Sentences with phrase «change study last»

A Nature Climate Change study last year estimated that emissions per mile from light - duty vehicles could fall by as much as 94 percent by 2030 in a «best - case scenario» of electric driverless taxis (ClimateWire, July 7, 2015).

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It is rare for a report to hold the potential to change the world, but one study published last month may do just that.

All industries included in last year's study saw a change in engagement rate, but not necessarily a decrease.

I'm a pre-trib guy since I believe in the imminent return of Jesus, but I need to study the issue a lot more since a lot of my theology has changed since I last studied this, and I am not sure what changes might have cascaded down into my eschatology.

That is to say that not only the incentives to the study of the history of religions have varied in the last century — the first of its existence as «Wissenschaft» — but that ideas as to the aim and scope, the nature and the method of this discipline also have been changing.

Sociologists have studied, probed, and measured change in church membership patterns over the last twenty years, trying to understand the precipitous decline in membership.

I now believe in fulfilled eschatology (the study of last things), which is a huge change.

A study by Australia's Department of Health last year concluded that the number of smokers fell by 108,228 people from December 2012 (when the law changed) to September 2015.

This comes on the heels of The Center's groundbreaking study last year showing how organic soils help to diminish climate change.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imChange Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative imchange - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

So in March of last year, when Pediatrics published another peer - reviewed study that showed sleep training to be both effective and safe, it didn't change the mind of Dr. Sears or his followers.

A new report from the Institute for Family Studies suggests that adoptive families in the United States have undergone «dramatic» change over the last decade, becoming far more diverse than would have been conceivable even fifty years ago.

Changes made last year to McDonald's Happy Meals selections for children may be helping kids to cut calories, according to a new study.

Plus, the Feeding America study «In Short Supply» found that 32 percent of low - income families surveyed reported reusing disposable diapers, while 48 percent reported delaying changing a diaper to make their supply last longer.

One of the most interesting implications of our study is that the legacy of war delivers a long - lasting change of people's political and economic preferences.

Last year, the MTA announced the start of the study that will look at changing travel trends and inefficiencies of current routes, Oddo previously said.

As part of the proposal, Mark - Viverito also announced last week an independent commission chaired by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman would study and come up with proposals to change the city's current criminal justice system from its jails to the court houses.

They want the tax system to give a better deal to the low paid — on top of Labour's tax and benefit changes which, the Institute for Fiscal Studies concluded last week, have done a good deal to narrow income inequality.

Together, the studies illustrate that the gene - editing technology can make a variety of changes in human DNA that would last a lifetime and stretch across generations.

The EPIPAGE 2 study (Epidemiological Study on Low Gestational Age) is a French national study aimed at improving knowledge on the outcomes of premature infants in light of the changes that have occurred in the last 15 ystudy (Epidemiological Study on Low Gestational Age) is a French national study aimed at improving knowledge on the outcomes of premature infants in light of the changes that have occurred in the last 15 yStudy on Low Gestational Age) is a French national study aimed at improving knowledge on the outcomes of premature infants in light of the changes that have occurred in the last 15 ystudy aimed at improving knowledge on the outcomes of premature infants in light of the changes that have occurred in the last 15 years.

That may change, thanks to the results of three studies presented here last week at the Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, organized by the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Publishing Group.

One variety, a 2008 study says, has a hormone that controls when it changes from looking like bird droppings to looking like the leaf it lives on, which is the disguise it adopts in the last stage of caterpillar development.

A study published last year in the American Journal of Human Genetics used mitochondrial DNA to argue that the San Bushmen of southern Africa became isolated from other modern humans for up to 110,000 years, probably because climate change produced a great desert separating East Africa from southern Africa.

Then they lugged them back to Ohio to begin independent study (IS) projects on characterizing the change in sea levels during the last interglacial warming period.

At last, we would have a truly experimental way of studying macroevolution, the kind of changes that lead to the creation of new species.

«Previously, almost all neuroscience Ph.D. students at Karolinska were recruited from classes of students studying to become M.D.s,» says Olsen «but in the last 10 — 15 years this has changed so that now a small minority of the students we accept for our Ph.D. program are derived from the M.D. curriculum classes.»

«In the last few months, we've diagnosed several people with the disease years before the diagnosis is typically made, which has changed how we do medicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on the study.

«Our study really changes the general concept that before the last warming period you had a massive grass steppe that was fundamental to sustaining a huge diversity of mammals,» says Willerslev.

For example, he says, although the new study found no overall change in the rate of melting at Totten Glacier over the last couple of decades, the large variability in melting rate within those decades warrants a much closer look at the region's complex topography, among other factors, in order to anticipate how the system could actually change in the future.

Seidler said the brain changes could reflect new connections between neurons, and she's leading another long - term study that will help determine the repercussions on cognition and physical performance, as well as how long the brain changes last.

In a study presented last week at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, researchers reported some intriguing insights into the changing DNA of a dozen generations of the Florida scrub jay.

According to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, if bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last 3 decades.

For the last 14 years Okin has come here to study how windborne dusts are changing the face of arid regions here, throughout America, and around the world.

Consistent with recent studies of such changes, we find that long - lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission between cultured hippocampal neurons is accompanied by an increase in the number of clusters of postsynaptic glutamate receptors containing the subunit GluR1.

Two separate studies published last spring suggest that climate change has carried the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, across a similar threshold.

It permits flexibility in selecting studies and researchers and the opportunity for rapid changes in direction because the grants are for specific purposes and last only a limited number of years.

Although more data are needed to fill gaps in the study, the authors say that the region connecting these sites faces rapid land - cover changes, which have severely increased over the last two decades, putting remaining stepping - stone habitats for jaguars at further risk.

A McGill - led international research team has now completed the first global study of changes that occurred in a crucial component of ocean chemistry, the nitrogen cycle, at the end of the last ice age.

From a quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

A first - of - its - kind study has revealed that the architecture of women's brains changes strikingly during their first pregnancies, in ways that last for at least 2 years.

Using global climate models and NASA satellite observations of Earth's energy budget from the last 15 years, the study finds that a warming Earth is able to restore its temperature equilibrium through complex and seemingly paradoxical changes in the atmosphere and the way radiative heat is transported.

Scientists not involved in the study noted that not only is it the first to demonstrate widespread anatomical changes in the pregnant human brain, but that it goes further by showing that the changes last for at least 2 years.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

They also prompted Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch an investigation last week into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.

Based on studies by TRB and the National Academy of Sciences, the paper released last week is designed to be a succinct resource for professionals in the field on how transportation contributes to and is affected by climate change.

An unprecedented study shows that first - time pregnancy causes striking, lasting changes in women's brains.

Over the last decade, the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) and U.S. collaborators have studied the environmental and climate changes of the western Arctic Ocean and has witnessed rapid expansion of the «acidified» water in the upper water column.

New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.

Virginia Burkett, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist who co-authored a 2008 study on climate change's impact to transportation systems on the Gulf Coast, said last week that an average temperature change of 2 or 3 °F in the Gulf Coast region could have a significant effect on train tracks buckling, causing more derailments.

«Previous scientific studies have shown that extreme weather events are becoming more common, more intense, and longer lasting in response to our changing climate.