Sentences with phrase «several risk groups»

Life insurance companies will assign you to one of several risk groups, or rating classes, based on various types of information they gather through underwriting.

Not exact matches

He offers several groupings of stocks to choose from depending on ones tolerance for risk, time horizon, or strategy.

Ontario's Williamson Group — a financial services firm with roughly 65 employees — has taken several small, relatively low - cost steps to ensure that their workers are happy and healthy without risking the bottom line.

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

[26] Several groups have called for organic standards to prohibit nanotechnology on the basis of the precautionary principle [27] in light of unknown risks of nanotechnology.

Brought together as part of the Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative, they include the fund arms of insurer Aviva and Norwegian lender Nordea, asset management groups Boston Common and Impax, several Swedish state pension funds and several other charities and ethical investors.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

ALBANY — Several education groups are criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that New York's largest school districts submit school - level funding plans for state approval or risk losing increases in aid.

Mary Ann Tighe, the chief executive officer of CBRE Group and one of real estate's most powerful women, met with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn several weeks before the primary election and cautioned her to tone down her tough persona or risk alienating voters in the mayoral race.

«We think there's an inherent corruption risk in having your state university system, which has a different set of rules than state agencies, be the one that's handing out enormous sums of money,» Kaehny said at a news conference in Albany where several watchdog groups called for the changes.

Asked what Adams knew of the group's specific work, spokesman Stefan Ringel said, «Borough President Adams has been invited to or served as co-host for several events organized by Bishop Whitehead that target at - risk youth.»

Several government reform groups back holding the event, and say it's worth the risk to get real change that can't be achieved through more traditional means.

In the advisory, Adams identified several groups of people at elevated risk of overdoses, including people who misuse prescription opioids, those who use drugs like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, and those who have recently left treatment programs or incarceration.

In addition, Jean represents her office on several federal committees and working groups addressing issues ranging from mitigating the risks posed by high consequence animal diseases, to animal rights extremist groups, and enhancing preparedness of pet owners in the event of a natural or man - made disaster.

Several large trials of amyloid - based therapies are underway in groups of people more carefully selected to be at high risk for Alzheimer's.

The documents emerged from negotiations with several activist shareholder groups that had pressed Exxon Mobil to disclose to investors the risks it faces from climate change and steps the company was taking to reduce such risks.

«Majority of Americans say benefits of childhood vaccines outweigh risks: But parents of young children are among several groups that see higher risk and lower benefits of the MMR vaccine.»

A prior study by this group, which was also conducted in concurrence with the Beijing Olympics, demonstrated that pollutions levels were linked to physiological changes that increase risk for cardiovascular disease, and that these same air pollution reductions resulted in improvements in several risk factors

Several papers, including two from Perlis's group, have looked at large numbers of women and children and found no increased risk for ASD after adjusting for the severity of maternal depression, he says.

The Working Group has focused its efforts at several levels of modeling to account for human risk perception and how this might be incorporated in climate models.

She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.

Several groups have concluded that reproductive cloning of human beings creates ethical and scientific risks that society should not tolerate.

Seniors are a high risk group for severe B12 deficiency for several reasons.

Glycotoxins are a group of compounds that have been associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and several other chronic diseases.

The group questioned the motive of the new research pointing to the deceptive research, and it also defended its clandestine efforts by reaffirming findings over the last several decades that concluded sugar does not contribute to heart disease — a point that's only half - true, considering sugar contributes greatly to obesity, which can put one at a higher risk of developing heart disease.

(6) In a study that lasted three months, there were noted improvements in glycemic control (0,4 %) and several heart risk factors in the group of diabetes patients who consumed a Paleolithic diet, as opposed to the group who ate under the guideline of a standard diabetes diet.

The association is documented in several different population groups and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes decreases as coffee consumption increases5.

Overall, the low - carb group lost more weight and had much greater improvements in several important risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Several studies have shown that social synchrony supports collaborative learning by improving group affect, cooperation, trust, engagement and cognitive risk - taking.

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

We told you earlier today about the Intrepidous Group who gave a speech at the Infiltrate conference about «several high risk vulnerabilities with RIM's Blackberry Playbook that allows malicious applications to access personal information, contacts, and emails from connected Blackberry phones.»

As GoodEReader reported last week, several groups have lashed out at the lack of an advance and the complete reversal on the typical royalty model; rather, authors were being given what the publisher called a «profit sharing» model that the organizations and many agents and authors felt was shoving too much financial risk on the authors who signed these deals.

Prudential is famous for covering several «high - risk» groups that most other insurance companies won't.

He offers several groupings of stocks to choose from depending on ones tolerance for risk, time horizon, or strategy.

Dr. Hilgert is a member of several governing bodies and advisory boards, including the German National Commission for Unesco, the foundation board of the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas, the advisory group of the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund, and the Disaster Risk Management Committee of the International Council of Museums.

Environmental groups say that's one of several reasons why dilbit corrodes pipelines more easily than conventional crude oil, although the oil industry says dilbit poses no more risk than other oils.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

Exxon Mobil Corp is pulling contributions to several groups that have downplayed the risks that greenhouse gas - emissions could lead to global warming.

Nancy frequently speaks to legal professional groups on the risk and ethical issues of managing law firm records, and has authored several articles on the topic.

Companies typically group buyers into one of several rates classes based on their health and the risk they represent.

They offer life insurance, annuities, group benefits and several other lines of insurance which helps them to diversify their risk.

American General is great at serving several groups of «high - risk» applicants, but specifically those seeking life insurance with type 2 diabetes.

Professional Experience Accenture (Chicago, IL) 2007 — Present Consultant for Department of Defense (2008 — Present) • Collaborate with management and client counterparts to identify key issues / risks and develop appropriate solutions, earning consistent high rankings for project success within peer group and managing resource regularly with little supervision • Develop procurement business processes models and sound functional designs for SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system • Lead system test phase for SAP Document Builder and Tech Quality (Material Management), holding responsibility for test case creation, data management, and status reporting • Identify cross-process gaps in custom functionality through systems design analyses, uncovering significant cost savings • Provide troubleshooting guidance by debugging software, working closely with technical counterparts during test / build phases of project to expedite issue resolution, including several hundred defects revealed through program testing • Obtain public trust clearance, issued by the US Department of Defense

Two studies have identified groups of girls exhibiting chronically high levels of antisocial behavior across childhood and early adolescence and having an increased risk for continued antisocial behavior.60 In addition, Odgers and several colleagues found that 7.5 percent of all girls between the ages of seven and fifteen displayed an early - onset of offending that persisted into adolescence and that this pattern was similar to boys of the same age.61 Other studies suggest that although strongly aggressive behavior in girls before the age of seven is rare, continuity of offending for such girls may be stronger than that among comparable boys and that such early problem behavior in girls should be considered a significant warning sign of potential future problems.62

Several have included families involved with child maltreatment or at high risk of maltreatment, but hardly any have included families who were the subject of child abuse and neglect reports.41 The Incredible Years (IY) is considered to be one of the most effective interventions for reducing child conduct problems.42 Jamila Reid, Carolyn Webster - Stratton, and Nazli Baydar examined IY, randomly assigning children to the IY program or to a control group that received usual Head Start services.43 Children with significant conduct problems and children of mothers whose parenting was highly critical — arguably those dyads most at risk for child maltreatment — benefited most from IY.

Several interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing the prevalence of behaviors that place adolescents at risk for acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 — 6 These programs have in common a small - group and face - to - face method of delivery, an emphasis on skills development referent to decision making, communication, negotiation and condom use, use of a wide variety of instructional formats and approaches to intervention delivery, and grounding in social learning theory.2 — 6 Despite the encouraging results that accompany these studies with reference to adolescent risk reduction, new challenges have emerged.

Several factors affected both groups: (a) parenting factors reduced association with deviant peers, (b) association with deviant peers increased the risk of smoking in the 10th grade, and (c) teens were more likely to smoke if their parents smoked.

Several reviews have noted the importance of understanding reasons for attrition, particularly in trials involving high - risk groups — teenage parents, those at risk of abuse, those who abuse drugs and alcohol and those who have been convicted of abuse.

The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) Synchrony during early mother - child interactions has neurophysiological correlates [85] as evidenced though the study of vagal tone [78], cortisol levels [80], and skin conductance [79]; (2) Synchrony impacts infant's cognitive processing [64], school adjustment [86], learning of word - object relations [87], naming of object wholes more than object parts [88]; and IQ [67], [89]; (3) Synchrony is correlated with and / or predicts better adaptation overall (e.g., the capacity for empathy in adolescence [89]; symbolic play and internal state speech [77]; the relation between mind - related comments and attachment security [90], [91]; and mutual initiation and mutual compliance [74], [92]-RRB-; (3) Lack of synchrony is related to at risk individuals and / or temperamental difficulties such as home observation in identifying problem dyads [93], as well as mother - reported internalizing behaviors [94]; (4) Synchrony has been observable within several behavioral or sensorial modalities: smile strength and eye constriction [52]; tonal and temporal analysis of vocal interactions [95](although, the association between vocal interactions and synchrony differs between immigrant (lower synchrony) and non-immigrant groups [84]-RRB-; mutual gaze [96]; and coordinated movements [37]; (5) Each partner (including the infant) appears to play a role in restoring synchrony during interactions: children have coping behaviors for repairing interactive mismatches [97]; and infants are able to communicate intent and to respond to the intent expressed by the mother at the age of 2 months [98].

NAR along with several housing and mortgage industry trade groups sent a letter thanking Reps. Sanford (R - SC) and Sherman (D - CA) for reintroducing H.R. 916, the «Risk Management and Homeowner Stability Act.»