Sentences with phrase «surveillance efforts»

Part of our increased surveillance efforts include the sale of both prescription and off the shelf flu medications.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says he's «incensed» after a report was critical of police surveillance efforts in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Having declined over 90 per cent in just 20 years, the vaquita continues to plummet toward extinction despite a two - year ban on gillnet fishing that began in May 2015, as well as surveillance efforts by Mexico's government, environmental authorities and military.

In addition to OPERATION ZAMAN LAFIA, the NAF provided air support for OPERATION RESTORE PEACE, in the Middle Belt, as well as surveillance efforts at Bakura Forest and Bauchi environs.

Two senior White House officials suggested Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Obama had tapped his telephone was not meant to be taken literally, arguing the president had been referring more broadly to a variety of surveillance efforts during the 2016 campaign when he made the incendiary accusation.

In interviews, former US intelligence officers said they were also skeptical of the idea that the US diplomats in Cuba might have been subjected to some new surveillance effort gone awry.

In interviews, former U.S. intelligence officers said they were also skeptical of the idea that the U.S. diplomats in Cuba might have been subjected to some new surveillance effort gone awry.

The measure, Holt made clear, was part of his broader push to stop the NYPD's counterterrorism and surveillance efforts focused on Muslims.

«Beyond that, however, knowing which mutations make transmission possible will be an important tool for global surveillance efforts, it says.

NCI director Richard Klausner agreed that existing racial classifications «are not scientifically sound,» and he told Specter's subcommittee that NCI «has gone well beyond» them in recent health surveillance efforts.

Genomics has a crucial role to play in disease surveillance efforts by helping to understand the origins of drug resistance, mapping hotspots and routes of spread, and providing a cost effective and rapid means of monitoring and evaluating the impact of different interventions.

With all the corporate boosterism and glad - handing, it can be easy to forget you're dealing with the same department that oversees performance review and workplace surveillance efforts.

The Never - Ending End of Privacy — An unprecedented government surveillance effort surfaced in the summer.

They are calling for the creation of an independent body to oversee surveillance efforts and set strict evidence - based targets, to stem the loss of drug potency and speed the development of new therapies.

Heroic worldwide surveillance efforts have avoided a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic, but as shown in the recent H1N1 outbreak, viruses can still outwit even the best public health efforts.

He contends that «there is already enough information publicly available to allow someone to make a transmissible H5 HA - possessing virus,» highly trained researchers have conducted the work under stringent biosafety standards, the findings can help inform surveillance efforts, and the proposed mechanisms for restricting access to the data are «unwieldy.»

«Active surveillance efforts involving all colistin - and carbapenem - resistant organisms are imperative to determine mcr - 1 prevalence and prevent further dissemination.»

Analysis of the largest collection of Zika genomes to date reveals the trajectory and evolution of the virus as it spread throughout the Americas, with implications for future surveillance efforts.

Importantly, these mutations could serve as a molecular marker for large - scale surveillance efforts to contain artemisinin drug resistance in Southeast Asia.

As visitors moved through the exhibit they learned how the Sanger Institute is going beyond scientific research and is beginning to improve healthcare, including the use of DNA sequencing technologies in ongoing drug resistance surveillance efforts.

It's not clear whether these attacks were a test run for a wider surveillance effort, Bullas told TechNewsWorld, «but evidence suggests that once the Five Eyes have a tool that works in one place, they're not shy about using it elsewhere.»

The fact that we can have a USAID program like Emerging Pandemic Threats, and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is strengthening its global surveillance efforts and field epidemiology training programs, these are very important, as are communications — when I was starting out in this field, who would have believed you could reach almost anywhere in the world with a cell phone?

«Moreover, a specific diagnosis can facilitate public health surveillance efforts.»

It's the latest evolution of the US government's post-9 / 11 electronic surveillance efforts, which began under President Bush with the Patriot Act, and expanded to include the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) enacted in 2006 and 2007.

The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.

Not only does the country restrict access to the internet, it has ramped up surveillance efforts in recent years.

The core of the surveillance effort was a system codenamed MONKEYROCKET that involved a product (possibly a piece of software, possibly a VPN) described in documents as a «non-Western Internet anonymization service» with users in Iran in China.

The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed has tasked law enforcement agencies in the region to intensify their surveillance efforts and clamp down on the activities of arms smugglers.

Ray Kelly criticized media organizations for describing the NYPD's surveillance efforts as «spying.»

HMS Cumberland launched her Lynx helicopter on a number of surface search missions as part of the coalition's surveillance effort in support of the arms embargo in operation against Libya.

The statement noted that the surveillance efforts by the command in the period under review also made a total of 270 seizures, with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N235.6 million.

«When used in conjunction with forecasted data, the model predictions could be useful for focusing both surveillance efforts, and the pre-positioning of material and equipment in areas and periods of particularly high risk.

Currently, both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization devote most of their flu - surveillance efforts to monitoring for new flu strains in people, not animals.

Now that the mission is over, China will continue its surveillance efforts for both animal and human health, Liang said: The immediate priority is to «clearly identify the source of the virus.»

Genomics is now well - positioned to contribute to these surveillance efforts.

In generally healthy patients, physicians will use the results of WGS to derive insight into future health risks and inform prevention and surveillance efforts, a category we refer to as General Genomic Medicine.

Here's a W.H.O. video describing their surveillance efforts.

Worked closely with the Task Force and directed patrol officers to provide reports, intelligence data and other information to facilitate directed patrol and surveillance efforts

In addition, parents of youths with high callous - unemotional traits showed a trend toward not being stable in their surveillance efforts over time.

Its developmental approach may be useful to those involved in large - scale ECD research and surveillance efforts.