Sentences with phrase «government studies at»

Andrew Coulson is an Associate of the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham, with a special interest in political leadership and scrutiny in local government.

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The London - based Centre for Policy Studies took a look at so - called «SuperEntrepreneurs» and the government and policy infrastructures that best support them.

Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016 about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors as his reform program is widely regarded as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.

«We were able to come up with a road map to achieving this and because it was so thoughtfully done, it was then very easy for other governments to look at it, study it, and say, «Wow, everyone can work with this?

Fliegel eventually studied government and legal studies at Bowdoin — and, in his senior year, won the Jefferson Davis Book Award, granted to the top student in the program.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

After dedicating most of her college years to studying politics and government, she switched gears as a senior and decided to pursue an MBA at Vanderbilt University.

Major donors have been looking at people other than Jeb Bush,» said Anthony Corrado, a professor of government at Colby College who studies campaign finance.

A study from the University of Cambridge and Stanford holds that well - informed insiders at major U.S. banks bolstered profits thanks to advanced knowledge of government programs during the financial crisis.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The study's authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

Many studies have shown that early, stimulating education at a young age also has payoff for the government with lower health and welfare costs later on.

Kenney, meanwhile, refused to take the government's bait on the «no outing kids» legislation, but also refused to say much of anything at all, keeping his caucus quiet while it studied the new bill.

With the Canadian government currently spending time and resources on supporting LGBTQ initiatives in Asia, this study is a first look at how exactly these resources are being focused.

Today, chambers of commerce from the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley released a new research study which concludes that $ 50 billion in economic development along the Lower Fraser River is at risk unless all levels of government act now to address the serious issues facing the river.

«The Chinese government played the role of an indispensable enabler,» said Minxin Pei, a professor at Claremont McKenna College in California who studies Chinese politics.

Premiums under the Affordable Care Act will increase from 12 percent to 32 percent next year unless the federal government steps in, according to a study that examines the fallout from President Donald Trump's attempts to chip away at the program.

Sources: Bankrate, US Census Bureau 2015 American Community Survey, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, government websites, SmartAsset * For this study we looked at all U.S. cities that have a population greater than 200,000 with available data.

A journalist with four decades of experience covering issues of government and politics, Laura studied Literature and Journalism at the University of Puerto Rico and at Northeastern Illinois State University in Chicago, where she graduated in 1972.

«It would be very expensive for the government to build its own 5G network, and the government would have to find enough spectrum, which is in short supply these days,» says Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies at The Brookings Institution and founding director of Brookings» Center for Technology Innovation.

The pullback in government support was often justified by the idea that employee stock ownership may be a risky substitute for fixed worker pay, but almost all the studies indicate that employee stock ownership in the form of ESOPs does not come at the expense of workers taking lower wages or other forms of compensation.

Premiums under Obamacare will increase from 12 percent to 32 percent next year unless the federal government steps in, according to a study that examines the fallout from President Trump's attempts to chip away at the program.

Both studies made recommendations on how to improve the process and transparency of budget forecasting, most of which were readily adopted by the governments at that time.

South Korean Government has opened the application for the Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP) for Canadian researchers pursuing Korean Studies at the graduate level in an eligible Korean post-secondary institution.

This report identifies the policy instruments at the disposal of local governments based on central government policy framework, and presents a few successful and replicable case studies and international experiences as reference for China's future development in promoting green bonds.

The Alberta government announced the formation of the group yesterday along with its three co-chairs: Dave Collyer, the former president and CEO of the the oil industry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree Firgovernment announced the formation of the group yesterday along with its three co-chairs: Dave Collyer, the former president and CEO of the the oil industry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree FirGovernment and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree First Nation.

Latorre is presently an accountant in a government agency, has taught Sunday School and Bible Studies for twenty four years, and is a Lay Speaker in the United Methodist Church, speaking to students at high school and adult levels in many churches, including his own.

The police statement said the suspect was studying general organic chemistry at Spain's government - backed Higher Council for Scientific Investigations.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Finally he recited a list of some of the more illustrious foreign missionaries in the Punjab — John Lowrie and William Reed, the first missionaries in 1834; Charles Forman, who founded the distinguished college which bears his name; Hervey Griswold, the missionary scholar who pioneered in Pun - jab sociology; and some of the more recent missionary heroes, such as Ernie Campbell, who received an Indian government citation for helping resettle refugees; James Alter, who established a center for interreligious understanding; and Clinton Loehlin, who founded the Institute for Sikh Studies at Baring College.

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

«Government has no right to force subjects on any Nigerian child neither does it have the authority to drop Christian Religious Studies at the Senior Secondary School level while asking him / her to continue to read Islamic Studies which he / she can not do at university level.»

You should stay off our roads, not call the fire department if your house is burning, and don't use healthcare because the government is funding those advances through studies being conducted at universities.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Government studies show that almost 75 percent of newborns are breast - fed, an amount that falls to 42 percent by 6 months and 21 percent at a year.

Dr. Daniel Taber, the new study's lead author from the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said students who receive free or reduced - price lunches from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.

Canter is a sophomore at GMU studying Government and International Politics.

The American Chemistry Council has defended the chemical, saying scientists» concerns over Bisphenol A were «distinctly at odds» with findings from other studies by both government organizations and scientific bodies.

America's third - largest school district presents a case study in the government lapses and lax food handling practices that can put children at risk.

Federal officials don't track how many people in the U.S. have been harmed, but a recent government study estimated 410,000 babies are born each year at risk for mercury poisoning because of high levels in their mothers» bodies.

The study team found that only 27 percent of the lunches met at least three of the five National School Lunch Program standards from the federal government, which include fruit, vegetables, grains, meat or another protein source and milk.

South of the border, the American Chemistry Council is disputing the findings, saying, «the chemicals studied here are shown to be at extremely low exposure levels and well below government - set safe levels.»

The American Chemistry Council has defended the chemical, saying scientists» concerns over bisphenol A were «distinctly at odds» with findings from other studies by both government organizations and scientific bodies.

Maria Repnikova is a post-doctoral fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and a visiting scholar at Government Department, Georgetown University.

Following the path beaten out by the Plain English Campaign (now in its 30th year) and their Golden Bull Awards, organisations such as the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestability.

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies; a CEPR Research Fellow; and Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College.

Ms Hunt added: «Lord Browne and the government must look seriously at the idea of taxing big business for the substantial benefits it gains from a plentiful supply of graduates and using that money to expand, rather than reduce, opportunity to study.»

Paul Chaisty is the University Lecturer in Russian Government and Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford University.

Our distinctive contribution was to look at government costs and performance over a much longer timescale than had been attempted before and we believe our own study will contribute to transparency and accountability through our unique publicly - available compilation of consistent long - term time - series of official data.