Sentences with phrase «improved resilience»

These changes are known to be associated with improved resilience, prevention of later mental health difficulties, and reductions in the development of antisocial behaviour problems.»

Haiti is one of six Caribbean island nations participating in a regional PPCR program to enhance climate data and sharing for improved resilience and disaster risk management.

Mike Smith, a meteorologist and the author of «Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather,» said there's plenty to explore in the wreckage of this spring — including different death counts in different places — that could lead to improved resilience in the tornado zone:

DOT also works to help transportation agencies evaluate potential risks from climate change and plan for improved resilience of transportation infrastructure and services.

The 34 % who improved with the help of yoga showed significant reduction in psychological distress, lower frequency of negative experience, improved resilience, and an increase in positive thoughts.

But he's also noticing an increased interest in improved resilience in inland areas, particularly since the devastating 2011 tornado season that included the Alabama and Joplin tornadoes.

The improved resilience for this area of North America that will result from the implementation of the recommendations of the Assessment is being celebrated by the CEC as part of its 20thanniversary.

In looking to improved resilience in Adirondack food systems, the Food Justice coalition ended their conference with a mapping exercise: connecting dots literally marked on a big map of the Adirondack Park.

Numerous studies count reduced cardiovascular risk, improved resilience against cancer and reduced signs of aging as benefits of fasting.

And he learned that there are ways to improve your resilience at work.

We can take some comfort from the major efforts over the past decade to improve the resilience of the global financial system.

How can Australian research and industry work together to help developing regions improve their resilience to an increasingly volatile world (geopolitical instability, warzones, and climate change) by helping them produce more food domestically, stabilising their markets and ultimately creating a new customer base?

In deploying a comprehensive strategy, Starbucks is improving the resilience of our supply chain and ensuring the long - term supply of high - quality coffees, as well as building stronger, enduring farming communities for generations to come.

raising and sustaining the productivity of rice farmers, including improving resilience of crops to climate change;

FC Nordsjaelland owner Tom Vernon appointed a head of character development to improve the resilience of the club's young players - we ask him why

The need for better anticipation, preparation and leadership were highlighted, along with an emphasis on improving resilience to disaster, which fed back into DfID's long - term development agenda.

Firefighters will welcome the pledge of 3,000 new firefighters to ease the strain on staffing levels and improve resilience.

The intention was to enable them to diversify, help them to reduce their carbon emissions, and allow them to improve their resilience and competitiveness.

It would be nice to be able to deploy the armed forces to prevent conflict and strengthen international stability; and to give them a greater domestic role, improving resilience against flooding and the like.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are today unveiling policies to support Wales» farming industry, including a # 20 million package for hill farmers and plans to enable farmers to be able to improve their resilience and competitiveness.

For example, DOE should support a number of research, development, demonstration, and convening activities to improve the resilience of grid operations and recovery steps.

«We are engaging an interdisciplinary team to figure out how to improve resilience and preparedness in these situations where the risks are ongoing and the exact nature of the hazards that people are facing is uncertain.»

But no one has understood, if you improve resilience, what happens over the longer term.

This could improve the resilience of agriculture to climate related shocks, which can improve food security in many areas across the globe», says Matias Heino, a doctoral candidate at Aalto University.

In recommending how to mitigate the ongoing danger, the commission limits itself to quite general comments about improving the resilience of weak buildings, both public and private.

«Action is urgently needed to understand risks better, improve the resilience of the global food system to weather - related shocks and to mitigate their impact on people,» said Tim Benton, a population ecologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, who heads the GFS program, in a statement.

Likewise, it has been shown that it is effective training for improving resilience in a range of sports.

Soon after S&T commercialized the technology, the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (MA - OCME) purchased Rapid DNA as part of efforts to improve the resilience of their communities and disaster response.

After Saturday's devastating earthquake in Nepal — and facing scenes that are depressingly reminiscent of equally destructive earthquakes across the Alpine - Himalayan mountain belt in the last decade or so, in Iran, Pakistan and China — it is natural to wonder how we might improve resilience to these terrible events.

(E) establishes performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and

Benefits, which improve resilience, include improvements in soil fertility and water - use efficiency, plus disruption of weed, pest, and disease life cycles.

Ultimately, results from this project can be used to prioritize projects and programs that are aimed at improving resilience.

The project goal was to improve the resilience of these populations to drought conditions.

«Mindfulness meditation training is a relatively inexpensive and low - stigma treatment approach, and these findings strengthen the case that it can improve resilience to stress,» said lead author Elizabeth A. Hoge, MD, associate professor in Georgetown University Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry.

Making «fun» of a potentially distressing situation will help to improve resilience.

Thus, improving the resilience of the HPA Axis is an important factor in maintaining strength and mobility as a part of longevity.

The same techniques that lower stress can also foster a more positive attitude, hence improving your resilience in the face of Hashimoto's hypothyroidism.

This program helps increase athletic performance while also working to improve resilience and decrease risk of injury and pain for the next season.

According to the Spanish researchers, experimentation with a variety of probiotic strains showed great potential in improving the resilience of intestinal tissue, as well as reducing the immune system's overall hostility towards it.

Hormesis is one of the reasons that exercise and green leafy vegetables are so good for us; they impose minor stressors on the body, boosting its healing properties, and improving resilience.

Defeating enemy officers in battle nets materials that can be used to improve each individual character's attack and defence capabilities (adding new moves, for example, or improving resilience to a particular weapon type).

This, in turn, improves their resilience and academic achievement (Dweck, 2000).

A new research report, launched today by child development expert Dr Jacqueline Harding, has found that encouraging child curiosity in real world events can support the development of critical thinking skills, improve resilience and enhance cognitive growth.

Supported by the Teachers Health Foundation, the Start Well study investigated strategies to help improve resilience and retention in the teaching profession.

Classroom strategies that improve resilience and academic achievement for middle and high school students.

The Green Belt Movement is working closely with institutions such as the World Agroforestry Centre to improve the resilience of farming systems and livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers to current climate variability.

At the same time, though, many emerging market countries have done quite a bit to improve their resilience over the years.

Through its actions, NCAR seems to be stating that physical science alone holds the key to coping with climate change, or even working to improve our resilience during typical seasonal fluctuations and weather events.

While the Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule did indeed die that day, FERC also directed the grid operators which it oversees to report back to the agency on how they define resiliency, and what they think could be done to improve the resilience of the grids that they operate.

Measures to improve the resilience of marine ecosystems have been proposed, but these can only be effective in the long run if serous reductions in carbon dioxide emissions are achieved.»