Sentences with phrase «sophisticated efforts based»

Since its inception 8 years ago, the NCAR / CU sea ice pool has easily rivaled much more sophisticated efforts based on statistical methods and physical models to predict the September monthly mean Arctic sea ice extent (e.g. see appendix of Stroeve et al. 2014 in GRL doi: 10.1002 / 2014GL059388; Witness the Arctic article by Hamilton et al. 2014 http://www.arcus.org/witness-the-arctic/2014/2/article/21066).

Not exact matches

Such strategies include teacher and principal residency programs; differentiated pay plans; human capital data reports; and targeted recruitment efforts using sophisticated web - based systems and focusing on the challenge of recruiting and retaining diverse teachers.

According to Kelly Sims of Ozone Action, «Efforts by Fred Singer and others to cast doubt on the most thorough, sophisticated and internationally - based consensus on climate change is part of a well - coordinated plan to mislead the public and policymakers.»

In a recent file, a large — and sophisticated — Quebec - based customer was insisting that my client agree to commit to use «best efforts» to meet certain project deadlines.

In fact, Maria Ttofi and David Farrington (both from the University of Cambridge) conducted a more sophisticated analysis of forty - four bullying prevention efforts (excluding programs that targeted violence or aggression generally) and uncovered some promising evidence: ``... school - based anti-bullying programs are effective: on average, bullying decreased by 20 — 23 % and victimization decreased by 17 — 20 %.»

To effectively monitor performance, they include measures of both outcomes and the processes used to reach them and are based on a recognition that measurement methodologies will become more sophisticated as state efforts mature.