Sentences with phrase «whether these changes actually»

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Seven in 10 Americans — including some of those who aren't sure whether climate change is actually happening — think it's a problem that the U.S. government should be working to address.

Davidson recommends using www.finra.org: «Type your adviser's name into the FINRA database and you'll learn what securities licenses this person actually has and, even more important, whether or not any complaints, disciplinary actions, suspensions, or very frequent changes of employment appear on his or her record... You'll want to see a completely clean record... Even a single complaint, and certainly any disciplinary action, is a major red flag.»

Still there are questions about whether these changes, and others made over the past year, can actually help the service gain users.

Scientific studies on whether fitness trackers actually change behavior have been largely inconclusive.

Similarly to changing requirements, consistently unrealistic timelines and deadlines will cause your teams to doubt whether those deadlines are actually important.

The question now is how long it will take for meaningful change to happen, and whether that change will actually be useful to those who need time to look after themselves or their loved ones.

Investors may be discounting the risk that will change — and should evaluate whether their portfolios are actually exposed to risks from rising protectionism, particularly with respect to NAFTA and China.

But whether those changes will actually have a meaningful effect on gun sales is difficult — if not impossible — to know.

And yes, actually the market reaction has really being quite muted and I don't know whether this partly reflects the new economic norm, you know the flattening of the Phillips Curve, disruptive change, lower inflation the Fed talked about at the Jackson Hole Summit last year, something called Our Star which is going to lower long - term rate of equilibrium interest rates.

Whether we like to admit it or not, whenever the world changes, Christians instinctively change with it, and I have this theory that God actually created us that way.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»

Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)

Actually, the intial scientific studies (on whether prayer can effect medical outcomes) were both flawed and inaccurately reported - the studies have been revisited and the scientific data to date concludes is that prayer does not change medical outcomes.

Whether it actually changes minds is another question.

Sadly I believe people are afraid of change, because we've become so stale it's interesting whether we can actually get excited about results, because now, I couldn't care less about the top 4, the contracts of players, or the next humiliations coming up, the only thing I care about is whether Arsene is gone this summer or not!

Tas a good run in Europe would be good for a change though, it might win back some doubters and give us a clear picture as to whether we have actually improved and ready to challenge the big guns in Europe.

can u ever write an article without mocking arsene or wishing his reign to come to an end it is ok sometimes but every time come on man give it a break on to our defence there are only 2 games in this season where team's overall defensive performance can be taken to doubt first was pool because of both first team defenders out second is olympiakos where u can point to team not defending so well on corner that also was actually an individual mistake by ospina which changed the game so our defence is doing good job give credit where it is due of course it would be interesting to see whether we can contain the most inform team in Europe.

We were curious as to whether public perception had actually changed, so once again we consulted our historical database to determine the average public betting percentage on the over by year.

While many women first look to their external appearances and internal body changes to determine whether or not it is likely that they will be giving birth to twins, there are actually certain pre-determined and genetic factors that have a much more influential bearing that deserve attention.

We'll have to wait until next year to see whether Fox's departure actually changes the way Whitehall works for good.

¹ — it does not actually matter whether or not this constitutional change makes China a dictatorship.

Many others faced problems because certain obscure changes in the last Budget left people in the dark about whether or not they needed to make an election, even if no inheritance tax was actually being saved.

But even as he sounded the alarm, it remained to be seen whether his call to action would actually reverse the subway's decline and change the daily experience of frustrated riders.

The stark and simple contrast between the agonising political imperatives of the 1960s and the seeming ease and openness of the modern world is shattered by the snivelling toad Nicholas, which leaves the audience dolefully wondering whether the political world has actually changed very much.

Individual voters choose what they want to choose — whether or not the information and perspectives they hear were all actually correct information and fair perspectives (their job at the time to decide if they accept any information, whatever its nature, or whether they check it)... whether or not they later change their mind or wish they'd known other information (as happens to many people after most elections anyway)... and the democratic process respects their freely made choice as the result.

«The tests for these changes at RBS are whether they see the taxpayer ultimately get its money back and whether they actually boost business lending and radically transform this bank to put an end to business as usual,» shadow chancellor Ed Balls said.

So you never really know until the time comes with anyone, whether they've actually changed.»

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

A candidate who would win under AV (whether or not he would win under FPTP) with a particular set of voter preferences, could actually become a loser if voters changed their preferences so as to make him or her more popular.

But then, she could not say whether the action the Council had taken — which needed approval from Albany — would actually result in any change.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn pressed Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond over whether the state had --- as Diamond contended — actually approved the change.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

But it wasn't clear whether watching adults» actions would actually change the way toddlers tackle a problem.

So, because we can't sense ultraviolet light with our visual pigments, we can't even pick up on the cues that turkeys are probably using, and now that I know that this is changing, the next step is to find out whether females actually care about this change, which we don't know whether there is a behavioral response to turkeys being different in their ultraviolet reflections.

Using genetic engineering, scientists resurrected the fruit flies» ADH protein from ancestral species to compare whether the amino acid changes that have occurred in D. melanogaster's ADH enzyme actually improved the fruit flies» ability to tolerate alcohol.

Though DeLong emphasized that the data will not allow researchers to determine whether this instability actually drove changes in energy use — or vice versa — he acknowledged that the overlaps warrant further study.

The only thing is, it's like, I did two parts of the study, the first of which was to see whether these factors are actually greater in tornadic versus nontornadic areas, because once I established that, I can look whether or not there was a change over time.

«We are also interested in looking into whether this self - change technique might actually help people to hold onto their partners,» Slotter says.

Whether they will actually lead to a greater incidence of the disease will be complicated by factors including control measures, the availability of drugs, and even other indirect effects of climate change, such as population changes, migration and urbanization.

But now, after a change of heart about the study's controversial methodology, Carney is at odds with her former collaborator about whether there's actually any power in the power pose.

Based on a three - day experiment, the researchers are now looking to investigate whether the vast number of changes that take place in seconds or minutes of zero gravity are actually processes of adaptation to a new environment or far - reaching, permanent problems.

The next step is to go into the lab and try to test whether these changes in the microbiome actually cause diabetes.»

This large, well - conducted study suggests a link between inflammation and brain changes related to Alzheimer's, but it didn't investigate whether participants actually went on to develop the disease.

According to Ruuskanen, there is one way to prove whether daylight saving time truly contributes to strokes: «If we, in our country, abandoned daylight saving time and, in a follow - up of several years, saw that the small increase in stroke incidence disappears, it would make a strong argument that it actually is the clock change that raises stroke risk,» he said.

«When you have a behavior you're trying to change, whether it's eating less or checking your email fewer times a day, you actually have to put another behavior in its place,» he explains.

Actually it is the only way to diagnose whether you have a problem or not and would change the treatment completely, i.e. whether it might be beneficial to rest your own thyroid by taking some thyroid or not.

The focus of the conference was connecting how epigenetics (cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence — in other words nutrition and lifestyle choices) impact whether or not an individual actually develops a specific health issue even though they have a SNP mutation.

If you look at a proposed diet study to actually (attempt to) answer whether red meat is bad for you, no matter what you do, you'll change two elements of diet.

Let's cut to the chase here: every weight change, whether positive or negative, which is under 3 kilograms (6,5 pounds) and happens in a short timespan has NOTHING to do with you actually gaining or losing fat.