Sentences with phrase «major public impact»

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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.

However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

Mass Audubon opposes proposed natural gas pipelines (see No Pipeline Position Statement), that would have major environmental impacts on public and private conservation lands including properties «permanently» protected under Article 97 of the State Constitution.

The Bloomberg administration is attempting to push through three major projects that would permanently seize more than 50 acres of public parkland for commercial projects that will also have enormous additional impacts on the surrounding communities.

«The first major obstacle for British enterprise is the terrible impact of the current unfair dismissal rules on the efficiency and hence competitiveness of our businesses, and on the effectiveness and cost of our public services.

Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.

The loans for peerages row has had a major impact on how honest Britain's politicians appear to the public, a new survey suggests.

Here is a summary of the bill's major provisions and their likely impact on New York state by the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany think tank:

«Our study has shown a new area of research that could potentially make a major contribution to public health and have a big impact on the way we view our responsibilities toward future generations,» Pembrey says.

But from an institutional and public health perspective, he says, the jury is still out on whether the high dose truly does a better job of preventing major flu impacts like hospitalization and death for older people.

«If public communication is not done properly, it would have a major negative impact on China's future nuclear power development,» said Lin Boqiang, professor and director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University.

«HBV ‐ related liver cancer is therefore a major public health issue with a severe socioeconomic impact.»

«The success of the project is a testament to the potential of public / private partnerships to develop vaccines that, when introduced, can have a major impact in solving public health problems.»

Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

«We are eager to work with FAU researchers and their collaborators to provide vital information that will support their efforts to develop important tools that will have a major impact on public safety and health.»

NSF judges proposals on two major criteria: intellectual merit and broader impact, the latter of which can include education, increased public understanding of science, and other benefits to society.

The DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has a major impact not only in the New York metropolitan area, but across the globe, in pioneering public science education for the genome age.

The alliance will employ Illumina's platform for high - multiplex single - nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping to develop tests for gene variants deCODE has previously shown to have impact on the risk of a growing number of common diseases with major public health impact.

They reflect an overall impact of multiple causative factors similar to those of other developing countries where rice is not a major staple.8 Various deficiencies including zinc, vitamin C and D, folate, riboflavin, selenium and calcium occur in the context of poverty, environmental degradation, lack of public health systems and sanitation, lack of proper education and social disparity.

Athens, Ga. — Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University of Georgia ecologists just published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

I expect it to have a major impact on public awareness of the concept of orthorexia nervosa, especially in her demographic, and will be of help to many who have gone down a similar road.

«The new Civil Engineering Training Centre will have a major impact on improving the essential skills required to underpin all kinds of construction and infrastructure development, including housing, commercial, industrial, transport, public sector projects and the # 244m worth of capital investment the Solent LEP is making across the area.

Given this misperception of expenditure and salary levels, receiving additional information on these subjects has a major impact on the public's assessment of the need for an increase.

In Try Try Again, Public Impact makes the case for «rapid retry» — attempting new major change now rather than letting failing turnaround efforts drag on for years.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

Though the magnitude of total resources that these two entities collectively bring to bear yields an outsized impact on the field, it exemplifies a trend among some of the major funders of public education - related efforts of the last decade.

Despite their higher rates of library usage overall, younger Americans — particularly those under age 25 — continue to be less likely than older adults to say that if their local public library closed it would have a major impact on either them and their family or on their community.

Three - quarters of the population say that public libraries provide them with the resources they need, and 66 % say the closing of their local public library would have a major impact on their community.

Some 65 % of all those ages 16 and older say that closing their local public library would have a major impact on their community; another 24 % say it would have a minor impact.

In addition, 32 % say that closing their local public library would have a major impact on them or their family; another 33 % say it would have a minor impact.

And 66 % say the closing of their local public library would have a major impact on their community - although notably, just 33 % say this would have a major impact on them personally or on their family.

A full 77 percent of folks also said that «public libraries provide them with the resources they need,» and 66 percent said that shutting down a facility «would have a major impact on their community.»

Two - thirds of Americans say that closing their local public library would have a major impact on their community.

Survey 3 — Errors in credit reports Data analysed — more than 2000 + credit bureau reports surveyed with client consent Mode of the survey — primary analysis of the reports of bureaus Nature of the questionnaire administered - Analysis of bureau reports to understand major and minor errors in the report and their impact on the credit score Survey 4 — penetration of credit bureaus in financial institutions in Indian market Data analysed — more than 100 financial institutions segmented into broad catagories of private banks, Public banks, Foreign Banks, NBFC and MFIs.

What ACOs do on the street and how they respond to calls and interact with the public can have a major impact on preventing intakes in the first place and helping keep animals with their responsible caretakers, too.

«Our collaborations with major American museums is at the heart of our mission to make the work of these remarkable artists accessible to the public and scholars alike, and are critical to ensuring that their contributions are woven into the greater narrative of art in American and its impact worldwide.

At the same time Tate Britain will present a major rehang which will focus first on the visual impact of the Collection, then on holdings and projects which have been less often in the public eye and finally will include many recent acquisitions of contemporary art.

Supported by a catalogue essay in which the curator Catherine Lampert discusses their habits and methods and introduces previously unseen writing by the artists, the exhibition will look at the way their conversations impacted on the development of their work, demonstrating that despite their wide - ranging styles they are each linked by a desire to catch what Bacon describes as «the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making», and in doing so broke new ground in contemporary painting The exhibition includes major works by each artist, several borrowed from public collections, among them Francis Bacon's Pope I 1951 from Aberdeen Art Gallery, David Hockney's Man in a Museum 1962 from the British Council and others like Frank Auerbach's Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine 1962 - 64 and Euan Uglow's Nude, Lady C 1959 - 60 which have not been seen in public for many years.

Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes represents the most extensive visual arts exchange between the two countries in more than 50 years, and will include major exhibitions at MNBA and the Bronx Museum; an artist exchange with U.S. artist Mary Mattingly and Cuban artist Humberto Diaz; a teen exchange program; a series of educational and public programs; and the publication of a dual - language publication that will extend the impact of Wild Noise beyond the audiences that participate directly in the initiative.

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

And at the moment every single major pipeline (as well as incremental expansions to existing pipelines) is facing mounting public, legal, and political opposition — all of which has been driven by people power that refuses to accept the devastating impacts of the Alberta tar sands on the climate, the environment, human rights, and communities.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

With a decision that could have far - reaching implications, a federal judge in California has ordered the first ever U.S. court hearing on climate science for a «public nuisance» lawsuit, meaning that major oil and gas companies for the first time may have to go on the record regarding what they knew about the planetary impacts of their products — and when.

a) start off by making a hypothesis concerning the color of crows and how this impacts their habits b) based on the hypothesis, create model scenarios to simulate the color and behavior of crows c) investigate fossil remains of pre-historic Archaeopteryx d) declare that the paleo - avain findings check closely with the model e) validate the model scenarios by comparing them with one another f) declare that the hypothesis has been confirmed by the model simulations g) project that (if unabated by exorbitantly costly measures involving major payments to dictatorships in the developing world) black crows will destroy all other species plus our planet by 2100 h) ensure that «crow disaster scenario» is conveyed to public by a doomsday - hungry» media

New video highlights impacts to aquatic life and public health, calls on clothing industry to solve problem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2017 MEDIA CONTACT: Elisa Ringholm, [phone], [email protected] CALIFORNIA 3/1/17 — A new movie from a California - based nonprofit is putting pressure on the clothing industry to address a major emerging threat to aquatic life.

An area where there was intense lobbying was with regard to the fears that ABSs would have a major impact upon the ability of the public to enjoy proper access to justice.

And the EU has made member states implement Aarhus - compliant procedures in major areas such as environmental impact assessment and industrial emissions, via the 2003 Public Participation Directive.

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Abstract and Introduction Chapter 1: Access to Law - Related Information as a Fundamental Right Chapter 2: Complexity as a Factor Inhibiting Access to the Law in Canada Chapter 3: The Market for Law - Related Information in Canada: The History of Legal Publishing in Canada Chapter 4: The Impact of Crown Copyright on Access to Law - Related Information Chapter 5: The Shrinking Information Commons and Private Control of Public Goods: The Commercialization of the Internet Chapter 6: Thirty Years Later: The 1975 Access to the Law Study and the Role of Major Players in Providing Access to the Law Conclusions and Recommendations Bibliography

This case continues to have a major public interest impact.