Sentences with phrase «public effect change»

How does the parenting public effect change in the school lunch program that benefits the health of the students?

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This doesn't cost the public anything, and is a wonderful tool to effect change, but it's gone absolutely nowhere all year.

The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

However, on Wednesday the Senate Public Utilities Committee canceled plans to send Senate Bill 58 to the floor for a full chamber vote at least until next year over concerns about the effects of the bill's proposed changes.

Kirsch and New Profit also understand that shaping public policy is a key to effecting major changes.

We believe that your new government has provided Canada with the opportunity to effect real change in public policy, including as it involves crowdfunding.

As of now, nearly three years later, the Security and Exchange commission (SEC) isstill in the process of reviewing the most debatable (and a game - changing) provision of the JOBS Act — Title III, which when in effect in an unclear future, will enable businesses to sell up to $ 1 million in securities to the public in a one year period.

These changes to the essential service regime will have the effect of meaning that a larger number of public servants can not exercise their right to strike.

The regulation will now undergo a 90 - day period for public comments, after which it could be changed or go into effect as is.

The progress of algorithms has gone so far that Facebook and Google are now accused of creating filter bubbles that can effect public opinion, rapidly change political landscapes and sway elections.

Rising sea levels, more intense and more frequent weather events, crop failures, and negative public health effects have all been linked to climate change, which scientists agree is caused by human activity.

Serlin Haley is a national public law firm that effects change by representing businesses before the Executive, Legislative, Regulatory, and Municipal areas of government.

Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global warming.

The more people change their diet, the more public perception to food will change in general and the knock - on effect is that ever increasing animal - free options become available in supermarkets and eateries.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

ONE wants to raise public awareness and pressure political leaders to support smart policies to effect positive change.

NATAPAC will work to effect change by supporting candidates for public office whose views and intentions mesh with our own goals.

When the public service spending, tax, tax credit and benefit changes are taken into account (ie, everything), the effect on households in 2015/16 is bad news - an average drop of 2.5 %.

Figure 1 shows that the effect of that change was to increase the costs reported for the financial year 2008 - 09 from # 16 billion (as reported in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2010 under the old definitions) to # 22 billion (in PESA 2011).

If the referendum educates the public in the power of their voice, and if it educates masses and elites to expand their moral imagination enough to recognize the complaints of the other side, this experiment, although probably not the best outcome, has the epistemic value desired by proponents of deliberation, and its long - term effect may be more electoral stability and a renewed aversion to change for the sake of change.

Changes could be on the way for the traveling public both in the air and on the ground if the $ 85 billion worth of spending cuts take effect as planned.

Curbed article on Borough President Adams attending «Watershed» at the Red Hook Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, an art exhibition aimed at highlighting the effects of climate change on rising sea levels.

Therefore Conservative efforts to cut public spending would have the effect of reducing tax revenue, without any change to tax rates.

These changes will come into force early in the New Year and the public should start to see the effects soon afterwards.

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

Despite the widespread public alarm over the effects of the new tax law's capping of state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000, that tax change had little effect on Schumer and Weinshall and the Gillibrands.

«The public has moved from disapproval to anger and is demanding that our leaders step up and effect real change.»

Why would a high ranking public officer like Joe Anokye, heading a sensitive institution like Ghana's National Communication Authority (NCA) travel to a sister African country to aid the opposition party effect regime change?

If the effect of these is a fall in the volume of property transactions with a consequential reduction in revenue, there is then less money to spend on public services and it is then hard to see the changes as especially progressive.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

There is an overlying awareness when assessing New York's environmentally progressive work - in - progress that the effects climate change and fossil fuel energy industries have on the environment, infrastructure and public health don't stop at state lines.

Commenting on the topic of the symposium, Comrade Sunmonu noted that the NLC chose the topic - «the change Nigeria needs and the role of workers in the process of change» to educate and enlighten the public on the role of government to effect positive change they voted for.

That changed when the NIFA board announced Tuesday, after conferring privately for nearly three hours with attorneys and accountants, that it will hold a public meeting next Thursday - two days before the budget takes effect, when control is expected to begin.

The moratorium, made through emergency regulations, went into effect immediately, and after a public hearing period, the Regents will vote at their February meeting on whether to make the changes permanent.

[i] Enacted in 1982, the amendment mandates that all provisions of a public employee union contract — including those providing for automatic annual pay increases — must remain in effect even after the contract expires, regardless of changing local priorities and fiscal conditions.

Campaign finance rules are adopted by the State Board of Elections on a four - year cycle, Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group pointed out, meaning any changes could not take effect until the 2018 legislative elections or the 2022 gubernatorial election.

As you would expect from a government department seeking to effect public health change through a voluntary deal with industry, a wide group of officials have many different meetings with a vast range of stakeholders, and we utterly reject the allegation of anything untoward in the small proportion of those that took place with the alcohol industry.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Landrum and her colleagues demonstrated the effect experimentally and reported the results in a 2017 paper in the Journal of Risk Research entitled «Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test,» in which participants read a news story on Zika public health risks that was linked to either climate change or immigration.

The increase in free time and the changes in the social networks related to retirement can have either adverse or positive effects on public health, says Academy Research Fellow, Docent Sari Stenholm from the University of Turku.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

«There is a tendency to think of depression as a purely «psychological» or»em otional» issue, but it also has physical effects and changes in inflammatory and immune markers have been reported in depressed people,» commented Scott Patten, MD, PhD, the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Cumming School of Medicine.

Dan Kraker and Elizabeth Dunbar of Minnesota Public Radio, winners of the Silver Award in the radio category, described the current and likely effects of climate change in their home state, particularly on the changing makeup of the northern forests.

«It is important to recognize the implications of these climate change effects for public health, including changes in crime rates,» Schinasi said.

Karen E. Hansen, M.D., M.S., of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, and colleagues compared the effects of placebo, low - dose cholecalciferol (a form of vitamin D) and high - dose cholecalciferol on one - year changes on total TFCA, bone mineral density, sit - to - stand tests and muscle mass in 230 postmenopausal women (75 or younger) with vitamin D insufficiency.

«This model may be useful to advocates and policymakers as they pursue efforts to prevent the worst effects of climate change,» adds senior author Patrick Kinney, director of the Climate and Health Program and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Though the researchers can't disclose the results for individual outlets for confidentiality reasons, they could show that removing larger outlets from the analysis didn't change the effect on public conversation much, suggesting that no single large news organization was responsible for the increase.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.