Sentences with phrase «lesser impact of the program»

The best explanation for the lesser impact of the program on Hispanic students is that they were more likely to enroll in college even in the absence of a voucher.

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Chariot, the commuter shuttle provider owned by Ford, has received a private transit program permit to operate more safely and, ideally, have less of an impact on public transit in San Francisco.

We have also questioned the impact of the restraint measures on direct program expenses — total expenses less public debt charges and major transfers to individuals and other levels of government.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

The World Health Organization states that this imbalance is due to an increased intake of energy - dense foods and a decrease in physical activity • Research from the American Beverages Association on the impact and consumption of sweeteners in drinks confirms that drinking diet beverages as part of a weight loss program can help people lose weight • The study also suggests that drinking diet beverages may help dieters feel less hungry and assist people to manage or lose weight

Russell Marx, director of Adolescent Eating Disorders Program at the University of California, San Diego, and chief science officer of the National Eating Disorders Association, expects to see big changes in diagnosis and treatment with the addition of binge eating disorder but less impact on anorexia diagnoses as the number of patients with ED - NOS is reduced.

«To demonstrate this, our results will need to be replicated in clinical studies also designed to test the differential susceptibility model, this time not only assessing the impact of more or less coercive parenting methods, but also the impact of intervention programs targeting parenting practices.»

This program, for candidates who have completed their postdoctoral training but with less than 4 years of subsequent experience, covers topics in general neuroscience and «seeks applicants working on problems that, if solved at the basic level, would have immediate and significant impact on clinically relevant issues.»

Studies of primarily financial supports for low - income students find smaller impacts, but for less costly programs.

Beyond Lesser's impact in the world of television and children's learning, he also greatly influenced many at HGSE including Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt, director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program.

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

Lottery - winning voucher users had statistically significant large negative impacts on math achievement in their first year of the program that were less negative in their second year of participation.

One issue is that we are less sure, in a statistical sense, about the impacts of graduates from smaller programs than we are from graduates of larger ones.

It has turned a relatively modest federal program (the $ 4.3 billion budget represents less than 1 percent of all federal, state and local education spending) into high - yield leverage that could end up overshadowing health care reform in its impact and that is already upending traditional Democratic Party politics.

If getting out of debt is more important to you than the likelihood that your score will be negatively impacted, our program could help you resolve your debt faster and for less — without declaring bankruptcy.

In addition, Debt Settlement programs can have less of a negative impact on credit over the long - term, when compared to bankruptcy.

In fact, several studies have shown that even years of high - volume, low - cost sterilization within a community have less of an impact on shelter death rates than other programs of the No Kill Equation.

Given the strong demands from less developed nations at this meeting for hundreds of billions of dollars in long - term energy and climate aid, these programs may not have much impact on talks.

In terms of impact on global climate, the EU's climate program has been all pain (for taxpayers and consumers) and no gain — except for the corporations that have cashed in on the «green» programs and / or shifted their production to less regulated developing countries.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

But despite the major impacts of the federal coal leasing program on the price of coal and carbon pollution, it has been largely administered by state BLM offices, with minimal oversight from the Interior Department, much less the White House.

Impacts of carbon taxes on poor families can be lessened by: 1) progressive tax - shifting as just described; 2) pro-rata distribution of the carbon tax revenues to every U.S. resident (also described above); and / or 3) to the extent necessary, funding programs designed to help poorer households use less energy driving and at home.

They are of three types: (1) self - help programs; (2) «cutting costs by cutting competence» programs, by way of greater use of, students, paralegals, and «unbundled» legal services, wherein the client does more with the intended result that the cost will be lower because the lawyer does less; and, (3) pro bono charity, which, albeit commendable, is too small to have any significant impact upon the volume of legal services needed.

They are of three types: （ 1 ） self - help programs; （ 2 ） «cutting costs by cutting competence» programs, by way of greater use of, students, paralegals, and «unbundled» legal services, wherein the client does more with the intended result that the cost will be lower because the lawyer does less; and, （ 3 ） pro bono charity, which, albeit commendable, is too small to have any significant impact upon the volume of legal services needed.

«Your proposal impacts over 70 percent of current Lifeline - recipient households by eliminating their wireless providers from the program, leaving less affordable and fewer Lifeline options, while making it more difficult for the companies trying to serve Lifeline customers,» a number of Senate Democrat wrote in the letter to Pai.

Implemented cross-project dependency process to streamline activities and ensure all teams were notified of project tasks and impacts to other projects, completing all 10 projects on time with variance of less than 2 % across a $ 3M program.

We recently created a formula to measure the ROI of background screening by looking at the cost of each of the above impacts and then compare that to the typical cost of an employment screening program — which, by the way averages less than $ 50 per employee.

Linda works as a coordinator for the IMPACT Program, which works with families who are on Opioid Maintenance and / or are clients of Mental Health ACT (moderate to severe mental health issues), who are pregnant or have a child less than 2 years of age.

«The transfer of all Indigenous programs to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, I believe, will make it more difficult, not less, to effect change through mainstream agencies that are not responsible for program delivery but which have very high stakes in delivering programs that have a broad impact on the social determinants.

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.

Most teachers are concerned about their students doing well academically, and if teachers do not see the benefits of SEL programs for academic achievement, they are more likely to implement SEL lessons poorly or haphazardly, which results in the curriculum having less impact.