In a parallel initiative, Gates and two dozen other billionaires have committed to spend $2bn on energy research.
In a parallel initiative, he said, Mr. Obama should demand that Mr. Assad stop his barrel-bomb attacks and, if Mr. Assad does not, order the American military to knock out his air force or airfields.
A trio of social entrepreneurs has created a certification system called B Corp. — think of LEED certification for green buildings — and last week started a parallel initiative aimed at investors.
The US and 18 other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research to a total of $20bn over five years, boosting a parallel initiative by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and increasing the prospects for successful agreement at the Paris climate negotiations that start on Monday.
The plan called for partnering with "selected publishers that would offer up the choicest stories they were working on". Now that Facebook is known to be at work on a parallel initiative, however, it could change the dynamic for publishers, who may find playing one against the other gives them leverage they lacked until now.
To secure the "further development of basic and fundamental scientific knowledge" (Ouborg et al. [2009], 3), the latter started a parallel initiative, in cooperation with external research groups: the Platform Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (PEEG), sometimes referred to as the National Program Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (NP-EEG).
So far, the Obama administration's anti-IS strategy has consisted of a massive aerial bombing campaign and a parallel initiative to train friendly rebels in nearby Jordan and Turkey.
Similar observations in schizophrenia [ 9] prompted the National Institutes of Health initiative for Measurement and Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia [ 10], and a parallel initiative for bipolar disorder may be in order.
In a parallel initiative the South African primary health care system (PHC) is undergoing a process of revitalization in which the currently fragmented community-based 'outreach' functions are being prioritised for greater development, through integration with and management by the health department [ 10].
A parallel initiative, Think Ahead, is being launched to recruit high-fliers into adult mental health.
And all of the nonengineers are also asked to come up with ideas for what features they want to see on Spreecast, or it could even be on some parallel initiative.
