Sentences with phrase «recent assessment studies»

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The MIT - educated scientist recently told Patch he would bet a $ 10 million building he owns that the agritech giant Monsanto can't disprove his claim that there are no safety assessment standards for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), citing a recent study of his that suggests GMO soybeans may contain harmful levels of a chemical called formaldehyde.

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.

A recent impact assessment study showed that Filipino farmers have gained an additional Php2, 300 (US$ 52) per hectare from using improved IRRI - bred rice varieties.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

The first development is the publication of recent studies providing detailed exposure - response data, enabling regulations based on quantitative risk assessment.

A recent study of a rapid - assessment psychiatric liaison service at City Hospital in Birmingham showed that, per year, it cost less than # 1 million and saved # 3.55 million through reduced bed use.

While most of these demand factors are difficult to predict, the study's supply forecasts rely on empirical trends and the most recent assessments of resource quality.

[10 - 12] In a recent gold - standard study, highly stressed patients receiving ashwaganda extract had significantly lower stress assessment scores vs. their placebo controlled counterparts.

Indeed, unlike animal protein, plant protein has not been associated with increased insulinlike growth factor 1 levels28, 29 and has been linked to lower blood pressure,30 - 32 reduced low - density lipoprotein levels,32 - 34 and improved insulin sensitivity.35 Substitution of plant protein for animal protein has been related to a lower incidence of CVD36 - 39 and type 2 diabetes.40 - 42 Moreover, although a high intake of red meat, particularly processed red meat, has been associated with increased mortality in a recent meta - analysis of 13 cohort studies, 43 high consumption of nuts, a major contributor to plant protein, has been associated lower CVD and all - cause mortality.44 These results underscore the importance of protein sources for risk assessment and suggest that other components in protein - rich foods (eg, sodium, 45 nitrates, and nitrites46 in processed red meat), in addition to protein per se, may have a critical health effect.

And a more recent study of 598 American educators by Kelly Macdonald and colleagues showed that both assessments may be too optimistic.

A Mathematica case study and a recent article in Education Next examine first - of - its - kind research that measures how accurately a so - called next generation high school assessment designed for the Common Core predicts college success, compared with the existing state assessment in Massachusetts.

A recent Public Policy Institute of California study shows that on average California school children did much better in 2015 - 16 than they did in 2014 - 15 on the Smarter Balanced assessments in English language arts and math.

Just try to decipher this recent press release about a new study proving «rubric - based assessment can be taken to scale and can produce valid findings with credible and actionable information about student learning that can be used to improve curricular and assignment designs and to increase effectiveness of programs and classes in advancing the most important learning outcomes of college.»

He's instructed his staff to prepare materials for families telling them not to put much credence into the Florida Standards Assessments scores and school grades this year, particularly in light of a recent validity study that raised many questions about the test's reliability.

The guide includes case studies from OMG's recent assessments of the college access and success systems in two cities — Miami, FL and Philadelphia, PA..

With respect to that first question: If Iowa identifies 8.42 percent of the school population with an SLD and Kentucky finds 2.04 percent eligible in in this category (as of 2009 - 10 as stated in another recent study released by the Fordham Institute), then something is amiss with the definition, or the standardization of the assessment procedures, or the manner of interpretation of the guidelines for eligibility, or all three.

The CBE 360 Survey Toolkit, developed by American Institutes for Research (AIR) with support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and offered by the CCRS Center, uses surveys from a recent AIR CBE study to provide a comprehensive picture of CBE implementation in six research - based core areas: learning targets, measurement of learning, instructional approaches and supports, assessment of learning, pacing and progression, and when and where learning takes place.

Join us for a webinar presentation and discussion on data trends in discipline disparities from two recent REL studies — REL Northwest's Suspension and expulsion patterns in six Oregon school districts and REL Mid-Atlantic's Disproportionality in school discipline: An assessment of trends in Maryland, 2009 — 12.

In a recent study evaluating pain assessment in cats by veterinary researchers in North Carolina, cat owners reported they found it difficult to identify mild pain in their cats.

Synthetic colloids were previously used early and commonly in septic patients Recent evidence in human patients and experimental + / - clinical animal studies suggests negative risk - benefit assessment.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

The importance of this distinction was made clear in a recent assessment led by atmospheric chemist Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies [pdf].

Recent scientific studies, including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common air pollutants, soot and smog.

The manuscript uses a simple energy budget equation (as employed e.g. by Gregory et al 2004, 2008, Otto et al 2013) to test the consistency between three recent «assessments» of radiative forcing and climate sensitivity (not really equilibrium climate sensitivity in the case of observational studies).

This post updates earlier assessments by taking a close look at recent studies on the reliability of the electricity grid to answer that question.

The skeptics tend to pick out one aspect where there is perhaps not full agreement and fail to recognize that observations as well as models have shortcomings (witness the recent MSU [Microwave Sounding Unit] report's findings of shortcomings in the observational techniques, etc.)-- and that our best understanding must be based on a coherent integration of the many, many studies into a comprehensive synthesis — and this is what the IPCC assessments (and others) do.

There is evidence suggesting a human contribution to recent changes in hurricane activity as well as in storms outside the tropics, though a confident assessment will require further study.

«n its recent review of the IPCC, the InterAcademy Council (IAC)-- an umbrella group for the world's science academies — highlighted a case in the 2007 assessment where studies projecting rapidly declining crop yields in Africa were given more weight than they merited, in the absence of supporting evidence.

Recent developments in Indigenous law have made Traditional Land Use (TLU) studies essential tools for environmental assessments and regulatory processes as well as litigation related to Aboriginal title and rights.

«Evidence - based» is not a unitary concept, and recent thinking has lead to the development of a number of proposed criteria for the assessment of clinical studies.

Similarly, her recent study of the use of kindergarten entry assessments generated important insights into the conditions and supports necessary for these assessments to be effective at improving student learning; these findings are helping the U.S. Department of Education to provide better technical assistance and states to develop and refine their own kindergarten entry assessment processes.

Nevertheless a recent study (Gatta et al., 2016b), aiming to examine the usefulness of the LTP as an outcome measure, found that the LTP assessment of the family interactions might help clinicians to focus on the dysfunctional familial dynamics, thus improving the effectiveness of a video - feedback intervention with the families of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders (i.e., significantly reducing internalizing symptoms).

Based on these mixed results and limitations in generalizability, more studies are needed with (a) adequate controls for key socioeconomic and family composition factors known to be associated with behavior problems in children, (b) early assessment of temperament, (c) samples that include higher risk children (e.g., low - income families, children with health problems, etc.), and (d) controls for behavior problems that predate the exposure to recent family conflict.

Recent studies, based on self - reported assessments of coparenting, have reported significant links between both parents» depressive symptoms, negative coparenting, and negative temperament (Solmeyer and Feinberg, 2011) or poor sleep quality in the child (McDaniel and Teti, 2012).

Reports from parents and teachers about peer functioning, as well as self reports, are often collected in the form of rating scales, for example, the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) 21 or the Self - Perception Profile for Children.22 Recent studies examining self - reports of competence in children with ADHD, however, indicate overly inflated reports that are at odds with both others» perspectives23, 24 and inconsistent with actual performance.15 These studies question the utility of self - report measures for children with ADHD when the goal of assessment is to obtain accurate competence information.