Leaving aside the fact that civil society minister Nick Hurd is already supposed to be doing parts of this, the track record of centrally -
driven change suggests it is unrealistic to expect a junior minister with no budget or levers to have any real impact on departmental secretaries of state?
Not exact matches
Alphabet «s self -
driving car unit Waymo (googl), Ford Motor (f), Uber Technologies, Toyota Motor (tm), Tesla Motors, and others also filed comments
suggesting changes.
Futures prices generally move somewhat in response to
changes in the spot price, even when movements in the latter are
driven by transitory factors, but their substantially lower volatility
suggests that they are more anchored to longer - run price fundamentals than are spot prices.
It called for responsibility for
driving through
changes to be clarified, said minimum quality standards based on clinical evidence are needed and
suggested removing the secretary of state from the reconfiguration process to «depoliticise» it.
Brake referred to the BBC's recent
drive to get children interested in classical music, using 10 pieces of music and dressing them up with film clips and different instruments, and
suggested that something similar could be done to
change the caricature of immigrants.
Lhota said the agency needs a «
change agent,» and also
suggested that the first floors of NYCHA buildings be converted into stores and restaurants to build community and
drive revenue that could then be used to fund repairs.
Now, new research
suggests changes at the epigenetic level — specifically alterations in proteins that affect gene expression, rather than genetic mutations — could be
driving childhood ependymomas.
The emergence dates calculated by the model matched the historical records, strongly
suggesting that global warming has
driven the
changes in emergence timing.
The study
suggests that epigenetic
changes drive the aging process, and that those
changes may be malleable.
The new hi - res composite images
change that,
suggesting instead that prominences could be one of the
driving forces for the solar wind, since to create the smoke rings, and other patterns in the corona, they must be creating much larger atmospheric disturbances than previously thought, with a much longer range.
These differences could account for some of the
changes in DNA / histone structures that develop during addiction,
suggesting a potential biological difference
driving long - term abuse versus overdose
That a simple
change in the concentration of food could lead to such unusual behavior speaks to how prey density can
drive the evolution of new hunting strategies, Cade
suggested.
The authors
suggest that human activity may even be
driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate
change.
The calling patterns of three million cell phone users support a theory that female relationships
change with shifting biological priorities,
suggesting that women
drive the evolutionary fitness of humans
A study published yesterday in Current Biology
suggests ocean acidification is
driving a cascading set of behavioral and environmental
changes that drains oceans» biodiversity.
«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study
suggests that the combination of natural population size
changes and human disturbances
drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»
This
suggested not only that species could
change — already a divisive concept back then — but also that the
changes were
driven purely by environmental factors, instead of divine intervention.
The finding
suggests that climate
change is
driving their relocation, and raises major concerns about food security.
Dr. Vavrus
suggests that, as of yet, the effect of climate
change on Arctic cyclone activity has been minimal, but that future
changes in polar climate will
drive stronger shifts.
«It
suggests that similar underlying processes
drive how natural systems respond to climate
change and provides a glimpse of what could be in store for the future.»
These strategies, new evidence
suggests,
drive changes in neural pathways that underlie learning and may actually beef up the brain.
Thompson and Solomon compared the timing of the
changing patterns in the two layers of the atmosphere and found a strong correlation,
suggesting that Antarctic ozone depletion has played an important role in
driving the continent's climatic variability.
Data from other paleoclimatic research
suggest that cyclical
changes in the tilt of the earth's axis and seawater temperatures
drove these wet conditions in the South American tropics.
Formerly secret records
suggest a tobacco company
drove changes to how European policy is made, claim Katherine Smith and her colleagues at Bath University in the UK.
A dose of antibiotics abolished these preferences — the flies went back to mating without regard to diet —
suggesting that it was
changes in gut microbes brought about by diet, and not diet alone, that
drove the
change.
But the crazy thing about empty space, weighing something --[well,] there are many crazy things — it produces a gravitational repulsion, rather than the attractions so the expansion of the universe is speeding up; but this stuff is so mysterious and inexplicable — completely inexplicable right now — that many physicists have been
driven wild and mad and have
changed what we might mean by fundamental physics by
suggesting, for example, that the fundamental concepts in nature are not really fundamental at all, they are accidental; they are an environmental accident; that the are many universes and we just happen to live in the one that has the values it does because if you
changed it a little bit then we wouldn't be living.
In terms of global demand, preliminary data from 2009
suggest that China overtook the United States to become the largest user of energy, and China
drives much of the
change predicted by the IEA.
These trends
suggest that large - scale climate
changes, rather than local factors, could be
driving increases in fire activity, the scientists report.
Results from climate models
driven by estimated radiative forcings for the 20th century (Chapter 9)
suggest that there was little
change prior to about 1915, and that a substantial fraction of the early 20th - century
change was contributed by naturally occurring influences including solar radiation
changes, volcanism and natural variability.
Recent work by Brookshire et al. (2011)
suggests that climate
change -
driven loss of soil nitrogen could outpace deposition by 3 to 1.
Research
suggests climate
change and competition were not
driving forces behind the demise of Neanderthals.
That
suggests that what is
driving the rise — climate
change — also has increased dramatically in recent years.
To the scientists, these findings collectively
suggest that
changes in chromatin leads to cascades of gene activity that
drive fly development.
The study also
suggested that it was the
changes in extracellular AA concentration, rather than the absolute amounts that were
driving the
changes in protein synthesis.
[4] One study even
suggested that when «a woman chooses her partner while she is on the pill and then comes off it to have a child, her hormone -
driven preferences
change, and she may find she is married to the wrong kind of man.»
The report said the increase was «particularly marked» for pupils with low prior attainment (up from 1.3 to 1.9), adding: «This
suggests some of the increase in the attainment 8 score is
driven by schools» behaviour
change as pupils enter more qualification that count towards the new measures.»
Such impacts also appear to persist over time,
suggesting that the results are not
driven simply by the setbacks that typically accompany any
change of school.
But he
suggested the
changes to exams were
driven by ideological rather than financial concerns.
As you'd expect from any midcycle enhancement, the
changes to the 2015 Volkswagen Jetta aren't exactly revolutionary, but our
drive suggests that they are significant enough to help the refreshed Jetta keep pace with the key competitors in its market segment.
I've
driven RX - 8s plenty of times before, and initial impressions
suggest not much has
changed: properly low bonnet, scuttle and seat (an ace new Recaro), thin, reedy engine note.
At face value, the
changes suggest incremental improvements in handling and acceleration, but when
driven, the 1LE reveals a much more significant transformation.
Besides the visual
changes seen in the teaser, the leak also
suggested that the EcoSport Storm will come with four - wheel -
drive coupled to the 2.0 - litre Direct Flex engine that produces different outputs based on the fuel used.
It has a broadly similar front - wheel -
drive mechanical make - up to the previous version and a closely related engine — all of which might
suggest, on paper at least, that it hasn't
changed a great deal.
A rocker switch on the side of the shifter
changes gears manually, a type of control that does not
suggest sport
driving.
He refused and even tried to blame my
driving habits,
suggesting that I
changed my
driving habits to cause this.
This was possible due to a Eco
Drive indicator in the instrument panel that
suggests the best point to
change gear, using low friction engine oil and an alternator management system.
General and targeted (Campaign 911, Project Red Ribbon) awareness efforts, and education programs targeted to youth, to inform about the dangers of impaired
driving,
suggest alternatives and
change impaired
driving behaviours.
Here we show that fluctuations in Antarctic Ice Sheet discharge caused by relatively small
changes in subsurface ocean temperature can amplify multi-centennial climate variability regionally and globally,
suggesting that a dynamic Antarctic Ice Sheet may have
driven climate fluctuations during the Holocene.
JP Morgan's report, Trading Climate
Change,
suggests that within the next decade nuclear energy will be at the top of the world's agenda, with the resurgence of nuclear a key element both in the
drive to reduce carbon emissions from power generation and to develop zero - emission hydrogen - fuelled transport.
This
suggests a downstream not an upstream mechanism
driving this
change.