Sentences with phrase «change impact analyses»

Climate change impact analyses typically project increasing pest survival and crop damage with increasing temperatures (e.g., NCA 2014a), and wheat stem sawfly (WSS) may well be generally consistent with that pattern, but the following caveats help to show why generalizations across all landscapes in Montana, for all insect pests, are risky.

Forecasting such changes is extremely difficult, but climate change impacts analyses must take into account changes to societies and how they will adapt.

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In the opinion of the Company's management, adjusted book value per share is useful in an analysis of a property casualty company's book value per share as it removes the effect of changing prices on invested assets (i.e., net unrealized investment gains (losses), net of tax), which do not have an equivalent impact on unpaid claims and claim adjustment expense reserves.

«We offer new analyses in this working paper of the impact of changes in the US labor force participation rate (LFPR).

The CBO is expected to update its analysis of the impact of the legislation to take into account the latest changes being proposed.

Management believes these measures offer the ability to make period - to - period comparisons that are not impacted by certain items that can cause dramatic changes in reported operating results, to perform trend analysis, to better identify operating trends that may otherwise be masked or distorted by these types of items and to provide additional transparency of certain items.

Applying the Rule and the Impartial Conduct Standards after a 60 - day delay, however, means that much of the potential investor gains predicted in the Rule's regulatory impact analysis published on April 8, 2016, will commence on June 9, 2017, and accrue prospectively while the Department performs the examination mandated by the President and considers potential changes to the Rule and PTEs.

With the FIA decision the Department made a substantive and irrevocable change to the proposed Rule without any impact analysis or due process for comment on that change.

David Blanchett offers a great analysis of one of these distortions in his paper «Gaming the system: the impact of Morningstar category changes on peer rankings» in the Journal of Investing.

We've created a new tab in the Fixed Income Analysis tool that can help you estimate the hypothetical impact of interest rate changes on the value of individual bonds and bond funds.

This is Edgardo's second guest post as a PEF member, following his, first, which was an analysis of the impact of fiscal policy changes on post-tax income distribution.

Based on the Department of Justice's analysis of Alaska's acquisition of Virgin, it would appear the primary factor considered is the change in the number of airlines per route, he contended, adding that a combined American + Alaska or United + Alaska would have a negligible impact on routes per airline.

However, given the professional designations of these positions, this change should not have any impact on the independence of the analysis and advice provided.

The analysis categorizes U.S. occupations into jobs that require high, medium or low digital skills and tracks the impacts of rapid change.»

They inform the Institute's research and policy agenda and contribute their knowledge and analysis to further the Institute's efforts to impact public debate in support of progressive change.

In conclusion our main point is that we think it is important that one understands how the «Eurozone debt crisis premium» impacts the gold market and the ramifications that price movements caused by the changes in this premium have on how one analyses and trades gold.

His main fields of scientific interest include food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural, food system analysis, regional and urban food systems, sustainable transitions, ecosystem services, climate change impacts, and climate change adaptation.

A dummy variable for year captured the impact from the change in milk options and a monthly control was also included in the analysis to account for seasonal variation.

Head Impacts and White Matter Changes in High School Football: A TBSS Analysis.

It was not clear from this review whether or not community efforts would lead to permanent changes in breastfeeding patterns; however, this analysis confirmed previous speculation regarding the presence of a supportive health system synergized with community efforts: those community interventions that were linked to positive health systems with breastfeeding support already in place appeared to have a greater impact on breastfeeding.

Disability Alliance (now Disability Rights UK) stated that it was «very concerned» the timetable allowed for the passage of the Bill could «prevent adequate analysis of the potential impact of plans to be undertaken» and warned that it may take legal action against the DWP over some of the proposed changes.

So why, before this analysis is released, would the department seek to push through a zoning change without fully understanding the impact it might have, Reyna wondered.

The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk): Analysis of the impact of local election boundary changes on results in the upcoming local elections (13th May 2014).

Among others, I have requested hearings on new findings on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, new findings regarding the probability that extreme weather events are influenced by climate change, and new analysis of earth surface temperatures.

Several of those changes corresponded with the viral target sites of two of the cocktail's antibodies, triggering an in - depth molecular analysis of the development and impact of those changes.

«The Dam Impact Analysis Model enables us to see what happens when you change one factor, like marine or freshwater survival,» said Julie Nieland, a researcher at NEFSC's laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. and lead author of the study.

The study, in Nature Climate Change, is the first such retrospective analysis of the emissions impacts of rural electrification.

The study is the first such retrospective analysis of the emissions impacts of rural electrification (Nature Climate Change, doi.org/wf6).

The independent analysis, it said, should assess the health, biodiversity and functioning of Arctic ecosystems, including the impacts of industrial activities and of climate change.

Analyses show that climate shocks are important drivers of the expansions and contractions seen here, suggesting a large and previously overlooked negative impact of climate change on food production.

After 21 days of drinking the beverage, the volunteers» blood analysis showed a significant decrease in LDL - cholesterol (P < 0.01) and triglyceride (P < 0.01) concentrations — changes which would be likely to have a beneficial impact on their lives.

Their analysis emphasizes the greater vulnerability of poor populations to climate impacts and highlights the need for better modeling, like that proposed by the Princeton team, to reduce poverty and climate change.

Analysis of three major bleaching events on Earth's best - studied reef highlights impact of climate change

A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, finds that the federal government spent three times more than the private insurance industry on climate change impacts last year.

«Our analysis of the temporal variation in exposure patterns provides useful information to assess the impact of control measures and behavior changes during epidemics,» they said.

Finally, a broader analysis of the environmental variables in the aggregation sites can inform the long - term impacts of climate change in the movement of the whale sharks.

There will be an analysis of how a changing climate impacts and affects those decisions.

The study published in Environmental Research Letters is the first global - scale analysis with a focus on changes in national diets and their impact on the blue and green water use of food consumption.

Although this type of analysis is less likely to be easily translated to the clinic, it could be very effective for clinical trials, as so many of the current tests for progression of Parkinson's disease and impact of treatments are very subjective and not sensitive to changes in clinical state.»

Amélie works in the realm of marine and coastal ecology and conservation and her research interests include the use of spatial tools (GIS, spatio - temporal analyses, bio-logging, habitat mapping) to understand and mitigate impacts of anthropogenic activities and changes on wildlife and natural values.

This assessment is focused on the analysis of climate change impacts to the sectors of water (Chapter 3), forests (Chapter 4), and agriculture (Chapter 5).

The assessment concludes with an analysis of the major information gaps — and thus areas for future research — related to climate change and its impacts to the three sectors covered herein (Chapter 6).

• Editor and Lead Author, «The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability», IPCC Special Report on the Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998) • Lead Author of IPCC Technical Paper No. 3, «Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio - Economic Implications,» (1997) • Editor, Working Group II Contribution to the Second Assessment Report Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation (Scientific and Technical Analyses), (1996).

For this analysis, the research team examined impacts of population and temperature changes through 2050 in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, but Allen said that the method could be applied to other regions.

Currently available data do not allow a comprehensive analysis of the likely impact of climate change on all commercially significant insect pests.

Regional analysis of the impacts of climate change on cheatgrass invasion shows potential risk and opportunity.

The significant changes reinforced the impact of the genetic background to various phenotypic analysis, even using nearly divergent substrains.

Erika Crispo, Joseph D. DiBattista, Cristián Correa, Xavier Thibert - Plante, Ann E. McKellar, Amy K. Schwartz, Daniel Berner, Luis F. De León & Andrew P. Hendry — 2010 (1)([email protected]) Keywords: adaptation, adaptive plasticity, climate change, contemporary evolution, human impact, meta - analysis, rapid evolution, reaction norms

Prior to considering adaptation in global or regional models, or implementation at local level, drivers of change and their impacts (and thus uncertainties) require analysis — here are a few examples.

linking probabilistic simple climate models, complex Earth system models, and econometric analyses of historical weathering and climate impacts to project future risks associated with climate change and improve estimates of the social cost of carbon.