• "Factory farms are undermining both the climate ambitions of high-street brands and the viability of the Paris Agreement," ​ Collier warned. (foodnavigator.com)
  • EFF urges Congress to reject the STOP CSAM Act of 2023, which would undermine services offering end-to-end encryption , and force internet companies to take down lawful user content. (eff.org)
  • THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to air pollution, even for just a short time, drives up your risk of having a stroke over the next few days, new research warns. (msdmanuals.com)
  • More importantly, if out-of-state insurers do enter state health insurance markets to a significant degree, less healthy individuals and small businesses whose workers are older or in poorer health would likely face much higher premiums as state consumer protections and market reforms are effectively undermined. (cbpp.org)
  • With jobs, household spending and economic recovery the focus of last night's Budget, the Stop the Debt Trap Alliance is warning that lax protections from predatory lenders risk undermining the Government's efforts. (consumeraction.org.au)
  • Overbroad surveillance powers undermine protections for whistleblowers, activists and journalists. (article19.org)
  • Developing stronger national, state, and local protections and finding new ways to prevent these industries from externalizing their costs onto taxpayers can contribute to reducing the behaviors that put people at risk for chronic diseases (7). (cdc.gov)
  • Is Nestlé and McDonald's climate ambition 'undermined' by 'plodding' meat and dairy suppliers? (foodnavigator.com)
  • 13 December 2021 (Updated 31 January 2022) - A new investigation into the DRC's nascent but globally significant lithium sector sounds the alarm on a swathe of potential supply chain risks. (globalwitness.org)
  • We have seen real progress in Board leadership and understanding when it comes to sustainability, and businesses with environmental expertise at senior levels will be well positioned to identify climate risks and opportunities and manage their organisation's own complex green transitions. (edie.net)
  • However, Australian Cattle Veterinarians Association president Dr Alan Guilfoyle , who operates a large private veterinary practice at Clermont in Central Queensland, said it was hard to imagine how the move would not undermine the sustainability of existing veterinary businesses which currently service remote cattle regions. (beefcentral.com)
  • A briefing on the vast scale of weather and food impacts this summer released by scientists earlier this week lays bare the scale of the risks facing the world's food system. (businessgreen.com)
  • A proposal from Member States last December also undermines international standards previously endorsed by EU governments, by significantly reducing the checks required by certain companies covered by the law. (amnesty.eu)
  • The amount of pork-free bacon, tofu-based sausages and other so-called 'fake meats' on Australian supermarket shelves is booming, but new research has found eating these foods could pose significant health risks. (abc.net.au)
  • Misleading communication might promote harmful behaviors that increase personal and public health risks. (cdc.gov)
  • Effective communication-including managing misinformation-can help reduce and prevent public health risks in emergency situations. (cdc.gov)
  • They will weaken health system performance, increase health risks, add to fiscal pressure in the future and undermine development gains. (bvsalud.org)
  • These insecticides have been shown to pose very low health risks to humans and other mammals, but are toxic to insects and kill them. (cdc.gov)
  • Insurance companies have warned about growing climate risks for more than two decades. (theecologist.org)
  • Concentration of media ownership and the uncertain future of the UK's legal framework for press self-regulation has led to a situation where the public's right to access reliable information is regularly undermined. (article19.org)
  • Without safeguards, public and private actors can deploy AI systems which significantly undermine human rights, such as your rights to expression, rights to association, rights to self-identity and rights to privacy, to name a few. (umich.edu)
  • The Protein Unstable Lesion Signature test, validated via the MESA study, is a nontraditional measure of 5-year ACS risk that is significantly more reliable than lipid levels or even screening imaging studies, because it correlates with soft plaque burden and endothelial damage by measuring immunologic response. (medscape.com)
  • On 1st September - the very day that Trans Mountain's insurance certificate is due for renewal - Lloyd's underwriters will return to their iconic City of London underwriting room, knowing that they are undermining the climate efforts of other insurers, global activists and Indigenous peoples. (theecologist.org)
  • By filling the gap which other insurers have left, Lloyd's is undermining the positive steps that climate leaders have taken. (theecologist.org)
  • Doing nothing on climate change today puts our children's future at risk. (businessgreen.com)
  • But Russia insisted that the "snap exercises" were surprise tests of military readiness for their participants and notifying other countries would undermine their value. (thebulletin.org)
  • This, in turn, has led to frustration among the participants, which risks undermining their long-term commitment - and thereby also the project's climate benefits. (lu.se)
  • Forty-nine Brazilian and international civil society groups signed a statement on April 1, cautioning congress that the proposals could undermine the rights guaranteed by the Marco Civil framework, which was signed into law on April 23, 2014. (cpj.org)
  • Japan so far has not announced any plans to facilitate family reunion or pledges for resettlement, while governments such as Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States have approved an increased humanitarian intake of Afghans at risk. (hrw.org)
  • Companies, investors and governments - both of the DRC and companies' home states - must act now or the whole industry risks being seriously undermined by governance risks and harms to people and the planet," said Paul Donowitz. (globalwitness.org)
  • The ultimate goal is to help governments of all countries lower these risks, and raise the healthy life expectancy of their populations. (who.int)
  • By joining hands with militias that target Fulani civilians, state forces risk sparking a wider conflict. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The targeting of Fulani communities-based on the canard that they all support jihadi insurgents-is perpetuating the conflict, facilitating jihadi recruitment of Fulani, and risks spreading the violence into vulnerable southern states. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Clearer US guidance on DTC TV advertising and stronger enforcement would help reduce misleading claims and encourage drug makers to include more qualitative benefit/risk information in ads, according to a new study from Yale University researchers published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. (citeline.com)
  • Looking at the matter this way can provide some useful guidance for weighing risk against expenditure in the human spaceflight program. (reason.com)
  • Inconsistent guidance can also undermine the credibility of your organization. (cdc.gov)
  • Sexual exposure also can put a patient at risk for other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Injecting-drug-use exposure through shared injection equipment can put a patient at risk for acquiring other viral infections (e.g., hepatitis B and hepatitis C). All persons evaluated for possible nonoccupational HIV exposure should be counseled to initiate, resume, or improve risk-reduction behaviors to avoid future exposure and to prevent possible secondary transmission until their current HIV infection status is determined. (cdc.gov)
  • Tokyo) - Japan's government should urgently protect Afghan civilians who are at risk under the new Taliban authorities, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. (hrw.org)
  • Excess red meat is linked to a higher risk of some cancers as well as heart disease . (abc.net.au)
  • Global investor network FIARR warns that high street brands like Nestlé and McDonald's risk missing their climate targets due to scant progress to reduce emissions from meat and dairy suppliers. (foodnavigator.com)
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  • 2] A prediction model that and transparency of such risk adjustment models, and to widen uses a `history of coronary heart disease' as a risk factor to predict discussion on the strengths and limitations of risk adjustment models death from an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is always going based on service claims data. (who.int)
  • The abstract concerned his routine office use of an AHA-accepted test to predict ACS risk: the PULS test. (medscape.com)
  • Anti-vaxxers seized upon the abstract, using motivated reasoning to raise the possibility of an association with an abnormal test result used to predict increased ACS risk, as proof positive that COVID vaccinations are dangerous, if not deadly. (medscape.com)
  • They and others succeeded in undermining that attempt to vindicate minority rights. (atheist.ie)
  • Due to the health emergency risks that the Omicron VOC poses, it is important to avoid the trap of confusing Omicron with the flu. (who.int)
  • Alcohol and substance abuse poses a substantial safety risk to the abusers, co- work ers, and general public. (cdc.gov)
  • While the literature on epistemic risk offers a wide-ranging taxonomy of different kinds of risks (e.g., inductive risk, determining what to count as evidence in the first place, judgments of adequacy/inadequacy for purpose, and curatorial risk), the literature has not paid enough attention to integrative risk despite the pressing challenges it poses (cf. (lu.se)
  • Covenant Review Documentation Score is a simple scoring tool to assess risks in documentation and measure a covenant's strength to protect lenders. (fitchratings.com)
  • What we need is a quantitative criterion to assess what constitutes a rational expenditure to avert astronaut risk. (reason.com)
  • It tries to quantify some of the most important risks to health, and to assess the cost-effectiveness of measures to reduce them. (who.int)
  • Despite its diminishing value after Russia suspended visits to verify the data exchange in early January 2022, the Vienna Document is arguably one of the few conventional risk-reduction tools that had resisted the tumultuous changes in the European security environment. (thebulletin.org)
  • A typical calculation using the latest figures of radiation carcinogenesis risks indicates that the average miner has a 1:670 chance of contracting cancer, most likely lung cancer, as a result of workplace radiation exposure. (onlineopinion.com.au)
  • Health-care providers may want to provide their patients with a system for promptly initiating evaluation, counseling, and follow-up services after a reported sexual, injecting-drug-use, or other nonoccupational HIV exposure that might put a patient at high risk for acquiring infection. (cdc.gov)
  • The team also pinpointed a notable increase in the risk of dying from a stroke within a week following air pollution exposure. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Collectively, the studies explored the potential link between the risk for having a stroke after exposure to any of several key pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The review ultimately pegged exposure to nitrogen dioxide to a 28% jump in short-term stroke risk and a 33% jump in the risk of dying due to stroke. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Exposure to carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and high ozone levels was linked to a stroke risk increase of 26%, 15% and 5%, respectively. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The short-term risk of dying from a stroke after exposure to sulfur dioxide was particularly high, amounting to a 60% increase. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The review also explored the relative risk that followed short-term exposure to very small particles of air pollution versus notably larger particles. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The finding: Exposure to PM1 was linked to a 9% jump in stroke risk. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Meanwhile, PM2.5 exposure was associated with a 15% increase in stroke risk and a 9% increase in the risk of dying from a stroke. (msdmanuals.com)
  • By contrast, PM10 exposure appeared to trigger a 14% rise in stroke risk and a 2% increase in stroke death. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Overall, more was found to be more: the greater the exposure to the various pollutants, the greater the increase in stroke risk. (msdmanuals.com)
  • It begins by looking at why companies need to manage risks caused by risk exposure to foreign currencies, continues via the balance sheet, derivatives and hedge accounting to the importance of centralising foreign exchange control, integrated risk management and communication. (lu.se)
  • Risk management should primarily consist of understanding your risk exposure and what happens when different exchange rates change. (lu.se)
  • Focus instead on understanding your risk exposure at different levels of financial performance and how these are connected. (lu.se)
  • We consider that it would be wiser to redistribute the energy, and instead direct part of the energy devoted to forecasting in an attempt to beat the market to developing in-depth knowledge about your risk exposure and constructing models for decision-making based on this knowledge. (lu.se)
  • The organisations say the move to reduce Official Development Assistance from 0.7% to 0.5% of Britain's gross national income "will inevitably harm the most vulnerable in society, pushing huge numbers back into poverty" and will "undermine the UK's credibility as hosts of the Climate and Development Ministerial, G7, and COP26. (bond.org.uk)
  • Broadly construed integrative risks involve a failure to coordinate integration efforts at the science-policy interface, often with pernicious effects on the decision-making processes the science is meant to support. (lu.se)
  • Too much integration, or integration of inappropriate elements, can undermine the legitimacy of policy processes e.g., by empowering inappropriate actors to make value judgements. (lu.se)
  • In 2019, Discovery Health published a risk adjustment model to determine standardised mortality rates across South African private hospital systems, with the aim of contributing towards quality improvement in the private healthcare sector. (who.int)
  • It is a travesty that in some countries health workers and those at risk groups remain completely unvaccinated. (bvsalud.org)
  • Creating new criminal and civil claims against providers based on broad terms and low standards will undermine digital security for all internet users. (eff.org)
  • If agreements under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are undermined through other international structures, we could face a grim future. (business-humanrights.org)
  • In light of this, the main aim of this paper is to highlight integrative risk as a distinct and undertheorized kind of epistemic risk. (lu.se)
  • Exploring inductive risk: Case studies of values in science, 215-237. (lu.se)
  • People with cardiovascular risk factors should be especially aware of the risks of air pollution, even on a short-term basis, as indicated in this study," said Dr. Jesus Araujo , a professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and a professor of environmental health sciences with UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Instead, the EU is set to agree on a law that will have little to no meaningful impact and could in fact undermine the very global standards the EU has committed to uphold, " she added. (amnesty.eu)
  • To do otherwise risks undermining international standards and efforts to tackle this global problem. (amnesty.eu)
  • This would undermine the fundamental principle of global risk diversification that is vital to avoid the concentration of risk in any one market. (gfiainsurance.org)
  • This year's world health report on risks to health, to be published in October, will be a wake up call to the global community. (who.int)
  • This according to two leading LUSEM researchers in foreign exchange risk management. (lu.se)
  • Still, his own 2-year-old daughter is unvaccinated, since as Brandeis sees it, "the risks outweigh the benefits. (scienceblogs.com)
  • But unless regulators, companies and investors take urgent action, what are currently potential environmental and human rights risks, as well as a lack of accountability and transparency, could end up hardwired into the sector. (globalwitness.org)
  • The publication's aim of facilitating transparency is unfortunately undermined by shortcomings in reporting. (who.int)
  • In this exclusive report , you'll learn the 7 key risks that other industry leaders are paying close attention to, and strategies your council can use to face them effectively. (redmansolutions.com.au)
  • The Japanese government, which has not even offered help to all Afghans with past ties to Japan, should urgently scale up its protection and support to Afghans at risk," said Kanae Doi, Japan director at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)
  • Merve Hickok: Artificial intelligence has the power to undermine human rights. (umich.edu)
  • The Religion Teachers Association of Ireland expressed dismay at such a development, and said that it would undermine twenty years of progressive work by religion teachers, principals and boards of management. (atheist.ie)
  • As to why air pollution raises stroke risk in the first place, Toubasi pointed to a number of ways in which pollution harms the body. (msdmanuals.com)
  • People across the game have made sacrifices and the media reports could easily have undermined the environment and that was something that I was really conscious of. (straitstimes.com)
  • If reckless payday lenders and rent-to-buy operators continue 'business as usual', there is a serious risk that tens of thousands of people will be pushed into a dangerous debt cycle, with significant repercussions for them and the Australian economy. (consumeraction.org.au)
  • Communities and the DRC could lose out unless companies and investors disclose key information on the deals and people behind them, and address environmental risks. (globalwitness.org)
  • US agency is taking a stand against TV ads that present a drug's serious risks as people are dancing to music or engaging in other compelling activities. (citeline.com)
  • The extreme weather comes on top of significant food commodity supply chain disruption as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and successive failed harvests in already food-insecure regions such as the Horn of Africa, which is expected to suffer its fifth failure of the rainfall season in a row, leaving more than 20 million people in the region at risk of being pushed into emergency hunger levels. (businessgreen.com)
  • In people carrying the APOE4 risk variant, a key brain cell type mismanages cholesterol needed to insulate neurons properly-another sign that APOE4 contributes to disease by disrupting lipids in the brain. (mit.edu)
  • The new study combines evidence from postmortem human brains, lab-based human brain cell cultures, and Alzheimer's model mice to show that when people have one or two copies of APOE4, rather than the more common and risk-neutral APOE3 version, cells called oligodendrocytes mismanage cholesterol, failing to transport the fat molecule to wrap the long vine-like axon "wiring" that neurons project to make brain circuit connections. (mit.edu)
  • More evidence is required to better understand the interactions between the two viruses and if the severity of disease is higher when influenza and COVID-19 co-infect a person, especially for high-risk or older people. (who.int)
  • In the long run, however, you will be wrong and that can have devastating consequences for your company," says Lars Oxelheim, professor emeritus of Business Administration at Lund University School of Economics and Management and one of the authors of the book Corporate Foreign Exchange Risk Management . (lu.se)
  • This is because there are more value-creating aspects to focus on in foreign exchange risk management than making it imperative to forecast coming foreign exchange fluctuations. (lu.se)
  • The book is clearly divided into ten instructional chapters, which cover the different factors in foreign exchange risk management. (lu.se)
  • Companies need to be better at communicating risk management in their accounts. (lu.se)
  • OSHA safety standards: How politics have undermined the agency's ability to protect workers. (slate.com)
  • The Index examines 60 publicly-listed animal protein producers, worth a combined $338bn, and rates the level of ESG risk these companies expose investors to. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Even some of the biggest companies - powered by the mightiest marketing and creative teams - occasionally undermine their brand identities with a confusing creative campaign. (adobe.com)
  • Here's a look at four of the most common ways companies accidentally undermine the power of their brands - and what you can do to avoid making the same mistakes. (adobe.com)
  • Local Manono communities appear to have differing and at times unclear understanding of the projects and risks related to the impact of the lithium mines, including their environmental impacts. (globalwitness.org)
  • NASA's irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives. (reason.com)
  • Another risk of jumping on the latest trend: It might make you stand out less . (adobe.com)
  • However, risk factors that capture the degree models be improved. (who.int)
  • For the flu, antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir may be used to prevent and treat influenza A and B. The use of antiviral drugs can reduce severe complications and death due to influenza and is especially important for high-risk groups. (who.int)
  • As more SA private sector medical to be inferior to a model that uses `current admission to hospital for funders explore their use, it is important that the quality of the AMI' as a risk factor. (who.int)
  • A 15-country study of nuclear industry workers (excluding mining) published in 2005, the largest study of nuclear industry workers ever conducted, found a statistically-significant increased risk of cancer and leukaemia in nuclear industry workers, even at low radiation doses. (onlineopinion.com.au)
  • Based on data from hundreds of programs, policy analyst John D. Graham and his colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis found in 1997 that the median cost for lifesaving expenditures and regulations by the U.S. government in the health care, residential, transportation, and occupational areas ranges from about $1 million to $3 million spent per life saved in today's dollars. (reason.com)
  • Depending on the specific nature of the pollutant in question, stroke risk rose anywhere from 5% to 28% within less than a week after first being exposed to high levels of air pollution. (msdmanuals.com)
  • He warned about a possible association between vaccination and inflammation, as via several mechanisms that are suggested by specific elevations of three PULS test components (FAS, FAS-ligand, and hepatocyte growth factor) suggestive of increased ACS risk. (medscape.com)