Sentences with phrase «based national head»

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«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

«The most troubling implication for Australian interests is that a future naval or air base in Vanuatu would give China a foothold for operations to coerce Australia, outflank the US and its base on US territory at Guam, and collect intelligence in a regional security crisis,» Rory Medcalf, the head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, wrote in a Lowy Institute report.

Neither John DiIulio, who now heads the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more prominently.

We are a national wine company and our head office is based in Derbyshire.

The Real Madrid forward is breaking records and reaching terrific new heights on an almost weekly basis at the moment for his club, and he has now set this superb achievement for his national side as well, heading home to give his country a crucial three points in their quest to qualify for the tournament in France in two years» time.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

To provide athletic trainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing head trauma.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

By reviewing the athlete's normal impact history and comparing impact data to national averages based on data collected by other users, the Head Case Impact Sensor detects head impacts of concern and alerts parents when statistically significant thresholds are exceeHead Case Impact Sensor detects head impacts of concern and alerts parents when statistically significant thresholds are exceehead impacts of concern and alerts parents when statistically significant thresholds are exceeded.

By reviewing the athlete's normal impact history and comparing impact data to national averages based collected user data, parents and coaches can make informed decisions on the head health of their athlete.

Meanwhile, polytechnics seeking to be converted into Technical Universities should have the following requirements: a) satisfy the existing norms, guidelines and requirements of the National Council for Tertiary Education and the National Accreditation Board for accreditation as a Technical University, b) offer a minimum of four Bachelor of Technology degree programmes in Science and Technology based disciplines c) have academic departments headed by at least a Senior Lecturer with a PhD and professional experience; and d) have at least three full - time lecturers with relevant research master's degree, at least one of whom shall have industry experience.

Stewart Blair, a former head gamekeeper, will be delivering the courses initially to estates and providers within the Cairngorms National Park, basing the training at sporting locations throughout the area, before developing a greater number of training locations across other parts of Scotland

«How we take forward on cooperation on defence, based on a hard - headed and practical assessment of our national interests, is high on the agenda.»

An approach that ensures a hard - headed selection of genuinely talented individuals based on our national interest...

«Based on their work, neutrons have been used by thousands of chemists, physicists and materials scientists to look at the structure of all classes of materials,» says Jack Rush, head of neutron scattering at the National Institute of Standards and Technology near Washington DC.

A fleet of robotic submarines, based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), head - quartered in in Southampton, have been used to map vulnerable cold - water coral reefs in the deep ocean off southwest England.

Co-author Professor John Strang, Head of the National Addiction Centre at King's College London, said: «This study is the first to assess the international evidence - base on take - home naloxone, and we found that the antidote successfully reversed overdose in the large majority of cases where the drug was administered.

The former head of geosciences at the National Science Foundation, she says the 1 - gigaton - a-year figure for atmospheric CO2 was based on paleoclimate records.

«By bombarding the material with protons at low energy, we simultaneously increased the material's current - carrying capacity and critical temperature — the first time that this has been possible in an iron - based superconductor,» said physicist Qiang Li, head of the Advanced Energy Materials Group at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, who directed the research.

With their findings, the LCSB group of Prof. Dr. Paul Wilmes, head of the LCSB group «Ecosystems Biology» and ATTRACT - fellow of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), corroborate and unify various ecological concepts that have been primarily formulated based on observations in macrobiotic systems such as forests, rivers and oceans — which can not however be experimentally investigated in depth because of the sheer size of these biotopes.

But critics, such as Lee Wei Ling, head of Singapore's National Neuroscience Institute, have argued that to transform the economy into one that that is truly knowledge - based, scientific talent must come from within.

So anyway, we headed down the canyon, and I should say that the reason we did this particular trip was because it was put together by the National Center for Science Education, which is the Oakland based group that really does the frontline work with protecting evolution education in the nation's public schools.

Our physicians have been consistently named «America's Top Doctors» by Castle Connolly and are active participants in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which sets evidence - based best practices for detecting, evaluating and treating head and neck cancers nationwide.

Regulator's Perspective Yoji Sato, PhD, Head, Division of Cell - Based Therapeutic Products, National Institute of Health Sciences (Japan)

LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.

Dr. Yoji Sato is Head of Division of Cell - Based Therapeutic Products, National Institute of Health Sciences (Tokyo).

(Suzie Boss, Author of «Bringing Innovation to School»; national faculty member, Buck Institute for Education) ««Gamify Your Classroom» is a clear - headed dissection of the semantic muddle and self - serving hype surrounding game - based learning and gamification.

(We previously reviewed Draft 1.0, and Dr. Paul R. Gross, the distinguished biologist who heads the team, also reviewed the National Research Council «framework» on which NGSS is based.)

No mention that Ms. Rhee inherited a school system that had made significant improvements based upon the policies of the previous head of the school system and that these improvements were demonstrated by national tests.

Michelle Rhee has announced that she will step down as head of StudentsFirst, the Sacramento - based national advocacy organization she founded four years ago after resigning as chancellor of the District of Columbia school district.

Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, has also expressed disappointment that the opportunity to «ensure that the funding goes directly to schools based on their need» has been missed.

A national spokesman for Virginia - based K12 did not respond to requests for comment from Policy Watch, but Joel Medley — head of K12's North Carolina school and the former head of the state office that oversaw charter schools — isn't concerned with the news from the west coast.

The content on the site has been based on the latest available research, with guidance from the Centre for Mental Health, and advice and support from the National Association of Head Teachers.

As part of a coordinated national system, responsibility for disseminating the evidence - based practices, resources, and materials developed by the National Centers will be carried out by Head Start and Child Care T / TA specialists working in partnership with the National national system, responsibility for disseminating the evidence - based practices, resources, and materials developed by the National Centers will be carried out by Head Start and Child Care T / TA specialists working in partnership with the National National Centers will be carried out by Head Start and Child Care T / TA specialists working in partnership with the National National Centers.

Based on programmes created by the Ambition National Professional Qualification Alliance, our courses draw on the experience of department heads and school leaders across more than 750 schools nationwide.

Explore Tortuguero national park on a private basis before flying across the country to the Arenal Volcano and then on to Monteverde Cloudforest before heading to the beach.

From your base in Puerto Natales, head into the spectacular Torres Del Paine National Park to witness its eponymous towe...

Shoalhaven Heads is a great base to explore the Seven Mile Beach National Park, with its abundant birdlife or take a relaxing walk along the beach.

Whether you are planning to head off to explore California (heading off to Yosemite National Park comes very much recommended), want to take a stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame or soak in the atmosphere on some of the world's best beaches, Los Angeles is the perfect hub and place to base yourself during your stay.

Base yourself in Hotel Las Torres (the only hotel in the Torres del Paine National Park) and head out on trails to the most renowned places in the park.

Arlen Austin (b. 1981, Winooski VT), has worked on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: Columbia University School of the Arts, Scaramouche Gallery, Chinese Staff and Workers» Association, Brooklyn is Burning, Public Art Fund Development Grant, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Sweatshop Free Upper West Side, Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, 6 - 9 Months Project Space, Fischer - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Barefoot in the Head at Bruce High Quality Foundation, White Box and Frederich Petzel Galleries.

Mary Hersov, Head of National Programmes at the National Gallery, London, added: «The National Gallery runs the Subject Specialist Network, European Paintings pre-1900 and a selection of our members who are UK based Curators of Dutch paintings were invited to take part in the Curators Day at Frieze Masters.

Other highlights will include a series of large - scale head paintings, such as Rosetta II (2005 - 6), made while the artist was based in Italy, and the premier of a major new work, Aleppo (2017 - 18), which is at the Scottish National Gallery alongside historic works from the collection.

Kevin Trenberth, the former head of the Climate Analysis Section at the Colorado - based National Center for Atmospheric Research, points out that NOAA's analysis fails to consider the role that certain climate change — induced meteorological phenomena played in compounding the drought.

For example, a 2012 study headed by Michael Wang of the Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land use.

(Audio) On Michael Graham's Massachusetts - based radio show on Thursday, National Review columnist Mark Steyn reacted to the treatment of Lois Lerner, the now - suspended head of the Internal Revenue Service's division on tax - exempt organizations.

«Ken Lay, the head of Enron, a large Texas - based national gas supplier with annual sales of $ 20 billion that is fast becoming a worldwide energy firm, sees his company, and more broadly the natural gas industry, playing a central role in the conversion from a fossil - fuel - based energy economy to a solar / hydrogen energy economy.»

If this were so, then there would be no science - based policy debate about the size of the gap between where emissions are headed at present and where they need to be in 2020 and 2030 at global, regional, and national levels.

Richard heads Thompsons Solicitors» very successful National Litigation Unit, based in the firm's Stoke - on - Trent office, covering the litigation of fast - track personal injury claims throughout England and Wales.

The successful education claim marks the first occasion on which the English Courts have upheld a damages claim based on a breach of A2P1, after two Supreme Court judgments as a result of which such claims had failed (A v Head Teacher and Governors of Lord Grey School [2006] 2 AC 363 and A v Essex County Council (National Autistic Society intervening)[2011] AC 280; [2010] UKSC 33).