Sentences with phrase «action research groups»

Teachers at his school — through study groups, focus groups, or action research groups — collaboratively examine school priorities all year.

Ontario, Canada About Blog The Media Action Research Group (MARG) is a collective of grassroots activists, media makers, writers and academics who are studying the role of autonomous, transformative, alternative media locally and internationally.

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Last December, a report by a Bard College research group on drone incidents said that from December 2013 through September 2015, there were 28 incidents involving airplane pilots taking evasive action to avoid a drone while flying.

Since it was attacked on March 28 by the California - based Glaucus Research Group, Blue Sky has been slow to take actions that would restore market confidence in its $ 4 billion fee - earning assets number.

There is a necessary rhythm of formal study and «action research» that together comprise the training program of the core group and may hopefully spill over into the congregation in the form of conferences and forums.

An ecumenical group, Media Action Research Center (MARC), has set up programs in Television Awareness Training (TAT) to help people become more alert to the effects of that medium.

He's a former director of research for Live Action, a pro-life group that specializes in undercover abortion clinic videos.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Champions 12.3 is a coalition of executives from governments, businesses, international organizations, research institutions, farmer groups, and civil society dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action, and accelerating progress toward achieving SDG Target 12.3 by 2030.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

The Family Rights Group two year action - research project «Fathers Matter» which has been exploring the involvement of fathers in social care settings has now produced a number of exciting outputs, including two major reports, two conferences and a web - based discussion board for professionals, which includes examples of highly promising practice.

The district partners with a local non-profit, Research, Education, Action, and Policy (REAP) Food Group, for much of their nutrition education programming.

Statistics released Thursday by the coalition and the Food Research and Action Center, a Washington advocacy group, show that enrollment of Illinois children in the Summer Food Service Program declined from 106,102 to 84,529 from 2000 to 2001.

A growing number of cities, school districts and non-profit groups are offering meals over school breaks, said Crystal FitzSimmons, director of school programs for the Food Research & Action Center, another national group that works to fight hunger.

It has taken decades of campaigning by Baby Milk Action, editors and journalists, and other IBFAN groups, particularly Infact Canada (which questioned Prof. Chandra's research from the beginning), for action to be Action, editors and journalists, and other IBFAN groups, particularly Infact Canada (which questioned Prof. Chandra's research from the beginning), for action to be action to be taken.

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 gaction» 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 gAction 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.»

Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance rGroups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance rgroups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

The September 2015 letter is downloadable here and was signed by: Citizen Action, Citizens Budget Commission, Citizens Union, Good Jobs New York, League of Women Voters of NY State, New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany.

Horner: Time for Cuomo and Legislature to Take Real Action on Reform Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in a commentary piece for the WAMC Northeast Public Radio, demanded that Governor Cuomo and the legislature take real action on campaign finance rAction on Reform Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in a commentary piece for the WAMC Northeast Public Radio, demanded that Governor Cuomo and the legislature take real action on campaign finance raction on campaign finance reform.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

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In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

This action cuts back to the modern - day Westminster office, and swaps between this and enjoyable classroom antics as Sam attempts to do focus group - style research by teaching some pleasingly irreverent pupils in a school each week.

The New York Public Interest Research Group examined the board's rulings over the past five years and found that «they never take action on anything.»

4.10 pm Transport Subject: Disabled Access to Transport Witness (es): Sophie Christiansen OBE, Paralympian, British Equestrian Federation, Marije Davidson, Policy and Research Manager, Disability Rights UK and George Fielding, Panel Chair, Whizz Kidz; Niki Glazier, Co-ordinator, Mental Health Action Group, Lucy Hurst - Brown, Chief Executive, Brandon Trust, George McNamara, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Alzheimers Society and Srabani Sen, Chief Executive, Contact - a-Family; Paul Breckell, Chief Executive, Action on Hearing Loss, Peter Rayner, Vice-President, National Pensioners Convention, Tanvi Vyas, Campaigns Officer, Trailblazers and Richard Leaman, Chief Executive, Guide Dogs Location: The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Anti-gay activist groups The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), Family Research Council Action and CitizenLink are launching «an unprecedented campaign» against three Republican candidates because of their support for marriage equality and abo... Read

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports many of the measures opposed by Senate Republicans, said there are other reforms that can be achieved with a GOP Senate, and he said a corruption scandal involving Republicans in the state Senate stronghold of Long Island could spur them to action in the new session.

Mr Akuffo served as Director of Communication & Research for Mass Action for Development (MAFOD), a pressure group in the Eastern Region that promotes good governance and economic development.

The Vermont Public Interest Research Group is asking legislators and the Secretary of State to make key changes in Vermont's campaign finance law pertaining to the super-spending political action committees.

Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

The Brennan Center for Justice Citizen Action of New York Citizens Union Common Cause / NY League of Women Voters of New York State New York Public Interest Research Group

His biggest donor was the Rent Stabilization Association's PAC and Neighborhood Preservation Political Action Fund, which shelled out $ 82,000 for him, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which supports many of the measures opposed by Senate Republicans, says there are other reforms that can be achieved with a GOP Senate, and he says a corruption scandal involving Republicans in the State Senate stronghold of Long Island could spur them to action in the new session.

Mike Frick, senior project officer for the Treatment Action Group, which advocates for research to overcome HIV, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis, explained how the right to science has come to inform TAG's work on tuberculosis in particular.

«By using a serious video game, we saw increases in meal - specific vegetable intake at dinner for the children in the Action and Coping groups and fruit intake at breakfast, lunch, and snacks for all intervention groups,» said lead author Karen Cullen, DrPH, RD, USDA / ARS, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine.

In an article published in the scientific journal Science Advances, the research group shows the phenomenon in action in three specially built molecules, and proposes a model for how it works.

Taylor's research team, which included the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Treatment Action Group, Kirby Institute of Australia, and Brown University, found that most Medicaid coverage restrictions for sofosbuvir violate federal Medicaid law, which requires states to cover drugs consistent with their U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labels.

Jordi Mestres, coordinator of the IMIM and UPF research group on Systems Pharmacology at the Biomedical Informatics Program (GRIB) states «With this study we have contributed to complementing the detection of these quite unstable fragments, with information on the mechanism of action of the drug, based on three aspects: similarity to other medicines, prediction of their pharmacological profile, and interference with specific biological pathways.

There was an outcry from both animal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilities.

[Editor's Note: In 1996, a group of scientists and students, concerned about the future of research in German universities, came together to discuss what action was required to improve their education and training.

Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction on this research after hearing a petition from a group of advocates who argued that, contrary to the U.S. government's view, research on embryonic stem cells does in fact destroy embryos — action that is prohibited by legislation known as the «Dickey - Wicker Amendment» to the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

Some groups, such as the Canadian lobbying group ETC — the action group on Erosion Technology and Concentration — have called for a moratorium on research until we know more.

«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.

By coordinating this Marie Sklodowska - Curie Actions project, which is funded by 3.6 - million - Euros of the Horizon 2020 programme of the EU, Enikö Kallay facilitates the cooperation of 13 research groups in eight countries — a network which will foster research excellence centred around the MedUni Vienna.

Prof. Christoph Dehio's research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has uncovered a new mechanism of action of toxins from the group of FIC proteins.

The aim of the actions in this group of awards is to promote and recognize excellence in European research.

An interdisciplinary junior research group at the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks - BrainTools at the University of Freiburg (led by computer scientist Dr. Michael Tangermann) has developed a self - learning algorithm that allows predictions concerning the precision of an action.

Not all climate scientists agree, however; the Climate Action Tracker, an alliance of four European research groups, rates the targets «inadequate.»