Sentences with phrase «reduce human risks»

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In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The company uses an algorithm to trade stocks, which theoretically maximizes the yield of investments while reducing overhead costs and the risks associated with human trading.

Paul Rocco, president of Provectus Robotics Solutions, uses similar types of technology in his company's robots, and says that self - driving vehicles will reduce the risk for human passengers.

Blockchain technology can cut out the substantial intermediary costs, security risks, and record keeping infrastructure traditionally associated with such applications resulting in reduced cost, fewer time delays and less human error.

Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism concerns me.15 More open trade with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the long run.

One way blockchain reduces conventional cybersecurity risk is by simply removing the need for human intermediaries — thus lessening the threat of hacking, corruption, or human error.

He believes that a wider presence of self - driving technologies will reduce the risks associated with driving, as human error is responsible for more than 90 percent of all car crashes.

Those who propose to liberate human beings by reducing them to their naked individuality and destroying the bonds that connect them with principles understood to reside beyond human power risk arrogating to themselves the right to forge new and tighter chains.

Such materialism risks reducing the meaningfulness of this fundamental human experience.

The 55 mph speed limit is a value of and for highway driving, because it reduces the risk of highway accident (and hence exemplifies the value of preserving human life).

The Lodi Rules ™ Program certifies sustainable management of the ecosystem, soils, water, business practices, human resources, and pest control with an emphasis on reducing pesticide risk to farm workers, consumers, small aquatic invertebrates, birds, and bees.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

Meanwhile, the Foodex Engage Lounge, in partnership with Teknomek, will host more than 30 sessions over three days on issues such as how to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination; hygiene strategies to manage the «human factor»; how plastic is enhancing hygienic routines; and balancing occupational health with hygiene.

Human milk provides optimal nutrition, promotes normal growth and development, and reduces the risk of illness and disease.

Not only does it help grow and heal muscles (we are going a human after all), but it provides moms - to - be with energy, all while stabilizing blood sugars and helping reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes.

In order to reduce the risk of the hatchling turtles becoming habituated to humans, our biologists keep handling to an absolute minimum and the turtles that are on exhibit at the Museum are behind one - way glass.

According to The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, keeping your child up to date on their immunizations can reduce their risk of SIDS by 50 percent.

Best practices make better parenting classes According to «Parent Education to Strengthen Families and Reduce the Risk of Maltreatment,» a 2013 publication of the US Department of Health and Human Services,

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, eating a balanced diet, along with physical activity, will help you fight obesity, reduce your risk of chronic disease, and improve your overall health.

For preterm infants, human milk feeding, in particular the woman's own milk, is associated with a reduced risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (18) and other infectious morbidity.

Mothers can further reduce the risk of infections by performing home pasteurization of donated milk prior to giving it to her infant; however, pasteurization can decrease some of the beneficial components of human milk.

«Every time we learn something new about how breathing, cardiac function and sleep are controlled in babies — even in baby rats — we have the chance to think about how these findings may be used to reduce the risk of SIDS in human infants,» Dr. Leiter says.

In addition, it is not likely that the human milk has been collected, processed, tested or stored in a way that reduces possible safety risks to the baby.»

In 1992, in response to epidemiologic reports from Europe and Australia, the AAP recommended that infants be placed for sleep in a nonprone position as a strategy for reducing the risk of SIDS.9 The «Back to Sleep» campaign was initiated in 1994 under the leadership of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendation.

Breastfeeding is associated with a reduced risk of SIDS.71, — , 73 If possible, mothers should exclusively breastfeed or feed with expressed human milk (ie, not offer any formula or other non — human milk — based supplements) for 6 months, in alignment with recommendations of the AAP.74

IOSH is keen to work with decision - makers, helping them to upskill and reap the many benefits of effective risk management across supply chains — reducing human, economic and societal failure costs and ensuring business sustainability and success.

She said the over 15,000 people in Ghana's prisons was a good human resource that could be utilized for economic growth and development of the country and so they needed to be equipped with the appropriate vocational skills, saying that would also help to reduce inmates» risk of reoffending, by teaching them useful skills that prepare them for the world outside prison.

So reducing the risk of tumour formation or discovering a way to produce mature sperm in a test tube will have to be developed before we can even consider this in humans.»

Keeping humans in the loop also reduces the risk that malicious users will manipulate the conversational agent inappropriately, as occurred when Microsoft briefly deployed its Tay chatbot in 2016, said Ting - Hao Huang, a Ph.D. student in the Language Technologies Institute (LTI).

That's going to have a significant impact on human health, by reducing risk for many types of diseases and by promoting wellness.»

Similarly, human observation studies have found that persons who eat a high - carbohydrate, low - fat diet in the morning have a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome.

AAAS CEO Rush Holt urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to work with the scientific community to reduce the risk climate change poses to human health and the environment, reiterating that climate change is real and its impacts are already evident.

The variable indirect cost rates would be replaced with a uniform rate of 10 % of total research costs for all NIH grants to reduce paperwork and «the risk for fraud and abuse,» states a budget document for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The finding could help reduce health risks to humans on future missions into deep space.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

One gene, she said, would shield its organs from attack by the human immune system; another would revamp its coagulation system to reduce the risk of clots.

Their study published last week in Science Translational Medicine demonstrated that the fasting - mimicking diet reduced risks for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other age - related diseases in human study participants who followed the special diet for five days each month in a three - month span.

This reduces the risk of antibiotic resistance selection and has positive implications for both human and animal health.

It implies that an EBV vaccine, if it were ever developed, could prevent not just kissing disease, but many other disorders, similar to the way the human papillomavirus vaccine reduces cervical cancer risk.

«Perhaps supplementing the diet of obese pregnant mothers with PQQ, which has proven safe in several human studies, will be a therapeutic target worthy of more study in the battle to reduce the risk of NAFLD in babies,» Jonscher said.

A camel vaccine against MERS coronavirus may reduce the risk of human infection and protect against camelpox too.

The telomerase deficiency of human somatic cells reduces the risk of cancer development, as telomerase fuels uncontrolled cancer cell growth.

Their goal is to minimize the amount of sound the surveys produce and reduce risks the surveys and other underwater human noise pollution poses to vulnerable marine life.

Discussing a series of possible catastrophes, natural and human - caused, the author considers what we ought to worry about, what we can dismiss, and how we might consider reducing the most dangerous risks.

In an analysis of postmortem human brain tissue from 137 control subjects, they also found an association between the ECR47 risk variant and reduced ADGRL3 expression in the thalamus, a key brain region for coordinating sensory processing in the brain.

Couldn't robots reduce risk to humans?

A study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and their collaborators has identified a genetic rearrangement of red blood cell glycophorin receptors that confers a 40 per cent reduced risk from severe malaria.

The rule is aimed at reducing the risk of transmitting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through blood transfusions.

If the finding holds true for humans, this insulin response could translate to a reduced risk of diabetes.