Not exact matches
In addition to sparking the revival of small retailers and service providers, technology has also
given rise to the «gig economy,» a market
estimated to represent 34 percent of the workforce.
Income Trust Conversions:
Estimated Federal and Provincial Revenue Effects By Jack M. Mintz (1) The recent announcements by TELUS and BCE have
given rise to the question as to how much federal and provincial taxes have been reduced by corporations converting into income trusts.
It did not
give an
estimate on how much it thought prices would
rise or drop.
A
rising line denotes inflation data that was reported higher than the median economist's
estimate for a
given report (for example, the ISM prices paid indices, the CPI, the PPI, and so forth).
«We know that 1.1 million food parcels are
given out in Trussell Trust food banks alone but these figures are clearly the tip of the iceberg - the United Nations has
estimated over eight million people in the UK are food insecure, approximately 2,000 food banks and food bank centres are in operation,
rising levels of hospital admissions due to malnutrition cost the NHS # 12 billion per year and there are record levels of in - work poverty.»
The NIH could not provide numbers on how much it
gives specifically to meditation brain research but its grants in complementary and alternative medicine - which encompass many meditation studies - have
risen from around $ 300 million in 2007 to an
estimated $ 541 million in 2011.
He should admit that we do not have low inflation and
give the country a proper figure for the real level of inflation which I
estimate to be around 15 % and
rising.
New Zealand's official forecast
estimated that «background» seismicity would
give rise somewhere to one about once in 10,000 years.
This star - making frenzy
gives rise to galactic wind that pushes out more gas than the system keeps in, leading astronomers to
estimate that M82 will run out of fuel in just 8 million years.
Next it extracts and
estimates the significance and polarity of customer opinion and identifies the underlying factors that may have
given rise to a particular opinion.
«The limited sampling so far
gives rise to considerable uncertainty in the
estimate,» cautions Rambaut.
The study for the first time
estimates the minimum number of locations in the human genome — 250 to 300 — where gene copy number variation (CNV) can
give rise to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Total costs will
rise to 21.5 trillion yen ($ 188 billion), up from a previous
estimate of 11 trillion yen, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in a statement
given to reporters in Tokyo on Friday.
Drawing on different sources of data and various analytic methods, we
estimate that anywhere between 7.5 and 14.6 percent of voucher students have disabilities that would land reported by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), a figure that
gave rise to a lawsuit alleging discrimination by the MPCP program.
TORONTO — TD Bank is
estimating Canadian home prices are about 10 per cent overvalued
given the expectations for
rising interest rates.
It did not
give an
estimate on how much it thought prices would
rise or drop.
The stock has
risen strongly over recent weeks to close yesterday at $ 5.93, which
gives VOXX a market capitalization of $ 135.6 M. We've had an opportunity to review the 10K, and we've now slightly reduced our
estimate of VOXX's liquidation value to $ 117.3 M or $ 5.13 per share.
CRGN's stock has
risen strongly over the last few months, and is now trading at $ 1.02,
giving it a market capitalization slightly higher than our
estimate of its liquidation value.
This is the lesson that can be gleaned from the meteoric
rise of the young Buffalo - born artist Jacob Kassay, who beginning in 2010 saw his shiny monochrome canvases — made with a chemical process that
gives them a dirty - mirror - like sheen — become the status symbol for emerging - art collections, leapfrogging past one auction
estimate after another by wild multiples.
Furthermore, the value of 2.8 °C you mentioned is the best
estimate from an analysis of many different models, the likely temperature
rise for the A1B scenario is
given as 1.7 - 4.4 °C by the IPCC, so our result is higher than the best
estimate, but well within the range of all IPCC models.
It may be (and I would say that it is likely) that the «official»
estimates we have been
given for SLR are conservative and the actual
rise will be significantly higher / sooner.
In all cases so far, the
estimated rise in temperature (
given the current level of carbon dioxide) is in the neighborhood of two to three degrees, suggesting that the results are robust.
The review of Sheperd and Wingham 2007
gives a best
estimate of 0,35 mm / yr for present contribution of Greenland + Antarctica to sea level
rise.
But again the «models»
estimate includes an observed ice sheet mass loss term of 0.41 mm / year whereas ice sheet models
give a mass gain of 0.1 mm / year for this period; considering this, observed
rise is again 50 % faster than the best model
estimate for this period.
The IPCC 2001 report states «Several recent reconstructions
estimate that variations in solar irradiance
give rise to a forcing at the Earth's surface of about 0.6 to 0.7 Wm - 2 since the Maunder Minimum and about half this over the 20th century... All reconstructions indicate that the direct effect of variations in solar forcing over the 20th century was about 20 to 25 % of the change in forcing due to increases in the well - mixed greenhouse gases.»
The question is,
given that datum point (the bronze age river) and being able to
estimate from river flows, etc. the likely distance to the sea, what sea level
rise would you propose for the Bronze Age in the Eastern UK?
To
estimate uncertainty in total committed
rise given some temperature increase, we use the derived Antarctic intervals, plus the ranges for the first three SLR components as shown in figure 2 A — C of ref.
If the two methods do lead to different
estimates of climate sensitivity, I find it difficult to believe that the 1D model is more appropriate than 3D to making claims about how much the real average temperature will
rise due to a
given influence.
The projections will provide more details about sea - level
rise, for which observations show rates increasing, and should
give a more precise
estimate of the levels we will see at the end of the century.
This coincides with post-1970s global warming, as expected,
given point 1: «New
estimate of the current rate of sea level
rise from a sea level budget approach» «Recent global sea level acceleration started over 200 years ago?»
They
give an equation to determine the probability of a temperature
rise of ΔT,
given an
estimated feedback factor f and the error on its determination σ (f).
Lomborg cites IPCC
estimates of a
rising cost of lost GDP amounting to 4 % by 2030, 6 % in 2050, and 11 % in 2100 and argues that these
estimates are likely very optimistic
given their assumptions of perfectly executed climate policy and a single worldwide CO2 emissions price.
Given that the IPCC did not include melt - water from the Greenland and Antarctic ice - caps due to uncertainties at that time,
estimates of sea - level
rise are feared to considerably underestimate the scale of the problem.
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Estimated Strength of Water Vapor Feedback Earliest studies suggest that if the absolute humidity increases in proportion to the saturation vapor pressure (constant relative humidity), this will
give rise to a water vapor feedback that will double the sensitivity of climate compared to an assumption of fixed absolute humidity.
For the lowest emissions scenario RCP2.6 (which involves drastic emissions reductions starting in a few years and leading to zero global emissions by 2070, after that active removal of CO2 from the atmosphere) the best
estimate sea - level
rise by the year 2100
given by IPCC is 44 cm.
From the linked table by # 3 Aslak Grindsted, it seems like the FAR
gave the most realistic
estimate of the sea level
rise, even better than AR5, according to the «ice sheet experts» as well as taking into the account the bias in leaving the semi-empirical models out.
By the way, to
give a sense of scale, the IPCC
estimates that the oceans have already
risen about 0.2 meters in the last 130 years or so:
I don't know what «benchmark island» means, but the current best
estimate of the rate of sea - level
rise, averaged over the world during 2003 to 2008, is +2.5 millimetres / yr,
give or take 0.4 mm.
Statistics have shown that costs related to productivity losses are on the
rise, with the National Institute of Disability Management (NIDMAR)
estimating that at any
given time, 8 - 12 % of Canada's workforce is absent due to illness or injury.