Sentences with phrase «risk modelling practices»

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In late July 2013, the industry group Committee for the Establishment of the Digital Asset Transfer Authority began to form to set best practices and standards, to work with regulators and policymakers to adapt existing currency requirements to digital currency technology and business models and develop risk management standards.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

The study provides what the authors say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices, by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an older helmet employing 20 - year - old design technology.

And I think, again, I see the model practice as one that gives the woman the greatest number of choices, a model practice where you actually have the time and the capacity on the patient's part to understand the risks and benefits of each of the subsequent choices to have a relatively smooth system, which can transfer from one model of birth to another without extensive delays and then — and so I think giving the mom the greatest number of choices and having midwives and physicians speaking to each other at the time of either the initial patient's choice for method of delivery or at the beginning of the labor process.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Included studies were conducted in the public health systems in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom with variations in model of care, risk status of participating women and practice settings.

The expanded community of practice that emerged as a result of the [L'Aquila] risk communication failure, which now includes communication social science experts, can serve as a model for other scientific communities that also may need to translate their knowledge effectively to disparate non-scientific publics.»

Principals modeling this by taking risks themselves — with thoughtful approaches, research - based practices, and careful reflection — becomes an important aspect of addressing the pace of change.

Titular leaders must model risk taking in their own growth - focused practices.

When building routines for simple tasks like gathering materials, self - starting new tasks, taking risks, and rebounding from mistakes, I use Responsive Classroom's interactive modeling, a widely accepted practice for not only showing students how to perform routines, but also helping them understand why such routines are important.

However, our new name also reflects a shift away from the emphasis on risk, favoring instead a model that stresses promotion and strengths - based approaches to research and practice.»

If you want to help your students develop a growth mindset — the belief that they can improve their abilities through effort — helping them become more comfortable with risk - taking and modeling critical feedback through critique journals are two of NMSA's strategies that you can adapt to your own practice.

If we really want to improve teaching, we should look to develop such models of effective evaluation rather than pursuing problematic schemes that mis - measure teachers, create disincentives for teaching high - need students, offer no useful feedback on how to improve teaching practice and risk driving some of the best educators out of the profession.

Exposing preservice teachers to classes in this manner risks a perpetuation of technology use to replicate traditional models of classroom practice (Ertmer, 2005; Strudler & Wetzel, 1999; Willis, Thompson, & Sadera, 1999).

Although the combination of measures improves classification accuracy in a prediction model, in practice, it is difficult to discern the combination of cut scores and patterns of performance that would identify a student as at risk for not passing the criterion measure.

Some CSR models are specifically designed to provide research - based curriculum, professional development and instructional practices to meet the needs of children at - risk (including children from low - income families who attend low - performing schools).

EdisonLearning will also sponsor NDPC's new www.dropoutprevetion.org website, which will be the premier clearinghouse for research, best practices, model programs, and networking opportunities for practitioners, policymakers, administrators, researchers and others who work with at - risk youth.

Authors Pedro Noguera, Linda Darling - Hammond, and Diane Friedlaender describe the obstacles that prevent schools from delivering high - quality instruction; examine educational models, structures, and practices that facilitate deeper learning; and take a systemic perspective to consider how policy, practice, and research can be aligned to support the development of pedagogy for deeper learning in schools serving students who have been placed at risk of failure.

They can impose their own qualification requirements and criteria, based on their business models and risk - assessment practices.

The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and value - at - risk (VaR), each widely used, might provide interesting food for thought, but their underlying assumptions render them not only fallible but dangerous in practice.

Safety: Ensure a safe work environment; following all safety guidelines, including PPE, and modeling safe work practice Take immediate action to address any safety concerns that could put a staff member, volunteer, client, animal, or the organization at risk

Despite its efficacy, my claim here is that this model risks utterly misunderstanding the importance of both history and practice for game design, and only works because the game designer is so deeply embedded in the existing player practices that they knowingly or unknowingly reproduce them.

For this reason, it is considered good practice to use output from multiple models to explore a range of scientifically plausible futures — to account for an envelope of future climate risk, rather than a single future pathway.

Data scientists, whose work is crucial for bioinformatics, medical research and disease control, as well as for financial and behavioural modelling, can mitigate the risk by ensuring they adopt best practice and demonstrate that they are doing so.

Solos are a stripped down model of legal practice — especially when it comes to marketing & brand building — that have very favourable characteristics: they're nimble, they can make mistakes, they can take risks, and they can innovate.

PRA has published a policy and supervisory statement setting out its expectation of the model risk management practices firms should adopt when using stress test models.

Using the legal language model, the intelligent assistant flags issues and suggests improvements by considering best practices, risk factors, and jurisdictional differences.

While allowing for more precision in recording individual lawyers» claims histories, this also allows for a better understanding of claims and claim trends, through modelling of risks that face the profession generally and lawyers in different types of practice circumstances (e.g., by years of practice, size of practice, area of practice, location of practice, etc.).

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

Specifically, the ABA amended the comment to Model Rule 1.1, governing lawyer competence, to say that, in addition to keeping abreast of changes in the law and its practice, a lawyer should keep abreast of «the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.»

Specifically, the ABA voted to amend the comment to Model Rule 1.1, governing lawyer competence, to say that, in addition to keeping abreast of changes in the law and its practice, a lawyer should keep abreast of «the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.»

For example, the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society «is building a new model of regulating legal services, in a manner that is risk focused, proactive, principled and proportionate» and has recently piloted a self - assessment tool that aims to allow law firms to determine if they have appropriate practices in place in a variety of areas.

LegalRnD students are familiar with his writings on data - driven law practice, such as using decision trees, comparing «intuitive» and «quantitative» models for decision making and managing legal risk.

It evolves beyond the traditional «one - size - fits - all» model of regulation to one that reflects strengths and risks relating to varying types and sizes of practice.

Among the amendments, the court adopted Comment 8 of the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which says that attorneys» duty to keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice includes «the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.»

Ever since the American Bar Association modified «Competence» Model Rule 1.1, comment 8 in 2012 requiring lawyers to «keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology,» legal technology focused articles and commentary have flourished (just see #legaltech).

According to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, lawyers have a duty to remain abreast of the changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.

It is common practice for peace bonds to be used in some domestic violence courts in Alberta where the defendant has been charged with a domestic violence - related offence that is relatively minor and there is a low risk of reoffending, if he is willing to accept responsibility for the offence and undergo counselling (see e.g. Leslie Tutty and Jennifer Koshan, «Calgary's Specialized Domestic Violence Court: An Evaluation of a Unique Model» (2013) 50 Alberta Law Review 731 at 745).

In his practice, Eric specializes in the assessment, quantification and sale of litigation risk through predictive modeling and litigation analytics, with a particular emphasis on the utilization of such services to provide industry leading manufacturers, sellers and distributors with strategic advice on how to avoid and manage risk throughout the world.

This article discusses the role of assessment in child and youth care practice and presents a model for differentiating between two kinds of assessment — needs assessment and risk assessment.

Taylor and her colleagues (Taylor, Lerner, Sage, Lehman, & Seeman, 2004) reported evidence to support the Risky Family Model; showing that children with dysregulated autonomic responses to stress — influenced in part by growing up in «risky families» — were more likely to engage in health - risk behaviors ranging from substance abuse to unsafe sexual practices.

Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.

This model is very attractive to brand new counselors because they don't want the risk of renting an office, marketing a practice — learning all of those things.

• In the pediatric practice of San Francisco's Nadine Burke Harris, MD, children are screened for various types of adverse experiences that increase their risks of long - term health problems associated with ACEs.15 The treatment model is multidisciplinary in the primary care setting and includes home visits to support families where they are.

The drug education aspect of the resources was based on the health promoting schools framework (WHO, 1986), Zinberg's interaction model (1984), the model of risk and protective factors for substance use (Dept. Health and Ageing, 2004) and the principles of best practice in school drug education (DEST, 2004).

A model of practice means that all staff and foster / adoptive parents who work with at - risk children and their birth families share the same vision, mission, goals, values; use the same strengths - based child and family - friendly words; demonstrate the same standard of child welfare work practices; and share accountability for outcomes.

Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Child dealing with trauma, Dealing with trauma, Fortress of love, Fortress of support, Mother's Day, Parenting and trauma, Parents dealing with trauma, Protection in crisis, Protective factors, Risk and protective factors, Trauma and resilience

The aims of the project are to (1) develop a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems, (2) evaluate implementation feasibility and initial efficacy of the intervention in a pilot study, (3) develop and refine measurement methods for assessing Latino individual family processes, and (4) test an integrative theoretical model that hypothesizes how social and acculturation contexts, family stress processes, and parenting practices are linked to predict Latino youngster adjustment.

The Pyramid Model for Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Young Children Fact Sheet A fact sheet that describes the three tiers of intervention practice: universal promotion for all children; secondary preventions to address the intervention needs for children at risk of social emotional delays; and tertiary interventions needed for children with persistent challenges.

CCFH is renowned for its innovative community - based, resilience - oriented practice model to strengthen families at risk, in crisis, or facing persistent life challenges.