Sentences with phrase «study committee gave»

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Facebook will give a committee of senior academics independent access to its data, allowing researchers to study the social network's effect on democracy and elections.

In the field of education it established a religious research committee to translate the Qur» an and print religious books and pamphlets, and it established schools in the northwest and gave scholarships which enabled outstanding Muslim students to study in the universities of Turkey and Egypt.

When the study began, the Surgeon General «s office was pressured into giving the three commercial networks veto power of approval over all 12 members of the committee, a prerogative which CBS declined, but which both NBC and ABC used to veto seven prospective members.

In total, 7893 parents gave informed consent for participation of their infants in the postnatal phase of the study.33 The medical ethics committee of the Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, Netherlands) approved the study.

Human investigation committees of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center approved the study, and mothers of all participating children gave written informed consent.

All study participants gave written informed consent and the study was approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (approval number CF12 / 0348 -2012000146), and the trial registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry (registration number 12611000468921).

Although Van Hollen has maintained a studied neutrality in the presidential race as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, it was clear during the interview that he has given considerable thought to what effect having Obama at the top of the ticket would have on the battle for Congress.

83 % of «experts» giving evidence before UK Select Committees are men according to @LSE study — http://t.co/mTSMtUEzYk #everydaysexism #women

As a case study, I examined the evidence the Chancellor gave to the Treasury Select Committee, of which I am a member, following the 2007 Budget.

On Wednesday 29 November 2017, PRIME's director, Ann Pettifor, gave evidence at the Committee's invitation to the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee, together with Professor Jagjit Chadha, Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research and Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies.

The National Institutes of Health had agreed to fund the study, which involved creating an animal model of anthrax infection in baboons, and the university's animal use and care committee had given it the green light.

«These findings will give women with early stage breast cancer greater certainty that anti-estrogen therapy will decrease their risk of recurrence and increase their chance for survival whereas chemotherapy will not,» said breast cancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates Committee.

Meanwhile, a researcher involved in the Dutch study has obtained some new results with H5N1 bird flu that give the committee's rhetoric added urgency.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX), head of the House science committee, subpoenaed data related to key air pollution studies.

Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry - funded studies, and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development,» the article concludes.

All subjects gave written informed consent, and the local ethics committees of Funen and Vejle County approved the study.

All EPIC study participants gave written informed consent, and the study was approved by the national ethics committees and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Economist Luke Sibieta, programme director for education at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also gave evidence to the education select committee and said it would take «a matter of minutes» to make the pupil premium part of the national funding formula, adding he didn't see much value in having «one factor with different values in different formulas».

That legislation, also sponsored by Bailey and Sexton, placed a moratorium on wind turbines until July 1, 2018, to give a joint legislative study committee time to report their findings.

So we might think of the result of this study as analogous to an instant Delphi test for the participants: They can more easily sniff out the «sense of the committee» on the topic of climate change than they can give a coherent opinion and rationale of their own.

The EFSA committee gathered the best existing studies of DDAC, and plugged these into models intended to give a safety factor of 100 for the most vulnerable populations to determine the 0.5 mg / kg limit.

2 For an extensive list of studies demonstrating the competence of juries, see, e.g., Testimony of Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson, II Professor of Law, Duke Law School before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, «Hearing on Medical Liability: New Ideas for Making the System Work Better for Patients,» June 22, 2006 at 10 («The overwhelming number of the judges gave the civil jury high marks for competence, diligence, and seriousness, even in complex cases... Systematic studies of jury responses to experts lead to the conclusion that jurors do not automatically defer to experts and that jurors have a basic understanding of the evidence in malpractice and other cases.

Born 1950; lawyer (1974 - 80); law degree from the University of Athens (1973); diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in labour law from the University of Paris II, Panthéon - Sorbonne (1977); national expert with the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities (1988 - 1990), then Principal Administrator in Directorate General V (Employment, Industrial Relations, Social Affairs)(1990 - 1994); Junior Officer, Junior Member and, since 1999, Member of the Greek Council of State; Associate Member of the Superior Special Court of Greece; Member of the Central Legislative Drafting Committee of Greece (1996 - 98); Director of the Legal Service in the General Secretariat of the Greek Government (1996 - 1998); Judge at the General Court of the European Union (1998 to 2010, President of Chamber from 2004 to 2010); Member of the Supreme Council for Administrative Justice (2011 - 2012); Member of the Special Court for Disputes relating to the Remuneration of Judges and of the Special Court for Actions against Judges (2013 - 2014); Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (2014 - 2015); Member of the Committee responsible for giving an Opinion on Candidates» Suitability to perform the Duties of Judge at the European Union Civil Service Tribunal (2012 - 2015); Lecturer in European Law at the National School for the Judiciary (1995 - 1996 and 2012 - 2015); Judge at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2015.

At a legislative committee hearing held today on our parenting coordinator bill (attended by three AFCC - trained and practicing PC's, two of whom, including me, gave testimony), we were told that the committee would need copies of studies regarding the effectiveness of parenting coordination, or at the very least strong, credible anecdotal material.»

[42] The selection of case studies is gives an impression that the Committee has not taken sufficient account of an Indigenous perspective relevant to its work

The ethics committee of Northern Ostrobotnia Hospital District approved the study, and both parents and adolescents gave written informed consent.

The University of Georgia is planning to buy a 169 - acre tropical forest in Costa Rica and a 13th - century convent in Cortona, Italy, for permanent study - abroad programs.A committee of the state Board of Regents voted unanimously in early May to give the school permission to proceed with the acquisition of both properties.