Sentences with phrase «experts convene»

Global experts convene at Jurong Bird Park to discussed conservation strategies for the endangered songbirds.

Although most states require only a handful of tests, a panel of experts convened by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the March of Dimes recommends newborns be screened for 30 genetic disorders, including hypothyroidism, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia.

A panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health in 1986 recommended that home monitors not be used for babies who do not have an increased risk of sudden unexpected death.

A panel of experts convened in 2007 by the prestigious Institute of Medicine estimated that «well below half» of the procedures doctors perform and the decisions they make about surgeries, drugs, and tests have been adequately investigated and shown to be effective.

A federal board wanted study details redacted for biosecurity reasons but 22 experts convened last week at a WHO meeting disagreed and will create a system for more rigorous oversight of such research

Join leading policy experts convened by Science / AAAS to analyze the election results and what they mean for critical...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Nuclear Weapons Complex Assessment Committee, a panel of experts convened to evaluate RRW, agrees, finding no reason to believe that such features would «substantially reduce the current reliance on guns, guards and gates» in its April assessment report.

The report — issued by dozens of experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine — says so - called germline editing, in which genetic changes are passed to future generations, should happen only when there's no «reasonable alternative» treatment.

A panel of outside experts convened by the FDA voted 10 - 0 Wednesday to recommend the approval of Novartis» CAR - T therapy, called CTL019, for the treatment of children and young adults with advanced leukemia.

An international team of experts convened by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues will also explore the best ways to ensure gross ethical violations do not occur in medical research in any part of the world.

The US Food and Drug Administration should consider approving the French «abortion pill» mifepristone (RU486) on the basis of European data, rather than waiting for clinical trials in the US, according to a panel of experts convened by the US National Academy of Sciences.

But while the lunar timeline and the Ares program are under scrutiny by a blue - ribbon panel of independent experts convened by the White House, the robotic precursor to human exploration continues apace.

IN 2016 SEVERAL TOP cancer experts convened at a forum sponsored by Partners HealthCare to produce a report on the technologies that were most likely to transform cancer care during the next decade.

Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

A panel of experts convened by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) has just analyzed that very question and found «reasonable agreement.»

With more U.S. public schools entering the restructuring phase under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, experts convened here last week agreed that the remedies for schools and districts that don't meet their achievement targets have so far had more bark than bite.

The lack of a generally accepted method of diagnosis, treatment, and follow - up for those children is «a major public health problem,» a panel of medical experts convened by the NIH said in a statement released last week.

Fifteen years ago, the National Reading Panel, a group of reading experts convened by Congress, flagged fluency as a pillar of reading instruction, along with phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension.

To make sure no California child is left off - line, all teachers must be specially trained to deliver technology instruction and the state also needs a dedicated leader to oversee implementation of big picture strategies, says a panel of experts convened to help transition K - 12 classrooms into true 21st century learning environments.

Currently, there is a meeting of experts convening in San Diego to help address this issue.

Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on its artistic excellence and artistic merit.

On balance if you look at all the things the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of experts convened by the United Nations to advise governments in responding to global warming] has been doing over the last number of years, they were trying very hard to put in all the peer - reviewed serious stuff.

The report, by a panel of experts convened by the society, says more research is needed on geoengineering techniques, and that it should involve international collaborations and discussions with the public.

Updates below Experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences have weighed in with valuable reports on the two main «geoengineering» strategies for countering global warming driving by the buildup of greenhouse gases:

The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake - damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation:

PS — the BBC article stated that «experts convened by the BBC concludes [sic] that climate change is «real and severe», but maybe not «catastrophic»,» where Lovelock leaned toward the latter.

Greg is a member of the California Financial Opportunities Roundtable, a select group of experts convened by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the USDA Economic Development to address the financial needs of communities in California.

She is Co-Chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a body of experts convened by the mayor to advise the city on adaptation for its critical infrastructure.

In August 2011, a panel of world - leading experts convened in Melbourne to examine the methods used to analyse the Bureau's temperature data.

The Rorvik record exhibits maximum GEM concentrations in the late 1980s but is likely only representative of a local pattern as pointed out by a panel of international experts convened in Madison, Wisconsin as part of the 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (August 2006)(1).

The reports were produced by committees of experts convened by the National Research Council to address the [statement of task], and their findings were peer reviewed.

A panel of SEO experts convened at Search Marketing Expo shared research and their own personal views on what SEO tactics work, and which don't.

My delegation considers that the four - day meeting of experts convened by States party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva in May, provided an important opportunity to explore the fundamental legal, ethical and societal issues raised by one such possible advancement, lethal autonomous weapon systems.

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The announcement is the result of months of consultation and study by an expert panel convened to help the government write the policy.

The IARC evaluates substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.

Commissioners Victoria Lipnic and Chai Feldblum are co-chairing an anti-harassment task force convening experts from the employer, advocate, and academic communities to identify effective strategies for preventing and remedying harassment in the workplace.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) will convene a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday during which MillerCoors and experts critical of banks» involvement in physical commodities activities and infrastructure assets such as storage facilities and pipelines are likely to heavily criticize banks like Goldman and JPMorgan, which both own large warehouses that store aluminum and trade derivatives contracts reflecting commodity prices.

Convene top international experts to discuss economic, financial, energy security and climate change issues.

Experts from CBRE, Gensler, Convene, Delos, Industrious, Serendipity Labs, and various others addressed topics from a landlord's perspective and also presented useful and informative content on the future of work and the workplace.

Policymakers, Energy & Environment Experts, Industry & Government Leaders Convene in Seattle to Define Prospects for Expanding Trans - Pacific Energy Trade (April 28 2014)

A grant committee featuring national, state and local experts in the areas of long - term recovery, nonprofit and government leadership, and the issue areas identified during the assessment has been convened and held its first meeting on January 11, 2018.

The 40 - strong cross-denominational group now convenes every few months to pray about serious youth violence and to hear from experts.

The term was first introduced in expert meetings convened by the Smithsonian Institution Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), NAFTA's Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the Consumer Choice Council (CCC) in 1998.

The guidelines are outcomes from a recent expert panel convened for an ACSM scientific roundtable on youth football and heat stress.

Responding to an increase in academic and emotional problems among kids in the United States, experts in child and adolescent well - being convened at Stanford University in July 2007 to envision a coordinated approach to helping schools and families develop alternative success models to align with research on healthy child development.

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To that end, U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell Jr. and U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, co-sponsors of the ConTACT bill, officially announced on September 27, 2011 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be convening a panel of experts to develop national guidelines for the management of sports concussion in youth.

To answer that question, the Aspen Institute's Sports & Society program convened writers, medical professionals, policy experts, and former NFL players to discuss «The Future of Football» on January 25.

Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent developed the School Food Plan working with a specially convened expert panel drawn from all those sectors with a keen interest in and responsibility for school food.

An expert consultation was convened to review the scientific evidence on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding, formulate recommendation for practice on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding and develop recommendation for research need in this area.