Sentences with phrase «human risk assessment»

(Also, if findings in rats are not considered relevant for human risk assessment, why in the world are we torturing the poor things?)

One researcher who signed the report downplayed the results by saying that «these tumor findings are not considered relevant for human risk assessment.»

The human risk assessment looked at five incidents that involved humans and Burmese pythons over a 10 - year period in Everglades National Park.

This human risk assessment concluded that although the risk of an unprovoked attack by a Burmese python in Everglades National Park is low, it is not non-existent.

Not exact matches

Venter, who created the first synthetic human cell back in 2010, feels the FDA hasn't found a way to serve the public in regard to genome data regulation — it barred 23andMe from offering genetic - risk assessments in 2013 before later reinstating the right to offer limited genetic reports.

Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

Mahoney says the county had to go through a human health risk assessment that determined the trail is safe.

In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.

On 16 April, the EPA will release its preliminary risk assessment for atrazine at a technical briefing, a key step in its long process of reviewing the chemical's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environment.

And no risk assessments for the environment or human health have been performed.»

The U.K.'s Health Protection Agency is mounting an urgent assessment of possible risks to humans.

With the emergence of Ebola virus from bats and hantaviruses from rodents, investigators say identifying the other species infected with HAV provides novel insight into the evolution of HAV and how it spread to humans, and highlights the utility of analyzing animal reservoirs for risk assessment of emerging viruses.

The AOPs are novel knowledge management tools in toxicology and are useful for supporting risk assessment to human health.

The authors of this new research paper analysed data and models from the USEPA's updated global non-CO2 GHG mitigation assessment to investigate the potential for GHG reductions from agricultural emissions from seven regions globally, offsetting costs against social benefit of GHG mitigation (e.g. human health, flood risk and energy costs).

A risk assessment by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm, issued just before Christmas, concluded that «it is unlikely that this new orthobunyavirus can cause disease in humans, but it can not be excluded at this stage.»

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

«The study was performed using a human norovirus surrogate called murine norovirus (NoV), and a hepatitis A (HAV) virus along with advanced quantitative microbial risk assessment tools,» explained Pillai, professor of microbiology and director of the National Center for Electron Beam Research at Texas A&M University.

PBPK modeling is used in pharmaceutical research and development and in health risk assessment to predict the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of a compound in humans and other animal species.

The editors of this special issue introduce the 8 papers on risk assessment of endocrine disrupting chemicals, for both human health -LSB-...]

Previously Elena did scientific consulting and research on human health risk assessment.

«We don't yet know what the implications of more PAH oxidation products over the tropics are for future human or environmental health risk assessments.

PNNL toxicologist Justin Teeguarden, an expert in human exposure assessments involving chemicals, was part of a committee of 18 scientists contributing to the 216 - page study, «Using 21st Century Science to Improve Risk - Related Evaluations.»

The human health risk assessment concluded that there are no risks of concern because no toxic effects have been identified when used as a dermally applied insect repellent, and there is no dietary or occupational exposure for DEET.

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You should have in place a glazing risk assessment which will detail all glass in areas where there is the risk of human impact.

The human threat Each school should do a risk assessment of the likelihood of a pupil, or any other legitimate visitor to the school, carrying a weapon and set their procedures accordingly.

The risk assessment developed by EAG VI included zoonoses and diseases relevant to human health and food animals.

Risk assessment first begins with observing the human.

The observations here reported may permit a risk assessment in front of a possible transmission to humans, since cats are more linked to the territory than dogs and consequently can provide better epidemiological indications.

Job Description: • Represents the Kansas City Pet Project in a professional, polite and enthusiastic manner • Assists the veterinarians on a daily basis with preparing surgery patients, health assessments, and treatments of animals • Assist in medical rounds with Shelter Veterinarians or identifying animals that need to be seen by a Shelter Veterinarian • Administer medications to both cats and dogs in accordance with veterinarian's prescribed doses and ensure all treatment protocols prescribed for sick / injured animals are performed timely, safely, and humanely • Responsible for following best practices for sanitation protocols in all veterinary clinic and isolation areas to reduce / eliminate disease transmission • Input all medical notes, health assessments, vaccinations, surgeries, treatments, etc., into PetPoint • Provides support for other departments, such as Intake, Foster, Placement & Transport, or Adoptions by assisting as needed for vaccinations, deworming, blood draws, etc. • Prepares and sanitizes surgical instruments / packs each day to ensure packs are ready for use the following day • Assists with discharging animals to the public post-surgery or following up with sick pet appointments, explaining any medical issues, medications, after care instructions, etc. • Ensures adequate medical supplies and medications are available and reports any shortages to Vet Clinic Manager • Enforces and maintain KCPP safety and cleanliness, and all health and security rules and procedures • Follows disease prevention procedures and completes cleaning of veterinary clinic areas daily and ongoing throughout the day to decrease biological risks to humans and other animals • Care, feed, and safely handle animals to avoid injury to persons / animals • Properly store and maintain inventory of medical supplies, including Schedule II narcotics • Performs laboratory analysis techniques to assist Shelter Veterinarians • Reads, understand, interpret, and apply department policies and procedures • Prepares reports and other written materials in a logical, concise, and accurate manner • Functions calmly in situations that require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy • Communicates effectively with a variety of individuals representing diverse cultures and backgrounds and function calmly in all situations which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact and diplomacy • Treats employees, representatives of outside agencies, volunteers, and members of the public with courtesy and respect • Provides prompt, efficient and responsive service for all phone calls forwarded to the Vet Clinic.

Synthetic colloids were previously used early and commonly in septic patients Recent evidence in human patients and experimental + / - clinical animal studies suggests negative risk - benefit assessment.

As human beings we wish for an assessment of risk.

Almost 20 years ago, Harold Lewis, a respected physicist who had advised the government and the Pentagon on matters ranging from nuclear winter to missile defense, included his assessment of climate change from the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in a book on technological risk:

7:23 p.m. Updated Below The climate blogger Joe Romm and I agree (breaking news): Scientific research and assessments examining the link between human - driven climate change and malaria exposure have, for the most part, accurately gauged and conveyed the nature of the risk that warming could swell the ranks of people afflicted with this awful mosquito - borne disease.

To broaden the approach of estimating plausible changes in climate conditions in the framing of future risk, we recommend a bottom - up, resource - based vulnerability assessment for the key resources of water, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function for the Netherlands.

Combines the latest climate models, state - of - the - art econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting - edge private - sector risk - assessment tools to craft a game - changing profile of the economic risks of climate change in the United States.

Of course, opinions differ regarding how well the IPCC assessment reflects the scientific understanding, with some claiming that IPCC overestimates the human contribution to global warming and the risks it poses, whereas others claim that these are underestimated.

I started lecturing at Keele in 2004 following a period of time working as a Geologist / Hydrogeologist with an environmental consultancy, working primarily in the area of landfill site management, contaminated land remediation and human health risk assessment.

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

I am not a scientist myself, but my best assessment of the data is that the world is getting warmer, that human activity contributes to that warming, and that policymakers should therefore consider the risk of negative consequences.

This Perspective describes how integrating human behaviour and risk perception into flood - risk assessment models may improve identification of effective risk - management strategies.

The project aims to provide well - verified assessments of the extent to which such weather - related risks have changed due to human influences on climate and to identify those types of weather events where our scientific understanding is not advanced enough to make a robust assessment of attributable risk.

«By attempting to generate information that could be assessed with statistical methods, the authors ended up with data that is so skewed and incomplete that it fails to provide a plausible assessment of the risk to humans of attacks by polar bears,» she wrote.

It recommended that risk assessment needs to include analyses of how hazards are changing, human activities that drive environmental changes, the creation of new hazards, irreversible changes and the increasing probability of hazard occurrence.

The panel, in issuing its most definitive assessment yet of the risks of human - caused warming, hoped to give impetus to international negotiations toward a new climate treaty, which have languished in recent years in a swamp of technical and political disputes.

Using a comprehensive assessment tool called «GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals,» the researchers measured triclosan and triclocarban against 18 criteria for human health and the environment, such as whether there is bioaccumulation in nature, endocrine disruption in humans, risk of reproductive toxicity, and eye or skin irritation.

The assessment of substantial risk decidedly requires that the Minister consider the «personal risk» faced by an individual... But I would not foreclose the possibility that there may be cases in which general evidence of pervasive and systemic human rights abuses in the receiving state can form the basis for a finding that the person sought faces a substantial risk of torture or mistreatment.»

The submissions of the Ghent University Human Rights Centre as intervening party provided the ECtHR with an excellent platform from which to set out procedural obligations and evidentiary factors to guide the assessment of risk.

To aid providers in performing HIPAA compliance activities such as risk analyses, the Department of Health and Human Services («HHS») recently released its Security Risk Assessment Tool.4 It is a software application (available in formats for both MACs and PCs) and will guide providers through performing a risk assessment for their practrisk analyses, the Department of Health and Human Services («HHS») recently released its Security Risk Assessment Tool.4 It is a software application (available in formats for both MACs and PCs) and will guide providers through performing a risk assessment for their practRisk Assessment Tool.4 It is a software application (available in formats for both MACs and PCs) and will guide providers through performing a risk assessment for their practrisk assessment for their practice.

The combined sum assured of all policies should not exceed your human life value, which is the risk assessment calculated by your insurers at the time of policy application.