Sentences with phrase «on standards of conduct»

Responding to a query from ScienceInsider, university spokesman Eiichiro Iizuka e-mailed a statement saying, «the university is conducting preliminary investigations, including these former retractions,» in accordance with its regulations on standards of conduct in scientific research.

Not exact matches

When university - based researchers conduct any kind of research on human beings, they are required to adhere to pretty strict standards for research ethics.

Winners are found this way: First, the Product of the Year Canada jury carefully selects the finalists — that is, products that meet or exceed innovation standards — which are then categorized and judged by an online survey, on behalf of Rogers Insights and conducted by TNS, of thousands of regular Canadian shoppers.

They would also have to give the bureau information on any claims filed and awards issued in their arbitrations, as well as correspondence from their arbitrators regarding unpaid fees and failure to follow standards of conduct.

A study co-authored by Morin, based on a survey conducted in the winter of 2010 — 11, concluded that 23 % of working - age Canadians are not saving enough to maintain their standard of living in retirement.

As opposed to a full delay of all conditions until January 1, 2018, this final rule's application of the Impartial Conduct Standards beginning on June 9, 2017, helps ensure that retirement investors will experience gains from a higher conduct standard and minimizes the potential for an undue reduction in those gains as compared to the full protections of all the PTEs» conditions.

The Tupolev Tu - 154 was in the area conducting a standard scheduled overflight as part of the Treaty on Open Skies, of which both the United States and Russia are parties.

Second, DOL «then offers an exemption from this far - reaching prohibition — known as the best interest contract exemption (or «BIC» exemption)-- but conditions it on financial services firms and insurance institutions agreeing to subject themselves to fiduciary standards of conduct in contracts that they must enter into with their customers, as well as a range of other restrictions and requirements.»

What CFA is also forgetting is that the DOL Fiduciary Rule and impartial conduct standards no longer permit a «sales - driven relationship,» and the very requirements of the fiduciary duty are trust and reliance on the fact that the customer's interests always come first.

There are many more applications of blockchain currently being adopted by banks — Bank of America has filed numerous patents relating to using the technology for conducting and settling transactions; Deutsche Bank is trialling a corporate - bond platform that uses smart contracts to issue and redeem bonds; and DBS and Standard Chartered Banks are working on a trade - finance collaboration with Ripple to better track invoices and avoid invoice duplication.

The sales uptick comes on the heels of the February departure of Laurent Potdevin, who was CEO for four years and left for a failure to meet «standards of conduct,» according to the company.

He failed to acknowledge that the entire purpose of the Church's principles on issues such as the end of life is to create a standard of conduct clear enough to guide believers through their most trying challenges.

On paper, Thomas» metaphysics remained the standard, but in practice Pius XI focused not on the prima pars, with its metaphysical armature, but rather the secunda pars of the Summa, on human conducOn paper, Thomas» metaphysics remained the standard, but in practice Pius XI focused not on the prima pars, with its metaphysical armature, but rather the secunda pars of the Summa, on human conducon the prima pars, with its metaphysical armature, but rather the secunda pars of the Summa, on human conducon human conduct.

We, who used to live at enmity with each other, and used to judge each other by our own moral standards and laws of conduct, we — whether we were far off from God or near to God, we can all, in Jesus Christ and through what He has done on the cross, we can live at peace with each other.

As of October 2016, the project has enrolled 7,000 farmers (88 % of the project's total target), who are registered in the Olam Information System (OFIS); completed basic training in order to optimize sustainable yields and other income opportunities; introduced record keeping practices by distributing log books to 1,000 farmers; promoted farmer group development in a Training of Trainers (ToT) session; trained 10 new lead farmers on best agricultural practices that were then integrated with climate - smart agricultural Practices (CSA) and the Sustainable Agricultural Network (SAN) Standard; as well as conducted a baseline sampling monitoring survey that is currently being analyzed by the program team.

Previous studies regarding positive impacts of Rainforest Alliance certification were conducted on farms using one of the previous versions of the standard which included stricter shade criteria.

With Ashley Young now hit with a three - game ban for violent conduct, Romelu Lukaku leaving the game against Southampton on a stretcher and other key individuals not performing to the high standards that they're capable of, there really are a number of issues for Mourinho solve.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The group developed the first set of national standards for birth centers, conducted a two - year pilot program to develop and test the optimum mechanism for evaluating the quality of birth centers, and consulted with the Commissioner on the JACHO (currently the Joint Commission) on the best structures for the CABC (www.birthcenteraccreditation.org/about-commission-accreditation-birth-centers, 2013).

«In light of the conduct before the election and serious allegations around the poll we also call on the political parties to take responsibility for their members, conduct investigations, and discipline those who have behaved outside the democratic standards to which they have committed.

A Labour spokesperson said: «We can not comment on individual complaints, but all Labour members and representatives are expected to uphold the highest standard of conduct at all times.»

A Labour Party spokeswoman said: «We can not comment on individual complaints, but all Labour members and representatives are expected to uphold the highest standard of conduct at all times.»

My administration demands the highest standards of our appointed leadership, and based on the conduct I believe occurred, Mr. Dirschberger was asked to resign and he did resign,» said Poloncarz.

I can't find the exact dates of the poll yet, but press reports suggest it was conducted after the Channel 4 Dispatches programme criticising Ken Livingstone, and the preceeding couple of weeks of agressive attacks on Livingstone by the Evening Standard.

As with so many aspects of reporting, the standards which operate on social media have influenced the conduct of mainstream media.

The standards and privileges committee, in its report on the prime minister's conduct, noted «it is clearly dangerous for members of parliament to assume that the rules of other parliamentary assemblies.

«There can be no question that a full ethics investigation into this improper exertion of state legislative influence by Senator Libous is required, either by virtue of this complaint or on the Commission's own initiative, in order to hold the state senator fully accountable to the standards of ethical conduct and public integrity state law requires of all members of the legislature.»

The code requires members to act in the public interest and in accordance with the seven general principles of conduct identified by the committee on standards in public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

According to the organization, «the spending on statues and apparent misuse of public resources may have violated constitutional provisions and international standards on code of conduct for public officers.

Saying that «Legislative leaders must be held to a higher ethical standard of conduct and his actions violate that standard,» good government group Citizens Union called for Skelos to step down from his leadership post on Tuesday.

«I hereby admonish and severely reprimand you on behalf of the New York State Assembly and its members and declare that your conduct with respect to these matters violates the Assembly's policies on sexual harassment and is inconsistent with the standards of conduct to which Members of the Assembly should be held,» Silver said in a letter to Kellner.

According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, on Thursday, the envoy said the conduct of the poll should set a higher standard in the conduct of elections in the country.

The Planning Board conducted a review of the project and on September 10 issued a «negative declaration» under State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) review, meaning that the Planning Board found that there would be no significant adverse environmental impacts from the project, and issued a «preliminary» site plan approval of the project subject to Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) review of «performance standards.»

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

And to deal with the issue of business conduct, he continues, «We have a global business practice office that is focused on ensuring that the highest standards in business practice are maintained.

Right now, much of the emphasis in science is on the professional responsibility of scientists to stick to «standards agreed upon by the scientific community» regarding how research should be conducted, Frankel said.

In one of Cunningham's activities, designed to fit the standards, elementary students clean up a hypothetical oil spill much the way an environmental engineer would: by proposing solutions and conducting hands - on tests.

Up to a third of the reported salaries in the surveys conducted in the 1990s are less than the de facto NIH 1998 minimum standards, based on years of experience.

Both managers declined to comment on the substance of what occurred, although Verardo told ScienceInsider that «the Agency gives each employee, reviewer, and panelist ample advice and opportunity to meet the NSF standards» regarding ethical conduct and that «we followed that process and held to those standards in the case in which you are interested.»

Ensuring the quality, trustworthiness and the reproducibility of our research by upholding high standards of integrity, providing educational and training programmes on the responsible conduct of research, and pursuing allegations of research misconduct

Dr. Hyder has studied biomedical ethics, conducted surveys on research ethics, participated in the training of African and Asian health professionals in ethics, and explored health systems ethics including specific issues such as standard of treatment and ancillary care.

Through the CIC program, the Cancer Research Institute conducts a number of important initiatives that seek among other things to build consensus across the field on key issues, to develop and implement new standards for carrying out and reporting immunological monitoring assays of therapeutic cancer vaccines, and to establish and promote the adoption of new criteria for evaluating the clinical impact of cancer immunotherapies.

The standard scientific references (such as the WHO and the IOM) do not address this question, because protein requirement research is conducted on people eating standard diets, which usually contain a lot of carbohydrate.

Under IMPACT, the district sets detailed standards for high - quality instruction, conducts multiple observations, assesses individual performance based on evidence of student progress, and retains and rewards teachers based on annual ratings.

Concerned about complaints that several schools in the past year have conducted raids on other schools» students and teachers, among other questionable practices, the New York State Association of Independent Schools has issued a set of guidelines to its 140 member schools on admissions and hiring standards.

So, in order to provide suitable hosts it is important that they have sufficient information provided, which should include: name, age and gender of pupils, plus any special requirements such as food, medical or cultural issues; minimum standards of accommodation required; information on the dynamic risk management process to ensure it can operate effectively; the visiting school's code of conduct; and contact numbers, including emergency contacts and medical insurance information.

Resources provide opportunities to: - explore how adverts play on our fears and dreams - explore persuasive language in advertising - explore presentational features - analyse adverts across 3 mediums (TV, radio and web)- explore synergy - study advertising across a range of mediums - plan own advertising campaign - conduct risk assessments and planning document as would be the case in the industry - give a pitch for the campaign created - explore legal and ethical - investigate the ASA (advertising standards agency)- consider budgets - conduct primary and secondary research - gather qualitative and quantitative data A work book is also included for students to complete as they study the course.

The report, conducted by the Center on Education Policy, a Washington - based research organization that tracks implementation of the federal law, found that schools and districts are better aligning instruction and state standards, that test scores are rising, and that the number of schools labeled «in need of improvement» is holding steady.

According to the three - year study, which is being conducted by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp., majorities of elementary and middle school science and math teachers in all three states report in surveys that they are making positive changes in the classroom by focusing on their states» academic standards or searching for better teaching methods.

Today's decision sanctions school officials to conduct full - scale searches on a «reasonableness» standard whose only definite content is that it is not the same test as the «probable cause» standard found in the text of the Fourth Amendment.