Sentences with phrase «cyclical changes as»

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While structural factors such as technological change - related disruptions and globalization will put a cap on underlying price pressures, the strength of cyclical factors will outweigh the structural factors, in our view.

For a petro - economy such as Canada's, the financial risks associated with the pending battle against climate change are much greater than any cyclical downturn in oil prices.

The shift reflects cyclical (eg changes in risk appetite) as well as structural (eg tighter risk management or regulation) forces affecting both the supply of and demand for market - making services.

The trend can be seen in both the supply of and demand for market - making services, and reflects both post-crisis cyclical conditions (such as diminished bank risk appetite and strong bond issuance) and structural changes in the markets themselves (such as tighter risk management or regulatory constraints).

The effects of interest rate changes in the 1990s are visible as cyclical rises and falls in debt servicing, around a slowly rising trend, caused by the increase in debt levels.

Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.

Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the rally, according to organizers, at which many spoke about individual steps that could be taken to help thwart the cyclical event once known as global warming, now re-dubbed climate change.

Even subtle shifts in the Gulf Stream, linked to cyclical phenomena such as changes in winds around the North Atlantic, may condemn many to death in the Arctic, for example.

Although humans aren't as seasonal as animals, these cyclical changes can have a dramatic effect on our biology.

The responsibilities are enormous, but as the Center for Creative Leadership's Bill Pasmore writes in Leading Continuous Change: Navigating Churn in the Real World, it's time to replace single - change management with a comprehensive, cyclical appChange: Navigating Churn in the Real World, it's time to replace single - change management with a comprehensive, cyclical appchange management with a comprehensive, cyclical approach.

If we're going to have a monetary - based culture of cyclical consumption (which, I believe is doomed to fail eventually, but that's another issue) this is as certain as season's change.

The FIG index attempts to forecast changes in the cyclical direction of inflation by tracking such things as materials prices, import prices, and delivery times (ECRI's Weekly Leading Index and Future Inflation Gauge are available on its website at www.businesscycle.com).

Orcam Financial Group specializes in constructing diversified, low fee, tax efficient portfolios that match an investor's risk profile with the cyclical changes in the markets as the business cycle evolves.

The impact of such a structural change in the mean is twofold: First, it implies that the current cyclical extreme in the level of corporate profits as a proportion of GDP is less extreme than it appears on its face; and, second, that the ratio of corporate profits - to - GDP is less predictive as an indicator than it has been historically.

Time plays a significant role in Steinkamp's work, often depicting cyclical occurrences such as changing seasons and life cycles.

Gardening is cyclical; in a garden we witness new growth, but also its decline and decay as the seasons change.

As to the example of the megadrought in the 1600s, I know little about this, but can you be so certain this was the result of chaos and not a change in forcings, or a non-chaotic combination of a change in forcings timed with a cyclical ENSO - like event?

I probably need the Complete Idiot's Guide, but what I get out of this is, using the mean of the whole data set (if it does have an actual hocky stick shape) as zero creates a higher horizontal line from which all the data vary in various amounts & it tends to «pull up» the negative differences & makes the positive differences look not so big (or it makes all the data look on average equally large in distance from the mean, both in pos & neg directions), making the whole thing look like nothing much is happening, aside from cyclical changes.

Would you be so kind as to comment on how such extreme value statistics illuminate a changing mean within cyclical systems, such as NAO or ENSO?

They assign blame for cyclical changes in weather to all people who don't perceive the world in the same muddled fashion as themselves.

1) This kind of study continues to reinforce the notion that natural cyclical changes in ocean to atmosphere energy transfers are a very signficant potential reason for both the pause (as the ocean has retained more energy) and part of the big warming during the 1976 - 1998 period.

Also that the changes could be viewed as cyclical but it is «simpler» to attribute them to anthropogenic origins.

AS you travel the state, what are the biggest misperceptions you hear from climate skeptics who often say these changes are the result of the cyclical nature of our planet's temperature patterns?

As Earth descends into an 80 - year, sun - spotless Dalton or Maunder Minimum reinforced by a confluence of deep - ocean magmatism with long - term cyclical reversals, climate - change alarmists will have much to answer for.

Doesn't it stand to reason that a «cycle» implies cyclical change, not a state change as in «the Earth has warmed?»

The cooling would be down to cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

I'm not saying that human activities do not have an impact on climate, I am just saying that we have greatly overlooked the natural cyclical nature of our solar system, as well as other factors that effect climate change.

The level of sunlight is very predictable as it varies with cyclical changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun and in the tilt of the Earth's axis, called Milankovitch cycles.

Climate change is the change in weather pattern due to natural, periodic and cyclical swings in temperatures such as the ice age which covers a much longer period of time usually for thousands of years.

«Professor Mojib Latif, (lead author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-RRB- from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany, has been looking at the influence of cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation.

Something that develops slowly, like vulcanism, is likely to be finally triggered by a small cyclical change, as it gets slowly closer to that trigger point and the cyclical force makes that last little difference.

Declining solar insolation as part of a normal eleven - year cycle, and a cyclical change from an El Nino to a La Nina dominate our measure of anthropogenic effects because rapid growth in short - lived sulfur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations.

The thing is that as regards the sequence of observed events leading to changes in tropospheric temperature trends and the cyclical poleward and equatorward shifts in the air circulation systems the NCM is pretty robust.

Cosmis events such as sun spots and perhaps cyclical changes in the stratosphere have also affected climate.

As for the cause of the ice ages, it is generally but cautiously accepted that they were triggered by cyclical changes in the earth's orbital inclinations.

As Sarah Palin said, «while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather change».

When asked what accounts for the change, those that increased their budgets mentioned a new focus on cybersecurity, information governance, business continuity or disaster recovery concerns and security compliance requirements as well as lots of cyclical hardware refresh scenarios.

These calls have only grown louder as the market for legal services has experienced both cyclical and structural changes.

The interest in addressing climate change has historically been cyclical, most recently going back to former U.S. vice president Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, but environmental lawyers believe interest is gearing back up, in some part due to increasingly extreme weather events as we saw this past summer, causing more momentum at the regulatory level.

This seems to be consistent with the proposition that the Chinese hold beliefs about change as non-linear or perhaps cyclical (Ji, Nisbett, & Su, 2001; Ji, et al., 2010) whereby change might initiate or indicate both progression and deterioration in relationships at different point of time or from different point of view.