Sentences with phrase «changes over the past several decades»

This novel approach finds local populations in the North Pacific and Northwest Atlantic are regionally synchronized and strongly correlated to ocean conditions — such that climate models alone explain up to 88 % of the observed changes over the past several decades.

How we process wheat and other gluten products, for example, has changed over the past several decades.

The human microbiome, which consists of approximately 100 trillion bacteria per person, has been significantly changing over the past several decades.

Theory insists the bulk of the observed temperature changes over the past several decades were caused mostly by people.

Slides 37 - 39 (39:10) «Happer is right that the number of hurricanes does not seem to have changed over the past several decades.

6) There are still insufficient observations of ice thickness to quantify the basin - wide and long - term rate of ice - volume change over the past several decades.

Roles for both men and women have changed over the past several decades.

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While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, he says: «Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

A close examination of the changes that have taken place over the past several decades in religious television suggests that the answer is not simple.

While it has much to recommend it, I ultimately came away from reading the book disappointed at several pieces of advice it gives that seem to ignore critical changes in the thinking of concussion experts over the past decade, including some from Dr. Cantu himself, that detracted from what is otherwise an excellent book.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

The world has changed dramatically over the several past decades and the reason for this to happen is technologies and the notion of the Internet.

The world has changed dramatically over the several past decades and the reason for this to happen is technologies and the notion of the internet.

The two most important changes in American education policy over the past several decades have been the expansion of school choice and changes to school accountability.

Two big changes in American education policy over the past several decades have been good for the country and for kids in general, but not particularly good for Catholic schools, especially the urban variety.

In addition, the technologically biased structural change that has been affecting the economy over the past several decades has increased entry level job requirements and made it more challenging for Millennials to get their careers off the ground compared to previous generations.

The observed global greening has occurred in spite of all the many real and imagined assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades, including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, deforestation, and climatic changes in temperature and precipitation, more than compensating for any of the negative effects these phenomena may have had on the global biosphere.

Geographical patterns in climate changes are expected to remain similar to those observed over the past several decades.

There are, however, several scientific studies that show there has been little if any change in the number or severity of hurricanes over the past several decades.

Internal variability can only account for ~ 0.3 °C change in average global surface air temperature at most over periods of several decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it can not account for more than a small fraction of the global warming over the past century.

With respect to why there was a significant increase in tree density over the past several decades, Dolanc offers that the changes in the density and composition of lower - elevation forests are consistent with fire suppression; but that the density increases in high - elevation vegetation types (subalpine forests generally don't burn) are «more likely to be caused by changing climate.»

Upwelling, for example, is increasing only 0.0109 units per year over the past decade - a change that seems inconsequential given that the UI can range over hundreds of units over several days.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

In recent years, many have expressed concerns that global terrestrial NPP should be falling due to the many real (and imagined) assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades — including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, and deforestation, as well as overly - hyped changes in temperature and precipitation.

I came to think of solar radiation as being the ultimate (and only) external forcing of the climate system, which, except for the orbital seasonal changes and the 11 - year sunspot cycle, has been essentially constant over the past several decades of precision solar irradiance monitoring.

The second line of evidence arises from indirect, historical estimates of past climate changes that suggest that the changes in global surface temperature over the last several decades are unusual (Karl et al, 2009).

«Our perspective on artificial intelligence has changed significantly over the past several decades,» says Jack Conrad, lead research scientist in corporate R&D at Thomson Reuters and president of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Over the past three decades, SLS volunteers have taught and assisted inmates at several correctional institutions, offered «duty counsel» service at rural court houses, published numerous books and pamphlets, advocated for changes to laws that adversely affect the poor, participated on radio and television programs, helped individuals file their income tax returns, provided countless lectures and seminars, and assisted hundreds of thousands of individuals with their specific legal questions and problems.

Social reform is taking the spotlight after several technical changes have taken place in the healthcare industry over the past decade.