Sentences with phrase «public knowledge increase»

«However, this may change as the evidence base for these policies grows and changes in public knowledge increase calls for stronger governmental action.

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He's using his newfound knowledge to increase SimStar's value, regardless of whether the company goes public, merges, or stays private.
It cited 2016 Pew Research Center data showing that more than 55 percent of households older than age 65 watch cable news programs, and it noted that «one multi-country study found that public broadcast news (such as PBS) increased political knowledge, while cable news actually reduced knowledge that people have about actual events.»
Brand awareness is managed by utilizing social media, content marketing, and various other resources that increase public knowledge of a company's presence.
It cited 2016 Pew Research Center data showing that more than 55 % of households older than age 65 watch cable news programs, and it noted that «one multi-country study found that public broadcast news increased political knowledge, while cable news actually reduced knowledge that people have about actual events.»
Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.
A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.
A recent study of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face of increasing public knowledge about the health risks of smoking and the shrinking population of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and erotic, images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill health.
The Domestic Marketing Committee is composed of pork producers and industry representatives, who after gaining an in - depth knowledge of the objectives, strategies and tactics of the Pork Checkoff's Domestic Marketing program, evaluate and oversee the work of the NPB staff to increase domestic expenditures of U.S. pork through programs of promotion, advertising, public relations, consumer information and marketing research.
Each day of the organic week named with specific topic related to organic food system program in order to increase public awareness and public knowledge for the benefits of consuming organic products and the visitors will attend in the workshops beside the fair.
As a responsible steward of the animals in its care, Shedd is committed to conserving species and ecosystems through research that increases knowledge, informs policy, enhances livelihoods and inspires the public to become environmental stewards.
UMAC strives to increase public knowledge of the contributions made by military units in the Capital Region, all of which impact our global, national, state and regional security and economy.
«It is our hope that the public utilizes this information to increase their awareness and knowledge of crime conditions around the city and in their local neighborhoods,» Bratton said in a statement Wednesday about the new website.
In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Legislator Lynne M. Dixon, Hamburg, declared October 20th Breast Cancer Awareness Day in Erie County in an effort to increase public knowledge about the importance of early detection, diagnosis and treatment.
The authors urge increased coverage of climate change in a public health context to bridge the knowledge gap between the public health community and the general public to encourage mitigating steps.
The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.
Although an increase in knowledge is important, programs need to be able to contribute to actual behavior change,» said De La Rue, «It is well established in the educational and psychological research literature and in public health, that changes in knowledge and attitude are not associated with reductions in actual behavior.
«Overall, the project results contribute to increase knowledge about the nutritional and health properties of vegetable milks, in view of future industrial applications to develop innovative quality products suitable both for the general public and for specific groups,» says Chelo González.
The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.
Ref: The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program developed this website as a clearinghouse of ocean fertilization news and informational resources to: 1) increase public knowledge and awareness on this topic, and 2) advance scientific research to improve our understanding of the implications of ocean fertilization for marine ecosystems.
The Forum provides leadership to influence public policy, increase funding, broaden public knowledge, and expand support for all forms of clinical research nation - wide.
Now as a nutrition educator and researcher, she is passionate about increasing the public's knowledge about all aspects of nutrition — including what is being done to our food supply, and its link to chronic conditions.
Philadelphia About Blog The History of Vaccines is an award - winning informational, educational website created by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, one of the oldest medical societies in the United States.The blog aims to increase public knowledge and understanding of the ways in which vaccines, toxoids, and passive immunization work, how they have been developed, and the role they have played in the improvement Frequency about 1 post per month.
Unfortunately, the NRC's strongly worded conclusions are only weakly supported by scientific evidence, despite the fact that NRC's stated mission is «to improve government decision making and public policy, increase public understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge
In just a year, the public's knowledge of the Common Core has increased dramatically.
Increase target women knowledge about gender issues and human rights with improvement in their skills to advocate their rights and to participate in decision making, it will also has impact the children through the work with teachers and within schools - as well as the whole community through public event community mobilization and so on.
The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.
It would be important and valuable if Heckman's recent work filled in some of the large gaps in knowledge on this topic and pointed to the critical research that still needs to be carried out to increase the likelihood that new public investments will achieve their desired result.
As a result, we have seen an increase in parents selecting public and Catholic schools particularly due to the results and shared knowledge.
«The sessions are not formal lessons but specific study of topics and texts that will ultimately lead to increased confidence and subject knowledge in this crucial build up to the public examinations.»
The California Charter School Governance Academy is a free, four hour intensive workshop designed to help school leaders and governing board members increase their knowledge of their ethical and legal obligations as stewards of public institutions.
Dept. of Information Technology and School Libraries, Newton This project will provide two targeted professional development workshops for K - 12 Newton Public School library teachers, increasing knowledge and professional practice in developing library collections that are current and accurately reflect the culture and experience of Muslim and Transgender students.
The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.
20) International: A parliamentary inquiry in Australia has been told the enormous increase in the public sector's use of private consultants from companies like Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Accenture, and Ernst & Young (EY) has contributed to a deficit in public service knowledge.
ASCD's Director of Public Policy, David Griffith, explains that due to an overreliance on standardized testing, schools are seeing an increased «focus on test taking and test preparation» and less emphasis on «actual knowledge and achievement for students.»
This session will bring together a privacy law professor who is thinking about a world without intellectual privacy, an academic librarian who worked with an ALA committee to create Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors, and a public librarian working on a grant - funded project to help library professionals increase their knowledge of digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their library's technological resources
Global warming has become a huge environmental issue; therefore it has become indispensable to increase awareness and knowledge about it among general public all over the world.
This enhancement to our free downloads means that we can reach out even further to inform government decision making and public policy, increase public education and understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge.
«Increases in consumer knowledge probably reflect in part the increased public attention given to credit scores because of the new protections,» said Brobeck.
The nation's growing demographic diversity and the increasing impact of globalization underscores the need to prepare future companion animal veterinarians, food animal veterinarians, public health veterinarians and veterinary researchers, educators, and scientists with the knowledge, skill and cultural sensitivity to productively engage this complex emerging environment.
The American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals and people through education, training and certification of specialists in veterinary internal medicine, discovery and dissemination of new medical knowledge, and increasing public awareness of advances in veterinary medical care.
To provide veterinary students and practitioners with the specialized knowledge and skills to enhance the medical and behavioral health of sheltered animals, to increase shelter lifesaving, and to promote public health.
non-profit organization that promotes the interest, improves the public stature, and increases the knowledge of veterinarians in the field of feline medicine and surgery.
Stymie Canine Cancer Foundation Stymie Canine Cancer Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) Non-Profit organization raising money for families who need financial support for the cost of cancer treatment for their pet as well as increasing the public's knowledge of canine cancer.
Students have cited numerous benefits they hope to gain from their experience with this exhibit, ranging from gaining an in depth knowledge of this period in history, to increased confidence in public speaking.
At age sixteen, he started work with the Bavarian government as assistant to the director of Public Works where he was able to increase his knowledge of mathematics.
This is still the case, but in recent years there has been an increasing desire among private collectors to build and establish their own museums that can rival not only other private collections but also public museums in terms of acquisitions, exhibition making and the knowledge production around contemporary art in general.
Its primary aim is to encourage public access to the various manifestations of modern and contemporary art in order to increase knowledge, promote education and foster social communication of the plastic arts.
These key partnerships are central to positively influencing carbon market developments, increasing knowledge exchange and boosting commercial interaction between both private and public sector stakeholders.
But this way, with the knowledge that this fee is going to continue to increase over time, the public and the business community would begin to make decisions that would move us toward increased energy efficiency and clean energies that don't produce carbon dioxide.
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