Sentences with phrase «effective reduction of»

The effective reduction of toxic stress in young children could be advanced considerably by a broad - based, multisector commitment in which the profession of pediatrics plays an important role in designing, implementing, evaluating, refining, and advocating for a new generation of protective interventions.

Using Evidence to Accelerate the Safe and Effective Reduction of Congregate Care for Youth Involved With Child Welfare (PDF - 527 KB) Chapin Hall & Chadwick Center (2016) Highlights the steps necessary to reduce the use of congregate care as a needed placement, ensure youth are screened quickly and properly for mental health status, and broaden the scope of community - based treatment options for youth.

... the most effective reduction of tyre and brake emissions is to reduce the vehicle kilometres being driven.

Reforestry, peat bog restoration, the education and especially health / reproduction for women (together make number ONE in effective reduction of carbon / methane)!

While some advocate for 100 % renewable scenarios, it is likely that cost - effective reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions will require a broad mix of technologies.

It is merely one more attempt to block the real change needed to fix our broken food systems and our broken climate, change which instead must be based on food sovereignty and agroecological approaches for agriculture and food production and the effective reduction of greenhouse gases.

Requires the EPA Administrator to: (1) identify those classes or categories of new nonroad vehicles or engines that contribute significantly to the total GHG emissions from such vehicles and that provide the greatest potential for significant and cost - effective reduction of such emissions; and (2) promulgate standards applicable to GHG emissions from these engines or vehicles by December 31, 2012; and (3) promulgate standards applicable to GHG emissions for other classes and categories of vehicles and engines as the EPA Administrator determines appropriate.

The six - cylinder 3.0 TDI clean diesel is equipped with a system for the effective reduction of nitrogen oxides.

«We can get more effective reduction of [shootings] by having youth outreach workers... rather than hiring more police,» he said.

Not exact matches

But while a growing number of European and American companies have begun effective programs — tackling everything from sustainable cotton production and water management to living wages and the reduction of hazardous chemicals — their Canadian peers have seemed slow to follow suit.

If your condition for GHG policy is that you must impose the same price on all sectors of the economy because you want to be cost - effective, that rules out higher prices on some sectors where deep emissions reductions are possible, or lower prices in more politically sensitive areas to ensure you get a policy in place at all.

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

There probably will be a reduction in the trust - based relationships that are the foundation of effective board decision making.

Effective tax rates started diverging again in the late 1990s as globalization, the adoption of territorial tax systems and relatively high U.S. tax rates encouraged tax reduction schemes.

Prior to the recent corporate tax reductions, the effective tax rate on U.S. corporations (actual taxes paid as a fraction of pre-tax profits) was already down to just 20 %.

I don't mean to say there are no good opportunities for CCS, or cases in which CCS represents the most cost - effective means of emissions reductions.

For example, PBO forecasts a significant decline in corporate income tax revenues in 2012 - 13, of which only part is due to the reduction in the tax rate from 16.5 % to 15 %, effective January 1, 2012.

They were certainly effective over the short run, particularly in fostering a significant reduction in the level of investor risk aversion.

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Effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, the Act provides for a permanent reduction of the corporate tax rate from a top graduated rate of 35 percent to a flat rate of 21 percent, as well as a repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT).

This session will share the stories of organizations who are creating and rallying people to effective food recovery and waste reduction initiatives.

Some of the world's leading authorities on climate change have endorsed meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming, including former US Vice President Al Gore, Chair of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Lord Nicholas Stern and former UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King.

In a first - of - its - kind analysis for the hotel industry, food waste reduction programs were shown to be effective and financially beneficial.

-- Financing expected to result in an annual cash interest savings of approximately $ 500,000 net of OID and a reduction of the net effective interest rate from 11.6 % to 6.0 %

The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world's leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.

Fisk is to embark on a research project in March, working with a wide range of large and small food companies in the east midlands in the UK to help them develop effective salt reduction strategies and to solve technical problems surrounding salt reduction.

For example, a review on prevention of maltreatment and associated impairment concluded that programs delivered by paraprofessional home visitors were not effective in reducing child protection reports or associated impairments whereas those delivered by nurses evidenced reductions in child maltreatment.8

Thanks to the (very effective) Back To Sleep / Safe To Sleep recommendations for SIDS reduction, your baby is very likely spending the majority of every 24 hours with pressure on the back of his skull.

The ILO also said that an effective maternity leave «contributes to the health and well - being of mothers and their babies and thus to the achievement of major development goals, including the reduction of child and maternal mortality and improvement of their health» (United Nations, 2009).

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine (SMFM) stated that, «one of the most effective tools to improve labor and delivery outcomes is the continuous presence of support personnel, such as a doula... continuous one - on - one support during labor and delivery was associated with improved patient satisfaction and a statistically significant reduction in the rate of cesarean delivery».

Green gases offer a cost effective way of meeting our 2050 carbon reduction targets, whilst keeping our hot water running and the heating on.

Using the range of green gases we can offer a cost effective way of meeting our 2050 carbon reduction targets, whilst keeping our hot water running and the heating on.

The government needs to carefully consider how consortia can be supported to be effective commissioners, particularly in light of a 45 per cent reduction in expenditure on management by 2014.

Santa sees the Honorary Committee pay tribute to Mayor Jennings for «innovative and effective government» and an «unprecedented reduction of crime».

Danny Alexander: Exceeding all expectations after replacing David Laws and George Osborne's number two, Danny Alexander has been effective at arguing in favour of the deficit reduction strategy.

Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said in a statement that she believes the law will be effective and noted that Washington, D.C., experienced a significant reduction in plastic and paper bag usage after passing a similar measure.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

While many water - quality cleanup efforts focusing on the reduction of phosphorus have been highly effective, that success can also result in a decrease in microbial processes that remove nitrogen from water.

«On the other hand, freestanding graphene has a very flexible surface, and we found that, due to local strain effects, there is an 80 percent reduction in the amount of platinum needed to maintain effective catalysis.»

The work found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

Mindfulness, which aims to increase a person's awareness and acceptance of daily experiences, is currently used in a variety of healthcare settings as a potentially effective skill for stress reduction, emotion, affect and attention regulation.

Yoga, an ancient mind - body practice which originated in India and incorporates physical, mental, and spiritual elements, has been shown in several studies to be effective in improving cardiovascular risk factors, with reduction in the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

«The main goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

«It would really be wonderful if tau reduction turned out to be useful not only in Alzheimer's disease, but also in other disabling neurological conditions for which there currently are no effective treatments,» said senior author Lennart Mucke, MD, the director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and a professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco.

«What a cap - and - trade tries to accomplish is the most cost - effective way to achieve emissions reductions,» says Eric Klein, a senior broker with the New York office of the emissions trading company TFS Green.

In arenavirus - infected animals, however, NO dilated the blood vessels, leading to an exudation of fluids into tissues and thus to a reduction of the effective blood volume, ultimately leading to circularity failure.

«It was surprising to see all these significant changes in A1C and body weight without altering medications or activity level and without aiming for weight reduction,» Dr. Hamdy pointed out, «Which tells us that nutrition therapy can be as effective as medications even after a long duration of the disease.»

A predictable carbon tax would be much more effective than the cumbersome and nontransparent cap - and - trade system and might win broader assent as part of a package of deficit reduction.