Sentences with phrase «case scenarios presented»

Or has everything sped up to a new climate cycle that goes beyond the worst case scenarios presented by computer models?

When it comes to sea level rise predictions, it's long been known and acknowledged that the IPCC numbers are too low; and, by and large the worst - case scenarios presented three years ago are coming to pass.

This means that though commodities may generally have a higher standard deviation (overall volatility), they also tend to snap away from a losing streak faster than equities do, so their worst periods tend to be less significant than the worst case scenarios presented by equities.

Not exact matches

Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.

He will also present case study scenarios based on actual decisions at the company that yielded undesirable results.

For those not familiar with the concept, a case competition is an event in which teams of business students (typically four per team) are presented with business scenarios and tasked with giving a presentation, recommending to a panel of judges (playing the role of a board of directors) how the company should deal with the crisis.

As the event opened, the panellists were presented with five global risk scenarios: uncontrolled city growth, lack of fresh water, extreme weather, continued fossil fuel lock - in and rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

3) The discussion about scaling vs. keeping it small is a very interesting one: I liked that the author presented real - life cases for either scenarios for food for thought instead of advocating one or the other (e.g. presenting a single «formula» as the golden rule that all shall follow)-- I can see how this particular decision can be case sensitive and there really is no «right» answer as long as it works for the entrepreneur!

Case law begins with specific examples that don't necessarily present best - case scenarios: «if two men quarrel» or «if someone strikes a man» are examples of case Case law begins with specific examples that don't necessarily present best - case scenarios: «if two men quarrel» or «if someone strikes a man» are examples of case case scenarios: «if two men quarrel» or «if someone strikes a man» are examples of case case law.

Latest example, 60 Minutes, always as reliable an ally of this administration as it was an implacable enemy of the last, recently broadcast a story explicitly pushing rationing by focusing on the worst case scenarios and not presenting any opposing views.

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

Oysterponds School Superintendent Richard Malone presented his «worst case scenario» budget for the 2013 - 14 school year Tuesday night, which involves combining grades and teacher layoffs.

He said, «The trial judge distinguished the Lagos State case from the present one, and held that whereas the court of Appeal so held against Lagos State environmental sanitation days on the ground of same not being a creation of law thus could not be enforced against the plaintiff therein, whereas the Oyo State environmental sanitation days are held pursuant to the provisions of the Oyo State Environmental Law of 2012, 2015, and regulations made thereunder, making the Oyo State exercise legal and constitutional unlike the scenario created in the Lagos case.

Given that we now have several years more data, we can essentially «test» the IPCC predictions and we arrive at the conclusion (i.e., message 1) that the climate system is tracking the «worst case scenario» (or worse in the case of ice melt and sea - level rise) presented by the IPCC.

«By having knowledge of the microbes that are present in the best - case scenario,» Jansson said, «you can tweak the system to optimize that combination of microbes.»

It's main job is to keep you alive, and that may show up via worry, paranoia, racing thoughts, picturing worst case scenarios, and anticipation, all with the express purpose of identifying potential danger zones so you can be prepared and survive if such a case were to present itself.

Also, I think District 9 is classic science - fiction in the sense that it takes a futuristic scenario (or in this case an alternative present scenario) to make contemporary political and cultural commentary.

Cooke presents a case that the war on drugs in America is not only a no - win scenario, it is no longer (if it ever was) designed to be won as much as fulfill disturbing, narrow agendas in the public and private sectors.

In those cases, he bucked the system and was proven to be a hero for it; «Civil War» presents a scenario where his individualism is not inherently the right approach, and may even be the wrong thing to do.

Credit card debt, on the other hand, is a type of unsecured loan that presents a lot less risk because worst case scenario is that your rating and score will suffer a bit.

The results are presented in a little table to examine three scenarios for future returns (a base, worst, and best case), which you can of course define yourself, and for four risk profiles / asset allocations: ultra-conservative (all fixed income), balanced (50/50), risk tolerant (mostly stocks), and all stocks.

Robert Shiller's website contains US stock market data from 1871 to the present day, a 147 - year history which I have used to calculate the average, worst - case and best - case scenarios for investments of varying length.

Finally a case is made for considering accessibility when designing future versions of gaming user interfaces, and speculative scenarios are presented for what such interfaces might look like.

Harry Macklowe presented the worst - case scenario on his real estate holdings.

We have many studies presenting the projections from GCMs under various forcing scenarios where unforced variability is simulated, and we have a few studies (not many I think) which have a model reproduce the * actual * forcings and unforced variability and see how well the output matches observations (a recent one by Yu Kosaka and Shang - Ping Xie being a case in point).

This is presented as a worst - case scenario — what might be expected to happen if a) nothing is done to curb GHG emissions and b) the climate sensitivity is in the higher range Peter Cox and other leading scientists now believe possible.

David's worst case scenario is paltry compared to what I believe is a very rational scenario that I've presented.

* That * is the worst case scenario, not an arbitrary 100 times present estimated outgassing rates.

No explanation is then given why Scenario B was presented as the «perhaps» the most plausible of the three cases.

Table S2 presents sea - level commitments for the triggered case under a range of scenarios.

Case studies are presented that describe some of the body of evidence, in some instances, and provide projections of likely scenarios, in others.

From the book «The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels»: «In 1998, Bill McKibben endorsed a scenario of outlawing 60 percent of present fossil fuel use to slow catastrophic climate change, even though that would mean, in his words, that «each human being would get to produce 1.69 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually — which would allow you to drive an average American car nine miles a day.

«Even in worst - case scenarios, mankind will be much better off in the year 2100 than it is today, and therefore able to adapt to whatever challenges climate change presents.»

In any case, the impact estimates that I presented in my previous post were based on the worst case (A1FI) scenario which, according to the HadCM3 model, would increase CO2 concentrations to 810 ppm in 2085 and 970 ppm in 2100, and cause a 4 °C increase in average global temperatures between 1990 and 2085.

Worse yet, on our present trajectory, it seems highly unlikely that the warming process will stop at 2 or even 3 degrees Celsius, meaning that later in this century many of the worst - case climate - change scenarios — the inundation of coastal cities, the desertification of vast interior regions, and the collapse of rain - fed agriculture in many areas — will become everyday reality.

For example, while ALEC purports to present low, mid, and high price scenarios for wind energy, even their low case is well above the costs of 216 actual wind contracts — representing approximately 17,000 MW of wind capacity — signed by utilities over the last ten years.

Suppose that you are convicted of a crime, but after your conviction, a court holds as a binding precedent in another case, that the crime that you were convicted of is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid in your circumstances (e.g. in a U.K. scenario, you are convicted of trespassing on the walkway to someone's front door since that is private property, but a later precedent hold that members of the public are legally entitled to use such a walkway unless there is a «no trespassing» sign posted which no one disputes wasn't present in your case).

I was tasked with giving the opening introduction of our client's case, conducting some of the direct examination, and presenting our client's closing submissions to the Court, and I knew I had to be well prepared for every possible scenario that could arise at trial.

Perceptions of the many use cases studied suggest that with the exception of uses that earn users money or involve advertising — at least until specific case scenarios are presented that disrupt those generalized views of commerciality — there is more uncertainty than clarity around whether specific uses of online content are commercial or noncommercial.

Complicating the issue is the variety of scenarios present in these defamation cases.

I think the outcome of this is that the cases will — in its bid to identify and solve the problems certain scenarios can present -, in fact make it more and more complicated.

This session will walk through all three scenarios and present case studies, which can be leveraged to help you build the business case for integrating these capabilities into your contract management processes.

The factual scenarios in those cases were, like the present case, disturbing.

In the present scenario, in case you or your spouse lose your job due to the economic downturn, auto insurance companies will still nail you with a hike in premiums or even cancel your policy.

A professional resume that presents a candidate's work history and accomplishments where the climb up the proverbial corporate ladder is quite evident, would be the best case scenario.

The distinguishing feature of the case interview is the business scenario presented to the candidate, which may be one the interviewer actually faced, and solved, in the past.

There is no real magic bullet in your scenario, but two things that were mentioned were very astute; @Nick C. you need to only get one lender who will agree with you (out of 50) and you need to present your case more clearly / passionately to them to win them over.

The first part of this project involves applying course concepts towards short case study scenarios, interpreting the law and explaining legal principles that are presented in the second half of the course.