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In an active surveillance program, a patient diagnosed with a PSA-prompted biopsy delays treatment.
While this approach is still being studied, the results so far appear promising: men who participate in active surveillance programs are 14 times more likely to die of a cause unrelated to prostate cancer.
Active surveillance programs are an encouraging prospect for minimizing the negative consequences of PSA testing.
Europe's low productivity reflects a simple statistical fact that fatally undermines relatively high productivity per hours worked: weak participation in the active labor force means that Europeans work a very low number of hours.
The basic lessons of US success should be recognized: macroeconomic stability; budgetary prudence; global trade, competition and de-monopolization in telecommunications and finance; and an active industrial policy geared towards a knowledge-based economy, building upon science, research and development, information technology, and higher education.
The effort is part of a larger national strategy, launched in 2014, to provide 76% of adults with financial access and 56% with active savings accounts by the end of 2016.
But truly open societies demand active civic institutions and private sectors independent of government; so societies, even more than states, must become qualified.
Organizers of Bali’s renowned Ubud Writers and Readers Festival have just had a foretaste of what may be a new round of active censorship, with local officials threatening to cancel the entire festival if proposed panel discussions of the massacres went ahead.
Despite the censorship, the Chinese blogosphere is blossoming, with probably somewhere between 5-10 million active blogs.
Finally, the argument must be made more forcefully that it will be much harder to protect our societies against the revolutionary terrorism of radical Islam without the active support of all law-abiding Muslims.
Although active participation in global production networks has brought significant benefits, it may have locked China into the lower end of the value chain, reducing its scope for future progress.
It can also provide an opportunity for Europeans to demonstrate again to the US their willingness to invest in self-defense capabilities, and to play an active role in a process that, until now, has been conducted largely over their heads, by the US and Russia.
Hence the strengthening of the active screening mechanism of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.
If the private sector cannot improve the availability of credit on its own, and no good neighbor steps forward to help, as Japan did in East Asia, government must take a more active role in restructuring the existing credit institutions as well as creating new ones.
Indeed, policymakers and financial institutions alike would do well to recognize that, as abundant research and experience have shown, sustainable growth cannot be achieved without women’s active participation.
We recognized that large bubble-driven losses in assets held by leveraged financial institutions would cause a panicked flight to safety, and that preventing a deep depression required active official intervention as a lender of last resort.
Another, far more credible explanation is that Europeans’ interpretations of “a more active and stronger security policy” differ widely.
European efforts to induce Teheran to renounce its nuclear designs by addressing Iran’s legitimate security concerns and offering important opportunities for economic and social betterment cannot be successful without active US support.
This resulted in a significant reduction in the interest-rate differential with other countries, which, together with a more active intervention policy in the spot and future markets, brought the exchange rate to a much more competitive level, despite the global currency war.
As these measures take effect, self-sufficient satellite towns will likely develop, reducing transportation-related energy consumption further, while fostering a more active civil society.
For the first time, the Arab League is playing an active role in addressing political upheaval and government brutality in its midst, as is the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Car owners are an affluent, socially active, and easily organized group.
Unpaid care work – which includes the vital tasks that keep households functioning, such as looking after children and the elderly, cooking, and cleaning – obviously amounts to a major hurdle to more active participation in the economy.
Japan, too, must play an active role in security and peace-keeping.
Russia will also benefit from an active foreign-policy engagement with the EU's leading members.
Countries that are active in the Baltic Sea region, for starters, should exchange “due regard” regulations – the national operating procedures that state aircraft must follow when in the proximity of civilians.
A number of developing countries – notably India, China, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, and Panama – played an active and influential part in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Another approach envisions a more active, cooperative Iranian role in reconstructing Iraq.
I hope that they will also be active citizens, urging their government to bring about a fairer and more sustainable world.
Even if some crops were to become contaminated, the chances that active drug substances would be present in the final food product at sufficient levels to have an adverse effect on human health would remain very small.
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