Sentences with phrase «risk assessment efforts»

Canada Revenue Agency («CRA») risk assessment efforts are getting more sophisticated.

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In response, we have focused on very rigorous asset / liability management and proactive risk assessment and recovery efforts.

Most medical professionals will offer a risk assessment in the pre-adoption evaluation, and parents need to make an effort to understand the risks and know where to go to get help if issues do arise.

This new UK risk assessment identifies where more effort is necessary, and urgent, to address these risks.

Over-estimates provide a falsely critical assessment of patient efforts and may increase their risk for hypoglycemic [low blood sugar] episodes, which can be dangerous in the short - term.»

The methanotrophs identified in this study «open new opportunities to explore how nature detoxifies methylmercury and could improve our prediction of mercury toxicity levels and support better risk assessments and remediation efforts at mercury contamination sites,» Gu added.

Ultimately, we'd like to have motion estimates on the order of 5 - 10 hertz to accurately capture the dynamic response for a wide range of infrastructure,» says David McCallen, who leads an ECP - supported effort called High Performance, Multidisciplinary Simulations for Regional Scale Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments.

Pinpointing which rheumatoid arthritis patients need stepped - up heart disease prevention efforts has been a challenge; research by Mayo Clinic and others has found that standard heart disease risk assessment tools may underrate the danger a particular person faces.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

In addition to his commitment to updating federal chemical safety regulations, Dooley has led efforts urging Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure the best available science and technology are at the foundation of government science and risk assessment programs.

The risk here is aggravated by the fact that the Common Core effort has now largely been handed off to state assessment directors, test developers, psychometricians, and overworked staff at a few national organizations — and these well - meaning people aren't necessarily interested in or sensitive to the broader impact of their handiwork.

«NCLB asked states and districts to focus their efforts on interventions for students in Title I schools that were failing or at risk of failing the state's academic achievement standards, as measured by annual assessments.

Our conversation focused on the personalized learning efforts in Bethlehem Elementary and many interesting facets of learning and leadership: alternative assessments to demonstrate learning; shifting mindsets of learners, teachers and parents; providing space for teachers to take risks with instruction; ceding control; and cultivating and celebrating teachers.

To support this vision, a national coastal risk assessment is needed to identify coastal areas that face the greatest threats and are high priorities for risk - reduction efforts.

This slide presentation introduces the UN reforms on Disaster Risk Reduction since 1997 and efforts therein to integrate it in the Common Country Assessments, and link it to Climate Change.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

Given that 90 cities have already submitted smart city proposals and are focussed on implementation, there is an urgent need for cities to look at aligning existing vulnerability and risk assessments and resilience efforts.

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

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The Climate Program Office (CPO) manages competitive research programs in which NOAA funds high - priority climate science, assessments, decision support research, outreach, education, and capacity - building activities designed to advance our understanding of Earth's climate system, and to foster the application of this knowledge in risk management and adaptation efforts.

This workshop was designed to address a key issue for the USGCRP's National Climate assessments: providing information about climate - related hazards, risks, and opportunities in formats that are understandable, credible, and useful to decision makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change in the regions or sectors for which they are responsible.

«Although these [risk assessment] measures were crafted with the best of intentions, I am concerned that they may inadvertently undermine our efforts to ensure individualized and equal justice,» he said.

Such efforts can be seen as part of an overall privacy management framework and are an integral part of a mature security risk assessment.

As insurance and litigation costs rise, businesses are addressing greater efforts towards assessment of legal risk in commercial transactions.

It is true that this process can take considerable time and effort if the purchaser enters into a detailed procurement process, complete with applicable risk assessments, of its prospective vendors in order to ensure that its business and regulatory requirements can be met.

A single program described as a «case management» effort may include both health care operations activities (e.g., records analysis, protocol development, general risk assessment) and treatment activities (e.g., particular services provided to or coordinated for an individual, even if applying a standardized treatment protocol).

Other core duties include developing work - breakdown structures, variance reports, and project tracking, assembling risk - management plans and work - effort documents, creating project documentation, providing risk assessment, reviewing estimates, assessing new opportunities, preparing proposals, and managing multiple vendors.

Facilitated fraud investigations in support of intelligence gathering efforts, workplace violence, risks assessments, security breaches, internal audits, and due diligence investigations.

Improved client relationships and project predictability through shared business and technical perspectives, agreed project roles, risk assessment, use cases, transparent business - aligned development efforts, and time - boxed delivery.

Each CE must do their security risk assessment, produce a remediation plan with efforts towards compliance, and complete due diligence on their business associates.

Kristen supported ACF's ongoing quality improvement efforts as a team leader for onsite compliance reviews, and as Region IX's staff lead for monitoring and risk assessment.

CCSSO's Early Childhood Initiatives program works with chief state school officers, state education agencies and other partners to foster the healthy development, learning progress and school success of young children, birth to age 5, with a special focus on eliminating disparities in learning opportunities and outcomes for young at - risk children by supporting states in integrating early childhood, elementary, second and postsecondary education standards, assessment, data, and professional development efforts to form a more cohesive and powerful 21st century education system.