Sentences with phrase «at a global scale in»

If there are such departures (in the sign of trends) at the global scale in PCC 2007 Figure SPM.4, how can climate model ensembles capture the bigger local falling trends?
Although these historical rates are not a perfect comparison, achieving this level of action at a global scale in future will be a tough nut to crack.

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Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.
To find out, researchers from the University of London zoomed in for a three - year look at the assumedly cutthroat global reinsurance industry — a $ 260 - billion dollar financial market that insures insurance companies against large - scale losses.
Small start - ups either have to possess a specific niche or have global scale to compete in China, says Fritz Demopoulos, CEO at Queen's Road Capital.
«Global Adventure»: A three - minute look at the effect the Avengers have, not just on US audiences, but on a global scale with an overview of some of the locations in which the movie wasGlobal Adventure»: A three - minute look at the effect the Avengers have, not just on US audiences, but on a global scale with an overview of some of the locations in which the movie wasglobal scale with an overview of some of the locations in which the movie was made.
«While carrier customers like the idea of buying infrastructure from large global suppliers, it's not obvious to us that amassing scale for the sake of it makes sense for the vendors,» analysts at Jefferies said in a note Wednesday before the deal was announced.
The company said it had acquired a «blockchain - empowered global micro-lending solutions provider» in its blockchain pivot at a time when bitcoin price had scaled above $ 19,500 in an unprecedented bullish run.
The global race for AI chip dominance heats up: We're seeing a Cambrian explosion of applications for artificial intelligence, from recognizing faces in videos for security purposes to detecting diseases in medical images at scale.
BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.
Furthermore, Array Technologies is a major international supplier and benefits from a healthy U.S. home market operating at scale to continue to innovate its products and effectively compete in the global marketplace.
While the image of the large homogenized denomination is of little use in modeling the unity of the church on a world scale, this version of conciliarity has, I think, considerable potential as a model for what we might eventually seek at the global level.
In the end the original purpose of God in Christ will be realised, but not before the pattern of his death and resurrection has been repeated one last time at the climax of history — and therefore on a global scalIn the end the original purpose of God in Christ will be realised, but not before the pattern of his death and resurrection has been repeated one last time at the climax of history — and therefore on a global scalin Christ will be realised, but not before the pattern of his death and resurrection has been repeated one last time at the climax of history — and therefore on a global scale.
A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.
Global meat processing company Danish Crown announced plans to scale down activities by closing the night shift at its abattoir in Ringsted due to a lower than expected supply of pigs.
Global meat processing company Danish Crown is planning to scale down activities by closing the night shift at its abattoir in Ringsted due to the lower than expected supply of...
In anticipation of its activities at Natural Products Expo West, The Organic Center released new research findings from the University of Virginia in collaboration with The Organic Center showing that organic farming can help reduce nitrogen pollution on a global scalIn anticipation of its activities at Natural Products Expo West, The Organic Center released new research findings from the University of Virginia in collaboration with The Organic Center showing that organic farming can help reduce nitrogen pollution on a global scalin collaboration with The Organic Center showing that organic farming can help reduce nitrogen pollution on a global scale.
On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.
Statistics show that football is the most followed sport in the world, with a fan base that exceeds 3 billion at a global scale.
Which is wonderful because, in a year that's been a bit, well, not - at - all - good on a global scale, why shouldn't we celebrate the personal wins?
At the Berlin Air Show ILA in 2002, the interested public could admire a full - scale mock - up of the Euro Hawk / Global Hawk, and the specialised press has reported on the deal since the early 2000s.
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Venus» crust is broken up into chunks that shuffle, jostle and rotate on a global scale, researchers reported in two talks March 20 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
She was also a 2013 - 15 Executive Branch Fellow at USAID, in the Global Development Lab, where as a fellow and now program manager, she focuses on sourcing, piloting, and scaling science and technology innovations for the developing world as part of a network of universities called the Higher Education Solution Network (HESN).
A United Nations report released in 2006 calls the livestock sector «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global
«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»
Unfortunately, I doubt that we will ever be able to do that on a global scale in a practical, reliable way at the required rate of tens of billions of tons per year, year after year.
At the global scale, «[a] ttacks on universities and colleges are occurring with alarming frequency,» Quinn stated in the release announcement.
The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.
The mechanism for the maintenance of cooperative behaviour in sociable weavers revealed by this study is unlikely to operate at such a global scale, but within smaller communities the idea of kin - directed cooperative behaviour is likely to be widespread and relevant across many other species.
«With the industry's desire for higher - megawatt machines to maximize clean wind power opportunities in the U.S. and around the globe, new technologies will be needed to support larger - scale wind platforms,» said Keith Longtin, wind technology leader at GE Global Research.
While recent initiatives have attempted to address conservation priorities at global and national scales, most of these focus on developed countries in temperate regions.
Modelling flood risk in Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomein Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomeIn the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomein projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomein flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomes.
«We analyzed, for the first time at such a large scale, global patterns of island vertebrate extinctions in relation to different types of invasive mammals and physical island conditions,» McCreless said.
By looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»
But large scale commercial taking of turtles continued all over the world for centuries, with global capture peaking at over 17,000 tonnes in the late 1960s.
Our arrival coincided with a bleaching episode, one that has given our team — normally based at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia — its first opportunity to witness a large - scale event of this kind.
«The same calculations can be included in stream network models, which would allow researchers to better quantify the impacts of nitrate pollution at local, continental and even global scales,» said co-author Morvarid Azizian, a postdoctoral scholar in civil & environmental engineering at UCI.
In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scalIn a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scalin the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scale.
«But, by looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»
«PV will become competitive at utility - scale in the sunniest regions by 2030 and provide 5 % of global electricity,» according to an IEA summary of its report.
He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.
The late Proterozoic — the time period beginning less than a billion years ago following this remarkable chapter of sustained low levels of oxygen — was strikingly different, marked by extreme climatic events manifest in global - scale glaciation, indications of at least intervals of modern - like oxygen abundances, and the emergence and diversification of the earliest animals.
«I think this paper strengthens, substantially, the available body of literature that we have concerning the question of whether humans are having an effect on precipitation at the global scale,» Zwiers wrote in an email.
Coastal sea ice formation takes place on relatively small scales, however, and is not captured well in global climate models, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who conducted the study.
The scientists developed a mixotrophic model of the global ocean food web, at the scale of marine plankton, in which they gave each plankton class the ability to both photosynthesize and consume prey.
«This is the best attempt, published to date, to bring together the available data to quantify fisheries impacts on sharks at a global scale,» says John Musick, a shark expert at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point.
«If you look at the nutrient distributions in the oceans on a global scale, you can see regional differences,» says Dr. Browning.
For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
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