Sentences with phrase «size of a national system»

«You think of the U.S. education system in districts which can be large, but it is really nothing compared to the size of a national system,» Reimers said.

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Meanwhile the National Space Society estimates the industry's size could eventually swell to as high as $ 1 trillion, with the proliferation of satellites, global positioning systems and other technology already giving consumers a taste of space's vast reaches.

The national credit system planned for 2020 will be an «ecosystem» made up of schemes of various sizes and reaches, run by cities, government ministries, online payment providers, down to neighborhoods, libraries, and businesses, say Chinese researchers who are designing the national scheme.

As our economic system became more integrated and government grew in size and scope, our national culture entered into an extended period of consolidation.

Some of CCM's most popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Expedition, where kids can dig for dinosaur bones in an authentic excavation pit; WaterWays, an interactive system of pulleys, pumps, and pipes showcasing the wonders of water; Kids Town, an early - learning exhibit featuring a real CTA bus, mini-grocery store and kid - sized cityscape; Pritzker Playspace, an area designed specifically for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents; Play It Safe, a realistic firehouse and fire truck that invites families to learn about fire safety through play; and Skyline, a National Science Foundation - funded exhibit that explores the science, engineering, art, and technology that keep Chicago's tallest buildings standing.

These new chips will power advanced systems of all sizes, including computers and national security applications.

A research published on the journal Physical Review E, and signed by Agustín Pérez, from the Department of Fundamental Physics of the University of Barcelona, and Iván Santamaría, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, analyses the implications of the finite size of the system on its thermodynamic behavior.

The National Wilderness Preservation System has 680 chunks of such terrain, varying in size from a six - acre island in Florida to a nine - million - acre park in Alaska.

More than 350 researchers from around the globe gathered at the Extreme Solar Systems (ESS) II conference in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., to share their findings on these newfound exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, of every size and configuration.

With their findings, the LCSB group of Prof. Dr. Paul Wilmes, head of the LCSB group «Ecosystems Biology» and ATTRACT - fellow of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), corroborate and unify various ecological concepts that have been primarily formulated based on observations in macrobiotic systems such as forests, rivers and oceans — which can not however be experimentally investigated in depth because of the sheer size of these biotopes.

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories — The scale of the conservation effort is staggering: 470,000 square miles — half the size of the Louisiana Purchase, five times the size of the U.S. national park system — forever shielded from logging, mining and damming.

The AgedBrainSYSBIO consortium is coordinated by the French National Institute for health and medical research (Inserm, Prof. Michel Simonneau) and brings together an scientists with internationally recognized expertise in systems biology of the synapse and four small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) with a leading role in the project to assure the innovation potential and translation of project results to clinical application.

The Alliance for Excellent Education points to the 2010 report from IES» National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on state longitudinal data systems as support for choosing an optimal n - size of 10.

it explains the geography, people, culture and system of government of Brazil.It shows the size, regional and national development in the country.

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems.

The scale of national assessments in a system the size of England means that effective implementation of change is a major challenge in itself.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which has risen to prominence with its annual rankings of state charter school laws, sought to measure the «health» of each system, as determined by factors such as the size of charter populations, racial demographics, test scores and the use of «innovative» practices such as extended school days or apprenticeship programs.

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI — Rieter Automotive Systems appears to be in the right place at the right time as the national debate over the size and fuel efficiency of big pickups and SUVs grows more impassioned and auto makers contemplate whether new - generation diesels are quiet enough for American ears.

The National Incident Management System is an approach to incident management that can apply to emergencies of all types and sizes.

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It doesn't deal with: (1) the great size and complexity of such systems — they operate using tens of millions of lines of software code; (2) the National Standards of Canada for electronic records management; (3) the serious, and very common errors in ERMSs; and, (4) the need for ERMS software with acceptable error rates.

«We sell the simulators to individuals that lease space — usually a temporary tenant — in a shopping center,» explains Don Wenzinger, national sales manager for Doron Precision Systems Inc., Binghamton, N.Y. «Or a family entertainment center will develop a good - sized location in a shopping center, and they'll put one of our simulators in that location.»