Sentences with phrase «practices than risk»

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So in practice, if you are young software developer or entrepreneur in San Francisco, you can choose to work at a start - up that will have a more than 50 percent chance of going out of business in the next 18 months without risking the embarrassment of running out of money and having to move back in with your parents.

The system, inspired by work done at Stanford's VR lab, uses 360 - degree video to put players — primarily quarterbacks — through their paces, with less physical risk and wear - and - tear than on - field practice, and more interactivity than just watching game video.

The rhetoric in filings always makes risks seem more daunting than they are in practice, but this is an opportunity for MCD to deliver (no pun intended) on a front that its customers have wanted for years — really since the likes of GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB) and Seamless went mainstream.

They find it absurd that Mr. Trump is risking a trade war with Europe, the United States» biggest trading partner, rather than joining forces to rein in Chinese trade practices they both oppose.

(i) Does the concerted, global regulatory reform agenda mean that there is now more scope than in the past for sound risk management practices to be set up prior to full liberalisation?

Scaling our positions in proportion to the market's expected return / risk profile, based on prevailing conditions (rather than trying to forecast market turns), is the essential practice.

They entail significant risks that can include losses due to leveraging or other speculative investment practices, lack of liquidity, volatility of returns, restrictions on transferring interests in a fund, potential lack of diversification, absence and / or delay of information regarding valuations and pricing, complex tax structures and delays in tax reporting, less regulation and higher fees than mutual funds.

With more than 250 employees worldwide and expertise across more than 40 sectors, Sustainalytics» 120 analysts evaluate companies» management systems, practices, policies and other indicators related to environmental, social and governance risk.

an operational risk management framework that worked better on paper than in practice, supported by an immature and under - resourced compliance function;

The study provides what the authors say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices, by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an older helmet employing 20 - year - old design technology.

Even if circumcision is proven to slightly lower the risk of acquiring an STD in the future, safe sexual practices (abstinence, fidelity and condoms) are more important and has more to do with preventing STDs than circumcision.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

The Superfood for Babies recommendations include: «To encourage companies to improve their policies, practices and accountability, FTSE4Good should, by 2015, extend its criteria for the inclusion of a BMS company on its index to include the company's activities in all countries, rather than just those countries listed as higher risk, and should bring its criteria into line with the International Code and resolutions.

The estimated percentage of US children aged 2 to 5 years and 6 to 11 years classified as overweight increased from 5.0 % and 6.5 % in 1980 to 10.4 % and 19.6 %, respectively, in 2007 -2008.1-3 The increase in childhood obesity was also observed among those aged 6 to 23 months, from 7.2 % in 1980 to 11.6 % in 2000.1 Given the numerous health risks related to childhood obesity,4 - 7 its prevention is becoming a public health priority.8 It has been reported that feeding practices affect growth and body composition in the first year of life, with breastfed infants gaining less rapidly than formula - fed infants.9 - 14 There is also evidence that breastfed infants continue to have a low risk for later childhood obesity.15 - 18

This is the first study to demonstrate a link between breastfeeding and lower risk of RA in a Chinese population, where breastfeeding was common practice and more prevalent than in many Western populations.

Despite the fact that the authors surveyed only a small proportion of practicing midwives, who submitted data that was not validated, and despite the fact that they authors performed a variety of maneuvers that violated basic standards of statistical analysis, and despite the fact that they were intent on concluding that homebirth is «safe» regardless of what the data showed, they actually showed that homebirth has a minimum rate of death 5.5 X higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

Cobedding of twins and other infants of multiple gestation is a frequent practice, both in the hospital setting and at home.174 However, the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples have not been established.175, — , 177 Twins and higher - order multiples are often born prematurely and with low birth weight, so they are at increased risk of SIDS.101, 102 Furthermore, there is increased potential for overheating and rebreathing while cobedding, and size discordance might increase the risk of accidental suffocation.176 Most cobedded twins are placed on their sides rather than supine.174 Finally, cobedding of twins and higher - order multiples in the hospital setting might encourage parents to continue this practice at home.176 Because the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffocation.

«Creating a risk calculator that includes multiple risk factors offers clinicians a means to more accurately predict risk than the simple age - based cutoffs currently used in clinical practice,» said Dr. Wells.

In terms of clinical practice, physicians can use risk assessment tools in some cases to determine which patients would most likely benefit from statin therapy, rather than focusing only on blood cholesterol to determine which patients would benefit.

This is the first study to demonstrate a link between breastfeeding and lower risk of RA in a Chinese population, where breastfeeding was common practice and more prevalent than in many Western populations.

Unfortunately, risk assessment is inadequate in terms of sports facilities and many fitness programs rely on the participants taking out insurance and signing legal waivers rather than their being taught safe practices and given a safe environment in which to exercise.

Between 100 and 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), with more than 3 million girls at risk of the practice every year in Africa alone.

Additional options for long - term risk reduction could include tailoring existing cardiac rehabilitation programs for stroke survivors, following patients for years rather than months after their stroke or TIA, and embedding long - term management into primary care practices.

The researchers found that the participants who practiced more than two languages had a reduced risk of cognitive decline — in fact, up to seven times the protection against cognitive decline as did those who used only two languages.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

We also do conventional blood testing, but test for more than a GP generally would — for instance Homo cysteine and Protein A, which are important markers which fall «outside» the scope of general medical practice, but are nevertheless important predictability markers to more fully assess your risk of heart and vascular disease than cholesterol alone.

The results showed that each of these risk factors improved more in those practicing yoga than in people not exercising and, in fact, that yoga's impact on cardiovascular risk factors was comparable to more conventional aerobic exercises.

But the concept of a resolution kicking off January first to last the course of an entire calendar year has always felt, to me, like the short - term bandwagon, a practice riddled with higher risk for disappointment than good.

If you do not have any specific intentions when you chat to a woman, other than practicing chatting for its own sake, then you are not going to risk rejection, which may be one of the fears holding you back.

Patterson explains, «Having sex with strangers does not put people in the sex trade at any greater risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease or infection than the general population» — although having a greater number of partners in general does increase the associated STI risk — and she notes that prostitutes are often very familiar with safer sex practices as their jobs depend on it.

Unfortunately, contemporary social studies practice runs the risk of increasing, more than decreasing, the likelihood that students leave schools as mere children.

Drawing on a six - year study that closely followed more than one thousand high - achieving fifth - and sixth - grade African - American, Latino, Indochinese, and Caucasian students, Bempechat uncovers the family and school practices and attitudes that contribute to high achievement in at - risk children.

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

If we really want to improve teaching, we should look to develop such models of effective evaluation rather than pursuing problematic schemes that mis - measure teachers, create disincentives for teaching high - need students, offer no useful feedback on how to improve teaching practice and risk driving some of the best educators out of the profession.

The teams learned more than just how to integrate art into core instruction, they learned best practices for encouraging their fellow teachers to take risks and use new teaching strategies.

It seems to me that open enrollment practices are having a normative effect whereby charters» composition of at risk students are more like the citywide average than the local in - boundary DCPS school.

Expect to need at least two to three hours» practice before getting acclimated, and even then at only a fraction of your usual speed — we found that typing with four fingers rather than ten worked pretty well for e-mails and brief notes, though long hours of typing on the hard surface would seem to risk carpal tunnel syndrome.

If you have a short credit account history, for example, you may be considered a higher risk loan candidate than someone who has a long credit account history with good payment practices.

Whether speculators will admit it or not, there is more risk associated with this tactic than there is with sound fundamental investing practices like buy - and - hold.

Rather than an educational experience, practice accounts are a little like play - money sessions at Las Vegas, where gambling novices can learn to play casino games without risking any real cash.

Moreover, people who open new accounts on a regular basis have bigger repayment risk than consumers who do not involve themselves in such practices.

The authors» approach of aiming to keep portfolios travelling towards income goals rather than maximizing returns is a bit of a paradigm shift compared to traditional practice, as is rebalancing to constant risk rather than cleaving to a predetermined asset mix.

Although anesthesia can not ever be 100 % risk - free, we practice very high standards of anesthesia safety and know that the risk associated with «anesthesia - free dental cleanings» are much higher than a controlled and thorough dental procedure under anesthesia.

Far better to practice preventive maintenance such as regular grooming than to risk your cat's health!

If they are practicing anesthesia free dentistry, they are either ripping off the client by not really doing anything, or they are putting the animals through an incredible amount of stress that is likely much more dangerous than the risks incurred with proper anesthesia.

«Although anesthesia can not ever be 100 % risk - free, we practice very high standards of anesthesia safety and know that the risk associated with anesthesia - free dental cleanings are much higher than a controlled and thorough dental procedure under anesthesia,» said Frontier Vet Hospital.

Rather than taking the risk, allow our practiced staff, skilled in shaping your animal's nails and hair to the ideal form, to help your dog or cat get around easier.

At a time when there are changes afoot in the art market, it is more important than ever that public collections are able to take risks on different practices and supporting artists at every stage of their career.

For this reason, it is considered good practice to use output from multiple models to explore a range of scientifically plausible futures — to account for an envelope of future climate risk, rather than a single future pathway.

«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»