Sentences with phrase «21st century increases»

Sleep deprivation in the 21st century increases the risks not only in occupations such as transport and healthcare (doctors are tired, stressed and burned out) it also impairs and even damages a person's ability to form crucial decisions.

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As the 21st century is well on its way, motivated individuals and freethinking employees are embracing the entrepreneurial spirit in ever - increasing numbers.

Despite this, these numbers have been increasing exponentially in the 21st century, considering that in 1995 only 1 % of the world was connected to the Web.

«Promoting Internet access nationwide and increasing STEM education will ensure Canada's workforce has the skill set needed for a 21st Century economy and help Canada close the competitiveness gap that exists with other G20 nations.»

One of the biggest challenges facing all levels of government in the 21st Century has been Canadians» increasing reluctance to pay the higher taxes needed to fund the services they want.

21ST - CENTURY DETECTION AND PREVENTION Value Chain Track As the burden of chronic ailments increases along with our aging populations, public health experts are in near - universal agreement that we need to a far better job of preventing disease.

With Trade Promotion Authority, the United States will be able to pursue 21st century trade agreements that support and create U.S. jobs while helping American manufacturers, service providers, farmers and ranchers increase U.S. exports and compete in a highly competitive, globalized economy.

Moreover, the recent increase in the number of applicants for priestly formation demonstrates both the enduring influence of John Paul II (who many 21st - century seminarians continue to identify as their role model) and the importance of a strong sense of Catholic identity in attracting and forming future pastors.

The focus on the increase in death rates for white Americans between ages 45 - 54 in the media obscures equally troubling results in Anne Case and Angus Deaton's recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, «Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century.»

Australia's challenge throughout the remainder of the 21st century is reconciling the economic imperative of developing our energy resources to meet the ever - increasing Asian energy market, with the need to maintain our energy security and develop an Australian economy that is shielded from the damaging effects of Dutch disease.

In the 21st century there has been an accelerating increase in the American gourmet market, due in part to rising income, globalization of taste, and knowledge of health and nutritional benefits.

They see increasing demands on adolescents, combined with 21st century lifestyles, making kids more vulnerable than ever to drug abuse and addiction.

He praised the Buffalo Police Department's 21st Century program, a scholarship initiative geared towards increasing diversity on the force.

Governor Cuomo has put forward a plan to reimagine our transportation system for the 21st century and it will result in less traffic, increased capacity, and more durability to withstand natural disasters.

«Rather than encouraging money to be spent on increasing airport capacity, the government should help cut down on internal flights by making sure Britain's railways are fit for the 21st century,» he said.

He advocates increased federal support for community colleges in order to educate and train local people for jobs in the 21st century.

«I am committed to achieving a 21st century healthcare system that lowers costs, improves access and increases quality for hard working North Country families.»

In the 21st century, there's an increasing «globalization of risk,» Pascale argues.

Under the worst - case scenario (RCP 8.5), which assumes that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the authors show the potential for extremely large net increases in temperature - related mortality in the warmer regions of the world.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

At the eve of the 21st century, discussions on the future of science and scientists show that there is a need for an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, increased international cooperation, new forms of scientific training and career structures for young scientists, and increased participation of scientists in public affairs and public awareness of science.

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st century coupled with an increase in dry deep soil conditions during agricultural growing season.

The full effects on the global climate will come later, and even if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere stabilises at double today's levels the International Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) estimates that by end of the 21st century the global temperature will have increased by between 1.5 °C and 4.5 °C.

The increase in cancer is real, she says, caused in large part by the daily allotment of poison that is the price of admission to our 21st - century world.

In the 21st century, however, in order to meet consumers» expectations for steadily increasing computational power, chipmakers have had to begin equipping their chips with more and more cores, or processing units.

However, delaying additional mitigation to 2030 will substantially increase the technological, economic, social and institutional challenges associated with limiting the warming over the 21st century to below 2ºC relative to pre-industrial levels, the report finds.

Scientists have developed a new method for revealing how sea levels might rise around the world throughout the 21st century to address the controversial topic of whether the rate of sea level rise is currently increasing.

All three, according to the citation, «have contributed significantly to increasing the quantity and availability of food, and can play a critical role as we face the global challenges of the 21st century of producing more food, in a sustainable way, while confronting an increasingly volatile climate.»

The models predicted erosion would increase by at least 100 percent in a quarter of western U.S. watersheds between the start of the 21st century and 2050, a surprisingly large increase in the amount of sediment to enter local streams, according to Sankey.

In addition, two - thirds of western watersheds are projected to experience at least a 10 percent increase in erosion by the middle of the 21st century.

Sankey and his colleagues wanted to estimate how projected increases in wildfires would change erosion throughout the West between the start of the 21st century and 2050 — the first assessment of fire - induced erosion, said Sankey.

On average, the models predicted an 11 percent increase in CAPE in the U.S. per degree Celsius rise in global average temperature by the end of the 21st century.

«The so - called 21st Century Cures Act contains huge news for supporters of biomedical research: It recommends substantial budget increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including $ 10 billion in extra funding over 5 years.

New projections considering changes in sea level rise, tides, waves and storm surge over the 21st century find global warming could cause extreme sea levels to increase significantly along Europe's coasts by 2100.

Scientists have not pinpointed the reason for the strengthening of the low pressure system in the Amundsen Sea, but the number and intensity of storms in the region could continue to increase throughout the 21st century as a consequence of greenhouse gas warming, Thomas said.

But the panel of scientists and other experts was wrong: By 2001, the group estimated that average temperatures would increase by 2.7 to 8.1 degrees F (1.5 to 4.5 degrees C) in the 21st century, and they raised the lower end to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) this year in their most recent report.

Researchers increased temperatures at the test plots by 3.4 degrees C, an increase that might happen by the end of the 21st century, and learned that plants grown and measured at those higher temperatures increased their leaf respiration by an average 5 percent, compared to plants in ambient temperatures.

Global food demand is expected to increase 60 percent - with 9 billion people by the middle of the 21st century, according to a 2012 study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

«According to climate predictions, annual precipitation is likely to decrease in the Southwest but increase in the eastern United States during the 21st century, therefore, the observed diverse trends of surface water body areas since 1984 could continue to occur in the future,» said Xiao.

The 21st century has been dubbed «the biology century,» in recognition that many of the increasing world population's most difficult challenges — food, water, energy, medicine — will be addressed through the biological sciences.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

According to the latest IPCC report, «tropical cyclone frequency is likely to decrease or remain unchanged over the 21st century, while intensity (i.e. maximum wind speed and rainfall rates) is likely to increase.»

ACPI assumes a 1 percent annual increase in the rate of greenhouse gas concentrations through the year 2100, for little change in precipitation and an average temperature increase of 1.5 to 2 degrees centigrade at least through the middle of 21st century.

According to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the wind speed and rainfall rates in tropical cyclones are projected to increase during the 21st century, even while the total number of tropical cyclones remains nearly steady, or even decreases.

Lastly, the third experiment asks this specific question: Did anthropogenic greenhouse gases increase the probability of major bark beetle outbreaks in western North America during the first decade of the 21st century?

As the role of engineers in society continues to be redefined in the 21st century, it seems clear that there will be increasing opportunities for engineers in the field of human rights.

They also track the major increases in support for research in South Korea and Singapore since the start of the 21st Century.

The summary gives various estimated temperature increases for the 21st century.