Sentences with phrase «based environmental research»

Genetics - based environmental research is already helping to restore damaged and degraded landscapes.

He founded GRAPH, a Baltimore - based environmental research office.

This New York State — based environmental research organization since 2004 has studied wildlife in and on the banks of the Hudson River as well as the toll development has taken on the 315 - mile (500 - Kilometer) waterway, which runs south from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic Ocean.

Genetics - based environmental research is already helping to restore damaged and degraded landscapes.

An Ithaca based environmental research group analyzed data on dozens of alleged toxic spills for just one company - Exxon Mobil.

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Its rankings are based heavily on a company's long - term financial results and — for the first time this year — take into account its environmental, social, and governance performance as measured by investment research firm Sustainalytics.

The Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., conducts impartial research and publishes reports on organized efforts to influence corporate behavior on social and environmental issues.

But Edward Whittingham, the executive director of the Pembina Institute, an environmental group based in Calgary, Alberta, said there was not conclusive research weighing the safety of the two shipment methods.

Under this Project, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has engaged consortium teams, lead by Australia's leading research institutions, and involving locally based land and water managers, to develop and implement detailed 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

«Menu trends today are beginning to shift from ingredient - based items to concept - based ideas, mirroring how consumers tend to adapt their activities to their overall lifestyle philosophies, such as environmental sustainability and nutrition,» said Hudson Riehle, Senior Vice President of Research for the National Restaurant Association.

The Women's Environmental Network, a London - based environmental group, points out that the current British report surveyed 2,000 parents who use disposables, but included only 117 parents who use cloth diapers in thEnvironmental Network, a London - based environmental group, points out that the current British report surveyed 2,000 parents who use disposables, but included only 117 parents who use cloth diapers in thenvironmental group, points out that the current British report surveyed 2,000 parents who use disposables, but included only 117 parents who use cloth diapers in their research.

The survey, known as the Habitat Mapping Project (HMP), was conducted between May 2011 and September 2012 by a team of scientists from Hudsonia Ltd., an environmental research institute based in Dutchess County.

It consists of a variety of stakeholders including haulers, recycling coordinators, a geologist, businesses and several legislators, who use the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other experts as resources, and who are committed to doing the research needed to make the best recommendation to the RRA Board, which the Legislature appoints on a rotating basis.

«Look at all the issues — climate change, stem cell research, general environmental issues, health care, energy — that all have a fundamental scientific or engineering basis.

A human rights paradigm for environmental health research incorporates support for community - based, participatory research and takes seriously the social responsibilities of researchers.

The network encourages interdisciplinary research across departments and universities, so that environmental scientists collaborate with energy scientists, for example, and architects with plant scientists, says David Thomas, director of the Bangor University - based network.

The Hindu Kush - Himalayas Climate Impact Adaptation Assessment Programme will run for five years, carried out by Norway's Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, the U.N. Environment Programme and the Katmandu, Nepal - based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

To fill in the maps, in 2009 representatives of the Lima - based Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin, or COICA, asked researchers at the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to help them estimate the carbon in the indigenous forests of the Amazon region.

According to guidelines based on several years — and $ 10 million — of environmental - impact research, the Navy is not permitted to use the low - frequency sonar within 12 nautical miles of any coastline, in any marine sanctuary, near any marine - mammal «biologically important area,» or in polar seas.

But considerable recent research aimed at broadening this empirical base has revealed that children's knowledge about living things and the relations among them is sculpted by the cultural and environmental contexts in which they are raised.

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Findings published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health provide the first evidence of neurocognitive benefits of stand - height desks in classrooms, where students are given the choice to stand or sit based on their preferences.

Co-author of the study Prof. Rod Wilson, a climate change marine biologist based at Exeter University, said in light of this research separate environmental management strategies may be required.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.

«If anything, that's probably fairly large,» said Richard Armstrong, a senior research scientist at the Boulder, Colo. - based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who studies melt impact in the Hiresearch scientist at the Boulder, Colo. - based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who studies melt impact in the HiResearch in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who studies melt impact in the Himalayas.

The Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER), the Institute of Biological Sciences (IBS), and the Institute of Rural Studies (IRS) form the Aber bio Centre (ABC), a centre based in Wales and devoted to the research and exploitation of land - based bioResearch (IGER), the Institute of Biological Sciences (IBS), and the Institute of Rural Studies (IRS) form the Aber bio Centre (ABC), a centre based in Wales and devoted to the research and exploitation of land - based bioresearch and exploitation of land - based biosystems.

The new findings, based on detailed computer simulations using the best available global circulation models, are described this week in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of environmental engineering Elfatih Eltahir, MIT Research Scientist Eun Soon Im, and Professor Jeremy Pal at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.

A paper based on this work is in review at Environmental Research Letters.

Further research is required to determine whether the increased speeds have a genetic basis or are the result of improved training, jockey tactics or other environmental factors.

«We've known for several years that people working directly with livestock are at increased risk for MRSA infections, but this is one of the first studies providing compelling evidence that everyday consumers are also potentially at risk,» says Lance Price, PhD, Director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center, which is based at Milken Institute SPH, and Director of Translational Genomics Research Institute Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health.

The results now published in Environmental Research Letters seem to contradict the data from a satellite mission based on other measuring methods, which indicates a slight increase in mass in the glacier ice for an almost identical period of time.

In addition to pharmaceutical and chemical companies, commercial operations based on science include producers of cosmetics, food, and medical devices, as well as clinical research and environmental organizations.

«China now emits more than the US and EU combined and has CO2 emissions per person 45 % higher than the global average, exceeding even the EU average,» said Robbie Andrew, a co-author of the studies based at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) in Norway.

Many junior government toxicology jobs also are integrative, requiring a big - picture view of data from environmental sampling, epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and animal and cell - based research.

The research was conducted in partnership with the International Council on Clean Transportation, a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit organization, and Environmental Health Analytics LLC.

«Most of the previous research of the past climate in this region is based on detailed studies of specific sites,» said the lead author Jessica Oster, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University.

«The researchers now plan to team up with other world - leading experts in cancer signalling based in Manchester including Professor Nic Jones, Director of MCRC and Cancer Research UK Chief Scientist who heads the Cell Regulation Laboratory, which studies how cells respond to sudden adverse changes in their surroundings, known as environmental stress.

The accusations against Green Hill, a subsidiary of U.S. - based Marshall BioResources and one of Europe's largest suppliers of dogs for research, were presented to prosecutors in June 2012 in a complaint filed by Legambiente, an environmental organization, and the animal rights group Lega Anti Vivisezione (LAV).

The price of gold affects more than global finances; it also drives the world's most toxic pollution problem, according to new research from the Blacksmith Institute, an environmental health group based in New York City.

The Department of Defense (DoD) funded the study through their SERDP - ESTCP program, which funds environmental research on military bases.

«Weather systems are large, and our inputs as humans are so small you'd think we'd have no influence at all,» says Ross N. Hoffman, chief scientist and vice president of research and development at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), based in Lexington, Massacresearch and development at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), based in Lexington, MassacResearch (AER), based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Recent research by Dr Cox and Professor Kevin Gaston, who are based at the Environmental Sustainability Institute at the Penryn Campus at the University of Exeter, found that watching birds makes people feel relaxed and connected to nature (Cox and Gaston 2016).

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

• Community - based participatory research principles should be embraced in designing and conducting studies on environmental and health impacts of UNGDO so that a range of community perspectives are addressed.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

February 2, 2006 Gene variation increases SIDS risk in African Americans About five percent of deaths from SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) in African Americans can be traced to defects in one gene, and half of those deaths result from a common genetic variation that increases an infant's risk of developing an abnormal heart rhythm during times of environmental stress, a research team based at the University of Chicago reports in the February 2006, issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.