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Attempts to extend current global models to coastal ecosystems may yield spurious results, unless these models capture other relevant processes, such as regional watershed processes and changes in landscapes at the ecosystem level, which are not tractable at the global scale.

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«It's not just about hitting that number in your class profile, it's about the broader initiative of changing the discussion at that boardroom table, changing the landscape of business,» says da Silva at Rotman.

But while Cirque du Soleil still maintains its Canadian headquarters, its shows are most at home in Las Vegas, where they have permanently changed the landscape of entertainment.

And in light of fintech recently changing the financial landscape so dramatically, we've added resources to focus on following the companies and trends at the forefront of the fintech revolution.

The moves comes at a time Macy's concedes it needs to be faster in adapting to retail's quickly changing landscape.

The items we were blind to: our initially incorrect positioning in the market, the time it would take to actually establish operational efficiency and how our metrics would fair in the changing venture capital landscape, were anticipated from our mentors after they took an unbiased look at the business from the outside.

However, at nearly 63 times current earnings - a whopping p / e ratio, to be sure - even if the firm were to grow its profit to the level of Berkshire - $ 8.5 billion - it would still lack the liquid assets and marketable securities the house that Warren Buffett built has, and it would not have a diversified income stream, making it far more vulnerable to changes in the competitive landscape; a major concern when you contemplate that Google operates in an industry where dramatic shifts consumer behavior can happen overnight.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

In his address, Barton will share his perspectives on forces at work in the global economy and how they are changing the business landscape here in B.C. — creating not just challenges, but also opportunitieIn his address, Barton will share his perspectives on forces at work in the global economy and how they are changing the business landscape here in B.C. — creating not just challenges, but also opportunitiein the global economy and how they are changing the business landscape here in B.C. — creating not just challenges, but also opportunitiein B.C. — creating not just challenges, but also opportunities.

«We believe diversity is an imperative for any business looking to survive and thrive in today's changing corporate landscape,» said Amy Philbrook, head of diversity and inclusion at Fidelity Investments.

This type of store clearly shows how we listen to our customers and want to continuously improve and expand our offering in order to keep being at the forefront of a changing retail landscape», stated Cyrille Ballereau, Vice-President of Operations for Eastern Canada.

Since establishing an Innovation outpost at Volta in August, Atlantic Lottery Corporation has been winning at the innovation game — with outside - the - box ideas coming fast and furious that are helping them change the landscape of lottery.

«In the changed landscape of investing, people have started looking more and more at the lines between equity, fixed income and derivatives and started melting down the silos,» says Michael Spalla, a trader at MFS.

At the same time, advisors also stand to gain from relationships with satisfied clients in today's competitive landscape of margin compression, regulatory scrutiny and demographic change.

The upcoming changes at Fuller Theological Seminary, expected to go into place in 2019, hint at the shifting landscape for Christian higher education.

O'Boyle added: «We're really looking forward, we're looking at how the landscape is changing in this country when it comes to mission and how we need to adapt to that and so we're looking at making significant changes when it comes to our ministry and how we go about reaching young people effectively.»

I started saying this back in 1988, and here it is 2015, and look at how the landscape has changed.

It is a source of great frustration because even though women, people of color, and people of various sexual orientations and identities are raising their voices and sometimes being heard, those at the control center are straight white men who may be or pretend to be sympathetic to their voices but are unable or unwilling to change the landscape because they're hopelessly entangled in it.

Or at least making an effort to change the landscape of our food industry in ways they can.

Appropriate as the Industry faces an uncertain outlook as pressure mounts on Wholesalers» margins as structural change in the UK retail landscape continues at pace and the industry attempts to -LSB-...]

The restaurant industry is in a state of constant change, with new products emerging at a rapid pace and trends shifting and evolving across the global landscape.

At least one study implicates changes in surrounding landscape (increased proportion of pastures) in greater rust spread / epidemics.

«Major changes are happening in the retail landscape,» said Bob Burke, a principal in Natural Product Consulting, Andover, Mass., March 8 during an education session at the Natural Products Expo West tradeshow.

The peppers were certainly in New Mexico with the arrival of conquistador Don Juan de Oñate, who breezed into Santa Fe in 1598 with a sack full of seeds and changed the landscape forever, according to Eric Votava, a senior research specialist at the New Mexico State University Chile Pepper Breeding Program.

He was a revelation his first 8 years at Arsenal, but when Abramovich came in and changed the landscape of European football we never adapted.

The UFC simply grew too fast in relation their own organisational capabalities and it cannot / could not cope with it, hence Ferritta's sold it at the perfect time, now they have an aging staff minus some of the key players (e.g. Joe Silva etc.) with an old business model and old thinking processes with same old leaders (e.g. Dana), but now operating under totally new realities, many more fighters, fighters attitude have changed, different landscape in the sporting world in general (from how sport fans consume sports, viewing habbits,...)

Jürgen Klopp feels the change in the landscape since Liverpool last faced Arsenal is completely natural — but his optimism remains at 100 per cent ahead of their latest meeting.

A proposal for a new parks maintenance building at the north end of Century Park in Vernon Hills has several nearby residents concerned about the new view and changes to the park's natural landscape and aesthetics.

Zimmerman, the ATEP director at the University of Charleston, will examine the changing landscape in athletic training education and the value of the practitioner serving as clinical instructor.

The series Through The Ice, Darkly currently on show at the Peggy Notebaert Museum as part of the Weather To Climate exhibition is specifically about the subjective change in the landscape, the shift of mood apparent to an artist's eyes, a lost ice world.

However, the fractured political landscape (in particular relating to the likely level of Fine Gael and Labour seat losses) and the favourable impact of the boundary changes associated with the 2012 Constituency Commission report means that Fianna Fail would achieve more success in translating these support levels into Dail seat numbers than they had at the 2011 contest.

Beyond the Headlines with Michael Lenz takes a deeper look at the casino gambling issue in Saratoga Springs and describes how the application process has changed the landscape for this economic plan.

-- The impact the Trump administration will have on the real estate industry: How protectionism, bank deregulation and changes to the tax structure will affect the NYC market — Looking at the post-peak luxury new development market: Selling in an increasingly competitive landscape — Gauging the commercial slowdown: Amid a shift in activity and broker reshuffling, what's next for the market?

Also on the agenda is a talk on the governor's ability to shape the language of the state budget, the change in the political landscape when Pataki steps down at the end of the year, the chief concerns of New York's ailing cities, and the validity of mayoral term limits.

The peer - review landscape has changed rapidly in recent years, presenting new opportunities but also potential pitfalls for young scientists, said the speakers at this session organized by Sense about Science.

By, for example, examining what people in the area use different trees and shrubs for and look at how the landscape changes, we can better understand how land use, social change, climate and ecosystems interact, even in ways that can be unexpected,» says Lowe Börjeson, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.

Scientific American's August supplement takes a look at the changing landscape of education in the face of emerging technology, and asks the question, how do we increase interest and engagement in STEM initiatives?

I mean, the landscape of gamers has changed so dramatically in just the last 3, 5, 10 years because games are looking at the latest technology and utilizing it.

Driving through Fort Collins with Grandin, I found myself looking at a landscape that embodies a massive change in that direction.

«Taking the long - term view, in terms of a general narrative, we're looking at potential landscape change,» said Tom Veblen, a professor of biogeography and conservation at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

«This event will fundamentally change the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula,» the scientists at Project MIDAS, an Antarctic research effort that has been watching the rift closely, wrote in update.

Although that formula has produced excellent science — Max Planck scientists have won 10 Nobel Prizes since 1984 — some critics contend that it has prevented the society from reacting quickly enough to sudden changes in the scientific landscape and has isolated its researchers from Germany's university system and from colleagues at other institutes (Science, 4 June 1999, p. 1595).

In the certain way you can imagine, or look at it like if you recall the epigenetic landscape of wanting that the valley gets deeper and deeper, and it gets more and more complicated to overcome the hill that then is building up and prevents to change the cell identity.

Another involved making additional flybys of Titan to not only study that moon's bizarre landscape in more detail, but to also use the gravity of Titan to change Cassini's course and fly around the planet at different orbits using less fuel.

«When we imagine the landscape of astronomy in the decade of 2030, we realize it is at last within our grasp to make a monumental discovery that will change mankind forever.

For the book, Weigel charts the evolving landscape of dating over the past 200 years, looking at how key changes such as women entering the workforce & the post-war boom led to dramatic shifts in the way people date.

The data from 2014 looks at how singles are interacting in the modern dating landscape, and how their sexual desires and gender roles are changing.

WEBWIRE - Jan 22 - Jeannie Assimos, VP of Content at eHarmony, will discuss how she has seen the online dating landscape change in the ten years since she joined the company.

Jeannie Assimos, VP of Content at eharmony, will discuss how she has seen the online dating landscape change in the ten years since she joined the company.