Sentences with phrase «concerns impacting the development»

Developing methods to deliver cells and to reduce contamination of hESC - derived product preparations are major concerns impacting the development and application of stem cell therapies,» said Emmanuel Baetge, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Novocell.

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These vary during the different phases of well development and have different scales of impact: Vibration may affect only people very close to wells, whereas stress from, for example, concerns about possible water contamination may have a wider reach.
Certain matters discussed in this news release are forward - looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, doubts about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, the need to obtain additional funding, risks in product development plans and schedules, rapid technological change, changes and delays in product approval and introduction, customer acceptance of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, market acceptance, the lengthy sales cycle, proprietary rights of the Company and its competitors, risk of operations in Israel, government regulations, dependence on third parties to manufacture products, general economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Opposition came in part from Grant Gibbons, shadow minister of economic development and a member of political party One Bermuda Alliance, who had concerns about the details and lack of economic impact assessment.
In addition to the particular impacts of the proposed development, the FMFN expressed overall concern with the cumulative impact of industrial development on their ability to exercise their treaty and Aboriginal rights, including the rights to hunt, fish, and gather culturally - important resources.
The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.
«Diageo is committed to minimising our environmental impact and we are, like many of our consumers, increasingly concerned about the negative environmental impact associated with the irresponsible disposal of plastic straws,» said David Croft, Diageo's global sustainable development director.
Officials with the Tandem Challenge Group, the main opponent of the proposal, say the focus on affordability takes away from the more important concerns of density, traffic, safety and the impact the development could have.
«Our primary concern is that we want to be as certain as we can that water won't be an issue for the park and for our neighbors to the west,» said board president Jeff Cook.Next month, the Park Board will vote on requiring a 0.6 - acre land donation or a $ 109,000 cash payment as a development impact fee.
In Massachusetts, environmental concerns for wind energy development include direct impacts to birds, bats, and forest fragmentation.
Applied social services may be concerned with the impacts of father absence on children's social development (including juvenile delinquency and engagement in criminal activities), on the reasons why men do or do not provide child support, or the role of father figures in child physical abuse.
Much of contemporary social science and policy research is concerned with fathers» impacts on children's socioemotional development.1, 2 Yet material contributions made by fathers («breadwinning») remain central to an array of impacts on children, 3 including with respect to children's educational attainment and prospects for social success.
Concerning ourselves with the relationship between our parenting choices and the impact on the neural development of our children is pretty darn important if we want to look at potential ramifications for adulthood.
But the review did not allay local concerns over the impact of the development on the community's character and whether it would lead to regular commercial air travel at Republic.
Conservation and environmental groups are concerned a convention would impact the «forever wild» clause that protects the Adirondack and Catskills regions from development and environmental degradation.
Tokumbo Shobowale, Chief of Staff to Deputy Mayor Robert Steel, who testified on behalf of the administration, said he had «grave concerns» about the impact of the legislation, which the Economic Development Corporation warned this week would drive away more than $ 7 billion in investment.
The impact of the economic development advertising was singled out for concern: ESDC had received more than 18,000 applications for state - backed support, but only 10 percent of those businesses that applied were actually eligible.
Entitled Social science and epigenetics: opportunities and challenges, the symposium will seek to examine how multidisciplinary research into epigenetics — the science of the lasting marks that modify the expression of the genes encoded in our DNA — might help provide answers to societal concerns including why deprivation has such a marked impact on child development and on health outcomes.
Each of these provisions were primary concerns of mine because of their impact on families, students, and local economic development,» Faso said.
Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contributions.
Grommet tube placement surgery is carried out in an operating theatre with the use of general anaesthetic, which is a major point of concern for parents who worry about its potential negative impact on brain development in young children.
«I remain skeptical,» her statement says, «that the listing of ringed seals based on a 100 year weather projection was justified, and I am concerned that this designation would severely impact any economic development from Northwest all the way to our border with Canada.»
Scientists have discovered that rising ocean temperatures slow the development of baby fish around the equator, raising concerns about the impact of global warming on fish and fisheries in the tropics.
Last week, we reported that the editor in chief of a Wiley journal, Land Degradation & Development, has temporarily stepped down while the journal investigated similar concerns about why the journal's impact factor had jumped dramatically recently.
Greenfield has expressed concerns that modern technology, and in particular social networking sites, may have a negative impact on child development.
Through our current campaign, Our Common Waters, and with exposure to increased oil and gas development near our homes and communities, we have grown concerned about hydraulic fracturing (commonly called «fracking») and its impact on water, air, soil, wildlife habitat, and human health.
The new developments presented here concern the addition of a correlated sampling technique that takes into account the impact of local perturbations (coolant density, Doppler effect) on the neutron transport.
To ensure workforce development positively impacts the organization, HR managers should map the critical employee lifecycle stages not only through the lens of worker experience but also concerning organizational goals and improvement opportunities.
«If there are concerns about the impact of having students with disabilities in our classrooms, perhaps the focus should be on providing additional teaching and professional development resources rather than singling out a student or group of students.»
However, despite the enthusiasm for both school restructuring and transformational leadership, the findings from international meta - analytic work comparing the impact of various approaches to educational leadership, along with wider developments and concerns over quality teaching and student performance noted in earlier chapters, caused a re-examination of the worth of instructional leadership.
With the advent of better battery technology, more efficient power management solutions, ever increasing oil prices, and concerns about the automobile's impact on the environment, resurgence in the development of electric cars has ensued.
The primary concern with puppies is that prior to about 12, musculoskeletal development is still underway, and there is some concern that the body is not quite ready to fully support too much vigorous exercise, particularly when it is high impact or overly solicited (called «forced exercise»).
Belize Alliance of Conservation Non-Government Organizations, BACONGO, stated, «we would like to express our concerns over the escalating pace of coastal development, the lack of a coordinated national coastal zone management plan and the increasing cumulative impacts on marine resources and marine - based livelihoods.
Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.
To address wildlife concerns, ACCIONA conducted environmental impact studies on birds, bats, and wetland habitat, which were shared during an extensive county permitting and review process during the project development phase.
This analytical document demonstrates that the current global energy system raises a wide array of concerns ranging from resource depletion and technological development to environmental impacts.
Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.
BSBO and ABC hope that these concerns will be reflected in any future assessments of the environmental impact of Icebreaker and other proposed offshore wind energy development in the Great Lakes.
I'll start off with this short essay written by University of Oregon Professor Greg Bothun that I think nicely sums up the many reasons we all ought to be concerned with the path of China's economic development and associated energy use and environmental impact:
As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility - scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following -LSB-...]
As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility - scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following comments on the proposed amendments to Regulation 359/09 as per the Regulation Proposal Notice, dated August 4, 2015.
Residents not engaged in turbine developments have been pitted against neighbours, over concerns with health impacts and quality of life issues.
Development activities in the Arctic (for example, oil and gas, minerals, tourism, and shipping) are of concern to Indigenous communities, from both perceived threats and anticipated benefits.149 Greater levels of industrial activity might alter the distribution of species, disrupt subsistence activities, increase the risk of oil spills, and create various social impacts.
The task, from the offices in land - locked New Delhi, included an assessment of current policy concerns and developments with regards to the ban on using organotin compounds in antifouling paints and an assessment of their environmental impacts.
Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of community groups, individuals and families concerned about the impact of industrial - scale wind power development on the economy, on the natural environment, and on human health in Ontario.
Due to the rapid increase in wind development projects in the Northeast, Wildlife Biologists and Natural Resource Managers are expressing their growing concerns regarding large scale development and its impacts to sensitive habitat and the wildlife that inhabit these areas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a seminal report recommending that development of the Orion Khulna coal plant in Bangladesh — which the Export - Import Bank of the United States (U.S. Ex-Im Bank) is reportedly considering financing — should be halted due to concerns about the negative impacts the project poses to the World Heritage Sundarbans forest.
In the declaration, the Ministers express concern that potential adverse impacts on health could overwhelm the response capacity of the health sector and could jeopardize progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
With concerns over climate change and health impacts of air pollution growing and due to cost reductions in renewable technology, similar developments are taking place in many parts of the world, making the German experience an interesting case study for energy policy in other countries.
We work with clients to identify and deal with these issues, including advice on: state and local taxes or credits applicable to renewable energy projects, including property taxes; and local government impact fees, and generally assisting clients with local governments on project development activity and issues, such as county road issues that can be a major concern.
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