Sentences with phrase «management practices such»

Third, soil carbon sequestration aims to increase soil carbon stocks through land management practices such as reducing agricultural tillage, planting more deeply - rooted species, and incorporating relatively persistent compounds (e.g., biochar) into soil for long - term storage.

Since the initiative was launched, its scope has broadened to include improved land management practices such as rotational grazing.

This condition is where management practices such as using inertia of conventional power plants to act as short term energy storage can be deployed.

The paper didn't fail to mention what we have reported on before, that corn farming for ethanol using management practices such as commercial fertilizer application, mechanical tillage, and intensive drainage is the most important driver of this increase in nitrogen pollution.

As a result of strenuous efforts to suppress wildfire and other land - management practices such as livestock grazing, logging, and land - type conversion, 8,9 many forests have experienced fire deficits, becoming overgrown and littered with flammable material such as leaf litter and saplings.

A March 2014 UF / IFAS report concluded that the FDOT could reduce right - of - way vegetation management costs by 30 percent by implementing sustainable management practices such as reduced mowing.

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CONS: Books age well, but management practices seldom do, especially in a rapidly changing industry such as this one.

In addition, Great Place to Work scores a Culture Audit management questionnaire from each company, which reports details such as compensation and benefits, hiring practices, recognition, training, and diversity programs.

The ones that still do, such as TPG Partners and Apollo Global Management, are already being pressured by public pensions to stop the practice.

For example, a new dentist who borrows from a bank to buy a practice may then need other services that she does not even know exist, such as payroll management or credit - card clearing.

monitoring workforce management programs; establishing compensation policies and practices for service on the Board and its committees, including annually reviewing the appropriate level of director compensation and recommending to the Board any changes to that compensation; developing stock ownership guidelines for directors and executive officers and monitoring compliance with such guidelines; and annually evaluating its performance and its charter.

Members support their board of directors and executive management in matters such as board practices, compliance, regulation and legal matters, shareholder relations, and subsidiary management.

Financial advisors who need brokerage services, such as a custodian for their clients» assets, technology to help them manage client portfolios, and practice management solutions to help them market and grow their businesses.

Most observers of the Australian (and others») experience with financial liberalisation have concluded that: (i) ideally, good risk management practices — including hedging — would be established before full liberalisation, so as to mitigate subsequent risks to financial stability; but (ii) it was difficult to develop such practices until entities were actually exposed to some risk; and (iii) as a result, a somewhat disruptive period of learning by your own mistakes was inevitable.

In author and seasoned commodity trader Carley Garner's quest to guide traders through the process of commodity market analysis, strategy development, and risk management, «Higher Probability Commodity Trading» discusses several alternative market concepts and unconventional views such as option selling tactics, hedging futures positions with options, and combining the practice of fundamental, technical, seasonal, and sentiment analysis to gauge market price changes.

Other specific duties and responsibilities of the HR and Compensation Committee include reviewing senior management selection and overseeing succession planning, including reviewing the leadership development process; reviewing and approving objectives relevant to executive officer compensation and evaluating performance and determining the compensation of executive officers in accordance with those objectives; approving severance arrangements and other applicable agreements for executive officers; overseeing HP's equity and incentive compensation plans; overseeing non-equity-based benefit plans and approving any changes to such plans involving a material financial commitment by HP; monitoring workforce management programs; establishing compensation policies and practices for service on the Board and its committees, including annually reviewing the appropriate level of director compensation and recommending to the Board any changes to that compensation; developing stock ownership guidelines for directors and executive officers and monitoring compliance with such guidelines; and annually evaluating its performance and its charter.

Such a practice reduces the government's motivation to apply its best technology and most vigilant management to the safekeeping of waste; it assumes that the right to increase the risks to public health and the environment can be purchased.

There is a need to start short - term courses on farm management practices, modern animal management practices, etc. for milk producers, with adequate grants from government to institutes providing such courses.

This institute analyzes areas such as corporate governance, strategic vision, relationships with interest groups, management and communications that include measurable indicators related to the integral incorporation and reporting of the organization's sustainable practices.

«CSWA will hold workshops on issues such as water quality, ecosystem management and energy efficiency, as well as developing new chapters for the best practices workbook.»

Bringing total participation to 43 percent, another 4,500 vineyard acres in 2014 underwent the first step, completion of a comprehensive sustainability self - assessment of 138 farming and business practices, such as water management, pesticide use, energy efficiency, carbon emissions, employee safety and community relations.

For instance, CSWA will conduct workshops that inform growers about survey results and the benefits of effective implementation of ecosystem / conservation practices, such as biodiversity protection, watershed restoration, and integrated pest management

Employ programs that build awareness to increase food donations and recovery, better track food inputs and outputs to optimize waste prevention and create efficient management practices, such as the following:

Enhanced wine quality is another benefit of the industry's adoption of best practices — such as drip irrigation, canopy management, knowledge of wine quality and viticultural improvements — from the Code Workbook.

An educational conference for current and aspiring vintners, Grape Day 2014 will focus on viticulture and enology issues such as the effects of the California drought on grape - growing and best practices for disease and wildlife management in the vineyards.

This year, Bruce Pascoe is set to highlight the importance of events such as the Food Sovereignty Convergence in recognising the impact of First People's land management practices, and how the future of farming could look if we work with the First Peoples of Australia to utilise their «grossly undervalued» knowledge to improve farming systems in this country.

In addition, more than 10,000 vintners and growers participated in over 240 educational workshops targeting specific practices such as energy efficiency, integrated pest management, and air and water quality.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

It is a common management practice that a manager does not publicly criticise his personnel as such a thing can be counter-productive.

To lower your stress levels, consider taking up a daily stress - management routine that includes practices such as prenatal yoga, meditation, tai chi, deep breathing, or guided imagery.

In my practice as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, after ruling out known causes of delayed lactogenesis such as underactive thyroid, postpartum hemorrhage, or retained placental fragments, and after applying the very best lactation management techniques, I have documented that only one in a thousand (0.1 %) of new mothers simply do not produce any breast milk at all.

Prenatal education topics that should be covered include: the benefits of breastfeeding, the importance of exclusive breastfeeding, basics of breastfeeding management, possible effect of analgesia / anesthesia on infant behavior, rationale for care practices such as skin - to - skin contact, rooming - in, and infant feeding cues.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

The Wild Boar Action Plan will cover a wide range of topics such as impacts of wild boar and their management, minimum recommended firearms calibres, best practice and safe shooting and public awareness and how to react to boar in the wild.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

Mr. Mahama's office, described such claims as only «intended to slander the former President as a way of covering up bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country's cocoa sector.»

Former president Bill Clinton dismissed suggestions that his foundation's funds have been diverted to personal uses, calling such accusations a «personal insult» to his family amid renewed scrutiny of its fundraising and management practices.

And a new study in Journal of Medical Entomology shows an improved design has made such bait boxes an increasingly viable addition to integrated tick management practices.

Changes in forest management and agricultural practices could significantly reduce the threat of global warming much more quickly than can technological solutions such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) from coal - fired power plants, according to experts.

The map of soil loss by water erosion delineates areas of concern that will require special protection measures, such as financing more sustainable land management practices.

Explains Poe, the farmer was already employing what was known as «best management practices,» such as minimizing excess nitrate - fertilizer application to fields.

Two state agencies are teaming up with farmers in a 185 - square - mile area near Ginnie Springs to study best - management practices, such as reducing groundwater pumping and fertilizer use.

He praised Marrett's «willingness to take on such an important leadership role» and said that Olsen would help improve NSF - wide management practices «in areas such as strengthening merit review and interdisciplinary research processes, workforce planning, Program Officer training and development, and succession planning.»

Organic lawn management is the practice of establishing and caring for a garden lawn without the use of chemical inputs such as pesticides or artificial fertilisers.

Previous research indicates that there are at least four broad, trainable competencies that can help people to manage stress effectively: source management (reducing or eliminating the sources of stress); practicing relaxation techniques, such as yoga; thought management (correcting irrational thinking and reinterpreting events in a positive light); and prevention (planning and conducting your life to avoid sources of stress).

We have often mentioned in this space that many nonacademic employers complain that early - career scientists don't understand business culture and such practices as budgeting and project management.

In northern Canada and Alaska, for instance, co-management practices integrate science, traditional knowledge and local needs into the management of wildlife stocks such as the beluga in the Beaufort Sea.

«Standardized case management deals with an established best - practice way to deal with recurring clinical issues such as cholera,» Bradt explains.

The group used stakeholder analysis, practice analysis and management tools such as Lean and Six Sigma to design the new model of care.

Setting Priorities: The transition to «climate smart» land management practices, including for example low - emissions agriculture, agroforestry and the restoration of high carbon - value ecosystems, such as forests and peatlands, will require sectoral coordination and investments in integrated land use planning.