Sentences with phrase «studies policies aimed»

She studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in poverty, including education, health, and income support policies.

Not exact matches

Methodology Our study aims to find the areas with the most tax - friendly policies for retirees.

«Didi and SoftBank will diligently study local market conditions and policies, and will actively engage with industry practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders, with the aim of building an open and inclusive platform that will be available to all of Japan's taxi operators,» the Chinese firm said in an announcement.

Part of an Australian Research Council funded study titled Being and becoming musical: towards a cultural ecological model of early musical development, the study aims to provide a comprehensive account of how Australian families use music in their parenting practices and make recommendations for policy and practice in childcare and early learning and development.

Proposed policies aim to reduce net migration mainly by limiting three types of migration inflows non-EU nationals — work, study and family — and by increasing outflows by making it more difficult for non-EU nationals to gain the right to reside permanently in the UK.

Study co-author and recent UBC sociology graduate Nicholas Fitz said the findings could help better inform public policies that aim to boost child vaccination rates.

The aim of the new AMS study was to gauge public opinion on all types of current and potential future ACHM research, and its data is intended to help shape policy guidelines, which are expected to be released early next year.

U.S. state policies aimed at mitigating power plant emissions vary widely in effectiveness, finds a new study by researchers at Emory University.

These paths for further research would benefit public policies aimed at increasing the awareness of food waste, and would contribute to more effective nutritional education initiatives since messages could be framed based on insights tested in scientific studies.

For science itself, the year 2005 had its share of headline - grabbing triumphs and controversies, but for scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produce.

«The data presented in this study should serve as a basis for public policy that aims to reduce neonicotinoid exposure,» he said.

The study is part of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, a UCLA research initiative that aims to transition Los Angeles County through cutting - edge research, technologies, policies, and strategies to 100 percent renewable energy and 100 percent locally sourced water, while enhancing ecosystem and human health, by 2050.

Last week, with the aim of informing the transition, two prominent education policy groups released a study of the district's accomplishments under Mr. Payzant.

Featuring a full schedule of sessions aimed at creating proactive policy to support child protection in the region, IIFMENA will bring together leaders, academics, policy makers, heads of international organisations, and donor agencies to study the challenges in the Middle East and propose and agree on solutions to overcome those challenges.

CSEDU 2015, the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies on innovative technology - based learning strategies, institutional policies on computer supported education including open and distance education, using computers.

She also studies the effects of policies aimed at improving teaching.

FIVE from FIVE - The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), FIVE from FIVE project aims to improve literacy levels by bridging the gap between evidence - based research on reading instruction, policy, and practice.

It is however also an explicit aim of the network to include practitioners, policy makers and politicians in order to set the research agenda, in order to discuss implications of studies and in order to disseminate the emerging knowledge base.

Their work has been a valuable prod to the community of scientists and policy analysts aiming to smooth the human journey, resulting in strings of additional studies.

5:38 p.m. Updated Thomas Schelling, a Nobel Prize winner in economics who has long studied climate policy and diplomacy, told me last year that the way forward must involve much more of what legal scholars call «soft law» than old - style treaty making aimed at legally binding instruments like the fading Kyoto Protocol.

The study, which aims to map a research agenda for safe and cost effective CDR, will provide critical guidance to policy makers, researchers and industry leaders alike.

By: Cara Condit, Director for Arctic Study and Policy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy The U.S. Coast Guard Center for Arctic Study and Policy (CASP) organized the recent «Governing Across the Waves Workshop: Global Insights for Transboundary Waterways Management in Sensitive and Congested Maritime Spaces,» which aimed to support the ongoing efforts by the U.S. and Russian governments to achieve the shared objectives in the Bering Strait region of safe, secure, and environmentally responsible maritime traffic.

It aims to: explain major policy measures including general environmental strategy towards a green growth and skills development strategy; discuss the green structural change and its impact on the labour market and outline the plans that Korea has put in place for skills response; present case studies that show actual examples of skills response to green economy in various sectors; and discuss the current approach and suggest policy recommendations.

Lomborg claims the often - repeated talking point that «Policies aimed at addressing climate change can easily end up punishing the poor,» pointing a finger at Germany and citing a study by the fossil - fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), claiming that renewable energy targets and emissions caps have resulted in «energy poverty.»

Students will work together in teams and individually to conduct research using case studies aimed at building a theory of change, testing assumptions, identifying uncertainties and developing policy pathways that build resilience and / or are risk - based.

Third, it appears that one of the aims of this study was to discuss the most efficient approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (this is the title of item # 1 in their policy brief).

This would have a real effect on tar sands development as an MIT study points out that they are vulnerable to climate / energy policies aimed at reducing emissions.

The case study is part of a series from our Policy Action work, which aims to accelerate the pace of climate policy development and adoption at the state and regional Policy Action work, which aims to accelerate the pace of climate policy development and adoption at the state and regional policy development and adoption at the state and regional level.

The new study, however, was aimed at marshalling the expertise of 17 other climate and policy experts from the UK, Australia, France, Sweden and Switzerland as well as the US, to outline the dangerous consequences of sticking to the 2C warming target endorsed by the United Nations and world leaders.

UK seabed manager The Crown Estate will lead a study to look at the benefits of floating offshore wind in Scotland, aiming to help pave the way for the government to make new policy decisions to support the industry's growth.

Sir Noel Malcolm, Policy Exchange senior advisor, takes aim at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) this week in a study, «Human Rights and Political Wrongs: A new approach to Human Rights law».

The Policy Studies Organization and the Oxford Internet Institute and Berkeley Electronic Press, the publishers, are aiming to release the journal in the summer of this year.

His other work has included studies of financial work incentives for welfare recipients, child care subsidy policies, and programs that aim to strengthen the marriages of low - income couples.

This study aims to identify modifiable (potentially amenable to change through policy) community - level factors that influence children's health and developmental outcomes in the 25 areas of high and low disadvantage across Australia.

This event was part of an NHMRC funded research project «Evaluating the effectiveness of comprehensive primary health care in local communities» being conducted at the Southgate Institute for Health Society and Equity at Flinders University The aim of the symposium was to feed back some of the key emerging findings from the study, and to engage primary health care practitioners and policy makers in debate and discussion about the implications of these findings for primary health care policy and practice.

The present study aimed to examine the relationship between the type and frequency of childhood adversity exposure and suicidal behaviour over the life trajectory of South Africans, given that there are no published nationally representative data that may be useful in informing clinical practice and policy.

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.

Source: National Center for Children in Poverty The aim of the study reported in this brief was to determine how states leveraged different policy choices to support integration of social - emotional developmental strategies into early intervention services.

1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background 1.2 Policy relevance 1.3 Other UK cohort studies 1.4 Growing Up in Scotland 1.5 Aims and scope of this report 1.6 Technical appendix

The main aim of the study is to provide new information to support policy - making in Scotland but it is also intended to provide a resource for practitioners, academics, the voluntary sector and parents.

She leads a national project, Mapping Health Equity in Canadian Public Policy, and is a co-researcher with Debwewin: The Truth of our Hearts, a study aiming to diversify our dialogue and understanding of heart health of Manitoban First Nations People (Lead: Dr. Annette Schultz).

Methodology Our study aims to find the areas with the most tax - friendly policies for retirees.