Sentences with phrase «reporting standards used»

Created and enforced companies reporting standards used by all developers during design and development.

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Because astronauts are often reluctant to admit to anxiety or depression, out of fear they won't be allowed to go to space again, the software is designed so nobody can track whether an astronaut uses it,» reports the Pacific Standard.

Fast - food chain Chipotle has made a few missteps this year, from faking a Twitter hack in July, to facing criticism over reports that it might be changing its standards on the beef it uses.

«1) create a material positive impact on society and the environment, 2) expand fiduciary duty to require consideration of non-financial interests when making decisions, and 3) report on its overall social and environmental performance using recognized third party standards.»

In 2016, make sure your email - marketing systems are using the new Domain - based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) standard, and create a plan for notifying your customers in case of a scam attacking your company's brand or a breach in your security.

Many companies don't have the same reporting standards as foreigners are used to.

«Companies often include non-GAAP figures in their communications with analysts and investors to highlight aspects of their financial performance that may not be evident using standard accounting practices,» The Wall Street Journal reports.

We measure the economic, social and environmental impact of our investments using industry - standard metrics, including the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards.

One of the new requirements associated with CRM2 is the disclosure of annual performance reporting using the Money - Weighted Rate of Return (MWRR) calculation methodology, which differs from the industry standard Time - Weighted Rate of Return (TWRR) methodology.

Web management interfaces are easy to use, high - resolution image mapping is standard, and built - in features include live & real - time position updates, instant alert notifications, historical playback, customizable reporting and more.

The NSA seeks to defeat encryption through a variety of means, including by obtaining encryption «keys» to decode communications, by using super-computers to break codes, and by influencing encryption standards to make them more vulnerable to outside attack, according to reports Thursday by the New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica, based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Although high standards have been used in the preparation of the information and analysis presented in this report, no responsibility or liability whatsoever can be accepted by Juwai.com, Sotheby's International Realty Canada or Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates for any loss or damage resultant from any use of, reliance on or reference to the contents of this document.

FHA loans allow non-traditional credit reports, a feature that is widely used by non-occupant co-borrowers and standard borrowers alike.

The BSI report found that the use of standards accounted for 28.4 per cent of growth in the UK's GDP, a 37.4 per cent growth in its productivity and an increase of 6.1 billion pounds (approximately 12.2 billion Canadian dollars) in UK exports annually.

on revising the NRSV to meet Rome's objections and report that they have now received official approval for their rendering of the lessons used in Sunday Mass. (A further advantage of the Catholic edition of the RSV is that, unlike the Canadian Revised New Revised Standard Version, it is a complete Bible, meaning the same text can be used for study and for liturgical purposes.)

UNEP welcomes the new FLW Standard and calls on countries and companies to use it to start measuring and reporting food loss and waste, in parallel to taking action to deliver on SDG Target 12.3: Halve food waste by 2030.»

Using the FLW Standard allows us to report in a more consistent manner and make clear what has and has not been considered food waste.

The FLW Standard addresses these challenges by providing accounting and reporting requirements that can be used consistently by companies, governments and others around the world.

To receive a free copy of the Chinese consumer summary report or for more information on the new Group Standard and how EXBERRY ® Colouring Foods can be used in product developments or reformulations, please contact: www.gnt-group.com.

In the second half, we provided an overview of the FLW Standard and how it can be used to help companies, governments and others to measure and report on their food loss and waste.

In this webinar, we guide you through the resources available on the FLW Protocol website that make it easier for you to measure and report food loss and waste and use the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Report Standard (FLW Standard) to report food loss and waste and use the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Report Standard (FLW Standard) to Report Standard (FLW Standard) to do so.

In this webinar, we provide guidance on describing the scope of your food loss and waste inventory by using the language in the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard (FLW Standard).

We used the FLW Standard to report our 2016 food waste by destination in our Corporate Responsibility Report (see pagreport our 2016 food waste by destination in our Corporate Responsibility Report (see pagReport (see page 25).

Studies using self reports of «standard drinks» should ask questions about the shape of the glass

A lot of fingers of blame have been pointed at the big centre forward Olivier Giroud for missing a few chances in that game but as reported by the Evening Standard, the man who used to score the goals for Arsenal does not agree.

But the move has not gone as well as Cabaye hoped, as a report in the Evening Standard reveals, and Cabaye is getting fed up with his lack of opportunities and being used mainly as a sub.

As reported by the Evening Standard, Ozil used his facebook page to reassure worried Gooners and remind us that it is still very early days in the season.

Keep in mind that most reports that CPM / lay midwives / direct entry midwives use to try and legitimize their practices here are compiled from data that uses numbers from midwives in places like Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand, where the standard education and training is university level and the midwives are independent practitioners and able to attend women in hospitals as well as at home.

-RSB- All information is useful for monitoring reports that we use to show policy makers how companies break UK regulations and the international minimum standards they should also follow.

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The former defence secretary, now viewed as a standard - bearer for right - wing Tories within the parliamentary party, will use a speech to business leaders in Birmingham to make the case for a change of tack, the Guardian reports.

«We encourage you to investigate whether these and other predatory practices are more widespread than previously reported, whether there is a growing trend of property owners using our judicial system to intimidate or extract money or other concessions from tenants, and whether these practices are out of line with the norms and standards of our justice system and tenants» right to due process.»

Cuomo's task force on academic standards and testing expects to hand in its much anticipated report this month, amid a continuing push by teachers unions to end the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

The report is the latest step in the state's retreat from the Common Core school standards, national benchmarks that New York adopted in 2010, and especially from using student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Data are drawn from year - end financial reports provided by individual districts using standard state forms.

A 2001 report from Standard and Poor's indicated that using this fund during times of budgetary imbalance and extraordinary economic events is appropriate.

The town's budgets use conservative estimates, the administration regularly analyzes how current spending and revenue fit within historical trends, it has policies to limit debt and ensure that it always has money available, it uses long - term planning and provides elected officials with monthly financial updates, a Standard & Poor's report said.

Also as of 2008, Zayas reported, the site was using about 96,000 British Thermal Units of energy per square foot (BTU / SF) per year, versus the industry standard for a comparable building, which is 162,000 BTU / SF.

The signal exceeds the «five - sigma» standard of statistical significance that physicists use to claim a discovery, LIGO researchers report in a paper scheduled to be published in Physical Review Letters to coincide with the press conference.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

A recent study by investigators from LIJ Medical Center demonstrated that using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in men with an elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) resulted in a prostate cancer detection rate that was twice as high as data reported in the March 1999 Prostate journal that analyzed men undergoing the standard 12 - core biopsy with an elevated PSA.

Called PaMZ, the pill is a combination of the standard TB drug pyrazinamide with the antibiotic moxifloxacin — not previously used against TB — and PA - 824, a drug whose potential against TB was reported by New Scientist in 2001.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

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.

«To ensure that researchers and research facilities funded through the DHS [Center of Excellence] award meet the highest safety standards possible,» the UCCLS report states, «DHS requires every recipient to develop a Research Safety Plan» showing, among other things, that the researcher has identified the potential hazards in the research and will use accepted and appropriate protocols and practices; that the institution provides faculty oversight for students and education and training to develop a culture of safety; and that subject matter experts not involved in the research review protocols and practices.

The guidelines encourage using a checklist to ensure the reporting of important experimental parameters, such as standards used, number and type of replicates, statistics, method of randomization, whether experimenters were blind to the conduct of the experiment, how the sample size was determined, and what criteria were used to include or exclude any data.

The guidelines encourage using a checklist to ensure the reporting of important experimental parameters, such as standards used, number and type of replicates, statistics, method of randomization, whether experimenters were blind to the conduct of the experiment, how the sample size was determined, and what criteria were used to include or exclude any data,» McNutt wrote.

The study used an age - and IQ - matched sample of school - aged youth diagnosed with ASD to assess sex differences according to the standard clinical tests including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI - R), as well as parent reported autistic traits and adaptive skills.

In a new paper published in Journal of Apicultural Research, official journal of the International Bee Research Association (IBRA), Zhiguang Liu and Wei Shi from the Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing and colleagues, report on a three - year survey using standard questionnaires developed by the international COLOSS Association.