The course also included training on earthquake phenomena, risk prevention and survival techniques.
The technical workshop in Venice will involve project partners and end-users in order to jointly develop a concept for global geo-information products for risk prevention and preparedness through EO imagery elaboration.
The Platform explored the intrinsic linkages between world heritage and intangible cultural heritage, which is embedded in the living tradition of the city and which drives Kyoto's community engagement and deliberate commitment towards disaster-risk prevention in the future.
Its overall objective is to provide actors responsible for disaster management, risk prevention, civil protection and also spatial planning with EO-based solutions contributing particularly to an improved preparedness and mitigation planning for areas highly vulnerable to natural disasters and already noticeable climate change trends.
The concept should then lead to the development of maps to be technically specified and made available to the selected end-users who will have to test the products and deploy them in order to achieve higher societal benefits in the area of disaster risk prevention and reduction.
Now, he hopes the trial will lead to better risk-prevention systems in Italy that have clear-cut expectations for scientists, government officials and the media.
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In Pakistan, for example, the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), created under the auspices of UNESCO, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed the Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS), a risk-prevention system using data obtained via satellite.
And physicians need to talk to their young patients about STIs, risk behaviors and effective prevention methods.
The promotion focus on potential gain leads to speed, creativity, innovation, and embracing risk, while the prevention focus on avoiding loss leads to accuracy, careful deliberation, thoroughness, and a strong preference for the devil-you-know.
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Hotchkiss also objected to jury instructions on foreseeing the risk, saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not identify TBE as a foreseeable risk to travelers to China.
Though the exact causes of breast cancer are unknown, understanding its risk factors is essential to prevention.
The GMC's guidance continues to explain that doctors should usually seek the patient's consent or tell the patient they are going to disclose information without their consent, unless to do so would put others at risk or would undermine the prevention or detection of a serious crime.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey 2004, more than 70% of adult Milwaukeeans reported that they had had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days--the highest percentage on our list.
But Julia Thompson, of the National Osteoporosis Society, said falls prevention did not reduce the risk of things such as spinal fractures.
Furthermore, 40 percent of chemicals firms surveyed say their investments are targeted at preventive, control-based risk management with a focus on loss prevention.
Caution should be taken in prescribing statins for primary prevention among people at low cardiovascular risk.
Prevention-focused people are more risk-averse, but their work is also more thorough, accurate, and carefully planned.
For example, the Affordable Care Act has expanded coverage of free preventive care (including HIV screening and STD prevention counseling for adults at higher risk) to an estimated 3.8 million AAPIs with private insurance.
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He said the government's refreshed suicide prevention strategy targeted those most at risk by "providing the right interventions at the right time", but added it needed to "make sure information about treatment and support is available to those who need them, including those who are suffering from bereavement following a suicide".
To persuade the prevention-minded person to take a risk, recent research by psychologists Abigail Scholer, Xi Zou, Ken Fujita, Steve Stroessner, and E.
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Antibiotics for the purpose of endocarditis prevention are still recommended for high-risk patients undergoing certain invasive procedures involving the dental area, respiratory tract and infected skin or musculoskeletal tissues.
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The data from both less-reliable observational studies and clinical trials was conflicting, and Merck began three big cancer prevention studies that could also assess any risk Vioxx caused to the heart.
The Scottish Executive said the fire service was concentrating prevention work on areas at the greatest risk, with "higher-risk premises" such as hotels and pubs receiving more in-depth and rigorous inspections than ever before.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pregnancy puts Wolf at higher risk of complications for flu in general, and so far that also holds true for the novel 2009 H1N1 virus.
Go Red for Women is specifically about increasing awareness among women, particularly in at-risk minority communities about the risks and prevention of heart disease, but The Fit Cycle, as Winslow calls her project, is relevant to everyone.
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In another recent cancer prevention study that found no excess heart risk in Celebrex users, patients only took Celebrex once per day, not twice as in the NCI study, potentially reducing any damaging effects to the heart from Cox-2 inhibition.
Now, however, there are data showing some sign of heart risk for every Cox-2 inhibitor ever approved in the U.S. Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke in one cancer prevention study, and now the same is true for Celebrex.
"Given this new data, " Kim said, "it is not clear that the cardiovascular risk seen in Approve makes Vioxx unique in the class of similar drugs marketed in the U.S." Approve is the cancer-prevention study that turned up the heart risk for Vioxx.
Prevention of Violence in Young People at Social Risk, Through Promotion of Cultural Expressions Such as Arts, Recreation and Sports.
According to Dr. Sana Al-Khatib, lead researcher of the study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ICDs often are recommended as a primary prevention tactic for patients who are at high risk for a cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmia, but who have not yet suffered from these symptoms.
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