Sentences with phrase «year about exposure»

The students were asked each year about exposure to medical marijuana advertising, marijuana use and their intentions about whether to use marijuana in the future.

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Ultimately the bank would lose about $ 100 million on its lingering exposure to Lehman, but Scotia still earned $ 3.1 billion that year.

Both are about a one death per million hours of exposure - or just under 10,000 deaths a year.

Sisters Donna, 43, and Robin Barger, 38, of Four Idle Hands have spent several years selling their «devilishly good» jewelry at craft shows in Los Angeles and say the shows give them exposure to customers, fellow crafters, retailers and media personnel who might not know about their online store.

Meraki, a cloud network company acquired by Cisco Systems last year for $ 1.2 billion, touts Presence as a seamless way to increase brand exposure while also collecting data about mobile behavior across locations to «enhance your onsite customer experience.»

But a few years later the New York World's exposure of the racket behind the Klan had had its effect, the Coolidge boom had given the paraders something else to think about, Henry Ford had apologized and retracted, and the Protocols were on their way to the judicial examination which eventually stripped them to the fraudulent skin.

The Strategic Total Return Fund currently has an overall duration slightly over 3 years, primarily in straight Treasuries, with a small 1 % exposure to precious metals shares and about 4 % of assets in utility shares.

As readers of this site know, I'm not a big fan of gold as a core exposure in portfolios (although I've been very, very wrong about this for a number of years).

We spent the last few years answering client questions about why we had no direct exposure to a booming Brazil.

With about $ 130,000 in venture debt exposure ($ 28,000 already returned), I'm hoping to generate a 10 % internal rate of return over the next 5 - 7 years.

As an absolute - return strategy some consider a source of alternative exposure to bonds, QAI has gained 5 % year - to - date, bringing its total returns since inception to about 30 %.

Unless we observe a rather swift improvement in market internals and a further, material easing in credit spreads — neither which would relieve the present overvaluation of the market, but both which would defer our immediate concerns about downside risk — the present moment likely represents the best opportunity to reduce exposure to stock market risk that investors are likely to encounter in the coming 8 years.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

(4) gaining exposure to a long - duration growth asset, with AAC having demonstrated internally funded compound growth in the asset base of about 4 per cent a year over the last 15 years; and

Woodward too seems to have learned after four years how to conduct business, hopefully continuing to pull the strings from behind the scenes and not making an appearance on MUTV in an effort to get exposure and have a little brag about how quality he is.

The problem, argues Bauman, is that too many media stories focus on professional athletes, CTE, and poor outcomes of prolonged concussion (or sports exposure to repetitive head trauma), and [there are] too few stories about athletes who make full recoveries and improve (even after years of concussion symptoms).

During the critical early months and years, when babies should be learning about the world and making millions of neuronal connections, babies exposed to AP are deprived of contact with the outside world (many are constantly carried in a position where they can see nothing but the surface of the mother's clothing) and their exposure to other individuals such as fathers, grandparents and childcare workers is severely limited.

I started my business about nine years ago now and my main consideration before opening the Folksy shop was that I wanted greater exposure for my stock pieces.

During these preschool years, it's all about exposure to letters.

Only four short years to impress upon her the warnings about drinking, the weightiness of foolishness, the exponential exposures of social media, the jumble of joys and dangers of choices...

As more is learned about youth head impact exposure, the researchers say, they can begin to develop methods to evaluate youth - specific helmet designs (as is now being done in the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings, TM now in its third year; ratings of youth football helmets are promised in 2014.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

But know we are talking about exposure that must continue for years and years — there are no shortcuts.

The state health department has come under intense criticism for its handling of the unfolding Hoosick Falls crisis, including the distribution late last year that also downplayed risks of PFOA exposure after federal regulators pushed for a wider public alarm about the situation.

But the state documents show that concerns about health problems linked with exposure to the man - made chemicals stretch back years.

No matter the resistance, the All Progressive Congress would continue talk about and exposure the corruption that hallmarked the 16 years of the People's Democratic Party especially the era of President Goodluck Jonathan.

On Sept. 20, 2016, Buso of Rosario, Argentina, was testing a new camera on his 16 - inch telescope by taking a series of short - exposure photographs of the spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is about 80 million light years from Earth and located within the southern constellation Sculptor.

One study by Slovic showed that when people decide to start smoking despite years of exposure to antismoking campaigns, they hardly ever think about the risks.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

By the time of the survey (an average of about eight years after exposure), only two of the pesticide individuals were able to work full time.

As the Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of the cleanup of this neighborhood stretches into its eighth year, new research has linked PCBs exposure to a high rate of diabetes in this community of about 4,000 people, nearly all African American and half living in poverty.

My first real exposure to sport science came about during a year off when I spent a summer coaching soccer in the United States.

893 first - year female students at three Canadian universities (the universities of Calgary, Guelph and Windsor) were randomly assigned to either the EAAA resistance program or brief exposure to brochures about sexual assault (control group), which is what most universities have available to students on campus.

In the updated guidelines, the ADA calculates kids» probable exposure to fluoride from toothpaste: Assuming that an average - sized 2 - year - old brushes her teeth twice a day and swallows the toothpaste, a smear of toothpaste (about the size of a single grain of rice) would result in 0.013 milligrams of fluoride per kilogram of weight per day.

Information about the participants» exposure to physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect was gathered from multiple sources during two age periods: 0 - 5 years and 6 - 17.5 years.

But in the past few years, regulators have also begun to worry about exposure from foods and beverages.

About 750,000 people in Norway find themselves in this risk zone and, statistically, between 60 and 100 persons will die in Norway each year as an indirect result of noise exposure.

«Even though there is heightened awareness about the need for limited sun exposure and use of sunscreens, we're still seeing far too many cases of skin cancer each year,» Dr. Dickinson said.

While most urine samples collected from about 200 people in Huepetuhe last year showed mercury levels below the World Health Organization limit for occupational exposure, a few were extremely high, according to Dr. Jonh Astete, who coordinated the study by Peru's National Institute of Health.

The EPA estimates that Americans are exposed to about 300 to 360 millirems per year, including routine artificial exposures like getting an x-ray or flying in an airplane.

The new PTSD study included more than 2,300 pairs of men and women who were matched based on an array of variables — including combat exposure — and followed about seven years, on average.

«You start with the world where you and I are getting an exposure from the sun, from the soil we walk on, from the brick in our house that on average is about 400 millirems a year — which is dangerous,» said Tom Lenhart, a former member of the federal - state Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards.

So although radiation protection agencies typically restrict occupational exposure (for the nuclear industry, for example) to an average of 20 mSv per year, scientists don't have hard data on which to base high - stake conclusions about what level of radiation, if any, is really safe.

The trouble is that lengthy exposure to TTHM — drinking about two liters a day for approximately 70 years — can lead to cancer.

Most Brazilians wear the same pair every day for about two years, the study notes, yet it has not been proven that lenses maintain the same level of protection after that type of exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

For years, health officials have warned pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children to limit their fish consumption due to concerns about the apparent link between mercury exposure and subtle delays in the brain development of infants and children.

The hair can only go back to, for example, 12 inches of hair would go back about a year or so of time of exposure.

For times of year when sun exposure isn't possible, I take a supplement of Vitamin D3 (I take about 5,000 IU / day).

«It can be estimated that increased sun exposure to the Norwegian population might at worst result in 200 - 300 more CMM deaths per year, but it would elevate the vitamin D status by about 25 nmol / l (nanomoles per liter) and might result in 4,000 fewer internal cancers and about 3,000 fewer cancer deaths overall.»

... with this remedy I haven't had a cold sore for 6 years despite not being too careful about sun exposure, etc... Please try it!