Sentences with phrase «effective management at»

This analytical report underscores that, with demands on forests increasing and climate change threatening, efforts to maintain benefits from forests should focus attention on effective management at the field level.

The document highlights that, with demands on forests increasing and climate change threatening, efforts to maintain ecosystem services and benefits from forests should focus attention on effective management at the field level.

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• Sam Tillinghast was appointed president of U.S. private credit at Sun Life Investment Management effective 2018.

A 2011 study on military burn victims revealed that SnowWorld — a VR game that allows users to throw snowballs at penguins while listening to Paul Simon — has proven more effective than morphine in pain management.

This would also lead to effective management of lifestyle disorders,» stated Anoop Pollavaram who is Operating Partner at Bengaluru - based Aspada Investments which is an early - stage venture capital firm.

During that span, the battle with Samsung is the only one that went all the way to a vote, and the only one in which the firm didn't get what it wanted — a sign of just how effective Elliott is at pressuring management to agree to its demands.

But for the most effective leaders, time management isn't a priority at all.

Those in their 50s, for example, lost more than 3 % of their incomes each year between 2008 and 2013, according to research by economist Robert Shapiro for the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution.

Their services are mainly targeted at the corporate world, with the view that the current Learning Management System is neither effective nor practical.

Management, in consultation with the committee, has concluded that one or more material weaknesses exist in the company's internal control over financial reporting and that, as a result, internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2014 and disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2015 and the subsequent interim periods in 2015 and that internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures will not be effective at December 31, 2015.

Because Paycom offers the most complete HR and payroll technology in a single software solution, report data is comprehensive to drive effective human capital decisions at all levels of management, from the C - level on down.

Lead scoring prevents clogging of leads at different stages of the pipeline and also helps in effective lead management.

The project included identifying companies, like American Express, that demonstrate a strong and genuine commitment to diversity, interviewing leading diversity experts, including Bernard Anderson, Wharton practice professor of management, on the characteristics of an effective diversity program, and looking at which companies are doing the best at meeting certain standards and why.

At the same time, the State Assets Supervision Administration has increased the control of Chinese companies moving overseas by setting up an effective management and supervision system.

«The only way the boycott will be effective is if it creates enough reputational damage that regulation becomes a reasonable option or if advertisers leave en masse,» says Brayden King, a professor at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management who studies how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility and policymaking.

12-10-2010 Resignation of Chairman 11-10-2010 Caledonia Mining Announces Third Quarter 2010 Results 10-21-2010 Caledonia Mining Announces the Commissioning of the No. 4 Shaft Project 08-26-2010 Caledonia Mining Announces the Completion of the Underground Installations on the No. 4 Shaft Project 08-18-2010 Caledonia Option Exercise Prices Reduction Becomes Effective 08-12-2010 Caledonia Mining 2010 Second Quarter and Half Year Results and Management Conference Call 06-14-2010 Caledonia Commissions the First Standby Generator at Blanket Gold Mine in Zimbabwe 05-14-2010 Caledonia Mining First Quarter 2010 Results 05-06-2010 Caledonia Installing a Standby Generator at Blanket Gold Mine in Zimbabwe 03-31-2010 Caledonia Mining 2009 Fourth Quarter and Annual Results and Management Conference Call 02-12-2010 Government of Zimbabwe sets out Regulations for Indigenisation 01-29-2010 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Defaults on Bond Repayment to Caledonia Mining and update on timeline for completion of No. 4 Shaft Expansion

Debt consolidation generally only is effective at improving your financial situation if you take steps to improve money management and to pay down your debts.

Dr Lawrence Hrebiniak, Professor of Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, states in his book, Making strategy work: leading effective execution and change: «What's absolutely critical... is that the organization celebrates success.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

Back in the «50s I wrote an article for a nursing magazine to sort out my frustrations at the way terminal patients were treated There was then no «effective management of pain» or hospice care.

Wastewater Management Guidance Manual was published to provide a more advanced look at wastewater strategies and provides information that can help develop an effective partnership with local wastewater treatment facilities.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder seeks the efficient, effective and transparent management of the Commonwealth environmental water portfolio to maximise environmental outcomes at a Basin - scale and over the long - term.

At Towne Park, we utilize Franklin Covey's («Seven Habits of Highly Effective People», «Time Management», etc.) unique methodology for strategic execution, internally branded as 4DX.

Indicating better soil conservation and stronger resistance under MCACs agro-ecological practices, the trends in agro-ecological resistance suggest that sustainable land management practices have been effective at building and conserving soil, water and vegetation over time.

Pernod Ricard today announced several senior management changes effective September 1, including promotions for two top executives currently at Pernod Ricard USA.

Working at Heartland Alliance in Chicago allowed me to provide case management and individual therapy to adults drawing from the following evidence - based models I am trained in and find to be effective: Family Centered Treatment (FCT), Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical - Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

Again, it is imperative that all other potential causes of breastfeeding difficulty are ruled out, because any measure a mother takes to maximize and augment her milk production will be less effective if there are other factors at play, such as poor breastfeeding management or an inability on the baby's part to effectively transfer milk.

Informed by the most up - to - date research, clinicians provide adults with a structured training experience aimed at the teaching and immediate application of practical techniques for effective behavior management.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

I think the availability of effective pain management is a very important aspect of control (and effective pain management is not available at home).

Treatment for ADHD includes education of the individual and his or her family about the nature of ADHD and its management; positive and proactive behavioral interventions that provide structure, consistency, predictability, and teach appropriate skills; parent training to teach and support effective parenting approaches for a child with ADHD; and modifications, support, and accommodations to increase success at school or work.

Interestingly, the UK Border Agency — responsible for securing the UK border at air, rail and sea ports and migration controls — was set up in 2008 following a very similar set of criticisms that forced the then Labour Home Secretary John Reid to declare that the Home Office's immigration directorate was «not fit for purpose» and that a single Agency was needed to secure effective and efficient management of the UK border.

What we need is to get rid of some of the «efficient» packaging of information in markets, management and government and replace it with more «effective» communication at a much more human level.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

If Cuomo were serious about «bringing effective change to State government» he'd be dismantling redundant Authorities and consolidating agencies while sending the parasitic top management bureaucrats who infest them out in the street to seek private sector employment, where they belong, forcing the sale of all those SUVs issued to bigwigs at the Office of Children and Family Services to get more money into the State's coffers, and implementing other radical cost - cutting measures.

Two sustainable development experts delivered keynote addresses: · Elaine Kamarck - Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again · Dr. Nabil Nasr — Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology While in Rochester, Governor Cuomo announced that American Packaging Corporation has committed to building a new manufacturing plant that will add 366 jobs to Monroe County.

Maria Fitzpatrick, a professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University, says pre-kindergarten is particularly effective with children from low - income families — a conclusion drawn by most researchers.

Speaking at the opening of the 2017 executive doctoral research conference on the theme applying evidence - based research to effective management in Accra, Mr. Ibrahim said government believes academia is a strong back bone to businesses.

«We had a hunch that nudging, and especially digital nudging, would be very cost effective, but I was truly surprised to see that the cost effectiveness of nudging is often 100, and even 1,000, times greater than more traditional interventions,» says co-author Shlomo Benartzi, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

The researchers warn that removing marine animals at the top of the food web could significantly disrupt the ocean's overall ecology for potentially millions of years, which is why effective management strategies will be critical.

The researchers, who present their findings at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, suggested that social media developers may want to explore new ways to make content ownership more effective and transparent, as well as consider current collaborative privacy management models and tools.

«Goal achievement — be it accomplishing a task at work, performing well in school, or losing weight — depends to a large extent on how tactical we are at using our resources and also how effective we are at practicing strategic self - management,» says Chen.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Public Health, suggest that current weight management programmes focused on dieting and exercise are not effective in tackling obesity at population level.

«Providers are well - intentioned, but many of the current management and treatment strategies are both expensive and don't appear to be effective at reducing mortality following heart attacks.»

Presented at the American Diabetes Association's 77th Scientific Sessions, the data suggest that fasting plasma glucose levels — also called blood sugar levels — could be helpful in determining the type of diet that is most effective for weight management for people with prediabetes or diabetes.

Dr Tristan Guttridge, who led the study at the Bimini Biological Research Station, Bahamas, explains why this is so vital: «Knowing when the animals are likely to be in certain places will be critical in developing effective management strategies» he said.

In the paper «Having their say: Patients» Perspectives and the Clinical Management of Diabetes,» Dr. Leonard Jack, Jr., Ph.D., M.Sc., Director of the Division of Community Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, and his co-authors Dr. Leandris C. Liburd, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A. and Dr. Pattie Tucker, Dr.P.H., M.P.H. and R.N., propose that healthcare providers can offer more effective diabetes support to their patients by understanding the cultural perspectives that explain their health behavior, to promote adherence and improve health outcomes.

The program ensures effective citizen involvement in decisions about the future of the nuclear weapons complex relative to stopping approval of new production facilities and promoting disarmament and safer waste management and disposal at Department of Energy (DOE) sites.