Sentences with phrase «first global scale»

The first global scale, climate - sensitive tree - ring networks from the boreal forest and from the maritimes were produced.

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Building a global - scale order book was the first phase of AGT's expansion; the second is now focused on vertical integration, buying key infrastructure up and down the supply chain.
These «Blue Star» agents will be the first of their kind for MSI, and if successful, the model may scale across Marie Stopes» global system.»
These new properties will help to redefine the brand on a global scale with the addition of its first ski resort, urban hotel and three amazing resort projects located at UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Czech - language programs are simply not that attractive on the global scale in the first place.
SEGA is the first research platform of its kind in the world, but it must be transferred to, and replicated by, global partners, if the potential benefits of genetics - based approaches are to be realised on a broader scale.
For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.
To address those and other questions, the TOAR research team has produced the first - ever global - scale scientific assessment of tropospheric ozone, based on all available surface observations and the peer - reviewed literature.
It is the first study of this scale to investigate the effects of global warming and drought on decomposer soil animals.
The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.
«We analyzed, for the first time at such a large scale, global patterns of island vertebrate extinctions in relation to different types of invasive mammals and physical island conditions,» McCreless said.
Our arrival coincided with a bleaching episode, one that has given our team — normally based at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia — its first opportunity to witness a large - scale event of this kind.
A study conducted by the University of Kent's Dr Amy Hinsley and Dr David Roberts, and published by Conservation Biology, represents the first large - scale global survey of wildlife trade via a social - media site, using the orchid trade as a case study.
This collection of marine microbial genomic, the first in the world on a global scale, will provide new clues about a reservoir of biodiversity yet to explore, considering that it could imply the discovery of tens of millions of new genes in the coming years.
«With such improved satellite data we can for the first time combine global SIF observations with in - situ ecosystem scale data of gross carbon uptake.
For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
This is the first time scientists have been able to do this on a global scale
The study published in Environmental Research Letters is the first global - scale analysis with a focus on changes in national diets and their impact on the blue and green water use of food consumption.
Sabine Fuss, a sustainable energy researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin who is unaffiliated with Climeworks, said that the company's direct - air capture plant is the first of its kind to operate on an industrial scale.
«GRiSP represents — for the first time ever — a single strategic blueprint for rice research on a global scale,» says Bas Bouman, GRiSP director.
Now, scientists have assessed the global scale of food crop disasters for the first time — and the news is not good.
The second reference is, of course, the first MBH Nature paper, Global - scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries.
It's the first of an intended global system of 20 such satellites in China's QUESS («Quantum Experiments at Space Scale») program.
In this study, the team first set up and validated CLM4 in terms of runoff generation at the global scale; then, they calibrated the parameters associated with the irrigation module that features dynamic groundwater pumping in CLM4 at the global scale against water use data compiled by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) from census information.
Wellcoaches is dedicated to advancing the field of coaching in healthcare and wellness on a global scale as a means for personal transformation first for health professionals, and then for their clients.
Having reached for the first time a point in human existence where more humans are overweight than are hungry, where our children's life expectancy is less than ours, and where food resources and indigenous knowledge are vanishing faster than we can preserve them, increasing nutritional knowledge on both local and global scales is of vital importance.
Tinder is perhaps the first app in the world which brought in Online dating via mobile app on a Global Scale.
We will use the learning from this report to inform the scale up of our programme into eight new counties in Kenya this year, and into four new countries outside of Kenya», said Emily Laurie, Managing Director at Future First Global.
With the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete effectively on a global scale, the alliance builds on Chrysler's culture of innovation — first established by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925 — and Fiat's complementary technology.
Taking cues from the Avenir sedan concept first revealed at the Detroit Auto Show last year, the sub-brand looks poised for release on a global scale starting with the 2018 model year.
With the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete on a global scale, the alliance builds on Chrysler's culture of innovation — first established by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925 — and Fiat's complementary technology — from a company whose heritage dates back to 1899.
Today, we start with IPR License, the first and only online platform on which to acquire subsidiary book rights and permissions on a global scale.
The Amazon Kindle is now available to people in over 170 countries, and is the first ebook reader to offer free wireless service on a global scale.
They're certainly first to implement RFID on this kind of global scale — the project includes a $ 50 million investment covering 344 airports, 4,600 scanners, 3,800 RFID bag tag printers, and more.
Edition is the first true luxury - lifestyle brand which combines the personal, intimate, individualised and unique hotel experience that Ian Schrager is known for, with the reach, operational expertise and global scale of Marriott International.
Commenting further on the design and scale, he said: «Burj Al Arab Terrace is our most ambitious project since the hotel was created; it's a global first in hotel construction with a breakthrough combination of creative marine design, ingenious engineering and guest - friendly planning.
In 2011, with our first of many acquisitions to come, Nordic Games began its transformation from small scale, two - platform games publisher to a multi-platform, multi-genre global player.
The first ad says the RPG is «popular on a global scale» and «a title that just about anyone knows.»
Action / Arena / Competitive / Co-op / Early Access / eSports / Fighting / First - Person / Flight / FPS / Free Locomotion / Global leaderboard / MOBA / Multiplayer / Online Multiplayer / Room - Scale / Shooter / Social / SteamVR
The SCAD Museum of Art presents an exhibition of selected works by acclaimed German painter Corinne Wasmuht, marking her first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. Wasmuht is best known for her large - scale oil paintings, which seek to define her own place within a contemporary global landscape wrought with a constant influx of information and imagery.
The title of the present work - Made in Japan I - may be seen to evoke this same world of textile production, magnified onto a global scale and signaling the artist's growing interest in commercialized processes; indeed, it was during this year — 1982 — that Basquiat was invited to visit Warhol's so - called «Factory» for the first time.
Gordon Cheung's first solo exhibition in Dubai, «Lines in the Sand», presents a series of large scale multimedia works that explore the shifting boundaries of the empires of global capitalism, and the manipulation of cartography and geography by superpowers to gain control over new territories, resources and trade routes.
From Smith's Bale Variants to Bundles that range in scale from human - sized towers to more petite and portable assemblages, Smith's works refer specifically to the inequities of a global economy in which thrown - away clothing from the First World is shipped in bales to the Third.
But since we seem to have determined that global mean temperatures do tend to track global mean forcings, the interesting science is now in determining the regional scale at which we can still make useful statements — and whether a forcing is «first order» or not will depend quite crucially on what the scale is.
Thinking about food waste, first on a global scale and then on a personal scale, embarrassed us all.
That it is possible to construct a metric that doesn't show regional warming in a certain roughly specified region on a certain unspecified time scale with a certain unspecified statistical technique in no way contradicts the assertion that the balance of observational evidence shows unusual recent global warming, in first order agreement with theoretical, computational, and paleoclimate evidence.
As I've written before, Homo sapiens appears to be in the uncomfortable position of being the first life form to exert a global - scale influence (for better or worse) and be aware of that reality (plants altered the atmosphere, too, but most likely didn't realize it).
First of all, Oreskes et al. emphasize that the reality of mean global warming is essentially undisputed, but that the future impacts on the scale for which humans would have to prepare are still the subject of considerable research, inquiry, and debate.
As I wrote in my first book on global warming, in 1992, we are the first life form we know of on Earth that has risen to be a planet - scale influence and is also aware of that fact — or slowly absorbing it.
EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.
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