Sentences with phrase «urban environments such»

I have experience teaching diverse student populations at all levels in urban environments such as NYC, Newark and Cincinnati.

That's rapid progress and a testament to a critical early design and engineering decision: to pair Cruise's technology, optimized for complicated urban environments such as San Francisco, with GM's ability to develop and manufacture vehicles at a massive scale.

Service learning is especially appropriate for a diverse urban environment such as Hoboken.

Not exact matches

Problem is, land - use restrictions are usually enacted for valid reasons such as protecting the environment, reducing urban sprawl and preserving agricultural land.

A brigade's worth of tanks used Trophy to destroy approaching enemy fire such as RPGs in a high - clutter urban environment, he added.

In addition, new structures such as bollards and barriers are being introduced to aid security which will have an impact on the urban environment.

Future trials that dynamically measure additional biological information, such as cortisol levels (another marker of stress) and blood pressure, are now warranted to further advance our understanding of the relationship between stress and blighted urban environments.»

However, tens of thousands of leaky auto engines whizzing over already polluted urban environments can't compare with the damage done to a pristine environment by a single oil tanker such as the Exxon Valdez, which spilled 10 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.

Dr Bill Bateman, Senior Lecturer at Curtin's Department of Environment & Agriculture, led the study that proved eastern grey squirrels were able to modify their behaviour in urban environments and prevent unnecessary responses when humans acted in a predictable manner, such as staying on the footpath.

Only half of identical twins whose siblings have schizophrenia develop the disease, making it critical to better understand how known risk factors such as urban environments and complications at birth contribute, he says.

As such urban tree inventory would be the first step in planning and managing the urban forest for its functions and value in creating a balanced environment.

It also fails to capture the complexity of an urban environment, such as how replacing trees with buildings affects the water table and wind speeds.

Urban environments differ from natural habitats in many regards and are for instance associated with higher levels of anthropogenic pollution, such as traffic noise, artificial light pollution and air pollution, which enhance oxidative stress and inflammatory responses.

«Even in an urban environment, proximity to green spaces provides a much richer population of colonizing microbiota versus urbanized environments such as parking lots.»

Im loving the contrast of such a chic outfit with the Urban chill environment, it allows me to see how I could wear it in real life.

With Native American protagonist Conner Kenway at the helm, Assassin's Creed III rushed into 2012 with a revamped offense - oriented combat system (to help quell complaints of the slower, more reactionary system of past games), a large world featuring both woodland and urban environments, the addition of cooperative multiplayer, and a story that featured many iconic American heroes such as Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams, and George Washington.

For such networks to be effective, its members must live and work in close proximity to one another, a point that illuminates the obstacles that urban education, and, yes, busing, create in forming a healthy environment for children.

Based in Houston, the nonprofit in which McDonald serves as national director of strategic initiatives places low - income, urban high school seniors into challenging work environments such as Continental Airlines, Exxon, and NASA.

Though she later told JCI she was sympathetic to the idea of the state's need to take additional measures to help teachers rated in less affluent, urban districts such as Jersey City, which tend to have tougher classroom environments, parent Gina Po told the round - table it really can't let them off the hook.

Putting SEL into practice in such a widespread manner, especially in major urban school districts, will allow CASEL to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in creating better learning environments, helping kids succeed in a variety of ways, and reducing problem behaviors.

In response to such concerns, he repeatedly stated that Christel House Academy, which was widely viewed as a successful charter school in an urban environment, would do well under the new system.)

Finally, a Save Battery mode forces the X5 to drive exclusively on gasoline power to retain the battery charge for later — such as when reaching an urban environment where fossil fuel - powered cars are banned.

By analyzing factors such as traffic conditions, gradient of the route and whether it is an urban or rural environment, the plugin hybrid system will combine electric and gasoline engine power to optimize efficiency.

Potential for medical problems if the dog is always stressed living in urban environments, such as a depressed immune system resulting in allergy like symptoms or skin infections.

• Places — new environments such as urban areas, country settings and everything in between.

However, some more specific environments, such as urban spaces, likely have less chance of encounters with ticks than thick woodsy environments where ticks are more common.

Several urban environments, such as high - class apartments, do not really allow you to keep giant dogs indoor.

Variable Surface Tracking includes dropped items of different textures such as leather, cloth, plastic, and metal, and requires the dog to travel over several types of surfaces to test his or her ability to work in an urban environment.

In Assassin's Creed 3 Pc Game, Free travel is simplified to a more fluid parkour urban and natural environments, such as climbing and racing on trees, mountains, rocks, etc..

Their past critically acclaimed series of works, such as Mt. Fuji, in Nature, Liulitun, and Tsumari Story focus on the beauty of the human body in nature and the urban environment.

His work raises questions concerning the culture of nature and the environment — such as how nature can exist in urban space but also how it is managed and controlled.

Early work explored the built environment through unpopulated urban spaces, such as California freeways, mini-malls and house facades.

User - generated content linked to the selected city such as recent news, tweets, images, videos, and posts from social networks, is searched and retrieved in real time and displayed as a multiple moving collage onto the facades of an abstract urban environment.

In my narrative silkscreen prints of human - animal hybrid creatures in urban environments, I create alternate worlds that are often based off of cities I have lived in, such as my hometown of Providence, RI and New York, where I live now.

Variations VII was intended to transform an architectural space, The Armory in New York City, into a broadcast space, in which telecommunications technologies such as radio, television and open telephone lines would bring global media transmissions and the urban environment of New York into a live performance.

On the one hand a tribute to the lush environment, lively atmosphere and fundamentally recreational and replenishing character of public parks, Surveillance is also an acknowledgement and investigation of the proliferating presence of security cameras in public life; an attempt to poetically apply the aesthetic of surveillance in a manner that focuses the eyes and mind on the sensuous visual tableaux and fleeting moments of intimacy that make Madison Square Park such a treasured urban oasis.

Hiller's explores the polylingual nature of today's lived experiences within urban environments, embracing cultural translation by weaving together 23 different languages such as Arabic, Livonian and endangered idioms.

Whether operating locally or further abroad in South Africa, Gerald Machona, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Michele Mathison are receiving the attention their work merits, as a result of their continual investigation of pertinent contemporary, cultural themes such as democracy, intolerance, social trauma and the decaying urban environment, all which exist as a consequence of the progressive development of Southern Africa and Zimbabwe in particular.

Even though Matta - Clark never exercised his profession as such, his artistic practice must be understood as that of an architect, who intensively engaged in the social reality and the effects of architecture on the urban environment.

Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.

For many of us living in dense urban environments, that is an easy speculation that puts off seeking such professional advice.

Departing from a number of important historical works, the exhibition presents a network of interdependent topical themes such as consumerism, value circulation, trade routes, and also how these abstract notions influence the individual's experience within a natural and urban environment.

Aware of predecessors such as Karl Benjamin, and John McLaughlin, and their interest in landscape and the environment, the artist moves hard edge towards a more Pop language; flat planes of intense color merging and moving against another, shifting stratas of atmosphere and light echo the intersections of urban culture and nature.

British artist Phyllida Barlow's fascination with the urban environment has led her to experiment with a wide variety of everyday mass - produced materials such as tape, cardboard, plastic and paint.

Comas uses industrial materials such as household paint and cement to create paintings suggesting an ever - changing urban environment.

Technologies such as hydroponics or organoponics, drip irrigation, zero tillage etc. substantially reduce water needs and health risks and are very interesting for the urban environment and can indeed be found in many cities.

Such shifts have been observed among climate - sensitive livelihoods in high mountain environments, drylands, and the Arctic, and in informal settlements and urban slums.

My point is that in the absence of such a fine grid, one should place the measurement locations according to the well studied rules of polling: Decide on the number of types of environment: urban, desert, mountain, iceberg, tropics, etc and weight the results according to the percentage each of these types have on the surface of the globe.

By establishing a net zero balance of carbon - free energy consumption, this ZNC definition can apply to all new and existing building types including those with limited on - site renewable energy capacity, such as buildings in dense urban environments.

Open Building was a term first used by John Habraken decades ago to describe «the idea of distinct Levels of intervention in the built environment, such as those represented by «support» and «infill», or by urban design and architecture.»