Sentences with phrase «fragile system in»

In fact, hospitals are hot beds for disease and infection, so having a baby, with its virgin, fragile system in a hospital where it could come into contact with illness, could actually put the baby at higher risk for something negative to happen to the baby's health.

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«One thing we do know is that over the course of the years we have had some macroprudential changes to how this system works and we are comfortable those changes have done a lot to make sure the most fragile or the most vulnerable of those in that borrowing space are in effect being protected or have been prevented from excessive borrowing,» he said.

It pointed to the continued presence of fragile fixed - income market liquidity as a key vulnerability in the overall financial system, while it repeats the risks of a sharp increase in long - term interest rates, stress from emerging markets like China and prolonged weakness in commodity prices.

«What's scary about this,» says Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair in Global Human Security at the University of Guelph, «is that these underlying structural things are going to be what make these food systems more fragile.»

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

The first edition was published on January 20th 2015 as the first step towards developing a complete GPS system for global change makers, enabling them to move quickly and safely in a complex, fragile and uncertain environment.

The global financial crisis, like the Great Crash of 1929, also reflected widespread regulatory shortcomings and other weaknesses in a number of countries.1 But it is likely that monetary policy played at least a contributing role in encouraging the buildup of leverage and asset prices in a fragile financial system.

The GFSR begins with the observation that «Risks to financial stability have increased since the April 2012 GFSR, as confidence in the global financial system have become very fragile.»

A better approach: The global financial system is increasingly unstable and fragile, more so than in 2008.

«We still have a very fragile financial system,» said Sheila Bair, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., who was in Baltimore last week to speak at University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business.

Me to... but... in the grand scheme of things, invading two Islamic countries in a mater of 18 months, completely destroying their way of life and system of government (s), and imposing, or attempting to impose democracy on them, and in the process, being directly and indirectly responsible for the complete breakdown of their fragile societies and the deaths of hundreds of thousands...

Their time, efforts being inslaved by other powerful and rich ones to make them richer while they always remain in debt to the system and the rising cost of living, jobless above all being ripped from savings by fragile financial org's??

I specifically suspect the golden seal root that was in my H - PLR supplement... I read that it can wreak havoc on a fragile immune system (but luckily I'm told it does a decent job of killing internal bugs).

Upset stomachs in teething toddlers may be caused by a buildup of saliva and intake of air from crying into their fragile digestive systems.

Would the sun and its fragile solar system survive an urban upbringing in close proximity with thousands more stars after all?

However, magnetic fields travel in a looping pattern, requiring the use of fragile and lossy ferrites to keep the fields and the energy directed — resulting in an expensive system.

Fragile X syndrome, an intellectual disability disorder, has significant associations with asthma, psoriasis and viral infection, highlighting a potential immune system dysfunction in these patients.

Thus, in the region with fragile and underfunded health systems, early diagnosis is particularly important for containing the epidemic.

It's a fragile system; loud noises can damage the hair cells and age can deplete them, resulting in hearing loss.

In a quantum computing system, information could be simultaneously stored at both ends of the wire, providing a robustness against outside disruptions to the inherently fragile quantum states.

It has also resulted in the collapse of already fragile health systems, impacting economic growth and food security.

If the plan is put into place, it would change the state's system for water delivery from the region, which currently involves pumping it from the delta itself in a practice that harms the fragile ecosystem and leaves farmers and residents with widely varying amounts of water from year to year.

«An official in the Health Ministry says another Sierra Leonean doctor has been infected with Ebola, yet another blow to his country's fragile health system.

However, this isn't some standard familial melodrama, but a psychological deep - dive into its protagonist's fragile nervous system, with Shults emerging with one of the most distinctive debut directors in recent years.

Finally, early childhood teachers describe themselves as alienated from and lacking the supports available in K — 12 This is a fragile and vulnerable system that is increasingly being asked to ameliorate social, economic, and educational disparities.

This administration assumed responsibility for a large number of fragile schools that weakened due to changes in the accountability system and faulty districtwide systems for school improvement.

The Middle East is in turmoil and the resulting spike in oil prices has tipped an already fragile global financial system into a lengthy period of recession.

Cheese's high fat and low fiber content can wreak havoc on their fragile digestive systems in another way.

Bunnies have very fragile digestive systems, so drastically altering their diets can result in serious problems.

Though parsnips are safe to eat in small quantities, they are not the ideal rabbit food — they are much too high in sugar for our bunnies» fragile digestive systems.

Dogs with strong immune systems are able to fight it off, but for the weak and fragile, it can been a long, uncomfortable struggle, or even a death sentence in some cases.

From its very inception, the hotel was planned to minimize the impact on this fragile environment, with very advanced water recycling systems, and the building itself, made from local stone, seems perfectly integrated in its surroundings.

Whether it's monitoring the health of the Mesoamerican Reef and marine life to safeguarding the jungle and the creatures that dwell in it, mapping the network of underground river systems in the Riviera Maya and community products and tourism in Mayan villages, Amigos de Sian Ka'an is involved in protecting the unique, fragile and incredibly rich mosaic of ecosystems with which the state of Quintana Roo is blessed.

The notion of the Earth as a collection of systems in fragile equilibrium on which society is closely dependent, for instance, forms the basis of a great deal of policy as well as research into «climate impacts».

In the Anthropocene Age, frightening «tipping points» exist in all natural systems of the «fragile earth,» ready to collapse catastrophically because of the fires, electricity, crops, cattle, and water we use to live our lives at libertIn the Anthropocene Age, frightening «tipping points» exist in all natural systems of the «fragile earth,» ready to collapse catastrophically because of the fires, electricity, crops, cattle, and water we use to live our lives at libertin all natural systems of the «fragile earth,» ready to collapse catastrophically because of the fires, electricity, crops, cattle, and water we use to live our lives at liberty.

Worldcrunch: Sometimes described as the engine of the global climate system because of its role in climate and water systems, the Qinghai - Tibet Plateau in western China, with its fragile and sensitive ecosystem, is considered a «canary - in - the - mine» for global climate change.

WHAT WE DENY We deny that Earth and its ecosystems are the fragile and unstable products of chance, and particularly that Earth's climate system is vulnerable to dangerous alteration because of minuscule changes in atmospheric chemistry.

In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become indisputable facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger the Earth's fragile ecological systems.

What the latest findings demonstrate is that crucial parts of the world's climate system, though massive in size, are so fragile that they can be irremediably disrupted by human activity.

This has led to criminal and regulatory investigations by US and UK authorities as well as a litany of civil actions for, amongst other things, negligence claiming that Equifax ought to known that its systems were fragile after previous breaches and that it failed to take adequate or reasonable care in its data security arrangements.

Nor is it clear that Kenya's fragile politics can support a potentially controversial initiative on piracy, or that its troubled judicial system can deliver the quality of justice that many European nations, such as Germany, say they require in turning over the accused.

Unfortunately, rumors seem to indicate that Apple won't add an additional TrueDepth system to its rear - facing camera, owing to the higher spec demands and difficulties in producing the fragile and complex array.

It is too fragile a system to be maintained in most modern workplaces, and one condemned by management experts and labor laws alike.

However, a collapse in the Argentine peso, civil unrest in Eastern Europe and increasing concerns over China's huge shadow banking system demonstrate how fragile the recovery remains.

• Offload inbound mail and ascertain that it is transported to assigned sorting rooms • Sort mail according to addresses and types and ensure that proper postage has been placed on all packages • Check for any inaccurate information such as incorrect zip codes to ensure that sorting work is carried out with accuracy • Examine outgoing packages for damage and ensure that proper measures are taken to handle the situation • Assemble, line and pad cartons and containers that are supposed to hold fragile items and ensure that they are packed properly • Place containers on conveyor belts to ensure that they reach loading docks on time • Load outgoing packages onto trucks and ensure that they are properly piled up • Ascertain that all correlating documents are properly maintained in the company's database system

«This midnight regulation, issued in the last days of the Bush administration, undermines this country's fragile health care system as well as patients» access to health care information and services,» said PPFA President Cecile Richards.