Sentences with phrase «standards development work»

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Right now, the first CRISPR gene therapies are in development, but they are not built on a «standard stack» and require a lot of custom work for each indication - these therapies will be coming into the clinic and hopefully get approved the coming couple years, and after that there could be significantly more investment into standard tools.»

Eckhart worked as an independent software development consultant for 22 years in a wide variety of industries, served on two standards boards, wrote for TechRepublic and Geeks Are Sexy, and most recently worked as a lead engineer for RelateIQ and Salesforce.

«We look forward to working with the Malta government as it is forward thinking and shares many of our same values: the most important of which are protection of traders and the general public, compliance with Anti Money Laundering and Know Your Customer standards, and recognition of the innovation and importance of continued development in the Blockchain ecosystem.»

While organisations such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors take the lead in setting global standards, we contribute to global regulatory initiatives by participating in their task forces and committees to work on implementing financial regulatory reforms, enhancing standards and facilitating market development.

And how can they take part in national or international standards development to make that work?

There is no doubt that work, an adequate standard of living, health care, food, clothing, housing, and education are all human goods that are, as the Declaration says, «indispensable for [a person's] dignity and the free development of his personality» (Article 22).

Development is also often used in a normative sense as a multi-valued social goal covering such diverse spheres as better material well - being, living standards, education, health care, wider opportunities for work and leisure, and in essence the whole gamut of desirable social and material welfare.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

Underpinned by the company's ethos of investment in the environment, expertise and high standards of customer care, the division is working to build on a series of award winning projects with further developments.

Affiliates also join official committees, working groups and task forces on topics like the development of standards or the facilitation of Organic Agriculture in developing countries.

Ishida has worked closely with Tulip and Danish Crown in the development of packing lines that meet all the challenges of delivering fast throughput and quality products while complying with strict hygiene standards.

The IFOAM Standard Committee is the technical expert group that works on the development of the IFOAM Standard.

At every General Assembly, our members elect the World Board, who shape the direction of our work and appoint Affiliates to committees, working groups and task forces on topics like the development of standards or the facilitation of Organic Agriculture in developing countries.

They work with a cocoa farm in Ecuador that we are proud to support, which is Organic Certified and has high labor standards and benefits for farmers such as doctor visits and professional development.

By advocating for successful governmental policies, setting standards for professionals in the education industry, and providing professional development seminars, it helps teachers, administrators, parents, related students and other educational support staff to best support and educate the special needs children with whom they work.

She worked as a Nutrition and Wellness Specialist for Hopkins Public Schools in Hopkins, Minnesota where she worked on menu planning, new meal pattern standards, recipe development, Farm to School, school wellness, and school gardens.

Last year Parenting UK coordinated the development of national occupational standards for work with parents — which form a ready made, nationally agreed set of competencies on which organisations can base service developments, and are based on the following principles:

Local Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) boards hired ECMH consultants to work with providers serving children with high needs and to support early childhood professionals use of standards and assessments related to social and emotional development and approaches toward learning.

«We need to focus on the opportunities, as we partner with our development partners to create storage facilities to minimize post-harvest losses; and as we work on other exportable agro commodities, we are working on mechanized methods for the production of yam heaps to ease the burden of yam production and review its standards to ensure local improvement and global acceptability.

It could in future allow the PARP inhibitor olaparib to become a standard treatment for advanced prostate cancer, by targeting the drug at the men most likely to benefit, picking up early signs that it might not be working, and monitoring for the later development of resistance.

Those organizations, along with the U.S. departments of War, Navy, and Commerce, joined to establish a national body to coordinate standards development and to serve as a clearinghouse for the work of standards - developing agencies.

When the European standards come into force, the situation could become even worse, says Paul Sharphouse of the Timber Research and Development Association, who is Britain's representative on the European standards working group.

Domestically, ANSI provides a forum where the private and public sectors can cooperatively work together toward the development of voluntary national consensus standards.

The commission, which is in the process of formulation, has already done good work to prepare its action plan for attainment of international standards in the quality of education, research, and development.

There is much work to be done on the product submission process including review of the physiological properties, potency and purity of substances, as well as in monograph development, standards of evidence, chemistry and manufacturing, and clinical trial development.»

A key component of NAEC's work to support strong specialized epilepsy centers is its development of guidelines and standards for epilepsy center care.

The standard training of biologists who undertake research and development of agricultural crops involves comprehensive grounding on how plants work in both greenhouse and field situations.

The Montréal Conference will also extend work begun at the earlier conferences on the development of international responses to integrity issues through policies, codes, standards and training.

The society's vision is to assemble a diverse network of stakeholders who will work to enable the scale up tools such as chemical compounds, the development of standards and the seamless integration of platform technologies with regulatory pathways.

A China - UK graphene conference was held as part of the launch activities on the 24 October 2015 and graphene experts from China and the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) discussed graphene R&D progress and the development of graphene international standards; the discussions included NPL's work in this area and the related testing methods.

They are the standard by which we judge So working on their development is the priority of every gym goer.

N - Acetyl - Cysteine assists the body's standard defense mechanisms which work against the development of oxidative stress.

The company is tight - lipped on their work with the grain, but did share that they have several products in development using organic standards, which should be ready for sale in 2016.

Straight out of college Angela landed a job working for Bell Atlantic, where she stayed for nine years, moving through the ranks working in engineering standards, IT, consumer services, new product development, and negotiations.

While there, you moved through the ranks working in engineering standards, IT, consumer services, new product development, and negotiations.

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

As important as better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standards.

Maintain the Momentum As I'm sure you'll hear several times this afternoon, Indiana educators are already hard at work implementing the standards: Engaging in professional development, developing new curricular resources, vetting textbooks, and so forth.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

Building on Sir Ken Robinson's Changing Education Paradigms argument of «waking [students] up to what is inside themselves», and influenced by Wiggins (1998) and the work of his colleagues in the development of assessment standards, at the beginning of the school year I informed staff that the program would allow the school to generate data that was personal, informative, trackable, accessible and transferable.

Still, professional development and support is needed as educators continue to work to adapt to the new standards.

Proponents, insisting that tying teacher salaries to measurable standards will improve schools, have instituted a wide variety of incentive plans across the country: Some evaluate teachers based solely on standardized test scores, some on teacher skill development; some offer more pay to teachers working in at - risk schools or with at - risk children, or for teaching certain subjects.

As Dr. Chard mentions in his essay, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) is already working toward some of the solutions proposed through development of the next generation of accreditation standards for educator preparation as well as convening a data task force to provide guidance and help determine some of the very research questions for studying and strengthening educator preparation, as Dr. Chard suggests.

Molina also serves as the link between PASA program providers and PASA's quality - improvement agenda, including quality standards, professional - development opportunities, and partner self - assessment tools, and he works with community partners to manage and implement an online tracking system throughout the AfterZone.

The board also reviews and regularly evaluates the work of the Institute to ensure that its research, development, evaluation and statistical analyses are consistent with the standards set out in the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002.

School 21 believes that critique helps students reflect on their development, self - assess their strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to create high - standard, beautiful work.

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

Each year I work with all teachers to establish professional development targets for the year and these come directly from the standards, but also from whole school priorities and then individual areas of focus.

This document identifies six key standards that recognise the responsibility of professionals working in children's services for child development.

Sixty - one CSSS members across 38 states responded to our survey and reported that their work most frequently involves activities that attend to key components of their state's education systems, including: reviewing and developing state science standards, designing state science assessments, and designing or conducting teacher professional development.