Sentences with phrase «on policy experiments»

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Theoretically, these are meant to be local policy experiments, and the data gleaned from them should ostensibly inform public debate on health policy.

They contend that its open policies prove the benefits of experimenting with data and using information to establish a «direct relationship between an individual's decisions and their impact on the business» — something the grocery chain accomplishes by giving each employee high - level access to the company's financial data, and therefore a greater stake in the business.

In May 2012, all eyes were on Kansas as its former governor, Republican Sam Brownback, signed into law «the nation's most aggressive experiment in conservative economic policy,» as Russell Berman wrote in The Atlantic.

The policy experiment is to change the combined CIT rate, see what effect it has on the tax base, apply the (new) federal rate and the (old) provincial rates and compare the result to the base case.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

Although the school lunch experiment is well behind her, Wu continues to blog on food policy, school issues and personal health.

The Liberal Democrats and the home affairs committee have called for a royal commission on drug policy and for more thorough assessments of experiments with legalisation overseas, including in various US states.

The policy paper also recommends making the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs independent and setting up a review of experiments in regulated cannabis markets in Washington, Colorado and Uruguay, although these policies did not make it into the pre-manifesto.

: A Survey Experiment on Candidate Ethnicity, Language, and Policy Orientation» (Published version gated; Ungated draft version) finds that policy trumps ethnicity and lanPolicy Orientation» (Published version gated; Ungated draft version) finds that policy trumps ethnicity and lanpolicy trumps ethnicity and language.

MoveOn.org has specialized in getting its members to generate video ads to such success that commercial brands have copied the tactic, and many other organizations have found success in asking supporters to help come up with slogans, comment on policies and experiment with creative ways to spread the word online.

Of course, even if you can economize a specific policy on scale (e.g. negotiating medical costs visavi Obamacare, in theory), that still runs smack into the other downsides of having a federal policy, both # 1 (you impose Obamacare on ~ 50 % of the country that hates it by force); and # 3 (if Obamacare is a bad policy, there's no way to easily tell because it's not like we have a duplicate USA that doesn't run Obamacare and serves as a control group for an experiment).

Amid a growing international consensus that the war on drugs has failed, the home affairs committee called for the prime minister to set up a royal commission on current policy and to pay particular attention to experiments in Portugal decriminalising drug use.

Instead of speculating on the impact of proposed policies such as basic income and environmental taxes Finland will now experiment, measure and scale

[45] He wrote on his blog, «I spend my days experimenting with new ways to get progressive policies enacted and progressive politicians elected.»

For all the evasion of policy promises, he was clear here on what Labour would reverse: «the next Labour government will end the free market experiment» and repeal the health service reforms.

I'm afraid that the world has moved on from the time when a well crafted piece from John Redwood would be enough to send potential Ukip jacks back into their Tory boxes.A party where the old guard of Maude Clarke, Hurd, Heseltine, Gummer, Patten etc clearly now pull the strings of an inexperienced leader just endorses the fear of being conned.What did happen to the Tory policy on fisheries?Why can only backbenchers support BOO whilst shadow (non) ministers and whips are blackmailed into supporting the collective policy of continued EU membership.Why would those seeking disengagement from what even the most active champions of the EU now CONTINUALLY refer to as an experiment vote Conservative?

Ultimately, they say, informed decisions on climate policy will need to rely on the best information available from controlled and cautious field experiments.

Scientists and policy experts will meet in March next year for a 5 day meeting to hash out rules for conducting field experiments on the controversial topic of geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned.

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

Any policy on human gene editing will also have to account for the DIY biology community — «citizen researchers» who do their own low - budget genetic experiments.

Economist Esther Duflo combines «innovative field experiments with rigorous empirical analysis» to identify «linkages and causal relationships between policy, poverty, behavior, and socioeconomic status» in the developing world, focusing on the well - being of women and children.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is also asking researchers who conduct such «gain - of - function» experiments on influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) to stop their work until a risk assessment is completed — leaving many unsure of how to proceed.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a 1932 opinion, wrote that a state could be a «laboratory» for policy, and «try novel social and economic experiments» on its own.

Assuming that the climate response to multiple regions of banded SRM geoengineering can be shown to be roughly the addition of the individual climate responses, we can use the results of this experiment to identify theoretical limits to the extent that SRM geoengineering could compensate for human - induced climate change, a potentially highly relevant check on the weight trust that politicians should place on cheap geoengineering solutions in climate policy.

High - Level Consultation Event 2016: «Towards Ethics & Principles of Science Policy - Making» EuroScience Open Forum Manchester 2016: «Evidence Newcomers: Revolutionising Regional & Global Initiatives» «Waging War On Drugs Doesn't Work — Applying Harm Reduction Science Does» «The Right To Be Forgotten vs The Right To Know» «Toxicant Detectives: The Chemical Innovation Race, Lifestyle Risks & the Role of Animal Experiments» «Clinical Trial & Error: Why Narrowing The Resources Gap Matters» AAAS Boston 2016: «Neuroscience Clues To The Chemistry Of Addictions & Mood Disorders» «Statecraft & Scalpel: Regional & Global Health Diplomacy in 2016 And Beyond» Science Forum South Africa 2015: «Harm Reduction: Scientists Tackling Our Lifestyle Killers»

We declared a pause to this important research to provide time to explain the public - health benefits cheap oakley of this work, to describe the measures in place to minimize possible risks, and to enable organizations and governments around the world to review their policies (for example on biosafety, biosecurity, oversight, and communication) regarding these experiments.

Whether the List research will help in Newark, I'm not sure, but according to the Bloomberg report, «List says that his experiments will give policy makers, executives and investors much greater certainty about why students, donors and shoppers make the decisions they do» and «may show that the U.S. doesn't spend enough on helping parents.»

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

According to the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy, the vast majority of the education experiments that have been conducted over the past decade have yielded null effects on student outcomes.

Expanding School Resources and Increasing Time on Task: Effects of a Policy Experiment in Israel on Student Academic Achievement and Behavior

The negative income tax experiments were designed to influence political debate on income support policy in at least two ways.

Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).

Using teachers as guinea pigs in a risky experiment, where non-educators imposed their untested opinions on public schools, was always bad policy.

Policy leaders, in particular, can (1) support initiatives that expand broadband availability in all of the federally funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers and in state and locally - funded afterschool sites; (2) encourage robust experimentation with digital platforms that allow expanded learning organizations to collaborate, share practices, and connect experiences that kids are having at various expanded learning sites; and (3) support pilot experiments in up to 10 % of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers that focus on integrating evolving technologies.

«The lessons we learn from the experiment will inform local, state, and federal policy - makers on how an early investment in low - income students» college education can have a positive return - on - investment.»

And so the argument goes, crudely speaking: Reformers want to try new things, while traditional educators and unions say trying out untested policies on students would be tantamount to making schoolchildren guinea pigs in an experiment.

MORE caucus believes the UFT leadership should insist on progress for reducing class size, the top priority of parents and the ONLY way to truly personalize learning or differentiate instruction instead of agreeing to misguided and destructive policies poorly disguised as potentially beneficial experiments on our children.

This senseless name calling of the scientists on both sides of the political fence, and infighting over the details of the amount of the sensitivity of the climate will soon come to an end, as the experiment on the Earth is continued with out any possible controls by the IPCC policy makers, who only want it to proceed as is, with ADDITIONAL FUNDS taken from taxes paid by the developed world, to hasten to transfer of wealth to the third world, while weakening the Western government systems through self imposed bankruptcy.

Newtonian physics is largely correct, and was an amazing advance in its time, but some predictions were wrong and required modification by relativity, such as in the famous Michelson — Morley experiment — and that's fine until your policy is that rocketry calculations should be based on the presence of luminiferous aether.

Meanwhile, that smart kid at a competing lab who has the intelligence to make an even better discovery doesn't see the data and can't run the experiment / analysis until it's far too late, and the world has committed itself to bad policies based on bad science.

Isaac Orr is a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment on mining and energy issues.

We cant run controlled experiments on the economy, and we can't run controlled experiments on defense policy.

Until climate models have been unambiguously confirmed by experiment, I believe that it is unwise to rely on them for policy purposes.

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»

ps Adam: on fuel tax as carbon policy, I guess we're already running that experiment, if one looks at the current differences internationally.

I possess the necessary knowledge to work on several projects focusing on areas such as civil engineer design, sustainable design and management, architectural design, renewable energy, energy and environmental policy, environmental and engineering management, and environmental experiments.

A major Manpower Demonstration and Research Corporation (MDRC) project, the Next Generation, is a collaboration between researchers at MDRC and several leading research universities and draws on 10 MDRC studies of the impact of welfare, anti-poverty, and employment policies, using random assignment in a large controlled experiment, and does include preschool - age children aged two to five, but not infants.

Using instrumental variables analysis to learn more from social policy experiments (MDRC working papers on research methodology)

In India, this policy allowed young Intuit innovators to conduct an experiment on helping farmers get the best price for their products — even though management initially wasn't interested in the idea.