Sentences with phrase «changes in the region difficult»

These ice masses exhibit a complex response to climate and this makes the analysis of changes in the region difficult.

Not exact matches

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

Assessing the influence of individual DNA base changes is particularly difficult in noncoding regions, so they instead identified bigger alterations, so - called structural variants, in which large sequences of DNA are inverted, duplicated, or deleted.

Unfortunately, many of these unknown molecules were those that differed between the wood from the two regions, making it difficult to understand why these changes in chemical fingerprint occur.

But the marketplace has also become more difficult, thanks in part to general unrest and a changing political landscape in the broader region.

This makes it difficult for researchers to see how longer term climate trends have changed in the region.

But changes in sea level and ocean currents in the ice - covered regions of the Arctic and Antarctic in particular are very difficult to detect.

Main sequence stars in this region experience only small changes in magnitude and so this variation is difficult to detect.

Though global warming is changing our weather patterns, it is still difficult for a mosquito to stay warm for 14 days in our region for much of the year.

The loss of genetic diversity and extreme changes in various regions of the genome will make it very difficult to improve breed health from within the existing gene pool.

But changes in precipitation in the region — brought about by a combination of deforestation and warmer temperatures — are making things difficult to follow their traditional ways.

A wide range of extreme weather events is expected in most regions even with an unchanging climate, so it is difficult to attribute any individual event to a change in the climate.

Change in a previously unknown region that turns out to be globally typical — «Subantarctic Glaciers Not Surprising» — is difficult to sell as a motive for political action.

It's actually somewhat difficult to define the average temperature of a region, because of things like the changes in temperature with elevation over even short distances.

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

«Based on the differences it's not difficult to conclude that greenhouse gases are not the sole agents of change in this region.

«Changes to mortgage eligibility, expansions of rent control, a non-resident speculation tax in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region and increasing interest rates, are all conspiring to make for a very complicated and difficult to predict housing market.