Sentences with phrase «beginning of 20th»

The end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, we see art Nouveau being introduced into French furniture design.

The issue, according to Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a New York City - based retail consulting and investment banking firm, is that Barnes & Noble has been trying to survive in a business that has undergone fundamental changes since the chain emerged on the retail scene at the beginning of the 20th century.

Van Vlissingen's case brings into sharp focus the challenges facing honest real estate practitioners at the beginning of the 20th century.

At the beginning of the 20th century, successful reductions in mortality from summer diarrhea in central New York City were demonstrated after using student nurses in the home to instruct mothers about hygiene and breastfeeding.4 Denmark established home visiting in 1937 after a pilot program showed lower infant mortality rates associated with home visiting.

Public health nurses and social workers provided in - home education and health care to women and children, primarily in poor urban environments.3 4 At the beginning of the 20th century, the New York City Health Department implemented a home visitor program, using student nurses to instruct mothers about breastfeeding and hygiene.

One important factor in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was the advances in modern transportation, which in the beginning of the 20th century offered a global advantage to the flu virus.

The city started to blood industrially during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries.

The concept of direct writers developed at the beginning of the 20th century.

This is a solid insurance company that has been around since the beginning of the 20th century and they don't require medical exams on their term insurance policies that are $ 500,000 and less.

The concept of using rating agencies to assess the level of risk associated with a debt arose around the beginning of the 20th century when three major credit rating agencies were formed.

In law, we moved from formalism to realism in the beginning of the 20th century (pragmatism never caught on).

Cast your mind back to the beginning of the 20th century.

But while the American Bar Association (ABA) rightly pushed to raise the quality and uniformity of legal education at the beginning of the 20th century, it has entered the 21st with an effective monopoly on law school accreditation and professional regulation.

The 19th century idealist - intellectual international lawyer was murdered by his doctrinal - formalist counterpart who rose to prominence at the beginning of the 20th century.

The idea that humans have created a qualitatively different planet from the one we inherited was discussed at the beginning of the 20th century, but the informal use of the term dates back to the 1980s and «90s.

So we calculate that since the late 19th or the beginning of the 20th century, up to 2000, global warming has been 0.6 ± 0.2 °C.

Average air temperatures over land in the Arctic have increased by 3 °C since the beginning of the 20th century.

(The latter should be sampled adequately back to the beginning of the 20th Century.)

If that turns out to be true (and the scientists studying the sun are pretty good at sunspot predictions) expect a return to temperatures more like what we had at the beginning of the 20th century.

Since the beginning of the 20th century to about 1940 temperatures increased by about 0.45 oC as a combined effect of an increase in greenhouse emissions and in solar irradiation associated with the 11 - year sunspot cycle (Figure 1).

Observations show that rainfall has increased in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere since the beginning of the 20th century.

At least as early as the beginning of the 20th century, different authors were already examining the evidence for climate changes during the last two millennia, particularly in relation to North America, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (Brooks, 1922).

Additionally, as I have argued on Climate Etc., left to natural variation, the temperature at the end of the 20th Century would be somewhat close to the temperature at the beginning of the 20th Century, and it appears NASA agrees with me.

That is certainly the process by which the theory of relativity gained acceptance (way back at the beginning of the 20th century).

Once common from central Russia to Spain, the European bison suffered from habitat loss and persistent hunting until, in the beginning of the 20th century, its population reached a low of just 54 individuals.

It wasn't the only hockey stick graph and the interesting thing is they all show the modern warming trend started at the beginning of the 20th century.

Specifically, Elbert et al. note the presence of cold phases «during parts of the Little Ice Age (16th and 18th centuries) and in the beginning of the 20th century.»

we're looking for an energy revolution that's as comprehensive as the one that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century when we went from gaslight and horse - drawn carriages to light bulbs and automobiles... [bold added, news story backed up here]

Globally averaged near surface temperatures have increased since the beginning of the 20th century and the warming has been particularly marked since the 1970s.

Copenhagen, in fact, may mark the real beginning of the 21st Century, in approximately the sense that 1914, and the start of WWI, is commonly taken to mark the real beginning of the 20th.

Since the beginning of 20th Century, one could make a list of catastrophic weather events or changes in climate.

To conservatives, «progressive» means the, well, progressives, as they defined themselves at the beginning of the 20th century, and as they have remained to this day.

The first larch seedlings reappeared at the beginning of the 20th century.

That battle was fought at the beginning of the 20th C, We are in a second titanic battle against those (crony corporations and all the above) who want to use government privilege to line their pockets.

Shows increase of > 1.2 °C since beginning of 20th century.

The study was conducted by climate researchers at the University of Reading, and it approximates that the extent to which the Antarctic summer sea ice has diminished doesn't exceed a 14 percent rate compared to the beginning of the 20th century.

Global Warming Theory «Completely Disconnected From the Observations» Extensive analysis of temperature trends in the Arctic reveals that there has been no detectable long - term change since the beginning of the 20th century, and thus predictions of a sea ice - free Arctic in the coming decades due to dramatically rising temperatures are not rooted in observation.

If Arrhenius, at the beginning of the 20th century, hadn't published his work on the IR scattering effect of the CO2 molecule,

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the average temperature around the world...

A mere 108 years ago, at the beginning of the 20th Century, human numbers worldwide were between 1 and 2 billion.

From an estimated 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the number of tigers today is less than 3,500.

Others suggest that it increased in the beginning of the 20th century, but then decreased.

Now, the sun seems to be on a high level of activity compared to the beginning of the 20th century but does not seem to show any trend since this high level was reached around the fifthies of the last century.

At the beginning of the 20th century a Scottish meteorologist, Alexander Buchan noticed over forty years of observation the pattern of warm and cold and that a particularly cold spell occurred between April 11th and 14th.

Three scientists from the beginning of the 20th century had a profound impact on our view and understanding of the world and climate, yet are virtually unknown.

If it is a tighter arc like the beginning of the 20th century I guess it would last between 25 to 30 years?

an improved understanding of interannual variability and trends in the tropical cyclone activity from the beginning of the 20th century to the present

The Arctic has been warming at more than twice the rate of the globe as a whole, with average temperatures today 5.4 °F (3 °C) above what they were at the beginning of the 20th century, compared to an estimated global average of 1.8 °F (1 °C) over the same time.

The US CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group was formed to improve understanding of interannual variability and trends in the tropical cyclone activity from the beginning of the 20th century to the present and quantify changes in the characteristics of tropical cyclones under a warming climate.

The oceans have risen about eight inches since the beginning of the 20th century.