Sentences with phrase «risk assessment study»

Over the next two months, a risk assessment study will also be conducted to assess the probability of future outbreaks and to gauge how wide the immune belt should be.

Hare had no lab space, equipment or volunteers, so he called on colleagues at the BC Penitentiary and persuaded Correctional Services Canada to let him conduct risk assessment studies on the inmate population.

This analytical report presents a set of pilot climate risk assessment studies aimed to test and begin to develop methods and tools for evaluating climate risks to the private sector and to identify appropriate adaptation responses.

Not exact matches

Leahy agrees: Personality assessments conducted as part of the Texas A&M University study found that people who are more risk averse and who have more self control were more apt to choose and be successful with the snowball method.

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure According to the Kaiser study found that only 14 percent of small businesses offering health benefits to employees also offer health risk assessment.

This odd coupling of open - eyed risk assessment and a willingness to dare anyway is a hallmark of great CEOs, according to Robert Scoble, who studies CEOs for Rackspace.

Long - term studies of both risk and potential benefit of drinking Kona by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Overall and income specific effect on prevalence of overweight and obesity of 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in UK: econometric and comparative risk assessment modelling study

>> Read the complete research study: Endocrine disrupting chemicals and other substances of concern in food contact materials: An updated review of exposure, effect and risk assessment in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

Infant Mental Health Mentor — Research / Faculty (Level IV) You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

Currently, he has a four - year (ongoing) study that includes yearly assessment of injury risk and a prospective study of injury in Division I athletes across five different sports.

A subsequent study from the United Kingdom included additional subjects and additional follow - up assessments at 18 and 30 months.9, 10 Adjusted risk estimates revealed that the risk of ear infections at 18 and 30 months was related to infant sleeping position at age 1 month.

In addition, we rated nine studies as high risk for blinding of outcome assessment.

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

One study was at low risk of bias for blinding of outcome assessment (McLachlan 2012), three were judged as high risk of bias (Begley 2011; Homer 2001; Rowley 1995) and nine studies were at unclear risk of bias (Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Kenny 1994; MacVicar 1993; North Stafford 2000; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).

This study compared risk assessment by physicians with midwives reporting new mothers to the doctor.

We graded blinding of outcome assessment as being at low risk in about a quarter of studies.

Long said fracking risked the possibility of «death by indecision» as the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later this year.

Christopher De Rosa, a former senior toxicologist for the Centers for Disease Control, said the HHS study might «galvanize the EPA's political will to go forward with the risk assessment because it represents a convergence of opinions worldwide in terms of formaldehyde being a known carcinogen.»

«Using imaging tests to detect disease in carotid or coronary arteries before it causes symptoms can better identify healthy individuals at increased risk than our current, traditional risk assessment methods,» says the study's principal investigator Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician - in - Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Risk assessments used to identify potential terrorists aren't good enough, according to a new study.

«If we had just done traditional risk factor assessments, we would have missed each one of those firefighters who we discovered were at risk for a cardiovascular event,» says study leader Elizabeth V. Ratchford, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Vascular Medicine.

M. Dominique Ashen, Ph.D., C.R.N.P., a nurse practitioner in the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins and another study leader, says that a traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease involves checking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exercise.

The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

But studies such as this provide a way to better characterize earthquakes in advance in terms of location, magnitude and rupture progression, and therefore allow a better assessment of damage risk.»

The other bill would «require that the data from any study that EPA draws upon to inform its regulations, risk assessments, and guidance documents be «reproducible» and released publicly as long as the law doesn't forbid it.»

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.

A study by researchers at the University of Geneva concludes that prevalent ankle fractures should be considered as osteoporotic fractures and taken into account in fracture - risk assessment.

«Better assessment of teens» ability to concentrate could facilitate the identification of those at risk of anxiety and could also inform molecular genetic studies, which would be the logical next stage for research.»

«In those cases, accurate assessment of the risks and benefits of surgery becomes critically important, and this study provides indispensable information for patients and treating physicians.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

«This new method to simultaneously screen many vampire bat samples for both diet and population structure is of value to future studies on vampire bat biology and for assessment of vampire bat related pathogen transmission risks.

«Our study exemplifies the utility of looking beyond phylogenetic criteria alone when conducting risk assessment for emerging RNA viruses and the need to include functional, ecologic, and pathogenic analyses of animal reservoirs,» says Jan Felix Drexler, M.D., the study's corresponding author and a professor of medicine at the Institute of Virology at the University of Bonn Medical Centre in Germany.

In the spirit of Lombardy's open innovation model, the Forum will feature professionals from diverse areas: responsible research and innovation; science and technology studies; public communication of science; participative and deliberative methods; public engagement; social innovation; social impact and its assessment; sociology of risk; sociology of science; technology assessment and governance; open innovation, science, and data; data ethics; and bioethics.

«It's far worse if people in need of a treatment lose the treatment because of a poor risk assessment that overestimates something that's a small risk to the environment,» said Frederick Bouder, a research associate at the King's Centre for Risk Management at King's College London who studied regulation of pharmaceuticals in the environment in the United States and Eurrisk assessment that overestimates something that's a small risk to the environment,» said Frederick Bouder, a research associate at the King's Centre for Risk Management at King's College London who studied regulation of pharmaceuticals in the environment in the United States and Eurrisk to the environment,» said Frederick Bouder, a research associate at the King's Centre for Risk Management at King's College London who studied regulation of pharmaceuticals in the environment in the United States and EurRisk Management at King's College London who studied regulation of pharmaceuticals in the environment in the United States and Europe.

«Risk assessments have been built on the basis that light exposure is enough to break down these products,» adds Laura Vandenberg, an endocrinologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst who was not involved in the study.

This study is the first with sufficient numbers and an adequately long follow - up period to enable a realistic assessment of risk patterns into young adulthood.

While the European Union has spent some $ 400 million in the past 25 years on biotech crop research, the vast majority has gone toward risk - assessment studies and not improving the crops themselves.

The first development is the publication of recent studies providing detailed exposure - response data, enabling regulations based on quantitative risk assessment.

An emerging controller of the cholinergic effect of inflammation is micro-RNA-132 (5), whose involvement with post-stroke recovery awaits further studies and might open new venues for more rigorous assessment of the post-stroke risk of survival and systematic infection and the identification of conceptually novel targets for therapeutic interference.

«This study's findings offer important information regarding the risk - benefit assessment for men with testosterone deficiency who are considering treatment.»

For example, risk assessments for certain chemicals sometimes cite hundreds or even thousands of studies, all of which would have to be tracked down for data collection, according to the EPA analysis of the «HONEST Act.»

Our new study is a pilot but it suggests that ultimately doctors might be able to use our pattern recognition software, alongside existing methods, in order to make more accurate assessments about who is most at risk and treat them accordingly.

Along with them, the new study suggests that for risk assessment in earthquake - prone areas, not just a single seismic cycle from one earthquake to the next should be considered.

«Everyone's working on risk assessment in route planning,» says Alex Bayen, an engineer at the University of California at Berkeley who studies traffic flow.

Over 150,000 individuals registered with 181 practices participating in the ADDITION - Denmark study were sent a diabetes risk score questionnaire, and if their score indicated moderate to high risk they were invited to attend for a diabetes test and cardiovascular risk assessment with their family doctor.

Researchers largely praised a massive, recently released risk assessment of so - called gain - of - function (GOF) research, and a draft plan for reviewing the riskiest studies.