Sentences with phrase «system planning studies»

Whether Georgia Power and the PSC made a good decision one could assume that either (A) they did a detailed system planning study using load shape curves, engineering economics on stacked dispatch, probability assessments on fuel diversity, ect.

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From choosing salads for a fundraising dinner to studying the timing of the Washington transit system, Silverman has been spending less time recently on the big question of God's existence and more time immersing himself in the nitty - gritty of planning what he promises will be the largest - ever atheist gathering.

The study of theology in the West is planned, in many places, according to the system introduced in his time by F. D. E. Schleiermacher.

Ole Olsen, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, recently examined several studies of planned homebirth backed up by a modern hospital system compared with planned hospital birth.

Several years ago, Apfelbaum said after Monday's meeting, his firm was enlisted by the Downers Grove Park District to study the Lyman Woods system and adjacent parcels «to understand the conditions and design restoration and management plans.»

A randomised controlled trial would be the best way to tackle selection bias of mothers who plan a home birth, but a randomised controlled trial in North America is unfeasible given that even in Britain, where home birth has been an incorporated part of the healthcare system for some time, and where cooperation is more feasible, a pilot study failed.31 Prospective cohort studies remain the most comprehensive instruments available.

Officials in Glencoe have paid a civil engineering firm close to $ 70,000 to conduct a study of the village's water system — a task officials said is necessary before they can begin talking to residents about details of an estimated $ 35 million plan to replace the village's aging water plant.

In this study, we ascertained outcomes of all planned home births attended by registered midwives in an entire health region with a single - payer universal health care system.

For a low - risk pregnancy, with a registered midwife who is part of the healthcare system, studies have shown that a planned homebirth is as safe as a planned hospital birth for both mothers and babies.

The Rethinking School Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study, by a team of experts consultants commissioned by the Center, is based on CEL's Rethinking School Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food issues.

«A Dutch study of more than 500,000 women reported that planning a home birth does not increase the risks of perinatal mortality and severe perinatal morbidity among low risk women provided they were supported by well trained midwives and a good transportation and referral system» (quote article 24).

Other investigators have reported a significant increase in adverse perinatal outcomes related to planned home births, especially where skilled birth attendants are not universally integrated into regional health systems, or in population - based studies that include at - risk pregnancies [20 — 22].

Glick said the Cuomo plan also needs to be studied for its possible impact on capacity issues within the SUNY system to accommodate an expected rise in attendance and, in turn, how such a trend might affect ability of in - state students to get into a SUNY or CUNY school.

The need for a study arose after the county began examining New York City's plan to reopen 23 of its shuttered Queens wells that dip into the aquifer system under geographic Long Island during its upstate aqueduct - repair project, Martins said.

«These projects include the completion of the 2017 Farmland Protection Plan, with a grant from the NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets we have hired a Farm to School Marketing Coordinator to help our regions farmers sell locally produced food products to our public schools» lunch programs and with the support of the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Oneida County Health Department, Oneida County Planning Department, Mohawk Valley Community College ThINCubator and the Mohawk Valley Food Policy Council we will be conducting an extensive study of the total Oneida County Food system.»

«The safety and health of the residents of Owasco is our utmost priority and through the governor's leadership, we now have the support needed to complete studies that will pinpoint the best treatment plan and upgrade our water systems as soon as possible,» said Owasco Supervisor Edward Wagner.

DICKINSON, N.Y. — The Agency has selected a consulting group led by Elan Planning Design and Landscape Architecture to conduct a redevelopment study on 600 Main St., the former site of defense contractor BAE Systems in the town of Union.

Poughkeepsie, NY... The Dutchess County Legislature hosted a «Committee of the Whole» meeting yesterday to hear a presentation from RicciGreene Associates, a nationally recognized planning and design firm specializing in criminal justice projects, contracted to conduct a validation study of the Dutchess County Criminal Justice Council's (CJC) Criminal Justice System Needs Assessment report.

Walker had asked for the study to focus on the possibility of shifting to an optional defined contribution plan or allowing employees to opt out of the system all together.

While the team plans to extend the capabilities of Squadbox to work with social media platforms, they say that email is a particularly useful system for studying harassment.

The researchers now plan to study the genetic basis for the changes in the spotted - wing Drosophila's perceptual systems.

«If we can confirm these results in the larger study that we are planning to begin soon, this imaging system may allow us to personalize breast cancer treatment and offer the treatment that is most likely to benefit individual patients,» says Hershman, who is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

The investigators plan to further study how these genetic differences may affect the bacterium's ability to evade the human immune system.

«By synthesizing the results of field studies across the globe, we wanted to better characterize the factors that determine the magnitude of yield loss in legumes due to drought stress, which must be considered in agricultural planning to increase the resilience of legume production systems,» Wang said.

They also implemented a feedback system that would identify the topics the students were struggling with so they could make a personal study plan.

But a new architecture study report released on 20 November concluded that the plan could not work without NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy lift vehicle that is still in development but should be ready to take humans into space by 2021.

Tissue - based planning systems — using clinical guidelines to determine the optimal breast implant dimensions for individual patients — appear superior to approaches relying more on the patient's or surgeon's preference, according to the study by Drs. William P. Adams, Jr., of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Daniel McKee of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada.

In the future, the scientists plan to use this system to study the effect of these and other compounds that may prevent the activation of HIV - 1 in the brain.

«Despite important progress on CERP implementation, there has been insufficient attention on refining long - term systemwide goals and objectives and on the need to adapt CERP to radically changing system and planning constraints,» said David B. Ashley, professor of engineering practice at the University of Southern California and chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report.

The laboratory where this discovery was made is now planning to study mice presenting with defective MOCOS expression in order to analyze how the enzyme and its regulators influence the development of the nervous system.

Further investigations planned at the TU Darmstadt on this material system include temperature dependent studies using a recently acquired DENSsolutions microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) chip - based in situ TEM holder.

But designing such a massive research effort in the United States, which lacks a centralized health care system, can be difficult and controversial; NIH recently scuttled and then revived a plan to study 100,000 children, for example.

This study was supported, in part, by research funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81325003, 81520108003 and 81670716), Chang Jiang Scholars Program, the Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology (16JC1405800), Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support (20152206 and 20152208), Clinical Research Plan of SHDC (16CR2017A), Multicenter Clinical Research Project by Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (DLY201601), Collaborative Innovation Center of Systems Biomedicine and the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.

For human systems, existing studies focus on frameworks and principles of adaptation planning, but examples of implemented adaptation actions and evaluation of outcomes are scarce.

CLIENTS Consultancy and (inter) national assessment studies have been done for inter alia the following clients: IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), SEI (Stockholm Environmental Institute), Rathenau Institute, EC - JRC (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra); US - EPA, RIVM (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands), PBL, EL&I - nVWA, VROMRaad (Advisory Council of the Ministry of Housing Physical Planning and Environment, The Netherlands), SENTER NOVEM, French Ministry of Environment; Norwegian Research Council.

My research is framed within the Wellcome Trust consortium on the archaeal origins of eukaryotic cell organization (http://evocyt.com/), which includes a diverse group of researchers studying the evolution of eukaryotic machinery from different points of view — e.g. how do specific cellular systems work in different lineages, and how did that affect the origin of the eukaryotic cell plan?

If you plan on going out drinking (we're probably too late) a new study says that «eating asparagus is a good strategy to prevent a hangover, quickly breaking down alcohol in your system and lessening the chances of a miserable morning after.»

Treatment plan: «Studies have shown that a moderate amount of exercise can help boost the function of the immune system and aid in recovering from many types of illness,» says WH&F science guru Jay Bonaretti, who owns online personal training website aminoz.com.au.

Study of nutrients and how the body handles them based on principles of chemistry and molecular biology; the effect of nutrition choices on diabetes, hypoglycemia and disorders of the major organ systems; food choices and diet planning principles; nutrition prescription for illness; the development and evaluation of nutrition plans; nutrition assessment; the relationship between nutrition and illness; strategies for providing nutritional support for people with serious illness; practical examples in clinical nutrition case studies.

Using lesson plans devised by the G - 8 Host Committee and the Georgia Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for teachers, students have been learning parts of the languages of the countries that are represented, studying their monetary systems, and researching facts about British...

We studied what they planned to use the app for, how their training system worked and what they further needed to be able to do.

Ashwani Vasishth (USA) is an Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, and directs the Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College and is also engaged with urban ecology projects from within a social - ecological - systems perspective, at http://sustainablejc.org.

The most confounding aspect of the 2016 Brandon Hall Group study is that more than half of the companies are not planning to spend money on their Learning Management System, but the the highest satisfaction grade they have to their current Learning Management System is a C -.

Ironically, at a time when the system was winning praise, DoDEA officials planned to hire a consultant to spend 18 months studying the costs to maintain each U.S. school in each community, and the estimated cost of having a local education agency take over a school.

The evidence from a study of New York's magnet schools for secondary students «seems to indicate that it is possible to construct a public high - school choice system that eliminates some of the worst excesses of an unfettered choice plan,» the study says.

Following an initial study, the British government decided to adopt smart meters as part of their plan to update the ageing energy system.

In the upcoming year Katy will pursue a Master's degree in Special Studies where she plans to examine the role that education plays in societies worldwide, and the relationship between society and its education system.

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The grant funded a five - year study to assess the impact of Jeffco's proposed Strategic Compensation plan (a targeted performance - based compensation system) on student achievement and on attracting, retaining, and rewarding high performing educators.

In a separate study conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Amanda Olberg and Michael Podgursky looked at alternative retirement plans offered by charter schools in several key states where participation in the state system was optional.