Sentences with phrase «of ccd»

However, the position of the CCD is cautious.

Some members of the CCD team at the Supreme Court of Canada on April 25, 2018 to intervene in S.A. v. Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation.

The explicit concern of the CCD is that, in increasing de jure access to human rights remedies in civil court actions, the decision in this case may have the consequence of sending a message that a civil action in court can fulfill the same role as an administrative action under the existing statutory schemes, and that de facto financial barriers to access do not matter.

Mr. Scher is a constitutional lawyer and chairperson of CCD's Human Rights Committee.

Attached hereto as Exhibit B are the joint submissions of CCD and CACL, in support of their position, should this Court allow their motion to intervene.

However, according to an article in The Organic Center's most recent newsletter, The Scoop, a key discovery has strengthened the link between pesticide use and colony collapse disorder, a long considered cause of CCD.

A map from February 2007 showed that over half of the states in the continental US were reporting instances of CCD.

In fact, everything from CO2 confusing bees» social structure to cell phone towers messing with bees» navigation systems has been cited as a possible cause of CCD and mysterious honeybee declines.

Luckily, the internet is proving a very valuable resource for beekeepers wishing to find out more about CCD, and for researchers to gather information on possible incidents of CCD.

Although scientific debate continues on the ultimate causes of CCD, Fhoneybee declines have served as an important wakeup call to protect both our managed and wild pollinator species.

At Beeologics, scientists are convinced that IAPV is the primary cause of CCD.

«A reasonable assessment derived from beekeeper surveys is that since the appearance of CCD, mortality rates have at least doubled.

We have however learned to be a bit skeptical of scientists proclaiming they have found the cause of CCD.

Beekeepers and researchers have long been concerned that pesticides are actually at the root of CCD — and at the center of the debate is a neonicotinoid pesticide (or «neonic») called clothianidin.

But others were skeptical, citing the funding of the study by chemical - giant Bayer — who are facing numerous lawsuits implicating their insecticides as a leading cause of CCD — as being a primary reason for taking these results with more than just a pinch of salt.

That skepticism was backed up when fellow TreeHugger Rachel did some digging into the supposed solving of the CCD mystery.

Novifit, a SAMe supplement manufactured by Virbac Animal Health, has undergone testing in senior dogs with signs of CCD.

In a previous study, small dogs (< 15 kg) had a significantly greater prevalence of CCD than medium - large dogs (> 15 kg)[32].

As increased seizure frequency was associated with higher CCDR score in the epilepsy sub-population, it is possible that the prevalence of CCD in that population may be underestimated, if those dogs were at an elevated risk of premature death and thus censored from this study.

The current study identified age as a major predictor of CCD risk, as has been reported in previous studies [31 — 33].

This hypothesis would predict the opposite findings, that larger dogs have an increased risk of CCD than small dogs [56].

With the exception of the amount of time spent physically active, dogs with IE did not show greater «progression» of CCD signs than controls.

When controlling for age, light dogs were at an elevated risk of CCD than heavier dogs (Fig 2).

Lighter dogs were found to be at an increased risk of CCD in this study, when accounting for age.

Four factors were significantly associated with a diagnosis of CCD (above the diagnostic cut - off of CCDR ≥ 50): (i) epilepsy diagnosis: dogs with epilepsy were at higher risk; (ii) age: older dogs were at higher risk; (iii) weight: lighter dogs (kg) were at higher risk; (iv) training history: dogs with more exposure to training activities were at lower risk.

The risk of CCD in healthy dogs increased exponentially with age beyond 10 years; however, risk of CCD in dogs with epilepsy was elevated at a comparatively young age (< 4 years)(Fig 1).

, for improved heart health; and Brain's Best Friend, for improved cognitive function in older dogs showing signs of CCD, such as confusion, pacing, anxiety, staring into space or the inability to recognize family members.

Many of CCD's career and technical programs expend materials and supplies for hands - on practical teaching and learning.

Other symptoms of CCD, such as compulsive circling, fly chasing, and inappropriate eating, can also be symptoms of neurological disorders as well, such as Cushing's disease, canine cognitive disorder, and even brain tumors.

It is important to recognize that there are truly cases of CCD and affected pets will need medical intervention.

It would be a tragedy to pursue treatment of CCD while leaving other issues uncovered and unaddressed.

Dr Loon shares, «Owners can reduce the incidence of CCD by providing enrichment.

We are limited by the quality of the CCD indicators on magnet schools.

Source: Education Week Research Center analysis of CCD and Florida Department of Education Data, 2018.

As MARCI moves forward in its orbit around Mars, it will build up color images using the 5 visible light filters as each fitered area of the CCD detector passes over the martian surface.

In 1983, the use of CCD cameras became much more widespread among professional observatories.

August 28, 2016 UChicago Medicine completes final stage of CCD, moves in 156 patients The University of Chicago Medicine transported 156 patients to newly constructed rooms in the Center for Care and Discovery (CCD) on Sunday, Aug. 28, completing the final stage of construction in the hospital building that first opened in 2013.

Additional reference bees were obtained from packages shipped from Australia to the USA and from the most populous to the weakest colonies from apiaries of a large, commercial beekeeping operation in Montana that is geographically isolated and has no history of CCD.

The authors suggested that these fragments were possible markers of CCD.

We collected sample sets of adult worker honey bees from several areas and years: (1 — 2) Two initial sample sets of adult honey bees from CCD colonies were obtained in 2006 — 2007 from twelve beekeeping operations from western, northeastern, and southeastern regions of the USA, (3) Samples from packages of imported Australian bees provided a non-CCD 2007 reference, (4) bees sampled in 2008 from a large, non-migratory beekeeping operation in northwestern Montana with no history of CCD provided a second reference set, (5) bee samples obtained in 2009 from a Florida apiary when 500 colonies suddenly collapsed constituted an independent CCD sample set by location and year.

An unabated reappearance of CCD year on year demonstrates lack of progress toward solving the problem.

The pathogen pairing was not observed in samples from colonies with no history of CCD, namely bees from Australia and a large, non-migratory beekeeping business in Montana.

Importantly, our limited results do not completely fulfill the requirements of risk characterization, nor do they clearly define whether the occurrence of IIV and N. ceranae in CCD colonies is a marker, a cause, or a consequence of CCD.

In our studies, we applied six independent scenarios to the assessment of potential causes or markers of CCD and got the same answer, giving us confidence in the results, since this inference approach is approximately analogous to applying the same technique to six different assessments [53].

Metagenomics initially identified Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) as a potential marker or cause of CCD [4], yet a subsequent study demonstrated that IAPV was in the USA long before the recent CCD outbreaks [5].

Future research using the specific strains of IIV isolated from infected bees will surely confirm whether a synergistic or additive interaction between these two pathogens results in the signs and symptoms of CCD.

«Yes, we have pretty much transitioned from a discussion of CCD to a discussion of honey bee health,» says Christina Grozinger, a Pennsylvania State University entomologist and one of the organizers of the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy, held at Penn State in August.

To really solve the problem would require much more than solving the mystery of CCD.

The cause of CCD remains unknown.

According to a survey published in May by the Apiary Inspectors of America and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 38 percent of beekeepers reported the deaths of colonies with a symptom of CCD between September 2007 and March 2008.