Sentences with phrase «systemic causes of»

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project has a four-fold mission to: (1) secure the exoneration, release from imprisonment, and restoration to society of persons who are innocent and have been wrongly convicted; (2) provide clinical training and experience to students in the fields of law, journalism, criminal justice, and forensic science; (3) collaborate with law enforcement agencies and the courts to address systemic causes of wrongful convictions; and (4) strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in Pennsylvania through public education and advocacy.

The Inquiry has a mandate to identify and examine systemic causes of violence against Indigenous women and girls, including Indigenous people who Two - Spirit.

The Coalition is pleased that the federal government has mandated the Inquiry to examine systemic causes of violence and has taken into account the needs of vulnerable communities and witnesses.

Sure, it's important to help out individuals in need, but that kind of ad hoc action doesn't cure the larger, systemic causes of poverty.

West Coast LEAF is pleased to see that the Inquiry is mandated to address systemic causes of violence against Indigenous women and girls.

In middle aged and older cats with HCM, secondary systemic causes of left ventricular wall thickening should be excluded such as systemic hypertension and hyperthyroidism.

Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity.

help all young people fulfill their potential by addressing the systemic causes of educational inequality.

The Mind Lab by Unitec is proud to be partnered with Teach First NZ: Ako Mātātupu, a not - for - profit organisation that seeks to help all young people fulfill their potential by addressing the systemic causes of educational inequality.

Having more open discussions would not only lead to more ethical decisions for individual students, but also could allow teachers to identify the systemic causes of these individual cases — and help schools begin to make sustainable change.

The summit's agenda was to «drill into the systemic causes of gender bias in the industry and craft solutions,» a spokesperson said in a statement.

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

We also looked closely at whether policy stories focused on systemic causes of wildfire disasters, such as human development in fire - prone areas, or merely on symptoms of these problems, such as needing more slurry bombers for fighting fires.

He asserts «Smoking is a systemic cause of lung cancer.

HIV is a systemic cause of AIDS.

Smoking is a systemic cause of lung cancer.

Driving while drunk is a systemic cause of auto accidents.

Sex without contraception is a systemic cause of unwanted pregnancies.

Not exact matches

«I have been granted access to the police in several states; I've got to know the people affected by crime; and I've also spent time with the perpetrators of crime, with the idea of understanding the causes of it, both on a systemic level and also in a very personal way.»

«We're beginning to see discussions that these capital charges are sufficiently large it's causing those firms to think seriously about whether or not they should spin off some of the enterprises to reduce their systemic footprint, and frankly, that's exactly what we want to see happen.»

In a similar way, trading market fragmentation caused by ill - designed rules and burdensome regulations — and the application of those rules abroad — is harming market liquidity and market safety and soundness, increasing the systemic risk that the Dodd - Frank Act was predicated on reducing.

Note that whatever caused the spread to widen in August 2007 was signaling a systemic financial problem well in advance of the actual trigger events.

And we keep wondering if the systemic shortage of investable assets will cause another bond rally such as followed the 2016 election.

Quick to say they found the root - cause of the crisis — a banking system thats massive financial leverage and global interconnectedness created profound systemic risks to our modern economy — they swiftly passed Dodd Frank, a comprehensive regulatory reform package dressed up as the antidote to our sick financial system.

Jacobs» original contribution to the understanding of the sources of systemic corruption is her theory that one cause is inadvertent.

It is also possible that the upheaval caused by Original Sin results in the prevalence of chronic systemic diseases.

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of it.

This approach recognizes that the family crisis is caused both by cultural changes and by social - systemic developments in areas of work, economics, child care and gender inequality.

Furthermore he does not emphasize the wholesale diminishing of potentializing (for both women and men) caused by institutional - societal sexism or the therapeutic necessity of empowering persons to work together to eradicate systemic growth oppression through social - political action.

More people are experiencing systemic candida (when the problem spreads throughout the body and causes a myriad of unpleasant side effects).

I've never been a big fan of the «culture of losing» theory that gets passed around, but I'm also not naive enough to think there isn't a risk of systemic damage caused by habitual, and what could be perceived as intentional losing.

It also set an example to other world leaders for ignoring their own systemic causes in favor of matinee theatrics.

Plus the sheer weight of it all has created a few businesses that are optimized for it, and could cause a systemic shock for them and their customers / creditors if it is ripped away like a band - aid.

First, the inability of these enquiries to pin down a particular discrete set of root causes for the riots implies that any assessment of the problems of the status quo must adopt an interlinked, systemic approach.

Bites by some of these animals, such as beaded lizards, can cause envenomation leading to systemic shock.

Such antibodies, when attached to DNA in complexes, get lodged in the walls of arteries and in tissues to cause inflammation that damages blood vessels, skin, joints and the kidneys as part of the most severe type of lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

In rare cases the bite also can cause a severe illness called systemic loxoscelism, characterized by a blood clotting disorder and hemolysis, destruction of red blood cells.

Other causes of heart failure include systemic processes such as inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders, endocrine derangements, and kidney disease, which result in an unknown number of cases.

Such claims have linked the rise in occurrence of corn diseases like Goss's wilt, which causes leaf blight and systemic wilt, to the adoption of transgenic corn across the U.S.. However, a new study from the USDA - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) provides empirical evidence showing no increase in disease susceptibility in transgenic sweet corn treated with glyphosate.

RNA abnormalities have drawn attention as the cause of various systemic manifestations of DM.

Their research showed that systemic loss of ATG7 caused loss of fat tissue and sensitivity to fasting, but few other damaging consequences to normal tissue in the short - term.

In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it causes systemic infection of body tissues, similar to typhoid.

«This lymph - node - targeting modification causes pretty much all of the material to get caught in the draining lymph nodes, so that means it's more potent because it's getting concentrated in the lymph nodes, and it also makes it more safe because it's not getting into the systemic circulation,» Irvine says.

With their new draft in hand, Brand et al. searched the C. kruseigenome for genes that are associated with pathogenesis in the more familiar Candida albicans — the cause of thrush, vaginal yeast infections, and sometimes potentially lethal systemic infections.

Sepsis, a complication resulting from a systemic infection, is a leading cause of death in US intensive care units.

In this study, by using a systemic mtEF4 gene knockout mouse model, researchers found that mtEF4 knockout damages the oxidative phosphorylation function in germ cells of male mice, thus causing male sterility.

It is the number one cause of systemic antibiotic use, which floods the whole body with antibiotics rather than just a specific region, said Rodrigo Bicalho, assistant professor of dairy production medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Liver cirrhosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with complications such as HE resulting in recurrent emergency hospitalizations, irreversible brain injury, and a poor prognosis.2 - 5 There is some evidence that HE patients have a reduced relative abundance of certain beneficial gut microbiota (e.g. Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae) and an enrichment of potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae ¬ - a microbial profile that has been linked to cognitive impairment and systemic inflammation in cirrhotic patients with HE.1 Faecal microbiota transplants have been used successfully to correct dysbiotic conditions such as recurrent Clostridium difficile and ulcerative colitis,6 - 8 and a preliminary report suggested that FMT may be promising in the management of HE.9

Because high serum levels of MCP - 1 cause the white cells and osteoclasts to be stimulated, this process could have systemic effects as well as effects on bone.

This causes the body's white blood cells to release type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade of additional immune activity as it binds with receptors in different tissues.