Sentences with phrase «global evaluations at»

Previously, J.R. was vice president, global evaluations at Standard & Poor's Securities Evaluations, Inc..

Not exact matches

At the completion of their thorough evaluation, SCS Global Services issued the following assurance statement:

One with a question of global delays at time of initial evaluation had persistent global delays during school - age years requiring support from all available services.

Laura Ahearn is a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow who was placed in her first year in the Research and Innovation Fellowships at the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Global Development Lab where she was a monitoring and evaluation specialist.

Finally, Chinese researchers at home or away face global concerns about their science that are rooted in the country's evaluation system.

► Also on Wednesday, Christina Larson wrote that, at the Global Research Council meeting Monday in Beijing, Chinese science leaders «threw their weight behind plans to embrace open access and Western norms of scientific conduct, including a plea from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for more rigorous evaluation and peer review.»

Scott recently collaborated on a global Zika modeling project led by Simon Hay, head of the geospatial science division at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington.

«The fact that mortality is declining faster than non-fatal disease and injury prevalence is further evidence of the importance of paying attention to the rising health loss from these leading causes of disability, and not simply focusing on reducing mortality,» [3] says Theo Vos, lead author and Professor of Global Health at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, USA.

The authors argue that successful evaluations often must include assessments of results at the country, sector, theme, policy, and even global level.

The study, conducted at Harvard University, represents the first evaluation of the protective efficacy of a candidate global HIV antigen strategy in nonhuman primates.

In June 2017, Drucza presented the findings of her meta - analysis of evaluations of gender in Ethiopian agricultural development at a senior staff meeting of the Ethiopia office of CARE, the global humanitarian organization.

Improving Adherence In Type 2 Diabetes By Communication Training: Evaluation of a CME Initiative Mila Kostic Director, Continuing Medical Education, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Suzanne Murray President & Founder, AXDEV Group, Maja Drenovac, PharmD Associate Director, Educational Programs, Vemco MedEd, Originally presented at the Global Alliance for Medical Education Annual Meeting, Munich, Germany, June 2011

The eLearning Industry's Network, the largest independent eLearning community of Instructional Designers and eLearning Professionals, invites you to participate at the 1st Global Learning Management Systems» Quality Evaluation Survey.

Abstract: The current global situation calls for more celerity, if at all possible, in the evaluation of media systems throughout the world.

«What we wanted with the CIS [evaluation] was to really have a look at how we could measure whether we were developing global citizens and the degree to which the program in the school curriculum, and generally, was helping our students become international and intercultural,» Reddan told Education Matters magazine.

It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

RC does noble work on propagating sound science in the face of the billions that Big oil could throw at multifacted disinformation if it felt the need, but, to be effective (i.e. to practice Applied Climate Science) we plainly need to establish a global focus on the discussion & evaluation of the solutions.

He laments the heat around global warming and similar topics, telling her, «These issues are exactly where we need rational discourse, an unbiased exchange of ideas, and the evaluation of facts not colored by us yelling at each other.»

The START Mission recommendations served as the information basis and independent expert evaluation for Egypt's subsequent application to the Global Environmental Facility, to support the identified 140MW Integrated Solar Combined Cycle (ISCC) power plant project at Kuraymat with a 50 Million dollar grant under GEF - OP7.

As an example let's look at the evaluation of General Relativity in the context of Global Warming.

U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision Population Database, at esa.un.org/unpp, updated 11 March 2009; Archer and Jacobson, «Evaluation of Global Windpower,» op.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

Criteria Description Fish Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to fish (both saltwater and freshwater) Daphnia Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to Daphnia (invertebrate aquatic organisms) Algae Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to aquatic plants Persistence / Biodegradation Rate of degradation for a substance in the environment (air, soil, or water) Bioaccumulation Potential for a substance to accumulate in fatty tissue and magnify up the food chain Climatic relevance Measure of the impact a substance has on the climate (e.g., ozone depletion, global warming, etc.) Other Any additional characteristic (e.g., soil organism toxicity, WGK water classification, etc.) relevant to the overall evaluation but not included in the previous criteria 1.3.3 Material Class Criteria The following material classes are flagged due to the concern that at some point in their life cycle they may have negative impacts on human and environmental health.

Its commitment, announced at the Clinton Global Initiative, will focus on Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia, and is expected to cost $ 980,000 once assembly, training, and program evaluation costs are factored in.