Sentences with phrase «declining number of models»

«One sign of this is that a declining number of models are able to identify feasible emission pathways that stay within a 1.5 C or 2C limit with increasing delays (IPCC, 2014).»

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Although the company declined to provide pricing information, their model is based on a percentage of employee salary and total cost is a function of the number of employees and specific services chosen.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

Moreover, a number of features of the US sub-prime market which have contributed to its current problems are not present in Australia, including large teaser rates, a marked decline in lending standards, and an originate and distribute model where the originator has a reduced incentive to care about the quality of the loan written.

The confidence has many roots: the steady decline of models of theology in which «critical appraisal» is the dominant task; receptiveness toward and fresh engagement with classical thinkers, patristic, medieval and Reformation; a sense that the Enlightenment is only one episode in the history of one (Western) culture and not a turning point in the history of humankind; the work of a number of gifted and independent - minded theologians now at the height of their powers who have shown the potency of constructive doctrinal work.

And that's before accounting for some of the factors that the model doesn't consider: the disagreement in the polls, the unusual nature of Trump's candidacy and the demographic changes it is producing, Clinton's superior turnout operation, the possibility of «shy Trump» voters, the fact that the news cycle is still somewhat fluid headed into the final weekend, the declining response rates to polls, and the substantial number of high - profile polling misses around the world over the past few years.

Based on a peatland model developed at the University of York and latest climate change predictions, the researchers warn that by 2051 - 80 the dunlin could see a 50 % decline in numbers, with the golden plover down 30 % and the red grouse down by 15 %, all driven by declining abundance of the birds» crane fly prey.

«The media establishment is changing fast,» said King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, citing declines in the number of journalists, as well as changes in the business models of media organizations — including, for instance, shifts from revenue generated through print advertisements to revenue through subscription paywalls.

Overall, the number of hybrid models on sale in the US has declined (from 47 in 2015 to 31 in 2016), but average sales per model has increased (up to 11,194 in 2016).

Diesel share has declined modestly since November, as the number of available models has held steady in recent months.

Apple — which ironically now offers more models of its iPad tablet than ever before — will ship 64.9 million iPad tablets in 2014, a decline of 12.7 % on the total number of shipments a year ago.

When seen in an overall context wherein this ratio moves strongly in favor of print editions as sales numbers decline out the long tail, this model seems generally consistent with Amazon's recent (and, at the time, stunning) announcement that, looking back over an unspecified historic period, Kindle editions sales had accounted for somewhere between 26 and 35 per cent of all sales when both print and Kindle editions were available.

Hybrid models such as print - on - demand will continue to blur the lines between physical and digital, but as ereaders continue to improve, I predict these technologies and business models too will decline, leaving the majority of sales being purely digital, via a consolidated number of channels to market.

And data from communities and countries that sterilize community dogs show the same results: a decline in the number of dog bites, with «officials point [ing] to a variety of factors: the obvious effect of sterilization on dog behavior, including behaviors associated with mating, reduced numbers of dogs and reduced home range of individual dogs resulting in fewer chance encounters with humans, an increased respect and thus kinder treatment towards dogs due to the positive role model of rescuers, and the impact of community education by rescuers that often accompanies these efforts.

The paper also cites a number of modelling and empirical papers that are of relevance to your questions, like Pagani, M., Caldeira, K., Berner, R. & Beerling, D. 2009 The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years.

If prediction error is (wrongly) measured using a single fit for the entire set of CMIP5 models (rather than using cross-validation), then when all nine predictors are used simultaneously the prediction error does decline more rapidly with the number of PLS components used — and is lower except when three PLS components are used — than when just the OLR season cycle predictor is used.

In their first USGS report, the authors demonstrated high integrity in their analysis and were upfront about the problems of their models writing, «the declines we observed in model - averaged survival rates may reflect an increase in the number of «emigrants» toward the end of the study, and not an actual decrease in biological survival».