Sentences with phrase «key focus of these reviews»

Resilience of energy networks is a key focus of these reviews, as they help to ensure that members are able to react and adapt to changing conditions.

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The federal banking regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, also last summer said it was reviewing domestic retail sales practices at Canada's key banks, focusing on «risk culture» and «the governance of sales practices.»

Last spring's federal budget, under the heading «Canada's Digital Future,» promised reviews of the key laws covering the entertainment and information industries — the Broadcasting Act, Telecommunications Act and Copyright Act — all with a focus on «the role of Canadian content in an increasingly digital world.»

The future of research into the potential health benefits of cocoa should focus on the mechanisms and active compounds, with well defined clinical trials key to this burgeoning segment, says a new review by Nestlé.

The MMR committee is comprised of clinicians and other key stakeholders from professional organizations and hospitals to review aggregate data and provide recommendations for prevention and improvements in medical care and to identify focus areas for education and quality improvement.

The extensively peer - reviewed IPBES assessment reports focus on providing answers to key questions for each of the four regions, including: why is biodiversity important, where are we making progress, what are the main threats and opportunities for biodiversity and how can we adjust our policies and institutions for a more sustainable future?

Once in the field, Bradt uses the techniques of epidemiological assessment — review of primary source documents, site visits, transect walks, key informant interviews, focus groups, limited surveys, and sometimes ongoing disease surveillance — to rapidly evaluate emergency preparedness plans, response activities, and recovery programs.

This review illustrates the mechanism used by invasive cancer cells to cross the BM barrier by focusing on the role of key cytoskeleton components.

In his 2010 review, acclaimed expert in the field of training periodization, Vladimir Issurin, lists a concentrated focus on obtaining training adaptations as one of his 5 key factors affecting the duration of short - term training residual adaptations.9 What scientists have noticed is that longer term training adaptations will remain at a heightened level for a given period after training cessation.

The recommendations are an initial part of the Rochford Review, led by headteacher Diane Rochford, and created to focus on statutory assessment of the more than 50,000 pupils whose ability falls below the national curriculum standards at key stage 1 and 2.

Data from student test scores should be used by schools to move students to mastery and a deep conceptual understanding of key concepts as well as to inform instruction, target remediation, and to focus review efforts.

Part I of this report reviews recent research on school and family collaboration and presents 10 key strategies for creating effective family - school - community partnerships that are focused on advancing student learning.

The teams are composed of 15 - 20 current educators who meet weekly for several months to review research, meet with key decision - makers and experts, and conduct focus groups and surveys to develop policy recommendations.

A key focus of the national review will be a broad consultation process, with emphasis on understanding and improving current arrangements for teacher registration within Australia.

We spent nearly a decade reviewing the evidence as it accumulated, focusing on the most rigorous and credible studies of incentives in educational testing and sifting through the results to uncover the key lessons for education policymakers and the public.

Interviewed by Poynter.org yesterday, Lozada talked about his plans, which are focused on «building a digital audience,» by using «author interviews; short posts that highlight key nuggets from new books; deep dives on trends in nonfiction,» such as his piece, «The End of Everything» and adds, «while I know that lots of people use reviews to help them decide which books to buy and read, lots of them also see reviews as a substitute for reading the book.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

The findings and, more importantly, the focus have set off a wave of criticism accusing the university panel of failing to interview key people, neglecting to conduct more than a cursory review of allegations and structuring the inquiry so that the outcome — exoneration — was a foregone conclusion.

The US Climate Change Science Program has posted a final (third) review draft of a key report, Coastal Sensitivity to Sea - Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region (available in.

Early Case Assessment and Investigation services are delivered by a team of experienced professionals who regularly advise clients on best practices and workflows to quickly understand the dataset, uncover key facts and focus on important areas for review.

«The scope of our review is very broad and, while we intend to deal with a variety of matters,... our key focus will be on vulnerable workers in precarious jobs and the need for legislative amendments to address some of the issue facing these workers,» wrote the special advisors in their interim report.

As with other legal AI companies in the document review space, they have developed their own natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning software with a focus on contract analysis and extraction of key clauses.

This has been a key focus for the government in recent months, and also follows a recent Department of Health consultation into fixed costs in medical negligence claims up to # 25,000, as well as a review by Lord Justice Jackson of caps for all civil litigation with a value up to # 250,000.

Charis employed a variety of research methods into their process including: a survey of members of the Law Society; key informant interviews; random member interviews; a review of a sample of CPD Plans and focus group interviews.

Our review of the most important court cases for construction comes from Andrew Croft and Simii Sivapalan, focusing on a Court of Session ruling highlighting that contractual rights of set - off may be used as a defence in respect of any additional assessment for payment under a payment certificate, even in the absence of pay less notices; and one showing how the drafting of the guarantee as a whole will be key in determining the differences between a guarantee and demand bond.

Panelists noted the difficulties of choosing key words, reporting that «[e] ven if you have a brilliant, absolutely focussed search, you are still going to end up with too many documents to review and within those there will still be a very large proportion of irrelevant material.»

It is suggested that book reviews focus on quality of the contents, identify key points, and illustrate strengths and weaknesses for a balanced review.

The key strengths at the beginning of the resume are the areas that Steve wants the reader to focus on as they review his experience.

• Track record of setting up and operating testing equipment used in evaluating performance of developmental parts and assemblies • Adept at reviewing existing assemblies to gauge need for amendments and revisions • Able to install and maintain solid state equipment with key focus on quality control and time management

Reviewing the position description in advance of the interview and aligning it to key qualifications in your resume will help you to stay focused during the actual interview.

Most employers will spend less than 20 seconds reviewing your resume, which means you need to focus on the key components of your resume that will result in getting a job interview.

Chancellor Capital Management / Invesco, Inc. (City, ST) 1995 — 2000 Partner and Managing Director — Institutional Fixed Income • Manage in excess of $ 44 billion, approximately $ 20 billion of which were managed with a total rate of return objective • Focus in mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities • Create and implement strategy for all MBS and ABS investments for total rate of return portfolios • Responsible for risk management including establishing and monitoring appropriate risk levels • Collaborate with CIO in management of all core portfolios benchmarked against the Lehman Aggregate Index • Run weekly strategy meetings defining portfolio construction in conjunction with Investment Policy Committee guidelines • Oversee assets in excess of $ 10 billion including pension funds, public funds, and insurance funds • Conduct client reviews and new business presentations on a regular basis • Serve as point person for key strategic partnerships based out of New York

Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company, Hershey, PA VICE-PRESIDENT OF SALES 2004 - 2009 Functioned as Senior Officer in conjunction with six VPs including finance, general counsel, human resources, marketing, entertainment division, and resort division Directed sales and marketing operations of three divisions involving two hotels, theme park, 10,000 seat arena, corporate sponsorships, hockey sales and luxury suites, and premium / club seating Reported directly to the CEO and collaborate with core operational departments Designed sales compensation commission plan for each division Administered and streamlined annual budget process for sales divisions Evaluated, reviewed, and monitored capital budgets and projects Executed company - wide site inspection form and procedures ensuring consistent management of clients; implement sales training program for all sales managers Key Accomplishments: Successfully achieved record revenue for each sales division from 2005 to 2007 with annual sales revenue of $ 350 million and more than $ 300 million in invested capital Integrated and improved sales call center facilitating one stop shopping for the customers Played a key role in the launching of marketing partnership with Air Marketing Instituted advisory boards for all divisions with focus groups on key feeder markets Successfully created the first North American MPI Chapter in more than 5 years, Mid-Penn MOF SALES 2004 - 2009 Functioned as Senior Officer in conjunction with six VPs including finance, general counsel, human resources, marketing, entertainment division, and resort division Directed sales and marketing operations of three divisions involving two hotels, theme park, 10,000 seat arena, corporate sponsorships, hockey sales and luxury suites, and premium / club seating Reported directly to the CEO and collaborate with core operational departments Designed sales compensation commission plan for each division Administered and streamlined annual budget process for sales divisions Evaluated, reviewed, and monitored capital budgets and projects Executed company - wide site inspection form and procedures ensuring consistent management of clients; implement sales training program for all sales managers Key Accomplishments: Successfully achieved record revenue for each sales division from 2005 to 2007 with annual sales revenue of $ 350 million and more than $ 300 million in invested capital Integrated and improved sales call center facilitating one stop shopping for the customers Played a key role in the launching of marketing partnership with Air Marketing Instituted advisory boards for all divisions with focus groups on key feeder markets Successfully created the first North American MPI Chapter in more than 5 years, Mid-Penn Mof three divisions involving two hotels, theme park, 10,000 seat arena, corporate sponsorships, hockey sales and luxury suites, and premium / club seating Reported directly to the CEO and collaborate with core operational departments Designed sales compensation commission plan for each division Administered and streamlined annual budget process for sales divisions Evaluated, reviewed, and monitored capital budgets and projects Executed company - wide site inspection form and procedures ensuring consistent management of clients; 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This report followed from the 1997/98 Section 26 review of the operation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989, in which the need to strengthen ATSIC's regional focus and pursue greater autonomy emerged as a key area of interest.

Review the timeline highlighting some of the key «events» over the history of Head Start and Early Head Start that hallmark significant focus or influence on mental health services.

The review focused on key components of work that promote successful implementation of state / local connections, notably elements such as:

The chapter includes the description of a framework for categorizing four types of studies (group design, single subject design, correlational, case studies) and four types of literature reviews (narrative, summative, systematic, meta - analysis) for conducting research syntheses which focus on the identification of the key characteristics of early childhood intervention practices and their functional or statistical relationship to the behavior the practices are intended to change or improve.

[70] In April 2002, COAG commissioned the Productivity Commission's Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth / State Service Provision to produce a regular report against key indicators of Indigenous disadvantage, with a focus on areas where governments can make a difference.

As Jim Adair's excellent piece states: «A key part of the website will be a «rate your agent» section — similar to the Rate Your Realtor concept that was proposed as part of CREA's Futures Project, but voted down at the association's Annual General Meeting... Rogers held a series of focus groups to determine what consumers want from the new site, and found that many asked for a section where they could read reviews of sales reps» performance.

Vancouver, British Columbia — Carolyn Rogers, Chair of an independent advisory group tasked by the Real Estate Council of BC to review the Council's handling of licensee misconduct, has named her group members and outlined some key areas of focus.