Sentences with phrase «studied public threats»

According to the film's synopsis on its website, Merchants of Doubt «lifts the curtain on a secretive group of highly charismatic, silver - tongued pundits - for - hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities — yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well - studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change.»

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A new study revealed that boosting worker wages could have a big impact on the public health threat.

In one Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) study conducted in 2015, 34 percent of all Americans viewed immigrants as a threat to traditional American customs and values while 50 percent viewed immigrants as a strength to American society.

One recent study demonstrated that avoiding autonomy threat, along with appealing to teens growing sense of social justice, could inspire them to make healthy food choices — something traditional public health campaigns have been unsuccessful at.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, part of the Public Health Service, reported to the city and the Elmhurst Park District that a study it conducted concluded that «methane migration from the park poses a potential health threat via fire and explosion «and inhalation to residents to the north and east of the site.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

While the study found broad awareness of marine threats, it also found several areas of disagreement between public perceptions and scientific assessments.

The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

However, scientific assessments have generally ranked fishing and habitat loss as the highest threats to marine environments over past decades and centuries, while in this study, the general public perceived pollution as the highest threat.

«The results of our study find substantial public health and economic consequences with even minor reductions in MMR coverage due to vaccine hesitancy and directly confront the notion that measles is no longer a threat in the United States.

«The emergence of A H7N9 influenza in March 2013 posed a public health threat both locally and internationally because of the risk for airborne transmission,» said K.Y. Yuen, MD, FRCPath, a lead author of the study.

A new Journal of Internal Medicine study describes an innovative program to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a public health threat in Iceland.

Shannon LaDeau, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, explains, «Mosquitoes thrive in temperate cities and are a global threat to public health.

In a quickly executed study that reflects the global public health threat posed by Zika, the researchers compared Zika's effect on cells known as cortical neural progenitor cells to two other cell types: induced pluripotent stem cells and immature neurons.

As part of his dissertation he synthesized these results with other studies associated with mercury cycling, public health threats and policy alternatives to bring attention to the threats and need for an improved public policy dealing with mercury pollution.

Professor Neil Ferguson, lead author of the research from the School of Public Health at Imperial, explained: «This study uses all available data to provide an understanding of how the disease will unfold - and allows us to gauge the threat in the imminent future.

Studies show that dioxin collects in your fatty tissues, and according to a draft report by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), dioxin a serious public health threat that has no «safe» level of exposure!

A small number of studies and numerous media reports have attempted to capture the reactions of public school officials to these new threats to their enrollments and revenues.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Global warming has mostly made the weather more pleasant for Americans over the last 40 years, which may explain why much of the public doesn't rank climate change as big a threat as do scientists and the rest of the world, a new study suggests.

Smartronix (CA & MD) 08/2004 — 12/2008 S6 Information Systems Coordinator • Serve as Section Chief and Contract Lead at the MCNOSC providing overall support for the MCNOSC IT Systems • Manage the network, servers, switches, applications, and information and infrastructure security • Utilize DoD applications for network scanning and remediation of the classified and unclassified networks • Develop plans, procedures, and policies to directly support and defend the MCNOSC Network from security threats • Oversee the MCNOSC's PKI (public key infrastructure) and integration with the MCNOSC services with the coordination of recovery strategies with the Alternate Network Operations and Security Center (AltNOSC) • Determine minimum processing requirements for recovery site and provide guidance for recovering infrastructure processing • Provide technical input to the Contingency of Operations (COOP) Plan ensuring all activities, resources and procedures required to recover critical IT infrastructure processing are accurate • Manage the day to day support of the MCNOSC Infrastructure, supervising a team of IT service contractors • Perform complex repairs, upgrades, hardware configuration, and end user training • Serve as project manager for the transition and deployment of the MCNOSC's NMCI plan • Oversee the planning and build out of the network and MCNOSC's new Headquarters and Operations Center • Coordinate with local contractors to ensure timely delivery of the network • Design and coordinate the build out of the MCNOSC Internal Data Center, Server Room, and Testing Lab • Coordinate the movement to the MCNOSC's newly built Operations Center and Head Quarters • Install cabling, servers, racks, environmental controls, a / v systems, and other technical equipment • Develop the MCNOSC IT Lifecycle management for the LAN and other IT devices • Serve as project manager for the MCCDC (Marine Corps Combat Development Center) Studies and Analysis Division and the MCCLL (Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned)

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.