Sentences with phrase «cyclical shifts»

Specifically, a few studies demonstrate that women using HCs show weaker cyclical shifts in preferences for cues of genetic fitness than do nonusers (11 ⇓ ⇓ — 14).

Dr. Mojib Latif, a prize - winning climate and ocean scientist from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, wrote a paper last year positing that cyclical shifts in the oceans were aligning in a way that could keep the next decade or so relatively cool, even as the heat - trapping gases linked to global warming continue to increase.

Amid the growing pains of any new tech experience and the cyclical shifts and bumps that are inherent in any young industry, we're still better off keeping 70 % of the profits and retaining our rights forever.

Formulated to work in perfect harmony with one another, each botanical element restores balance to the mind and the body as they undergo their natural cyclical shifts.

Given how much yelling takes place on the Internet, talk radio, and elsewhere over short - term cool and hot spells in relation to global warming, I wanted to find out whether anyone had generated a decent decades - long graph of global temperature trends accounting for, and erasing, the short - term up - and - down flickers from the cyclical shift in the tropical Pacific Ocean known as the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, cycle.

Was a cyclical shift in the trade winds in this much - watched region (in particular a pause in El Niños) once again deceiving the public about the long - term prospects for the world's greenhouse future?

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This had helped fuel a very favorable cyclical backdrop for the sector with respect to both revenue and margins, but this factor is rapidly waning and will likely shift to more of a headwind moving through C2018, especially in 2H: 18.»

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.

However, while demographic shifts are fairly predictable, it is less clear how much of the decline in productivity growth reflects a structural change and how much is a cyclical response to the subdued recovery.

The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.

Higher oil prices would reinforce current market trends based on reflation: rising long - term bond yields and a shift out of perceived safer assets — bond proxies and low - volatility stocks — and into cyclical assets such as EM.

We believe the jump in benchmark U.S. Treasury yields after Trump's surprise win, and the accompanying move toward cyclicals and away from bond - like equities, represent an important regime shift for financial markets and highlight risks to traditional portfolio diversification.

«Although S&P earnings were flat over the past three years,» Loeb said, «we are expecting earnings growth to drive gains and cyclical names to get a tailwind from U.S. policy shifts this year.»

But is the shift net positive or negative, cyclical or systemic?

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.

Currently, the shifts between ice ages and warm interglacial phases are thought to be influenced by three cyclical changes to Earth's motion.

The shifting investment cycle from defensive to cyclical stocks is just one more reason why the U.S. technology industry shows promise.

A mix shift toward off - airport will improve margins and lead to a less cyclical business.

Metals and energy also rose more than 2 percent last week, consistent with the apparent shift toward cyclical stocks.

Unfortunately, over the next several years even if the steel markets shift into a cyclical recovery, we fear, and believe, that Commercial Metals will simply shift back from the current strategy where management is supposedly focused on unwinding its disastrous investments, to the previous «strategy», where management travels the world investing in losing «growth» projects from Croatia to Australia.

Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.

She defines her studio practice, which is rooted in an ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories - specifically shifting notions surrounding landscape - as cyclical rather than linear.

The installation incorporates mechanically generated mist and snow as «screens» for a cyclical loop of video projection, in which colored rectangular shapes recess one behind another, rising, falling, and moving through the mist in ever - shifting patterns.

She defines her studio practice, which is rooted in an ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories - specifically shifting notions surrounding landscape, character development and formal processes, as cyclical rather than linear.

In the art world, there are parallel and comparable shifts that are at times seismic, at times cyclical.

She defines her studio practice, which is rooted in an ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories - specifically shifting notions surrounding landscape - as cyclical rather than linear.

The advantage of recognising a reversed sign for the solar effect high up in the atmosphere is that it enables a scenario whereby the bottom up effects of ocean cycles and the top down effects of solar variability can be seen to be engaged in a complex ever changing dance with the primary climate response being changes in the tropospheric air circulation systems to give us the observed natural climate variability via cyclical latitudinal shifts in all the air circulation systems and notably the jet streams.

4) The evidence that those variations go beyond a basic level of chaotic variability is those cyclical latitudinal shifts in the air circulation systems which always follow changes in SSTs on at least the 3 time scales we have evidence for.

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.

The solar component is not critical provided one accepts that climate changes are a consequence of the cyclical latitudinal shifting of the air circulation systems.

The authors of the report conclude that the events of the past year or so may not be just your standard cyclical «blip,» but the beginning of a fundamental shift in the way the legal marketplace operates, marking the end of standard yearly billing rate increases, increased resort to outsourcing and clients just generally refusing to accept terms of engagement unilaterally dictated by firms.

The position of the Arctic Circle is not fixed and, over the course of the slow and cyclical 40,000 year shifting of the Earth's axial tilt, it fluctuates by a margin of two degrees — at the point of the cycle we're now in, it is drifting northwards at a rate of 49 feet (15 meters) per year.

Concerns about automation and globalization are particularly sharp because they reflect deep economic shifts, rather than temporary, cyclical swings.

Christopher Leinberger: This move back to the cities and inner - ring suburbs is a structural, not a cyclical, shift, and it's as important as the shift in the 1950s to the suburbs.

As delivery schedules shift for many properties, the cyclical peak for multifamily completions is now expected to come in early 2018.