Sentences with phrase «reporting on developing countries»

It seems to me that the one situation in which the media use images of breastfeeding is when reporting on developing countries.

Not exact matches

The Conference Board of Canada released a study just last week (reported here by my colleague Chris Sorensen) ranking Canada a lacklustre ninth out of 16 comparable developed countries on innovation.

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).

A report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development concluded that a Doha agreement could cost developing countries huge losses in tariff revenue, four times as much as any benefits they might gain.

Reports that Iran developed its own blockchain - based cryptocurrency also garnered some attention, as the news came just days after the country's central bank banned bitcoin trading amid escalating concerns on money - laundering and volatility of such digital coins.

... The UN Commission for the nutrition challenges of the twenty - first century, in its Report submitted on March 20, 2000, has pointed out that» about one in four new - born children in developing countries - around 30 million each year - suffer retarded growth in the womb, an indication of how the nutritional well - being of mothers in pregnancy remains one of the most neglected areas in world health.

When given exclusively, breastfeeding reduces the risk of infectious diseases in infants in developing countries.21, 22 In industrialized countries, exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months seems to decrease the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections, compared with exclusive breastfeeding during only the first 3 to 4 months.23, 24 On the basis of these and other reports, the World Health Organization recommended in 2001 that all children be exclusively breastfeed for 6 months instead of 4 months.

An UpToDate review on «Planned home birth» (Declercq and Stotland, 2015) stated that «Large cohort studies using intent - to - treat analysis of midwife - attended, planned, out - of - hospital birth of low - risk women in developed countries have reported reduced rates of cesarean birth, perineal lacerations, and medical interventions, and similar rates of maternal and early perinatal morbidity and mortality compared to planned hospital birth.

And look at this: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Evidence Report on Breastfeeding in Developed Countries (they reviewed 9,000 abstracts): http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/brfout/brfout.pdf

Although pacifier use is common in developed countries, 14 there are no published reports of the effects of pacifier use on the duration of breastfeeding in a cohort of US mothers and infants.

In the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's «Evidence Report on Breastfeeding in Developed Countries,» 243 multiple outcomes, including SIDS, were examined.

A summary of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's evidence report on breastfeeding in developed countries

Feeding the non-breastfed child 6 - 24 months of age (2004) Meeting report, Geneva, Switzerland, 8 - 10 March 2004 Complementary feeding: report of the global consultation (2003) Summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child Report of informal meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding (2002) Washington, D.C, 3 - 5 December 2002 Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children (2000) Complementary feeding of young children in developing countries (1998) A review of current scientific knowledge Complementary feeding of infants and young children: report of a technical consultation (1998) Joint WHO / UNICEF Consultation on Complementary Feeding, Montpellier, France, 28 - 30 November 1995 International code of Marketing of breast - milk substreport, Geneva, Switzerland, 8 - 10 March 2004 Complementary feeding: report of the global consultation (2003) Summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child Report of informal meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding (2002) Washington, D.C, 3 - 5 December 2002 Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children (2000) Complementary feeding of young children in developing countries (1998) A review of current scientific knowledge Complementary feeding of infants and young children: report of a technical consultation (1998) Joint WHO / UNICEF Consultation on Complementary Feeding, Montpellier, France, 28 - 30 November 1995 International code of Marketing of breast - milk substreport of the global consultation (2003) Summary of guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child Report of informal meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding (2002) Washington, D.C, 3 - 5 December 2002 Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children (2000) Complementary feeding of young children in developing countries (1998) A review of current scientific knowledge Complementary feeding of infants and young children: report of a technical consultation (1998) Joint WHO / UNICEF Consultation on Complementary Feeding, Montpellier, France, 28 - 30 November 1995 International code of Marketing of breast - milk substReport of informal meeting to review and develop indicators for complementary feeding (2002) Washington, D.C, 3 - 5 December 2002 Complementary feeding: family foods for breastfed children (2000) Complementary feeding of young children in developing countries (1998) A review of current scientific knowledge Complementary feeding of infants and young children: report of a technical consultation (1998) Joint WHO / UNICEF Consultation on Complementary Feeding, Montpellier, France, 28 - 30 November 1995 International code of Marketing of breast - milk substreport of a technical consultation (1998) Joint WHO / UNICEF Consultation on Complementary Feeding, Montpellier, France, 28 - 30 November 1995 International code of Marketing of breast - milk substitutes

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

Reports over China's reluctance to agree on specific emissions targets or worries over enforcement in developing countries may be vital, but how does it affect «me» in the UK?

It acknowledges that developed countries need help on tax issues from «other countries», calls on «extractive companies» to report their payments to all governments and demands legitimate sourcing of minerals and transparent land transactions.

[BOX 8] Committee on Science in Secondary Schools - Education Council Study, 1963 Council Study / Committee on Natural Areas as Research Facilities, 1962 - 1977 AAAS Meetings, 1965 - 1977 Graduate Science Education and Standards, 1960 - 1963 Administrative of Science Work, 1960 - 1963 Ethics and Responsibilities of Scientists files I, 1966 - 1975 Ethics and Responsibilities of Scientists files II, 1965 - 1966 Production of PhDs in the Sciences, 1965 - 1966 Natural Areas as Research Facilities (book) Council Study / Committee on Research in Small Colleges, 1960 - 1964 Population Explosion and Birth Control, 1965 - 1968 AAAS Cooperation with Developing Countries, 1965 - 1967 International Scientific Communication, 1960 - 1962 Air Conservation Commission, 1962 - 1964 Race (proposed Commission on), 1962 - 1963 Committee on Environmental Alterations (Ad Hoc - DuBos), 1967 Committee on Environmental Alerations Files (See also: Herbicide Assessment Commission): I, 1968 - 1976 Committee on Environmental Alerations Files (See also: Herbicide Assessment Commission): II, 1968 - 1976 Herbicides Files: Vietnam (Council; Board; Defense Dept., Midwest Research Institute; Report, etc.) I, 1965 - 1969 Herbicides Files: (Council; Board; Defense Dept., Midwest Research Institute; Report, etc.) II, 1967 - 1968 Herbicide Assessment Commission (older), 1969 - 1970 Herbicide Assessment Commission (See also: Herbicides - Vietnam; See also: Committee on Environmental Alterations), 1970 - 1979 Committee on Cooperation Among Scientists, 1959 - 1957 Committee on Fallout, 1955 Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics Files: I, 1964 - 1970 Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics Files: II, 1951 - 1963 Evaluation of Scientific Merit, Committee on, 1950 - 1952 Membership Development Committee, 1954 - 1957 Metric Education, Ad Hoc Committee on, 1974 - 1975 Metric Committee, 1957 - 1958

«By the end of the century, people in developed countries could live on average around 89 years, compared to about 81 years in developing regions,» the report said.

The good news, according to the report, is that Americans «perform comparably to adults in other economically developed countries on most current measures of science knowledge.»

During the past few years, most of the reports that developing countries have filed with the U.N. on how they plan to adapt to climate change mention population growth as a complicating factor.

«The Burden of Cancer in Developing Countries: A Global Health Council Report on the Cancer Advocacy and Learning Institute,» published in June of 2010, documents both the incidence of the disease and a set of policy solutions.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

«Research on developing countries will often lump sexual assault, physical assault and robbery together and sometimes studies expand to examine all types of victimization to increase the report record count,» Stein said.

Industrialized countries like the United States will report on the progress of their emission reduction commitments, while developing countries will report on their mitigation actions — a slight distinction, but an important one.

[Box 9] OIS - China - Chinese Science and Technology Policy Delegation Visit, 1978 Zhongshan University Delegation Visit, 1979 AAAS Popularization of Science Delegation to China, 1980 CAST Science Writers Delegation to US, 1981 AAAS Environmental Planning Delegation to China, 1981 US - China Conference on Energy Resources and Environment, 1982 Interferon Study (Proposed), 1982 CAST Delegation to US, 1982 CAST Quality Control Delegation to US, 1982 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - US Papers, 1983 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - Chinese Papers, 1983 Photo Album of Address by Song Jian, 1985 AAAS Board of Directors Delegation to China, 1985 Chinese Delegation Visit (IIE), 1986 US Fish and Wildlife Service Delegation to China, 1986 FASAS International Climate Change Symposium (Proposal), 1986 CAST Delegation to US, 1986 Background Political Information, 1987 Law / Science Short Course (Proposal), 1987 Collected Information and Papers on Chinese Water Management, 1987 CAST Water Management Delegation to US, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China - Follow - up, 1988 CAST Petrochemical Engineer Delegation to US (Proposal), 1987 Pacific Rim Symposium (Proposal), 1987 Science and Technology Advising Seminar (Proposal), 1988 - 1989 AAAS / ABA Lawyers and Scientists Delegation to China, 1988 China Symposium at 1989 AAAS Annual Meeting, 1988 - 1989 Medical Instrument Maintenance and Repair, 1989 Fang Li Zhi, 1988 - 1989 Amnesty International Reports on Chinese Arrests, 1989 Correspondence re: June 1989 Events in China, 1989 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1989 China - FASAS Symposium on Environmental Protection in Developing Countries, 1989 FASAS Symposium Chinese Papers, 1989 PRC Joint Commission Visit, 1989 Tibet, 1987 Liz Levey Misc Correspondence, 1982 - 1990 Chinese Code of Ethics, 1986 China Tech Company Information, (undated) AAAS / CAST Exchange Programs, 1978 - 1987 Correspondence with CAST International Director Wang Zheng, 1981 - 1982 Correspondence with CAST, 1981 - 1989 James Hartnett Complaint to CAST, 1988 - 1989 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987 Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, 1987 - 1988 Correspondence with Chinese Embassy, 1982 - 1987 NAS China Committee, 1982 - 1986 Financial Aid for Chinese Students, 1987 Misc Articles and General Background Information, 1978 - 1989 Misc., 1982 - 1989 Presentation Transparencies, 1988 Elzinga, Aant.

The resulting report calls for more research on GM crops useful in developing countries, such as nutrient - enhanced foods and salt - tolerant plants, and urges that use of GM crops be weighed against the hazards of pesticide use and other current farming methods.

Nor has the U.S. officially taken responsibility for the Stuxnet or Duqu malware attacks on Iran from 2007 to 2011, which damaged centrifuges crucial to the country's nuclear program — despite reports that U.S. and Israeli programmers developed those cyberweapons.

We report on international negotiations and disseminate knowledge gained through collaborative projects, resulting in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing countries, better networks spanning the North and the South, and better global connections among researchers, practitioners, citizens and policy - makers.

Reporting on a wide range of developing countries, the Global School - based Health Survey recently found that between 20 and 65 per cent of school - aged children reported having been verbally or physically bullied in the past 30 days.

On average across developed countries students reported a level of 7.3 but in the UK it was 6.98.

The new analysis on education's impact on poverty by UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report team is based on the average effects of education on growth and poverty reduction in developing countries from 1965 to 2010.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

For example, a 2004 report for the World Bank found textbooks in appropriate languages are a relatively low - cost investment in developing countries that yield high returns on student achievement.

The report also added that social segregation, which the UK tends to rate relatively highly on compared to other developed countries, was «clustering» poorer pupils in lower - performing schools which might «damp down» their expectations and «belief in themselves».

The report focuses on data from 20 countries that are considered to be the most developed (based on the World Bank High Income Group).

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

Overall spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 in the U.S. while education spending in the world's developed countries, on average, rose 5 percent per student during the same period, a report shows.

Teachers in the United States spend far more time engaged in active instruction than teachers in other high - performing countries.1 Based on self - reported data, teachers in the United States spend 27 hours teaching out of 45 hours of work per week.2 Compare this with teachers in Singapore, who teach for only 17 hours per week, or teachers in Finland, who teach for a total of 21 hours per week.3 Schools in these countries prioritize time for planning and collaboration, recognizing that developing and executing lessons take time and preparation.4 According to a recent analysis of more than 140 school districts, the average length of a U.S. teacher's workday is 7.5 hours.5 In another analysis of more than 120 school districts, the most common length of time allotted for planning was 45 minutes per day.6 In this short time, teachers must grade student work, plan for future lessons, engage with families, and complete necessary paperwork.

I'll be going to Cancun for the next round of talks in December, but mainly to help train journalists from developing countries in ways to write about climate change — not on the expectation of reporting on any grand diplomatic developments.

Journalists in many developing countries have special and often unique challenges when trying to report on fast breaking climate change and science stories generally.

The project also helps bridge the «climate change information gap» and aid researchers in developing countries because the files are smaller and more easily downloadable, and also in text format which can be easier to work with.: UNDP Country Climate Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Hedeveloping countries because the files are smaller and more easily downloadable, and also in text format which can be easier to work with.: UNDP Country Climate Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Hercountries because the files are smaller and more easily downloadable, and also in text format which can be easier to work with.: UNDP Country Climate Change Profiles More on Climate Change and Developing Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in HeDeveloping Countries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in HerCountries The Challenge of Managing both Climate Change and Developing Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in HeDeveloping Countries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in HerCountries» Growth China's Climate Change Report: «It's Getting Hot in Here.»

No, I'm not talking about the UK's just - published Royal Society report, which, among other things, recommends that developed countries put a brake on economic growth.

Jouni Eerikainen, who wrote the report's section on the International Finance Corporation, the bank's private lending arm, noted that nearly 40 percent of the roughly $ 10 billion in annual investment these days is handled by private banks in developing countries.

«Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity» is a comprehensive report on the status of U.S. industrial hemp policy and highlights the fact that we are the only developed country to ban farmers from growing non-psychoactive industrial varieties of Cannabis.

This report seeks to ground the debate on climate finance in an objective analysis of ongoing efforts to finance mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.

But many developing countries lack the tools to measure, report and verify progress on their climate commitments and actions.

The new 1990 map represents a major improvement over the current standard, which was developed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) based on self - reporting by countries.

Work programme on the revision of the guidelines for the review of biennial reports and national communications, including national inventory reviews, for developed country Parties

A recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated climate finance flows reached $ 62 billion in 2014, which developed countries took as a sign they were well on track toward the $ 100 billion.