Biosphere reserves are areas that are supposed to develop innovative approaches, test them and share the results ; more importantly to combine many different approaches in a vast diversity of policy and management fields, towards a balanced relationship between mankind and nature.

Platinum Hit is a reality competition series on Bravo launched in 2011, in which 12 singer-songwriters compete through innovative songwriting challenges that test their creativity, patience and drive.

More recently, a team of researchers led by Professor Richard Hayes at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, have been awarded $ 37 million to test an innovative combination of strategies to prevent HIV in African countries.

This innovative product was used in a large-scale field test of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk.

* Administering federal funds for the development of innovative election technology, including pilot programs to test election technology

His first chance to test his innovative methods against the U-boat menace came in December when his group escorted Convoy HG 76 ( 32 ships ).

The Wechsler-Bellevue tests were innovative in the 1930s because they gathered tasks created for nonclinical purposes for administration as a " clinical test battery ".

In 1929 Wegener embarked on his third trip to Greenland, which laid the groundwork for a later main expedition and included a test of an innovative, propeller-driven snowmobile.

In co-operation with the industry and international research teams, R & D efforts are made to develop and test innovative reactor technologies and instrumentation.

NESTA's Public Services Lab aims to test out radical theories and produce practical programmes to demonstrate how innovative schemes can improve public services and benefit local communities.

In its first year, 18 teams of enthusiastic civil engineering students from the nation ’ s premier academic programs gathered in East Lansing, Mich., to test the waters of this innovative and educational event.

The 10, 000 Solutions Project aims to see what can be accomplished when passionate people join a collaborative community that builds upon each other ’ s innovative ideas.

He was an obsessive collector of stories, and developed an innovative method of recording what he heard at the feet of local story-tellers using carvings on twigs, to avoid the disapproval of those who believed that such stories were neither for writing down nor for printing.

Some point to New York's seven-floor Equitable Life Assurance Building, built in 1870, as an early skyscraper for its innovative use of a kind of skeletal frame, but such designation depends largely on what factors are chosen.

The British troops went to war with what would prove to be antiquated tactics, and in some cases antiquated weapons, against the mobile Boer forces with the destructive fire of their modern Mausers, the latest Krupp field guns, and their innovative tactics.

Eventually, through patient mapping and innovative use of index fossil analysis, Lapworth showed that what was thought to be a thick sequence of Silurian rocks was in fact a much thinner series of rocks repeated by faulting and folding.

* The Ernie Kovacs Show, the first truly innovative show in what was then visual radio, not television

This reconstruction in part identically reproduced what had been lost, such as Royale and its arcades, but also used innovative prefabrication techniques, such as îlot 4 under the direction of the architect Pol Abraham.

His vivid, captivating descriptions of nature in the sparsely settled American Deep South were written in a style that was very innovative for the time and spearheaded what would later become the Romantic movement in France.

Like William Langland, who may have written the C-Text version of Piers Plowman to disassociate himself from the Rising, they look for the reform of the English church and society by the removal of abuses in what the authors ' deem a restorative rather than an innovative project.

While folk practices like hoodoo are trans-cultural phenomena, what is particularly innovative in this tradition is the " remarkably efficacious use of biblical figures " in its practices and in the lives of its practitioners.

Redundant forms, however, are especially common in business, political and even academic language that is intended to sound impressive ( or to be vague so as to make it hard to determine what is actually being promised, or otherwise misleading ), For example: " This quarter, we are presently focusing with determination on an all-new, innovative integrated methodology and framework for rapid expansion of customer-oriented external programs designed and developed to bring the company's consumer-first paradigm into the marketplace as quickly as possible.

The film begins with what a BBC reviewer called " perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences.

With the assistance of Nichol and Barbara Godard, he was also expanding the pages and range of Open Letter to give attention to Québécois poets, women writers, and poststructuralist poetics, developing it into what Gregory Betts in The Canadian Encyclopedia would call ' Canada's most important forum for discussion and examination of innovative and experimental ideas and texts.

Venture capitalists are typically very selective in deciding what to invest in ; as a rule of thumb, a fund may invest in one in four hundred opportunities presented to it, looking for the extremely rare, yet sought after, qualities, such as innovative technology, potential for rapid growth, a well-developed business model, and an impressive management team.

This helps to accumulate information and the flow of new and innovative ideas among firms for the achievement of what economists call increasing returns to scale.

It contains a summary of what was even then a reformed and innovative system

In addition to rebuilding the entrances and fences surrounding Bill Buxton stadium, the school invested in what has been dubbed the most innovative artificial turf system in the world, FieldTurf Revolution, for the fall of 2011 school year.

But behind the self-publicizing avant-garde antics, Ramón developed not only an extravagant public persona ( megalomaniac some would say ), but also his own equivalent of what Shattuck defines as a ‘ reversal of consciousness ’, deliberately divesting himself of conventional ways of thinking and being in order to adopt a peculiarly innovative, almost phenomenological, way of looking at the world, one which influenced the younger 1927 Generation of poets ( as Luis Cernuda has explained ) and in Ramón ’ s case produced some of the most original and brilliantly creative prose writing of the period.

It will challenge us to do more of what we do best: create the most innovative information and entertainment content anywhere in the world.

In 2001 DCU adopted what was described as a highly innovative strategic plan, ' Leading Change '.

This adjustment is the innovative part of Leonardo's drawing and what distinguishes it from earlier illustrations.

But Manne appreciated the musical freedom that Kenton gave him and saw it as an opportunity to experiment along with what was still a highly innovative band.

Therefore, what News Probe can do is to provide innovative reporting methods so as to raise audiences ' interests.

DeJohnette himself, along with others, saw the sessions that brought about this album as unstructured and done in fragments but as innovative nonetheless: “ As the music was being played, as it was developing, Miles would get new ideas ... He ’ d do a take, and stop, and then get an idea from what had just gone on before, and elaborate on it ... The recording of Bitches Brew was a stream of creative musical energy.

The Lusitanii, a pre-Celtic people dominating the lands northwest of Iberia, successfully held off the Roman Empire for many years with a variety of innovative tactics and light weapons, including iron-bladed short spears and daggers modeled after Iberian patterns.

Research by Deirdre Barrett reports that people differ radically in the vividness, as well as frequency of fantasy, and that those who have the most elaborately developed fantasy life are often the people who make productive use of their imaginations in art, literature, or by being especially creative and innovative in more traditional professions.

" America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants [...] They have proved to be the most restless, the most adventurous, the most innovative, the most industrious of people.

U2 frontman Bono holds Orbison as a standard in musical creativity, commenting in 1999, " The thing people don't talk about enough as far as I'm concerned is how innovative this music was, how radical in terms of its songwriting.

Even if they could not enter some of the more well-fortified cities, they used innovative battle tactics to grab hold of the land and the people:

Another meaning of invention is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviors adopted by people and passed on to others.

According to Dimitris Koutoulas, who is heading the project in Greece, rather than reproducing the original Colossus, the new structure will be a, " highly, highly innovative light sculpture, one that will stand between 60 and 100 metres tall so that people can physically enter it.

The town was experimenting with an innovative model for local government which combined the traditional representative institutions with the participation of open assemblies of the people.

Avant-garde (); from French, " advance guard " or " vanguard ") is a French term used in English as a noun or adjective to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

The Corps ' vision is having a great engineering force of highly disciplined people working with partners through disciplined thought and action to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions to the nation's engineering challenges.

* Improving Access to Financial Services: goal is to " improve access to and the infrastructure for innovative financial products and services for low-income people ".

This innovative approach to bringing young people to museums was a hallmark of the Directorship of Roy Strong and was subsequently emulated by some other British museums.

One innovative feature that has never been abrogated even during the days since 9 / 11, is that people entering the Park from either side may have the unique experience of strolling to the opposite park's boundary amid flowers, ponds, and works of art, without having to go through Immigration, thus truly making the Park a place of bi-national mingling.

The Brazilians have an innovative and well-developed program of small, shallow-draft hospital ships that can provide medical care to the people in the interior of the vast Amazon region.

The Educational Technologies Program ( ETP ) focuses on ways to use innovative technologies to improve how people teach and learn.

More than an innovative clock, " Lightime " has become a new symbol the same way Eiffel Tower reminds people of Paris.

For the first time in four hundred years of world Passion Play history, the people in Negombo, ( Sri Lanka ) mostly Catholics witnessed an entirely innovative change concerning the Biblical Content and the Form of the Passion play tradition with the successful dramatic presentation of a Passion play performance in Ballet style titled “ Tharakayano ” on 29th Sunday April at Kadolkele grounds Negombo.

Their creative and open discussions inspire social change, innovative thinking and multidisciplinary experimentation, while expressing the beauty of the people and the land of Israel.

The industrialist needed to bring people together in new and innovative ways and redefine work roles and workplace organization.

The Smart 100 identified, with the help of respected judges in each field, the smartest, most innovative and most creative people working in the areas of business, ICT, science, art, sport, society, education, health, environment and agriculture.

Kauffman wanted his foundation to be innovative — to fundamentally change people ’ s lives.

Although innovative, with stepped compartments, where the bottoms of the upper seats are above the heads of the people on the lower level, but the feet of the people above are not, see, the loading gauge severely restricted their use and they were removed from service in 1971.