Sentences with phrase «study committee who»

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«It depends what district you're coming from, I guess,» said Rep. Mark Walker, who chairs the influential Republican Study Committee.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

The ENDEAVOUR Phase 3 study data monitoring committee recommended dosing be suspended after it found «an imbalance of mortality» in patients who used revusiran as compared to placebo.

One of the most fortunate events in my life was to study under four brilliant economists at Stanford, who also formed my dissertation committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations» macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations» macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The study committee's chairman at the time was Mike Pence, who represented an Indiana House district and is now vice president.

The committee's report is the product of extensive study and cross-Canada consultations with the people who have the most to lose under the proposed changes.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

These media issues were discussed by the National Council of Churches study committee with a number of the media creators in Los Angeles, people who spend most of their time bringing into being the world of television.

Later there was considerable disagreement within the Commission as to the exact wording of certain key passages in the report, and a number of professors who had conducted the basic studies publicly complained that the committee «s final report understated the cause - and - effect relationships they had found between media violence and aggressive behavior.

The study committee concluded that violence in the media does lead to aggressive behavior by children, teenagers, and adults who watch the programs.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

Having served as a consultant both for the American Academy of Pediatrics subcommittee on breastfeeding, and as an ad hoc consultant for the Infant Sleep Position and SIDS AAP committee in 2004 - 2005 which was studying the bedsharing issue and eventually recommended against bedsharing altogether, I was at one point very hopeful if not confident that a compromise would be forthcoming i.e. that the AAP sub-committee would support and educate breastfeeding mothers who chose to bedshare.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who as the Health Committee chair in 2016 initiated the study, released a statement saying, «I don't know what the holdup is.

Citizens Budget Commission Director of State Studies David Friedfel shared how he prepares for the release of the budget, reminisced about his time with the Assembly Ways & Means Committee and offered advice to ordinary New Yorkers who want to understand the governor's proposal.

Terry Lierman, a former Maryland Democratic Party chairman who has been helping O'Malley raise money for a political action committee, said the governor is smart to be spending this year studying foreign and domestic policy and building a network of supporters.

Times / Review Executive Editor Grant Parpan, who moderated the one - hour debate, asked the candidates if the district's legislator should be a member of the Shelter Island Ferry Study Group, a committee Mr. Romaine opted out of.

In the days before university ethics committees became ascendant, studies sometimes included subjects who had more than a passing acquaintance with the researchers yet were still treated in a manner that seems a bit shocking today.

«The Chagossians who have seen this study are still laughing,» says George Wuethrich, vice president of the Swiss Committee in Favor of the Chagossians.

Both adverse outcomes need to be studied further, according to Legro, who led a team that hosted the Chinese collaborators at Penn State College of Medicine for five weeks as the group wrote the protocol for the multi-center trial and participated in regular steering committee meetings overseeing the trial.

«We had a lot of buy - in from stakeholders and we had an effective oversight committee,» said Sandercock, who studies grassland birds.

«By looking at the full diet rather than individual nutrients, these data provide a foundation for studying how components of the diet might interact to provide benefit and better inform women's health and lifestyle choices,» said Jackson, who is national chair of the Women's Health Initiative steering committee.

«The study reports asthma related emergency room visits are estimated to be 55 percent lower in people with asthma who use dose counting inhalers than in those who use inhalers without dose counters,» said allergist Allen Meadows, MD, ACAAI fellow and chair of the Public Education Committee.

People who show characteristics of autism are more at risk of attempting suicide, according to a Coventry University study whose results are being presented to a United States federal advisory committee tomorrow.

«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.

Pielke is a target of an investigation by «Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives... into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.»

They also prompted Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch an investigation last week into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.

Melissa Haeffner, a PSU environmental science professor and the study's principal investigator, said that residents who received communications from their local water bureaus or served on a city water system advisory board or committee had perspectives and concerns that were more aligned with those of political leaders and professional water managers.

A new study claims to offer mathematical backing for an anecdotal observation of historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who observed that decision making breaks down in committees of 20 or more people.

«There was equivalent and impressive positive remodeling of the left ventricle in both the CABG and CABG - plus - MV repair groups,» said study co-author John Puskas, MD, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel who serves on the Steering Committee of CTSN.

«The Moms Across America study flat out got it wrong,» said McGuire, who is an executive committee member for the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation and a national spokesperson for the American Society for Nutrition.

Kearney also said the external scientists who had participated in the investigation would be excluded from the committee formed to do the study.

The study's senior author Robert S. DiPaola, MD, who is the director of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and helped lead the design of the protocol a decade ago when he was the national chairman of the ECOG Genitourinary Committee, says the findings are significant.

The academies» committee, chaired by University of Texas in Austin President Emeritus Larry Faulkner, had the ear of an influential legislator, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), who requested the study.

The LOR Science Prize selection committee was very pleased to recognize the comprehensive nature of the studies led by a young scientist like Dr Ross, who is both very accomplished and also has had impact in the field of quantum and frustrated magnetism.

Impediments to conducting clinical trials include long bureaucratic delays, the tendency of ethical committees to be overcautious, overly restrictive confidentiality rules, unrealistic study designs, and a separation between those who look after patients and those who conduct clinical studies.

The committee members who opposed approval were unconvinced by the clinical data submitted by the drug's maker, Sarepta Therapeutics, because the evidence came from a single small study that many experts considered problematic.

In May, based on these and other studies, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recommended that the agency approve Truvada for men who have sex with men, people whose romantic partner is HIV - positive, and other high - risk groups.

The conference, sponsored by The Cultural Agents Initiative, the Provost Office at Harvard University, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Study, attracted 96 artists, educators, and researchers, who identified and exchanged best photography practices to promote children agencies and civic participation.

Birr Moje, who sits on the National Academy of Science / National Research Council's Committee on Learning — Adolescent and Adult Literacy, studies adolescents and teaching interns, and finding better ways to incorporate literacy teaching and learning across multiple...

I think of my dissertation and qualifying paper committee members, my doctoral writing group, my Harvard Ed Review colleagues and my cohort members, not to mention the master's students each year who bring a real intensity to their one year of studies, as shaping my experience and transforming my views of education in many ways.

«All doctoral candidates studying issues related to education — whether taking a lens that draws heavily on economics, sociology, or political science, for example — would benefit from training that focuses on conducting education research in partnership with districts and agencies,» said HGSE Professor Nonie Lesaux, who is a member of the PIER Governing Committee.

Knudson, who served as vice chairman of the Assembly Select Common Core Standards Committee, said the bill would require reviews of standards in regular and advanced math, English, science, social studies and the arts.

«People are kind of reluctant to hold a kid back,» said Arzie Galvez, a LAUSD district administrative coordinator who oversaw a committee of teachers and administrators convened in 2011 to study social promotion.

There are a lot of parents, teachers and public school advocates who will not fall for this hoax... a delay until 2 months after the election and a sub-committee of a committee to «study» common core.

The 17 - member committee responsible for the study, according to Education Week, is a «veritable who's who of national experts in education law, economics and sciences.»

For all who are interested in picking low valued stocks it is worth to read Benjamin Graham: Hearing to a U.S. Senate Committee for a Stock Market Study (1955).

Now I have a new committee member and a new chair who are unfamiliar with my study and they have their own ideas about it.

«I can tell you right now we would never allow our animals to be part of a study with an animal rights group,» said Broderick Christoff who represents the carriage industry on the committee.

Finally at our own suggestions, we provided several of the scientists who authored the Karl, et al study to brief committee staff personally, one on June 16, 2015, and the second on October 19, 2015.»

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