Sentences with phrase «change policy analyses»

This two - valued approach would provide clarity to climate change policy analyses, which often result in misleading debates about policy trade - offs.

While at Promethium Carbon she advised international organizations on greenhouse gas reporting, climate change policy analysis and strategy development.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Because of the raising of the standard deduction and other changes like the reduction of the SALT deduction only around 5 % of filers will itemize deductions under the new Republican tax plan, (7 million filers estimated in linked Tax Policy Center report, page 7, in analysis of previous House version).

I have no doubt that the growth forecast numbers will change when we do our full analysis in July, and that will have implications for our projection of inflation and our policy deliberations.

Our analysis shows the overall economy improves, taxes are lower and pollution emissions are reduced,» said John M. Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

This is Edgardo's second guest post as a PEF member, following his, first, which was an analysis of the impact of fiscal policy changes on post-tax income distribution.

Employees work in approximately eight branches of the OCE, including Sustainable Development, Agricultural Labor Affairs, World Agricultural Outlook Board, Climate Change Program Office, and the Offices of the Chief Meteorologist, Environmental Markets, Energy Policy and New Uses, and Risk Assessment and Cost - Benefit Analysis.

They inform the Institute's research and policy agenda and contribute their knowledge and analysis to further the Institute's efforts to impact public debate in support of progressive change.

The changes wrought by the proposed legislation will have a much bigger effect on some groups — especially those who get insurance through their employers and those on Medicaid — than estimated by recent analysis from independent healthcare policy experts such as the Brookings Institution and credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings

Using textual analysis of FOMC minutes and transcripts, the study concluded that stock price movements cause Fed policy changes.

From 1990 to 2005, he was Director Fiscal Policy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statePolicy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statepolicy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statements.

His own work included some rudimentary analysis of social policies in light of their effects on the poor and some effort to change them.

The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recently released results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

On the issue of economic policy change, the article analyses the military - industrial complex in Egypt today:

A Capital analysis of his legislative activity in recent years helps fill in the details of the coalitions he has built and what policy changes he seems to support.

The analyses found that the policy change would help support immigrant families by expanding job opportunities, while modestly lowering insurance premiums for all state drivers and improving public safety on roadways, with the fiscal costs of implementing the proposal more than offset by added revenues.

Campaign group Justice welcomed today's review as a «sensible and clear - headed» analysis of the Human Rights Act, with director of human rights policy Eric Metcalfe saying it made a «refreshing change from ill - informed attacks» on the law.

Most of the employment growth upstate involved jobs in lower paying sectors, according to an analysis with the assistance of the Fiscal Policy Institute of data showing changes between the second quarters of 2010 and 2016.

Thus, in our analysis of the congressional budget resolution, we assumed that if 20 percent of a given account is R&D in FY 1996, 20 percent of that account would continue to be R&D in each of the outyears unless specific policy changes (e.g., elimination of an R&D program) were described.

Security group calls U.S. unprepared for Arctic changes The analysis from the National Snow and Ice Data Center comes on the heels of several scientific and policy papers in the past week warning about the consequences of Arctic ice loss.

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

As a start toward better policy making, the administration should put forward a detailed analysis justifying each major proposed policy change.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

Nature Climate Change published the analysis, which shows that policies with mandatory compliance are associated with the largest reductions in power plant emissions.

You can have the analysis recommend policy changes, but at some point the political process has to kick in, and that is much harder to implement.

According to their analysis, groundwater extraction and changes in aquifer management policies, driven largely by subsidizes and new technology, reduced the state's total wealth held in groundwater by $ 110 million per year between 1996 and 2005.

How Changing Reputations Alter Demand for Selective U.S. Colleges,» by Randall Reback, associate professor at Barnard College of Columbia University, and Molly Alter, a research analyst for the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University, will be published online this month in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Also in Vietnam, fellow Anh Tung Pham will provide analysis to support policy - making decisions related to helping cities adapt to climate change.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

The analysis finds that a single policy tool — fossil fuel subsidy removal — could deliver emissions reductions equivalent to one - quarter of all current country commitments under the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change.

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«This research can be a starting point for a richer public dialogue on whether new policy is needed to fully value the environmental benefits of growing energy crops and making other land use changes,» says Gary Radloff, director of Midwest energy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy Institute.

The agency is to be commended for its proactive approach in clarifying its goals and in changing its research and analysis policies to attempt to ensure optimum science returns from the investment in missions.

The policy change provided Phillipi and her colleagues with a handy way of assessing before - and - after changes in pacifier use and breast - feeding, but their analysis lacks the rigor of a carefully designed and controlled study.

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

We want to be clear that our analysis can not establish definitively whether the policies of charter schools cause changes in student achievement.

Such compensatory policies generate a negative relationship between changes in school spending and student outcomes that would bias analyses of the effects of school spending based on correlations alone.

We also adjusted the data to account for changes in state spending on education and for parents» educational levels, which provides controls for simultaneous changes in state policies or differences in demographics that might confound the analysis of how accountability systems influenced student achievement.

On the benefits side, a serious analysis would estimate the pension wealth of employees, based on how long they work for the state, before and after the policy change.

The rapid pace of change on the complex, competitive stage of international development — similar to what Heifetz and Laurie term «radically altered environments» in their landmark 1997 article «The Work of Leadership» — obligates UNICEF to prepare its leaders to solve stubborn problems by combining sound policy analysis and political mapping.

But that affects the validity of my analysis only if the NAEP test accommodation policy for New York City changed over the course of the time period we are discussing.

In addition to writing and co-writing nearly 100 papers and book chapters, she has also co-written three books: By Design: Planning Better Research in Higher Education, and Who Will Teach: Policies that Matter (both published by Harvard University Press), and Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Oxford University Press), which received honorable mention from the American Publishers Association for the best mathematics & statistics book of 2003.

As with our other largest cost drivers, as part of our full regulatory analysis, we considered two alternatives to this policy change.

Our own analysis of administrative enrollment data, which allows us to examine family background for all students (not just the youngest ones) and for years including the most recent policy changes, tells a somewhat more optimistic story.

A follow - up analysis by the Brown Center on Education Policy, released last week, concludes that recent changes to the program have greatly reduced the number of «glaringly undeserving winners.»

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