Sentences with phrase «effect of the last few years»

Finally, note that the effect of the last few years of data is smaller on the transient climate response than on climate sensitivity.

Not exact matches

That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

In one of the few studies that has examined flextime's effect on company profits, last year, researchers from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and China's Renmin University studied the 35 per cent of Canadian firms with flextime policies.

The growth in consumption over the last few years have been driven by the «wealth effect» created by people feeling richer as the value of their property has increased (have a look at my blog post from June 19th last year).

The move to Channel 4 from the BBC and Hamilton's failure to win the championship are given as two of the main reasons for the drop in Britain last year, but it's more likely that it's a continued effect of the sports gradual global move to Pay TV over the last few years.

its no coincidence that our wheels started to wobble as soon as we went top of the league (a few months ago) and even though that lead lasted for less than 24 hours, it still effected our Bottlers, just like it did the previous year and the many before that.

Scientists have shown over the last few years that in many of these cases the winning males are fitter because they carry genes that make them better adapted to the environment — the so called «good genes» effect.

Over the last few years, scientists have been able to recreate accurate models of human organs by embedding living tissue onto chips, allowing them to study the effects of drugs and diseases without testing on animals or humans.

In the last few years, I've focused on the impacts of noise from oil and gas development on arthropod and bird communities, and the cascading effects on sagebrush physiology.

Possible reasons include increased oceanic circulation leading to increased subduction of heat into the ocean, higher than normal levels of stratospheric aerosols due to volcanoes during the past decade, incorrect ozone levels used as input to the models, lower than expected solar output during the last few years, or poorly modeled cloud feedback effects.

At the same time, I can honestly say I'm probably more stressed and sleep deprived now as a mom of six than I was in college and over the last few years I have researched and evaluated several natural types of nootropics for their effect on cognitive performance (without the negative side effects of smart drugs).

We have known for over forty years that PUFAs alter the vitamin E requirement in a potentially time - dependent manner and that trials lasting fewer than eight years are insufficient to demonstrate the long - term effects of consuming vegetable oils.

This movie falls into the same trap I mentioned in my «China Study» critique last year, and that many other people (Dr. Harriet Hall, Chris Masterjohn, and Anthony Colpo, to name a few) have taken issue with as well: extrapolating the effects of casein to all forms of animal protein.

The costume and visual effects teams work hard for the Oscar nominations that eluded them last year and there's spiffing handheld IMAX camera action in the arena where our heroes - a few mean - looking bad - asses and a bunch of other contestants we never actually meet - find themselves in a tropical jungle dome laid out like a clock with a wicked surprise in every sector.

There are some amazing special effects that look like some of the better disaster flicks in the last few years.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

We've covered quite a few topics since last year including teacher attention and attrition, and the effects of high noise levels on student learning outcomes.

Statistics over the last five years relating to increases of bankruptcies, suicides, major depression and burn - outs [21] are self - evident, just a few side effects resulting from the last economic crisis.

There's been quite a bit of research on «teacher match» over the last few years, with most of it coming to the same general conclusion: that there are positive effects when teachers and students are demographically similar.

NYSED has been heralding the stress - reducing effects of untimed tests (as of last year), and fewer days of testing (as of this year).

Over the last few years, the effect of legislation and financial recession has made K - 12 sales forecasting harder.

If the number of inquiries is very few over the last two years, then there may be no negative effect on your credit worthiness.

While the country continues to feel the effects of the Great Recession, Idaho has followed a steady pattern of growth over the last few years.

In a challenging Real Estate environment like we have been facing over the last few years, the agent you select can have a profound effect on the outcome of your home selling efforts.

Bulldog breeders have come into a lot of criticism in the last few years, as the public has become more aware of the potentially harmful effects of exaggerated conformation.

«The trend over the past few years, as people have learned more about the health effects of clay and clumping clay litters, is toward more natural, healthier and lighter weight products that won't last forever in landfills,» says Ed Owens, vice president of engineering for American Wood Fibers.

«Over the last few years, we have revealed different pieces of the Mass Effect world through different media.

Another bad year won't see Japan fall off the gaming radar, but when you look around at the hits on the way from other nations — SSX, FIFA, Mass Effect 3, Grand Theft Auto V and The Last of Us, to name a few — you can't help but think Japan is flagging badly.

In more recent years, I've put in ungodly hours on Halos 1 and 3 (replaying every mission endlessly, working out master strategies for every last firefight... I'm proud of some of them) and the first Mass Effect (six complete playthroughs, replete with the inane sidequests, plus a few I didn't finish).

If you're not a PC gamer, you probably haven't paid much attention to these kinds of innovations in display tech over the last few years, but FreeSync - like NVIDIA's rival G - Sync - is a technology that eliminates frame - tearing, that frustrating effect where the image on your screen displays a weird horizontal tear due to graphics parts struggling to render frames fast enough to keep up with the action.

Does it mean that the temperature rise (and concomitant effects) of the last few decades are not astonishingly fast in the context of the last thousand years or so?

It is to be noted here that there is no necessary contradiction between forecast expectations of (a) some renewed (or continuation of) slight cooling of world climate for a few decades to come, e.g., from volcanic or solar activity variations; (b) an abrupt warming due to the effect of increasing carbon dioxide, lasting some centuries until fossil fuels are exhausted and a while thereafter; and this followed in turn by (c) a glaciation lasting (like the previous ones) for many thousands of years.»

The first part of your description is certainly true, I don't think the magnitude of the recent warming in the Arctic (including Greenland) is extraordinary (yet, but ask me again is a few years) when properly set against the backdrop of the last century, but I do believe that, at least to some degree, the warming of the Arctic (including Greenland) in recent years has resulted from an anthropogenic enhancement to the world's greenhouse effect.

Basically, coal puts up a warming gas (CO2) that lasts in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years and we are hiding about half of its effects with a gas (coal smoke) that lasts in the atmosphere for a few weeks.

Using the NDVI, one team this year reported that «over the last few decades of the 20th century, terrestrial ecosystems acted as net carbon sinks,» i.e., they absorbed more carbon than they were emitting, and «net greening was reported in all biomes,» though the effect had slowed down in recent years.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

As explained last week, I believe this «no significant effect» finding is the most important finding of climate research in the last few years.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

But snowmelt water is seasonal, and the price - reducing effect of hydropower lasts only a few months a year, typically in late spring and early summer.

Vincentrj # 28 you are unclear re the division of your opinions / inferences between the 3 basic sub-topics (1) heat is entering the oceans due to radiative imbalance due to humans burning carbon fuels (2) the heat rate coupled with its estimated duration (based on its cause) will make it within a few decades become unprecedented during the last several thousand years and same for the surface temperature rise that will be required to stop it (3) the effects on flora & fauna will be highly negative even within this century and more so for centuries and millenia thereafter, in particular the human species which has softened much and expects much more since the days when a mammoth tusk through the groin was met with «well Og's had it, press on».

Most of the city was rewired from 4Kv over the last few years so it appears that there is no relationship between the voltage and the electrobonsai effect.

But peak water flow is typically a seasonal event driven by snowpack melt, so the price - reducing effect of hydropower normally lasts only a few months each year, typically in the spring and early summer.

When you now combine the effects of fewer sites, fewer seats left to sell and rising property prices in London along with buyers looking to increase their number of seats as a result of the FCA's regulation change, prices will inevitably stabilise and increase to levels last seen ten years ago.

The Chicago Tribune reported last year that the ordinance, which takes effect tomorrow, Dec. 1, 2011, provides that restaurants may only include a toy with a meal if the food and drink combined contain fewer than 600 calories, and if less than 35 percent of the calories come from fat.

In the last few years, higher - quality research which has allowed the «meta - analysis» of previously published research has shown the negative effects of divorce on children have been greatly exaggerated.

«We», due to our almost across - the - board inattention to detail re what was going on behind the scenes at CREA over the last few years, have in effect morphed into «enablers», being woefully ignorant / unaware non-participants (by choice due to the inherent «Let George Do It» mentality) in the so - called democratic excercise of in - house CREAcrat power.