Sentences with phrase «for monitoring efforts»

«The blow comes at a crucial time for monitoring efforts.

General Electric has maintained that it has completed all of EPA's mandated dredging and that it will remain on the river for monitoring efforts for years to come.

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That means there is a financial incentive to monitor follow - up appointments and other medical directions in an effort to prevent the need for emergency room, or reactive, medical attention.

This technology that allows doctors to remotely monitor the vital signs of hospital patients was «the first serious mHealth effort designed directly for physician use,» says Portale of Palomar Health.

Efforts to curtail the tax breaks are likely to face fierce opposition in Congress; the oil and natural gas industry has spent $ 340 million on lobbyists since 2008, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which monitors political spending.

The Company specializes in originating loans for first - time business borrowers who can not get a loan from a bank, and provides ongoing credit - monitoring and advice to ensure clients improve their business credit in an effort to qualify for a bank loan.

I love the idea of using social media trends for content ideas, but the time and effort involved in monitoring and writing fast enough to keep up with trends is a daunting challenge.

You can add your competitors on the same project with your website or create separate projects for each competitor to intelligently monitoring their link building efforts.

But the term «relative» must be used here not only because the Mother Church has for years contributed substantial sums to relief efforts in wartime and emergency situations, such as the recent earthquake in Mexico, but because it continues to publish the Christian Science Monitor, in itself a far from negligible social commitment.

At the State Department Thursday, Desbois received recognition for his efforts with a certificate of appreciation, the first awarded by Hannah Rosenthal in her role as the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

For some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmeFor some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmefor small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmers.

Many efforts brought PhilRice to this point with Golden Rice: getting permits of approval for the first confined test, engaging the support of local community leaders, establishing the field experiment, monitoring the experiment daily, and managing the harvested area for weeks afterward.

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

As efforts to improve impact - monitoring accuracy continue, however, so will the search for the «concussion threshold.»»

Both the sanctuary and Living Observatory will be offering opportunities for volunteers to engage with citizen science monitoring efforts.

GRID is a tool used to evaluate the state of online safety in different areas of the world and serves as a single portal that monitors, tracks and provides commentary on the efforts of different countries in advancing Internet safety for their citizens.

Thanks in part to its efforts monitoring juvenile products, the foundation says the crib industry set stricter standards in 1988 for mattress support systems.

EDITORIAL REVIEW In order for a publication's chief editor to be able to monitor compliance with these guidelines, every effort must be made to show all advertising pages, sections and their placement to the editor far enough in advance to allow for necessary changes.

He saved what was perhaps his most pointed criticism for the effort to make it easier for the state to assume control over struggling public schools through the appointment of a monitor.

«The NASUWT has made every effort to secure an agreed way forward through negotiation, but the employer has refused to listen to the serious concerns of teachers about the unacceptable practices being adopted for the monitoring of teachers.

Cuomo has proposed new administrative controls over the non-profit entities at the State University of New York that oversee economic development efforts, as well as the creation of a chief procurement officer to monitor state contracts, as well as enhanced powers for the inspector general.

They say they will step up efforts to close campaign donation loopholes that benefit politicians and companies, and will press for more independent government ethics monitors and tighter restrictions on Albany's long pay - to - play culture by individuals, groups and corporations with business before the governor or Legislature.

He said he wants clarity about the health department's budget for outreach efforts and details of long - term medical monitoring to understand the health effects of PFOS.

Now is the time for the state to take a more active role by creating ongoing oversight in an effort to monitor NYCHA and how it conducts its business.

It would set up guidelines for city agencies, train agency personal, monitor the use of the guidelines and require an annual report to the speaker on the city's efforts to increase its use of Empire State food.

The Adirondack Council has viewed Stefanik, a sophomore Republican, as critical in efforts to preserve research grant funding for the Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation (ALSC) in Ray Brook, a nonprofit laboratory that takes samples from local waterways annually to monitor acid rain recovery.

«We applaud Congresswoman Stefanik and all of her colleagues for their efforts to secure federal funding for monitoring whether clean air regulations are working, and for restoring Adirondack lakes damaged by acid rain,» said Adirondack Council Executive Director William C. Janeway in a statement.

The Program is committed to promoting high standards for the practice of science and engineering; advancing the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications; engaging scientists, engineers and their professional associations in human rights efforts; monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging ethical, legal, and human rights issues related to science and technology; furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights; and initiating activities to address the impact of developments at the intersection of science, technology, and law.

Zerbo also spearheaded efforts to make the monitoring data more accessible for scientific purposes.

The United States is leading the charge for a voluntary pact in which countries declare targets that are then enforced with monitoring and reporting efforts.

Through a wide variety of projects, SRHRL has shown its commitment to promoting high standards for the practice of science and engineering, monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging ethical and legal issues related to science and technology, engaging scientists, engineers and their professional associations in human rights efforts, and furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights.

Seabirds are notorious for nesting in inaccessible places, frustrating efforts to monitor populations.

Ms Tanner said monitoring of estuarine CO2 was important for planning and remediation efforts: «As each estuary is different, the potential impacts of climate change and urban development will be different in every ecosystem.»

While the golden eagles» habitat preferences may differ in other regions and seasons, the authors suggest that their map could help prioritize landscapes for conservation efforts and identify regions for additional research and monitoring.

Storms that battered Australia's east coast are a harbinger of things to come and a stark reminder of the need for a national effort to monitor the growing threat from climate change, UNSW coastal researchers warn.

Unfortunately, as monitoring efforts continue, we may see these pretty patterns cut short: warming temperatures could deplete phytoplankton populations, which means less fish, squid, and krill for the birds to feast on, and could affect whether sooty shearwaters have enough energy to make it back to their New Zealand breeding grounds.

««We started seeing these trends last year,» says CGS's Jeff Allum, who authored the report, part of an effort to monitor the graduate admissions process for foreign students at some 500 U.S. institutions.

The flagship effort at INPE is the Program for Monitoring Deforestation of the Amazon by Satellite (PRODES), in which technicians analyze Landsat data to identify clear - cuts larger than 6.25 hectares and produce a yearly estimate of deforestation in the Amazon.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

To find out, the Smithsonian Institution and Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon have for two decades led an effort to monitor 11 rainforest patches — from 2.5 to 250 hectares in size — scattered throughout cattle pastures 70 kilometers north of Manaus, Brazil.

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement efforts.

► Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Juan David Romero reported that IBM and more than 60 scientists are teaming up for the Jefferson Project, an effort that will use New York's «Lake George as a test bed for an array of sophisticated «smart» sensors that will monitor 25 different variables, including biological characteristics and water chemistry and quality.»

NOAA's National Ocean Service has been funding monitoring and research for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1985 and currently oversees the NGOMEX program, the hypoxia research effort for the northern Gulf which is authorized by the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act.

The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.

«It is easy for people to invest a lot of effort into well - meaning but ineffectual translocations projects if they aren't monitored.

The case study also recounts and assesses post-disaster monitoring efforts, recent scientific findings from the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), and explores the implications of these experiences for ongoing and future environmental disaster response.

Drones can amass vegetation data over seasons or years for monitoring habitat restoration efforts, monitoring rare and threatened plant populations, surveying agriculture, and measuring carbon storage.

Planned level of effort for monitoring congressional activities and dissemination of related information; and

In Peru, for instance, monitoring efforts are headed by Doris Rueda of the Ministry of the Environment in Lima.

International efforts are currently underway in Antarctica to build long - term monitoring systems for land and coastal organisms from an ecological conservation standpoint.