Sentences with phrase «studies department of»

Even before the new tax incentives, Argentina was on track to produce 1.5 million metric tons of soy - based biodiesel in 2008, according to Lorena D'Angelo, of the economic studies department of the Rosario Grain Exchange.

Sara served as Visiting Faculty in the Ethnic Studies Department of Brown University, and entered a graduate program at Brown's Center for Environmental Studies in 2009.

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Given her skillful technique, it shouldn't surprise you to learn he has a BA in Textiles from Goldsmiths University and an MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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The campaign, which is an initiative of the Environment and Resource Studies Department of the University, is to among other things, sensitize farmers and the entire residents of the Upper West...

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Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

And Ross, who had gone quiet on NAFTA after it looked for a while like he would be running the show, re-emerged last week to promote a new Commerce department study that he said proves American auto workers are the victims of a flawed arrangement that favours Canada and Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Energy has begged for new authority to defend against weaknesses in the grid in a nearly 500 - page comprehensive study issued in January 2017 warning that it's only a matter of time before the grid fails, due to disaster or attack.

In the asthma study, we found increased odds among asthma patients of asthma hospitalizations, emergency department visits and a medication used for mild asthma attacks with higher unconventional natural gas development activity, compared to those with lower activity.

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

Defense Department spokeswoman Heather Babb told The Washington Post the study «provided a better understanding of how atoll islands may be affected by a changing climate.»

«While no decisions have been made about Department of Defense activities on the islands based on the study, DOD continues to focus on ensuring its installations and infrastructure are resilient to a wide range of threats.

«Social robots, if they're engaged in a public sense — even in a limited public sense — the design has to include considerations for social interactions,» said David Harris Smith, associate professor at McMaster University's Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia in Canada.

They begin with an immediate overhaul of NAFTA, with his ordering the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission to form a study on the ramifications of withdrawal from the treaty and what would be required through legislation to do so.

VICE News made numerous email and telephone queries over the past month to spokespeople for the Army, the Navy, and the Department of Defense seeking comment on the Army Institute of Public Health study and the treatment of troops before and after their deployment to Guantanamo.

A previous report released in 2012 revealed a long history at UNC of classes in the Department of Afro and African - American Studies that never met, as well as a culture of changing and improving grades.

Wainstein reportedly had an unprecedented level of access to material related to the UNC scandal, as well as the cooperation of former African studies chairman Julius Nyang «oro and department administrator Deborah Crowder.

Glaude is the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of Democracy in Black.

After he left the Army in 2008 and later finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he worked as a web communications specialist at the VA, helping to formulate the department's messaging at a time when the medical backlog issue was first becoming widely known.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

And he points to a study conducted by the Department of Kinesiology, University of Alabama.

A recent study of 720 companies around the world found that HR departments struggle to demonstrate their contributions to the corporate bottom line.

One of the largest referrers to these fake courses, which were run by the African and Afro - American studies department, was UNC's fraternity system.

Those are the findings of a new Milecards.com study, which crunched five years of on - time arrival, gate - to - takeoff times and landing - to-gate time data reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

While all this sounds reassuring, the State Department also writes elsewhere in the report that «a focused, peer - reviewed study of the potential corrosivity / erosivity of oil - sands derived crude oils relative to other crude oils has not yet been conducted.»

According to the CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization study, only one in two companies surveyed said their sales and marketing departments had a formal definition of a qualified lead.

The scientific agency, which is part of the Commerce Department, studies changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts.

A recent study conducted by the Department of Behavioral Science at Utah Valley University found that Facebook makes us view our lives negatively.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

Tuttle cited a 2009 U.S. Department of Justice - funded study that concluded that more than 99 percent of 1,201 field uses of Taser weapons resulted in no significant injuries.

Jacobs: Former police commissioner Charles Ramsey implemented a lot of reforms towards police - involved shootings in the department after the Department of Justice released that study a few department after the Department of Justice released that study a few Department of Justice released that study a few years ago.

The funding for the study is a $ 600,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has spent over $ 23 million on tools like predictive crime mapping since 2003.

Americans, on average, consume twice as much added sugar as is recommended, according to Marion Nestle, PhD., professor in the department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University who posted a comment on the nutrition label proposals.

Google engineers studied balloon science from NASA, the Defence Department and the Jet Propulsion Lab to design their own airships made of plastic films similar to grocery bags.

Of course, like all economic impact studies (they're a dime a dozen, cranked out regularly on behalf of companies and industries trying to puff up their importance) the Facebook report is so chock full of assumptions and «multiplier» effects as to be completely useless — except, that is, for the respective company's marketing departmenOf course, like all economic impact studies (they're a dime a dozen, cranked out regularly on behalf of companies and industries trying to puff up their importance) the Facebook report is so chock full of assumptions and «multiplier» effects as to be completely useless — except, that is, for the respective company's marketing departmenof companies and industries trying to puff up their importance) the Facebook report is so chock full of assumptions and «multiplier» effects as to be completely useless — except, that is, for the respective company's marketing departmenof assumptions and «multiplier» effects as to be completely useless — except, that is, for the respective company's marketing department.

A recent study led by Professor Andrew Oswald, Dr. Eugenio Proto, and Dr. Daniel Sgroi from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick investigated the link between happiness and productivity.

«There have been transitions before where the department headed off in new directions, but there is traditionally a period of new people coming in and studying and learning about issues before taking bold and dramatic new policy directions,» said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department.

A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

A 2003 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense and published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine backs this up.

A recent study run by the Department of Education generated new data pertaining to student loan debt.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

Although the impact of deregulation can be difficult to quantify, one study by Bloomberg Intelligence suggests that the Treasury Department's plan to ease regulation could free up a combined $ 124 billion of capital to return to shareholders.1

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

There is precedent for killing the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule based on its lack of adequate studies.

Since 1994, he has taught in the Department of Urban and Labor Studies at Queens College and has also taught at City College, Rutgers University, and the New York City campus of Cornell University.

A study conducted by the Department of Finance examining fiscal rules in several jurisdictions concluded that fiscal rules (i.e., BBL) were largely ineffective if there wasn't the political will, and unnecessary if there was.

The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in its financial reporting system».

Only recently did the Department of Finance release a study on the long - term sustainability of federal government finances — a study that had been promised in 2007.