Sentences with phrase «changes on a broader scale»

When will we be ready to make the investments required to effect that change on a broad scale?

A few people began to look beyond research policy to publicly demand immediate changes on a broader scale.

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Not only were levels of metabolic compounds different, but the expression of certain genes involved in metabolism was turned up, and the epigenome of the cells — molecular markers on DNA that change gene expression on a broader scale — was altered.

«Climate change is affecting temperatures on a much broader scale,» Youngsteadt said.

Dr. Wade's research has focused on assessing climate change vulnerability across broad spatial scales, with a particular emphasis on freshwater ecosystems.

Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash Fast Company, May 18, 2011 «Another of the competition's judges, [Senior Lecturer] Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»»

Another of the competition's judges, Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»

This piece, originally featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2011, discusses how large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

«I can help to make changes on a much broader scale that benefit students and other teachers.

Many of these products were not previously available for portfolio allocations on such a broad scale and are leading to changes in the way they are applied in the development of both large and small portfolios.

In fact, all climate models do predict that the change in globally - averaged steady state temperature, at least, is almost exactly proportional to the change in net radiative forcing, indicating a near - linear response of the climate, at least on the broadest scales.

In her September 25 article on the latest UN climate scare report, Eilperin wrote: «Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.»

Led by Dr. James E. Hansen from 1981 to 2013, research at GISS emphasized a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man - made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one - time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal / annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.

The resultant local changes in microclimate can have broader - scale impacts on climate and vegetation elsewhere via «ecoclimate teleconnections» [12,13].

Broad - scale changes in vegetation in general, and tree loss in particular, have pronounced effects on climate processes through biogeophysical mechanisms such as albedo, evapotranspiration (ET), and carbon dioxide exchange with the atmosphere [11].

Among the issues reviewed were: • The prospects for air pollution and climate change in the region up to 2030 in the absence of action on SLCPs; • The potential contribution of SLCP mitigation to climate, health and food security, and more generally to economic development; • Feasible mitigation technologies and strategies and opportunities for their implementation at national scale; • The relationship of SLCP mitigation to broader regional air pollution and climate strategies and their benefit for the MENA region.

Such projects have a broad range, and may include things such as: the construction and interpretation of climate change scenarios on local to national scales, the study of changes in extremes, the evaluation of impacts on infrastructure, forests, agriculture, and energy production and distribution.

The content of this Roadmap is based on a broad literature related to practice, service, and systems change, data and information related to TA across a number of domains (e.g., special education, general education, community prevention, aid for developing countries), and data and best practices related to implementation and scaling up of evidence - based practices (November, 2009).

The changing landscape of real estate technology is something investors should think about on a bigger, broader scale: how are new innovations, new startups, and new technologies changing how we do real estate on a grand scale?