Sentences with phrase «year as a pilot project»

«As you know, Strike Force was initiated last year as a pilot project.

The City provided the land for the Village for a year as a pilot project.

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The 100 % Northern Minerals owned project will operate as a large - scale pilot plant for three years, with the goal of expanding into one of the world's only significant suppliers for critical heavy rare earths outside of China.

The move by Uber, announced as a pilot project on Wednesday, follows the end of its partnership with Banco Santander's U.S. lending unit earlier this year.

Airlines are among those backing the idea, in part to deal with a projected need for 1.5 million pilots over the next 20 years as global demand for air travel continues to grow.

Canada Student Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students with children, and introduced a three - year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several years in the workforce with an additional $ 1,600 in grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.

These questions are the same as those to which we have addressed ourselves in a five - year National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Project for the training of clergymen in the field of alcoholism conducted at the Georgian Clinic (1964 - 69)(«Pilot Project for Clinical Training of Clergymen in The Field of Alcoholism» NIMH Grant # 8589, staffed by: George P. Dominick, Co-Director; John M. Crow, Coordinator of Training; Melvin B. Drurker, Clinical Psychologist for Evaluation.)

Last year, the government announced, as part of its massive health - reform package, plans for pilot projects that would lead to the licensing of midwives and their practicing in hospitals alongside doctors.

The machines mandated by the federal HAVA law debuted last year as part of a pilot project in some select local races, but this is the first time they've been deployed statewide.

Along with seven other projects, John's research won HHMI support in 2008 as part of a 4 - year, $ 40 million pilot program targeted at collaborative and potentially transformative research.

A small technical pilot scheme has been planned in Trondheim, as well as a larger demonstration project next year involving 200 electric cars on the road between Oslo and Kongsberg.

The projected 10 - year, $ 4 billion All of Us study, proposed by then - President Barack Obama in 2015 as part of a push for personalized medicine, has already enrolled more than 12,000 participants for pilot testing.

During our pilot program and subsequent first full year we have discovered three CCSNe and one candidate with projected nuclear offsets as small as 200 pc.

A significant portion of NHGRI's medical sequencing program will be used for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), which was launched in December 2005 as a $ 100 million, collaborative three - year pilot project between NHGRI and NCI.

The project is a high profile one for the network, who announced it as in development a year ago and who briefly had Ang Lee attached to direct the pilot in his TV debut, before he bowed out in May.

The New York City Department of Education ventured into pay - for - performance for students beginning this year with two pilot projects developed by Harvard University economist Roland G. Fryer, who is working pro bono as the department's chief equality officer.

Under the proposal, school districts would be allowed to offer American Sign Language for credit starting in 1993, a] though some sign - language classes may be available next school year as part of a pilot project, according to Jackie Bumbalo, a special - education staff member in the...

As evidenced by last year's pilot projects, this year an observer at GSA will see students enthusiastically engaged in standards - based learning, actively working in group cooperation, problem - solving and critical thinking.

It is encouraging news, from Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, that New York City's three - year - old pilot project testing the content - rich Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum in ten low - income schools has proved so far, as the Daily News headline has it, «a brilliant experiment in reading.»

SB 663 would allow the Department of Children and Families, as a pilot project, to award grants to organizations, including school boards, with existing four - year - old kindergarten programs for the purpose of expanding those programs.

Convening and working with networks of schools and educators has been integral to CCE's work from the start, with projects ranging from the 20 + year old Boston Pilot School Network (now the Boston Autonomous Schools Network) to newer networks such as the Rhode Island Scaling Up Proficiency Based Graduation Network.

Key Findings: «Within one year of its inception, the CAHSEE Home Visit Pilot Project has been associated with positive attitudinal shifts among students and parents toward school and the future, as well as with positive behavioral changes associated with improved academic outcomes.»

Some schools from last year's pilot, which drew more than 100 schools, have changed curricula as a result: One school, chagrined that its kids did poorly on scientific problem - solving, has begun requiring a senior year science project.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

With enrollment projected to grow between 20 and 40 percent over the next 20 years, charter schools have established themselves as a fixture in the U.S. public education system and can no longer be viewed as an experiment or pilot reform.

As part of last year's acquisition of CourseSmart, VitalSource is migrating all of CourseSmart's accessible PDF content to the VitalSource platform by mid-August, including content that was enhanced through the Student E-rent Pilot Project (STEPP).

Canada Student Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students with children, and introduced a three - year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several years in the workforce with an additional $ 1,600 in grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.

Support for this program is provided by the Amphion Foundation and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation (I ³), a three year pilot project of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to provide both the context and content for the expanding aesthetic landscape of interdisciplinary performance as practiced by artists whose projects are drawn from or inspired by the rich cultural traditions of the South.

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation (I ³) is a three year pilot project of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to provide both the context and content for the expanding aesthetic landscape of interdisciplinary performance as practiced by artists whose projects are drawn from or inspired by the rich cultural traditions of the South.

OriginOil is seen as a leader in the algae biofuel industry, and had success last year in an algae pilot project with MBD Energy of Australia.

In 2017, Rodale Institute's research project was one of 16 projects that received a permit for the inaugural planting of hemp in Pennsylvania in more than 80 years, as part of the PA Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Pilot Pproject was one of 16 projects that received a permit for the inaugural planting of hemp in Pennsylvania in more than 80 years, as part of the PA Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Pilot ProjectProject.

It began as a one - year pilot project, and the lease has since been renewed on two occasions by a unanimous City Council vote.

Plans for community solar — solar projects that make power available to homes unsuited for their own systems — have struggled for more than three years with a pilot project that's still barely functional while many states — including Massachusetts — are putting up projects as fast as they can.

The legal framework for putting the plan into action does not yet exist - no such mechanism was included in the Kyoto Protocol, but Ecuador is hoping to have its plan recognized as a pilot project in climate talks later this year in Copenhagen.

It was initially going to be a smaller installation that would act as a pilot project to prove the feasibility of offshore wind power in the area, but over the years the project involved into what it is today.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice pointed to five pilot projects, announced last year, at a cost of $ 6 million over three years, as part of the province's legal aid efforts.

«That's why we've pitched it as pilot projects — because it can begin immediately, perhaps on a two - or three - year basis, and then evaluated at the end and expanded on the basis of what we learn from the pilot.»

The Civil Division began as a three - year pilot project in the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto.

His first judicial appointment was to the Toronto Small Claims Court in 1978, two years before the Civil Division was created as a pilot project.

When PLAP was first implemented as a three - year pilot project, LSUC believed it would encourage practitioners to join small firms or set up sole practices where they might otherwise be discouraged to do so because of the financial implications of taking parental leaves.

As part of its Professional Development Program, the San Francisco office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon recently initiated a novel year - long group mentoring pilot project in which five partners act as mentors to 5 first - to sixth - year associateAs part of its Professional Development Program, the San Francisco office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon recently initiated a novel year - long group mentoring pilot project in which five partners act as mentors to 5 first - to sixth - year associateas mentors to 5 first - to sixth - year associates.

CourtCanada's electronic booking system, OSCAR (Online System for Court Attendance Reservations) was implemented in the Estates Court as a pilot project and expanded to the Commercial Court, where it ran alongside FRANK, the government electronic booking system in place for a number of years.

This will take the form of both short - term support starting in 2017 - 18, as well as pilot projects that will be developed and implemented in partnership with provinces over the next two years.

The committee's report also says: «Lawyer licensees are also supporting the cost of the LPP by contributing $ 1 million annually as part of their licensing fees» — but then it goes on to add, «although this amount has been allocated in years preceding the pilot project for other licensing - related matters.»

Last Year, in August, the facility to open an online account was launched as a pilot project, but it faced obstacles as some restrictions were put on opening an account online by the Supreme Court of India.

The current dispute, first reported by Gizmodo, is focused on Project Maven, which began last year as a pilot program to find ways to speed up the military application of the latest A.I. technology.

Codenamed Project Ara, the initiative was initially set to launch as a pilot in Puerto Rico later this year, but it was late last week and early into this week that we learned that Google had delayed the pilot into 2016 and moved it to the United States.

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The pilot project aimed to reach people aged 50 years and over in metropolitan and regional areas of South Australia, utilising older volunteers as peer educators.

This article draws on a research project which employed a sequential mixed - method approach with a sample of fifteen year olds (n = 95) as a pilot study to guide the development of a large scale qualitative study investigating youth substance use patterns, processes, settings and drug transitions within the south east region of Ireland (Van Hout 2009a - d; 2010).