Most significant, perhaps, are the improved practices implemented by the county Sheriff's Department that include everything from deputies driving more carefully to avoid accidents to minimizing the use of force on the job.
The project aimed to pilot the implementation of good post-harvest management practices to manage quality, assure safety and reduce losses in prioritized traditional fruit and vegetable supply chains with stakeholders, in order to generate evidence to support the uptake of the improved practices.
While the reduction in proportion of newborns with respiratory morbidity following the improved practice of delaying CS is significant, the estimated number of neonates that require special care baby unit beds has slightly increased from 331 to 360 due to the increase in the number of elective CS.
Studies elsewhere point out that, when TBAs are trained, their ability to adopt the required improved practices is not universal and the extra confidence they gain after being trained might lead to higher incidence of dangerous procedures and delays in referring women for specialized EmOC services [ 14- 16, 71].
The rise of the small wineries has had a tremendous impact, and the changeover to improved practices in the vineyard, better varieties, and better/smarter decisions in the cellar has helped this industry project a new, highly positive image.
Dickin KL and Seim, G. Adapting the Trials of Improved Practices approach to explore the acceptability and feasibility of nutrition and parenting recommendations: What works for low-income families?
ORRISSA NGO, as a change agent, had been promoting agriculture in the villages with improved practices based on modern farming approaches, with the support received from MISEREOR Germany.
An important contribution of this paper was adaptation of the trials of improved practices methodology to understand barriers and facilitators of behavior change in the US context, focused on older children with more diverse diets (than the usual application to diets of 0-2 year olds in low-income countries), and to parenting as well as nutrition behaviors.
But while changes in the radiology department have led to improved practices, the whistle-blower, Dr. Charles Sherwood, asserts that the medical center was obligated to notify all patients whose X-rays and CT scans might have been improperly reviewed to determine whether any problems were missed.
The use of SRI practices alone raised yield by 142%, and using SRI with the other two improved practices gave a yield increment of 253%, again showing synergistic effects among practices.
The authors calculated the minimum price of carbon needed to offset the costs of reduced impact logging (RIL) relative to conventional harvest practices but did not consider other costs related to the implementation of improved practices, which can be substantial (e.g., foregone benefits of reduced timber harvests) and the financial consequences of management decisions.
