Sentences with phrase «program reduced the use»

A follow - up study showed the program reduced the use of injected drugs by 50 percent.

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While offering workers choices, the emergence of drop - in workspace is also sending a message to employers, says Robyn Bews, who manages Calgary Economic Development's WorkShift program, which promotes the use of technology to reduce commuting.

Some Democrats worry that the recent tax cut will be used by Republicans to reduce social programs.

Moreover, programs designed to prevent moving may reduce beneficial mobility — leading residents to favor staying in place even when a move might increase their wellbeing or might be a better outcome for affordability in the city overall (if those moves then pave the way for higher - density development or better use / allocation of the existing stock).

And on Thursday, Mylan expanded its discount program, offering up to $ 300 off the cost of EpiPen with the use of a special «savings card,» thereby reducing the price for patients paying out - of - pocket by half, the company said.

E-cigarette regulation and prevention programs are needed to reduce future use of conventional cigarettes among youth.

Trying to compare poverty in the 1960s to poverty today using the official measure yields misleading results; it implies that programs like SNAP, the EITC, and rental vouchers — all of which were either small in the 1960s or didn't yet exist — have no effect in reducing poverty, which clearly is not the case.

Natural Resources Canada used to have a program called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 peprogram called the Canadian Building Incentive Program, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 peProgram, which gave financial incentives to buildings with energy efficiency measures, including a $ 60,000 grant for reducing energy consumption by 25 per cent.

The other thing that can reduce or eliminate the chaos is using a 1099 program that is designed to eliminate some of the year - end drama that can occur when processing 1099's.

Unfortunately, there are a number of reasons why this assumption of a higher spending lapse is not justified and should not have been used to reduce program spending.

Likewise, for loans in the income contingent repayment program, where the interest is not capitalized after it exceeds ten percent of the original principal amount.3 It is always better to have prepayments used to reduce the loan balance, since this will cost you less over the lifetime of the loan.

Homeowners can use the program to reduce their FHA mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) and get better terms with their new loans.

You can reduce the time involved and the documentation hoops you have to jump through when you refinance a mortgage using the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP).

We are also committed to reducing waste and paper usage in our workplaces — our internal Get Up & Get Green program eliminates garbage bins at employees» desks and encourages them to use centralized sorting bins.

A politics of using immigration to increase the ranks of the low - skilled, and then reducing the programs they will depend on when they are old and unable to do physical labor, might seem like good business to the affluent.

Candler's speech program was organized around a «linear - transmissions» model which arises from information theory, which can be stated as follows: «The essential feature of all messages is information, and people use the information in messages to reduce uncertainty and thereby adapt to the environment».

If in the 1970s we had begun a program of efficient use and switching gradually to other sources of energy, «peak oil» would remain quite far in the future and there might still be some chance to reduce global warming.

I'm on a low - fat diet program so I omitted the pine nuts and used the Trade Joe's reduced fat Coconut Milk and it was still delicious.

«This means that we are proven to have programs and projects in place that make efficient use of natural resources, prevent pollution and reduce our impact on the environment to a minimum,» it states.

Reducing Food Losses from Farm to Market, October 2014: An introduction to small - scale appropriate postharvest handling practices, with illustrations and resources for you to use in your own training programs.

take many steps to reduce their impact on the environment with water recycling programs, energy conservation plans, and integrated pest management to reduce the use of chemical pesticides.

This environmentally responsible program improves clients» carbon footprints by reducing chemical use, volatile organic compounds, packaging waste and transportation emissions.

Building on current programs and efficiencies that reduce water and energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, the new Bacardi Limited global platform, Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future, reinforces the Company's leadership in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

The Food Recovery Challenge is part of the EPA's Sustainable Materials Management Program, which seeks to reduce the environmental impact of food and other widely - used everyday items through their entire life cycle, including how they are extracted, manufactured, distributed, used, reused, recycled, and disposed.

Beam Suntory is a proud sponsor of University of Louisville's BRICC Coalition, and through this partnership, we provide support in advancing policies, programs, resources, and experiences that increase resiliency and reduce high - risk drinking and substance use in the campus and community.

Food Waste Reduction Alliance LeanPath Stay Ahead of Food Loss (video) New Venture Fund REDUCING FOOD WASTE by Changing the Way Consumers Interact with Food Spoiler Alert Using Data to Reduce Food Waste National Restaurant Association ConServe Program National Restaurant Association ConServe Reduce Waste in Your Restaurant: Extend Oil Life with Proper Fry Cooking Techniques (video) Hotel Kitchen Toolkit University of Massachusetts Amherst's Making Local, Healthy, Sustainable Delicious; The How - To Guide for Foodservice Operators

It would seem at first glance that al - la - carte items or alternative offerings for paid meals could be used to offset the cost of the free / reduced program, if done carefully.

Although each of the teams using the PEP exercise program had a dedicated athletic training staff, the success reported in the earlier study in reducing ACL injuries among 14 - to 18 - year - old competitive female club soccer players - who ordinarily do not benefit from direct oversight from certified athletic trainers (ATCs) or physical therapists - suggest that the program may benefit other age groups and levels of play where direct oversight by medical professionals is far less common.

Her work in systematic reviews has consistently addressed tough topics and has included documenting harms of episiotomy, the limitations of data about outcomes of fetal surgery, inconsistencies in results of programs designed to reduce use of cesarean, marginal effectiveness of medications for overactive bladder, and the burden on cervical cancer prevention programs introduced by liquid cytology collection for pap testing.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

She is the Director of the Optimal Birth BC program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which develops syntheses of evidence for clinicians, decision - aids and information packages for childbearing families, and uses local data to evaluate clinical practice and direct change to reduce rates of cesarean section in BC hospitals and health authorities.

Somehow reading this article and looking over and over at the graphics of the neediest States using the free or reduced lunch program slightly eased my own shame and / or guilt; because I still hardly believe this is our reality.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

The bad is that fewer than one in five children eligible for the program nationwide use it - 2 million a day last summer, compared with the 12 million who get free or reduced - price meals during the school year, according to federal estimates.

• Philadelphia: Chef Marc Vetri is working to expand a family - style eating program to Philadelphia schools to reduce behavioral problems and use the lunch period to teach social skills and more.

«Tuning into Kids»: reducing young children's behavior problems using an emotion coaching parenting program.

Use this data to lobby your governments to allocate a budget for policies and programs to increase breastfeeding alongside those allocated to reduce pollution.

Data profiles are available for every state and for the nation as a whole, and are designed to help states measure how they are faring in using key public nutrition programs to reduce hunger and improve the health and economic security of low - income families.

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

Interventions that have demonstrated a broad range of effects require significant resources and there will be ongoing pressure to use established program models while reducing the resources involved in their implementation.

Respondents said that holding taste tests with students and redistributing uneaten, sealed foods were among the most effective ways to reduce waste, but only 44 percent and 38 percent of programs, respectively, used these strategies.

«the use of an effective food safety tool being reduced» and «other companies researching new food safety technologies or programs [to] curtail their efforts after observing the challenges Beef Products has faced in the wake of the negative publicity.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

While more children used the regular school year food programs, budget cuts in many states caused school districts to eliminate or reduce their summer programs.

Students using the free and reduced - price lunch program % % Percent change Applicants Fall Spring Fall 2008 to Fall School district 2008 2009 Spring 2009 2009 Barrington Community 220 1,236 1,440 16.5 % 1,565 (Mundelein) Diamond Lake 76 509 514 1.0 % 550 Elmhurst Community 205 581 638 9.8 % 665 Elgin School U-46 17,721 19,693 11.1 % 21,016 Glenview 34 687 719 4.5 % 812 Lemont Township High School 210 57 58 1.8 % 67 Mundelein High School 120 545 545 No change 605 Naperville Community 203 1,199 1,459 21.7 % 1,770 (Highland Park) North Shore 112 1,027 1,100 7.1 % 973 Plainfield Community 202 3,228 3,464 7.3 % 3,631 (Frankfort) Summit Hill School District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applications.

We initiated a recycling program for facilities and parks, developed an integrated pest management program aimed at reducing use of pesticides and herbicides on playing fields and lawns, later banned smoking in District buildings and vehicles before that practice became state law, and continued to protect our natural areas through local leadership.

He wants to reduce the use of residential streets and business corridors as highway shortcuts, and expand successful programs like the Third Avenue Summer Stroll in frequency and scope.

Former Governor George Pataki's School Tax Relief (STAR) program, passed in 1997 and fully phased in by 2002, actually does reduce most homeowners» tax bills, through the mechanism of sending added aid to school districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemption.

The Suffolk County Legislature approved a 2018 vector control plan on Tuesday that includes use of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, but also acknowledges a pilot program launched this year at Accabonac Harbor that is intended to reduce and possibly...