Sentences with phrase «conduct impact analyses»

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While the president's current tax plan still contains many unknowns, the Tax Policy Center conducted an analysis of Trump's campaign plan and its budget impact in October of 2016.

Conducting a carbon footprint analysis reveals the full spectrum of your company's environmental impact and helps you address it.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

There have been clouds and clouds of smoke generated about the impact of Ontario's impending introduction of its Harmonized Sales Tax.  Fortunately there is finally now some substance out there in terms of a detailed analysis conducted by Statistics Canada that was recently released by the Ontario NDP. And what is shows is quite surprising.

He said he wasn't clear on how many more resources it would take for Loblaw to conduct the analysis beyond the work it has already done around the impact rising minimum wages in some provinces would have on the company.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.)-- The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today issued the following statement calling on Governor Jerry Brown to delay the implementation of proposed «Safer Consumer Products Regulations,» also known as «green chemistry» regulations, until a robust economic analysis is conducted to determine the economic impact pact of these regulations on California businesses.

Lead or support selected evaluation and impact assessment research projects on priority topics, both through original analysis of Rainforest Alliance - collected data and by collaborating with or supporting external research partners to conduct independent assessments;

Anderson et al. 8 conducted a meta - analysis (n = 11 observational studies) to examine the impact of breastfeeding on cognitive development after adjusting for socio - economic confounders, including the level of maternal education.

He has worked for microfinance institutes in Peru and Brazil, expanding rural development capacities and conducting social impact analyses on development and governance issues.

The ordinance would require all city agencies and departments to conduct an annual gender analysis of the impacts of their policies across communities in Buffalo.

Agricultural experts in Yobe and Borno on Tuesday observed that lack of consistency in the conduct of soil analysis was having a negative impact on the...

BP Eric Adams called on the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) to conduct an «economic impact analysis» on recent outages to study the loss «economic productivity of hundreds of thousands of workers» and its impact on local businesses and lost taxes.

To conduct their analysis, they reviewed 158 previous studies on forest elephant behaviors and their cascading ecological impacts.

Additional studies are needed to fully understand the health impact of sugar - sweetened beverages and diet sodas,» said lead study author Jiantao Ma, Ph.D., who conducted the analysis as part of his doctoral thesis as a student in the Nutrition Epidemiology Program at the USDA HNRCA and the Friedman School.

They conducted nine separate analyses, which spanned 2003 to 2014 and covered all of China, to compare the impact of aerosols compared to clouds on solar power generation with and without technology that tracks the sun as it moves across the sky.

In the final part of the study, the researchers conducted economic analyses in order to understand the economic impacts of reforestation.

To distinguish between water quality impacts from groundwater and stormwater runoff from the St. Lucie Estuary versus other impacts directly related to periodic discharges from Lake Okeechobee, Lapointe and his collaborators conducted a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of septic systems, groundwater, and surface waters.

One limitation to all studies that aim to quantify the environmental impacts of human diets is that many of the life - cycle analyses used by researchers are conducted in other countries.

The study draws on an earlier analysis the lab conducted for the Western Governors» Association to identify areas where renewable resources are the strongest, most consistent, and most concentrated, and where development would avoid protected areas and minimize the overall impact on wildlife habitat.

The Building Technologies Office (BTO) recently released Evaluation of Building America and Selected Building Energy Codes Program Activities, a retrospective benefit - cost analysis conducted by Industrial Economics (IEc) that quantifies the impact of selected Building America activities in the new residential construction market.

A Discovery phase includes interviews with thought leaders in the space, development of case studies from other sectors, framing of potential organizational models, and conducting an economic impact analysis.

A research assistant will be supervised by Dr. Kim and will be responsible for organizing a student - level data set that will be used for the impact analyses, cleaning the data set at each wave of data collection, monitoring and reporting attrition across waves, and conducting descriptive analyses to check for baseline equivalence, attrition across waves, and posttest differences on the child - level outcomes.

Wisconsin's Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which conducts budget - related analyses for state legislators, has provided fodder to both sides of the Milwaukee voucher debate with periodic estimates of the financial impact of eliminating the program based on a wide range of assumptions regarding changes in public schoolenrollments.

Chetty et al. conducted most of their analysis of long - term impacts using a dataset collapsed to class means.

IZZI HERNANDEZ - CRUZ is an associate consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative analyses of school and district performance metrics to support strong accountability and turnaround evaluation efforts in both traditional and charter schools.

Throughout its history, IDRA has conducted extensive research and analysis on a range of Texas and national educational issues impacting public school children, including school finance, school integration and school privatization options.

To shed more light on this teacher factor, in six of our sites, we were able to conduct a special analysis to learn even more about the impact of the student engagement variable.

Although leadership - related impact studies are challenging to conduct, the analyses hold great potential for informing effective principal talent management design and leadership workforce retention.

Three months is NOT enough time to conduct a thorough analysis of the impact that converting 100 % of York City schools to charters would have on the York City community and students.

Separate analyses were conducted on student scores and teacher practices at these schools across the 2 years, in order to investigate the impact of the reform effort.

GRAYSON COOPER is a consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative research and analysis and assisting schools and districts implementing an Opportunity Culture.

JULI KIM is a senior consultant with Public Impact conducting qualitative research and analysis.

ELAINE HARGRAVE is a consultant at Public Impact, conducting research and data analyses to guide firm - wide insights and identify trends in innovation and policy reform in education.

Center staff have recently led and / or participated in psychometric and research work for the PARCC consortium and states using PARCC content (i.e., Louisiana, Massachusetts) such as conducting analyses and advising on issues related to comparability of test scores across test forms with varying proportions of PARCC content, different administration modes, and other conditions that may impact the comparability claims that can be made about the test scores.

Description of Recall: ON CERTAIN PASSENGER VEHICLES, ANALYSIS OF AN A SIDE IMPACT CRASH TEST CONDUCTED BY THE NHTSA; S NEW CAR ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (NCAP) INDICATED THAT THE OUTBOARD ANCHORAGE OF THE DRIVER»S SEAT BELT COULD DISCONNECT BECAUSE OF CONTACT BETWEEN THE SEAT TRIM AND THE ANCHORAGE CONNECTOR WHEN THE SEAT WAS ADJUSTED TO ITS LOWEST POSITION.

«Analyses conducted by the credit reporting agencies and credit score developers FICO and VantageScore show only modest credit scoring impacts,» Eric Ellman, a senior vice president of the Consumer Data Industry Association, said in a statement when the changes were first announced.

According to a detailed analysis of the Federal Reserve's Senior Loan Officer Survey, conducted by the Urban Institute, QM has had «almost no impact in the government sponsored enterprise (GSE — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) or government agency (Ginnie Mae) market...»

Recently, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) conducted their own analysis to determine the impact the new tax code may have on home values.

«To determine the potential cost and impact of the program, we conducted an internal analysis to see which part of our workforce is likely to take advantage of it and how that might translate into better employee retention and attraction,» said Dave Almeda, the company's chief people officer.

In addition, Compassion's Program Effectiveness Research department conducts longer - term, in - depth analyses of the impact of our work.

The fact that numerous peer reviewed studies have attempted to quantify impacts (e.g. Yohe et al. [2007]-RRB- demonstrates that even if you do not understand the need to conduct this type of analysis, others do.

We work hand in hand with the brands in conducting life cycle analysis, so that we fully understand the impact on their specific product.

«There is a great risk that if regulators and stakeholders do not conduct the type of analyses suggested here, we will end up committing significant amounts of money and effort to improve resilience, yet have little constructive impact on the probabilities or actual levels of future customer outages,» the authors wrote.

An analysis of the ACP's climate change impact and that of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, conducted for the Sierra Club by physicist Richard Ball, showed that building these two pipelines would result in the emissions of twice the climate pollution of Virginia's entire current greenhouse gas footprint.

That is why we conduct intensive research and analysis about American energy, especially the impact of government regulation on our energy.

In order to effectively mainstream gender within their health adaptation to climate change programmes, managers learn to conduct a gender analysis of health vulnerability and adverse health impacts of climate change, and to design gender - responsive adaptation programmes and actions, thanks to the practical and programmatic recommendations.

Riverkeeper retained Synapse to assess the potential impacts to energy reliability and electric power sector air emissions associated with the construction and operation of a closed - cycle cooling system as the «best technology available» (BTA) for the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in order to inform the analysis being conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

The word is that the Department of Housing plans to finally update the requirements for non-residential buildings imminently, but that will entail a lengthy process, including a regulatory impact analysis being conducted and a draft regulation being published and sent out to consultation.

The model behind the research is available for scientists and policymakers to design their own scenarios for bioenergy, conduct sensitivity analysis, and get immediate feedback showing the full dynamics, including both short and long run impacts.

In terms of jobs, economics and U.S. energy security, Keystone XL makes sense — without significant climate or environmental impacts, according to the U.S. State Department, which conducted five analyses of the project.