Sentences with phrase «include other assessments»

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Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

Within a framework of sustainable development — including a cap - and - trade system and thorough environmental assessments — New Democrats would prioritize our own energy security and with it the creation of high - paying, value - added jobs, refining and upgrading our own natural resources right here in Canada — just as other resource - rich developed nations like Norway already have.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

It relies upon 13 expert data sources, including assessments from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the World Economic Forum, to determine levels of bribery, diversion of public funds, use of public office for private gain and other issues of corruption.

A bill currently in the US Senate would call on federal personnel, including from the Department of Homeland Security, to develop and share with other law enforcement bodies a threat assessment describing how cryptocurrencies could be used to support terrorist activity.

But the main purpose of these statements, and of all the other communication we do, is simply to try to make the Bank's assessment of the outlook and its actions as understandable as possible to the many people who need to make long - term decisions, including households and businesses.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Balance this assessment against other potential short - term benefits of filing a patent, including an improved ability to demonstrate to customers, partners and investors that you hold a sustainable competitive advantage.

The Company continuously monitors customer payments and maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts based on its assessment of various factors including historical experience, age of the receivable balances, and other current economic conditions or other factors that may affect customers» ability to pay.

The risk assessment process included, among other things, a review of (i) all key incentive compensation plans to ensure that they are aligned with our pay - for - performance philosophy and include performance metrics that meet and support corporate goals, and (ii) the overall compensation mix to ensure an appropriate balance between fixed and variable pay components and between short - term and long - term incentives.

Practical Relevance of Dr Leblanc's Work: Dr Leblanc has facilitated the assessment of boards of directors of public companies that have won governance awards and other forms of peer recognition for their best practices, including from the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Chartered Accountants of Canada, the Conference Board of Canada, and the Globe and Mail.

This can include your real estate tax bill, your homeowner's insurance bill, and monthly assessments to an association among other items in your PITI.

A number of issues were discussed including the impact of the proposed amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessment Board Act, which is currently before Parliament and which will among other things, remove set timelines for assessments as well as requiring re-assessments for large scale mining projects, where a full environmental screening has already been positively concluded.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

Guidance Materials: The State Board of Education and the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program provides districts with wellness policy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness policies.

It promotes self - help, provides important information for fathers — including a self - assessment for postpartum depression — hosts an online forum for dads to talk to each other, offers resources, gathers new information about men's experiences postpartum, and — most importantly — helps fathers to beat the baby blues.

It is still too early to say, however, whether the King - Devick test can replace other, more conventional concussion evaluations for young athletes, including the standardized assessment, despite its shortcomings in this study, Dr. Galetta cautioned.

The National Athletic Trainers» Association 2014 position statement on the management of sport - related concussion [14] says all athletes should «ideally» undergo a preseason baseline assessment, but, that, at a minimum, athletes who are at a high risk of concussion based on their sport should be included in any baseline testing program, with athletes with a significant concussion history, or other relevant pre-existing condition, such as attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder, tested on an individual basis.

The Waldorf School of Princeton's comprehensive program begins with the observation of children and also may include child studies, consultations with parents as well as additional educators and / or specialists, various assessments, and individual and / or group lessons with other students.

Tests include evaluations of the restraint system, stability of the high chair, and static and dynamic load assessments as well as other tests.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

Should the County eliminate its guarantee to refund other taxing districts» (including school districts) share of property taxes paid in error due to County assessment errors?

Silver's other legal work, for a separate firm that handled property tax assessment appeals, was unknown to the public until a year ago: Prosecutors successfully argued that Silver received legal fees from real estate developers — including Glenwood Management, the state's most generous political donor — that had extensive business before the Legislature, and did his best to conceal the arrangement from ethics watchdogs.

As part of the new agreement, the IMI and its qualifications subsidiary, IMI Awards, will be responsible for managing the quality assurance process for the irtec scheme, which will include the approval of new testing centres, monitoring of the assessments and assessors and working with other qualification bodies who have shown an interest in supporting the scheme.

HCR's leadership — which like that of all other executive agencies operates under the direction of the governor — can override a low staff assessment, including through what's referred to as a «Commissioner Determination,» to unlock the credits.

• A pathway assessment in a Language Other Than English (LOTE) approved by the Commissioner (which could include a Biliteracy Pathway); or

The regulations advanced today include a «4 +1» option that permits a student to take four Regents exams and a comparably rigorous technical, arts, or other assessment for the fifth examination required for graduation.

«Other training includes evaluators and principals workshop on evaluating and student learning; evaluating and tracking student; workshop on coordination, monitoring and reporting and impact assessment on training of inclusive education teachers on Braille and sign language.»

By moving to a «mixed model» of student assessment — including lower - stakes exams, as well as quizzes and other assignments — instructors can decrease well established performance gaps between male and female students in science courses.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

A March 2008 Government Accountability Office report criticized the Bush White House (pdf) for injecting politics into the EPA's chemical risk assessment of perchlorate and other toxins.The report suggested that the White House Office of Management and Budget was stalling the completion of risk assessments by forcing scientists to respond to comments from other federal agencies, including the Department of Defense.

«Our membership supports the development of robust [life - cycle assessments], but believes that the process should include input from a multitude of stakeholders, including algae technology companies, [nongovernmental organizations] and other scientists.»

Its flexible framework can be readily applied to other US states and adapted for risk assessments of other emerging arboviruses, including Chikungunya, Dengue, and Yellow fever.»

The legislators hint at part of their agenda by describing how the assessment should examine «the relationship, or lack of relationship, of our research universities with other parts of our national research enterprise, including the federally - funded National Laboratories.»

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

Other approaches agreed include tailoring the assessment of doping risk to the demands of the individual sport.

A coalition of 16 science and environmental groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a joint statement praising the assessment, while others said it provided much - needed context for sticky debates on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across the land.

However, monitors are now including other forms of repression, such as police brutality and the use of the death penalty, in their assessments.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

Millero and others, including the mathematician and physicist Rainer Feistel and Trevor McDougall at the Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research, set to work developing standard guidelines that would allow for more accurate assessment of salinity.

«The recommendations are intended for use by clinicians, including orthopedists, rheumatologists, and other physicians performing risk assessment and evaluation, as well as by patients,» Dr. Goodman noted.

Other changes indicated in the assessment include:

-- The Under Secretary shall operate the Climate Service Program through a national center, the Climate Service Office, and a network of regional and local facilities, including the established regional and local offices of the National Weather Service, 6 Regional Climate Centers, the offices of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program, the National Integrated Drought Information System, and any other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - supported regional and local entities, as appropriate.

Like other weeklies of the time, the Scientific American covered the Civil War extensively, with a lengthy section of each issue devoted to reports of the latest skirmishes and assessments of the situation — including naval activities along the coast.

Skeletal analysis includes establishing a biological profile (i.e., estimations for age - at - death, sex, and stature, and the determination of ancestral origin), assessment of traumatic injuries and pathologies, and notation of any other pertinent skeletal anomalies.

Also included were other peer - reviewed assessments and research, as well as government statistics, publicly available observations, and advice from expert reviewers.

The degree of air pollution in China exceeded that in most of the world, yet assessments of total health effects must also include other fossil fuel caused air and water pollutants, as discussed in the following section on ecology and the environment.

Arria adds that many clinicians insist on doing a full assessment on students who are not abusing other drugs and alcohol, including getting a history of symptoms and reports from teachers, to know if they have ADHD.

IFNA ™ training includes skill - building and competencies in key clinical areas: nutrition - focused physical assessment; therapeutic elimination diets; conventional and functional labs and diagnostics including nutrigenetic testing; art and science of dietary supplements; mind - body modalities such as meditation, yoga, breathing techniques and other lifestyle - oriented practices.