Sentences with phrase «first global estimates»

Now, researchers have created the first global estimate of the carnage.

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Credit Suisse's latest estimates indicate that for the first time the richest 1 % own 50.1 % of all global wealth, a proportion that's likely to move to the richest 1 % owning two - thirds of global wealth by 2030.

McDonald's posted global comparable sales growth of 5.5 % in the first quarter, ahead of estimates of 3.9 %, on a 0.8 % increase in traffic, marking the 11th consecutive quarter of positive comparable sales and fifth consecutive quarter with increasing guest counts, further evidence that efforts to modernize the brand and menu are paying off.

In clear defiance of the lessons taught by the Global Financial Crisis, the price of new homes in Iceland have hit a record in the first quarter of 2012, having surged 40.1 percent since the final three months of 2010, according to estimates by the National Registry of Iceland in Reykjavik.

«Avengers: Infinity War» took in $ 630 million in its first weekend, the highest global opening of all time, industry estimates showed on Sunday.

The Domestic Workers Convention sets the first global standards for the estimated 50 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women and girls.

In May 2012, WHO and partners - The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Save the Children, and the March of Dimes - published a report Born Too Soon: The global action report on preterm birth that included the first ever estimates of preterm birth by country.

Ida Kubiszewski and Robert Costanza at the Australian National University in Canberra and their colleagues gathered estimates of GPI for 17 countries — totalling more than half the world's population and GDP — and assembled them into the first - ever global picture of how GPI has changed over the years.

Atrial fibrillation, long considered the most common condition leading to an irregular heartbeat, is a growing and serious global health problem, according to the first study ever to estimate the condition's worldwide prevalence, death rates and societal costs.

To figure out not only how many people die from specific diseases but also how much each disease affects people's quality of life, researchers in 1992 first estimated what's called the global burden of disease.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

What she came up with was, as the study describes it, «the first comprehensive and consistent estimates of the global emissions of greenhouse gases, particulate matter, reactive trace gases, and toxic compounds from open waste burning.»

«It's the first time that a scientific study compared different methods of estimating temperature impacts on global crop production.

For the first time they could estimate the global effects of ELVOC in cloud condensation nuclei production.

Together with a previous article in the same journal that calculated biomass export efficiency for these organisms for the first time, these new data allow robust estimates of global carbon export associated with gelatinous plankton.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

The new study, published in Science, is the first to make a global estimate of how both the frequency and severity of coral reef bleaching have changed over the last 40 years.

The concatenation of modern and instrumental records [52] is based on an estimate that global temperature in the first decade of the 21st century (+0.8 °C relative to 1880 — 1920) exceeded the Holocene mean by 0.25 ± 0.25 °C.

Oct. 3, 2017 - A recent study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators is the first to use an ensemble of global chemistry climate models to estimate death rates from air pollution caused by the impact of climate change on pollutant concentrations.

To understand the selection mechanism behind mutations, network - based studies were used to estimate the importance of a mutated protein compared to non-mutated ones in signalling and protein — protein interaction networks.10, 11,12,13 Proteins mutated in cancer were found having a high number of interacting partners (i.e., a high degree of connectivity), which indicates high local importance.10 Mutated proteins are also often found in the centre of the network, in key global positions, as quantified by the number of shortest paths passing through them if all proteins are connected with each other (i.e., they have high betweenness centrality; hereafter called betweenness).11, 12 Mutated proteins also have high clustering coefficients, which means their neighbours are also neighbours of each other.10, 13 Moreover, neighbourhood analysis of mutated proteins have been previously successfully used to predict novel cancer - related genes.14, 15 However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has concentrated particularly on the topological importance of first neighbours of mutated proteins in cancer, and their usefulness as drug targets themselves.

The H1N1 flu virus is estimated to have killed more than 4,000 in the United States and many more worldwide in the 2009 - 2010 flu season, causing the first global flu pandemic in over 40 years.

The study, appearing in the journal PLOS Medicine, is the first to directly estimate the extent of global challenges to children's healthy development.

The global ed - tech market is already estimated to be worth $ 43.27 (# 30) billion, yet the first assessment of digital skills from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) suggests that schools have some way to go in fully taking advantage of the potential of technology in the classroom.

In the first quarter of 2015, IDC estimates that 47.1 million tablets and 2 - in - 1's were shipped, which is only a global year - over-year decline of 5.9 %.

A recent report from the prestigious DigiTimes Research claims that global shipment volumes of e-book readers will drop during the first quarter of 2012 to an estimate of 2...

The Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, which Gross started managing last month, drew an estimated $ 364 million in client deposits in its first full month with the bond legend at the helm, bringing assets to $ 442.9 million through Oct. 31, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Our revenue estimates for the first nine days of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp's worldwide availability ($ 10 million) show that the title ranks third behind Fire Emblem Heroes ($ 33 million) and Super Mario Run ($ 24 million) in terms of total player spend for the same period following these titles» global launches.

While about 7 million units of Nintendo Switch hardware have been delivered into the hands of our consumers around the world, we estimate that the global sell - through of Super Mario Odyssey has already exceeded 2 million units in just its first 3 days.

First, it provides a compilation of global trends in glacier terminus positions since 1600 A.D. Second, it uses this compilation to create a new estimate of global temperature change.

The first thing to remember is that an estimate of how much warmer one year is than another in the global mean is just that, an estimate.

In addition to a discussion of some of the extreme events of 2011 this also comes with a first estimate of the 2011 global temperature, see their graph below:

John Tyndal found that water vapor and carbon dioxide were the major greenhouse gases in 1859, and Svante Arrhenius made the first estimate of global warming under doubled carbon dioxide in 1896.

In the meantime, The Times and International Herald Tribune have produced a hefty special section on global energy trends (some elements have enraged solar enthusiasts), the Obama administration has given BP its first post-spill permit to drill in the Gulf of Mexico and Michael Levi has roundly debunked a gushy jobs estimate from proponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

We present the first global analysis of the costs of abating the estimated 76 million tonnes of methane emitted worldwide each year in oil and gas operations, which suggest that 40 - 50 % of these emissions can be mitigated at no net cost, because the value of the captured methane could cover the abatement measures.

An early estimate published in Nature, based upon low Chinese coal consumption for the first eight months of the year, found that China's emissions declined by 3.9 % in 2015, with global emissions correspondingly shrinking by 0.6 %.

About Giessen, I now have a wonderful set of data (and made graphs), showing why you never should use data from Giessen for «background»,» or «global» CO2 estimates (historical or not), but I will send them to Ernst Beck first, so that he can comment on them.

Suppose for simplicity that the global price commitment was a constant $ 20 / t, and a country set a cap that it estimated would result in a $ 20 / t permit price the first year.

The first problem is that the proxy - based global temperature estimates do not actually agree with the thermometer - based estimates very well.

In the next section, we will discuss why the first factor can seriously bias estimates of global sea level trends.

Publication date: 2009-04-01 First published in: Russian Geology and Geophysics Authors: A.E. Kontorovich Abstract: A probabilistic estimate of the global conventional recoverable oil resource was performed based on the concept of the Earth's sedimentary cover as a holistic system.

For the first time, we asked Americans to estimate what proportion of climate scientists think global warming is happening.

Losses could soar to $ 24tn and wreck the global economy in worst case scenario, first economic modelling estimate suggests

First, they estimate the contributions of various different components (both human - caused and natural) to the observed global warming.

First with your approach you do end up effectively having to estimate the temperature function across the globe, and this really means building a stochastic global temperature model (and deciding how linear it is etc etc).

«For example, the International Energy Agency this year reported that our global economy could be $ 18 trillion better off by 2035 if we adopted energy efficiency as a first choice, while various estimates put the potential from energy efficient improvements anywhere between 2.5 and 6.8 gigatons of carbon per year by 2030,» he said.

If you had said in the first place that you don't understand how a specific estimate is made of the extent of global warming to be expected from a specified increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, I would not have tried to offer an explanation, because I don't understand that either.

Here, we report mean areal (per unit surface area) CH4 fluxes from reservoir water surfaces that are approximately 25 % larger than previous estimates (120.4 mg CH4 - C per m2 per day, SD = 286.6), CO2 flux estimates that are approximately 30 % smaller than previous estimates (329.7 mg CO2 - C per m2 per day, SD = 447.7), and the first - ever global mean estimate of reservoir N2O fluxes (0.30 mg N2O - N per m2 per day, SD = 0.9; table 1).

The new analysis reveals that global trends in recent decades are higher than reported in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and the central estimate for the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the 21st century is at least as great as the last half of the 20th century.

Interest was especially high this particular December because a race was on: since mid - to late summer, the scientists in all three groups had been telling their friends and acquaintances, including those in the news media, that 2005 might turn out to be the warmest year on record — since about 1880, that is, when station coverage first became global enough to permit a meaningful estimate.

Berkeley's record overlaps quite well with existing records from about 1875 onwards, and includes the first ever global land temperature estimates from 1753 - 1850.