Sentences with phrase «background rate of»

That background rate of change was never a consideration that was needed through most of the 20th century.

R Gates the Skeptical Warmist: Currently we are seeing some stress on some species, and the overall background rate of extinction appears to be rising.

The advocate scientists only want to focus on the bad effects of warming, some large percentage of which is naturally occurring at a background rate anyway (6mm / year background rate of sea level rise given 120 meters over 20,000 years — that is double the current rate of 3mm / year rise and how much of that is natural?).

Currently we are seeing some stress on some species, and the overall background rate of extinction appears to be rising.

The oceans control the background rate of energy flow from ocean to air via The Hot Water Bottle Effect and it is the energy flow from ocean to air (supplemented to a miniscule extent by the greenhouse effect) that drives the rate of evaporation by creating varying temperature differentials between sea surface and air at the surface.

Specifically, smoothing sea - level data (adjusting for natural variability of ENSO) over the past century fits most closely with a 4th degree polynomial model, and there has very likely not been any slowing in the longer - term background rate of sea level rise over the period of the tropospheric «pause».

The first is basically that mentioned by Greg Simpson in point 7; the seasonal flux in biomass seems to exceed the background rate of change of CO2 in the atmosphere by a large enough factor that it probably exceeds the total emissions.

My reservations about EN LN discussion center around how those wobbles in the relentless trend get spun into discussion of the background rate of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans.

I think it's interesting to track CO2 and CO2e, but the tracks have the periodic ups and downs related to LN and EN conditions, so I do bote calculations to attempt to smooth those out for the purpose of estimating the background rate of increase in CO2 in the atmosphere.

I think the decadal background rate of increase is in the 2.4 to 2.5 ppm range at this time.

I tend / try to look past the EN / LN wobble and maintain a read on the background rate of increase.

It's not a good idea to look at the 2017 yoy increase number of 2.13 ppm and believe that number is close to the background rate of increase.

Now research on these three rivers, and seven other large river basins in the US Southeast, has, for the first time, precisely quantified this background rate of erosion.

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: data from an inner - city Cleveland clinic with a similar population reported lower rates with any and exclusive breastfeeding at 5 days at 40.8 % and 22.0 %, respectively.

Where background rates of «ever breastfed» were not reported, we have used either rates published in the WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding (www.who.int/nutrition/databases/infantfeeding/countries/en/index; accessed July 2016), or those published in the supplementary material to Victora 2016, and for the two studies from Scotland (Hoddinott 2009; Muirhead 2006), we used www.isdscotlandarchive.scot.nhs.uk/isd/1914 (accessed November 2016).

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: 92.2 % of mothers were exclusively breastfeeding at the study site before discharge.

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: intermediate.

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: low Inclusion criteria: women at 28 weeks» gestation attending for antenatal care at a GP practice Exclusion criteria: not described

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation for Canada: intermediate, however, baseline prevalence of «ever breastfed» in Ontario 90.6 % (WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding accessed 12 Oct 2011)

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: at hospital discharge, 54 % of babies were exclusively breastfed and 6 % were receiving breast and formula milk.

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: intermediate: prevalence of breastfeeding in 1985 = 64 % at birth and 26 % at 4 months

«Back of the envelope [calculations] suggest that what we're going to lose from this spill is nowhere close to the background rates of wetland loss,» says Alex Kolker, a coastal geologist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin.

Not exact matches

In fact, hundreds of other companies out there are creating credit ratings and assigning scores to individuals, some even include background checks.

First, some background: In December, the Republican - appointed Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decided in favor of the state's biggest electricity provider and created a new rate class for rooftop solar customers.

For background, the lawsuits claimed that after declining a request to purchase advertising on Yelp, a number of positive reviews from businesses» listings on the reviews site mysteriously disappeared, downgrading the company's rating on the site.

With over 20 years of global market experience, Alessandro's strong background in the field of interest rates, central banks and European financial regulations helps to further strengthen AXA IM's global investment strategy and asset allocation.

As a result, it's less likely that educational background or lack of career ambition can explain the different rate of advancement.

The Bank of Canada has cut its policy rate by a cumulative 75 basis points so far this year (in three moves) to 2 per cent, against a background of weak GDP growth and subdued inflation.

Against this background, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut official interest rates by 25 basis points in both June and July to 5.0 per cent.

The Board's decision to increase the cash rate in March was taken against the background of strong demand pressures combined with a significant pick - up in upstream prices during the second half of 2004.

However, bond yields have been mostly driven by US developments, where bond yields appear unusually low against a background of strong growth, rising inflation and increasing short - term interest rates.

It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

«These and many other considerations are inconsistent with the RATE hypothesis of «intrinsic radiocarbon» but are consistent with contamination and background.

At any rate, in some of the colleges there still remains an antireligious tradition, which began as a reaction against the earlier religious background of their institutions.

But instead we are compiling it up to NFL concussions and not a larger picture of rates, background, and other data.

The collaboration of Ms. Gerstner, a first - rate, professional journalist with a background in reporting on sports science, and Dr. Kutcher, one of the nation's top concussion researchers and clinicians who lives, breathes and eats concussions every day for a living as the National Director of The Sports Neurology Clinic at The CORE InstituteTM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for whom I and my staff at MomsTEAM have enormous respect, is a match made in publishing heaven.

We investigated substantial heterogeneity for all four outcomes with subgroup analyses for the following covariates: who delivered care, type of support, timing of support, background breastfeeding rate and number of postnatal contacts.

Background The incidence of sudden infant death syndrome has decreased in the United States as the percentage of infants sleeping prone has decreased, but persisting concerns about the safety of supine sleeping likely contribute to prone sleeping prevalence rates that remain higher than 10 %.

Factors that may have contributed to the success for women who exclusively breastfed were face - to - face contact (rather than contact by telephone), volunteer support, a specific schedule of four to eight contacts and high numbers of women who began breastfeeding in the community or population (background rates).

Several factors may have also improved results for women practising exclusive breastfeeding, such as interventions delivered with a face - to - face component, high background initiation rates of breastfeeding, lay support, and a specific schedule of four to eight contacts.

Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population of expectant fathers by the low response rate and the low numbers of low - income, ethnic - background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.

«And we can not walk away from this issue until obesity rates drop for children of every age and every background.

This rise and variation in rates is due to the use of reproductive techniques, and is partly accounted for by more births to older women and more multiple births in women from more affluent backgrounds (Smith 2014).

For cessation of any breastfeeding at up to six months, there is no evidence of a difference in the effectiveness of the intervention according to the background breastfeeding rate (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 0.56, df = 2 (P = 0.76), I ² = 0 %; Analysis 5.1).

Therefore, for the review's four primary outcomes we carried out subgroup analysis to explore the impact of interventions involving different types of supporter (professional versus lay person, or both); types of support (face - to - face versus telephone support or both); timing of support (antenatal and postnatal versus postnatal alone); whether the support was proactive (scheduled contacts) or reactive (women needed to request support); and whether support interventions had similar effects in settings with different background breastfeeding initiation rates (low, medium or high background rates).

I think is fairly described as a very robust Labour tribalist from a trade union organiser background (I would place him very much on the right of the party, though you may well approve of his rebelling on ID cards, 90 days detention, the 10p tax rate and other more left / liberal rebellions, which shows he is not easily pigeonholed).

Meanwhile, the then - current President Barack Obama was ranked 15th out of 43, with high ratings for imagination, communication ability and intelligence and a low rating for background (family, education and experience).

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings as a means of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

All this would be testing enough against a background of falling inflation, lower interest rates, and economic recovery.