... Identification, monitoring, indicators and assessments Guidelines for incorporating biodiversity related issues into environmentalimpact-assessment legislation or processes and in strategic impact assessment ... Commission–but simply shifts the contentious issue to the member states [80] Strategic environmental assessment and GM crop development It is apparent that the assessment of the systemic risks of ... approachesfor assessing the implications of GM crop agriculture New risk concepts that lay the ground for more holistic approachesto assess risks beyond the traditional scope of GMO legislation...
... interest is student learning, there were four main reasons that it was not feasible for this study to assess the impact of the collaboratives’ efforts on student learning First, the sites’ efforts, ... Corporation to formatively assess CERI to provide sites with feedback to improve their efforts, provide information to inform the foundation s decisions about support and funding to grantees, and ... actively sought to discuss issues with these evaluators and understand their local evaluation efforts Site visits in 2005 and 2008 were more abbreviated In 2005, the site visits consisted of the...
... questions is due to sparsity – these responses occur in much fewer sentences than Who and What, so systems most often missed these answers Since this was a new task, this first evaluation showed ... Analysis For each Partial or Incorrect answer, annotators were asked to select system errors, translation errors, or both (Further analysis is necessary to distinguish between ASR errors and ... create a rule-based merger 4.4 MT Systems The MT Combination system used by both of the English 5W systems combined up to nine separate MT systems System weights for combination were optimized together...
... recurrent disease, based on individual situations Patients with suspicious symptoms, such as signs at the physical examination or an elevated serum SCC-Ag level during follow-up periods, were given ... enrolled patientsAt diagnosis, 77 patients had elevated serum SCC-Ag, corresponding to an overall pre-treatment sensitivity of 68.8% (77/112) Most patients (96.1%) had normalized SCC-Ag levels at ... to previously reported results For example, several studies of cervical cancerpatients showed that an elevated serum SCC-Ag level was associated with 70-92% rate of recurrent tumors [8,11,14-19];...
... business sponsorship for sun-safe uniforms, and conducting discussions that promote the use of hats and sunglasses Some schools might have policies that prohibit or discourage students and staff ... students to wear protective clothing, hats, and sunglasses to prevent excessive sun exposure These measures could be employed during physical education classes, recess, field trips, outdoor sports ... practices Careful observations for a few days might also provide important information concerning students’ use of shade areas and sunscreen at recess or lunch time, and staff s use of hats, shirts,...
... study, tumor grades were shown to be factors related to OS and DSF rates Therefore, aggressive treatments should be considered forpatients with these risk factors Although the combination of chemotherapy ... Hemiglossectomy 66 77 Wide excision 11 Yes 64 74 No Neck dissection died of stomach cancer and remaining patients died of other chronic diseases Risk group analysis Fifty-seven patients had an invasion ... follow-up data of complications in addition to the disease status and survival There are several limitations in this study because it is retrospective The number of patients was small enough that further...
... needs assessment, analysis, planning, monitoring and response Attention to priority cross-cutting issues • Ensure integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in sectoral needs assessment, ... assessments of potential hazards, associated health vulnerabilities, and emergency preparedness in countries most atrisk • Provide pre-impact evidence-based risk assessments on health status ... by selected indicators • The Initial Rapid Assessment (IRA) tool: Measures the deviations from baseline indicators that are caused by a given disaster or crisis IRA is not possible or credible...
... circumstances, such as when a company sells its lease, MMS s inability to detect missing royalty reports presents the risk that MMS will not identify instances in which it is owed royalties that ... purchasers often pay MMS about what they would pay other producers for oil, and sometimes less Indeed, MMS s policies allow it to sell oil for up to 7.7 cents less per barrel than MMS estimates it ... testimony is based on ongoing work When this work is complete, we expect to make recommendations to address these and other findings To address these issues GAO analyzed MMS data, reviewed MMS,...
... interesting formats with lots of visuals and graphics to help students learn.”12 Of course, the basic instructional strategies at the heart of these approachesto working with at- risk students pre-date ... and success in life At the same time, these teachers are often pressured by school administrators, policymakers, and politicians to raise graduation rates Too often, the pressure to “do something” ... (1) supplemental services for at- risk students; (2) different forms of alternative education for students who not well in regular classrooms; and (3) school-wide restructuring efforts for all students.”9...
... integrated watershed management (k) Monitor sustained freshwater flows into the marine eco-systems (l) Establish standards for classification of surface water bodies (m) Launch phased programmes for ... infiltration Multan Nishtar Hospital statistics revealed reporting of more than 295 deaths due to water-born diseases besides registration of 46166 cases of chronic diseases, 5921 cases with ... consultations with stakeholders.” The policy draft, however, has yet to satisfy all consumer rights advocates who say there are many issues – such as rehabilitation of dysfunctional schemes, inequities...
... International Maritime Organization the Commission will continue to press for tougher measures to reduce ships’ emissions It recommends member states to ratify MARPOL Annex VI as soon as possible, ... 8 Seawater scrubbing Seawater scrubbing is another possible means of reducing the emissions of sulphur from ships The scrubber transfers the oxides of sulphur from the exhaust gas to the water ... acidification, eutrophication Truck versus ship emissions Stationary sources versus ship emissions International action so far Lower sulphur fuel Seawater scrubbing...
... Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is the single most important cause of illness and death in preterm infants Common treatments for RDS include supplemental oxygen and nasal continuous positive ... need for sedation/analgesia 16 parental satisfaction Types of participants Infants < 37 weeks’ gestation with signs of RDS (oxygen requirement, respiratory distress and consistent chest radiograph) ... 2000;105:1194–1201 Yost 2002 Yost CC, Soll RF Early versus delayed selective surfactant treatment for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2002, Issue [DOI: 10.1002/...
... baseline data and A2 and B2 scenarios up to 2100 These maps and charts formed the basis for discussions at Provincial, District and Commune levels (Annex 2) • GIS desk-top analysis: using satellite ... Building resilience of coastal livelihoods most atriskto climate change thus requires measures to ensure the resilience of linked ecosystem resources This study has sought to capture this linkage ... households which rely on subsistence and income-generation activities susceptible to natural hazards seasonal climatic events and trends also produce significant stress This is especially true for...
... Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee: Heart disease and stroke statistics – 2006 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke ... classified as low risk and those with 3–5 risk factors were grouped as high riskfor a diagnosis of diabetes This paper will focus on respondents with type diabetes, low risk (0–2 risk factors), ... representative of the U .S population with or atriskfor diabetes, the EQ-5D utility scores would be useful for national and multinational comparisons for quality-adjusted life-year assessments...
... representative patients were selected for analysis These patients respectively had values for the mean female breast dose, mean female lung dose, and mean male lung dose that were closest to the ... and to integrate this data in a radiobiological model to estimate the associated reductions in risk of radiotherapy-induced breast and lung cancer Methods Dose distributions were estimated for forty-one ... is that it employs both observations from cohort and case-control studies, as well as biological evidence, to predict SC risk based on radiation exposures, without having to wait for decades to...
... test performances with some sub-stations recording 10–20 times as many refusals as actual tests, whereas other sites had fewer refusals than tests These results are at odds with studies that show ... Reminder) increased 3–5 fold In contrast, no change in HIV testing rates was seen in the control stations As compared to at- riskpatients seen at the control facilities, at- riskpatientsat the intervention ... HIV testing to at- riskpatients We also used these interactions to reinforce more formal educational efforts Particular attention was paid to: increasing providers' sense of responsibility for...
... test performances with some sub-stations recording 10–20 times as many refusals as actual tests, whereas other sites had fewer refusals than tests These results are at odds with studies that show ... Reminder) increased 3–5 fold In contrast, no change in HIV testing rates was seen in the control stations As compared to at- riskpatients seen at the control facilities, at- riskpatientsat the intervention ... HIV testing to at- riskpatients We also used these interactions to reinforce more formal educational efforts Particular attention was paid to: increasing providers' sense of responsibility for...
... consequences both for health outcomes related to drug use and (of equal importance) for its local community 's sense of safety and security Much of that research has been conducted by investigators at ... Minister Paul Harper – a conservative who has traveled to the US to visit George W Bush and come back to Ottawa hostile to harm reduction in all its forms – a sentiment that originates in Washington ... outcomes, would be the basis for celebration and lead to moves to expand the model and provide similar services elsewhere in Canada Instead, there is a distinct possibility that InSite will be closed...
... arthritis are needed to further evaluate the use of US to predict the presence of asymptomatic gouty arthritis in an individual hyperuricemic patient Abbreviations MSU, monosodium urate; NHANES, National ... treatment is still to be determined US may serve as a noninvasive means to diagnose gouty arthritis in hyperuricemic individuals who have yet to develop symptomatic gouty arthritis How long hyperuricemia ... arthritis, tophi and the double contour sign were not proven MSU crystals In both studies, therefore, a definite diagnosis of gouty arthritis was not established Whether finding sonographic evidence suggestive...
... different GEFs mediate specific inputs from a small subset of receptors to the respective GTPases [17] However, the precise connections between receptors and GEFs remains largely uncharted To date, even ... relevance of studies focusing on one, or even two, lines for the disease as a whole To address this issue, the authors evaluated 11 melanoma cell lines in total, and found that silencing of ARHGAP22 ... accounted for by tissue-specific expression of a number of these regulators, it is likely that a significant fraction of them is expressed in any given cell The reigning hypothesis is that different...