Sentences with phrase «from environmental events»

Conversely, although environmental conditions can cause variability across a range of behaviours, aggression and destructive behaviours are less likely from environmental events (McGill et al. 2001).

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including, but not limited to: uncertainties involving interpretation of drilling results, environmental matters, lack of ability to obtain required permitting, equipment breakdown or disruptions, and the other factors described in Paramount's disclosures as filed with the SEC.

In an event ripped from a superhero origin story but that, in real life, is actually sort of scary and definitely an environmental headache, the bridge upon which a train...

Moreover, from the Whiteheadian point of view one has to recognize that the evolving events — actual animals and plants as we meet them in real life — are influenced by environmental factors as well as genetic.

In a two - day event in Seville, Spain, from 1 - 2 February 2018, experts will provide insight into how nutritional and environmental aspects of dairy need to be considered in conjunction for a balanced d...

Over 679,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was provided directly to the South Australian Murray (including over 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah Lakes).

This water was in addition to the 722 GL of Commonwealth environmental water delivered to maintain barrage flow to the Lower Lakes to 31 December 2015 as part of the River Murray Valley Flows and including return flows from watering events in Victorian tributaries.

Specifically, Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat along the length of the River Murray to improve the condition and promote the migration of native fish species; support waterbird habitat and breeding events; and, mobilise and export salts from the River Murray system.

(91) Yes — However, the use of cleaners not listed in tables 7.3 or 7.4 (PSL) is permitted under specific conditions laid out in 8.2.3 (32.310): 1) the efficacy of the alternative cleaning substance is documented; 2) the cleaning materials used are effectively removed from the product contact surfaces, by an acceptable removal event (see 3.59 «removal event» definition) and that process documented; 4) the disposal of the effluent has been neutralized to minimize the environmental impact.

Water used in this event was primarily drawn from «return flows», which is a term for environmental water already in the river from other upstream environmental watering actions, such as from the Goulburn River and Hume Dam.

There he worked on environmental projects, cultural programs, and community events ranging from adventure triathlons to national conferences.

Our long - term intervention monitoring (LTIM) researchers are well placed to understand and report on the benefits of natural flows (as distinct from environmental water flows) and how we might mimic similar conditions through environmental water delivery to stimulate future events.

Derrick preceded Monday's event by holding a press conference on environmental issues, where he rolled out an endorsement from the Sierra Club.

It also would exempt various forest management activities from filing environmental impact statements and would provide for expedited timber salvage operations and reforestation activities after catastrophic events.

... Mr Bloomberg told the Financial Times his event would be more focused on getting private and public sector leaders from developed and emerging economies to work together on finding «actionable solutions» to challenges from economic inclusion to environmental sustainability.»

Others used the event as a platform to call out the Trump administration for interfering with federally funded agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with ensuring that people are protected from risks to their health and environment and that federal laws that protect human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively, among other things.

The event featured Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, secretary of State Rossana Rosado, and Alphonso David, Counsel to the governor, as well as representatives from Action Environmental, Ben & Jerry's, ConBody, and VICE Media, and Chris Watler, executive director for Center for Employment Opportunities New York, who discussed the benefits of hiring formerly incarcerated individuals.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

But, 3 days away from the historic event, there's no indication that the federal government is planning much more than putting a banner ad on the Environmental Protection Agency Web site.

This would include low oxygen subsurface sites with environmental conditions predating the Great Oxidation Event that occurred about 2.3 billion years ago when the atmosphere went from very low to high oxygen concentrations.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

Published in Environmental Sociology, a study written by Dr Matthew J. Cutler of the University of New Hampshire, USA, examines a selection of weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Storm Events Database (SED) in order to test this claim.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier thisevents including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier thisEvents and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

University of Tasmania Professor of Environmental Change Biology David Bowman led an international collaboration — including researchers from the University of Idaho and South Dakota State University — to compile a global satellite database of the intensity of 23 million landscape fires used to identify 478 of the most extreme wildfire events.

Objectives: We propose to develop best - practice guidelines and minimal reporting standards specifically in the context of several regulatory toxicology case studies; e.g. (a) chemical grouping and read - across to supplement ECHA's Read - Across Assessment Framework, (b) discovery of mode of action / molecular key events (within the AOP framework), (c) derivation of Benchmark Doses from concentration - response relationships, and (d) cross-species extrapolation within environmental toxicology.

These mutations can be caused by multiple events, some from normal cellular activities and some from environmental harm, such as UV light or chemicals.

Toxins can be either exogenous or endogenous; exogenous toxins come from external sources, including environmental by - products, heavy metals, insecticides, pesticides, fragrances, cleansers, plastics, MSG, aspartame and house hold cleaners, whereas endogenous toxins are produced within us as a result of metabolic activities, such as carbon dioxide, lactic acid, urea, poor gut bacteria and intestinal yeast, in the event that dysbiosis (an imbalance of gut flora) is present.

I promised you one skin care review, featuring a product from Ulta Beauty's The Glowing Skin Event and today I have for you Murad Environmental Shield Essential C Cleanser.

In order to assess global events such as the war in Iraq, they need to understand global politics; in order to have an informed perspective about global warming, they need to understand global economics, environmental sciences, and geography; and in order to communicate successfully with their neighbors from other cultures, they need to appreciate cultural differences and have skills that allow effective and respectful cross-cultural interactions.

The event included provocations from Stephanie Draper, a Director at Forum for the Future who shared progress to date, giving examples of organisations who are achieving absolute reductions in their environmental impact and from Professor Tim Jackson of the Sustainable Development Commission on the limitations of decoupling and the need for a new model of ecological enterprise.

Hughes Middle School Environmental Sciences Class and Andrea Testa, neighborhood Keller Williams Realtor, will host a FREE Community Event on Saturday, January 28th from 9 am to 1 pm at Hughes Middle School, 3846 California Ave, Long Beach, CA 90807.

The «YDB» event, which occurred circa 10,770 BC, is thought to have been caused by the impacts or air - bursts of several comets, resulting in massive shockwaves and firestorms sweeping across continents, initiating a 1200 year - long epoch of terminal environmental change and catastrophic faunal extinction, effectively wiping all but traces of early civilizations from the historical record.This book explores the forbidden and deeply profound secrets of a magnificent lost civilization, revealing knowledge long concealed in myth and legend.

After the Environmental Protection Agency's extensive review of adverse events from spot - on flea and tick products for pets, the agency has given manufacturers six months to change their labels to help prevent even more problems than the 44,000 illnesses and 600 deaths reported in 2008.

In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported adverse reactions from flea & tick control products had doubled since 2005 — mainly due to misapplication.1 After an extensive evaluation of all flea & tick products, the EPA found most adverse drug events were minor, but there were major incidents, too.

Manufacturers of spot - on flea - and - tick products have six months to make labeling changes, according to a new directive from the Environmental Protection Agency, to address increasing adverse events associated with the misapplication of these products by pet owners.

Here's your chance to get back to nature.The fourth annual Earth Day Celebration will take place Saturday at Jaycee Beach on Lake Minneola in Clermont.Sponsored by the South Lake Animal League, the festival marks the 25th anniversary celebration of the first Earth Day.More than 5,000 people are expected to attend the daylong event featuring environmental exhibits, eco-oriented products, Earth Day crafts and children's activities.Exhibits, crafts booths and food concessions will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental Awaenvironmental exhibits, eco-oriented products, Earth Day crafts and children's activities.Exhibits, crafts booths and food concessions will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental AwaEnvironmental Awareness Month.

The six environmental guilds launched at the event will each consist of 10 - to - 15 invited members and 40 pre-registered participants from the general public.

The event will bring together senior executives from top consumer, energy, and technology companies to enable them to promote common ground with stakeholder advocates across a range of pressing environmental and social issues in the next two years.

In some way all of the events from Destiny 1 are mentioned, including the Prison of Elders, but this is all most likely leftover recordings that were going to be used in some environmental scans, expanding the universe for those who never played the first game.

Far (far) beyond a level editor, it allows the modification and manipulation of everything from AI behaviour, to event scripting, to lighting and ambient sound design, to rule - sets, win conditions, and environmental challenges.

She zeroes in on wayward sites and events that epitomize environmental and cultural missteps, strange overlaps of nature and commerce, convergences that arise from opportunism, tourism, waste, scarcity and nostalgia.

She zeroes in on wayward sites and events that epitomize environmental and cultural miss - steps, strange overlaps of nature and commerce, convergences that arise from opportunism, tourism, waste, scarcity and nostalgia.

If the only conclusion drawn from my argumentation is that every event is natural, that's OK, but my linky and larger point was that there is a larger discussion over the environment as a «thing», a distinction which allows the environment to be devalued (and allows the environmental movement to be seen as a special interest).

The December gathering, just across the Hudson from the mountain, in Garrison, centered on a lecture by the University of Oklahoma historian Robert D. Lifset, laying out the observations in «Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism,» his rich new history of that event and how it shaped environmental activism and law ever since.

The event, «Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs — A Fresh Look,» * is part of FoodYou, a year - long initiative of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies (where I've been based since early 2010) that is designed to focus students, faculty and staff on the under - appreciated back story behind our food choices and habits, from the «concentrated animal feeding operations» (also called CAFOs) that supply most meat and poultry to the costs that come with food waste.

Shabecoff spoke of his effort as an event that happened shortly after he quit reporting for the NY Times, (full text here) which apparently arose out of concern from his superiors that he had «grown too close to my sources in the environmental movement ``.

Featuring dozens of educational sessions, an engaging Exhibit Hall and special networking events, attendees have a unique opportunity to exchange strategies and solutions addressing all aspects of green schools and buildings, from reducing environmental impact to improving occupant health and comfort.

The event brought together an impressive array of groups, including indigenous peoples, fishermen, traditional riverbank communities, popular movements from the periphery of urban centers, union workers opposed to the privatization of water and sanitation systems, and environmental and human rights NGOs and students, among others.

Late Holocene environmental reconstructions and their implications on flood events, typhoon, and agricultural activities in NE Taiwan We reconstructed paleoenvironmental changes from a sediment archive of a lake in the floodplain of the Ilan Plain of NE Taiwan on multi-decadal resolution for the last ca. 1900 years.