Sentences with phrase «among affected groups»

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«His business was being adversely affected, there was discontent among his employees — and this group actually takes a lot of time — and he basically said «I'm encountering too much in the way of headwinds and would you mind if I stepped down.»»

In addition, issues of life and relations among people, groups and communities are affected by these fused horizons on all levels.

According to a watchdog group, a young girl was among at least 24 people killed in unrest which has affected areas including the capital Nairobi and the Lake Victoria port city of Kisumu.

Co-Sales is among a select group of independent brokers to triumph over the whirlwind of changes that have affected the industry throughout the past 15 years.

Broadened Horizons Co-Sales is among a select group of independent brokers to triumph over the whirlwind of changes that have affected the industry throughout the past 15 years.

Last week, we posted to the site a group of four articles about a peer - reviewed study in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that football helmet design affected concussion risk among a large group (or what scientists call a «cohort») of college football players.

Affects are culturally determined to some extent and differ among people, ethnic, national, and cultural groups («display rules»).

Continuing, the Force Commander noted that the mandate of the MNJTF among other responsibilities empowers it to «create a safe and secure environment in the areas affected by the activities of Boko Haram terrorism and other terrorist groups, in order to significantly reduce violence and other abuses, including sexual and gender based violence, in full compliance with international law».

We are currently seeking cosigners for this petition among fellow our Waterkeeper Alliance members as well as any other environmental and citizen action groups whose constituencies have been affected by CKD pollution.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

They are a common group of conditions affecting up to 20 % of adults.1, 3 Their prevalence increases considerably with age making them the main cause of disability among the elderly.

A new study examining the role of ethnicity in determining the age of onset and severity of ALD, and comparing risk factors for its progression among ethnic groups, has found that ethnicity is a major factor affecting the age and severity of different subtypes of ALD.

Among the halogen substituents at position 4 of the phenyl ring within D - Phe2, fluorine showed to be optimal, since chlorine and bromine, or even a nitro group, negatively affected the activity profile of 26, 27, 28 and 29 (IC50 = 0.035, 0.79, 0.57 and 0.94 μM, respectively).

Cervical cancer is now extremely rare, especially among women under the age of 30, the group most affected by the new guidelines.

Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners.

The NCTQ, a non-partisan advocacy group that receives support from the Gates Foundation among others, gave California an overall grade of D - plus in its seventh annual survey of policies that affect teacher preparation, evaluation and compensation.

The survey, to be released Wednesday by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc., polled the 56 Teachers of the Year, a small but elite group of educators considered among the country's best, on a range of issues affecting public education.

Best Friends was performing immediate rescue and triage for pets that had been affected by the storm, among many other rescue groups including Animal Ark, a community focused animal hospital and wellness facility serving the greater New Orleans area, founded by Patty in 1997.

We, 93 civil society organisations working in Brussels and in countries affected by EU climate policies, are therefore deeply concerned that the same polluting corporations whose actions largely contribute to climate change - chief among them fossil fuel companies and their lobby groups - are using their involvement in the UNFCCC talks to delay action and hold back the needed ambition.

The idea of a carbon tax has slowly been gaining support, not only among scholars and environmentalists, but also in an unlikely quarter: business groups and even the companies that emit carbon dioxide and would be the most directly affected.

Furthermore, it was likely that identifiable minorities, including First Nations people, immigrants, and the disabled, were over-represented among this group and therefore disproportionately affected by the imposition of hearing fees.

In a debate in the Assemblée Nationale the Minister said he was consulting affected groups, the Barreau and the Chambre des Notaires prime among them on whether Soquij should be given a reprieve.

The Facebook news release that contained the massive new number of affected users announced a number of significant changes to the way Facebook shares data on its users, more heavily restricting third - party apps access to information on events, Pages, groups and Instagram, among other updates.

A relationship of racial equality is not one in which Indigenous people take their place, as just another interest group, among a vast range of non-Indigenous interest groups that might be affected by native title or other Indigenous issues.

A second MDRC monograph, reviewing and synthesizing the relevant research, focused on how policies directed at increasing employment among low - income parents affected their adolescent children.4 Unlike elementary school - aged children, the teenagers fared worse than their control group counterparts.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of The Parent Project, among parents of at - risk youth in the areas of general child management, family involvement, negative parent — child affective quality, substance use rules communication, and parental self - efficacy (PSE) in the ability to affect adolescent substance use.

Pursuit of the goal of strengthening families through primary prevention, strong and responsive communities, collaborative efforts among those organizations and groups whose work affects outcomes in child welfare, and increasing the well - being of children and families are all entirely consistent with the administration's goals.

Articles explored the evolution of society's responses to disability, how the scheme affects Indigenous Australians with disability and the groups likely to miss out on the funding packages, among other areas.

We included both ethnic groups because of the documented differences in prevalence of depression among them and our interest in determining whether there were differences between groups in the contributions to depressive affect.

In an earlier report of type 2 diabetes (23), we showed that of three groups of variables included in a predictive model (demographics, disease status, and family characteristics), only disease impact and family financial stress were significant, independent contributors to both depressive affect and anxiety among both European - American and Latino patients, with family conflict resolution as a significant predictor only for European - American patients.

The finding that pathological gaming only affects physical aggression among boys does not diminish its importance because adolescent boys are generally the most devoted group of violent game players and most susceptible to pathological involvement.