Sentences with phrase «human agency at»

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Mona Siddiqui, chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services commented that in tackling the issue the government was still struggling to get various agencies (mostly their lawyers)-- FDA, CMS, CDC — to unify around definitions of basic terms like «research.»

«Your letter states that the Public Service Agency's review is directed solely at «the human resources and investigation processes and procedures» that led to the termination of the employment of a number of Ministry of Health employees in 2012, rather than being a review of the decisions themselves,» Adams wrote on Whitmarsh's behalf.

We stopped by a human - resources staffing agency where many of the employees worked on the move at treadmill desks — a creation of Dr. Levine's, later sold by a company called Steelcase.

Thus an economist at the Environmental Protection Agency, when asked «What about the theory that human life is priceless?»

The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home - grown religious movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....

Humanism retains some personal explanations as ultimate (at the level of finite human agency) while leaving some inanimate explanations as ultimate also.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

In MP I developed these themes at some length in the setting of a detailed discussion of human agency and causality.

I want to say that the human organism is like the agency in that there is both the unified togetherness of experience enjoyed by the director and fragmentary bits and pieces of structure which may be at odds with, out of tune with, the agency as a whole.

A sense of salvation by human agency begins to permeate the global whole, and the world at large becomes the true church.

To maximize the fulfillment of human potentials, the organizations of a community — schools, churches, agencies, and others — should develop small groups designed to meet the growth needs of persons at each of the eight life stages.

But this much we can say with confidence: at every point of suffering and wrong, in every situation where man is being divested of his essential humanity, the judgment and the grace of God is operative through some human agency.

It is possible, too, that «the destroyer» that ranged from house to house at midnight in Egypt was in fact a human hand acting through God's agency.

If, as we shall be arguing in a moment, we may be sure of «objective immortality», the taking into God's life of every good that has been achieved in the creative process; and if, as that understanding of the world order implies, one of the goods is the agency by which these given goods have been achieved, including at this point the human agent as a peculiarly significant focus — may it not be the case that not only the good which has been achieved but the agent who has achieved it (himself good, despite defect and the instances of his failure in this mortal existence) will be preserved beyond the «perishing of occasions»?

For what they posit at the beginning, or at the bottom level, is not full - flown mentality or free agency, of the sorts we see in humans, but some sort of «aboriginal» or proto - mentality, or, to use Griffin's words, «an iota of mentality.»

«Of all the things out there, certainlysynthetic human growth hormone is way at the top of the list,» says Dr.Gary Wadler, a New York University associate professor of medicine and a WorldAnti - Doping Agency member.

A Task Force of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition has looked at global obligations of states and international agencies in relation to the human right to adequate food.

Prior to joining Five Acres, Graft spent ten years at OneLegacy, Affiliates & Foundations, the nation's largest human organ and tissue recovery agency, based in Los Angeles.

Also present at the donation were Dr.. Mrs. Cecilia Ojabo, Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Services; Mr. Boniface Ortese, The Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency Management Agency, BESEMA, Sam Uche, Key Distributor and Mr. David Ebah, Regional Sales Manager, Middle belt, both of Unilever Nigeria Plc..

That investigation will run at the same time as an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into UK Border Agency (UKBA) spot - checks at British tube stations, after fears were raised that officers were using racial profiling to select who to speak to about their immigration status.

On her part, the Coordinator of the event and Assistant Director, Administration and Human Resources of the Agency, Miss Abiodun Olayinmika Macgregor, said the forum is targeted at business moguls, CEOs, Captains of industries and other well - meaning philanthropists all over Nigeria and the international sectors who are in the vanguard of giving back to the society, especially where they operate.

This has been confirmed time and again: most recently by Europe's preeminent group of regulatory assessors at the European Medicines Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP), which says in its draft strategy on antimicrobials that: «it is recognized that the biggest driver of AMR in people is the use of antimicrobials in humans or human health.»

At 10 a.m., the nonprofit human services agency Leake & Watts makes an announcement, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

We can thus arrive at a theory of human nature that both explains our inherited aspects in terms of natural selection and leaves sufficient scope for the agency of human beings to develop in relation to their circumstances.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. John Katko will visit numerous meal providers, not - for - profit human services agencies, and homeless assistance and educational outreach programs throughout the City of Syracuse, First English Lutheran Church Food Pantry, 501 James St., Syracuse.

He's campaigning on the motto «Stop Wasting Our Money,» and proposes capping public - sector salaries at $ 100,000 a year and eliminating various state agencies such as the Thruway Authority, the Division of Human Rights, and the Office of Homeland Security.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

Curran plans to keep at least three Mangano department heads — Veterans Service Agency Director Ralph Esposito, Human Resources Director Melissa Gallucci and Taxi & Limousine Commissioner Gregory May.

Speaking to an audience of approximately 300 people at the Johnson Community Center in East Harlem, Mark - Viverito called for new programs which would expand access to civil legal services, create new technology - focused programs in City high schools, as well as for expanding existing agencies and programs such as the Human Rights Commission.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at public and regulatory bodies including Ofwat, Ofgem, the Food Standards Agency and the Equality and Human Rights Commission will walk out for an hour from 11 am today, tomorrow and Friday.

Speaking at the hearing conducted by the Senate's Joint Committee on INEC; and Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Saraki stated that the National Assembly had powers to legislate over the electoral body and other agencies of government.

Adrienne Long, from the Office of Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Bureau of International Labour Affairs at the U.S Department of Labour was at the Agency's headquarters recently where she met with the DG, Dame Julie Okah - Donli, as part of her visit to Abuja.

Some initiatives called for in December by SAGE are under way, such as creating a human resources services unit at the Office of General Services to handle personnel matters for multiple agencies.

Jobs agency at centre of fraud inquiry is «preferred bidder» for Equality and Human Rights Commission helpline service

«By doing this we were able to, for the first time, conceptualise such experiences as potentially representing endeavours at the extreme end of human agency, that is making choices to engage in activity which may in certain circumstances lead to death.

Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in Tempe, and a co-author on the 2010 paper, and his graduate student Jacob Harris, say in an email to Science that «a reassignment of agency based on nothing more than another look by the experts is not appropriate».

«At a minimum, the human health risks to the site workers from radon and its decay products should be assessed along with the associated treatment technologies such as aeration systems or holding for decay,» the agency wrote.

«We thought the fight was over,» Tom Harkin (D — Iowa) and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies said at a hearing on embryonic stem cell research on Thursday.

Its chairman, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), wanted to shape NASA's plan for human space exploration, research missions, and other activities at the $ 20 billion agency.

Within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), again, all the jobs can be found posted at the website USAJobs.gov, but Paul Sandifer, senior science adviser to the NOAA administrator, suggests that job seekers should contact the human resource offices at NOAA facilities in the area and talk to current employees, «particularly those working in doctoral positions in the agency.

The U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Agriculture, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should continue investments at the national level and increase investments at the international level to improve capabilities to confront the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

The European Commission — which requested that the EFSA look at a potential link to human health in the first place — now has to decide what action to take on the basis of the agency's recommendation.

The agency has been forced to tighten its eligibility rules in light of recent Supreme Court decisions — including a 2013 ruling that struck down patents on human genes — but its first pass at new guidelines for examiners raised a stink.

The chief flu scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) today defended his agency against criticism that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was «fake,» that its threat to human health was hyped, and that WHO's policies were influenced by vaccine manufacturers who benefited from the pandemic virus.

It is unclear at this stage just what specific research areas are to be covered by the draft policy, which includes the following statement: «The policy pertains to all research, including animal, human, or basic research, or research training, conducted with grant, contract, or cooperative agreement support from any agency, or office, of the PHS.»

This has been observed in other granting agencies, for example at the European Molecular Biology Organization or the Human Frontier Science Program.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flight.

In March 2002, Theodore Friedmann, who directs the program in human gene therapy at the University of California at San Diego and has advised the National Institutes of Health and congressional leaders on gene - related issues, organized a three - day workshop for the world agency.

«It is amazing,» says Chris Draper, who works on the heat shield for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter — which will go closer to the sun than any other human - made object — at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.