Sentences with phrase «common than positive»

Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (some positive trends are evident in some high latitude regions).

In fact the Summary says that negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts, with wheat and maize yields negatively affected in many regions and effects on rice and soybean yields smaller in major production regions.

But it's a funny kind of world in which it is known that «negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts», and yet yields per acre and in total have increased.

Overall, the report said, «Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts.»

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

Not exact matches

Smiling rewires your brain making positive patterns more common than negative ones.

I believe it's very common for entrepreneurs to see the positive more than the negative.

Third, a sales pitch under these conditions is more likely than not to make the experience for the «buyer» rather negative, and any person with common sense will tell you that a negative experience takes multiple positive experiences just to make up for the one negative.

That is far more common than the occasional coincidence of a positive «outcome».

Protestants and Catholics tend to look at authority from rather different perspectives, and on the whole I think it fair to say that the version of the common tradition to which Catholics are heir tends to give them a more positive attitude toward the function of authority in the church than that found among Protestants.

Upon my arrival I was instantly confronted by the visceral reality that I was in the country with the highest murder rate in the world, where rape was common and more than half the population was HIV - positive — men and women, gays and straights alike.

While the most common association with the term remains a Predator - like «killer» drone, tomorrow's associations are likely to be more positive — of a toy drone used to take drone selfies (or «dronies), or of a «burrito bomber», rather than an actual one.

Don Levy, director of the Siena College Research Institute, said antithetical views are common with Trump, although «Democrats are more negative toward the president than Republicans are positive.»

Although not widely known, with eleven Assembly Members the Party is better represented proportionately at the Assembly than are our Scottish counterparts in their Parliament and in common with the generally positive reception the Party is enjoying nationally we have reason to be optimistic about having an increased presence come May 4th.

«Our critical review on the limited existing treatment mechanism studies,» explained co-author Dr. Jessica Black, «found that «common» processes, such as positive social support, rather than a particular treatment modality, account for positive adolescent substance use outcomes.»

«We know small planets are common, so if Kepler sees a small - looking planet candidate and it passes the strict internal vetting, it's more likely to be a planet than a false positive because it's hard to mimic that signal with anything else.»

Positive behaviours were reported to be much more common than abusive behaviours, however some positive but time - consuming behaviours were notably infPositive behaviours were reported to be much more common than abusive behaviours, however some positive but time - consuming behaviours were notably infpositive but time - consuming behaviours were notably infrequent.

The new test, which examines cancer - related DNA and proteins in the blood, yielded a positive result about 70 % of the time across eight common cancer types in more than 1000 patients whose tumors had not yet spread.

It goes deeper than common sense though: scientific research also shows that gratitude can have a positive effect on overall well - being by increasing happiness and decreasing depression.

Whatever the truth of this, Poltergeist had far more in common with the positive vision of bourgeois suburbia found in Spielberg's own Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) or E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial (released within a week of Poltergeist) than with any unnerving Texploitation made by Hooper, and often seemed to be a feel - good family film merely masquerading as horror.

I think that, more than I could have hoped, this decision by the College Board and my appointment is being seen as a remarkable positive support for the aims of the Common Core.

In 2013, teachers were more positive in their views of the Common Core than the public (76 % compared to 65 %), but today teachers are less positive (46 % compared to 53 %).

She pointed to the positive steps taken by New York with its adoption of Common Core standards and aligned testing, which offers more rigorous assessments than NAEP.

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A common positive finding from both the reviewers was iPad's superior battery life, which lasted more than what Apple claimed will last 10 hours between full charges.

This reviewer would hazard a guess that Cumming and Milius have little in common on the basis of one small but interesting detail - Charles Cumming's website is the only one I can recollect visiting where less than positive book reviews share equal space with the glowing ones, which would appear to indicate a certain openness on the author's part - not a character trait shared by Alec Milius!

Though this is a positive, it is important to note that Stovall also found that preferred stocks experienced a higher level of volatility than bonds or common stock, as is shown in the table below.

One positive benefit from a risk perspective is that this group of investments, when measured against their comparable common equity, has a much lower beta than I would have originally expected.

Gear items are categorised by their respective rarity such as common being an easier to find item, while rare is harder to find and epic is even better and rarer than rare which is a positive design choice as it makes the player think about their decision when regarding a particular gear item to choose over another.

Either way, originality points for offering a positive view on a much derided game, but a few less than perfect score is needed simply because devil's advocate articles are a fairly common thing online.

Extrapolation of these «cycles» would suggest a common positive correlation around 180y rather than the 151 years used by VP.

@greg goodman: Extrapolation of these «cycles» would suggest a common positive correlation around 180y rather than the 151 years used by VP.

Between 1976 and 2006, El Nino's were relative more common than La Nina's (a condition that exists if there is a positive PDO), producing an overall warming of the planet.

It is actually quite common that we have the ability to recognize the positive qualities and talents of others more so than our own.

In an article published this week in Business Insider, Hannah Fry, a math whiz who works for at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, breaks down happily ever after in this formula, developed by another mathematician based on research at The Gottman Institute: The longest - lasting couples felt they had more positive interactions than negative ones on a daily basis, while those with the least longevity generally feel their negative interactions are more common than happy ones.

In it Wampold, a former statistician studying primarily outcomes with depressed patients, reported that (1) psychotherapy can be more effective than placebo, (2) no single treatment modality has the edge in efficacy, and (3) factors common to different psychotherapies, such as whether or not the therapist has established a positive working alliance with the client / patient, account for much more of the variance in outcomes than specific techniques or modalities.

The common thread Gottman found that predicts divorce so well is weaved into it, and it is this: for a marriage to be stable, you must have lots more positive interactions than negative interactions.

Appraisals of negative exchanges may be most accurate and least susceptible to recall bias because negative experiences are less common and thus more salient than positive ones (Tversky & Kahneman, 1981).

These findings are consistent with previous studies that have demonstrated a mediating effect of parent — child relationships and material resources on the relationship between psychosomatic health and living arrangements.31, 44, 45 Positive relationships to parents have been found to be more common in children in JPC than in single care, in particular to the fathers.13, 32, 46 Children's satisfaction with their material resources was included as a potential mediator since economic stress has previously been shown to be associated with psychosomatic symptoms in children29 and is more common among children with separated parents.4, 13 Also, these conditions reduced the differences in psychosomatic health between the living arrangements.

I have found this method of working with couples to be far more effective in achieving immediate, sustained, positive change than the more common practice of meeting for a one - hour therapy session, on a weekly basis, over a long period of time.