More than 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides were used in the U.S. in 2001, according to the latest Environmental Protection
Agency data available.
Not exact matches
Allyson Hugley, president of Measurement & Analytics for Weber Shandwick, notes that the
data from the study could add another layer to the modes of evaluation that are already
available to advertising and marketing
agencies, building on traditional surveys and more recent technology such as beacons and RFID chips that are used during live events.
The
agency's trove of satellite
data and analysis is the largest in the world and, critically,
available freely on the internet for any scientist or interested person to access.
The official ones, as well as other underlying
data used to compute MFP, «are
available and have been used by outside researchers at Statistics Canada,» the
agency wrote in a email.
Secondary
data are statistics and other information that are already
available from such sources as government
agencies and universities.
Public source
data includes publicly
available information (e.g., public social media postings,
data maintained by government
agencies made
available to the public or commercial entities for post forwarding).
The results of such inquiries could be made
available not only to churches and their
agencies but also to other relevant publics for whom such
data would be useful.
o Ensure coordination and access to
available data cross border documentation systems administered across other
agencies including the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)'s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) phytosanitary certificates.
This is how it works: • The Children's Centre manager identifies relevant
agencies already dealing with vulnerable families — for example schools, health visitors or a local homeless families unit • A simple form summarising the facilities and activities
available at the Centre, and asking for a parent's contact details and a signature, is created • The manager / staff at the other
agency agree, as part of their usual
data recording protocols, to ask relevant service users to fill in the form.
Cuomo's «Open NY» proposals included making government information
available on one central website and trying to establish a network and augment sites for each state
agency and authority under the governor's control with uniform downloadable catalogs of
agency data and search engines.
Under the order,
agencies will be required to use a new centralized FOIL system, proactively publish whole categories (
data sets, presumably of frequently - requested records) online, and make their
data available in open formats.
The new fellows follow an initial group of 18 chosen last year who came up with ways to digitize disaster recovery efforts, make more government
data available to the public for free, and eliminate duplication while speeding up the adoption of new technology by government
agencies, Obama told a White House event attended by most of his Cabinet.
Since the signing of Local Law 11 last March, DoITT has worked with
agencies citywide to add more than 350 new
data sets to the public inventory
available on NYC OpenData, as well as securing regular feeds for updates to existing
data sets.
Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on
available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state
agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.
Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente announced today that they are now operating a census and
data related blog in order to make information more readily
available to the public, private
agencies, businesses and policy makers.
In New York City,
agencies are bound by Local Law 11 — signed in 2012 by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg — which mandates that most digital
data managed by the city be made
available to the public through a single web portal.
Capital New York looked at the implementation of FOIL platforms in other cities, how it could help
agencies prioritize what
data to make
available online and how it would impact the work of local journalists.
«It is in the best interest of New York City that its
agencies and departments make their
data available online using open standards.
Because final program - by - program allocations of R&D funding are not
available until several months after appropriations actions, AAAS estimates of R&D are based on
agency data, historical trends for R&D within appropriations, appropriations bill language, committee report language, and other supplementary
data, and should be considered estimates at all times.
Leading scientific organizations are calling on President Donald Trump and his administration to ensure that an ongoing review of the role of scientific advisory boards is transparent and upholds the integrity of the boards» science - driven information, and that accurate federal scientific
data and information is maintained and made easily
available on federal
agency websites.
If these giant moons around giant planets exist, they might already be present in the
available data of NASA's Kepler space telescope, or they could be detectable with the European Space
Agency's upcoming PLATO space mission and European Southern Observatory's ground - based European Extremely Large Telescope.
To get the biggest picture now
available, Paolo and his colleagues stitched together satellite radar altimetry
data from three consecutive and overlapping missions: the European Space
Agency's (ESA's) ERS - 1 and ERS - 2 (which flew from 1991 to 2000 and 1995 to 2011, respectively), and ESA's ENVISAT mission, which collected
data from 2002 to 2012.
The
data available on this website can also be configured to help job seekers find the most appropriate
agency based on select criteria.
The Secret Science Reform Act would also require the EPA use only studies for which
data is publicly
available online — or the
agency makes publicly
available — in the name of transparency.
Using the publicly
available data from the Federal Emergency Management
Agency and private insurance companies on how much money was spent on storm recovery, the scientists were able to show the volume of tweets about Sandy in New Jersey and New York was associated with how much money people in the area received for damages.
The three main national compilers judge universities on the basis of different criteria, using publicly
available data collected in surveys and assessments by organisations including the Higher Education Statistics
Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Governments,
agencies and many in the public have complained about the paucity of
data being made
available by the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power, the company that owns and operates the facility.
«Several U.S. government
agencies have big
data initiatives, and efforts to make
data collected by such
agencies openly
available are already underway.»
The bills, introduced by a mostly Republican cast of sponsors in both the House and the Senate, would require that EPA use only publicly
available, reproducible
data in writing regulations and seek to remake the membership and procedures of the
agency's science advisory panels.
The
agency responded, «While the EPA recognizes there are reasons to believe that this strain might be less sensitive, the
data currently
available appear to show that it is no worse (or better) than other strains for screening for endocrine activity.»
A management directive order, called MD - 715, has been issued from the EEOC to all federal
agencies, asking them to make their
data available and to look for situations that could trigger this particular glass ceiling effect.
At the conference, Åke Wennmalm of the consulting
agency Sustainpharma in Stockholm presented part of a new, expanded classification system that analyzes the environmental impacts of a drug — where
data are
available — as it travels through manufacturing, disposal, and human waste.
How much population and development growth there will be is uncertain, so Georgescu and his team set a floor and a ceiling for urbanization projections up to the year 2050 based on
available data from the Maricopa Association of Governments, the regional
agency in charge of long - term planning.
Growing numbers of researchers are making the
data and software underlying their publications freely
available online, largely in response to
data sharing policies at journals and funding
agencies.
As well as the graphics and
data available from the United Nations, contact your local Geography Teachers» Association and check out the teaching sections on aid
agency websites such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross, Caritas or Care's Global Poverty Teacher's Toolkit.
I obtained
data on school demographics, high school graduation rates, and college entrance examinations from the publicly
available Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) on the Texas Education
Agency web site.
Source: Authors» calculations using publicly
available data from the Higher Education Statistical
Agency (HESA).
While state education
agency specialists had made tools
available for trend analysis in one of the states we sampled, the shift toward assembling and making trend
data available to district and school personnel has been largely a district - level initiative.
The USDA Food Research Atlas mobilizes
data available through the Census Bureau, but this
agency itself also has its own interactive mapping application that allows users to explore census
data in an online map.
TVAAS value - added
data was publicly
available for years but rankings were stoutly resisted by the state education
agency and public education leadership throughout Tennessee.
We believe that government education
agencies have an obligation to make
data on school quality
available to parents and the public.
The resolution highlighted commonly requested information and
data that charter public schools share with parents through their charter petitions, School Accountability Report Cards, Local Education
Agency Plans, Local Control Accountability Plans, Annual Audits, and other publicly
available documents.
According to the Texas Education
Agency's 2015 - 16 Snapshot (the most recent
data available), the average base salary for Texas teachers is $ 51,891, so this teacher salary increase requirement likely would not have affected many districts.
State
agencies can also provide structure by identifying
data likely
available at the SEA and / or LEA to illuminate areas of need.
BTS now uses a dynamic NTAD publication cycle, making updated
data available throughout the year when they become
available from their respective government
agencies.
The policy requires
agencies to seek appropriate
data rights to custom - developed code and to make their custom - developed code broadly
available across the federal government, wherever possible.
In the Third Open Government National Action Plan for the United States of America, the Department of Transportation committed to coordinating across the public and private sector; connecting
agencies, industry, and innovators to gain consensus on an open standard for publicly
available address information and pursuing open
data strategies for sharing certain address information while protecting personal privacy.
AutoCheck receives its accident
data from government sources and independent
agencies, and based on the information
available to us, we have found that no accidents have been reported on this vehicle.
It's not clear what's going on here, or who is holding what
data for how long, or how
available this
data is to various government
agencies, but we seem to be increasingly in a world where, if
data can be collected, it will be collected.
Rating
agencies should ignore the issuers, and work off of publicly
available data, lest they be subverted by the issuers, as has happened.