Sentences with phrase «less public control»

How would less transparency, worse education, more corruption and less public control influence the quality of an army and its equipment?

Not exact matches

As I will discuss, the risk of distortion and inaccuracy is amplified because start - up companies, even quite mature ones, often have far less robust internal controls and governance procedures than most public companies.

Lets just say this, using the census data, controlling on 4 digit occupation (NocS), gender and age, there is less than a 2 % difference in average annual pay, between private and public sector workers working within similar occupations.

The structures of control within the U.S. media are different from the institutionalized formal censorship we might expect of a government - controlled press; they are less visible and more subtle, not monolithic yet hierarchical, transmitted to the many by those who work for the few, essentially undemocratic and narrow in perspective, tied to the rich and powerful but not totally immune to the pressures of an agitated public, propagandistic yet sometimes providing hard information that is intentionally or unintentionally revealing..

They say what they feel they must say to get our support when they want our support, but on so many issues - on modernising our politics, on the recall of MPs, on controlling our borders on less government, on bank reform, on cutting public debt, on an EU referendum - they never actually make it happen.»

The global corporations that control ever more facets of people's daily lives, have become less accountable to public authorities everywhere in the world.

The Park District, which has lobbied the city for control of the club ever since it was purchased from a private owner in 1993, has said it would run the club with more open access to the public and less like a private facility.

Despite campaigning for the living wage to be paid in the public sector and for zero - hours contracts to be scrapped, Freedom of Information requests have shown that all three of the councils controlled or led by Plaid Cymru — Ceredigion, Conwy, and Gwynedd - pay people less than the living wage and use zero - hours contracts.

The Control of Dogs (Scotland) Bill highlights the responsibility of the owners to prevent dog attacks to protect the public and places less emphasis on the breed of dog.

Less than two weeks into her new gig, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black has riled parents and public officials by jokingly suggesting that «birth control» was the solution to school overcrowding.

But the abundance of volunteers also comes with a reality check: The crowded primaries are giving the party's ideological divide a full public airing and could give party leaders less control over who carries the mantle in November.

At first, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the contaminant posed little risk to public health, because concentrations of crude MCHM were measured at less than 1 part per million.

«Unfortunately, greater depression and anxiety are associated with higher BMI and greater waist circumference, both indicators of obesity, as well as engaging in less physical activity and having less favorable indicators of glycemic control,» said Darla Kendzor, Ph.D., principal investigator and assistant professor at the UTHealth School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus.

Public Health England (PHE), a governmental body the equivalent of our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently released an evidence review claiming that e-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful to health than combustible cigarettes.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

The unions recognize that they have less control over private contractors than over the districts, and that the success of private contractors could well promote the flow of jobs, money, and control from public to private schools.

(A public Cloud will give you the same promises at fault tolerance, but with less control, and as a one - size - fits - all solution that might, or might not, cover your unique business needs — unless you can get your Cloud vendor to sign a meaningful SLA that doesn't give them all kinds of leeway, as most do).

America's deeply conservative public education system is striking back at this disruptive innovation, which shifts power from producers to consumers; demonstrates that more can be done with less at the school level; and moves control of resources from central bureaucracies to autonomous schools.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

Further, as occurred last year in Wisconsin, when opponents of school reform control the executive and legislative branches, initiatives such as Milwaukee's voucher program encounter the double - whammy of less funding and a public school regulatory model.

The high court declared, «In view of our decision that the Constitution prohibits the states from maintaining racially segregated public schools, it would be unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose a lesser duty on the federal government,» which as a legal and practical matter controlled the affairs of the nation's capital.

«The public is losing confidence in the ability of the higher - education sector in particular to control costs,» note the authors, adding that «all of higher education has a stake in addressing this problem, including the elite institutions that are under less immediate pressure than others to alter their teaching methods.»

The department controls less than 10 percent of the nation's public school dollars, and most school closures are locally decided, he said.

In education's public sector, by contrast, the work is actually less interesting than it is in private schools, where teachers enjoy more control over the curriculum and more autonomy in the classroom.

It is hard to dispute — though Dr. Cobb tries — that an instrumentality charter school that is controlled by Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has less autonomy than an independent charter school, which has no affiliation with MPS.

Those at higher - performing charter schools deemed themselves less conscientious, less self - controlled and less gritty than lower - achieving peers at district public schools.

This will undermine local control, mean less accountability in the classroom, and gut public education at a time when we should be focused on investing in our kids» future and creating good jobs that pay a fair wage,» We Are the People Michigan spokesman Zack Pohl told the Livingston Daily.

The most authoritative of controlled studies showed that 37 percent of US charter schools have worse student outcomes than traditional public schools, less than 50 percent are on a par with them, and only 17 percent provide a superior education for their students.

In the past decade, the debate over school control has shifted to include «takeover districts» in which schools that are deemed «chronically failing» are removed from the local school district and placed in a statewide district with a separate governance structure that is far less transpar - ent and accountable to the public.

The researchers in the district tested three theories about the negative impacts and found that only one of them may explain some of the learning loss experienced in voucher schools.46 More specifically, they investigated the possibilities that control group students were in higher - performing public schools; that voucher schools continue to offer less instructional time than public schools; and finally, that student mobility — the fact that a student is moving and adjusting to a new school — may be the underlying cause of the negative impact.47

In the Ice program, the shifts are automatic only and exclude high revs, while the yaw control (which Ferrari calls CST) is highly sensitive and the shocks are soft; Slippery allows automatic or manual paddle shifts, still with the soft dampers, while Sport stands for all normal driving on public roads with stiffened dampers and less sensitive CST.

The adoption fee should be less than the usual purchase price of a purebred quality puppy from a breeder, but it's more than the adoption fee at a public shelter or animal control facility.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that cats are rarely a source of disease, and that it is unlikely for anyone to get sick from touching or owning a cat.3 «Feral cats pose even less risk to public health than pet cats because they have minimal human contact, and any contact that does occur is almost always initiated by the person,» says Ackerman.

Since rabies vaccines have been mandated, what county or area has seen less dog and cat bites, better animal control, more public awareness and educating of pet owning responsibility, better birth control of unwanted animals, less euthanasia of animals and decreased growth of animal control facilities?

(c) If a veterinarian licensed to practice veterinary medicine in this state certifies that a dog is too sick or injured to be spayed or neutered, or that it would otherwise be detrimental to the health of the dog to be spayed or neutered, the adopter or purchaser shall pay the public animal control agency or shelter, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelter, humane society shelter, or rescue group a deposit of not less than forty dollars ($ 40), and not more than seventy - five dollars ($ 75).

Because the harm is less costly, or at least less perceptible, than the ALB and similarly conspicuous threats, there is less call for public expenditure to control them.

The program encourages policies and practices to eliminate unnecessary public school bus idling, uses upgrading («retrofitting») buses that will remain in the fleet with better emission control technologies and / or fueling them with cleaner fuels as well as replaces the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less polluting buses.

Less than a year later, hackers using the Sprint network to control cars was brought to the public attention.

By dismissing the army of corporate, financial, medical and political interests that there are in controlling death, euthanasia's corrosive effects on public and professional attitudes, and the discrimination implicit in its implementation, Falconer and his stacked commission with their foot - in - the - door approach to this programme, invite, institutionalise and incentivise murder — nothing less.

We would like the CCW process to emerge strengthened from these discussions, resulting in increased systemic controls on international armed conflicts embedded in international law in a manner that does not widen the technology gap amongst states or encourage the use of lethal force to settle international disputes just because it affords the prospects of lesser casualties to one side or that its use can be shielded from the dictates of public conscience.

Compared with the active control program, MBSR participants had significantly less anxiety, improved coping, and borderline attenuation of the salivary cortisol increase associated with the academic term.10 We were interested in expanding the program to urban public schools with significant need.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

I worry about the public being duped by iRealtErs and this is exactly why we need more not less control.