Sentences with phrase «systems serving distinct»

Not exact matches

Heuristic theology is distinct from theology as hermeneutics or as construction but has similarities with both.8 The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines heuristic adjectivally as «serving to find out» and, when employed as a noun related to learning, as «a system of education under which pupils are trained to find out for themselves.»

Shocks to the grid But that pace of growth has placed a severe strain on the country's vertically integrated utilities, according to Japanese energy experts, who say the surge in solar power threatens to overwhelm the country's transmission and distribution systems, which since the 1950s have been organized to serve each of the 10 distinct distribution areas and are not bound together by a robust transmission system.

Online and blended learning have the potential to dramatically transform our education system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - centric one.

For instance, Huntington Learning Centers, which have the distinct honor of having served the only Worcester student to obtain supplemental services from outside of the public school system, typically contract with families for 100 to 150 hours of individual tutoring.

This culture model is explicitly distinct from the «catch - all» nature of the public education system, which, in accordance with American laws, traditions, and philosophies, is designed to serve any and all students in the United States (Yell 1998).

And unlike traditional software shops that maintain one distinct development effort for each operating system (Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS being the most common) that they want to serve, SaaS developers create and support software for one platform that works on every modern OS: the World Wide Web.

Yes, broadcasters and cable (and satellite companies) are distinct entities but I would argue they form part of the same eco-system that some style the «TV industrial complex» — and while they are frequently antagonists, the relationship is also symbiotic and serves to preserve the same unwanted bundle of channels system that is foisted on viewers.