Sentences with phrase «with ideas of scale»

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It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

And while this has largely benefited residents of Silicon Valley, who have immediate admission into a row of venture capitalists, on a macroeconomic scale, this has proven to be inefficient, as the majority of people with ideas and talent do not have admittance into this elitist group.

Canada does well at coming up with ideas and making them work, Elgie said, but it's not so good at commercializing those ideas and scaling up production, often because of a lack of available capital.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

To get an idea of the brain - bending scale these machines can operate at, consider this: a quantum computer with 300 qubits working could run more calculations in the blink of an eye than there are atoms in the entire universe — and the D - Wave Two processor has 500 qubits.

Here's a look at the factors that help young companies scale with just a couple of clients — and how your firm can leverage some these ideas to grow.

, a program created in 2004 by Mexico's Secretary of Economy and the US - Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC), launched with the aim of «strengthening the entrepreneurial, technological and innovative capacities of small and medium sized technology - based companies» and to help startups scale their products and great ideas into foreign markets.

«The cost of prototyping new ideas has plummeted over the last five years, and it's rapidly becoming easier to work with manufacturers in Asia to find scale,» Fleetwood said.

The entity aims to take ideas and existing startups, surround them with a bevy of in - house expertise and cash, and help them scale up.

With a idea of apropos a decentralized handling system ancillary industrial - scale applications, EOS claims to discharge transaction fees and also control millions of exchange per second.

Whereas traditionally a start - up with a promising idea would sell its business plan to interested angel investors, later commit to sequential funding rounds in which venture capital investors would provide scale - up financing in return for a slice of equity, before eventually pursuing an initial public offering (if very successful) to sell some or all of its shares to the general public, the ICO can offer a novel and much faster approach.

Most of his talks and the bulk of the questions he fielded had to do with the unorthodox economic proposals set forth in his book and his other writings: the idea, above all, of an «intermediate technology» appropriate in scale and cost to the needs and conditions of the people using it — neither too large nor too small.

It is time government institutions took the lead in establishing more incubation centres to enable researchers to scale up their innovative ideas, facilitating alignment with start - ups in order to bring in new innovations, which would help in solving a number of problems faced by the society.

She created a gorgeous little «giving jar» with some amazing ideas, and since I don't want to over commit our already busy family we are going to do a scaled down version of her brilliant idea!

I am currently working with small scale farmers in the Ecuadorian highlands and we have recently become interested in the idea of growing shade - grown coffee as a way of sustaining the local growers and preserving some of the native forests in the region.

I love the idea of baking with ratios, but I haven't gotten a scale....

When my mom was pushing me for Christmas ideas, I came up with a list of kitchen goodies, including an inexpensive digital scale (mine is from King Arthur flour although I'm sure there are many great suppliers).

If you have concerns over your baby's development, a baby scale can give you an idea of how your baby is progressing with any changes to your feeding routine.

Teens and tweens may enjoy some of the above summer craft ideas (like the collage or birdfeeder), if done with younger siblings or scaled more to their level and interest.

Sarkey, one of those infuriating people with both brains and beauty, described the very idea as an «invasion of privacy on a scale we've never seen», while chief constable Chris Sims, Acpo's lead on the issue, professed to be «acutely conscious of the political issues around the database».

With Cameron wanting to reopen the debate on free movement, and the home secretary, Theresa May, floating the idea of capping the annual number of entrants to the UK at 75,000, Schulz's comments make it clear that a renegotiation on that scale may be all but impossible.

Hughes told MPs: «I am not immune to the ideas that this is a hideous crime, and I am deeply embarrassed, but I can say with honesty that at the time I was both deputy and chief constable, I had no idea of the scale or scope of this type of organised crime.»

Laws supported the idea of free schools before the Tories did but fought fierce battles with Gove over the programme's scale.

«The foregoing, coupled with his continuous strives to change the face of the state of Osun, and place it to the first amongst its equals makes Governor Aregbesola to conceive the lofty idea of introducing standardized scales and measures in all facets of commercial transactions in all items which are sold or distributed by weigh, measure or number in the state.

Fascinated with the idea of building better AI systems by incorporating visual intelligence, Kunda and her graduate students set about identifying the building blocks of visual thinking, experimenting with object rotation, scaling and combining.

At CERN near Geneva and other large - scale scientific projects, people with a range of skills have come together to work toward specified goals; through citizen science, this idea can be broadened, be it by classifying newly discovered galaxies or identifying plants.

What has been called the modern synthesis of the two fields emerged in the 1940s with the idea that the sorts of genetic differences you could observe in populations, right out your window, when compounded and extrapolated over vast periods of time, could account for the large - scale changes we see in the fossil record.

Most of them dealt with nanometer - scale systems derived either from biology or from technology and I had the idea of bundling them together into a book.

The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.

The hardy nature of the parasite, combined with the huge numbers of domestic cats (around 70 million domestic and 60 million feral felines in the U.S. alone), gives some idea of the potential scale of the problem.

The MAMMOTH - 1 nebula appears to have a filamentary structure that aligns with the galaxy distribution in the large - scale structure of the protocluster, supporting the idea that ELANs are illuminated segments of the cosmic web, Cai said.

The idea that male humor might sometimes be bad for a relationship is supported by results from the Coping Humor Scale (CHS) test developed by Martin and psychologist Herbert Lefcourt of the University of Waterloo, which measures how much one uses humor to cope with life stress.

This map from the data visualisation studio Kiln, in collaboration with the UCL Energy Institute, gives an idea of the scale of the global merchant shipping fleet, using data from 2012:

In 1980, Seeman started the field of DNA nanotechnology with the idea of using the structural information in DNA to organize matter on the nanometer scale in three dimensions.

«Talking about this idea of affordable nutrition, if we're not going to do it — with the scale that we have — who can?»

The idea is that consuming carbs on the low end of the scale will provide you with a «steady stream» of sugars rather than a quick spike, which prevents excess fat storage.

Weighing the chicken & veggies with a food scale would give you an even more accurate idea of what the nutritional value of your particular meal is.

Yes, ostensibly, this is a good idea, but ultimately, it shuts out the small local entrepreneurs who originally had the idea of offering organic clothing in the first place, but who can not compete with the economies of scale enjoyed by H&M.

If your idea of «easy» is somewhere along the lines of scaling Mount Kilimanjaro naked with a rhino strapped to your back — a rhino who makes nonstop gross, unwanted sexual comments to you.

Interweaving the relative time scale with the atomic time scale poses certain problems because only certain types of rocks, chiefly the igneous variety 1000s of creative romantic ideas on romance, dating tips, gift giving, date celebrations, proposal stories, love letters, sex tips, poetry and more.

This time out, things are essentially all on a larger scale, with director David Twohy trying to create a kind of space opera; somewhat inevitably, critical backlash was large and it ended up not seeming such a good idea after all.

While the open - world idea first hinted at in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and then Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is finally realized, with the game worlds boasting huge scale but incredible detail, too.

The Wachowskis — whose follow - up Jupiter Ascending suffered a similar fate as this film — are some of the most earnest, daring and original filmmakers working on a large scale today, their films teeming with more ideas than an entire phase of Marvel films.

The team meets for full - day sessions on a monthly basis to develop innovative ideas for their classrooms, with the goal of eventually scaling innovation throughout the district.

Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash Fast Company, May 18, 2011 «Another of the competition's judges, [Senior Lecturer] Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»»

Likert scales are a way to measure whether an individual agrees with or disagrees with a particular statement or idea, and a simple Likert scale of faces with expressions ranging from a smile to a frown is an appropriate way to begin the monitoring process, and will encourage students to focus their attention on their learning.

Adapted the potion idea from a fellow member of staff, but added my own names / instructions / handout plus an additional empty measuring jug for practice with scale.

This lesson asks students to plan and develop ideas for working on a large scale and comes with an odd one out starter to stimulate thinking at the start of the session.

Using this rapid cycle of design - test - iterate, an idea is developed by a group of experts and key stakeholders, piloted in a real world setting, refined, and tested again with a larger group, thereby creating an accelerated method to prepare for scale up at a population level.