Sentences with phrase «several joint initiatives»

This led to several joint initiatives which have dramatically improved educational opportunities in Newark.

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These meetings have identified research priorities that are being addressed through several joint research initiatives.

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.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan / Bronx) and Finance Chair Julissa Ferreras (D - Queens) praised several of de Blasio's budget initiatives in a joint statement.

BC OCPP has several provincial, national and international initiatives in place, including a joint Canada - India program to export our technology and procedures to India where oral cancer is one of that nation's major malignancies.

The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council is introducing several initiatives that will enhance the organization's ability to defend the industry from dangerous regulations.

Under the auspices of the WG, several successful joint programming initiatives have been created and are being implemented, including

We are currently handling, amongst several major assignments in this area, a significant cross border M&A, advising on a major initiative involving joint ventures between Nigerian entities and European entities and statutory framework for operations in an important sector of the agricultural economy which is expected to become a paradigm for the entire Nigerian Agricultural economy.

The Adolescent Problem Gambling Index project, a joint research initiative launched this fall by several provinces, will propose a validated survey instrument for assessing gambling behaviour and identifying problem gambling among teens.