Sentences with phrase «assess human risk»

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As a result, users still lack the information they need to make informed choices to assess the privacy and human rights risks they face when using a particular service.

However, shareholders will need to decide if this increased disclosure is sufficient to allow them to assess the company's exposure to sustainability and human rights related risks.

To manage such risks effectively, we believe companies must assess the risks to shareholder value posed by human rights practices in their operations and supply chain, as well as by the use of their products.

We help protect our Australia's productive industries, environment and human health from pests and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry and providing new technologies for surveillance and early response through sensor networks and autonomous platforms.

Under the agreement, Rio Tinto will provide support for the expansion of the DIHR's Human Rights and Business Country Portal, a freely available website that helps businesses identify, assess and address human rights risks in specific countHuman Rights and Business Country Portal, a freely available website that helps businesses identify, assess and address human rights risks in specific counthuman rights risks in specific countries.

Even as far away as Mars, one of the instruments aboard the Odyssey spacecraft — an instrument designed to assess radiation risk to humans — was damaged.

«At a minimum, the human health risks to the site workers from radon and its decay products should be assessed along with the associated treatment technologies such as aeration systems or holding for decay,» the agency wrote.

The National Park Service posted the results of The Peregrine Fund study on its Web site, noting «that while the results are preliminary and much further study needs to be done to better assess risks to humans, it appears that if lead bullets are used, odds are high that you will ingest lead particles in ground meat.»

Instead, the bulk of research is focused on developing medical therapies and roughly $ 15 million has been spent to assess human health and environmental risks, according to the Wilson Center.

Kisspeptins circulating in the blood increase dramatically during normal human pregnancy, to several thousand times non-pregnancy levels, which makes them a novel predictive marker for assessing the risk of later complications.

The report comes from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS), a multicomponent epidemiological and neurobiological study of Army suicides and their correlates sponsored by the U.S. Army and funded under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH / NIMH).

The test is increasingly used as a method of assessing substances — including drugs and cosmetics — that could pose a potential risk to human or environmental health by causing damage to DNA.

In order to assess the risk posed by various chemicals, it is essential to know what the typical human exposure to a particular chemical is.

For nearly a decade, the center had been outsourcing much of its work to SI, which assessed health risks and drafted reviews for 21 chemicals that the center was reviewing for their possible impact on human reproductive health.

Currently, the human health risk from exposure to a given endocrine disruptor is normally assessed using a rodent model.

to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change

An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes in behaviors can significantly affect climate projections.

The idea is that burdensome regulations might stifle the nascent commercial human spaceflight industry and the government should wait to see how the business develops to better assess its risks before imposing stronger safety requirements.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming woRisk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming worisk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

«Human neurons — derived from reengineered skin cells — could help assess the efficacy and safety of these drugs, thereby reducing risks and resources associated with human trials.&rHuman neurons — derived from reengineered skin cells — could help assess the efficacy and safety of these drugs, thereby reducing risks and resources associated with human trials.&rhuman trials.»

Potential projects include identifying common pathways that modify retinal degenerative disease from a large collection of actively maintained mouse models; determining molecular networks implicated in pathological disruption of the retinal pigment epithelium; identifying molecular pathways that regulate postnatal ocular growth; and using mouse models to assess the pathogenic role of gene variants that increase the risk of age - related macular degeneration as identified by human genome - wide association studies.

As more information about endocrine disruptor effects and mechanisms becomes available, it will be increasingly important to carefully quantify the extent of human exposure to EDCs and assess the inherent risk in that exposure.

4/26/2007 UCSD to Participate in Nationwide Trial to Assess Impact of Omega - 3 Fatty Acid on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease Nutritionists have long endorsed fish as part of a heart - healthy diet, and now some studies suggest that omega - 3 fatty acids found in the oil of certain fish and algae as well as human breast milk may also benefit the brain by lowering the risk of Al...

The second thread links uncertain projections of future changes to statistical and process models of human systems to assess the risks posed by climate change.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University will help organic growers protect human health by assessing the risks and benefits of wild birds on organic farms.

Since efforts to save even one human life are worthwhile and critical, these same authorities, both existing and newly elected, should play a proactive role in the prevention of future suicidal acts by better assessing the needs of the population and of individuals at high risk for suicide.»

In a 2016 review published in The Journal of Nutrition, the author assessed 20 different trials on humans, and concluded that garlic supplements successfully lowered blood pressure and improved elevated cholesterol levels — both of which are risk factors for heart disease.

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An international panel that assesses published scientific, technical and socio - economic information about the risk of human - induced climate change.

While there is no evidence of cat to human transmission, the Health Department is currently evaluating ACC staff, ACC volunteers, and persons who recently acquired cats from the Manhattan shelter to assess this potential risk.

After testing feral cats in Northern Florida for FIV, FeLV, and nine other infectious organisms, a 2002 study concluded that «feral cats assessed in this study posed no greater risk to human beings or other cats than pet cats.»

Thus, feral cats assessed in this study appear to be of no greater risk to human beings or other cats than pet cats.

After testing feral cats in Northern Florida for FIV, FeLV, and nine other infectious organisms, a 2004 study published in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery concluded that «feral cats assessed in this study posed no greater risk to human beings or other cats than pet cats.»

Precise Pet Food production plant has received a SUPERIOR category from the AIB, (American Institute of Baking), an institute that assesses food safety risks and compliance, with human food standards.

The climate panel was created in 1988 under United Nations auspices to periodically review factors, human and natural, influencing climate and assess possible ways to limit risks.

If you have not heard, IPCC was established by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

Given inherent uncertainty in assessing new technologies this means that the risks to the environment and human health are much higher than were the case if more certain scientific information were required.

... assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

Its original goal was to assess possible human influences on global warming and potential risks of human - induced warming.

According to its governing principles, the IPCC is ``... to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

The IPCC says in its own words: «The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.»

«Scenarios of different rates and magnitudes of climate change provide a basis for assessing the risk of crossing identifiable thresholds in both physical change and impacts on biological and human systems».

Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson, «The Rising Tide: Assessing the Risks of Climate Change and Human Settlements in Low Elevation Coastal Zones,» Environment and Urbanization, vol.

What we see in the evidence collected about how humans reason while assessing risk in the face of uncertainty, in polarized contexts, is that the logic you're presenting is endemic.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming woRisk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming worisk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

The findings indicate that human - caused climate change greatly increased the risk for the extreme heat waves assessed in this report.

Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: General Provisions -(Sec. 1401) Expresses the sense of Congress that federal agencies assessing risks to human health and the environment from energy technology, production, transport, transmission, distribution, storage, use, or conservation activities shall: (1) use sound and objective scientific practices in assessing such risks; (2) consider the best available science (including peer reviewed studies); and (3) describe the weight of the scientific evidence concerning such risks.

«With millions of people forced to move each year by rapid - onset climate - related hazards and slow - onset environmental degradation, social wellbeing, human rights, economies and even state stability are at risk... at the highest level, climate change is being assessed as a risk to national security and potentially to global stability.»