Sentences with phrase «published quality reports»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Indeed, Business Insider previously reported that a 2015 study published in the journal Psychology and Aging found that quantity of relationships was more important for people in their 20s, but quality of relationships was more important once people hit their 30s.

Benjamin Tal, an economist at CIBC World Markets, published a report this week that suggests the overall quality of employment in Canada has deteriorated since the late 1990s.

A report published this week by the Irish Health Information and Quality Authority into the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, the woman who died while seventeen weeks pregnant in an Irish hospital, has determined that she failed to receive the most basic of care and that numerous....

Data for the key data report has been quality assured and supporting data is published.

In 2000, the IOM published their report summarizing information regarding errors made in health care and offered recommendations for improving quality of care.

Carol is a member of the Expecting More team that is creating state - of - the - science maternity care decision aids; co-author of 2010 direction - setting companion reports: «2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System» and «Blueprint for Action»; lead author of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overuse.

The Care Quality Commission released its first published report dedicated to nutrition, dignity and privacy in hospitals and care homes following inspections last summer.

A report by Policy Exchange published last week claimed that public sector workers are better off than their private sector counterparts in terms of hours worked, retirement age and pension quality.

In 2006 Hudson Basin River Watch (HBRW) published water quality report cards on streams near New Paltz, which includes the Wallkill, and on the Ulster County portion of the Wallkill watershed.

If you want to know what happened to it, take a look at the Department of Health's first annual report on the «End of life care strategy» (62 full colour pages) which asserts that the initiative is off to a great start: it is establishing a National Implementation Advisory Board and a National Coalition to raise public awareness, has published a set of Quality Markers and core competencies, built monitoring into Operation Finance Guidance, tendered for a pilot of a national survey and begun the process to set up an Intelligence Network.

The report, published today, claims widespread weaknesses exist in the quality of provision for children with special educational needs in England, with many pupils put into the category because of poor teaching.

Now a new article published in Annals of Internal Medicine highlights key points of that report and serves as a guide for health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life of older adults by maintaining brain health.

This is the conclusion of a rapid report published by the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) on 28 April 2015.

Improved but not necessarily safe One report, published earlier this year in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, analyzed water quality test data from five countries (Ethiopia, Jordan, Nicaragua, Nigeria and Tajikistan) and found that many sources of «improved» water failed the safety test.

This is the result of the final report published by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) on 23 April 2015, which was commissioned by the Federal Joint Committee (G - BA).

The research, published in the academic journal Scientific Reports, found that sperm quality in a population of stud dogs studied over a 26 - year period had fallen significantly.

In 1918, the first report documenting the deterioration of water quality was published by the International Joint Commission.

A University of Rochester - led study, published in the August issue of Health Affairs, shows complication rates can vary as much as five-fold among hospitals, prompting researchers to call for the development of a national quality reporting system to improve maternal outcomes for more than 4 million women who give birth each year.

A study published earlier this year found that self - reported physical health quality was higher among people who practiced yoga in a school or studio setting rather than alone at home.

How universities fare on reputational quality - of - life and academic rankings — such as those published by the Princeton Review or U.S. News & World Report — can have a measurable effect on the number of applications they — and their competitors — receive and on the academic competitiveness of the resulting freshman class, according to a new study.

A shared interest in gathering, discussing and improving water quality data among diverse groups can lead to productive conversations that data alone can not address, the scientists reported in «Engaging over data on fracking and water quality,» published in the journal Science.

Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (sinus infection) and obstructive sleep apnea report a poor quality of life, which is substantially improved following endoscopic sinus surgery, according to a study published online by JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.

Adolescents with cerebral palsy face multiple challenges, but they rate their quality of life (QoL) on a par with their able - bodied peers, according to new research published in The Lancet reporting on how adolescents with cerebral palsy from nine European regions feel about life.

Published in open - access journal Frontiers in Physiology, the study reports that obese men have increased levels of inflammatory markers in their seminal fluid and lower sperm quality, both of which correlate with their body mass index (BMI).

Impact Factor: 7.207 Issues Per Year: 12 issues per year Aims and Scope: Cell Reports is an open - access journal from Cell Press that publishes high - quality papers across the entire life sciences spectrum.

If you submit a manuscript to GENETICS that reports high - quality and useful findings — but lacks the broad appeal, significance, or novelty of a published GENETICS article — you may be offered a transfer to G3.

Although we did not evaluate the quality of the publications, the papers published in English used a clearer reporting style than those published in other languages.

A recent study published in the January issue of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research reported that meditation retreats are moderately to largely effective in reducing anxiety, depression, and stress and improving quality of life.

The report, published in Biomedical Engineering OnLine, suggests that in addition to UV protection, lenses» shatterproof qualities may degrade as well.

In another study, published in July, researchers looked at 245 women in a six - month weight loss program and found that those who slept more than seven hours a night, and those who reported better quality sleep, were 33 percent more likely to succeed in their weight - loss efforts.

Glycemic index (GI; the quality of carbohydrate) was determined from the 24 - h dietary recalls by using published tables (24, 25) and was previously reported (26).

Results published so far are promising: Breast - cancer patients who practice yoga while undergoing radiation therapy have lower levels of stress hormones and report less fatigue and better quality of life.

A review published in a 2010 edition of the «Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition» reports that egg protein is among the highest quality protein available to athletes.

A review published in 2012 in Evidence - Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine reports that black and yellow maca improve sperm count and sperm motility in male rats, and red maca extract has a positive impact on the quality of embryos in female mice.

The NAHT published its annual recruitment survey before the meeting, which reported 79 per cent of school leaders were facing problems in recruiting quality teachers.

A report published by McKinsey and Company in 2005, China's Looming Talent Shortage, found that the Chinese system produces students who excel in a narrow range of subjects with only 10 percent of its college graduates considered employable by multinational businesses because the students lack the qualities society needs.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

But very little was known about the quality of these exams, beyond validity reports published by the test - makers themselves.

Four days before the 2016 election, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) issued a regulation requiring every state to publish an annual «report card» on the quality of its teacher - preparation programs.

Published in January 2001 by the Wake Task Force on Teacher Excellence, exploring issues of quality teaching in the public schools, this report influenced future work in teacher leadership by WakeEd and the Wake County Public School System.

Since 2009, Pioneer has led the campaign against Common Core national education standards and federal control of K - 12 education policy, publishing a series of reports showing that the state's adoption of national standards weakens the quality of academic content in Massachusetts» classrooms, and raising serious questions about the legality and the costs of Common Core.

The percent of teachers given waivers is published by the U.S. Department of Education each year in the Secretary of Education's (page 48) report on teacher quality.

We consistently monitor the quality and impact of our work against these indicators and consider a successful collaboration to be one in which progress in all three areas can be clearly evidenced through surveys, through termly school reviews and through nationally published data and inspection reports.

Ofsted has already published a report into the quality of Birmingham education after snap inspections at 21 schools revealed serious problems, leading to five schools being placed in special measures.

Marla UcelliThe Annenberg Foundation has just published a nice report on ideas that work to improve teacher quality.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) published a new report on opportunities for teacher evaluation systems under ESSA.

According to a recent report published by the Education Law Center, «sufficient school funding, fairly distributed to districts to address concentrated poverty, is an essential precondition for the delivery of a high - quality education through the states» (p. 1).

A master's degree merits teachers a salary bump four times greater on average than a «highly effective» rating, according to the report published on Wednesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington - based research and advocacy group.

In 2006, Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, published a lengthy report on the state of teacher education, calling it a «troubled field» and criticizing schools of education for having low admission and graduation standards, and «wide disparities in institutional quality.»