Sentences with phrase «last academies report»

Since the last Academies report in 2013 that assessed the state of solid - state lighting — which uses diodes, a semiconductor technology, as an alternative light source to incandescent bulbs — the annual residential installation of LED bulbs has increased sixfold between 2012 and 2014, from 13 million to 78 million.

Not exact matches

Last week, a report from the China Tourism Academy and Ctrip said they expected the number of outbound Chinese travelers this year to reach a new record of 6.5 million.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at the US Military Academy at West Point in the last academic year, according to a Pentagon study released on Wednesday, highlighting an issue that has long plagued the military and its academies.

In a paper presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in Houston, Dr. Coddington reported that he had elicited confidential family information from more than 700 New Orleans high school players last year while their coaches kept detailed injury records.

Due to become the youngest boss in the history of the Bundesliga when he steps into the shoes of current caretaker, Huub Stevens, in six months» time, the 28 - year - old Nagelsmann certainly has a good reputation on the German circuit, delivering the goods with Hoffenheim's youth team — leading them to the national title in 2014 and the runners - up spot last season — recently reported to be on a short - list for a role at the Bayern Munich academy and known to be very close to present - day Dortmund coach, Thomas Tuchel.

While I was unable to find any statistics on choking on school grounds per se, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported last year that «[c] hoking on food causes the death of approximately 1 child every 5 days in the United States,» and some of the characteristics of the typical school cafeteria eating experience were identified in the report as enhancing the risk of choking:

«Breast - feeding should not only be allowed [by family and community] it should be encouraged,» said Satcher, who also has addressed the importance of breast - feeding before the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics since the government report came out last year.

While Miliband is reported to be considering moving Stephen Twigg from the shadow education brief, Burnham more readily regrets the last government's support for academy schools than makes peace with this government's «free schools».

With the chancellor using his budget to announce that all schools in England will become academies, a story we reported on last year has made it into our top - five this week.

Such declines may be reflected in the business of science; the National Academies reported the U.S. share of global high - tech exports fell during the last two decades from 30 to 17 percent, and its share of manufactured goods dropped from 33 billion in 1990 to 24 billion in 2004.

► «[A] new National Academies panel examining how the government keeps tabs on its $ 40 - billion - a-year investment» held its first meeting from 12 - 13 February, Jeffrey Mervis reported last Friday at ScienceInsider.

As last year's National Academies report, The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited, notes, «[n] o single data source measures the entire population of postdocs, and some parts of the population are not systematically measured at all.»

In that spirit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a report last June calling for the integration of military and civilian medical trauma education, training and research, with the goal of completely eliminating all preventable trauma deaths across the country.

Last week, a panel from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences told the president in a report that Earth is indeed heating up, as previous studies had concluded, and that humans are at least partially responsible (ScienceNOW, 7 June).

Sixteen percent of high school students have reported using e-cigarettes in the last month and almost 40 percent have tried them at some point, Benard Dryer, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the same press conference.

Humboldt squid have been moving northward into California's Monterey Bay for the last five years, gobbling up Pacific hake, an important catch for commercial fisherman, according to a report published this week by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The plea for Australia to become involved — and to pay the annual fee of A$ 6 million — is contained in a report released last Tuesday by the Australian Academy of Science.

«I was frustrated by the press denigrating the IPCC and that equal voice was given to those with no expertise in climate science,» says Kurt Lambeck, a AAS former president who commissioned the academy's report last December.

And just last year, the National Academies concurred, as we reported at the time.

But 3 months after their last drink, they always preferred the risky lever, even when they payoff was poor, the researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mutations that make millimeter - long transparent worms known as Caenorhabditis elegans live longer also extend the proportion of their lives the worms spend being frail, Heidi Tissenbaum of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and colleagues reported last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A report last June from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) came to the same conclusion and called FDA research «unfocused and fragmented.»

He asked the Academies's committee to deliver a preliminary copy of its report last fall so that its recommendations might inform his work.

An Interim Report on Assuring DoD a Strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce, which was released last week by the National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering, is an example.

One such antibody agonist, which can turn stem - like cells in bone marrow into young brain cells, was described in a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month.

Qian pointed to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report last year on haze, or «atmospheric brown clouds,» in South Asia that implicated air pollution in disrupting the water cycle.

So too, a report last June by the National Academies seemed to contradict Mr. Gore's portrayal of recent temperatures as the highest in the past millennium.

[Response: A similar conclusion to the one cited by Gavin above was reached independently by a panel of scientists (of which I was a member) convened to report on these issues by the National Academy of Sciences last year, resulting in the NAS report «Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties (2005)».

In a 2013 report to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the National Research Council recommended that if a superconducting magnet capable of generating fields in excess of 30 Tesla could be produced — which it was late last year at NHMFL — such a magnet should be deployed at a FEL facility with accessto the terahertz radiation band.

Although, a National Academies of Science report last year found GMO foods weren't detrimental to health.

If the last newspaper thriller of note, the Academy Award - winning Spotlight, better than it had any rights to be, focused on the mechanics of reporting and breaking a story, The Post, though it features similar elements, has somewhat different aims.

Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).

Released last week by the National Academy of Education, the report represents the sharpest criticism to date of some of the newer methods being used to measure or interpret NAEP results.

As reported by Tes, there were 88 applications last month for academy conversion, which is the lowest number for February in any of the four years for which the figures were provided.

The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that childhood obesity has doubled in the last two decades.

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

Last year, seniors at the Boston Community Leadership Academy published multimedia reports on the Web to publicize their ideas about youth activism and community change.

Since the National Academy of Sciences in last year's report still sees problems with the levels, we have not yet reached the end - stage of that development.

New Orleans — Reading specialists meeting here last week said the new report on reading research by the National Academy of Education's Commission on Reading settles some pedagogical issues but fails to resolve important controversies surrounding early reading instruction.

According to Ofsted's report, in the last nine months, 113 maintained schools also became eligible for an academy order due to their low performance but are still open in their original guise.

IES Breckland, which Schools Week reported on last week, is the only free school judged «inadequate» by Ofsted that has not closed or moved to a different academy trust.

Ofsted's annual report reveals that of 170 local authority - maintained schools that were languishing at the lowest rating in April last year, when new rules around academy conversion came into force, 65 of which have still not converted to academy status.

Schools Week reported in November last year that almost a third of schools in the East Midlands and Humber were now academies, up from a quarter in 2014.

Schools Week reported last week how the Academy Transformation Trust (ATT) is undergoing a major restructure across its 21 schools in the Midlands and east of England.

Mr Stewart's freedom of information request followed a government report last year which compared the Ofsted grades for maintained schools and converter academies — successful schools that chose to convert.

Former Office of Charter Schools director Joel Medley, who recently announced his departure in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applications.

These were the last students to have experienced Locke as a public school, back when they were freshmen, and the last to represent Locke High School as a whole; younger students have been placed in small, individual academies on campus, each of which reports separately to the state.

in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applications.

A report by the Centre for High Performance last week revealed some academy trusts exclude pupils to change the profile of their intake and increase results.