Sentences with phrase «technological needs by»

To continue helping consumers in there everyday technological needs by asking fact finding questions.

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Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

Hajdu and Bains opened the meeting by outlining the extent of coming technological change, like automation, that could displace workers, as well as the need to craft policies to prepare workers for new jobs.

Musk's premise is that economies of scale, technological advances, and efficiencies at the new plant will cut battery costs by more than 30 %, providing a chunk of the savings needed to sell a Tesla for $ 35,000.

These technological innovations are an opportunity to do that but an opportunity that comes with a side that needs to be carefully managed by policy - makers, by government like you, where you need to think about the transition period of the people that are working and that are displaced and how you manage that.

«This harmonization should facilitate the development by manufacturers in both countries of world - class front - line workers with the skills needed able to meet the dual challenges of global economic competitiveness and accelerating technological change.»

It could also be argued that all of the decline was caused by technological changes, such as the increasing use of streaming media, but that claim needs some qualification.

Intoxicated by their lust for gold, they ceased to see the people standing in their way; lulled by an overpowering sense of their own Christianity, they drew no boundary between their economic and spiritual exploits; infected with their own technological and military prowess, they couldn't even imagine that they needed a cure.

Such concepts are dysfunctional, he claims, in an age when our technological mastery of nature needs to be matched by conscious stewardship.

Such discovery means that the world is infinitely open - ended, and that the human spirit need never fear the suffocation that would result from a conviction that mystery can eventually be blotted out by our rational expertise or technological prowess.

Americans in the early twentieth century were still becoming acquainted with mass advertising, which was designed to create new needs where none had existed before, such as for mouthwash or deodorant, or to promote products, such as baby food, that responded to and enabled a more fast - paced life brought on by technological innovation.67 With the mass production and advertising of goods, memorable packaging and branding became an essential part of the product, «an integral part of the commodity itself,» as one business executive noted in 1913.68

«However, the best form of restructuring that Nigeria needs now is not merely to decentralise power but to cede power completely to the private sector whilst government contributes its quota by providing the enabling environment for the much needed industrialisation and technological advancement that will take us out of our present doldrums..

The state development agency explained that standards have changed since the project was designed six years ago, and the passage now needs to be «updated with the same types of technological advances that are being incorporated into other transit improvements recently announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including upgrades to other sections of Penn Station.»

The scientific community needs to be in dialogue with both fields in order to understand the cultural context within which science operates and to respond to the societal issues opened up by scientific discovery and technological development.

To meet its longer - term goal, a 50 percent cut by 2050, Mexico has said it will need money and technological help from the global community.

From there it wasn't a huge technological step to the purely mechanical clock, prodded in large part by the twin developments of the Industrial Revolution (factory workers needed to show up on time) and the railroad (it would be nice if 10 o'clock in London meant the same thing everywhere in England).

Let the big science and technology organizations in government — the federal labs, all the places that need technological people — become part of First the same way corporate sponsors do: by adopting high schools and supporting teams.

This half - hour delight gave us everything we needed to know about this comedy duo — how Wallace's technological engineering skills are matched by a blissful obliviousness, how Gromit is always a step ahead of his master, and how their adventures are conveyed with an expressive, physical spirit that would make them feel at home among silent comedies.

Hell, you can even guess that the mecha suits (an absurdly clunky weapon that seems to vary in size and comfort) will eventually be ditched, because a technological villain needs to be defeated by an analog hero.

«For workers to benefit from the employment opportunities brought about by current and future technological developments, they will need to acquire a different set of capabilities than what is currently prioritised,» the report says.

On his mind a lot these days is the new technological habitat of children younger than five, who are surrounded by digital devices that can adapt to their specific needs and strengths.

Meanwhile, technological advances - in particular the spread of computers - accelerated the economy's need for skills, once again boosting the wage premium received by more - educated workers (see Figure 2).

The TPACK model emphasizes the importance of complex interactions among three domains — technological (TK), pedagogical (PK), and content knowledge (CK)-- needed by teachers to successfully integrate technology into instruction (Koehler et al., 2013).

When considering English teachers» need for technological proficiency in today's classrooms, teacher educators are more likely to prefer experimentation with forms of technology during university preparation, seeking responses like the one offered by one preservice teacher: «Lately it seems that more and more teachers are using weblogs as formats for discussion.

When we think of budget issues in schools the technological needs of students are often overlooked by policy makers.

Despite the technological needs identified by the education department, some school systems lack the money to address them.

A hardcopy textbook can not be differentiated, but with these technological tools, teachers can better differentiate textbooks to the needs of their students, transforming their roles into more active ones with the textbook by adapting and restructuring content or display.

Yet today these gains are threatened by crumbling infrastructure that is increasingly congested, in need of repair, and unable to keep pace with technological change.

Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and / or increases in component costs could have on the Company's gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company's need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company's dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company's international operations; the Company's reliance on third - party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company's dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company's products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.

In this technological age this is just one more question that needs to be sorted out, buy by whom?

These standards organizations need this industry to overcome some of those technological barriers that are really just there by necessity, evolution, or commercial interest.»

However, the need to reduce energy consumption by 50 % in developed countries is possible with current technological innovations.

Nearly every type of service needed by most businesses could be provided by a freelancer, including marketing, publicity, advertising, technological support such as web programming and design, creative works such as graphic design, and financial support such as bookkeeping.

More and more people are using their phone as their main computing device, and National Cash Credit is responding to the technological advances and social change, by making sure their website keeps up with consumers» needs.

Kotaku: Would you say that by now that the arc of the technological improvement and the needs of the designer are converging at a good point or do you still have a sense in you that, «Hey we're pretty good but we could still benefit from another decade's worth of iteration and improvement?»

In 2005, the Annex designed by architect Jean Nouvel opened its doors to the public, responding to the museum's current needs for added space and operations supported by new technological resources.

Morris uses found objects such as wire, glass, plastic, and metal in the construction of his sculptures and combines these man - made materials with more «mutant» organic forms to suggest «something living and animated being consumed from within by its own technological needs.»

This need to reclaim more tactile and decorative avenues as a way to address important current social, political and economically relevant issues at a global level also signifies ongoing artistic shifts infused by the rise of technological insertion in everyday life.

Policy drives technological innovation by creating needs for new entrants to demonstrate feasibility and for existing options to demonstrate cost reductions.

Through technological and organizational change, supported by proper pricing (internalizing the currently externalized costs and environmental risks of material consumption and waste production), we can almost certainly provide for the needs of the projected population, at a good standard of living.

This situation is what leads a growing call for a much broader energy quest, from the laboratory to the light socket, that starts with the «no brainers» delineated by many studies, particularly a McKinsey analysis of ways to cut energy waste, but also includes a direct, increased and sustained American investment in pushing the frontiers of knowledge on energy — and boosting efforts, from the classroom to the boardroom, to build the community of technological, financial and social innovators necessary to drive the needed change.

Brulle claimed that, to stave off disaster by meeting the targets set by a U.N. panel, the U.S. «will need to reduce its carbon - dioxide emissions by more that 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, and by 80 percent by 2050 — an enormous social, economic and technological task.»

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

He argued that we need to understand there is a category of technological error - an oil spill is a good example - that is best dealt with by never letting it happen in the first place.

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

However, the need to reduce energy consumption by 50 % in developed countries is possible with current technological innovations.

The United States has a long history of extraordinary technological achievements in all aspects of life, and the federal government has played a critical role in this process, driven mainly by national security needs.

The latter process — called decoupling — has already occurred over the past 50 years; but to reach peak impact by the end of this century, we need to accelerate the pace of modernization and direct technological of change towards using high - energy, low - footprint technologies that enable us to economize natural resources.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Exceptionally quick and vigorous policy action by all countries, and unprecedented technological advances, entailing substantial costs, would be needed to make this case a reality.