transform his bedroom ceiling into a working scale model of the Solar System, or orrery.

Michael Barnhardt, a senior research scientist at NASA ARC and principal investigator of the Entry Systems Modeling Project, said the X-ray work opens a new window into the structure and strength properties of materials at the microscopic scale, and expands the tools and processes NASA uses to «test drive» spacecraft materials before launch.

The next step is to think about it in practical terms and work towards scaling up our system to create a viable quantum computer.»

«This work brings opportunities toward modeling metaphorical words at a broad scale, ultimately allowing the construction of artificial intelligence systems that are capable of creating and comprehending metaphorical language,» he added.

There are a number of water - purification technologies on the market today, although many come with drawbacks: Systems that rely on chlorine treatment work well at large scales, but are expensive.

Nocera is working to scale up the system in hopes that it will bring clean, abundant energy to poor people living off the grid.

NASA scientists working on the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) project are making inroads on the two main problems holding back personal air travel on a massive, nationwide scale: midair collisions and complicated piloting mechanisms.

Meanwhile, a group of recent and current MIT engineering students is working to bring solar thermal to Africa with an off - grid system that operates on a much smaller scale.

Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.

Future work includes scaling down the signal processing module and capacitance measurement system to be co-mounted on skin with the sensor.

Research will examine phenomena at multiple scales to address the emergence of collective behaviors that arise from individual elements or parts of a system working together.

It's a demonstration - scale system that's meant to help prove the characteristics of the technology and collect data about how it works.

May 15, 2006 deCODE and Illumina Form Alliance to Develop and Commercialize DNA - based Diagnostics Companies to initiate work on molecular diagnostics for the risk of heart attack, type 2 diabetes and breast cancer Illumina to install large - scale genotyping system and...

Theoretical and empirical work is beginning to reveal that autism is associated with a complex functional phenotype characterized by both hypo - and hyper - connectivity of large - scale brain systems.

He continues, «For machine learning systems, strong scaling (keeping the total amount of work constant) is more representative of actual performance.»

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.

They designed the questionnaire based on an extensive literature review and their previous work on comparing architecture review approaches, their experiences in designing and evaluating architectures for large - scale systems, and in - depth discussions with 20 experienced architects from a range of organizations.

Elmore points out that large - scale improvement is a «property of organizations,» not of the individuals who work for them, as the current system would have us believe.

Intermediaries that bring together civic, business, and governmental leaders can help design local systems, track and document progress, and work to ensure that local programming achieves both quality and scale.

«But you can't sustain that work and take it to scale unless you think about systems.»

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While WordPress, no matter the scale, will work with virtually any contemporary operating system and processor with RAM needs as low as 512 megabytes (all you need is a server that run PHP and MySQL), system requirements for various stand alone set ups have been listed as high as 4 gigabytes of ram (for enterprise level set ups) along with 2 or more gigahertz of processing speeds.

We also envision working with our partners in large delivery systems to learn about their constraints and needs so we can help project teams design their work accordingly and anticipate the many challenges to scaling that exist in the broader landscape.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»