Sentences with phrase «driver of the change from»

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The most profound changes may come from the development of a truly intelligent car — vehicles with increasing levels of knowledge about the driver and driving conditions, from the road itself to traffic patterns to even the weather.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

A three - step process to anticipate and shape change, beginning with the identification of 70 + macro drivers that were refined into 8 dynamics defining the future for connected consumers, which constituted the basis for a highly immersive two - day Future Forum bringing together 10 outside experts, 13 internal stakeholders and 14 agency partners, from which a consumer - centric company vision and Future Playbook was developed around «4 Big Bets» over near -, mid - and long - term horizons.

The primary drivers of the increase in accrued expenses were $ 9.4 million due to our change from a quarterly management bonus plan to an annual bonus plan and $ 8.2 million due to the timing of interest payments as well as increases in a variety of other accrued expenses associated with the overall growth in our business.

Stepping out into the hot and humid Delhi night, everything looked the same but there was certainly a sense of change in the air: everyone from taxi drivers, to business people and politicians seem to feel a new confidence that India can now move forward.

Stepping out into the hot and humid Delhi night, everything looked the same but there was certainly a sense of change in the air: everyone from taxi drivers, to business people and politicians seem to feel a new confidence...

One of the most high - profile resolutions — co-sponsored by nine chambers or boards of trade from across the country — called on the federal government to refrain from changing the current governance model of Canada's ports and major airports, given that they are economic drivers for our national economy and crucial pieces of transportation infrastructure.

At this stage of the gender revolution, some 15 years after Beijing, the agents of change want countries - national governments and cultures - to «own» the gender agenda, to become themselves the drivers of the process that will transform their own values from within so as to align them with the norms coming from UN headquarters.

Some people are instantly recognisable in pictures from their youth, but others change a lot — the same can be said for this year's field of F1 drivers.

This slick video from the DS Virgin Racing crew and their driver Jose Maria Lopez shows a snapshot of a mid-race car change.

Aside from the awesome looks, perhaps the best thing about the next Formula E car is the fact that it'll mean the end of drivers having to change cars in the middle of the race in order to get to the end, a stumbling block for many in their enjoyment of the series.

Some dry clothes and a bit of change to tip the boat driver (and buy snacks from the shop) would've been good to take along as well.

The decision by the state's top court kept the administration's rules changes from 2012 in place allowing for a driver's license be revoked for three convictions of driving while drunk over the last four years or four convictions in eight years.

The project will help meet the country's overarching FIP goals by addressing the underlying drivers of deforestation and catalyzing transformational change through up - front investment to support the country's strategy on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD +).

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State, CP Donald Awunah who made the disclosure in Yenagoa on Tuesday, used the occasion to commend IGP Idris as a courageous apostle of democratic Policing who has ensured a paradigm shift from reactionary - traditional policing, to a driver of the «change» mantra in Police and a crusader in Police reforms.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

New research by academics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), University of Kent and University of Lincoln, suggests that insights from behavioural science can help inform the design of road signs to bring about changes in driver behaviour.

With data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System covering 1994 to 2011, the researchers analyzed fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado and in the 34 states that did not have medical marijuana laws, comparing changes over time in the proportion of drivers who were marijuana - positive and alcohol - impaired.

From life changing discoveries to innovations that produce new industries, and from building a STEM workforce to creating new jobs, science - driven innovation has been a powerful driver of the U.S. economy for decades.&raFrom life changing discoveries to innovations that produce new industries, and from building a STEM workforce to creating new jobs, science - driven innovation has been a powerful driver of the U.S. economy for decades.&rafrom building a STEM workforce to creating new jobs, science - driven innovation has been a powerful driver of the U.S. economy for decades.»

Greenhouse gases from transportation may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.

«The amount and diversity of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals that humans are releasing into the environment are increasing at rates that match or exceed recent increases in CO2 emissions, nutrient pollution from nitrogen fertilizers, and other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Further muddling matters, companies are developing many different levels of automation that range from assisting drivers with braking, parking and lane - changing (referred to as «level 1» abilities) to full autonomy («level 5»), which is still several years away.

EXPERIMENTAL courses that are designed to educate drink drivers about the effects of alcohol are producing a significant change in motorists» attitudes, according to early results from the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire.

«We started from scratch and she wanted to know glacial cycles, rate of deforesting, solar variability — all of the issues that could impact climate and why I think that humans are the main driver of climate change,» he explained afterward at a debriefing with colleagues at a pub on Capitol Hill.

He says that's a lesson from his work on climate change doubters, whose real driver often isn't their beliefs about the role of carbon dioxide but rather their conservative political views.

Negative emission technologies aim to remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a major driver of climate change, from the atmosphere.

... The finding indicates that the primary driver of climate like the south - westerlies that brings monsoon into the country from South Atlantic Ocean, the north - easterlies that lead to Tropical dry climate in the North and the ITCZ, which is sandwiched between the air masses, could be affected by changes in ENSO events.

The Observatory will also set out to explain the current drivers of climate change arising from human activities (including industry and agriculture), and how our future actions will depend on our capacity to understand the pace and direction of change.

It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..

A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to actual impacts of climate change on time - scales of up to 30 years.

Through this process of a month - long lifestyle change protocol online and detailed in A Mind of Your Own, we address many reversible drivers of symptoms ranging from panic attacks to fatigue to obsessive compulsions.

This comes from Dave, the truck driver who had all kinds of diseases you can imagine, and again, it was the right diet that changed his life completely.

Played ok for an hour until I realised that Starforce drivers had somehow stopped the file sharing from my second hard disk (perfectly legal I might add) and fubar'd by DVD writer (Half the writing modes missing as options in Nero) Luckily you have the option of uninstalling the drivers from the Start Menu -(which is something I suppose)- though obviously you can't then play the game So despite it being a reasonable game, changing my entire PC just to play it isn't an option.

As The Bride faces off against allies - turned - nemeses Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding, and we learn of how she was recruited to join the DiVAS, her training under unforgiving martial arts master Pai Mei (Liu Chia - hui), and her relationship with Squad leader Bill (David Carradine), which changed from love to violent hatred.

Project CARS 2 allows you to change the number of AI drivers you'll race against, their skill level and even their level of aggression; both of these are sliders going from 1 to 100, which means that you may really fine tune AI settings to your liking.

In fact the prime driver for the Association's name change from HVCA to B&ES in 2012 was that most members no longer described themselves as «h & v contractors» but providers of a wide range of integrated building and engineering services and renewable technologies to the education, healthcare and local government sectors, amongst many others.

Seeking to learn from what happens in the classroom, teacher researchers are innovators, curriculum drivers, agents of school change, and directors of their own professional development.

The program, developed in partnership with Leading Educators, stems from a central belief that schools are a critical unit of social change, and teacher leaders should be drivers of that change in pursuit of equity.

Self - Interest No. 2: Changing the Subject From Poverty and Inequality — Inconvenient as it is to corporate education «reformers,» the well - proven fact is that poverty — not teacher quality, union density or school structure — is the primary driver of student achievement.

One of the conclusions from this study is that you can't expect the test itself to be the sole driver of change,» said David Blazar, a co-author of the study and a professor at the University of Maryland's College of Education.

FHWA researchers have pioneered a variety of safety enhancements for America's roads — such as cutting - edge retroreflective laminates which make highway signs brighter and more visible from greater distances — to address the needs of older drivers, which range from declining vision to decreased flexibility and psychomotor performance, and changes in perceptual and cognitive performance.

For Nissan, that string of digits — seven minutes, eight seconds, and change — was the mantra of the GT - R Nismo, chanted at the recent Tokyo motor show reveal by everyone from Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn to test driver Michael Krumm.

When test driver John Kiewicz blips the throttle, the note changes to a hard - as - nails V8 holler, with sharp, urgent stabs of noise firing from the sawn - off exhaust stubs like sonic buckshot.

Lines of sights are good from the driver's seat though the blind spot detection system provided a little more confidence on the highway when changing lanes.

There's no changing the gearbox's persona, but the driver can adjust some of the GT500's mannerisms from behind the wheel.

In other words, there's a delay between the steering input from the driver and the actual change of direction.