Sentences with phrase «by assessment studies»

While there is concern about decimation of the complex web of life that is our soil, and the informational properties of plants and animal foods, eliminating pesticide exposure from your diet is a powerful step as evidenced by assessment studies.

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The government said in March that it was studying the dangers posed to wildlife and the environment by the plastic microbeads, and on Thursday said the scientific review was still underway by Environment Canada along with an assessment of triclosan and phthalates.

Our empirical studies on the analysis and assessment of entrepreneurial attitudes were conducted on the basis of data published by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study.

The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.

Long - term studies of both problems and potential benefit of Kona coffee drank by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Long - term studies of both risk and potential benefit of drinking Kona by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Standardized Assessment of Concussion or «SAC», Sport Concussion Assessment Tool Version 3 or «SCAT3», the Balance Error Scoring System or «BESS», King - Devick Test», Maddocks» questions) already shown by studies to be reliable in making the initial remove - from - play decision, or one of a number of new assessment screens being developed and tested.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

The draft lacks a clear description of the criteria for eliminating an increasing number of non-GLP studies that indicate the possibility of toxic effects that are not mediated by interaction of BPA with the estrogen receptor, and the Subcommittee does not agree with the exclusion of the non-GLP studies in the safety assessment.

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

New studies should be large enough to include assessment and reporting of impacts by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.

To this day, we continue to study baby's skin of all types, using non-invasive measurement techniques and clinical assessments by dermatologists and pediatricians.

The differences among study findings are partly explained by differences in study designs, assessment tools, study populations (13), usual maternity care practices and caregiver attitudes (14 - 16).

In future updates, if more eligible studies are included, we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

In future updates we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

This study evaluated the use of the Eeva non-invasive early embryo viability assessment system by IVF laboratory staff during routine procedures and embryo selection.

Although the results of the meta - regression showed no evidence of significant heterogeneity between subgroups, summary association estimates were slightly different in subgroup analyses by study design and exposure assessment.

Comparison 3 All forms of support versus usual care: SUBGROUP ANALYSIS - type of support, Outcome 2 Stopping exclusive breastfeeding by last study assessment up to 6 months.

This study compared risk assessment by physicians with midwives reporting new mothers to the doctor.

We attempted to examine this by assessing the intensity of the intervention, and we found studies with four to eight visits to be associated with a more pronounced treatment effect on exclusive breastfeeding at final study assessment.

Long said fracking risked the possibility of «death by indecision» as the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later this year.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

A study by the Department of Applied Educational Science at Umeå University in Sweden came to similar conclusions, saying performance assessment does not motivate teaching staff.

The study was attacked by the Association of School and College Leaders, however, despite it acknowledging that the SEN assessment process is excessively bureaucratic.

• The ECIDA will allocate $ 75,000 towards a $ 250,000 labor assessment study that's being conducted by the University at Buffalo Regional Institute.

Regarding this proposal, there was no study or needs assessment conducted by the County Executive or State Senator in connection with this project.

NASUWT has commented on the publication of the comparative study, commissioned by the DfE, on baseline assessments used by primary schools.

Governor Cuomo says he supports his environmental commissioner's decision not to launch an independent health study, and to instead have the administration's health department review new health assessment data compiled by the Department of Environmental Conservation..

The governor says he supports his environmental commissioner's decision not to launch an independent health study, and to instead have the administration's health department review new health assessment data compiled by the Department of Environmental Conservation.

If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.

This is the first study of a life - sustaining treatment form using the Long - Term Care Minimum Data Set, or MDS, a federally mandated clinical assessment of all residents in nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid.

«Moving to non-invasive and repeatable methods of nerve fiber measurements such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy would enhance study of peripheral neuropathy by enabling early detection of damage, progression of nerve fiber deterioration, and enable assessment of therapeutic strategies in the SIV / macaque model,» explains Dr. Mankowski.

What is important about our study is that it is a different methodology than what is used by fisheries scientists for stock assessments, and therefore we serve as an independent verification,» says Kent Carpenter, a marine biologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a co-author on the paper.

The study's results currently are used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservation status.

For example, in a 2008 study psychologist Kelley Drummond and her colleagues interviewed 25 adult women who were referred by their parents for assessment at a mental health clinic when they were between three and 12 years old.

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.

A low - amperage backup system can also generate non-monetary benefits that were not studied by the researchers during the assessment.

The test is made up of 38 multiple choice assessment items that were originally developed by Project 2061 as part of a study funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Willett's plan is based on the largest long - term dietary survey ever undertaken: the 121,700 - participant Nurses» Health Study, begun in 1976 by Harvard Medical School professor Frank Speizer, with dietary assessments supervised by Willett since 1980.

A new study published online by JAMA Oncology examines the assessment of minimal residual disease in patients newly treated for multiple myeloma as a factor in survival outcomes.

The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.

A study by researchers at the University of Geneva concludes that prevalent ankle fractures should be considered as osteoporotic fractures and taken into account in fracture - risk assessment.

The new study contradicts the official assessment by the US Department of State, published in January.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

One area that requires scientific expertise is environmental assessment, in which the site that will house the turbines is studied to determine whether drinking water, plants, or animals will be affected by a new wind - power facility.

The data analysed in the study was processed using an advanced life - cycle assessment tool — SCEnAT — developed by Professor Lenny Koh, Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre at the University's Management School and co-author of the paper.

While landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused damage and casualties worldwide, they have not often been the subject of extensive quantitative study or fully incorporated into seismic hazard assessments, say authors of this study that looks at just one scenario among potentially hundreds for a major earthquake in the Seattle area.

In the 2014 soccer World Cup, concussion assessment protocols were not followed in more than 60 percent of plays in which players involved in head collisions were not assessed by sideline health care personnel, according to a study published by JAMA.

Critics of the FDA's assessment point out that it was based on just two limited studies, both of them funded by the plastics industry and denounced by many independent scientists.

They base their assessment on more than 80 studies from around the world that incorporated house - by - house surveys of active cases.