Sentences with phrase «study assessment on»

Recruitment and Certification Specialist - Bachelor's degree in Social Work who is responsible for recruiting and licensing of treatment parents and completes a home study assessment on all treatment foster parents.

Not exact matches

The government said in March that it was studying the dangers posed to wildlife and the environment by the plastic microbeads, and on Thursday said the scientific review was still underway by Environment Canada along with an assessment of triclosan and phthalates.

What seems like a harmless and innovative assessment of basic income could end up being an economic Tuskegee, scarring the people who came to rely on the basic income offered during the study.

Our empirical studies on the analysis and assessment of entrepreneurial attitudes were conducted on the basis of data published by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study.

Thompson notes on her blog entry about the study that «sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

While we can infer from this study that some degree of contamination exists in naturally gluten - free grains, seeds, and flours sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

Long - term studies of both problems and potential benefit of Kona coffee drank by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Long - term studies of both risk and potential benefit of drinking Kona by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Overall and income specific effect on prevalence of overweight and obesity of 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in UK: econometric and comparative risk assessment modelling study

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

In one study, parents who were shown what to look for more accurately diagnosed the TBS levels in their babies than doctors or nurses relying on visual assessment alone.

Infant Mental Health Mentor — Research / Faculty (Level IV) You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27

Six models showed favourable effects on primary outcome measures (e.g., standardized measures of child development outcomes and reduction in behaviour problems).13 Only studies with outcomes using direct observation, direct assessment, or administrative records were included.

Independent observations of change were on the whole smaller than parent - report (SMD of 0.4 compared with 0.7), and very few (7/25) of the included studies had provided an independent assessment of outcome.

Fathers have an array of impacts on children's socioemotional outcomes.2, 26 Studies testing for these potential types of influences have considered both dichotomized father absence / presence and more continuous assessments of paternal care.

A couple of Occupational Therapists completed and published a research study that compared two groups of babies, one group spent 30 minutes minimum of tummy time per day and the other group did not, the tummy time group scored higher on developmental assessments, so perhaps 30 minutes in a good goal per day; most helpful if broken up into mini sessions throughout the day.

Phyll Buchanan contributed to assessment of study eligibility, data extraction, and commented on drafts.

Sara Neiman contributed to assessment of study eligibility, data extraction, and commented on drafts.

Jane Taylor contributed to assessment of study eligibility, data extraction, and commented on drafts.

We attempted to examine this by assessing the intensity of the intervention, and we found studies with four to eight visits to be associated with a more pronounced treatment effect on exclusive breastfeeding at final study assessment.

It added, «Having received and studied the Reports, the President has decided to undertake an on the spot assessment of the various occurrences and to meet and console the communities affected.

This is the view of the Greek Communist Party in a nutshell, as presented in the 18th congress (2009): «Resolution on Socialism - Assessments and conclusions on socialist construction during the 20th century, focusing on the USSR», after a 16 - year study on the economic model of USSR and the historical period it existed.

«Our current assessment, based on the executive summary, is that the study is an inaccurate and unreliable guide for policymakers.

When the agency directors meet on March 30, they are expected to approve $ 425,000 in allocations — part of its external special projects budget — to help finance a local labor market assessment study, a plan to generate more development leads from Canadian firms and aid the operation of the Beverly Gray Business Exchange Center on Buffalo's East Side.

NASUWT has commented on the publication of the comparative study, commissioned by the DfE, on baseline assessments used by primary schools.

If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.

What is important about our study is that it is a different methodology than what is used by fisheries scientists for stock assessments, and therefore we serve as an independent verification,» says Kent Carpenter, a marine biologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a co-author on the paper.

DXplain draws on those same textbooks and peer - reviewed studies to make its own assessments — but does so within seconds.

According to the Minnkota project's federal environmental assessment, most of the line's study area is on agricultural land.

From the 1,295 women enrolled in the study at the beginning of pregnancy, the researchers obtained data on exposure to both air pollution and lung function assessment at 4.5 years old for 620 (48 %) of their children.

«These chemicals are just about everywhere, from the blood in polar bears to eagles to humans on every continent,» said Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School and the study's lead author.

Willett's plan is based on the largest long - term dietary survey ever undertaken: the 121,700 - participant Nurses» Health Study, begun in 1976 by Harvard Medical School professor Frank Speizer, with dietary assessments supervised by Willett since 1980.

The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

The difference is in part due to the fact that the EFSA assessment includes several unpublished studies, whereas IARC based its assessment only on published papers.

Hare had no lab space, equipment or volunteers, so he called on colleagues at the BC Penitentiary and persuaded Correctional Services Canada to let him conduct risk assessment studies on the inmate population.

There are few published studies on the effects of uranium mines on nearby residents, but researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of New Mexico are working on health assessments, according to EPA officials.

Most previous studies have relied on human assessments of appearance, but predators often see the world very differently to humans.

... Larger studies with hormonal assessments and long - term follow - up are needed to better understand the effect of concussion on the HPO axis and potential implications for menstrual patterns, estrogen production and any persistent consequences,» the article concludes.

Researchers [Tyler Owens, Mark Allen and Diane Spangler, Personality and Individual Differences, http://bit.ly/aCnszw] at Brigham Young University studied women who seemed to have no major body image issues, based on a standard psychological assessment.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

The benefit assessment was based on two randomized controlled approval studies (MALACHITE I and II), in which ombitasvir / paritaprevir / ritonavir in combination with dasabuvir and / or ribavirin was directly compared with triple therapy consisting of telaprevir, pegylated interferon and ribavirin.

«This new method to simultaneously screen many vampire bat samples for both diet and population structure is of value to future studies on vampire bat biology and for assessment of vampire bat related pathogen transmission risks.

The benefit assessment was based on two randomized controlled approval studies (MALACHITE I and II), in which dasabuvir in combination with ombitasvir / paritaprevir / ritonavir and / or ribavirin was directly compared with triple therapy consisting of telaprevir, pegylated interferon and ribavirin.

The study, which is the first comprehensive assessment of protected areas coverage on marine life, appears in the international journal Scientific Reports.

«Risk assessments have been built on the basis that light exposure is enough to break down these products,» adds Laura Vandenberg, an endocrinologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst who was not involved in the study.

Critics of the FDA's assessment point out that it was based on just two limited studies, both of them funded by the plastics industry and denounced by many independent scientists.

They base their assessment on more than 80 studies from around the world that incorporated house - by - house surveys of active cases.