Sentences with phrase «as regions near»

A new study has revealed that ozone levels in the heavily populated lower latitudes don't seem to be recovering as well as regions near the poles.

Not exact matches

China, which self - identified as a «Near - Arctic State,» sought to establish exactly how it believes the region should be governed and utilized.

Many are concentrated in large metropolitan regions, such as those near Chicago or New York, but there are also plenty located everywhere from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Bartlesville, Okla. to Bozeman, Mont..

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

While the near - zero balance of opinion suggests that labour market slack remains, the indicator has continued to improve gradually since the oil price shock, as conditions in affected regions have bottomed out.

The city is well known in the region as the home of Bubblegum Alley, an alleyway near Higuera Street where visitors stick their chewed gum on the walls.

Though the Near - Term Tax Free Fund seeks minimal fluctuations in share price, it is subject to the risk that the credit quality of a portfolio holding could decline, as well as risk related to changes in the economic conditions of a state, region or issuer.

Looking ahead to 2017, says Mr Ryalls, «It is expected that Greater Vancouver will experience a near double - digit correction in the new year, as sanity returns to the marketplace, causing the region to give back much of the appreciation witnessed in the first half of 2016.

Shares of Garibaldi Resources Corp. [GGI - TSXV, GGIFF - OTC] retreated Monday December 11 as investors continued to assess drilling results from its 100 % - owned E&L Project at the Nickel Mountain property near Eskay Creek in the Golden Triangle region of northwest British Columbia.

This has led to some kind of a consolidation over the last couple of days as the prices range near the support region and the

Similarly, clashes along the church - state boundary are shaped by the particular religious makeup of the region — as when the LDS Church attempted to regulate what could be said and distributed on the streets near Salt Lake City's Temple Square, or when a state judge in Alabama decided to display the Ten Commandments outside his courthouse.

The Chinese cabbage is also known as Napa cabbage and originates from China, near the Beijing region.

Maggie Beer Products operates from a base near Tanunda in South Australia's famous winemaking region of the Barossa Valley, and makes a range of gourmet products such as quince paste, soups, ice - cream, jams, chutney and pate which are sold in supermarkets and gourmet food stores.

«If you want your team (especially the people under 30), if you want your clientele (especially the people under 40), if you want your children to believe that you're actually doing it, if it matters to you as a company, you have to have somebody certify it,» says Claudio Ponte, owner of Ponte Winery in the Temecula region near San Diego.

One would think Arsenal would finally learn from their mistakes, and rectify the wage problem, but it looks like they haven't, given they've offered Ozil near 300k p / w (got to be kidding me), and if Ramsey gets a new contract (very likely as Wenger loves him), he'll most probably be earning somewhere in the region of 150k p / w.

However, he may well want to look closer to home in the near future, as Casinopedia report that online poker and casinos are booming in Norway, with the Scandinavian country said to be leading the charge in online casinos across the region.

And Wenger, who grew up in the Alsace region of France near Strasbourg, added: «I love horses as well but I don't go to races.

The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys recorded a near static proportion of all the region's births as occurring outside hospital in the years covered by the study (average 0.62 % compared with 1.2 % for the whole of England and Wales).

Ghanaians woke up to the news of the death of fast - rising dancehall Priscilla Opoku Kwarteng, popularly known as Ebony Reigns at Nyamebekyere near Mankranso in the Ahafo Ano South District of the Ashanti Region a week ago

Ahead of the announcement of how to deal with the situation, a government delegation will on Monday visit some illegal mining sites in the Eastern Region as the deadline for illegal miners to evacuate nears.

The insurgency group, who at the peak of it's siege on the nation occupied towns in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, used Sambisa forest, especially the mountainous region of Gwoza near the Cameroon border, as shelter and strategic headquarters until they were pushed out by the military on Christmas eve, last year.

Speaking to a group of fishermen and stakeholders in the fishing industry at Ekon near Cape Coast as part of his «Accounting to the people tour» in the Central Region, the president revealed that he had instructed the navy to arrest fishermen who engage in pair trawling and other illegal fishing activities.

The issue has been cast as an economic boon for the upstate region, especially the Southern Tier of New York near the Pennsylvania border.

«This investment has revitalized a community treasure in the heart of the North Country, created new jobs for residents, and will help the region meet the lodging demands of travelers from near and far as they visit the region's world - class, year - round attractions.»

The Empire Resorts» project near Monticello has been selected as the sole casino location in the Catskills - Hudson Valley region.

Beaming with excitement, Tsekumah Christine Edem was royally dressed as she danced, smiled, waved and assured the people of her region who came from far and near just to steal a glance at her and the zeal and determination to bring the crown home.

Police say it's unclear as to what caused the two vehicles to collide at a spot in Atwedie near Juaso in the Ashanti Region at about 8:00 pm.

Tomato farmers at Tuba, a community near Kokrobite in the Greater Accra Region, are counting their loss as their produce rot on the farms due to lack of market.

«Yes, the tropics are warming but nowhere near to the same degree as the polar regions,» Evans said.

You're saying that places like northern and central Oklahoma are becoming potentially as hazardous as places like the New Madrid region near Memphis, Tennessee, and Charleston, South Carolina, which have a history of highly damaging earthquakes?

As Titan lacks its own magnetic field the same thing can occur over wider regions, not just near the poles.

In fact, this study showed that all regions with above - average temperature are located near volcanic hot spots, which points to mantle plumes as the culprit for the excess volume of magma in these areas.

The amount of krill near the Antarctic Peninsula has fallen by 38 to 81 percent over the past three decades as the region has warmed.

But these low - oxygen waters near the equator are expanding, because the water in the polar regions is not as cold and is not absorbing as much oxygen as it used to be.

Those clues, however, are revealing that the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 26 years ago and now 90 times as far from the sun as Earth is, either has reached or will soon enter a turbulent region near the solar system's final...

This image, shot September 11 as Cassini swung past the moon at a distance of about 119,049 kilometers, shows Titan's lake region near its north pole.

Today's best telescopes can penetrate only to the nearest part of the solar system's outer regions, known as the Kuiper belt.

«The 1993 HADD Annual Directors meeting was held in our field office near Mineralnye Vody in the Caucasus region of Russia, where we met with our staff leader, Olga Lukina, Alpinist guide, as well as HADD advisor Dr Nickolay Volyynsky, surgeon,» it tells us.

Research at Case Western Reserve University's telescope concentrates on the large - scale distribution of galaxies, including the vast, near - empty cosmic regions known as voids.

The rock has an elliptical orbit that is typical of the Apollo family of near - Earth orbiting asteroids, and it likely came from the same broad source region as the Lost City, Peekskill and Buzzard Coulee meteorites, the researchers said.

The ancient genome predates a mysterious migratory event which occurred roughly 3,000 years ago, known as the «Eurasian backflow», when people from regions of Western Eurasia such as the Near East and Anatolia suddenly flooded back into the Horn of Africa.

The densest part of the coma — the inner region near the nucleus — is the part of a comet that's visible to telescopes and cameras as a big fuzzy ball.

Even as advances in ancient - DNA technology have made it possible to probe population mixing and large - scale migrations that occurred thousands of years ago, researchers have had trouble studying the genetic history of the Near East because the region's warm climate has degraded much of the DNA in unearthed bones.

As it drew nearer, the area of greatest metabolism shifted to the periaqueductal gray, the region that codes for the behavioral patterns of the four fs.

In a place like Paris or the Pacific Northwest, where much of the region's electricity comes from nuclear or hydropower, respectively, the Model S or Roadster can tout itself as a near — zero - emission vehicle.

An usually high level of spring storm activity is visible as a broad yellow region in the southern hemisphere near Antarctica, in an area sailors refer to as «the roaring forties.»

For their work Maksym and co-investigators Guy Williams from the University of Hobart, Tasmania and Jeremy Wilkinson of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, used a robot known as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to cruise under ice in three regions near the coast and measure the thickness directly over a much larger area.

This improvement took place because these researchers exploited the unusual optical properties of a material that occurs under certain conditions, what is known as the epsilon - near - zero region.

If you imagine the female egg cell (and later, the fertilized egg) as a spherical planet with its own intrinsic biological geography, then certain characteristics of that cell — the location of protein molecules or RNA messages or biochemical traits like pH or even the internal connective structures called microtubules — will be more prominent in certain regions, like one hemisphere as opposed to the other, or near the surface rather than near the core.

It emerged that theta activity increased in response to near - misses relative to other losses in brain regions such as insula and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which was linked to gambling severity.