Sentences with phrase «reduce pest problems»

Companion planting is an easy way to naturally increase plant growth, reduce pest problems and create a beautiful and diverse garden.

As part of the Xerces Society's conservation efforts we strive to reduce reliance on pesticides by supporting the diverse systems that reduce pest problems.

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«Medical experts argue that dealing with climate change will improve our public health by reducing the likelihood of extreme weather events, reducing air quality and allergen problems, and limiting the spread of pests that carry infectious diseases.»

Higher maternal caffeine consumption during pregnancy was independently associated with a reduced risk of peer problems in the children: the adjusted odds ratios (95 % confidence intervals) in the first, second, third, and fourth quartiles of maternal caffeine consumption during pregnancy were 1 (reference), 0.61 (0.35 — 1.06), 0.52 (0.29 — 0.91), and 0.51 (0.28 — 0.91), respectively (P for trend = 0.01).

The French marque will approach the problem by fitting the 308 GTi by PS with a petrol particulate filter when it resumes production in October, an increasingly common move by manufacturers to reduce emissions without the need for substantial hardware change.

Keeping your pets from problem areas and treating the bug habitats helps reduce the pest population.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully fashioned a mini golf course as part of a children's theme park • Averted a potentially devastating pest attack that could have ravaged the entire golf course by recognizing the problem on time and taking measures to control it • Introduced the concept of a smart sprinkler system, reducing the time to water the entire course by 70 % • Implemented a field aerating system which significantly improved the quality of soil on which a new golf course was being planned

The University of Queensland's Triple P — Positive Parenting Program significantly reduces the number of serious cases of emotional and behavioural problems in children when used as a public health strategy, interim findings of a major independent evaluation have found.

Finally, using Triple P as a «population health intervention» resulted in significantly fewer children with behavioral and emotional problems and reduced parental stress associated with having school - age children.87

The Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP) Project is a five - year project funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council to evaluate the effectiveness of Triple P's Stepping Stones program in reducing behavioral and emotional problems in children with a disability across a population.

The trial, involving 143 parents in Surabaya, showed the Triple P Seminar Series could improve children's behavioral problems and parents» confidence while reducing dysfunctional parenting practices and parents» stress.

The randomised controlled trial of Group Triple P, the first RCT of a western - developed parenting program in mainland China, found that Group Triple P significantly improved dysfunctional parenting and parental adjustment, increased parents» confidence and reduced child adjustment problems.

In clinical trials and real - world evaluations, Triple P has been shown to have long - lasting and widespread effects for families and communities: building stronger family relationships, improving children's problem behaviour and ADHD symptoms, reducing parental stress and partner conflict, reducing rates of child maltreatment and foster care placement, and reducing anxiety and / or depression in children and parents.

«Research shows Triple P's Stepping Stones program for parents of children with special needs can reduce child behavior problems by up to 80 per cent,» he said.

The Longford Westmeath Parenting Partnership made Triple P available free to all parents of children under the age of eight to reduce prevalence rates of clinically elevated social, emotional and behavioural problems in children, estimated to be one in five children in Ireland.

In 2011, Fujiwara et al demonstrated the effectiveness of Group Triple P in reducing conduct problems and hyperactivity.

UQ principal investigator and Triple P — Positive Parenting Program founder Professor Matt Sanders said today the project aims to reduce emotional and behavioral problems in children with disabilities by providing free Triple P support to parents.

Triple P is a multilevel, evidence - based parenting and family support strategy designed to prevent behavioural, emotional and developmental problems in children (or halt their progression and reduce their severity) and provide support for parents and families.

3.3 (0.4); parent stress due to child behaviour problems were significantly reduced in families that functioned well as a unit -LSB-(F [3, 22] = 7.2, p < 0.01)-RSB-

Children's emotional problems moderated intervention effects such that children with higher levels of emotional problems benefited more from the intervention in terms of reduced conduct problems (B = − 2.27, t (46) = − 2.56, p =.014).

Children's baseline levels of conduct problem severity moderated intervention effects such that children with more severe conduct problems benefited more from the intervention in terms of reduced conduct problems (B = − 0.19, t (46) = − 2.31, p =.025; Fig. 1c).

Youth externalizing problems were associated with HbA1c and the effect for critical parenting on HbA1c was not significantly (z =.75, p <.45) reduced when adherence was included in the equation.

Critical parenting was associated with HbA1c and the effect for youth externalizing problems on HbA1c was significantly (z = 2.67, p <.001) reduced when adherence was included in the equation (Fig. 1c).