Sentences with phrase «additional impact studies»

A new bumper design would be necessary, which means additional impact studies and development costs.

Not exact matches

Recent studies have shown that if Canadian oil were able to reach the U.S. Gulf Coast and Asia, the impact of higher revenues to Canadian producers over a 15 year period would amount to an additional $ 132 billion in Canadian GDP.

A recent impact assessment study showed that Filipino farmers have gained an additional Php2, 300 (US$ 52) per hectare from using improved IRRI - bred rice varieties.

These findings underscore the need for additional studies on the potential negative impact of high folate intake during pregnancy.

«The NASUWT raised questions about the provision of study leave and additional non-contact time for newly qualified teachers who chose to pursue the Masters qualification, about the impact that the scheme could have on teacher workload and working hours for newly qualified teachers, the external mentors and the school workforce generally, and about the costs associated with the scheme.

Examples of the early successes of task force members include legally establishing its operating authority and scope of operation in the State Budget, requiring a study of re-use options of the Indian Point property, adding an additional $ 15 million to the State's Power Plant Cessation Mitigation Fund starting in 2020, extending the timeline for payments from that fund, and authorizing the HendrickHudson School District to start a reserve fund to plan for future tax impacts.

12.20 pm: According to PoliticsHome, Robert Chote, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the Treasury committee just now: «The overall impact of the additional measures that were announced in the budget statement are regressive.»

The duty of the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, comprising 16 members, is to investigate and study the budget bill, as well as any additional bills implementing the budget or having a direct impact on the State Budget, including deficiencies and reappropriations.

Sundar and Kellaris then developed additional studies to test whether the colors impacted perceptions of the retailer's environmental friendliness.

Scott Goetz, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center who has studied the Amazon, said that fleshing out what are «essentially back - of - the - envelope calculations» of the 2010 drought's impact will require additional field measurements and a closer examination of satellite observations of the Amazon's tree canopy.

Because environmental exposures have not had time to impact IBD progression in children, researchers have a clearer genetic picture of the disease allowing them to pick out additional genes overlooked in adult research, says senior study author Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

In 22 percent of cases, the additional clinical information found in the EHR was rated as «possibly» having a clinically significant impact on the interpretation of the head CT. «This study exemplifies the power of EHR's and their potential impact on patient care and positive outcomes.

Additional studies are needed to fully understand the health impact of sugar - sweetened beverages and diet sodas,» said lead study author Jiantao Ma, Ph.D., who conducted the analysis as part of his doctoral thesis as a student in the Nutrition Epidemiology Program at the USDA HNRCA and the Friedman School.

Additional studies are needed to determine what specific changes in care have had the most impact on decreasing the mortality rates of patients with severe sepsis.

Although additional studies would need to be conducted to see how much commercial presenters influence child viewers, Powers, associate professor of media arts, sciences and studies at Ithaca College, argues that commercials could have a significant impact on how children develop self - perceptions.

Across six experiments, participants were shown photos of comparative products to study the impact that increasing the number of additional photos for each item had on consumer perceptions and the overall decision making process.

«This study used only the first year of data after CCO implementation; because of the initial positive impact of CCOs on prenatal care timeliness, we hope that additional years of data will demonstrate improvements in prenatal care adequacy, as well,» Oakley said.

He concluded that additional studies aimed at testing the impact of communication initiatives on behavioral change are needed.

«Increased variability — this rather technical term translates into potentially severe impacts on people who can not afford additional loss,» says Anders Levermann, one of the study's authors and co-chair of PIK's research domain Sustainable Solutions.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

Samuels said additional studies are needed to gauge the impact of adolescent obesity on other cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea.

The development of methods to remove pigmentation from planarians could have significant impacts on tool development in that field, and the connection to human porphyrias makes a compelling case for additional studies of this system.

But recent research suggests that the sweet stuff may have a more direct impact: For every additional 150 calories of added sugar downed per person per day, the prevalence of diabetes rose by 1 percent, even after controlling for obesity, physical activity and calories from other foods, according to a large study looking at international data.

It is also unclear whether fasting has an impact on CAD and diabetes in minority populations; thus, additional clinical events studies should be performed among minorities.

Our own study (the largest rigorous study of KIPP) estimated that over three years KIPP middle schools have an average cumulative impact of 0.21 standard deviations in reading and 0.36 standard deviations in math, roughly equivalent to an additional eight to 11 months of learning.

Additional neuroimaging studies of the amygdala, hippocampus, and the rest of the limbic system, along with measurement of dopamine and other brain chemical transmitters during the learning process, reveal that students» comfort level has critical impact on information transmission and storage in the brain.

But the research summary issued by that same commission in 1994 included not one study on the impact of additional instruction on learning.

Therefore, although these studies provided evidence that hands - on activities contributed to increased knowledge of content and pedagogy, it was not clear if this structure required additional scaffolding through other types of structures to impact participants» knowledge.

In the most recent growth period included in the study (meaning the learning gains in the last year - to - year analysis) the impact was even larger — 57 additional days of learning in reading and 68 additional days in math.

However, while these studies indicated that teacher leaders positively impacted the teams they were on, the studies did not reveal much about the nature of the leadership teacher leaders provided and why it was effective, indicating an area for additional research.

While these studies did not examine the impact of these teacher leader activities, these findings indicate that teacher leaders support the implementation of instructional materials in additional ways beyond providing instructional support to teachers.

Using a three branch trial with control, Lesson Study, and Lesson Study plus additional maths materials, they found positive significant impacts on self - reported «Collegial Learning Effectiveness» and «Expectations for Student Achievement» when Lesson Study is combined with the maths materials.

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a rigorous long - term study found that TEP produced major achievement impacts, including test score gains equal to an additional 1.6 years of school in math, with significant gains in science and English.

In an effort to expand from studying the impact of providing access to the arts in the traditional preschool classroom, we're exploring an additional avenue of access: Preschool Play and Learn in a suburban district in the greater Seattle area.

Ingersoll and his colleagues have studied the impact of providing additional support to new teachers through induction programs.

Further, when comparing these effects with the impact of participating in a voucher programs, it is also possible that students in both public schools and voucher programs experience additional impacts from some of the factors described in these comparison studies.

Many of those evaluations — in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Louisiana — reported a modest increase or neutral impact on student achievement and graduation rates.9 The findings of some of these studies, however, have more recently been called into question as methodological flaws were discovered when adding additional years or replicating the study.10 As a result, recent voucher program evaluations employ more rigorous research methods such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs and refine their use of certain variables.

For an idea of the impact this balance transfer, coupled with an additional $ 10,000 in card charges, will have, I turned to one of the most trustworthy credit scoring studies ever done: myFICO's «Credit missteps — how their effect on FICO scores vary.»

Citing economic studies, Thompson expects this latest expansion to attract an additional 65,000 visitors resulting in an $ 11 million impact on the local economy.

The findings of V+S represent an important contribution to the ongoing scientific discourse on the issue of climate change impacts on tropical cyclones, and the study should spur additional work looking at the complicated issues involved in greater detail.

At this point, Con Ed agreed to essentially freeze the license so as to have time to fund additional studies on the impact of the plant on the river's ecology.

You may believe that it has nothing to do with the study of the impact of additional CO2 on the environment, but for many other scientists who are studying the issue and advocating that policies be implemented to reduce CO2 emissions; it is certainly true.

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

He hopes this will facilitate further development of the wind project, including supporting the environmental assessments and interconnection studies needed to assess the impact of additional electricity on the grid.

BBD - With all due respect, the study does nothing to explain how the scientific community has failed to come to grips with the fact that there is now pretty good evidence that we do not understand how the climate system works well enough to accurately determine the impact of additional atmospheric CO2.

The consortium running the project blame the abandonment of an additional 65 giant turbines on «various factors», but especially the requirement for a 3 - year study on the potential impact on birds.

(B) areas of focus for additional study of technologies, operations, and strategies with the greatest potential to reduce emissions of black carbon and associated public health, economic, and environmental impacts associated with these emissions; and

However, the studies also show that without additional action, the INDCs are insufficient to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

Second, a new study was released that provides additional proof that since the late 1970s, the Earth has received much more solar energy than previously thought... that solar impact would be multiple times more powerful than the concurrent human CO2 impact.

Environmental groups argue there are still major holes in the State Department's study, including failure to fully assess the climate impact or the additional environmental fallout for communities near the refineries that will be processing the bitumen.