Sentences with phrase «damage assessments of»

AAAS conducted a damage assessment of 24 village areas in the region of Tskhinvali, Georgia, to corroborate reports by Amnesty International of violence against civilians and property destruction during the Georgia - Russia conflict of August 2008.

Following attacks by the FDLR in May 2009, AAAS was approached by Human Rights Watch to conduct a damage assessment of Busurungi and surrounding areas.

Sonesta Hotels, which represents three major resorts on St. Maarten, issued a statement Wednesday night, detailing the damage assessment of its resorts, as well as the rest of the island.

Not exact matches

Preliminary damage assessment indicates more than 7,300 homes experienced some level of damage from Hurricane Harvey.

That panel was tasked with measuring how the influx of foreign solar panels has caused harm to domestic manufacturers, and submitted recommendations for tariffs based on their assessment of the damages.

Company spokesman Rob Gould said a preliminary assessment of Hurricane Irma's devastation indicated damage to the electrical infrastructure was not as extensive as expected.

Picosecond laser damage performance assessment of multilayer dielectric gratings in vacuum

For example, special assessment condo insurance might cover cost of damages from a fire in the lobby if it exceeds the money your association has available for repairs.

Initial assessments indicate that the number of damaged or destroyed buildings is between 17,000 and 20,000, which housed 54,000 people — about 80 per cent of the total population of the island.

Although mainstream psychiatry is fairly sceptical, an increasing number within the profession acknowledge the damaging effect of abortion on mental health and maintain that the symptoms relating to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are commonly identified in the assessment of post-abortive women.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

Ten days after the start of the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, the blaze still was active and preventing accurate assessments of damage caused to avocado and citrus groves.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

Perinatal events can result in associated longer term health and broader societal costs, as shown by the size of damages paid in obstetric litigation cases, which represent a substantial cost to the NHS.27 Follow - up over weeks or longer to monitor recovery, or a future assessment of the outcomes for mothers and babies at a later date, would act as a vehicle for estimating costs and consequences beyond the perinatal period and shed more light on long term cost effectiveness.

Mr Cameron offered a rare insight into his assessment of the damage that decision eventually meant for him.

The requirements are quantitative, decided by assessments on the amount of damage needed to specific targets to make the owners back away from a crisis.

The Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy has told MPs that the possibility of restoring power sharing in Northern Ireland has been badly damaged by the chief constable's assessment that the IRA were involved in the Northern Bank robbery.

Application requires, inter alia, an assessment of: (a) the anticipated civilian damage or injury; (b) the anticipated military advantage; (c) and whether (a) was «clearly excessive» in relation to (b).

Part S1 (p. 131 +)- Appropriates funding from the Environmental Protection Fund for a variety of projects, including $ 1.3 million for the state's ongoing assessment of Hudson River natural resource damages.

«State officials have indicated they are confident that once it completes damage assessments in all areas, it will far exceed the state's per capita threshold of $ 26.7 million,» the lawmakers wrote in the letter signed by Reps. Richard Hanna, Bill Owens, Chris Gibson, Tom Reed and Paul Tonko.

Astorino said that on Monday he will begin a detailed review of the budget with his budget and finance team to come up with a full assessment of the damage.

The worst of the storm is over, but a total assessment of the damage remains unclear, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a brief phone interview on NY1 today.

At the same time, Cuomo said it was unclear for now if the state would be able to qualify for federal disaster money as a cost assessment of the damage was yet to be determined.

This week's release of regional Brexit damage assessments from the government showed just how punishing the effect of a hard Brexit would be on many of the poorer communities which voted Leave.

A negative perception on the speed of evidence assessment and a lack of willingness to press charges «damages police credibility», it adds.

My office has been in contact with the state farm bureau and relevant state offices regarding the assessment of damage to crops and livestock as a result of the hurricane.

FEMA and the State Department of Environmental Conservation are doing a damage assessment in the region, and if the damage exceeds $ 27.5 million, it will qualify for federal aid.

He said the foreign and defence secretaries believed the probe could cause «serious damage to UK / Saudi security, intelligence and diplomatic cooperation», adding: «The heads of our security and intelligence agencies.share this assessment.»

The row last week seriously damaged the opposition party's carefully crafted public image as saviours of the NHS, and reminded voters of the old assessment that only Labour could trusted with the health service.

Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, faced the scorn of the public, the National Democratic Congress Minority, and some civil society groups, for making ethnocentric comments, after saying northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of the damage from the army worm.

Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, had come under fire for saying, in an interview on Accra - based Star FM, that northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of damage from armyworms.

The delegation will also deploy an assessment team of 10 power transmission specialists provided by the New York Power Authority to evaluate the damage to Puerto Rico's power grid.

After he defeated Teachout at the Working Families Party convention in May, Cuomo had a brusque assessment of the drawn - out process and those who claimed damage to his narrative or brand.

According to him, the agency in collaboration with Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) will carry out an assessment in the camp to ascertain the extent of damage and needs of the victims.

Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, had come under fire for saying in an interview on Accra - based Starr FM, that northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of the damage from the army worm invasion.

«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.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

«I'm cautiously optimistic,» says Michael Danti of the American Schools of Oriental Research, a scholarly organization based in Boston, which this week released an assessment of the damage.

In addition, some types of loss and damage are not included in its assessments.

«Now the assessment of damage can start in earnest.

But studies such as this provide a way to better characterize earthquakes in advance in terms of location, magnitude and rupture progression, and therefore allow a better assessment of damage risk.»

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

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.

Steve McNutt, a team member at the University of Alaska, US, believes the work will prove useful as an added dimension of hazard assessment, especially in issuing advisories for planes, which can be severely damaged by flying through volcanic plumes.

But he hopes that their simple test will help pave the way for more definitive and accurate assessments of consciousness in the severely brain damaged.

Clearly, you know, within a year people were calling it the idiot box and the boob tube and whatever else and there was never any reason to change that assessment; in the entire history of television, it was you know, it did more to damage.

Members and fellows who have paid their assessments in full shall be allowed to call for books and pamphlets, which shall be delivered to them at their expense, on their giving a receipt agreeing to make good any loss or damage and to return the same free of expense to the Secretary at the time specified in the receipt given.

And according to a spokesperson for the Royal Society of Chemistry, «Any assessments should be kept under review as the possibility of damage to the fetus will vary at different stages of pregnancy.»

The number of heavy precipitation events will continue to increase in the assessment area, and impacts from flooding and soil erosion may also become more damaging.

Her current focus is on the effects of anthropogenic sound on the physiology and behavior of fish, substantial contributions to the field on barotrauma (tissue damage) response assessment of fish from pile driving, navy sonar, and tidal turbine noise.