Sentences with phrase «public research group»

According to a study by the U.S. Interest Public Research Group, 70 percent of all credit reports contain errors and therefore, you need to utilize all promising ways that help improve your credit score.

«Hopefully this will be the tipping point at which New York's political leadership will gets its heads out of the sand,» said Blair Horner, of the New York Public Research Group.

Not exact matches

The new study will be led by outside researchers including the Dangerous Speech Project, a research group that studies how public speech could incite bad and even violent behavior.

Then the public's opinion and a panel of expert judges, including Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research Group, and Joe Baguley, chief cloud technologist EMEA, VMWare, will narrow down the field to a shortlist.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

If you're intrigued by the idea of working on applications that millions of people could potentially use, then you'll want to take a look at the growing group of software engineers who are researching, designing, evaluating, integrating and maintaining software applications, technical environments, operating systems (you can thank these guys for all those Apple iOS updates), embedded software, information warehouses and telecommunications software in both the private and public sectors.

A 2004 study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that one in four reports contains an error serious enough to deny you credit or employment.

The initiative is the brainchild of Next 15, a digital communications group that owns seventeen marketing businesses that span across various industries and services, from digital content to market research to public affairs.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

In a February report, Synergy Research Group noted, «Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining its dominant share of the burgeoning public cloud services market at over 40 percent, while the three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft, Google and IBM — are gaining ground but at the expense of smaller players in the market.»

Ridlington, along with Michelle Surka of U.S. PIRG, the public - interest research group, authored «Following the Money,» an annual report ranking state transparency websites.

«The more likely someone is to use Uber and Lyft, the more likely they are to take public transportation, and for our industry that is very heartening,» said Darnell Grisby, the group's director of policy development and research.

«If you're going to have free markets, they've got to be fair,» said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.

Leading research groups from the University of Toronto (which owns a 20 % stake in the West Tower), University Health Network (including Princess Margaret Cancer Centre), Ryerson University, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and Public Health research groups from the University of Toronto (which owns a 20 % stake in the West Tower), University Health Network (including Princess Margaret Cancer Centre), Ryerson University, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and Public Health Research and Public Health Ontario.

Engagement with stakeholders — including patent holders, research institutions, consumer advocates, public interest groups, and the general public — is also an important part of our work moving forward.

The C.D. Howe Institute's National Council brings together a distinguished group of Canadian business leaders, academics, former public officials, and other experts to provide strategic perspectives relevant to the Institute's overall research program.

Just under half (44 percent) of evangelicals told LifeWay Research recently that student groups at public schools should not be allowed to require their leaders to hold specific beliefs.

The report, released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, found that religious groups spend $ 390 million a year to influence U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

C. Provide research and information to citizen advocate groups on the process for obtaining «leave to participate» in governmental proceedings, public policy development and rule - making in the communications arena.

But Adam Sonfield, senior public policy associate at the Guttmacher Inst - itute, a reproductive health research group, says the language is unclear, and it would be foolish to exclude vasectomies.

Mars plans to quit industry - funded science group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), and says it will support research regardless of results after making its science policy public.

Different stakeholders, such as farmers, policy makers, students and teachers, research and development professionals, medical and health practitioners, and media and public information officers, including those from women's groups and the religious sectors were briefed about the project from July to September 2017.

Significant supporting research from both the USDA and public groups has demonstrated that school children significantly increase their consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables when given a variety of choices via a school salad bar.

Membership is open to the public and private sectors, research organizations, NGOs, and farmer groups.

We released the preliminary results of the market research on the target group through the Public Health Foundation of India on the issue of admissibility of plain packaging and the relation to packaging, brands and packaging color to run.

He headed to Chicago and worked for several nonprofit organizations, including the Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center, in the heart of gang territory.

«If you want to start selling supplements today, you don't have to register, you don't have to show your product to be effective,» says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a consumer advocacy organization.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

Significant supporting research from both the USDA and public groups has demonstrated that school children significantly increase their consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables when given a variety of choices via a school salad bar.

We eradicate stigma by increasing the availability and accessibility of mental health care worldwide by: treating patients, training professionals, including psychologists, therapists, OBGYNs, pediatricians, nurses, and midwives, providing public programs, including new parent groups, breastfeeding clinics, and adolescent services, funding research, providing curated content online, and advocating in public and private sectors.

Public Interest Research Group

1999 Dept. of Sociology, Abo Akademi University, the Finnish Network for Qualitative Health Research, the Finnish Doctoral Program in Public Health, and the group «Cultural Perspectives on Childbirth and Parenthood» of the Nordic Network of Folklore.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

1980s Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington, D.C. sends out warning signals that silicone breast implants cause cancer.

Several examples of the work of IBFAN groups were mentioned: the collaboration in Argentina of the Buenos Aires provincial breastfeeding program; in Albania the Group for the Protection and Promotion of Breastfeeding serves as a centre for child feeding expertise; in Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Mauritius, Pakistan and Uruguay the groups place particular emphasis on Code implementation, related marketing research and public information activities; national surveys in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Senegal to monitor International Code implementation show numerous violations even where national measures are adopted.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

He conducts two streams of interdisciplinary and multi-method research: the first uses quantitative and qualitative approaches from corpus linguistics to investigate British media portrayals of migrant groups, borders, and citizenship, while the second set of projects explores how data, evidence - based research, and «impact» are constructed, shaped, and visually communicated by civil society organisations in their public - facing work.

«All of these party committees do this,» said Blair Horner, the legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Via spreadsheet meister Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group, here's a look at the latest campaign finance top lines.

Numbers - crunching poobah Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group has compile another one of his patented spreadsheets on campaign finance filers up until this point.

This was all called to our attention this morning via Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who is an astute student of state political history.

But, but, but: The Post's in - house pollster, Scott Clement, flags a 2013 Pew Research Study, which found that people who prioritize gun rights over gun control are four or five times more likely to contribute money to advocacy groups, contact public officials, sign petitions and express their views on social media.

The New York Public Interest Research Group in a letter to the state Board of Elections identifies three different ways companies seek to circumvent the state's campaign limits through a network of limited liability companies.

In a new Demos report released today, I therefore describe a clear and realistic vision for a better WCA, based on a four - year research project that includes international comparisons, many focus groups with experts and the public, and a new survey.

«The legislature does two - thirds of their bills in the month of June alone,» said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«I think sometimes in Albany the people here forget whose money it is,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

State lawmakers raked in campaign cash from Albany - based fundraisers this year, with more to come, according to a compilation of the events by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The majority — the New York Public Interest Research Group, the League of Women Voters and Citizens Union — landed on the side of a limited «look back» period.