Sentences with phrase «decades of data show»

Four decades of data show that twice as many people are being displaced today than in the 1970s.

Aside from changes in how belugas dove for food, the nearly two decades of data show that the whales were able to thrive in their summer and fall ocean habitats, despite less ice cover.

A recent analysis of five decades of data shows that high - quality early childhood education has lasting benefits for kids.

Not exact matches

Data from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States show beer's share of alcoholic beverage sales fell to 49.8 % in 2010, from 55.5 % a decade earlier.

In a sign of just how strong demand for eggs is this year, separate data from the US Department of Agriculture showed there were 385.6 million laying hens in the US at the start of March, the highest over a comparable period in at least a decade.

An article in The Guardian, Stress and Social Media Fuel Mental Health Crisis Among Girls, went much further to, correlate NHS data showing a «68 % rise in hospital admissions because of self - harm among girls under 17 in past decade» to the concurrent rise of social media.

Britain's housing market continued to lose momentum data showed too, with mortgage approvals at their weakest in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first interest rate hike in a decade.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

While a majority of Americans believe this to be true — 63 % say guns make them safer — decades of crime data and research overwhelmingly shows both that armed civilians are not the solution to mass shooters and that guns don't make people safer.

As the chart below shows, foreign investors have accumulated about $ 6 trillion in Treasurys over the past two decades — roughly 40 % of the market — through trade and intervention, according to BAML data.

Newly released city data shows over the past two decades African - Americans have been arrested for pot at a disproportionate rate compared to white residents, even though the two groups make up a similar percentage of the population.

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

PMI data showed private sector employment growing at one of the fastest rates for a decade in May, with manufacturing jobs being created at a pace not previously seen in the 20 - year survey history.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

* «Historic low» for households with married parents and children * More Americans now living alone, data show * Nearly 800,000 more households include out - of - work parent By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters)- The iconic picture of the traditional American household has faded over the last four decades as the number of married couples with children has seen a steep decline and more people are living alone, according to U.S. Census...

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says breast - feeding has been increasing for the last decade, with recent data showing 74 percent of new mothers initiating breast - feeding.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says breast - feeding has been increasing for the last decade, with recent data showing 74 percent of new mothers initiating...

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that New York's statewide population fell for the first time in a decade, largely a result of upstate population losses outpacing the gains made downstate.

Data show that the risk of developing dementia has declined slightly in the past decades, Kawas said, which she attributes to people improving their lifestyles: eating better, exercising more, trying to minimize stress.

A new study based on NASA satellite data and meteorological data shows that the amount of carbon absorbed by Earth's plants and trees fell in the past decade

Preliminary data comparing minimum January temperatures and maximum July temperatures between the 1970s and the past decade also show warmer summers for the western third of the country.

Decades of U.S. national data show a steady downward trend in accidental firearm deaths — from 1.55 per 100,000 people in 1948 to 0.18 per 100,000 in 2014.

Decades of data from the Amundsen Sea Embayment show glaciers are disappearing faster here than anywhere else on Earth.

The UK Met Office this week published data showing that the first decade of the 2000s has been the warmest on record.

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

At the other end of the world, the recent satellite data show that the rate of melting of Arctic sea ice has accelerated from 2.5 per cent per decade, as shown by the Nimbus data, to 4.3 per cent per decade.

The amount of solar heat entering Earth's atmosphere varies by about 0.1 per cent on a timescale of years as the sun's activity changes, but satellite data show no overall increase corresponding to the soaring temperatures of recent decades.

And AMA and NIH data show that the demographics of physician - scientists have shifted dramatically over the past decade, with the proportion of NIH - funded principal investigators in their 60s and 70s soaring and the share under 60 declining (see graph above and slide 14 here).

A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest, the second - largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large - scale decline in greenness over the past decade.

«These data show a major reversal from previous decades in terms of marriage and sex,» said lead author Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University.

For example, the borehole data show warming since about 1500 AD which clearly was not anthropogenic, and in the latest decade, since the very warm 1998, the temperature trend is downward even in the Hadley Center compilations; the most ardent supporters of anthropogenic global warming.

For instance, during the decade it orbited Venus, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Venus Express helped show the potential for surface water and uncovered more data about the significant amounts of evaporated water lost to space, something discovered by earlier probes.

This animation shows how the same temperature data (green) that is used to determine the long - term global surface air warming trend of 0.16 °C per decade (red) can be used inappropriately to «cherrypick» short time periods that show a cooling trend simply because the endpoints are carefully chosen and the trend is dominated by short - term noise in the data (blue steps).

In a study published today, scientists at deCODE genetics use genomic and genealogical data from across the population of Iceland over many decades to show that people who carry sequence variations linked to higher levels of education have fewer children than average...

Our analyses of longitudinal data from unmanaged old forests in the western United States showed that background (noncatastrophic) mortality rates have increased rapidly in recent decades, with doubling periods ranging from 17 to 29 years among regions.

«National Survey data shows that the prevalence of overweight and obese adults in the U.S. has increased steadily over the past three decades», said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, lead author of the study and associate professors with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Their new report rehashes a decade - old debate over that technical issue, which is related to their 2008 claim that «all of the data available show that teachers work at least as many hours each work week as comparable college graduates.»

Data from the U.S. Department of Education show average teacher salaries have stalled in the last two decades.

We generated data over a decade ago showing somewhere between 40 and 50 percent of those that go into teaching are gone within five years.

Teachers can still close the classroom door, but after more than a decade of federal and state accountability systems, teachers feel they have less independence in what they do inside, federal data show.

Nearly one in five public high school graduates in the class of 2012 passed an Advanced Placement exam, reflecting a steady increase in performance over the past decade, new data released today by the College Board show.

As Wai concludes: «These data show that US students who choose to major in education, essentially the bulk of people who become teachers, have for at least the last seven decades been selected from students at the lower end of the academic aptitude pool.»

Fields might see no rivals, but Ward's data shows the Chevrolet Silverado outsold the light - duty F - 150 in the ’08 model year and has a narrow edge through the first 10 months of the calendar year, so the heat is on Ford if it wants to retain its decades - long truck dominance.

Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows wages and dividends as percentages of total personal income over the three decades to 2013.

Schroders research, covering four decades of data, shows how different types of bond have performed when rates were rising.

Even though it may be concerning that Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data shows yields on junk bonds have plunged to 5.6 percent, the lowest ever and 3.4 percentage points below the decade - long average, the outlook for defaults does look pretty good.

Demographic data on video gaming shows that the mean age of video game players (VGPs)(31 years old, as of 2014) has been on the rise in recent decades (Entertainment Software Association, 2014), and it is a common activity among young adults.

We have temperature measurements that show each subsequent decade of the last 3 is warmer than the last, but you don't trust them because the data are processed by the government.

What this tells us is that «climate - change — driven acceleration» has been assumed ahead of time, and since the raw data failed to confirm the existence of such an acceleration («In stark contrast to this expectation however, current altimeter products show the rate of sea level rise to have decreased from the first to second decades of the altimeter era.»

If we use a time period of one decade, then yes, all data estimates show that the 90s were the warmest decade in the last 1000 + years.