Sentences with phrase «author advocacy groups»

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«I recommend routinely tracking what the industry analyst firms like Gartner are reporting about your industry, as well as trade associations and advocacy groups,» says Becky Sheetz - Runkle, author of Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business.

«The overarching message here is we don't just have a jobs deficit; we have a «good jobs» deficit,» said Annette Bernhardt, the report's author and a policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group.

Award - winnning author, L.R.Knost, is the founder and director of the children's rights advocacy and family consulting group, Little Hearts / Gentle Parenting Resources, and Editor - in - Chief of Holistic Parenting Magazine.

Candidates have used blogads for fundraising, advocacy groups to build their email lists, authors and publishers to promote books, and campaigns of all stripes to publicize their positions and to help launch viral campaigns.

Written by 25 authors, it described the collaboration between government, academic researchers, and disease advocacy groups that led to the ICV trial as a model of the teamwork that can speed drugs through early development, boosting their chances of being commercialized.

«Women's heart awareness has stalled, despite almost three decades of campaigning by numerous women's heart health advocacy groups,» said C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., FACC, medical director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and the study's lead author.

«While most studies show there are no significant differences in clinical response between a biosimilar and the original product, some physicians and patient advocacy groups have expressed concern about how interchangeable they really are, and whether it is safe to switch from the brand name version to the biosimilar,» said lead author Dr Daniel Nagore of Progenika Biopharma, Derio, Spain.

The study, released in February, was criticized earlier this week when an advocacy group highlighted the financial ties of its lead author to an energy company.

The results show why appeals to morality by politicians and advocacy groups can be so effective, said Andrew Luttrell, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in psychology at The Ohio State University.

Next Page: Â Activists demand cleaner cosmetics [pagebreak] Activists demand cleaner cosmetics Stacy Malkan, a cofounder of the advocacy group Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and author of Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, says cosmetics need extra scrutiny because they are often a direct source of exposure to so many different chemicals.

The authors rely mainly on newspaper articles to make their arguments, with a smattering of books and advocacy - group reports thrown in.

«The way districts handle professional development with teachers — to me it's a crime,» said Rayne Martin, a former state official who authored Louisiana's Race to the Top application and now heads the local branch of a national advocacy group called Stand for Children.

«A lot of publishers and companies view it as an economic imperative for survival to say they're aligned to Common Core,» says Theodor Rebarber, founder and CEO of AccountabilityWorks, a Maryland - based advocacy group, and author of a 2012 study that estimated implementation nationally could cost as much as $ 15.8 billion.

Howey published this POST on his website that explained some of the disillusionment behind these so - called advocacy groups that speak for authors without ever actually consulting authors.

But most of our time focused on author groups, to provide us with the opportunity to improve our understanding of their concerns in the ebook era and articulate our concerns so that we may identify areas of common interest, for which we might engage in collaborative advocacy.

Given that the Authors Guild are an author's advocacy group, it is hard to believe they don't support this.

Well, the tireless, professional and persistent efforts of legitimate independent writers, the vocal advocacy of groups such as the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the advent of vendors who sprang up to serve independent authors, upped the reputation of this comAuthors, and the advent of vendors who sprang up to serve independent authors, upped the reputation of this comauthors, upped the reputation of this community.

Do look into this concept of a consortium or collective of authors (and radical advocacy — as in Ashlock's work with this Rogue Reader group — should surely be a big part of that approach, each collective will need major agent - managerial support).

Toronto's Book Summit 16, at mid-month, was presented by the Book and Periodical Council and Humber College, and brought together several representatives of advocacy groups for a needed exchange on authors» prospects in a fast - changing business.

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The author of the Montreal Economic Institute report said Canadian users get a lot more but advocacy groups disagree

And then there's the issue of hypocrisy when, as observed earlier by Judith Curry, «employees of green advocacy groups can participate as authors of the IPCC reports (without apparent criticism), but a non-advocate scientist [like Lennart Bengtsson] can not participate in a (non-green) think tank without censure from scientist colleagues... Honest brokers are to be preferred over advocates; but the real problem arises when advocates seek to stifle scientific and policy debates.»

The report was authored by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a climate justice advocacy group, and Redefining Progress, a nonprofit policy institute.

The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an accusation phrase against skeptic scientists that was made famous by anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the accusation that skeptic scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.