Sentences with phrase «by a number of factors about»

I am certain you can model some of the factors affecting the Earth's climate accurately, but they are dwarfed by the number of factors about which we have little understanding, or whose existence we have not yet even recognized.

Not exact matches

The median net effective rent in Manhattan — which factors in concessions — slipped year - over-year by 0.1 % to $ 3,369, while the number of new leases signed dropped by 5 % to about 3,200.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

We must not hide our eyes from the fact that what we have called secularization is an entirely new phenomenon in human history, that it has been brought about by a number of new factors in human knowledge, the more important of which we have looked at, and that for these reasons a secularized culture has come to stay, at least in some form.

All of which is aggravated by two additional factors: a mainstream media which is largely uninformed about religion, and often hostile to people of faith, and a growing number of self - professed Christians who are abetting the secularization of America.

In short the improvement came from stability and team balance that was brought about by a number of factors not a DM as you want us to believe.

Child stress, like adult stress, stems from a number of factors and can be best addressed by learning about what the problem is, what may be causing it, and then taking steps to help a child feel better and more relaxed.

Under the Kavanagh / Squadron bill, the factors applicable to all license applications would include the number, type, and proximity of other licenses in the area; whether the applicant has necessary permits; the potential effect of the license on traffic and parking; noise levels; any history of liquor violations or criminal activity at the premises; any history of building and fire violations at facilities operated or owned by the applicant; and any formal communications about the application from the municipality or community board.

After scaling up that number by calculating whale catches, food sources, and other factors, Whitehead arrived at a count of about 360,000 remaining sperm whales — a fifth of previous estimates.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

He postulates that two factors may influence the outcome of a mass shooting event: training officers to recognize which mass shooters are most likely to commit suicide by their own hand or attempt «suicide by cop»; and providing officers with detailed information about the attack (such as the offender's number of weapons, number of victims killed, and decision to attack at an open commercial site, factory, or warehouse).

Your body's needs change based on a variety of factors daily - and what's awesome about this program is that it will allow you to learn your own body without being restricted by a daily calorie number.

While nonparticipating schools cited a number of concerns that were major factors in their decision not to participate, concerns about possible future regulations were the most cited across all three states, followed by concerns about the effect of participation on schools» independence, character, or identity.

The resulting cheese depends on a number of factors including the balance of fat, protein and milk sugars in the milk which varies by animal (e.g. sheep milk is about 9 % fat and 5 % protein, whereas cow's milk has about 4 % fat and 3 % protein), the bacteria used, how the curds are processed, how long the cheese is kept before eating and how much water is left in the cheese (soft cheese contains over 45 % water, hard / semi-hard cheeses contain 30 - 45 % water, and dry hard cheeses such as Parmesan have less than 30 % moisture content).

But these factors are dwarfed by the huge number of iPad apps available: over 200,000, compared with about 1,500 in Tablified Market (4 stars), the best directory of Android tablet apps.

You also need to consider the playing - around factor, the extent to which investors of the day have elected to make themselves feel good (or bad) about their financial circumstances by assigning a temporary price to stocks higher (or lower) than the one that would apply if the number were determined by making reference to real financial transactions.

But the warming since about 1980 has increased the expected number of records in the last decade by a factor of five.

The numbers are off by a factor of about 5; the actual, real - world as - installed - and - operating capacity factor for wind power is about 8 % (and that's the high end of the range).

2) I know sampling sites are chosen to try and limit the number of confounding factors, i.e. studies about precipitation look for trees stressed mostly by water availability.

The other GWP numbers (72 for a 25 year period; 33 as the new value about to be used by the IPCC for the 100 year period) should all be reduced by the factor of 4/11 x 1/2 x (44/60) = 0.13 when considering leakage danger.

Though there are likely a number of factors contributing to the toxic cabin fumes, is there any reasonable doubt about the contamination posed by the constant atmospheric spraying which is the major component of global geoengineering?

These vary by a factor of about three (1.5 ° to 4.5 °C for a doubling of CO2), so we can assume that whatever numbers the models are using for aerosols, they vary by a factor of three as well.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

I am unclear that you have any understanding about how one identifies possible signals in time series data that come from multiple different sources, in multiple different locations that are influenced by a large number of measurable and non-measurable factors.

Klapper, others - Note that there is some ambiguity about the sunspot numbers - according to Svalgaard 2012, due to changes in counting methods the sunspot numbers pre-1875 are low by a factor of 50 %, and the numbers from 1940 onward are high by a factor of 20 %.

, according to NASA scientists: «Coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends» — Excuse number 10 for global warming «pause» or «standstill» — NASA's Gavin Schmidt & colleagues finds «that a combination of factors, by coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends in the real world after about 1992» — Latest excuse for global temperature standstill mocked by skeptics: «Apparently, if you go back and rework all the forcings, taking into account new data estimates (add half a bottle of post-hoc figures) and «reanalyses» of old data (add a tablespoon of computer simulation) you can bridge the gap and explain away the pause.»

Both casual relationships are operative at all times: In the 19th and 20th centuries, the temperature - driving CO2 causal relationship amplified the original temperature effect, as one of several factors leading to a net positive feedback on temperature due to CO2 increase, and a climate sensitivity of about 3C for a doubling of CO2 — a number verified multiple times by calculation from proxy data from multiple epochs in Earths prehistoric past.

The report by the legal marketing agency Greentarget and consultancy Zeughauser — the 2017 State of Digital & Content Marketing Survey — asked in - house counsel and buyers of legal services to grade the influence of a number of factors when searching for more information about lawyers.

The rental insurance rates that tenants pay can vary widely depending on a number of factors, such as where in the country in which the house, condominium, or townhouse is, or the street address in the part of a city, because these can give insurers reasonable clues about the risks that exist, whether natural occurrences or caused by human beings.

You must ask your agent about a separate flood «rider» where pricing (anywhere from $ 175 to 2,000) is determined by a number of factors.