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e. states that «schools should involve school children in local and regional studies on environmental health» and that along with various UN branches, non-governmental organizations should help implement and support this education («Chapter 36», 1992).

June 2008 (264 kb PDF file): IMF research summaries on Latin America's external linkages (by Shaun Roache) and on reaping the benefits of structural reforms (by Stephen Tokarick); regional study on the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (by Paul Cashin and Evridiki Tsounta); listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during March — April 2008; listing of contents of Vol.

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And although it's a small dollar investment, the $ 2.5 million allocated to Natural Resources Canada to study regional electricity cooperation offers real promise: there is huge potential in connecting clean energy provinces to neighbours that still depend on fossil power.

«Credit unions continue to provide the best deals, offering over 10 times more interest on checking accounts than regional banks, as well as 573 % higher rates on savings accounts than national banks,» WalletHub says in an emailed summary of the study.

Cheryl and I were featured on regional and national TV for our contribution to a study about the effects of tango dancing on Parkinson's patients.

«More so than for any other religious tradition, a person can become UU because of what he already believes rather than believing what he does because of becoming a UU,» said James Casebolt, coauthor of two papers on the regional survey read at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting in October.

He said the evidence gathered from these studies would inform the design of the regional project on the development of the food packaging sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

The objectives of the study and the discipline of an on - site - investigation may vary, which leads to different approaches such as the use of primary sources and / or face - to - face interviews with relevant agents, or the consultation of local and regional publications.

To mark, and celebrate, its first decade of path - breaking work the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is convening a major international conference on building legitimate authority in global and regional governance in cooperation with GARNET, the EU - funded Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU.

On Tuesday, Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos urged Judith Enck, regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to drastically beef up her plans to study remaining PCB toxicity levels in the river in the aftermath of a six - year dredging project by General Electric Co..

Buffalo Billion Projects: The budget will include money to study and design a MetroRail extension to Amherst, and will fund new tourism visitor centers on Buffalo's Outer Harbor and a Niagara Falls / Buffalo regional center on Grand Island.

«In order to expand our knowledge in these areas, doctors in clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike Recher.

They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.

The researchers chose their range of sea level — rise projections based on what is most likely to happen to the west coast, according to dozens of regional and global studies.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

Prof Hui says while the current article took an invasive moth species as case study, the new theorem is applicable to the financial world, ecologists working on regional scale invasions or threatened species, as well as any biologist working with time - series data.

The results are on a regional scale and therefore, the installation of a geothermal station in a specific place would require more detailed studies.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

The research results build on previous regional studies of genetic diversity and will help scientists to better understand how humpback whale populations evolve over time and how to best advise international management authorities.

The study — authored by Aroa Jiménez - Aranda, Gumersindo Fernández - Vázquez, Daniel Campos, Mohamed Tassi, Lourdes Velasco - Perez, Tx Tan, Russel J. Reiter and Ahmad Agil — has been part - financed and supported by the Granada Research of Excellence Initiative on BioHealth (GREIB), the University of Granada Vice-Rectorate for Scientific Policy and Research, and the regional government of Andalusia research group CTS - 109.

The study also showed that the effect was much larger on a regional scale, counteracting possibly up to 30 % of warming in more rural, forested areas where anthropogenic emissions of aerosols were much lower in comparison to the natural aerosols.

«It has been an issue in many local and regional studies and its effects on farm level have been well demonstrated, but on the global level it has been somewhat neglected.

The study, which compares pre - and post-mining topographic data in southern West Virginia, is the first to examine the regional impact of mountaintop mines on landscape topography and how the changes might influence water quality.

Pregnant women on Medicaid are more likely to receive timely prenatal care following Oregon's implementation of coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, which are regional networks of health care providers who work together to treat patients, a new study has shown.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

In a large - scale two - country study that is the first of its kind, researchers examined whether the severity of the economic downturn of the 2008 - 09 recession depended on regional personality profiles.

Compiling them into a large regional data set allowed us to answer questions at a large scale that hadn't been addressed before,» says Jeff Matthews, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at U of I, and co-author on the study.

An information sheet for prospective trial participants, posted on a French regional news site, provides an overview of the study's goal and procedures, while also offering a glimpse of what it's like to partake in a lengthy drug safety study.

A new study from an international team led by UA scientists Matthew Sullivan, Jennifer Brum, Simon Roux and Julio Cesar Ignacio Espinoza draws on viral genome data to explain how oceanic viral communities maintain high regional diversity on par with global diversity.

Future research will focus on refining the results in this study with longer time series, and extending the results to regional sea level, so they can better predict what will happen in your backyard.

Other projects include an analysis of regional variations of cancer treatment in Texas, a study of the effect of smoking bans on hospitalization rates, and a study of whether shared savings programs for physicians can reduce overall patient health care expenditures.

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

Building on this research, the Union of Concerned Scientists is now collaborating with leading scientists who study climate change consequences at a regional scale and beyond.

«Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study» by Marco Springmann et al. published in The Lancet on Wednesday 2 March.

By taking a «close - in» view, the study revealed that the occurrence of clouds too small for climate models to detect individually can have a big impact on regional surface solar radiation and, therefore, on brightening or dimming.

Through regional networks in the U.S. like the Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) Network and Project Cure, and international organizations such as the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and TREAT - NMD, the SMA community has collaborated effectively on recruiting patients, establishing standards of care, standardizing outcome measures, and supporting multi-site clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History studies.

The team's results demonstrate the importance of including a realistic irrigation parameterization in climate studies to improve the process - level understanding on the role of human activities in modulating land - air - cloud interactions and regional climate.

Future work will extend the time periods and increase the area studied to assess the impact of irrigation on regional climate and the water cycle.

In 1998, the NIEHS / EPA Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers began studying individual, regional, national, and global environmental exposures and the effects on children's health.

The study used IIASA's GAINS model, along with emissions reports from countries, to calculate sulfur dioxide emissions for the entire world on a detailed regional scale.

Learn about a study focused on healthy diets for pregnant women, see a campaign aimed at raising awareness for colon cancer, and find overviews of some of our regional and national research centers.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by 2050.

«[B] y making use of 21 CMIP5 coupled climate models, we study the contribution of external forcing to the Pacific Ocean regional sea level variability over 1993 — 2013, and show that according to climate models, externally forced and thereby the anthropogenic sea level fingerprint on regional sea level trends in the tropical Pacific is still too small to be observable by satellite altimetry.»

Their fields of study include ecosystems on land, in lakes, in rivers and in the sea — on both regional as well as global levels.

Research developments have included development and implementation of performance - based design methods for seismic retrofit of low rise school buildings, novel techniques for regional estimation of damage to structures during earthquakes, detailed studies on nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures and methods to evaluate the dynamic characteristics of large Civil Engineering structures.

In fact, many regional and even national centers refer patients for specific imaging studies or contact us for guidance on imaging and scanning.

«We found not only an effect on bone metastases, which one might have anticipated, but also on local regional recurrence, distant bone metastases and contralateral breast cancer,» said study author Dr. Michael Gnant, a professor of surgery at the Medical University of Vienna.

Few studies have reported on changes in regional hypertrophy when comparing groups training with different types of external load.

Based on the current recruitment into training data, the predictions for the 2016 job market forecasts that shortages will increase in English, geography, design & technology and business studies, with regional shortages predicted in IT and computer science, music and religious education.

Compelling research on CTE recently doubled with the release of a new study of regional vocational and technical high schools (RVTS) in Massachusetts.