Sentences with phrase «use impact of the project»

During the trip and a presentation that followed, attendees learned more about the economic and land - use impact of the project and the benefits of transit - oriented development.

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Hindsight used to be 20/20; now the future is, too For the first time, you'll be able to visually project the impact of any changes you might make to your campaigns, so you can see exactly where your biggest opportunities lie.

To estimate economic impacts, the report uses publicly available economic data from announced pipeline projects, energy demand forecasts, and announced retirements of nuclear generators.

Multipliers are frequently used in offsetting to compensate for the risk of failure of the offset measures and the time lag between when negative impacts of the development project are felt and the positive impacts of offsetting come to fruition, often a period of many years.

Companies facing regulatory hearings like Kinder Morgan, groups promoting events like the Vancouver Olympics, or politicians justifying public expenditures like the new hockey arena in Edmonton generally talk about the benefits of their projects using a tool called economic impact analysis.

This year, 2015, started with a recession, the economic and fiscal impacts of which have been projected by the Parliamentary Budget Officer using the Bank of Canada's July Monetary Policy Report.

Water Power Group is a community - based developer of small hydro power projects in Ontario that use low - impact, fish - friendly turbines.

«This means that we are proven to have programs and projects in place that make efficient use of natural resources, prevent pollution and reduce our impact on the environment to a minimum,» it states.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

Delivering the right amount of water to the right place, at the right time, is generating positive results for the environment, as demonstrated by a series of scientific reports analysing the impacts of Commonwealth environmental water use during 2014 - 15 - part of a $ 30 million investment in monitoring and evaluation projects across the Murray - Darling Basin over five years (to 2020).

Mr. Brewer continued, «Our partnership is an instrumental step forward for both of our organizations, and we are excited to get to work on multiple projects that will use a portion of the profits from our commercial business activities to make a positive impact on many communities in need.»

Yes, it wasn't as widespread as some expected, and yes it kind of died when Arsenal had their miracle late run, but the use of flying banners and images projected onto the Emirates walls had major impact.

As part of Mass Audubon's ongoing work in the Blackstone River Watershed, five communities have been selected to receive technical assistance for local Low Impact Development (LID) and land use planning projects to improve water quality and stormwater management.

Keeping abreast of the new scientific discoveries and tools related to climate change, designing and implementing our own research and monitoring projects, encouraging scientists to use our wildlife sanctuaries, and sharing lessons learned with our partners are appropriate high impact strategies for a science - based organization like Mass Audubon.

Citizen cientists use their eyes, ears and smartphones to protect birds, frogs and other wildlife - Medill Reports Chicago - October 21, 2016 Citizen science recruiters seeking new volunteers shared the impact of ongoing projects at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's inaugural citizen science fair on Saturday.

Take a decade - by - decade look at just a few of Mathematica's projects that have made a lasting impact on the field of research and the use of data to make a difference.

The first phase the pool reconstruction projects included developing architectural plans, using the design features of the new swimming pool at Pioneer Park as a starting point, and the decision was made to rebuild all three pool complexes at one time to lessen the impact on the public.

Impact of a text message intervention used as an adjunct tool by WIC breastfeeding counselors: the LATCH project

He conducts two streams of interdisciplinary and multi-method research: the first uses quantitative and qualitative approaches from corpus linguistics to investigate British media portrayals of migrant groups, borders, and citizenship, while the second set of projects explores how data, evidence - based research, and «impact» are constructed, shaped, and visually communicated by civil society organisations in their public - facing work.

The project uses a series of survey experiments to measure how incidences of corruption and insecurity impact on public trust in government institutions, both at local and central levels.

The project's opponents criticise the use of cyanide (a common technique used to leach gold from extracted material) which would have a devastating and irreversible impact on the region's biodiversity.

By using this rare historical data from Botswana — a country where, unusually for Africa, elections have been held consistently since independence in the late 1960s — the project team will be able to separate the impact of electoral competition from the changed donor pressures of the 1990s.

«The problem with using grade school math to analyze an economic development project of this magnitude is that it doesn't take into account the multi-billion dollar investment from SolarCity, and impact of the thousands of direct and indirect jobs that will be created statewide,» said Jason Conwall from Empire State Development.

County to Conduct Paint Stabilization Pilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

On March 28, 2014, the Board of Directors for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing business as Empire State Development («ESD»), accepted the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement («the DSEIS»), adopted an amendment to the Modified General Project Plan («the Proposed Amendment»), and authorized a Public Hearing in connection with the Atlantic Yards Land Use Improvement and Civic Project.

Both requests were turned down because the project did not score well on the criteria the state uses to measure the economic impact of economic development projects.

Sen. George D. Maziarz, R - Newfane: «I have been sounding the alarm about the negative impacts of the proposed Champlain - Hudson Power Express for several years, using every means at my disposal to derail this ill - conceived project.

It used them to demand the publication of the government's Brexit impact assessment and universal credit project assessments.

The program consists of two components: $ 21 million through the Business Flood Recovery Grant Program to be directed to eligible entities that sustained direct, physical flood - related damage and $ 9 million through the Flood Mitigation Grant Program to be used to support flood mitigation or flood control projects in waterways impacted by the record - breaking storms.

He also proposed using the Mortgage Recording Tax, which is paid when property changes hands, to leverage the funding of capital projects, which he argued would minimize the impact of fluctuations in the real estate market.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

In order to project the impact of proposed cutbacks to U.S. - funded programs in South Africa, which has the greatest prevalence of HIV infection of any country, and the west African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, which has a different kind of epidemic and a different level of foreign aid dependency, the researchers used a widely - published mathematical model along with epidemiologic and cost data from each country to project the outcomes of potential programmatic responses.

The interests of the CSFR and the NCLS aligned well on many SFRL projects, conferences, publications, and AAAS annual meeting symposia such as on the ethical and legal implications of genetic testing; use of animals in research and education; scientific misconduct and research integrity; use of scientific and technical information in the courts; ethical and legal aspects of computer network use and abuse; effects of national security controls on unclassified research, and the impact of neuroscience on the legal system.

The Duke study is just one of many projects begun in the past five years that use genetic sequencing to explore how the diversity of the microbiome impacts our health.

«In this high mountain desert, water is a critically precious resource and the use of metal - polluted waters for irrigation may have substantial detrimental impacts on the lives of subsistence farmers,» said Bill Strosnider, researcher on the project.

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

«Understanding the impact of these storms will help us gain ground truth for improving the chemistry — climate models we use to project future climate,» she says.

Computer time was awarded by the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program; the project also used resources of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

By developing a completely new way of using information from GPS and location data shown by GSM, the EU DATA SIM project simulated the consequences of a massive switch to electric vehicles, and studied the impact on mobility and electricity distribution networks.

The biggest concern: that the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model (CESM).

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker - Tecnalia) has coordinated the European BATFARM project, which is seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of technologies and practices used on livestock farms in the European Atlantic region in order to reduce their environmental impact on the air, water and soil.

«These results suggest that beaver relocation projects could be used to mitigate the impact of human - induced thermal degradation that may threaten sensitive cold - water fish species,» says Weber.

Using statistical models, a team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and Plymouth Marine Laboratory assessed the likely impact of projected temperature increases on the Weddell Sea, Scotia Sea and Southern Drake Passage, which is known for its abundance of krill.

(ii) to assess the impacts of proposed energy development, water, transmission, transportation, and other land use projects and avoid, minimize, and mitigate those impacts on habitats and corridors;

Using a mathematical model, researchers at the University of Bristol and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in collaboration with researchers and clinicians in the UK, Australia and Canada projected the potential impact of these new DAAs treatment among PWID in three cities with similar PWID prevalence (~ 1 per cent among adults) but very different levels of chronic HCV prevalence among PWID.

As part of the same project, this new technique is also being used to explore sources and impacts of heat - trapping soot particles in snow over North America.

MONGOLIA Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2: Plans, Issues and Risks An Overview of Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2 Mining Plans and some of the issues and risks associated with block cave underground mining, international metal price uncertainty, project power supply, and impacts on water resources used by herders.

We investigate the impact of PMI on gene expression using data from multiple tissues of post-mortem donors obtained from the GTEx project.

When used together, the researchers conclude, the state of these indices can be used as a tool to project when major impacts on coastal communities may occur, impacts that can range from flooding to erosion, and may be experienced (and here is the important part) regardless of mean sea level rise.

The premiere installment, «Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change,» featured UCLA environmental economist Magali Delmas and the Engagement Project, which examined the most effective ways to encourage apartment users to reduce their energy use at home and the impact of «gamifying» energy savings.