Sentences with phrase «for change on a larger scale»

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The 2010 Skoll World Forum focuses on Catalyzing Collaboration for Large - scale Change, recognizing that social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to critical issues can not achieve impact at scale without forging cross-sector partnerships and alliances.

With even greater changes and developments coming on an even larger scale, the insights that come from this event will be essential both for active blockchain participants and for entities who are just getting introduced to it.

He went out in later years to change the conditions in mine and factory for the laborer, and he succeeded so well that Matthew Arnold said the average Englishman thought of God as Lord Shaftesbury on a larger scale.

A second change in the workplace is that in the past ten to 15 years a technological revolution in transportation and communications has made it possible for large multinational corporations both to manage and to produce on a global scale.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

Thus far, the reading that I have done on the microbiome is fascinating and I can't wait for the field to mature as scientists learn more, but there is insufficient evidence to make large - scale changes to current clinical practices.

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.

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

«It's accurate for a funny reason — not because they really understood what was going on, but that they recognized that there was this potential for large - scale shifts to change the outcome in ways that we weren't detecting,» Pasek says.

For significant periods of time, the reconstructed large - scale changes in the North Pacific SLP field described here and by construction the long - term decline in Hawaiian winter rainfall are broadly consistent with long - term changes in tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) based on ENSO reconstructions documented in several other studies, particularly over the last two centuries.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

This implies that large - scale observations — for example, of global mean sea - level change or of the change mass of the Antarctic ice sheet — will not on their own significantly narrow the range of late - century sea - level projections for decades to come.

Digital technologies have transformed our lives because: • We can store, process and transmit data in digital form faster, and on a larger scale, than any other technology in human history (speaking, writing, or printing) • We can describe a wide range of problems for the data we can collect or create, solve them by manipulating that data, and (sometimes) actuate change in the physical world

The frequent changes of personnel and the political pressures to balance the competing interests of voters, parents, unions, businesses, and so on, often preclude the continuity necessary to reflect on large - scale trends, plan for long - term goals, take calculated risks, or embrace change and innovation.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

The frequent changes of personnel at both the staff level and the ministerial level, and the political pressures to balance the competing interests of voters, parents, unions, businesses, and so on, often preclude the continuity necessary to reflect on large - scale trends, plan for long - term goals, take calculated risks, or embrace change and innovation.

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) maintained most core exams had been set for before Ramadan started on 6 June, but there had been no large scale changes.

These analyses are intended to provide policymakers with an evidence base on tenure policy effects as well as potential areas for improved communication and support for school - based staff in the event of large - scale policy change.

For example, expanding blended learning programs will require both improved systems and policy changes to succeed on a larger scale.

Taylor, Pressley, and Pearson (2002) summarized findings from five large - scale research studies on effective, high - poverty elementary schools, which were published between 1997 and 1999 (Charles A. Dana Center, 1999; Designs for Change, 1998; Lein, Johnson, & Ragland, 1997; Puma, Karweit, Price, Ricciuiti, Thompson, & Vaden - Kiernan, 1997; Taylor, Pearson, Clark, & Walpole, 2000).

Many of these products were not previously available for portfolio allocations on such a broad scale and are leading to changes in the way they are applied in the development of both large and small portfolios.

During Kitten Season, raising orphaned kittens on a large scale has long been considered a job better left to small - scale rescue groups, or achieved in small numbers by dedicated foster volunteers.1 The expansion of feline foster programs and, more notably, the establishment of kitten nurseries to address Kitten Season, are changing the situation for the better.

Additionally, we've inspired change on a larger scale: In 2014, Fences For Fido was instrumental in the historic passage of Oregon's first anti-tethering law, which restricts the amount of time a dog can be chained.

There is still much to be done and through the Blue Sky Foundation, I hope to affect positive change for living creatures on a larger scale.

Select past exhibitions include Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie (2017), a city - wide exhibition featuring works by more than 50 artists in the Roberts Gallery, in street interventions throughout Philadelphia, and on the web; Nari Ward: Sun Splashed (2016), a mid-career survey of the artist's found - object assemblage art; Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change (2016), which examined the artist's stylistic development during the First World War; and Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Wilson: The Order of Things (2015), for which the Barnes commissioned three large - scale artist installations in response to the unconventional way Dr. Barnes displayed his collection.

Large - Scale, Site - Specific Installation Explores the Ever - Changing Natural Environment of the City of New Orleans Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge On View June 15 - September 9, 2012 New Orleans, LA — For the second annual installment of the Great Hall Project series at the New Orleans Museum of Art, artist Katie Holten will map the... Read More

The sentence I just quoted implies pretty strongly that, in the presence of efficient (or for that matter inefficient) large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon, carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future might not result in a commitment to climate change that is irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.

As for additional topics, perhaps a brief explanation on why confidence in attribution (and prediction) of temperature change is strongest at large scales and weakest at small scales, ie something about the issue of signal to noise relative to spatial scale.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

In other words, you can not criticize my finding by stating something like:» your estimates for the climate sensitivity to secular solar changes is too large because I find that on a 30 years scale the sensitity is lower»!

Using a recently developed hurricane synthesizer driven by large - scale meteorological variables derived from global climate models, 1000 artificial 100 - yr time series of Atlantic hurricanes that make landfall along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts are generated for four climate models and for current climate conditions as well as for the warmer climate of 100 yr hence under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenario A1b.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

The field of CDR suffers from the perception that, because CDR won't be needed at large scale for several decades, we can focus our efforts on developing and deploying other approaches to preventing climate change (such as energy efficiency and renewable energy).

Sea level change based on satellite altimetry is measured with respect to the Earth's centre of mass, and thus is not distorted by land motions, except for a small component due to large - scale deformation of ocean basins from GIA.

As for exagerating or minimizing the current temperature trend through choice of scale, it really depends on wether or not 1oC is a large change to occur over one century and all evidence suggests that it is.

SkyPower, the world's largest developer and owner of utility - scale solar energy projects, is proud to announce its landmark partnership agreement with COP21, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which delegations representing over 150 countries will attend in Paris for 12 days with the objective of reaching a universal agreement on how to slow the rise of global temperatures.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Shell is almost solely focused on CCS as a mechanism for tackling climate change, sources at the company say, although most independent advisers believe CCS, which has still not proved itself to be commercially or technologically possible on a large scale, will not be ready until 2020 at the earliest.

It is not the pure prediction of the (regional) trends that is aimed for (type 4), but the occurrence of certain (relevant) weather types conditioned on an assumed change in the large scale forcing.

I disagree slightly with their reason for this, focusing more on the large - scale climate dynamics regime and change points, but I agree that the late onset to the melt season should be a contributor.

Also we analysed UK contributions to international initiatives for climate resilience and finance mechanisms and realised that they have so far not provided funds for local community - led projects; with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) having only spent 1/2 of their budget (# 1.4 bn) on overseas development and a focus on investing in large scale (e.g. # 20m), readymade projects on forests.

«The large - scale winds would look better because the release of latent heat drives a lot of those winds, and climate sensitivity would be better constrained because not only is the base state highly dependent on convective parameterization but the model predictions for future climate change are also very sensitive to that as well.»

We now hear from the IPCC wise ones that biofuels are not such a good thing: «Its previous assessment on climate change, in 2007, was widely condemned by environmentalists for giving the green light to large - scale biofuel production.

Cracking down on the illegal timber trade and illegal conversion of forests for large - scale agribusiness helps to mitigate climate change by reducing CO2 emissions from land use change.

It's fantastic that eHaus is indundated with demand for people who want to know how to get a Passive House, but Jon acknowledges that large scale change will ultimately rely on improved legislation.

While the jury is still out on whether climate change is making conditions perfect for large - scale bushfires, scientists agree that bushfire seasons — a regular occurrence on the Australian seasonal calendar — are getting longer and the fires more intense.

For example, a headline from the site on the 15th May tells us that «US government: climate change threatens polar bears» And today, the site urges that «The government must act to ensure that no new coal - fired power stations are built in the UK until carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been proven to work on a large scale and can be installed from the outset».

Whether the large - scale thermodynamic environment and atmospheric static stability (often measured by Convective Available Potential Energy, CAPE) becomes more favourable for tropical storms depends on how changes in atmospheric circulation, especially subsidence, affect the static stability of the atmosphere, and how the wind shear changes.

As it had turned out that even large - scale features of the model are rather sensitive to changes in the data set, particularly for the earlier part the model, the final model was obtained as the average of 2000 models where data and ages were varied within their uncertainty estimates and bootstraps on the final data sets were performed (hence version number 1b).

For example, consider the Head Start program, which was rigorously demonstrated to produce lasting benefits during pilot studies, but found to produce only small transient changes after being implemented on large scale for decadFor example, consider the Head Start program, which was rigorously demonstrated to produce lasting benefits during pilot studies, but found to produce only small transient changes after being implemented on large scale for decadfor decades.