Sentences with phrase «challenges of a changing environment»

The thing that I find most interesting about the hominin fossil record is the diversity of adaptations that evolved to meet the challenges of changing environments after 3.0 myr.

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«The challenge is that you don't know how the real estate market will react to changes in the lending environment when you have a degree of overvaluation,» he said.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»

Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.

Cele states that the rebranding centres on foregrounding Hatch's understanding of its client's challenges and requirements and responding quickly with innovative solutions to those needs in an environment that is changing at an unprecedented pace.

The ambitious targets of tech entrepreneurs also create a high - pressure environment and the fast pace of change in the tech industry leaves many entrepreneurs facing a significant growth challenge.

«Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main challenges for humanity.

Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

REED makes a valid point that real change is going to come not only from restoring the victims of sex trafficking but in challenging the mindsets and environments that condone or promote it.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

Alicandro is challenging two - term Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a staunch critic of President Donald Trump, filing legal challenges to his administration's regulatory changes on the environment and immigration.

One of the challenges we face is how to best design and change cities into smart intelligent and sustainable environments.

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

New York is not a low - tax state, and its economic success is because of strengths that overcome a challenging tax environment, with recent tax commission reports recommending many of the changes incorporated in the bill.

«And these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.»

Schneiderman has filed legal challenges to a variety of Trump administration regulatory changes and policies, ranging from the environment to immigration and telecommunications.

While Presenting the award, Michael Buerk, BBC News journalist, stated that, «In spite of the challenging operating environment and rapid changes in the industry.

The question of how changes in the environment give rise to the subjective experience of time in our brain continues to challenge psychologists and brain researchers

James Hunt, chief of environment and energy services for Boston, says climate change will be a challenge throughout the city, half of which is built on filled tidal lands.

Predicting our climate change future, and particularly impacts on the natural systems responsible for making this planet a habitable environment for mankind, is clearly one of the most challenging problems of our time.

They must also deal with a host of challenges tied directly to the environment and potentially amplified by climate change, including warming waters, increasing ocean acidity and the spread of diseases that can decimate shellfish stocks.

The fact that an animal's need for these minerals changes with the seasons, with age and with overall health may explain why geophagia is especially common when an animal's diet does not provide enough minerals or when the challenges of the environment demand extra energy.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

The team modelled how the membrane changed, enabling LUCA's descendants to move to new, more challenging environments and evolve into two distinct types of single - celled organism, bacteria and archaea, creating the deepest branch of the tree of life.

The limited success of Changing World Technologies (CWT), a biocrude pioneer first chronicled by DISCOVER in May 2003, reveals that there are more challenges than meet the eye in creating an environment - friendly, economically viable waste - to - fuel industry.

«The challenge of putting robots into real - life settings, like homes or offices, is that those environments are constantly changing.

What matters is the capability of the regions to identify short - term innovative solutions to a changing (and more challenging) external environment.

Learning the intricate inner workings of clouds is challenging because they are constantly changing and interact with the environment in many complex ways.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

The winner of the election will face challenges at the interface of science and diplomacy related to health, economic growth, and climate change and the environment that will play an ever - greater role.

The challenge in doing this is that the ions» environment, i.e., the atoms to which it is bound as well as the fluid in which it is dissolved, changes the external magnetic field in the vicinity of the atomic nucleus, which, in turn, affects the precise measurement of the magnetic moment.

New Zealand has been faced with the changes and challenges of significant health reforms yet there remains little published literature about health professional job satisfaction and levels of psychological distress in the current working environment.

As the Academy of Culinary Nutrition states, «these leaders champion whole food eating, challenge corporations to change their damaging practices, educate us about nutrition and how food affects us, raise awareness about the link between our food choices and the environment, and more.»

Transitioning from the classroom to a corporate office was a bigger change than I had expected, and with that change came the challenge of curating office - appropriate looks for a business environment.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Urban future 2 - Supersized cities 3 - How cities began 4 - Urbanisation in Africa 5 - Favelas 6 - Urban change in the UK 7 - The future of cities ICT 8 - Introducing Bristol 9 - Social opportunities 10 - Bristol's economy 11 - Urbanisation and the environment 12 - Environmental challenges 13 - Social inequality 14 - New housing in Bristol 15 - The Temple Quarter Regeneration 16 - Rio De Janeiro 17 - Social challenges in Rio 18 - ICT economic challenges in Rio 19 - Improving Rio for the city's poorest

«The fact is that the skills and knowledge we pick up during the early part of our life will not necessarily prepare us for the challenges of a rapidly changing work environment.

Recommended sequence: Year 7 Map Skills Rainforests Settlement Rivers UK, Weather and Climate Year 8 Coasts Extreme Environments Tourism Natural Hazards Fragile Environments Year 9 The Gambia: Learning Through Enquiry Development Gap Energy Population The Challenge of Natural Hazards Year 10 The Living World Urban Issues and Challenges Physical Landscapes in the UK Year 11 The Challenge of Resource Management The Changing Economic World

Unit 2 Challenges In The Human Environment Case Studies Included: - Urban Issues and Challenges Topic - Mumbai (NEE Urban Area) and a depth study of London (HIC Urban Area) Changing Economic World - Nigeria and Royal Dutch Shell (NEE Country); Jamaica (Development through tourism); UK Sustainable Car Industry; South Oxfordshire and Milton (Contrasting Rural Areas).

But given employment contracts, union rules, and the tendency of experienced teachers to prefer working in less - challenging school environments, this disparity in teacher quality will be particularly hard to change.

The Teaching Systems Lab, situated within MIT's Office of Digital Learning and in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, works to tackle the exciting challenges of preparing teachers for the challenges of today's classrooms, and providing them with the opportunities and experiences to change those classrooms into the learning environments of tomorrow.

The tough environment is a challenge for Heins, who was named president and CEO after the resignation of Jim Balsillie and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis following months of investor pressure for a change.

Each day, there are new presenters with new ideas and fresh ways of approaching the challenges of writing a book to build your brand in today's changed publishing environment.

But some things haven't changed — investors are still challenged by the seemingly never - ending search for yield in an environment of potential rising interest rates.

Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.

Although some behavior challenges are unpleasant to live with, they can be resolved through a combination of addressing the reasons for the behavior, behavior modification and by making changes to the environment.

Yet, shelter life can be very stressful, and Purrnino is a cat who has been challenged with the constant change and uncertainty of his environment.

With more than ten years experience changing owners» lives throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and surrounding NYC, Anthony has perfected a unique variety of non-treat-centric methods that help dogs become calm, peaceful, trusting, obedient, and social in these challenging city environments.

- demo has been downloaded over one million downloads - over 45k survey responses - run by pushing the analog stick all the way - hold B to run even faster (although random enemy encounters go up to balance this)- fast travel option - adjustments to designs of the environment based on the issues with visibility, especially in dungeons - traversable areas stand out, adjustments to wall and floor color, and visible landmarks, and more - radar that points players towards entrances, exits and important places - improved visibility - adjust screen brightness - adjust HD - 2D filters - fixed issue where it was too easy to accidentally overwrite your save - 9 save slots and 1 autosave slot - adjusted text size and streamlined the UI - skip scene option - option to replay cutscenes - option to change text speed - game balance refinement so that battles provide a good challenge, but are not overly frustrating - battles with a full party of four and more important elements have not yet been shown