Sentences with phrase «reported measures of risk»

The pregnancy rate correlated with self - reported measures of risk; the pregnancy rate increased as the reported frequency of unprotected intercourse increased.

The finding of similar STI acquisition rates among study groups seems plausible given the lack of difference in self - reported measures of risk.

Not exact matches

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

On Sunday evening, Financial News, a publication linked to the People's Bank of China (PBoC), reported, «To prevent financial risks, China will step up measures to remove any onshore or offshore platforms related to virtual currency trading or ICOs.»

APRA chairman Wayne Byres said the report should provide important insights for all financial institutions «about the need to maintain a broad focus on all aspects of risk and stakeholder interest and not allow financial success to mask or detract from other important measures of an institution's performance and risk profile».

As a measure of how the risk has been shifted from private entrepreneurs to the public, consult, if you will, a 1965 report of the Joint Economic Committee.

Further design details for the cohort study, including the eligibility criteria, sample size calculations, derivation of risk status, outcome measures, and ethical procedures, are reported elsewhere.13

Multivariable Poisson regression28 was performed to report crude and adjusted rate ratios as a measure of relative risks for the association between Baby Friendly status and breastfeeding initiation, any breastfeeding at 1 month and breastfeeding continuation to 1 month.

I brought up the MSNBC report that deemed one of the three reactors at the Hudson River nuclear power plant 24 miles from NYC (or 34 miles from Midtown, depending on how you're measuring), the most at risk in the nation of earthquake damage.

The potential risk is greatest, the Bain report states, to schools that are «not a top - ranked institution,» whose «financial statements don't look as good as they used to,» and that «have had to take drastic measures» to improve the bottom line, such as raising tuition, reducing standards of admission, and cutting aid to students and numbers of faculty.

Neurologist Malcolm MacLeod of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and his colleagues combed through papers reporting the efficacy of drugs in eight animal disease models and checked whether the authors reported four measures that are widely acknowledged to reduce the risk of bias.

«The daughters who were being encouraged to lose weight but whose moms were not also discussing their own weight concerns were more at risk for development of disordered eating, based on the higher scores on measures of dieting behavior and drive for thinness they reported in eighth grade.»

In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding a highly accurate blood - based measure that could lead to development of a clinical test for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in males as young as one to two years old.

If ongoing risk reviews by federal officials «identify significant unmanaged security or safety concerns, the government should consider making compliance with certain oversight or reporting measures mandatory for all researchers... regardless of funding sources,» the report says.

Lactobacilli have been shown to reduce the incidence of antibiotic - associated diarrhea, but have not been proven to decrease the incidence of C. difficile — associated diarrhea.26 Anecdotally, many physicians report success with lactobacilli and use this preventive measure routinely, especially in patients at higher risk for severe disease.

MC1R genotype as a predictor of early - onset melanoma, compared with self - reported and physician - measured traditional risk factors: an Australian case - control - family study.

Scientific contributions include publication of the first randomized trials to assess the impact of common complex genetic risk markers, empirically measuring the outcomes of DTC genetic testing, design of a variant classification pipeline and single page summary for reporting clinical results of whole genome sequencing.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators report that measuring leukemia cells that persist in patient bone marrow in the early weeks of treatment helps identify high - risk patients who need intensive therapy.

In fact, Harvard Medical School researchers reported in 2012 that women with carotenoid levels in the top 20 % of the measured range had a 15 to 20 % reduced risk of breast cancer compared with those who had the lowest levels.

Although a bone density test reports if you are doing better, there could still be a risk of fracture, as the test measures the quantity of bone, and not the quality.

There is a risk of under estimating or becoming sloppy in measuring / remembering number of gms.of carbs eaten and also risk of carb / hunger cravings being stimulated by glucose / insulin surges, resulting in reports of «it didn't work for me».

Observational studies have a high risk of bias owing to problems such as self - selection of interventions (people who believe in the benefits of meditation or who have prior experience with meditation are more likely to enroll in a meditation program and report that they benefited from one) and use of outcome measures that can be easily biased by participants» beliefs in the benefits of meditation.

A 2005 study in Archives of Internal Medicine reported that raw - foods - diet followers had significantly lower body - mass indices (a measure of body fat) than people consuming a typical American diet; they also had lower bone densities, a risk factor for osteoporosis.

The prospective relationship between psychosocial factors and risk of developing hypertension may be confounded or mediated by demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors.47 In general, younger persons, blacks (except for TUI), women (except for ASC or hostility), and less educated individuals (except for TUI or ASC) reported higher levels of measured psychosocial attributes.

Although our primary exposures of interest were GI and glycemic load as risk factors for depression, we also investigated other measures of carbohydrate consumption computed from average daily intakes of foods and beverages reported on the WHI FFQ, including dietary added sugar, total sugars, specific types of sugars (glucose, sucrose, lactose, fructose), starch, and total carbohydrate.

In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine — an excellent measure of prior consumption — the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease.

The results of an ongoing analysis of American households by the Boston College Center for Retirement research report that half of US families will struggle financially in retirement.1 The National Retirement Risk Index is a tool that measures the percentage of working - age - households -LSB-...]

A company must identify the type of risks it is taking, as well as measure, report on, and set systems in place to manage and limit, those risks.

A credit report is a historical record of your credit and repayment history, while a credit score measures your credit risk, based on an algorithm using the information available in your credit report.

The Enterprise Risk Management Committee is supported by dedicated risk management staff responsible for maintaining enterprise risk management policies, procedures and standards; conducting a formal enterprise - wide risk assessment process and annual risk forum with company wide risk representatives to validate and update the key risks; ensuring frequent reviews by the committee of the identified key risks, controls and monitoring programs; and reporting key risk measures, metrics and treRisk Management Committee is supported by dedicated risk management staff responsible for maintaining enterprise risk management policies, procedures and standards; conducting a formal enterprise - wide risk assessment process and annual risk forum with company wide risk representatives to validate and update the key risks; ensuring frequent reviews by the committee of the identified key risks, controls and monitoring programs; and reporting key risk measures, metrics and trerisk management staff responsible for maintaining enterprise risk management policies, procedures and standards; conducting a formal enterprise - wide risk assessment process and annual risk forum with company wide risk representatives to validate and update the key risks; ensuring frequent reviews by the committee of the identified key risks, controls and monitoring programs; and reporting key risk measures, metrics and trerisk management policies, procedures and standards; conducting a formal enterprise - wide risk assessment process and annual risk forum with company wide risk representatives to validate and update the key risks; ensuring frequent reviews by the committee of the identified key risks, controls and monitoring programs; and reporting key risk measures, metrics and trerisk assessment process and annual risk forum with company wide risk representatives to validate and update the key risks; ensuring frequent reviews by the committee of the identified key risks, controls and monitoring programs; and reporting key risk measures, metrics and trerisk forum with company wide risk representatives to validate and update the key risks; ensuring frequent reviews by the committee of the identified key risks, controls and monitoring programs; and reporting key risk measures, metrics and trerisk representatives to validate and update the key risks; ensuring frequent reviews by the committee of the identified key risks, controls and monitoring programs; and reporting key risk measures, metrics and trerisk measures, metrics and trends.

Franklin Templeton participates in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), annually measuring and reporting on carbon emissions, as well as risks and opportunities for our business due to the effects of climate change.

Our large network of bad credit mortgage lenders in Pelham will provide useful loans without asking about the credit report, bankruptcy, or consumer proposals because they have other methods of measuring risk.

Bottom line, not enough performance data has been reported to credit bureaus to allow us to measure the risk of borrowers who go through short sales without prior delinquencies.

The Historical Monthly columns also report a variety of monthly risk and return measures over the full study period.

An Australian firm that measures investing risk, FinaMetrica, offers a more rigorous 25 - question risk profile questionnaire that grades you on a scale of 0 to 100, comes with a detailed report and also suggests a portfolio mix.

Channelnewsasia.com also reported Dr Maliki announcing that «as a result of risk management measures such as rabies vaccines, blood testing and microchip identification for animals, the AVA will waive quarantine requirements from January 1 for pets imported from countries with minimal rabies risk.»

These measures are intended to help ensure that those customers traveling with a trained service or support animal will no longer be at risk of untrained pets attacking their working animal, as has previously been reported.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

This activity report provides a summary of the workshop on promoting risk management approaches on the specific needs and concerns of developing country Parties arising from the impact of the implementation of response measures.

This report includes measures of public global warming beliefs, risk perceptions, personal importance, information needs, trust in different information sources, attitudes towards individual action, and how these have changed since January, 2010 and November, 2008.

Among those steps, the report recommends flood - proofing homes and infrastructure; curtailing development in areas subject to tidal flooding; considering the risks and benefits of adaptation measures such as sea walls and natural buffers; and developing long - term plans based on the best available science.

The measure asked Exxon potential risks of «technology changes and from climate change policies such as the 2015 accord aiming to keep average global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius,» Reuters reported in May.

Many of the recommendations contained in the Hockin report (i.e. performance measures, principles - based, proportionate - based, and risk - based securities regulation, and independent tribunals) are currently practised in one or more provinces.

In separate warnings, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said that the handling of the Northern Rock crisis, reaction to the credit crunch and the fallout from various measures contained in last October's Pre-Budget Report have all put the position of the financial services sector at risk.

- Madison - Zionsville - Kokomo The AAA Foundation summed up its report with a number of safety measures that federal, state and local governments can look at to help reduce the risks of pedestrian accidents.

The Insurers are bound to send an annual report, which would cover the fund performance during previous financial year in relation to the economic scenario, market developments etc. which should include fund performance analysis, investment portfolio of the fund, investment strategies and risk control measures adopted to increase the policyholder's benefit.

According to a memo published last Friday of its latest meeting, the task force said it has taken on board the findings of a recent report regarding the risks of cryptocurrency money laundering and the regulatory measures being adopted in different countries.

A day after Facebook launched a blog series exploring its safety and privacy measures, the Guardian has reported that some of the company's own moderators found themselves at risk on...

WinCo Foods, White River Junction, VT 5/2013 to Present Loss Prevention Agent • Comprehend the company's loss prevention policies and plan loss prevention strategies accordingly • Monitor indicators for internal and external losses and report findings to the area manager • Provide physical security, monitoring and surveillance to activities within the store / company • Promote loss prevention awareness through appropriate channels of communication • Install cameras in strategic places and ensure that they are properly operational • Look through camera footage to determine nefarious activities and take immediate action • Perform investigations to determine how thefts took place and take appropriate measures to apprehend criminals • Conduct inspections to identify security, safety and maintenance issues and breaches • Assist store management in conducting risk assessments and developing action plans • Provide support in CCTV installation and troubleshooting activities • Detect shoplifters and apprehend and prosecute them according to the law

• Hands - on experience in developing and implementing analytic and mathematical models for testing supply chain sequences • Highly skilled in designing, developing and adapting statistical and econometric techniques to analyze supply chain management problems and roadblocks • Effectively able to determine and implement strategic plans to ensure prompt problem resolution • Skilled in performing researching activities to and economic analysis and initiating new studies • Proven ability to develop and implement risk mitigation plans to ensure smooth supply chain operations • Track record of defining and implementing metrics to enable effective sourcing and supplier performance management • Deep insight into key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure and improve sourcing and supply chain performance • Competent at utilizing influence management skills to negotiate movement of products in order to meet bulk deal demands • Proficient in reporting n field cycle count processes in sync with regulatory requirements of the company • Proven ability to manage established inventory levels in accordance to inventory levels dictated by set business models