Sentences with phrase «based area of effect»

He also appears to have some sort of fire based area of effect attack that he activates by slamming on the ground.

Not exact matches

Gross margin for the Coach brand is projected to be in the area of 70 % on a constant currency basis with negative foreign currency effects expected to impact gross margin by 80 basis points to 100 basis points.

MANILA, Philippines — Reliable information based on satellite data and ground observations can help the Philippines prepare for and mitigate the effect of recurring disasters, such as typhoons and El Niño on rice areas in Mindanao.

Environmental chemical exposure can be the result of diverse conditions including: workplace conditions (where you are exposed to a high level of chemicals on a daily basis), living near farmland (where pesticides are sprayed), exposure to high traffic areas, or even the cumulative effects of everyday common chemicals in the household.

The philosophical re-construal of the market that I am recommending is quite consistent with empirically based arguments to the effect that one or another form of government intervention is counter-productive and that it may make very good sense in some areas of activity to let the market operate under its own logic.

The Nottingham experiment was based on the theory that an area immediately outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole — a black hole's gravitational point of no return — will be dragged round by the rotation and any wave that enters this region, but does not stray past the event horizon, should be deflected and come out with more energy than it carried on the way in — an effect known as superradiance.

Based on these findings, we identify knowledge gaps and fruitful areas for research that will further our understanding of the effects of climate change on ecosystems.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

In this latest study, the team of researchers applied empirical and process - based models, to analyze local areas, as well as the global surface, and the effect of temperature and water availability variations on carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

We constructed classifiers to distinguish between the baseline and post-intervention states (Supplementary Methods) and achieved prediction accuracies of 96 % for the vacation effect (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, or AUROC, equal to 0.98) and 85 % for the meditation effect (AUROC = 0.93; Supplementary Figure S1), supporting the potential for blood - based wellness biomarkers.

I don't have any plant based doctors in my area and I'm really struggling with the effects of this diet.

There are also many non-caloric (not energy providing) components of the food we digest and these also exhibit effects on the body.An area that has garnered some interest recently, especially in complementary medicine and holistic nutrition fields is that of the acid - base (or acid - alkaline) balance of the foods that we eat.

-- Think of this as the base that you build off of with the other products 2) Benadryl Cream: Apply to the entire effected area after the shower in a thin layer (no need to go crazy... it's only step 2) 3) After Shower & Antihistamine Cream (& PRN): Apply baby powder to body to remove excess and prevent any moisture on the skin.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

However, the report, which documents school climate, its effects on student outcomes and the availability and benefits of school - based supports for LGBTQ students, also shows significant signs of improvement in these areas since 2001.

Moderator analyses were performed using a random effects model that focused on the three main areas of scaffold characteristics (including the mechanism, functions, delivery forms, mode, and number of scaffolds; how to promote self - regulated learning by scaffolds); demographics of the selected studies (including sample groups, sample size, learning domain, research settings, and types of computer - based learning environments); and research methodological features (including research methods, types of research design, types of organization for treatment, and duration of treatment).

These analyses are intended to provide policymakers with an evidence base on tenure policy effects as well as potential areas for improved communication and support for school - based staff in the event of large - scale policy change.

Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).

The evidence base on the effects of teaching in or out of one's area of preparation is relatively small.

Armed with the latest data and up - to - date research syntheses, the authors show that standards - based reform has had some positive effects, particularly in the area of teacher quality.

Downer and his team point out that while many studies have pointed to increased levels of engagement and learning related to teacher - student racial and ethnic match, notably,» no studies of ethnic match / mismatch effects in preschoolers have examined academic achievement outcomes,» and most of the work done in this area has been based on interviews with teachers or classroom observations, Downer said.

As I have mentioned many times, when I talk about research - based strategies, no matter what the area, if you line up the research on any area, note - taking, summarizing, similarities and differences, classroom management strategies... line them all up, and you will find that anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the studies for that particular strategy had negative effects... that when they try to with one group and then another, the group where they didn't try the strategy, they outperformed the group that did.

According to a Minnesota - based trial, the use of Wapiti Labs Natural Mobility Formula significantly improved lameness scores in the areas of walking, trotting, running, climbing stairs and lameness after resting, no side effects were reported.

It's essentially an expansion of the turn - based positional combat of Trails of the Sky; you equip «Orbments» that grant spells and status buffs and go to town with area - of - effect attacks and special moves.

They may come in the form of various power - based attacks but they boil down to grenades, long - range shots, standard shots, heavy shots and a devastating area effect attack.

There are tons of these abilities, which occur based on everything from being stung by bees to zombified to eating too much, and they're all used to great effect to open up new areas in the environment.

Add in attacks based on height, area of effect and combo - building potential, and the battle system has plenty of flexibility, although you don't need meticulously crafted combos to succeed, at least on lower - difficulty levels.

At face value, the satellite data is supported by weather balloon data, covers a much larger area of the globe than the surface - based data, and, as you pointed out, is free from the urban heat island effect and other potential flaws of surface measurements.

The law approving construction of a test centre of large land - based wind turbines near the Jutland town of Østerild was forced through parliament despite warnings about the effects it would have on the natural environment in the area and its impact on residents.

Many places refuse to turn over climate data, BEST adjusted and cherry picked much of the data they used, Coastal areas appear to be heavily effected by coastal winds that are likely very very poorly documented, Non-coastal wind effected areas seem to have little to no warming, «Free» / online unadjusted data appears to be mostly at or near satellite data start thus provides little extra info about the past, Looking for help from anyone who has Europe based original data outside of the «taxpayer funded yet refuse to turn over data to the public / taxpayer groups».

«Here we quantify the direct climate effects of sugar - cane expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado, on the basis of maps of recent sugar - cane expansion and natural - vegetation clearance combined with remotely sensed temperature, albedo and evapotranspiration over a 1.9 million km2 area.

A well - known example of this is the melting of land - based ice, which is contributing to sea - level rise (and adding to the effects of thermal expansion of the oceans), with implications for low - lying areas far beyond the polar and mountain regions where the melting is taking place.

Based on the excerpted answer from Parker below, I would assume that one could chose areas that could be a prior selected as UHI and non-UHI sites and have temperature and wind measuring devices placed there to establish a direct relationship of UHI degree effects versus the effects of wind velocity (and direction) on Tmin.

Northrop Grumman Foundation and EarthEcho International Invite Australian Teachers (grades 6 - 8) to Examine Impacts of Plastic Pollution Along Australia's Southern Coast FALLS CHURCH, Va. — April 12, 2018 — The Northrop Grumman Foundation and EarthEcho International invite Australia - based teachers (grades 6 - 8) to join Philippe Cousteau Jr. on an exploration of the effects of development and pollution on coastal areas near Melbourne, Australia.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.

Further, because they are short - lived, these sulfate dimming effects really only can be expected to operate over in a few isolated areas around land - based industrial areas, limiting their effect on global temperatures since they effect only a quarter or so of the globe.

I do think the idea of allowing something close to judicial notice in place of expert evidence could only have one of two effects: 1) The judge would have decide on a case - by - case basis whether he or she is qualified to advise himself / herself as to «law» generally, or 2) The judge would have to undertake a self - qualification analysis to determine whether he or she is sufficiently expert in the area of law in question to forego actual expert evidence.

In New South Wales, the only criteria for claims is membership of the Local Aboriginal Land Council, which can claim land within or outside its area if «claimable land» (effectively, unoccupied Crown land that is not needed for a public purpose).53 The Act expressly acknowledges the spiritual, social, cultural and economic importance of land to Aboriginal people in the long title, but also recognises the devastation effected upon traditional laws and customs and connection to land by colonialism through this broad basis for claims.

The report highlights progress made in recent years in the area of family violence, including key findings relating to children's experience of family violence, the effects on development and evidence based informed interventions.

The current study suggests that the early stages of a national large - scale area - based intervention that has a focus on the coordination and integration of early childhood services can have beneficial effects for child receptive vocabulary, parenting and reducing jobless households.

TY - JOUR AU - 김민정 AU - Sungman Shin TI - A Study of the effect of Intercultural Competence on Acculturation of International Marriage Migrant Women in Urban Areas T2 - The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology PY - 2010 VL - 15 IS - 4 PB - The Korean Society For Woman Psychology SP - 711 - 737 SN - 1229 - 0726 AB - The purpose of this study is to reveal the effects of cultural competence of international marriage migrant women in their acculturation levels in order to find the basis for the provision of a service that will develop and re-enforce their cultural competence.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Dr. Fisher's work on children in foster care and the child welfare system includes (a) basic research characterizing the effects of early stress on neurobiological systems such as the HPA axis and areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in executive functioning; (b) the development of preventive interventions, including the Treatment Foster Care of Oregon Program for Preschoolers (TFCO - P) and the Kids in Transition to School Program (KITS); and (c) the dissemination of evidence - based practice in community settings.

His areas of special expertise include the effects of day care, parent - child relations during the infancy and early childhood years, the transition to parenthood, the etiology of child maltreatment and the evolutionary basis of parent and child functioning.