Sentences with phrase «report by a panel of experts»

Yesterday, director Li Liming of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned, along with several lower - ranking officials, after a report by a panel of experts blamed China's most recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome on a series of flaws at the CDC's National Institute of Virology in southern Beijing.
Efforts to drastically slash automobile emissions and fuel use within 40 years don't stand a chance without subsidies, technology improvements and more stringent government standards, according to a report by a panel of experts released Monday.

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The report said that businesses are still figuring out ways to make money off of virtual reality technology, a topic explored by a panel of VR experts during Fortune's Global Forum conference.
The panel of experts monitoring sanctions against North Korea said in its latest report in March that it «continues to be targeted by a sophisticated hacking campaign,» first noted in 2017.
It's been raised in an expert panel report on Environmental and Health Impacts of the Oil Sands Industry, commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada.
Even though it has been labeled as safe by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) panel of experts, the AAP reports that soy formula contains a higher level of aluminum compared to cow's milk formula.
Mr Mandela's comments follow a report by the Reach panel of experts that improving the achievements of young black men could lift the British economy by # 24 billion over the next 50 years.
This work usually entails a visit to the institutions by a panel composed of experts from top research institutions around the country, who meet with all relevant stakeholders and, after the visit, the generation of a report delivered to the client.
According to a recent report by a panel of 15 experts assembled by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, traditional containment tools will eventually fall short for systems hardwired to spread genetic information.
The National Academy of Sciences, for its part, has convened an expert panel to deliver a verdict on the appropriate «stabilization targets» for the nation, a report expected to be delivered by summer 2010.
A nine - member review panel of health experts, established by the cosmetics industry with the FDA's support, disputed GIB's claim in a report last year.
The report, drafted by a panel of international experts in radiation risks and public health, concluded that there was no additional cancer risk for the population in most of Japan — even most parts of Fukushima Prefecture — or in neighboring countries.
An expert hired by that panel filed a more damning report last February that raised the possibility of fraud.
But the panel of scientists and other experts was wrong: By 2001, the group estimated that average temperatures would increase by 2.7 to 8.1 degrees F (1.5 to 4.5 degrees C) in the 21st century, and they raised the lower end to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) this year in their most recent reporBy 2001, the group estimated that average temperatures would increase by 2.7 to 8.1 degrees F (1.5 to 4.5 degrees C) in the 21st century, and they raised the lower end to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) this year in their most recent reporby 2.7 to 8.1 degrees F (1.5 to 4.5 degrees C) in the 21st century, and they raised the lower end to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) this year in their most recent report.
Progress has been made toward understanding the physiological mechanisms that underlie Gulf War illness and identifying possible treatments, according to a report released Monday by a Congressionally mandated panel of scientific experts and veterans.
«As there have been several key clinical and scientific advances over the past two years, these guidelines build upon the recommendations reported by the EASL HCV panel of experts in 2011.
Trenberth has been a lead author in at least two reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and he's an acknowledged world expert on some of the issues raised in the paper by Hansen et al..
Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.
A terms of reference document about the Year One testing said the expert panel will work on its development and implementation, and report to the Education Minister by the end of April.
The board that sets policy for that exam, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, has voted to accept a report of an expert panel with recommendations for linking student performance on the influential test with skills identified as important by college officials and employers.
Shanahan also was a member of the National Reading Panel, the group of reading experts chosen by congressional mandate that published an exacting report in 2000 evaluating decades of research on reading instruction.
Recently, we reported that a nationwide panel of over one hundred economists, real estate experts and investment & market strategists projected that home values would appreciate by approximately 8 % from now to the end of 2015.
The report, by a panel of experts convened by the society, says more research is needed on geoengineering techniques, and that it should involve international collaborations and discussions with the public.
It is a sweeping and valuable cross-disciplinary description of ways in which climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.»
For example, the paired statements «Environmentalists assert that the reports by the panel are watered down by a requirement that sponsoring governments approve its summaries line by line» and «Some experts fret that the organization, charged with assessing fast - evolving science, has failed to keep pace with an explosion of climate research» seem too easy, and I worry that such beliefs and accusations become propagated as facts without some serious evaluation as to their authority.
The SFI Progress Report also reflects the critical role played by an arms - length external review panel comprised of independent experts from conservation, professional, academic and public organizations.
Selection was undertaken by a panel of USG scientists and experts, taking into account applicants» scientific and technical credentials, their stature in their field, and their ability to contribute to IPCC report (e.g. mix of IPCC experienced hands and new contributors):
But in a report that I wrote about last year, an expert panel convened by the National Research Council sharply criticized the federal government's efforts to identify possible health or environmental risks of nanotechnology.
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report stated a clear expert consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined as 95 - 100 % certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»
You could add that evidence as to the reality of, and the threat posed by, human - induced global warming has emerged from a well established official expert advisory process, and in particular, within that process, from the series of massive Assessment Reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).
WASHINGTON — In a landmark report experts say fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the global warming crisis, new data published this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found that the phenomenon is caused primarily by the actions of 7 billion key individuals.
Perhaps it is because the same procedures have been adopted by many other assessments in many other contexts; the National Academies of Science, for example, produces consensus documents from diverse committees and panels that are subjected to expert review from selected external scholars (and it is perhaps noteworthy that NAS reports occasionally feature signed dissents on particular points).
(ii) See Annex VII to Report of the Panel of Experts Appointed pursuant to Security Council resolution 1408 (2002), paragraph 26, concerning Liberia, S / 2002/1115 (iii) The audit contract is the Liberian government's second attempt to comply with an order issued in May by Security Council resolution S / 2002/470, which called for a review of two key government sources of income: the shipping and corporate registries, and the timber industry.
This consensus is found not only in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report [1], but also by several different studies, including surveys of experts [2] and comprehensive reviews of the peer - reviewed literature on climate change [3][4][5].
Then just last week, a panel of climate policy experts from various Chinese government think tanks, published an extensive 900 - page report that has gained notable attention in both the Chinese and Western press for advocating the notion that China can feasibly aim to peak its carbon emissions by 2030.
In a new report by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), experts have warned that the Coast as we know it today will be no more in two decades as a result of rising ocean waters [continue reading...]
The international scientific community's new assessment of the estimated sea level rise caused by global warming is a significant development, but experts say the projections for higher sea levels in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) assessment report (AR5) are still on the low side.
A SIDS Foresight Panel, composed of experts from the three SIDS regions, as well as other experts, facilitated the SIDS Foresight Process, which resulted in a consolidated list of 20 priority issues and a final report, incorporating comments from an external review, including by the Foresight Panel, UNEP and the SIDS Community of Practice.
Written by thousands of science, policy, and economics experts from around the world, the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports represent a synthesis of existing climate research knowledge, focusing on the evidence of a warming climate («virtually certain»), the global impacts, and the ways we might avert its most catastrophic effects.
S. Fred Singer (24 listed contributors), 2008 Manhattan Declaration from a conference in New York City (206 names listed as qualified experts), 2009 newspaper ad by the Cato Institute challenging President Obama's stance on climate change (115 signers), 2009 Heartland Institute document «Climate Change Reconsidered: 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)» (36 authors), and 2009 letter to the American Physical Society (61 names).
Climate science alive and well, say experts Posted Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:27 pm AEDT Top scientists say climate science is alive and well despite the scandal of leaked emails in Britain and «glitches» in a report by the UN climate change panel.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the full draft of its Fifth Assessment Report, which is not set for official publication until next September, had been published online by one of 800 experts contributing to the rReport, which is not set for official publication until next September, had been published online by one of 800 experts contributing to the reportreport.
On the heels of reports published by two separate task forces examining aspects of legal education in Canada, expert panels examined key issues:
This special report highlighted a number of questions asked by RESPAnews.com readers, along with the answers provided by a panel of RESPA - expert attorneys.
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