Sentences with phrase «information system»

Unlike past versions, the 2009 map will be GIS - compatible, storing and linking layers of information in a digital version that can be read with widely available GIS (geographic information system) viewing programs.

The in - vehicle information system study included 257 people and the smartphone personal assistant study had 65 participants, all with no at - fault accidents during the past five years.

They plot the areas in question using spatial coordinates from the Geographic Information System and then post the maps on the Internet.

In the in - car information system study, the researchers did an initial test on the subjects, then let them take the cars home for five days to practice using the systems.

Disbursing the U.S. government's sprawling Earth data stockpile is the aim of the federal Global Change Data and Information System.

Dr Grainger and his team are now working with other groups at The University of Manchester to carry out further studies on monocytes, particularly from patients with inflammatory conditions, and are focused on identifying situations where this gut information system may have gone wrong such as in inflammatory bowel diseases.

«No one dares to chop down large areas anymore because they know they will get caught,» says geologist and geographic information system (GIS) researcher Britaldo Soares at the Federal University of Minas Gerais's Center for Remote Sensing.

Finally, an estimate of the burden of alcohol - attributable breast cancer incidence and mortality by means of a Population - Attributable Fraction methodology (using data on alcohol consumption from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, and data on cancer incidence and mortality from the GLOBOCAN database) showed that an estimated 144,000 breast - cancer cases and 38,000 breast - cancer deaths globally in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, with 18.8 % of these cases and 17.5 % of these deaths affecting women who were light drinkers.

The next most common categories were «other professionals, associate professionals and technicians,» including geographic information system support analysts and parliamentary researchers (13.5 %); «business, HR and finance professionals» (13.2 %); «clerical, secretarial and numerical clerk occupations» (11.5 %); «other occupations,» including fundraising interns (11.1 %); and «marketing, PR and sales professionals» (7.6 %).

Job Responsibilities: I am the site implementation manager for General Motors (one of a variety of companies for which EDS manages information system technology).

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

In the paper, «Racial and Social Disparities in Bystander Support During Medical Emergencies in U.S. Streets,» York Cornwell and Currit analyzed data on nearly 22,500 patients from the 2011 National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) data set, which they linked to characteristics of counties where the incidents occurred.

Map making In general, the first stage in creating a poverty atlas is to identify the communities that meet the criteria for being considered a slum and to plug their locations into geographic information system (GIS) software.

My involvement inspired and motivated me to found and promote Cancer - Africa, a networked information system and organizational tool for cancer patients and practitioners in sub-Saharan Africa http://www.cancer-africa.org, a «Web - based interactive platform designed to enhance South - South dynamics and promote North - South cross-collaboration,» as it was described in a UIC - ICRETT fellowship application.

About 5,300 previously unknown organisms have already been identified, and every new sighting is logged into the census's freely accessible Ocean Biogeographic Information System (www.iobis.org), which boasts more than 13 million observations of 80,000 species.

This one recommendation, which came at the end of the day, seemed to meet with the approval of all present — the need for a comprehensive information system capable of more accurately tracking and modeling the S&E education and workforce pathways.

Following the report of the uncovered N118bn salaries paid to 46,639 «ghost workers» in 2014 by the implementation of the Integrated Payment Personal Information System in 215 Ministries Departments and Agencies, more recent cases have been uncovered.

Dr Anthony Uwa, National Coordinator, Basic Registry and Information System in Nigeria (BRISIN), says the project will create no fewer than 10 million jobs if implemented by the present administration.

Democrat Adam Haber proposes naming a «disaster czar» to handle a county - wide emergency management and information system that he says would give Nassau County the response it did not get after Sandy.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

The website uses geographic information system technology, or GIS, to provide detailed imagery of the parks, along with information about each park, such as available incentives, utilities and zoning.

Health Clinic Immunization Program Cited The Oneida County Health Department's Clinic Immunization Program was recently recognized for excellence in implementing the New York State Immunization Information System, Director of Clinic Services, Patrice Bogan announced today.

The PRO, Victoria Abedu, insisted she would allow the interview with the acting Manager of the Management Information System (MIS), Yaw Nimo, to proceed only if the reporter, restricts the questions.

Among its other provisions, the bill would expand what goes into the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System, a database of contractors» past performance and other related information.

Courts could also lose access to the European criminal records information system, which allows courts to request information on previous convictions of EU nationals.

However, the UK will have to agree to EU rules on data sharing, subject to ECJ jurisdiction, in order to maintain access to crime databases such as the Schengen information system, which allows police forces to share real - time alerts on suspects, vehicles and firearms.

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One of the conclusions reached in March was to allow police access to the Eurodac database of fingerprints, which was set up specifically to deal with asylum applications, and to the visa information system (Visa), which contains data on visa applications.

This extension has become imperative to enable members of the public seamlessly key into the electronic platform initiative of the Nigeria Police Force Central Information System (NCIS), a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole disclosed.

In the same vein, the Nigerian Army Finance Corps is in the final stages of discussion on the upgrade of the Nigerian Army personnel to the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System..

Besides, Governor Ambode expressed optimism that with the new arrangement coupled with the deployment of the new Integrated Land Administration and Automation System and the Geographical Information System, the State Government would achieve a combined effect of making the process of securing land title seamless, and also engender the highest level of security and integrity of title document.

At the Oct. 19 Delegate Assembly, the first since the summer break, UFT President Michael Mulgrew reported on principals abusing the teacher evaluation system, the dysfunctional Special Education Student Information System and the need to make the state's richest pay their fair share of taxes.

Mulgrew alerted delegates that by the end of April more than 30,000 UFT members would start receiving back pay for the after - hours work they have put in between September 2011 and Dec. 30, 2012 to complete their work on the Special Education Student Information System.

This can be done through the driver or conductor making the announcement or through an Audio and Visual Information System.

In the week of 22 August 2011, Wireless Generation, [154] a subsidiary of News Corporation, lost a no - bid contract with New York State to build an information system, for tracking student performance as a consequence of the News International phone hacking scandal.

Few Policemen who went on inquiry to the Mechanized Salary Section (MSS) in Kaduna State Police Command over complaint of Under - payment, Omission of their names on the Salary Payroll as a result of the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) handled by the Office of the Accountant - General of the Federation, were immediately attended to and addressed by the Officer in Charge of the Mechanized Salary Section (MSS), Kaduna State Command in the early hours of today that their problems have been taken up by the Force Headquarters with the Office of the Accountant - General of the Federation.

APDA also requested that all payment of workers» salaries in the states should be done through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as being used at the federal level.

(week of) News Corporation subsidiary Wireless Generation loses New York State contract for education information system provision.

So he decided to go further and hired Nicholas Hollingshead, an independent GIS (geographic information system) specialist in Ithaca.

However, some challenges such as Under - payment, Omission of names on payroll, Non-payment and Over-payment of some Police Personnel experienced in the Eight (8) State Commands that have been enrolled on the platform of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) in the payment of August and September 2017 Salary have been taken up with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and its being promptly addressed.

Also, government intends to extend the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, to all MDAs in order to maintain a lean payroll.

These items should never have been present on an unclassified, or general use, information system.

That the material had to be classified after the fact is immaterial; it contained information that by doctrine should have been properly controlled and segregated from the general service information system.

The situation is further complicated by the use of the personal server; if these communications had been made via a Government Information system, there would be a firm management and accounting of the emails.

His journey to the dock followed a petition by the Department of Land Administration, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, alleging that the defendant presented a title document, purported to be original Mass Housing Development Programme within the FCT, in the name of Verizon Heritage Limited, dated February 19, 2010 for confirmation in the Search Unit of Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS.

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is investigating more than the $ 72 million information system software procured by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), the Director - General Dr. John Ofori Tenkorang.

The study data were taken from the St Mary's Maternity Information System (SMMIS), a computerised records system which was used by most of the hospitals within the former North West Thames Regional Health Authority (RHA) area during the study period.

Some board members called the study unfair, contending that recommendations to change school maintenance, such as an improved management information system, would require upfront costs that were not identified.

The Rice Knowledge Bank and the International Rice Information System are tools to help this process that are used to transfer more effective rice technologies and train farmers and scientists in many developing countries.

We use an integrated breeding platform that has an efficient information system for managing breeding logistics and information from different sources.