Sentences with phrase «with other consortia»

Some PARCC states are working with other consortia to develop tests for those students, and other states are working to develop their own assessments.

As with other consortia involved in the SKA, SKADS is building demonstrators in order to get a new type of instrument functional and to demonstrate the required cost factor will be very substantial contribution to radio science.

Not exact matches

With no current plans to accept Apple Pay (though down the line it, and other mobile wallets, could well be a payment option within Walmart Pay), and no set launch date for MCX (never mind that as the product of consortium, that mobile app will not be set up to meet Walmart's specific needs), Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing out on a major shift in customer behavior.

The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details remain mysterious, but included construction of CS Wind's turbine tower plant in Windsor, a blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)

And so Hotwire was born out of TPG, saying to these airlines and then a couple of other airlines: «Hey, let's create an industry consortium startup to compete with Priceline.»

Where our funds, either alone or as part of a consortium, are not the controlling investor, we typically, subject to applicable regulatory requirements, acquire significant voting and other rights with a view to securing influence over conduct of the business.

Funded through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and with support from the Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) and a consortium of other non-profit Regional Innovation Centres, including MaRS, the program is geared to train as many as 450 entrepreneurs over 15 months, and provide as much as $ 4 million in seed financing to qualified applicants.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

The United Nations Organization is already playing that crucial role, but it has not been very effective when major national powers or consortium of powers take the issues in their own hands over the wish and aspiration of others, especially those who disagree with them and their methods of settling disputes.

To this end, Moore and others should note that Fiyaz Mughal is organising a discussion on June 27th with a recently - formed consortium of academics, journalists and charities dedicated to addressing difficult issues of social cohesion.

To help inch things along, the DOT recently awarded a consortium of automakers, including Ford, GM, Toyota, and others, $ 7.4 million to outfit cars with compatible radio transmitters and test them on closed courses.

«The instructions that the female niche is supplying to the male cell do not coordinate with each other,» says Clark, a member of the consortium.

Chevron, working with a consortium of other oil companies, recently drilled an exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico in waters 7,718 feet deep, a distance five times the height of the Empire State Building.

To deal with this poverty of riches, Ioannidis proposes that researchers cooperate more to confirm one another's findings Toward that end, he and other genetics researchers two years ago established a network of research consortia now consisting of 26 groups, he says, each with a dozen to hundreds of members, for investigators studying various cancers, HIV, Parkinson's disease and other disorders.

Genome Canada is negotiating with two other nations to build a consortium to map the potato genome, Godbout says, and with Norway to develop a consortium in fisheries.

The study, organized by the World Health Organization in a consortium with many other agencies, used an unprecedented ring vaccination design, in which the contacts of new Ebola cases as well as the contacts of contacts were vaccinated.

ESO is in a race with two other consortia to be the first in the next generation of jumbo telescopes.

Several consortiums of industry leaders across sectors - including Partnership for Renewable Energy (which includes Bank of America, Google, General Electric), U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP (Ford, Duke Energy, Pepsi, Shell, among others) and Climate Energy Network (a collection of small and mid-sized companies in every region of the United States)- are «terrifically energetic and committed to their work with U.S. policymakers,» he said.

The research, published in Nature, involved a collaboration with members of a Human Frontier Science Program consortium from the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, and with other researchers in Italy.

The Wyss Institute comprises a consortium of researchers, engineers, clinicians, and staff with industrial and business development experience from the Wyss Institute and nine other collaborating institutions in Greater Boston.

«The next question is whether other groups in the consortium of gut bacteria work in concert with, or in competition with, Bacteroides ovatus to target these, and other, complex carbohydrates,» says Brumer.

Monica L. Vetter, PhD: During this past year, my laboratory together with the other collaborators in the consortium have been very specifically focused on trying to visualize and track changes in the microglia.

The Knowledge Portal is being developed by a team of scientists and software engineers at the Broad Institute, the University of Michigan, University of Oxford, and many other collaborators as part of a worldwide scientific consortium with contributors from academia, industry, and non-profit organizations.

This study offers new leads that the consortium will be pursuing as to why drug resistance arises more readily in some locations when compared with others.

We partner with other academic institutes mainly at the consortium level.

The short form of the serotonin transporter gene promoter does not explain autism, insists Dr. Cook, who heads a nationwide consortium of researchers looking for the genetic underpinnings of this disease, but it does appear to play a significant role, perhaps in concert with other abnormalities which we've not yet uncovered.

«The women in the Network, like this consortium, understand that if we do not address the unmet need for family planning, the other global health goals of improving maternal, infant, and child deaths and combating infectious disease, will be difficult to achieve by 2015,» concluded Duff Gillespie, PhD, professor with the Bloomberg School's Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health.

There are already well established databases within the consortium, the London Pain Database (LPD) and QUAST (DFNS, Germany): The LPD is used for datamining of functional genomics data to help identify individual genes and functional networks associated with chronic pain, QUAST on the other hand collects questionnaire data, clinical and neurophysiological findings and calculates valid clusters of phenotypes with different interaction patterns of sensory loss with and without different types of peripheral and central hyperalgesia based on QST (quantitative sensory testing) data.

Aside from the consortium, the academy maintains mutually beneficial partnerships with many other local organizations.

None of this mentions the work of the AFT, National Education Association, national foundations, teacher preparation institutions, assessment consortia (Smarter Balanced and PARCC), or other groups with a stake in the successful implementation of the Common Core.

«We will work with teachers, the education consortia and others to help us crack the code for all our pupils.»

But the head of the state - led consortium creating the Common Core tests for California and two dozen other states expressed confidence Wednesday that his organization is working closely with states and taking precautions to avoid significant problems.

Consortia can create learning communities for educators to engage with other like - minded professionals and share resources.

PARCC, as well as the other multistate testing consortium, Smarter Balanced, are funded entirely by the federal government, with each receiving about $ 180 million.

With Pence's support, it becomes more likely Indiana will become the first to leave the Common Core initiative, though many others have taken a step back from national consortiums designing new tests aligned to the standards.

That tracks with what Ritz told StateImpact last week about participation in PARCC and Smarter Balanced, the other consortium writing tests for the Common Core.

Partnering with other states that have left the national consortia designing new tests would certainly be more cost effective than Indiana designing its own exam.

The division provides workshops and other training opportunities for educators and works collaboratively with public and private agencies, associations, foundations and consortia to address educational needs and concerns.

The assessment platform is compatible with other college and career readiness assessment consortia platforms.

The Center is working with states and other partners to address comparability issues with consortium as well as with other innovative assessment systems.

The report will also feature a graphic that will show how a student's score compares with the average score on the «practice» Smarter Balanced tests in math and English language arts that students in California and other consortium states took last year.

Very small schools and districts should form consortia with other schools and districts for this purpose, and leverage the resources among participants.

Public or private nonprofit organizations, including faith - based and other community groups; schools or districts; institutions of higher education; cities and counties; Indian Tribes; and labor organizations are eligible to apply, along with partnerships and consortia of these entities.

By partnering with other charter schools and highly regarded service providers in a regional special education consortium, charter schools will strengthen their expertise around special education and develop the infrastructure to offer a full range of program options.

The Mahtomedi Academy idea is creating a website consortium that matches teacher leader teams with other schools and teachers who can benefit from different areas of expertise.

Although these findings resonate with education activists and an increasing number of parents across the nation, they have fallen on deaf ears with leadership in our state, even while many other states have dropped their membership with the consortium or removed tying results to high stakes until such findings are substantiated.

All states who have adopted the Common Core State Standards have selected a consortium in which they are a partner with other states.

It is now working with a consortium of other public research universities to scale up these interventions.

Additionally, although some states have begun implementing the consortia field tests this year, other states have backed out of their commitments with the consortia.

Center staff have recently led and / or participated in psychometric and research work for the PARCC consortium and states using PARCC content (i.e., Louisiana, Massachusetts) such as conducting analyses and advising on issues related to comparability of test scores across test forms with varying proportions of PARCC content, different administration modes, and other conditions that may impact the comparability claims that can be made about the test scores.