Sentences with phrase «specific efforts at»

Administrators told the board they plan to spend about $ 50,000 more than is budgeted on specific efforts at Sylvanie Williams — more social work support and therapy, to help students whose personal circumstances are keeping them from learning, more substitute teachers and stipends for current teachers who are spending additional hours tutoring the students, more laptops for some of the computer - based learning programs, and money for busing students to weekend tutoring sessions.

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Clients may not provide specific analytics, Fox says, but they should be able to at least tell you if they saw a positive impact on their search ranking, especially in conversions and in gaining an audience, as a direct result of the consultant's efforts.

Just like businesses develop an objective for their social network marketing efforts, blogging and content writing should also be aimed at a specific, pre-defined target.

«We were hoping for, at least temporarily, some type of specific effort on the part of the central banks,» Gross told host Betty Liu.

When we create content at IDC to support our clients» content - based marketing efforts, we first indentify our clients» target audience (buying persona) plus buyer cycle stage (i.e., general awareness / education, preference, purchase and post-purchase; within each stage there are specific tasks or «jobs» you prospects / customers need to accomplish such as, short list creation, business case development, final recommendation and decision, etc.) We also consider our clients ideal outcome or action they want their target prospect / customer to take once they interact with the content or messaging.

Companies need to make specific efforts to connect with and engage employees who work at home 100 % of the time.

But by looking at chains of transactions in the public blockchain, it's possible to identify transaction patterns, and with enough effort, often the real - world owner of a specific address.

Why would he think it immoral to try to save dozens of innocent victims — specific individual human beings about to be killed — because he was involved in a separate effort to save thousands of other men and women who were at risk of being rounded up and placed in those concentration camps?

When a gardener anticipates growing vegetable crops during the fall or winter, it would be wise to contact the local agricultural representative in an effort to find out which types of vegetables grow best at specific times of...

Emphasize effort and specific characteristics of what your child has done, whether it is a crayon drawing or behavior at the dinner table.

Recently I have made a more specific effort to understand fully the concepts and practices behind AP and have realized how important it is for babies and children to feel protected and cared for at all hours of the day and often continued cosleeping is part of this.

To help a child succeed, praise efforts at success and make that praise specific.

The specific objections to Perez Williams» petitions were filed at about 4 p.m. Monday with the state Board of Elections in Albany, said Diane Dwire, the Onondaga County Democratic Committee member who led the effort.

Off - topic questions covered Governor Cuomo's efforts at closing the Indian Point nuclear power plant, NYPD Commissioner Bratton's recent statements on the need for additional police officers for anti-terror efforts and the closing of a specific health clinic in Chelsea.

In his presentation, Magu who was a panelist at the Implementation Review Group attended by over 100 delegates, had detailed the Nigerian efforts in asset recovery, including the progress made in the specific cases related to Abacha loot, Malabu Oil, Diezani & Associates and the Arms procurement scandal.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

In raising our frustration with this problem to faculty members from other departments at our university, as well as to chairs of science departments across the country, it became painfully clear that a concerted effort by an applicant to connect their expertise and interests to a specific faculty opportunity was rare.

The article focuses on the team's effort to describe how students make progress in their understanding of 14 specific energy - related ideas at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of complexity.

I obtained a post as a lecturer in EST at the «Fachsprachenzentrum», the Centre for Languages for Academic / Specific Purposes, of the University of Hanover, Germany, in 1990, and here I devoted all my efforts to building up a substantial EST programme.

Larsson is at the forefront of merging paleontology and molecular biology in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes — the development of new species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of animals — to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated.

It also provides tools that let job seekers target their efforts to those specific companies at which you particularly want to «meet» recruiters.

Great - ape watchers may have become accustomed to reading about habitat loss and population declines, and indeed, researchers have previously engaged in a range of site - specific efforts and landscape surveys aimed at assessing the decline of suitable environmental conditions for African great apes.

For example, the study found that because the Waldo firefighters tailored their response to the specific WUI conditions, 75 percent of their attempts to extinguish ignited structures were successful and 79 percent of their efforts at fire containment were successful in preventing rampant fire spread.

The NOAA portion of the prize is meant to spur the development of specific technologies that can help detect «sources of pollution, enable rapid response to leaks and spills, identify hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, as well as track marine life for scientific research and conservation efforts,» Richard Spinrad, chief scientist at NOAA, said in a statement.

More than 200 taxonomists from 46 countries convened at London's Natural History Museum to hammer out protocols for a massive DNA «barcoding» effort — a move to collect specific gene tags from every organism on Earth.

«Previous efforts to create sequential shape changing components involved placing multiple heaters at specific regions in a component and then controlling the on - and - off time of individual heaters,» explained Jerry Qi, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Following completion of a massive epitope discovery effort (also supported by an HHS contract), current work on MTB includes development of tools to isolate MTB - specific T cells (supported by the Gates Foundation) and identifying T cell signatures that distinguish three possible infection states: cleared infection, stable latent infection, and latent infection with high risk of progression to disease (in conjunction with a large consortium led by Henry Blumberg at Emory University).

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

, chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF, will lead efforts to find out where HIV hides in reservoirs within specific tissues in the body and determine how factors such as sex and age affect the relative abundance of HIV in different tissues.

Mike McCune, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF, will lead efforts to find out where HIV hides in reservoirs within specific tissues in the body and determine how factors such as sex and age affect the relative abundance of HIV in different tissues.

A major Center that will propel scientific efforts to pinpoint the specific genes involved in causing immune diseases, cancer and other diseases will be opened today at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology.

However, any effort at assessing climate impacts on agriculture faces multiple levels of uncertainty, including uncertainty that a) accompanies all climate projections, b) is specific to agricultural projections, and c) is created by adaptive actions (human interventions) that can mask a direct climate signal.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

Solid programs include targeted efforts to reduce the likelihood of injury via means like mobility warm - ups, supplemental stretching recommendations, specific progressions, fluctuations in training stress, and alternative exercises («plan B») in case you aren't quite ready to execute «Plan A.» For me personally, I attribute a lot of my progress to the fact that at one point, I actually went over eight years without missing a planned lift.

The features attempt to capture their workout regimen (both general fitness and training specific to their sport) and overall preparedness, in order to convey the efforts and undertakings essential to achievements at their level.

«Deadpool 2» opens with a bang, and director David Leitch talked to TheWrap about one specific fight scene at the beginning of the film that took a lot of time and effort.

Although FilmTwo fellows are selected with a project in development, the program is designed to support an artist at a specific stage of career development, with primary focus placed on creative and strategic efforts toward professional advancement.

It's clear right from the get - go that Christopher Cain is in absolutely no hurry to tell this story, as the director has infused The Stone Boy with an almost achingly deliberate pace that does prove effective at establishing the film's very specific locale, admittedly - yet there's little doubt that the laid - back atmosphere, when combined with the uniformly subdued performances and the less - than - eventful nature of Gina Berriault's script, effectively ensures that the viewer's efforts at forming any kind of emotional attachment to the characters fall flat virtually from start to finish.

The efforts described in the group's report, «Joining Forces: Linking Education and Human Services to Help Children and Families At Risk,» include governors» initiatives, interagency commissions, memoranda of understanding between agencies, and specific programs linking education and social welfare.

At its most basic level, NCLB attempts to fulfill the promise of earlier efforts by putting in place specific implementation timelines for those states that wish to continue to receive federal aid.

Increase students» capacities to reframe pessimistic explanations with optimistic ones: Once students can identify their own pessimistic explanations, they can learn to reframe them by looking at challenges as temporary, specific, and possible to change with effort.

By making the data their own, students at Bacchus Marsh College have been able to set specific learning goals and are seeing real results for their efforts.

Few literacy researchers have conducted research aimed directly at either state or national English language arts and, as we have noted previously, policy researchers interested in standards often analyze them in terms of larger reforms efforts, without specific regard for subject area.

The lead teachers also set up demonstration classrooms, observed other teachers and provided constructive feedback, provided mini-reviews of specific SIOP features for teachers at staff meetings, participated in lesson design study with grade - level teams, and helped sustain the staff's SIOP teaching efforts.

Oakes said the department does make efforts to support the use of data: «We have a pretty sophisticated bank of data available through DataQuest, and researchers can fill out specific applications if they want it mined at different levels.

These are automatic emails that are sent at specific times after signup with no additional effort from me.

More significantly, after pit bull advocates won legislation in 19 states prohibiting the passage of breed - specific local dangerous dog ordinances, victim advocates have mobilized on campaign budgets of nothing to stop the passage of similar laws in at least six other states, as well as defeating aggressive efforts to repeal pit bull bans by ballot initiative in Miami in 2012 and Aurora, Colorado in 2014, winning the 2016 passage of a pit bull ban in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and obtaining the introduction of a proposed pit bull ban throughout Quebec province.

Clay McGlamory, professor of print media at Old Dominion University, creates a new site - specific work from disassembled parts of his past efforts.

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

Broader definitions of the the different patterns and greater effort at determining the specific effect would be far more useful in predicting the weather and the climate.