Sentences with phrase «small changes in technology»

Second, the time it takes to issue guidance is far too long to keep up with small changes in technology and platform use.

Even quite small changes in technology can have dramatic effects in reducing environmental impact.

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The idea was that two, smaller companies could react faster and better compete in their respective areas amid a changing technology market.

A type of power inverter, the small, shiny box doesn't produce power itself, but instead changes direct current to alternating current, an essential process in electric car technology that lets battery power spin the car's motor.

In the same way technology companies like Expedia, Airbnb, and Kayak are changing the way we plan a vacation, companies like Zillow are changing the way we buy a house, companies like Uber are changing the way we hail a cab, and companies like Amazon are changing the way we buy just about anything, technology has changed the way many small businesses get a small business loan.

That's all changed because of a technology makeover worth more than $ 100,000 from CMIT Solutions, a managed IT provider for small businesses, in partnership with Dell and Microsoft.

The world is changing at whirlwind pace for the securities services industry, forcing small and large providers alike to reassess their approaches in light of new regulations, disruptive technology, rising costs and thinning margins.

Changes would include a drastic increase in overseas development assistance in the field of communication and under conditions more favourable to recipient parties, the adoption of the UNCTAD Code of Transfer of Technology on the terms proposed by the developing countries, a revision of provisions on the protection of intellectual property in the GATT / TWO multilateral trade accord so as to take the interests of less powerful countries and small producers into account, and the adoption of a multilateral accord on space cooperation and equal benefits.

Tyler has been adapting this technology for his own environmental monitoring in places ranging from Chile's Atacama Desert to Switzerland, ramping up the sampling speed and resolution in order to measure small temperature changes in lakes, streams, and the atmosphere.

In the world of nano - scale technology, where work is conducted at the atomic level, even the smallest changes can have an enormous impact.

The tendency of the current administration [is] to undermine science in a variety of ways that range from the fiscal to the regulatory and the political, and the session that was sponsored last week was a combination of people providing ideas for relatively small changes and [in] the way we see science — for example, funding more National Science Foundation studentships, to changes in the pattern system — and then five of us were asked to speak fairly broadly about how we can improve science and technology in the country.

In a recent Rapid Communication in Physical Review B, researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin (Germany), the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf (Switzerland), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (USA) apply a novel method of optical pump — soft x-ray probe spectroscopy for generating coherent atomic vibrations in small LiBH4 crystals, and reading them out via changes of x-ray absorptioIn a recent Rapid Communication in Physical Review B, researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin (Germany), the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf (Switzerland), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (USA) apply a novel method of optical pump — soft x-ray probe spectroscopy for generating coherent atomic vibrations in small LiBH4 crystals, and reading them out via changes of x-ray absorptioin Physical Review B, researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin (Germany), the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf (Switzerland), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (USA) apply a novel method of optical pump — soft x-ray probe spectroscopy for generating coherent atomic vibrations in small LiBH4 crystals, and reading them out via changes of x-ray absorptioin Berlin (Germany), the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf (Switzerland), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (USA) apply a novel method of optical pump — soft x-ray probe spectroscopy for generating coherent atomic vibrations in small LiBH4 crystals, and reading them out via changes of x-ray absorptioin Dübendorf (Switzerland), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (USA) apply a novel method of optical pump — soft x-ray probe spectroscopy for generating coherent atomic vibrations in small LiBH4 crystals, and reading them out via changes of x-ray absorptioin small LiBH4 crystals, and reading them out via changes of x-ray absorption.

But Scott Franklin, a physicist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York who has been helping Lubell push the Research Bank idea, says he doubts this relatively small fund would change the equation.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

Mass spectrometry is an extremely powerful and sensitive technology that can detect very small changes in expression levels.

«The technology with the potential to solve these problems (of climate change, future energy shortfalls and cleaning up nuclear waste) is the fast reactor, ideally the integral fast reactor (IFR)... IFRs, once loaded with nuclear waste, can, in principle, keep recycling it until only a small fraction remains, producing energy as they do so.»

Water content: 96.7 % This summer veggie — which has the highest water content of any solid food — is perfect in salads, or sliced up and served with some hummus, says Keri Gans, RD, author of The Small Change Diet: 10 Steps to a Thinner and Healthier You and a consultant to Mindbloom, a technology company that makes life - improvement apps.

When the $ 62 million facility opened in 2006 with a relatively small student population, a computer - based curriculum delivered with the latest technology tools, and a unique partnership with corporate giant Microsoft, it set out to upend a secondary school model that had changed little since the industrial era and had spelled failure for too many students here and in cities...

In my previous post, I wrote about embracing technology's big new possibilities in education through smaller - scale changes that we can implement right now for our students» benefiIn my previous post, I wrote about embracing technology's big new possibilities in education through smaller - scale changes that we can implement right now for our students» benefiin education through smaller - scale changes that we can implement right now for our students» benefit.

Even in a healthy financial environment, in an age of lightning - fast changes to technology and the way people work, change and adaptation is a necessary — even critical — process to master for a company to succeed in the long term.A change can be relatively small (though some might disagree with this characterization), like

One small sign that things may be changing is that the study found that classrooms today have more science materials than they did in 2006, when a similar review of science materials and activities in preschool classrooms was conducted by Tsung - Hui Tu, now the early childhood technology director at Kent State University.

These kinds of changes are hardly uncommon (if on a smaller scale) in many U.S. schools, where the push to incorporate technology use into both the curriculum and student and teacher performance standards is driving a host of changes in the way schools operate.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Cotal used this same technology to provide an electric clutch (with full manual changes through a normal gearbox, but no clutch pedal) for small Renaults like the Dauphine and Caravelle, but it was relatively unsuccessful — it needed to transmit the entire engine torque through the clutch, requiring a relatively large and powerful clutch that tended to give trouble with the sliprings.

Other changes include new lightweight aerodynamic alloy wheels, a very high - tech IMA readout in the instrument cluster that provides details on how the hybrid drive system is operating, first - in - class active noise cancellation technology, a small rear deck spoiler and, of course, a subtle badge denoting the car's hybrid status.

At the Frankfurt Auto Show (IAA 2009), ZF is highlighting changes in its driveline and chassis technology to adapt to market requirements for smaller vehicles.

Featuring a sleek silhouette and fresh face, the all - new Fusion is the latest in a series of vehicles from Ford — following the 2011 Fiesta subcompact and 2012 Focus small cars — developed to satisfy customers everywhere looking for leading fuel efficiency, helpful technologies and game - changing looks.

I agree that the situation will quickly change but in a not English - speaking small country (i.e. Italy, 60 million inhabitants) even an old fashion technology (current ebooks) could flourish for years to come

To take advantage of the changing industry landscape, however, those small players will have to grasp the delicate mix of strong technology and intuitive user experience (UX) needed to succeed in a tech - unsavvy industry.

While it seemed like a series of small progressions at the time, technology has changed a lot in the past twenty plus years.

Since the government is not doing it, there should be a consortium of powerful and influential small crafs owners (Hollywood types, business executives, etc.) whose means and environmental awareness could spur research and help transform GA in a petri dish of change, instead of the collection of antiquated technologies that it is today.

We'll have to wait for pricing information in the rest of the world, but I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to reduce the price; a lot of the changes that were made to the hybrid synergy drive (HSD, what Toyota calls its hybrid drivetrain technology) had for goal to make it smaller, lighter, and less expensive.

The relatively small changes in the N2O emissions across regions and scenarios are explained, in part, by a limited capacity of the SRES models to capture drastic shifts in technologies and practices (e.g., new catalytic converters or new manure management systems) that directly impact emission levels.

Each nation, large or small, organising its science, technology and policies in ways designed to account for climate change and biodiversity?

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

«Technology will be adopted first by those freest to change — new and small firms,» said Jason Morris, the self - styled «lead legendary counsel» at Round Table Law in Alberta, which he describes as a «virtual, paperless, fixed - fee solo practice.»

Intellectual Property (IP) has undergone changes, correlating with the rapid developments in technology, inventions and open source software; it has never been more important to be ahead of the game when regarding patents and small print.

We do not, of course, know whether it is the same two - thirds for both questions, but clearly there is significant overlap, suggesting that many small firms will implement no changes in technology for at least a two - year span.

Even though technology has changed so much about how we eat, shop, move, and connect, my partner and I, running a small law firm together, noticed that this tidal wave of tech didn't seem to be as overwhelming in the legal space.

There's an incredibly small number in the result that says clients drive technology change.

Smaller firms have also noted rise in the workflow, caused by a number of different factors, such as the increased volumes and importance of game changing legal implications, triggered by the wider use of technology in their day to day activities.

Legal Technology Big Change Through Small Revolution Guest post by BlueLine staff Investment in legal technology has moved at a staggering pace over the past Technology Big Change Through Small Revolution Guest post by BlueLine staff Investment in legal technology has moved at a staggering pace over the past technology has moved at a staggering pace over the past few years.

These initiatives have produced some insightful developments: innovation funds within agencies; the creation of the White House Data and Digital Cabinets; United States Digital Services, 18F, and the Presidential Innovation Fellows; evidence - based policy conversations; the use of prizes and challenges; small, critical changes in technology procurement processes; and the attraction and recruitment of new talent to government.

Blockchain technology may change the way we interact and do business on the internet, and this can be done so in both big and small ways.

Social media is a fluid technology — nearly every day, the major social media networks are announcing a big change, coming under fire for the latest controversy, or moving forward in smaller ways.

She has fought for a number of important changes, including smaller class sizes, increased funding for music and the arts, and improvements in technology throughout the district.