Sentences with phrase «activity than in years past»

And the massive publicity has no doubt led to a ton more activity than in years past.

Not exact matches

For the past seven years, growth has serially disappointed - sometimes spectacularly, as in the depths of the global financial and euro crises; more often than not grindingly as past debts weigh on activity

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

Police activity in New York City remained at a lower level last week than during the same period in past years, but continued its rise since enforcement came to a near standstill, the result of a citywide slowdown tied to the killings of two officers in December.

Over the past 50 years, we have learned more about the visual parts of the brain than any other areas, and we have a solid understanding of how neural activity leads to visual perception in a typical brain.

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

Gambling is a widespread activity: 73 % of people in the UK report some gambling involvement in the past year and around 50 % play games other than the National Lottery.

In the past 150 years, such activities have pumped enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to raise its levels higher than they have been for hundreds of thousands of years.

According to a 2014 study published in Biotechnology Advances, more than 6,000 articles published within the past twenty years have researched the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and anticancer activities associated with curcumin.

Time spent on mobile devices has more than doubled in the past year so what Mobile Spy cell phone monitoring software monitors your child or employee's smartphone activity on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and other mobile phones.

Over the past six years, more than 6,540 grants totaling more than $ 30 million have been invested in arts and cultural activities across all 95 counties.

Bui just might be the most affable and energetic denizen of the New York art world, but (as befits a man whose mentor was Meyer Schapiro) he also has a deeper working knowledge of artistic activity in this city over the past sixty years than almost anyone I know.

What would be the conclusions you would draw from the activity over the 25 years (1945 - 1970) compared to the past 6 years (and why choose 6 yrs) Do you allow for a greater variation in a 6 yr period than a 25 yr period?.

As to the second the answer is probably no specifically referring to hurricane activity mentioned by McHugh the actual frequency of severe hurricanes is less now than it has been in the past: Only 4 «highest category» storms have occurred in the last 10 years!

In the recently released Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded with more than 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet.

As a result of the build - up of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — due to our burning of fossil fuels, cutting down trees and other activities — global average temperature is now changing at a faster rate than at least over the past 1,000 years.

However, there are several solar studies out there, which suggest that around 50 % of observed past warming (rather than only 7 %, as assumed by IPCC) can be attributed to the unusually high level of 20th century solar activity (highest in several thousand years).

It is very likely (greater than 90 percent probability) that human activities are the main reason for the world's temperature increase in the past 50 years.

That's right, the latest climate science (some 10 studies published in just the past 3 years) indicates that the earth's climate sensitivity — that is, how much the global average surface temperature will rise as a result of greenhouse gases emitted from human activities — is some 33 percent less than scientists thought at the time of the last IPCC Assessment, published in 2007.

Indeed, the present decline in solar activity is faster than at any time in the past 9300 years, suggesting an end to the grand solar maximum.

This year's thinner, slushier ice is more vulnerable than the past's thick, multi-year ice, and it melts out rapidly during a spike in temperature or intense cyclonic activity.

http://www.agci.org/docs/lean.pdf «Global (and regional) surface temperature fluctuations in the past 120 years reflect, as in the space era, a combination of solar, volcanic, ENSO, and anthropogenic influences, with relative contributions shown in Figure 6.22 The adopted solar brightness changes in this scenario are based on a solar surface flux transport model; although long - term changes are «50 % larger than the 11 - year irradiance cycle, they are significantly smaller than the original estimates based on variations in Sun - like stars and geomagnetic activity.

While much of the media focus on the effects of climate change has been on the Arctic, a review of peer - reviewed scientific literature done by researchers at Australia's James Cook University reveals that in the past 25 years there's been a expansion of the world's tropical zones and that human activity has contributed to it: The literature review shows that the areas which climatologists and meteorologists consider to be the tropics (which is defined differently than in geography) have expanded at minimum 300 kilometers (186 miles).

«It's easier to enforce a patent against an activity we engage in than against a product you can see and feel,» Delgado says, and the problem has increased in the past 15 years to the point that he now sees around six cases a year and spends 70 percent of his time fighting them.

The biggest thing is making sure you can qualify for life insurance with SBLI, so lets cover (in general) what SBLI will and won't insure: SBLI Underwriting Uninsurable medical scenarios with SBLI: • Aids / HIV + status • ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) • Alzheimer's disease or dementia or significant cognitive impairments related to functionality • Cancer diagnosis within last 2 years • Chronic pain treatment, severe, receiving disability, narcotic use • Cirrhosis of the Liver • Congestive heart Failure • COPD / Emphysema or chronic bronchitis - Severe or with current nicotine use • Cystic Fibrosis • Defibrillator use • Depression, severe, recurrent or with multiple in - patient hospitalization history • Diabetes with co-morbidities that include significant cardiac disease, or impairment of renal function or mobility • Heart / Cardiac Disease - multiple vessels diagnosed within 2 years or any past history with current nicotine use • Muscular Dystrophy • Multiple Sclerosis, if symptoms progressing • Organ Transplants, in most scenarios • Quadriplegia • Pulmonary hypertension • Renal failure, Renal insufficiency - severe • Stroke within 1 year • Suicide attempt within 5 years • Surgical repair of heart valves, aneurysms, intracranial tumors, major organs within six months, including gastric bypass Uninsurable non-medical scenarios: • Marijuana use, 4 or more times weekly • Substance abuse / misuse within last 5 years • Criminal activity - any history within the last 10 years • DUI, more than 2 or under age 25 if within 1 year • Unemployed (other than homemakers or retired) with minimal household income or dependent on SSI / disability benefits • Bankruptcy filing within 2 years • Liens / Judgements - outstanding activity that exceeds $ 50K

This past July, more than 3 years after the initial incident, the police arrested the leader of BTC - e exchange in connection with money laundering activities connected to the infamous Mt Gox hack.

Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) data show good performance in risk factor monitoring and the management of hypertension and chronic disease.15 Box 2 shows improving performance in completion of health assessments — a first step in prevention activity — over the past 4 years.22 The Torpedo study, a randomised controlled trial of the use of an electronic decision - support system measuring absolute cardiovascular risk, shows ACCHSs outperforming general practices in managing risk.21 Data collected in late 2011 show that the ACCHSs sites had significantly more patients at high risk being prescribed best - practice medications than the general practice sites at baseline, and this gap was sustained through the intervention period (Box 3).23

Fact:» [C] hildren who have had no contact with their fathers in more than a year are more likely to be involved in extracurricular activities than children who have seen their fathers in the past year but whose fathers participated in none of the school activities.

Prior to the past 5 years, measures of parental monitoring in the general child development literature almost always operationalized parental monitoring as parental knowledge; that is, parents were asked about their knowledge of youth activities, rather than about how they gathered information about their child's activities.

A majority of respondents revealed that housing prices in their area are higher than last year, and 38 percent reported an increase in local housing market activity in the past year.