Sentences with phrase «significant areas of focus»

«Media, technology and insurance are all significant areas of focus for us.

Drivers and passengers will experience high levels of ride quality and comfort, while the new Note's cornering stability and dynamic agility have also been significant areas of focus during the development process.

This is the big one, as the camera seems to be the most significant area of focus for Samsung in the Galaxy S9.

Not exact matches

While Taggar says the startup will be focused on corporate rentals in the Bay Area for at least the next year, Caldwell says the startup could have success in places where a significant percentage of housing is in the hands of individual investors with multiple properties, such as Las Vegas and Phoenix.

One area of focus may be Medicare; both companies are significant players in offering prescription drug plans to Medicare beneficiaries.

And on the other hand, the chiles were largely ignored or rejected by cuisines and areas of the world where meat and other animal foods were a significant focus of the diet.»

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

Hr Hutton said: «Planning applications for new plants are likely to focus on areas in the vicinity of existing sites so it's welcome that the NDA is making its significant land and assets available to the market.»

This week we are focused on the mountain west — an area where Democrats made significant gains in 2006 and 2008 but where the flight of independents from the party threatens to turn those seats back to Republicans this fall.

Such data could guide the United Nations» effort to designate a series of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas to focus future conservation efforts, Halpin notes.

Today, Sentient released five papers and a web portal reporting significant progress in taking this step, focusing on three areas: (1) DL architectures are evolved to exceed state of the art in three standard machine learning benchmarks; (2) techniques are developed for increasing performance and reliability of evolution in real - world applications; and (3) evolutionary problem solving is demonstrated on very hard computational problems.

Significant effects of professional - development programs were found when programs focused on content knowledge in the math and science subject areas plus pedagogical training in teaching the subject matter.

Instead of focusing on the severity of the strategies applied to schools in restructuring, a more significant question is whether they are aligned with the areas in which the school needs to improve and implemented well.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

A focus on the needs of children with autism, who have significant difficulties in the areas of social communication, can give insights into ways of using technology to support the communication skills of all children.

By way of context for California's comments, in 2013, the state embarked on a significant overhaul of how it provided resources to districts and created a framework for a multiple measures accountability system focused on eight state priority areas.

Applicants demonstrating that one or more of the Priority Areas are clearly aligned and a significant part of the proposed project focus and intended outcomes will receive priority consideration and extra points for submitting an application within the designated Priority Areas.

The framework shares, in practical language, the critical practices of successful school turnaround in four domains, or areas of focus, that research and experience suggest are central to rapid and significant improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.

That framework identifies four areas of focus that research and experience point to as central to rapid and significant improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.

Over the past five years, 97 % of the more than 500 students tutored by Heart Math Tutoring have shown significant growth in two or more conceptual focus areas, such as counting, addition or multiplication.

The new system is designed to foster the continuous improvement of all schools with three levels of support: general support for all schools, support for a subset of schools that are struggling on several measures that is focused on those areas of need, and intensive support for schools with persistent, significant problems.

Essentially, while postgrad papers require students to make a significant contribution to the knowledge within a certain area of study, undergrad papers are more focused on testing students» comprehension of a specific topic.

A human resource management (HRM) dissertation can cover a wide variety of topics, so it becomes significant to start with broader viewpoint and then focus it on a precise area.

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice, or are retired, and the number of practices which have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian, despite recruitment attempts.

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice or are retired and the number of practices that have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian despite recruitment attempts.

We focus our research on investigations of animal agriculture, 2 but this intervention is also used to document animal abuse in other areas, such as laboratory research that involves live animals3 and the breeding of companion animals.4 We believe that undercover investigations have had significant direct effects in reducing farm animal suffering through corporate policy change.

Over the next several years one area of focus will be helping the Shelter fund critical facility upgrades, including significant improvements to the dog, cat and critter areas.

We are also seeing more developments in the functional area, which has been an area where we've focused a significant amount of R&D effort and resources.

Shadow of War has made a significant improvement in this area as there are three balanced difficulty levels including easy, normal and nemesis with the major differences being that the easy difficulty does not fully integrate the nemesis system combined with less aggression from enemy A.I. and less damage received resulting in a higher probability of victory during combat; therefore producing the best difficulty level for any player who wants to focus on the story.

«China, in particular, has been an area of significant focus,» Smith said during the call.

As Tom pointed out, summer only temperatures, let alone a focus on only a few percent of the Earth's surface area, are significant cherry - picks, and those choices on your part don't support your argument.

Dane initially focused his efforts and energy on the geoengineering issue when he began to lose very significant amounts of solar uptake due to ever - increasing «solar obscuration» caused from the aircraft spraying in his area.

Lamm says Rives met the ABA's selection criteria in at least four key areas: He has significant management experience, including the areas of finance and budgeting; he is held in high regard by people who previously worked for him; he has a strong focus on global issues; and he has experience dealing with membership issues and delivering services.

With a strong focus on health and safety, one of the areas Jordan has been spending time on lately is «significant» changes to the province's Occupational Health and Safety Act.

A significant focus of our real estate practice is the representation of real estate developers in numerous development projects in the New York metropolitan area and throughout the New York region, with an emphasis on shopping centers.

Transnational Dispute Management (TDM, ISSN 1875 - 4120) is a comprehensive and innovative information service on the management of international disputes, with a focus on the new and rapidly evolving area of investment arbitration, but also in other significant areas of international investment (such as oil, gas, energy, infrastructure, mining, utilities etc).

Neil Purslow, Chief Investment Officer of Therium, said: «Therium has seen a significant increase in funded cases in the last year, particularly in our focus areas involving financial institutions, industrials, energy and natural resources.

Seven major practice areas - corporate, energy and environmental, financial services, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and tax - provide the framework for an extensive range of focus areas, allowing Sutherland attorneys to serve a diverse client base that ranges from small and medium - sized start - up businesses to a significant number of Fortune 100 companies.

Both are areas of significant focus for the group.

Seven major practice areas — corporate, financial services, energy and environmental, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and tax — provide the framework for an extensive range of focus areas, allowing Sutherland attorneys to serve a diverse client base that ranges from small and medium - sized start - up businesses to a significant number of Fortune 100 companies.

While a significant focus of civil justice reform has been on the cost and delay of discovery, IAALS has heard the call for reform in the area of motions practice as well, which can similarly result in great cost and delay to the parties.

Transnational Dispute Management (TDM, ISSN 1875 - 4120) is a comprehensive and innovative information service on the management of international disputes, with a focus on the rapidly evolving area of investment arbitration, but also in other significant areas of international investment (such as oil, gas, energy, infrastructure, mining, utilities etc).

His work focuses on regulatory areas subject of significant focus as a result of the financial crisis including bank capital and structural reform, bank resolutions, remuneration, trading / clearing / settlement and derivatives regulation.

The flip side of the increasing complexity of the law is that even a narrow, tightly focused area of practice now has significant depth, enough to help sustain a viable small law practice.

We hereby invite papers from those with an interest in the management of international disputes, with a focus on the rapidly evolving areas of investment arbitration and international arbitration, but also in other significant areas of international investment (such as oil, gas, energy, infrastructure, mining, utilities, and etc).

«Our strategy of focusing on premium mid - to high - end products has borne fruit, with 2014 resulting in significant achievements in a number of areas including product R&D, brand awareness, channel development and growth in market share which further consolidated our number three position in the global smartphone market.

The only significant areas in which its rivals can hope to trip it up are in design and UI, both of which are beginning to show signs of ageing (and we suspect that is why HTC and Sony are focusing so much on the design of their flagships).

A grant from CREDO members would have a significant impact on the three main areas that the Brady Center focuses on: reducing the flow of crime guns into communities most heavily impacted by gun violence, expanding and protecting the Brady Background Check system and changing the cultural perception that owning or carrying a gun makes you safer.

Professional Experience National Association Family Institute (Waterbury, CT) 8/2009 — Present Program Coordinator • Formulate and implement appropriate IEP goals while employing effective assessment techniques to record progress and develop data - driven prediction of instruction success • Produce creative and effective student accommodations, focusing on the integration of significant 1:1 time • Communicate effectively with speech / occupational / physical therapists on student progress, including areas of strength / weakness as well as behavioral and emotional considerations • Develop and leverage supportive relationships with parents to promote the creation of a 24/7 learning environment, including the organization and involvement in class trips to foster vocational skills

However, for both child abuse and parent stress, the average effect sizes were not different from zero, suggesting a lack of evidence for effects in these areas.108 Earlier meta - analytic reviews have also noted the lack of sizable effects in preventing child maltreatment — again citing the different intensity of surveillance of families in the treatment versus control groups as an explanation (though the authors did report that home visiting was associated with an approximately 25 percent reduction in the rate of childhood injuries).109 Another review focusing on the quality of the home environment also found evidence for a significant overall effect of home - visiting programs.110 More recently, Harriet MacMillan and colleagues published a review of interventions to prevent child maltreatment, and identified the Nurse - Family Partnership and Early Start programs as the most effective with regard to preventing maltreatment and childhood injuries.