Sentences with phrase «first national evaluation»

The authors concluded that the findings of this study provided the first national evaluation of a significant proportion of women choosing publicly funded home birth in Australia; however, the sample size did not have sufficient power to draw a conclusion about safety.

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Culminating months of controversy and scientific debate, Wednesday's decision by the 12 advisers of the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction — part of the National Institutes of Health — is the first official, government action related to the plastics chemical.

He is a first year AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at the Department of Defense in the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and will serve his second year at the Department of Energy in the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

Based on nationwide monitoring data, the study «offers valuable insight into the early identification of ASD and suggests some progression towards lowering the age of first evaluation in participating communities,» write Dr. Daisy Christensen of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and colleagues.

This tutorial and conference are the first offered by the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and the National Institute for STEM Evaluation and Research (NISER).

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

In 2016, SciLifeLab performed the first internal international evaluation of all existing national facilities as well as of 16 new university facilities that were suggested as candidate national facilities by the four host universities.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

Accordingly, Castle's first draft of ESRA in 2000 envisioned a National Academy for Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, and Information independent of the Department of Education, run by a director serving a fixed term.

But Summit has reported first - year results for SLP partner schools: Growth on the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (NWEA MAP) exceeded national averages in reading and, very slightly, in math.

Dr. Marzano welcomes attendees to the first annual National Marzano Teacher & Leadership Evaluation Conference, Building Expertise 2012.

CHICAGO — For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third - largest city — and to a national audience — less than a week after most schools opened for fall.

This evaluation of the first two years of the national demonstration of ExpandED Schools (the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years) focused on the implementation of TASC's model and on strategies used by schools and community partners to scale up and institutionalize expanded learning.

He played key roles in developing the nation's first three national education technology plans and in conducting research and evaluations of major educational technology programs and initiatives, including as primary author of the groundbreaking Pew Internet study of internet - savvy students, The Digital Disconnect.

Conducted by Policy Studies Associates (PSA), the evaluation of the first two years of the national demonstration of ExpandED Schools (the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years) focused on the implementation of TASC's model and on strategies used by schools and community partners to scale up and institutionalize expanded learning.

Last week, the National Education Association's board produced a proposal that, for the first time, endorsed a teacher evaluation and tenuring system that takes student performance into account.

Now, the National Center for Evaluation and Regional Assistance is reporting that in a study looking at RtI in schools that chose to do the program, for the last 3 or more years, first graders did worse than those who did not go through RtI.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the California Air Resource Board (CARB) today took the first step in the mid-term evaluation of the National Program for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for light duty cars and trucks by releasing a draft Technical Assessment Report (TAR) for public comment.

Prior to forming her first consulting business in 1987, Susan worked in two national law firms where she assisted in organizing efforts in client and practice development, communications and public relations, governance and planning, attorney recruitment, performance evaluation and training and paralegal management.

This report presents the first findings from MIHOPE, the legislatively mandated national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.

This report presents the first findings from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), the legislatively mandated national evaluation Evaluation (MIHOPE), the legislatively mandated national evaluation evaluation of MIECHV.

A new report to Congress presents the first findings from the national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.

This article presents results from the national evaluation of Healthy Steps, the first large clinical trial of an intervention in pediatric practices to improve delivery of developmental and behavioral services.

At JBA, she serves as the Deputy Project Director for the National Home Visiting Resource Center project and the Dissemination Coordinator for the second Design Options for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Evaluation project, and was the TA Liaison for the first project, providing individualized and universal TA to MIECHV grantees.

The IHDP was supported in its first 3 years by the RWJF; follow - up evaluations were supported by the Pew Charitable Trust, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Maternal Child Health Bureau, with the RWJF.

«Looking at parent evaluations of children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 1979, the researchers found that mothers are much more likely to see their first children as high - achievers.

The teaching and learning audits were based on an audit tool developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for the Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET).1 The audit tool was a precursor to the National School Improvement Tool and, in 2010 - 2012, consisted of the first eight domains of the final tool.2 The Queensland experience provides a valuable case study of one education system's use of the tool as a basis for external school reviews, school self - evaluations and school improvement planning.

In fact, they're the first to base these standards on the National Association of Realtors (NAR) guidelines for professional evaluation, established last year.

Another opportunity is to use Realtor.com (a platform with elements of e-commerce sites, review and opinion sites, and social media sites) because it is the first online real estate website to base ratings and reviews on guidelines for professional evaluation from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).