Sentences with phrase «by voluntary control»

These hormones are autonomic and can not be altered by voluntary control.

Not exact matches

If they prove themselves worthy of public confidence by maintaining high standards of competence, if through professional associations and voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters of knowledge, skill, and character, independence of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisted.

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

And with Clear on Calories, America's leading beverage companies have come together through a voluntary commitment to make the calories in their products even more clear and consumer - friendly by putting calorie information at consumers» fingertips at every point of purchase, including containers, company - controlled vending machines and fountain machines.

This is backed up by all key trade fair and exhibition indicators determined by the society for the voluntary control of trade fair and exhibition data as well as the opinions of exhibitors and trade audience.

The statistics for the fair are independently audited by Ernst & Young AG on behalf of the Gesellschaft zur Freiwilligen Kontrolle von Messe - und Ausstellungszahlen (FKM), a society for the voluntary control of fair and exhibition statistics.

Interscholastic Athletics: Statute 13 -36-4 (2003) gives the school board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Association.

MoveOn also responded to electrical blackouts and skyrocketing energy costs in California by calling for cost controls on electricity utility companies, organizing a nationwide «roll your own energy blackout» - a voluntary, three - hour electricity - free evening on June 21, in which more than 10,000 participants turned out lights and unplugged TVs and other appliances to protest Bush's energy plan.

In Hamburg, I had served on a committee of voluntary citizens — appointed by the local parliament — that controls and advises Hamburg's environmental ministry.

Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

The NOAA team, led by James Butler, credit the improvement to a combination of voluntary controls and measures adopted under the Montreal Protocol.

Commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease (after the famed New York Yankee slugger who succumbed to it in 1941 at age 37), ALS is a poorly understood, incurable disorder characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons (nerve cells that control voluntary motion).

The individual had the characteristic pattern of MCS: minimum motor control, mainly voluntary eye movements, and, infrequently, single words or other vocalizations; he could not even eat by mouth.

Investigation of movement patterns produced by different patient groups and healthy adults provides a window into the brain with respect to the control of voluntary movement.

Collectively, these issues led to a voluntary phasing out of PFOS by the primary manufacturer in Western countries in 2002, a consequent steep decline in production in those regions, and international controls such as inclusion in the Stockholm Convention.

SMA is typically marked by the degeneration of voluntary muscle movement including the muscles that control crawling, walking, swallowing or breathing.

It is caused by a missing or defective gene that maintains the health of spinal nerves called motor neurons, which control voluntary muscle function.

However, to retain their independence, stand - alone schools need to come to these service providers as voluntary, paying customers — not as units controlled by a larger system.

That distinction mimics DeVos's account on her web site, where she reiterates her support for high standards, accountability, and local control, noting, «When Governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.»

Admission arrangements run by local authorities for community and voluntary controlled schools «are almost always clear and uncomplicated so it is easy for parents and others to understand how places will be allocated» says the report, published late last year.

The word «organic» is a term that has been assigned a legal definition and is regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AA FCO)-- a voluntary membership association of local, state and federal agencies that regulates the sale and distribution of animal feeds and animal drug remedies.

The general public inevitably picks up the bill for this fallout though taxation required to run overburdened animal control services, dog wardens service, pounds Etc. or by voluntary donation and support given to charities and non profits who handle their proportion of the casualties.

After the nerves that affect conscious proprioception go, next are the nerves for voluntary motion (including voluntary control of urination / defecation), followed by the nerves for superficial pain perception, and ultimately the nerves for deep pain perception (usually tested by applying a strong pinch to the toe).

AAFCO stands for the Association of American Feed Control Officials and is a voluntary membership association of local, state and federal agencies charged by law to regulate the sale and distribution of dog and cat foods.

The observation by some clients of recovery of voluntary tail wagging in response to positive stimuli, is suggestive of some recovery of descending control.

«AAFCO» refers to the Association of American Feed Control Officials, which is a voluntary, non-governmental membership association of local, state and federal agencies that are charged by law with the regulation of the sale and distribution of animal feed, including pet food;

We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.

«We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail... The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate or mankind will breed itself into oblivion.»

While many different animal and plant species can be said to shape their various ecosystems by activity «pre-programmed» by their genomes, no single species until human beings has had its own future within its voluntary control via the outsized impacts it has had through its tool creation and use and through the ability to coordinate social activity, think alone and deliberate together via the use of language.

The voluntary measures put on the table at Paris by over 100 nations are a welcome step, but unless there are strong measures to reduce emissions beyond 2030, global emissions would remain at a high level, practically guaranteeing that young people inherit a climate running out of their control.

[91] The Cancún agreement, agreed in 2010, includes voluntary pledges made by 76 countries to control emissions.

The paralysis is sometimes the result of a traumatic brain injury that damages the myelin sheath of the nerve cells; locked - in syndrome is caused by damage to the brain's vertical pons, a region that controls voluntary movement.

For Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander People, voluntary schemes need to be governed by Aboriginal community controlled organisations — and by community organisations in the five new sites — with agreed entry and exit criteria, clearly specified processes and with the terms of the scheme negotiated and agreed according to individual circumstances.

(b) Monthly income shall be imputed to an unemployed or underemployed parent if such unemployment or underemployment is found by the court to be voluntary on that parent's part, absent a finding of fact by the court of physical or mental incapacity or other circumstances over which the parent has no control.

The voluntary act of transferring legal rights of the care, custody, and control of a child to any benefits, which, by law, would flow to or from the child — such as inheritance — to another family.

However, home - visiting programs offer a solution: In a long - term randomized controlled trial conducted over nearly two decades, the Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), a voluntary home visiting program, cut child abuse and neglect by 48 percent among participating families.

Besides the fundamental notion that children maintain separate representations of attachment to mother and father in the first years of life (Belsky and Rovine 1988), it has been argued that relationship - specific representations merge into a unitary pattern by late middle childhood (Dykas et al. 2006), as executive functioning becomes more efficient, allowing better voluntary control of attentional processes, and sophisticated appraisal skills that enable children to integrate multiple and different representations into more abstract models (Zimmermann and Iwanski 2015).