Sentences with phrase «effects of mass»

Puma and his coauthor, Benjamin Cook, a climatologist at Goddard and Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, are the first to look at the historic effects of mass watering on climate globally by analyzing temperature, precipitation and irrigation trends in a series of model simulations for the last century.
However, note that the indirect effects of this mass of human population and their domesticated animals is massive.
Essentially, we believe for the first time, we are trying to take on the negative effects of mass tourism at the largest scale and engaging the key actors to turn tourism around from being a primary threat to the World's second largest barrier reef (after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia) and instead to be a driver for the long term conservation of this natural wonder.
On view through April 7, After Industry will immerse audiences in an aesthetically rich experience, while also providing a platform to engage with important underlying themes, including consumerism, human impact on the environment, and the effects of mass production.
So many artists who came to the fore in the 1970s and 80s were driven to analyse the effects of the mass production and circulation of images by appropriating them and shifting their context through copying, editing and rescaling.
Bodyspace expands Gormley's investigation into the polarizing effects of mass and energy through the installation of two new works in the gallery's main exhibition space.
It's good that you have a clear sense of the purpose of your blog and your writing, especially understanding the effects of mass tourism at home and abroad.
It is not the only beach that will close: all marine parks in Thailand close from May to October — the country's rainy season — to help counter the damaging effects of mass tourism, but this is the first time Maya Beach will not remain open.
Despite our efforts and that of the government, the whole place is still just treading water to stay above the negative effects of mass tourism hitting the ancient town.
People who gleefully anticpate foreclosures to teach those irresponsible borrowers a thing or two about personal responsibility completely overlook the potential ripple effects of mass foreclosures.
The main part of the school will be a series of lectures on the structure and evolution of stars with various masses including gas giant planets and on the effects of mass loss and stellar rotation upon them.
For the past 6 years, Subalusky and her husband, Christopher Dutton, also at the Cary Institute, have studied the scale and effects of this mass carnage.
We'll never know if that was the case, but there are still some places where scientists may be able to study the effects of mass drownings on rivers.
Andy Burnham's musing aloud about the effects of mass immigration on the residual working class.
They were an important and authentic source of information about America for families and local communities in Germany who were experiencing the effects of mass emigration from the «home» end.
The social effects of the mass media will vary as the system of ownership and control varies.
In the 1950's, Paul Lazarsfeld suggested that one of the major social effects of the mass media is what he called their narcotising dysfunction effect.)
But nationalism and cultural issues were more important: irritation at a loss of sovereignty to Brussels; worries about the effects of mass immigration; resentment of a cosmopolitan elite that demeans local ways; a creeping sense of social disorder, epitomized by recent satires like Martin Amis's 2012 novel Lionel Asbo: State of England.
In the 1940s and 1950s, however, several studies began to demonstrate a more complex picture of the flow and effect of mass communication.
In the past, it was an open question whether the resulting name trends reflected the perceived high status of the names, or simply the effect of mass exposure.
They are increasingly taking action through civil litigation, complaints and petitions to state institutions — efforts aided by environmental NGOs, the media, and the effect of mass protest.Academic studies have drawn attention to the role the media, ENGOs and civil litigation as potential forces in aiding environmental protection implementation.
In the new study, researchers studied the effect of mass media coverage on the H1N1 epidemic in the city of Xi?an in the Shaanxi province of China.
Since the mass of the powertrain is so great as a percentage of curb weight, tuning the active mounts to reduce the effect of that mass in corners was the aim of the new system.
This retains all the motoring comfort of the GT3 in everyday traffic, while on the race track the effect of the mass forces coming from the engine is much reduced, particularly in fast bends and on winding tracks.
As an effect of mass industrialization, we often discard broken, disposable things and replace them with the next design trend.
Recent collages, with thick black outlines, contrast with earlier ones, confronting consumerism and the dehumanising effect of mass culture.
For example, the direct radiative effect of a mass of methane is about 84 times stronger than the same mass of carbon dioxide over a 20 - year time frame [22] but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total direct radiative effect is smaller, in part due to its shorter atmospheric lifetime.
It's not fractal, because the filtering effect of the masses limits the high frequency motions.

Not exact matches

«The researchers also found that after taking into account the effect of age and sex, morning people were likely to have lower — and thus generally more healthy — BMI, or body - mass index, a measure of the ratio between height and weight.»
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Decreasing growth in other economies can have a negative effect on Canada for a very simple reason: our mass production and export of commodities.
The study, to be published in the October 2014 edition of the Journal of Consumer Research, found no such effect when it comes to mass - market brands.
At some point, the accumulating side effects may reach a critical mass and force a critical review of, and change to, the supply management system.
So we have a disturbing picture of mass layoffs combined with plunging help wanted advertising, but the effect on the monthly unemployment rate and weekly unemployment claims is masked by attrition of workers from the labor force.
As everyone expected, scammers are attempting to cash in on the mass hysteria currently surrounding the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, a mass - infection took place over the weekend of May 12 and 14, and whose effects we still feel today.
The power of a passionate community or user base can not be emphasised enough — once you reach critical mass, things will accelerate on their own and your marketplace will be hard to unseat due to the strong network effects.
Apparently, yesterday's mass Internet protests (from the likes of Google, Wikipedia and Reddit) must have had an effect.
Apparently, yesterday's mass Internet protests (from the likes of Google, Wikipedia and Reddit) must have had an effect: Many of the Senators who previously supported the controversial Stop Internet Piracy and Protect IP Acts — including some previous co-sponsors of the bills — have now come out in opposition against the proposed laws...
On at least two occasions and in two different locations the Israelites received a miraculous provision of water froma rock - mass (Exodus 17:5 - 7; Numbers 20:1 - 11) Therefore, rock - mass as a source of water, in effect, followed them.
Reporting on the results of these group experiences, Powell says: «Though the mass effect of the service.
For the story of the evolution of life is the story of innumerable chances, fumbling and gropings through countless ages.38 «Life advances by mass effects, by dint of multitudes flung into action without apparent plan.
I was glad to see Kevin White's piece on the effects of microphones on the Mass in the recent issue of First Things («Drop the Mic,» December 2012), for microphones have been on my mind lately as I hear homilies at Masses several times a week and as I reflect on and teach about mission, liturgy, and preaching in various contexts for the Year of Faith.
Gravity from space (Einstein's relativity) operates on mass through space and matter interaction is a natural process like centrifugal force which made its appearance when a body is morning in circle Jean mass is the amount of matter that must be present before gravity becomes effective or felt, once this minimum amount of matter is reached or exceeded, gravity with mass interact with space - time to bring geodesics and gravity begin to control other bodies and then orbit around each other, another aspect of the twin effect of gravity and mass is the necessity to account for energy required to sustain gravitating mass and where does this energy originating from Einstein's field equation says from space but never refer to the origin of gravitation.
For the purposes of human action, entropy (a mass - effect rather than a law of the unit) is without meaning.
James Carey has shown that the past 30 years of American studies in the mass media have been grounded in the «transmission» or «transportation» view of communication: who says what to whom with what effect.
Theological education needs to take more seriously than it has that the mass media may be having a marked effect on religious faith, not just by the media's presentation of religious issues, but by the influence the media are exerting on perceptions of social reality within which religious faith is understood and experienced.
The bill mentions «abduction, enslavement, killing, imprisonment, forced mass relocation, rape, crucifixion, or other forms of torture, and the imposition of fines or penalties that have a confiscatory purpose or effect» (CT, Aug. 11, 1997, p. 61).
First, a little history: In the 16th century Protestant and Catholic positions on justification became polarized and soon escalated to include other doctrines, including the authority of the church; scripture and tradition; good works; merit and indulgences; the mass; and sin and its effects in human life.
Your lifestyle directly causes misery on another part of the planet by supporting the corporations that spread misery to billions of people through the effects of industrialization, taking all natural resources from the masses, and herding humans into ever denser and easily manageable population centers.
We wonder why there is so much unease in the hearts of members of Christian orders and of priests, why so few deep conversions are effected in China despite the flood of missionaries, why the Christian Church, with all its superiority of benevolence and devotion, yet makes so little appeal to the working masses.
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