Sentences with phrase «impact assessment study of»

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One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

New studies should be large enough to include assessment and reporting of impacts by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

In future updates, if more eligible studies are included, we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

Fathers have an array of impacts on children's socioemotional outcomes.2, 26 Studies testing for these potential types of influences have considered both dichotomized father absence / presence and more continuous assessments of paternal care.

In future updates we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

Long said fracking risked the possibility of «death by indecision» as the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later this year.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

The study will include the economic assessment of the existing local food producers and systems, data development, an economic impact analysis and the identification of barriers and opportunities within the food system of Oneida County.

The study used life cycle assessment (LCA) to estimate the impacts of microwave appliances, taking into account their manufacture, use and end - of - life waste management.

«Our study shows the significant impact of adding carotid plaque measurement using vascular ultrasound and coronary calcium scoring with CT scan to our conventional assessment for cardiovascular disease,» says Roxana Mehran, MD, the study's co-lead author and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Heart at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

In their comparative study, called a lifecycle impact assessment, the researchers used Pennsylvania as the point of origin for both shale gas and coal, since both energy sources are abundant in the state.

But the year's worth of data that has arrived from Titan has allowed him to check his studies against new observational data and to improve his assessment of the impact of data uncertainties.

This is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, added to which confining the assessments to a period of four years might have underestimated the true impact of persistent distress, caution the researchers.

«Our study is the first long - term and large - scale assessment of the impacts of dams and diverting water from the rivers and wetlands of the Murray - Darling Basin,» says study lead author UNSW Professor Richard Kingsford.

In the spirit of Lombardy's open innovation model, the Forum will feature professionals from diverse areas: responsible research and innovation; science and technology studies; public communication of science; participative and deliberative methods; public engagement; social innovation; social impact and its assessment; sociology of risk; sociology of science; technology assessment and governance; open innovation, science, and data; data ethics; and bioethics.

The Principal Investigator of the study, Dr Felix Eigenbrod, Associate Professor (Spatial Ecology) at the University of Southampton's Centre for Biological Sciences, says: «The growing geographic disconnect between energy demand, the extraction and processing of resources, and the environmental impacts associated with energy production activities makes it crucial to factor global trade into sustainability assessments.

With this study we could show that small changes in one area can have large impacts in remote places, something that should be considered in future assessments of climate projections.»

«There hasn't been a large - scale assessment of just the simple full topographic impact of mountaintop mining, which occupies more than 10 percent of the land in the region we studied,» said Matthew Ross, an ecology PhD student and lead author on the study.

Zebrafish embryos are used for the assessment of chemicals and for investigations of environmental impact, so we hope that in future our study will contribute to an awareness of the need to incorporate Abcb4 transport processes in toxicological testing directives.»

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy analysis and exergetic efficiency analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.

«The strength of our study is that it provides a real world assessment of how testing in patients with chest pain has an impact on the subsequent health of patients with chest pain,» said lead author Pamela Douglas, M.D., Geller Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Imaging of the coronary arteries with computed tomography (CT) angiography provides an accurate assessment of arterial plaque and could have a dramatic impact on the management of diabetic patients who face a high risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology.

The study, commissioned by CHEOPS - a perovskite research project co-funded by the European research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, is being conducted by SmartGreenScans, a CHEOPS member, specialising in Life - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxford PV.

The results from her study were incorporated into a vulnerability assessment framework to investigate the cumulative impact of multiple climatic processes on sea turtles nesting grounds.

Dangerous geomorphologic processes: regional and global trends, human impact, current methods of study assessment and forecast

According to an assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, «the contribution of the livestock sector to global greenhouse gas emissions exceeds that of transportation,» and a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimated the impact of a global move to a plant - based diet could reduce global mortality by 6 to 10 percent and reduce food - related greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 percent.

Previous to this study, relatively little was known about the impact of teacher quality in higher education because common postsecondary curricula and standardized assessments are rare.

The study, which includes 150 secondary school teachers in twenty - eight states, is measuring «the impact of these instructional changes, such as more frequent assessment and types of classroom discourse, on student performance in algebra.»

This study showed that the MAP program, one of the most widely used systems focused on benchmark assessments and training and differentiated instruction, had no impact on student reading.

Like the Vermont studies, this study highlights the increase in amount of writing and the differential impact of policy on teachers whose instruction is more or less aligned with new assessments.

This study examines this question by evaluating the effects of teacher turnover on student achievement under IMPACT, the unique performance - assessment and incentive system in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS).

Christine Montera, social studies teacher at East Bronx Academy for the Future, said, «Because teachers see the impact of testing and assessment on our students, we know firsthand what is best for them.

The study, commissioned by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation, concludes that consolidating small school districts will have a positive impact on SAT test scores, Advanced Placement test rates, state assessment scores, and some end - of - course assessment pass rates.

With support from OSEP, Kentucky has studied the impact of accommodations on performance data, in its Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS) assessment system.

Because of differences among study designs and assessments, our determination of ESs can only be considered a rough estimate of impact, allowing comparison among the various models.

Trend studies, also referred to as bridge studies, have previously been used in NAEP to evaluate the impact of changes to the assessment on the comparability of scores.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

The study also highlighted information gaps that are blocking further assessments of impacts, and found that bycatch rates in small - scale fisheries in nearshore areas rival those of large - scale fisheries in the open ocean....

He hopes this will facilitate further development of the wind project, including supporting the environmental assessments and interconnection studies needed to assess the impact of additional electricity on the grid.

By including a comprehensive assessment of all the factors contributing to tourism - related emissions, from transportation to souvenirs, the report presents «a complete life - cycle assessment of global tourism, ensuring we don't miss any impacts,» senior study author Arunima Malik, of the University of Sydney in Australia, said in a statement.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

Ponnusamy, P., G. Vellingiri, R.R. Danda, L. Arunachalam, D. Murthy, S. Prema, S. Gade, S.P. McDermid, and R.O. Valdivia, 2015: Integrated assessment of climate change impacts on maize farms and farm household incomes in South India: A case study from Tamil Nadu.

Tribune: The European Union has provided a grant of 1.2 million euros for conducting a climate change impact assessment study in Swat basin in the wake of Munda Dam multi-purpose project in Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).

Long and Iles (1997) point to the US Department of Transportation's Climatic Impact Assessment Program (aimed not at the greenhouse effect but aircraft emissions) for producing, in 1975, «the first assessment to focus on social and economic measures,» (p. 6) and the 1989 US Environmental Protection Agency study as «the first extensive appearance of an economic analysis of impacts.»

Considering the cumulative environmental impacts over the study period (the assumed service life of the building) allows researchers to make a more complete assessment.

As many comparative studies have done before, the analysis includes an assessment of the environmental impacts associated with the fuel cycle (primary production, extraction, transportation, refining, and vehicle operation) for each of the modes includes in the tool.

It is clear that the highest medium - run priority in refining the SCC and indeed the whole policy and integrated assessment effort is to improve the research base of impact studies.

13.5.1 Key Uncertainties in Climate Scenarios 13.5.1.1 Specifying alternative emissions futures 13.5.1.2 Uncertainties in converting emissions to concentrations 13.5.1.3 Uncertainties in converting concentrations to radiative forcing 13.5.1.4 Uncertainties in modelling the climate response to a given forcing 13.5.1.5 Uncertainties in converting model response into inputs for impact studies 13.5.2 Approaches for Representing Uncertainties 13.5.2.1 Scaling climate model response patterns 13.5.2.2 Defining climate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scenarios