Preschool settings, Headstart, and other early childhood organizations use systems
change research in order to expand the implementation of positive behavior support across a larger number of settings.
This increase is slightly less than the 2000 - 2013 average of 3.1 percent, said lead author Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research in the UK.
Murphy is the head of climate prediction at the Met Office, the official center for climate
change research in Britain.
SAFE - MET (2011 - 2014) The overall aims of the project were to examine, propose and test ways to strengthen societies» resilience to climate and weather - related hazards and to enhance the multi-disciplinary climate
change research in Zambia and Malawi.
The cuts to climate
change research in this bill are in line with the spending priorities laid out last month by Paul Ryan and the House Budget Committee, and with earlierefforts to chip away at funding for climate change research.
Dr. Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Center for Climate
Change Research in Britain, says it's best not to gloss over uncertainties.
It's too early, says Corrine Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research in the UK.
Andrew Jordan of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research in Norwich, England, co-author of a similar call for a reassessment of the 2 °C target, said the IPCC actually «suggested» in its September report that the 2 °C target would be breached.
Given the significance of climate
change research in public policy, the study's results also provide important response to critics of global warming.
COP23 side event «Evidence - based Decision Making: Strategic Funding of Climate
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It's not big enough,» said Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Center for Climate
Change Research in England.
«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate
change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].
A report from the Climate Council warns that reducing climate change projects and staff may significantly hurt climate
change research in the country.
Addressing these three broad areas of climate
change research in reverse order: -(3) The anthropogenic origin of the rise in atmospheric CO2 levels is questioned because the levels of uncertainty of the size of natural fluxes within the carbon cycle are seen as too large for such a conclusion to be made.
IIASA researchers have been involved in greenhouse gas emission projections since the beginning of climate
change research in the 1970s, including research on both historical emissions as well as projections for future emissions based on multiple scenarios of economic and population growth and technological change.
«If we are lucky and the climate sensitivity is at the low end, and we have a strong agreement in 2015, then I think we stand a chance to limit climate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research in Norwich, UK.
«The 40 % target is the death knell of 2ºC,» says Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research in the United Kingdom.
In global climate
change research in particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to society,» Hackmann said.
A full 23 percent of China's greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to Western exports, according to an analysis by researchers at the Tyndall Center for Climate
Change Research in England.
Not exact matches
The project
changes in scope all of the time and then she wonders why nothing is done after I do days of
research for her.
And Savage says he and other officials within Alberta Environment have been asked to prepare more
research in anticipation of talks to consider
changes to the province's climate strategy.
In one, scholars were asked to read and rate
research papers; unbeknown to them, the names had been
changed to
change the gender of the authors, and the scholars rated the papers «written» by men as better than the ones that appeared to be authored by women.
«This incident has really contributed to
changing the strategic environment
in which these key pipeline infrastructure decisions are going to be made,» says Mark McClelland, head of North American
research for risk - analysis firm Maplecroft.
Even apart from the fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the very age of the prior
research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to do with trend lines,
changes in attitudes or different behaviors.
In an announcement Thursday, climate
change think - tank the Woods Hole
Research Center (WHRC) said the tropics now represented «a net source of carbon to the atmosphere,» roughly 425 teragrams each year.
In an analysis of the
changing shape of the American middle class, Pew
Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.
Research by the Bank of Canada that Poloz unveiled
in his lecture suggests that if Canada's companies have spread out across the globe, rather than simply doing the bulk of their work at home, then the domestic economy will be much less responsive to subtle
changes in borrowing costs and the exchange rate.
«As a Catholic Church bank, we feel strongly responsible to participate
in tackling the issue of climate
change,» Tommy Piemonte, the bank's sustainability
research officer, said
in a statement.
It is true that power
changes us,
research shows, but not
in the simple way we're used to seeing
in the movies.
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University of Toronto «s Colleen Flood, the Canada
Research Chair
in Health Law and Policy, explains what's standing
in the way of health care reform, and why the business community may be our best bet for bringing about
change.
«The BlackBerry brand was loved and admired within the consumer community, but
Research in Motion as an organization had been tainted by internal struggles, personnel
changes, massive ego issues between the ownership, and stock devaluation,» remembers Roberts.
In a recent
research note, he pointed to the possibility, based on Apple's reported hiring of a large number of auto industry veterans, of Apple
changing gears entirely and building a car.
One of the reasons the IMF has
changed its tune on fiscal policy is because
research it has done
in the past year shows that borrowing to pay for infrastructure pays for itself over the longer term by generating faster economic growth.
«As firms attempt to adapt to ever -
changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing
in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski,
research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said
in a statement.
That's the first finding
in this week's economic
research wrap, which also looks at
changes in the way women have spent their days
in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.
For at least a decade after receiving
in - house
research warning of the potential impact of Climate
Change, ExxonMobil continued to fund outside groups that disputed it.
Dr. Victoria Keener, a
research fellow at the East - West Center
in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose
research focuses on the impact of climate
change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.
While few dispute that limiting your commute is the ideal solution, new
research suggests that, if you're stuck
in a car or train for hours a day, there is a small
change in attitude that can make the experience significantly less painful.
You'll notice there seemed to be a dip
in interest
in 2013, but that's because they
changed the definition of podcast listening to a more narrow scope
in their
research.
Even as Apple got people used to the idea of having a supercomputer
in their pocket, it significantly
changed how businesses interact with consumers around the world, says Brian Blau,
research director for consumer technology and markets at
research firm Gartner.
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in the industries and markets
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate
in the U.S. and globally and any
changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations
in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand
in construction and
in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges
in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies
in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and
research and development spending, including
in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including
in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption
in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational
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changes in political conditions
in the U.S. and other countries
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of
changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates
in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of
changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations
in the U.S. and other countries
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result
in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including
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The
change that received the most attention was the decision to tighten the high - profile Scientific
Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, which gives out cash and tax credits for R&D spending
in Canada.
The first thing that's
changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at scale
In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor component
In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation
in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor component
in Silicon Valley by providing
research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.
In our
research from 2014 to 2016, we've seen the most preferred employee benefit globally
change from healthcare coverage to work flexibility.
Around 90 jobs
in research and support will go as part of the
change, while around 85
in other roles such as trading will not be affected.
He also notes that the
research could help
change the minds of communications professionals and clients who want to err on the side of caution
in their invocation of intense emotion
in campaigns.
And
in a smartphone - driven world, that has
changed public health
research overnight.
«But all it takes is a couple of dedicated teachers with a little support and guidance to run important
research programs that can produce winners
in this competition and more importantly kids who are going to go on to become scientists and
change the world.»
Dr. Cialdini is a world - renowned expert
in persuasion who brings 35 years of experience
researching why people are moved to
change behavior.