Sentences with phrase «apparent reduction»

Clearly there is no or little change in the Antarctic, but there is apparent reduction in the Arctic.

Sometimes it takes the form of the apparent reduction of great issues to the level of the banal.

The steady disappearance of sea ice also has led to an apparent reduction in the prime source of food for Adélies — Antarctic krill, the shrimplike zooplankton whose life history is intertwined with sea ice.

However, the apparent reduction in time spent on homework also raises the possibility that newly required courses were more demanding in prospect than in reality.

Furthermore, minimum - competency testing led to some apparent reductions in the amount of courses completed, while increased coursework requirements appear to have had modest pejorative effects on the amounts of time students spend watching television, doing homework, and reading for pleasure.

Preliminary data from insurance claims suggest no apparent reduction in crash risk after states enacted bans on hand - held phone use.

s work relates to the ice - shelf off Greenland and an apparent reduction in subduction at this location.

A decade ago, some energy analysts and environmental groups were quick to conclude that an apparent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from coal burning proved China was capable of avoiding the western pattern of rising emissions in a growing economy.

Because there was no apparent reduction in skeletal growth rates due to the milder 2009 heat stress event in our cores, we instead utilized the content of energetic lipids in coral tissue from each island as a more subtle measure of coral health after this event.

Along with this observation was an apparent reduction of the southwestern extension of the Sargasso Weed «Sea», and an apparent stagnant and persistent Bermuda anti-cyclonic pressure zone that was much closer to the US Atlantic seaboard during this time period.

Predictably the Board remarked on the apparent reduction in the legal aid budget being wiped out by inefficiency in all other sections of the court system which had become overburdened and unworkable.