An alternative way of looking at this would be, for a concentration - defined pathway, we could instead subtract that 280 GtC
from the human inputs of carbon over the 21st Century to produce the same GHG forcing.
Not exact matches
Because digital dexterity is a business strategy (and not simply a technical strategy),
input is needed
from the leaders
from every department — accounting,
human resources, legal, marketing, operations — not just the IT team.
In determining the compensation of our named executive officers other than our Chief Executive Officer, the compensation committee receives
input from our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of
Human Resources with respect to appropriate base salary levels and short - term and long - term incentive awards for such officers.
It must be open to
input from both listener and speaker, and it must of necessity be full of the ambiguity and uncertainty that characterizes the
human condition.
I am not sad, and most certainly happy to live with the knowledge that I have fellow
human beings who can manage spaceship earth without
input from imaginary friends.
The bill, which would require surrogates to undergo medical and psychological screenings and intended parents to have a join consultation with a mental health professional, reflects
input from various community groups, including LGBT advocacy organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), the
Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Family Equality Council, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).
The real concern lies with futuristic technologies that will rely on artificial intelligence and no longer require routine
input from human decision - makers.
Microsoft's chatbot Tay, programmed to generate
human - like conversations based on
inputs from Twitter, morphed into a foul - mouthed racist within 24 hours.
The rate of carbon release during the PETM was determined to be much smaller than the current
input of carbon to the atmosphere
from human activities.
The new paper is the first to quantify the amount of
inputs to the global vanadium cycle coming
from all sources, natural and
human.
Through the multiple trials, they confirmed that the spintronic devices have a learning ability with which the developed artificial neural network can successfully associate memorized patterns
from their
input noisy versions just like the
human brain can.
The increase in dead zones is attributed to excess
inputs of nitrogen
from fertilizers, sewage, and other
human sources.
Humans evolved to be a uniquely social species and require constant
input from others to seek a guide for culturally appropriate behavior.
With the
Human Brain Project, researchers will use supercomputers to reproduce how brains form — basically, growing them in an virtual vat — then seeing how they respond to
input signals
from simulated senses and nervous system.
Cheerleaders for futuristic cars, which can navigate roads with zero
input from humans, have for years drummed up interest by focusing on how much safer these cars will be and how traffic jams would become history once these intelligent cars take to the roads.
I would like to acknowledge the
input from colleagues at the Blair Research Institute, the Biomedical Research and Training Institute, the
Human Sciences Research Council, and
from collaborating agencies that gave views on the contents of the article.
The new method reported in the study by Professor Schultz,
from Imperial's Department of Bioengineering, and his colleagues demonstrates how a robot can do this automatically, without any
human input.
NASA is now developing a new Mars exploration strategy, Mars Next Decade, that responds to the needs of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) as well as the
Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, with
input from the Office of Chief Technologist and Office of Chief Scientist.
Developed on a man's body, and taught with
input from both men and women, Pilates is founded on healthy movement principles for the
human body in general.
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An analysis of national Head Start data also suggests that children who enrolled in the program full day performed better in reading and math.Christopher R. Walters, «
Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood
Human Capital: Evidence
from Head Start,» American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7, no. 4 (2015): 76 — 102.
Despite headlines and a zeitgeist reinforcing the notion that driverless cars are inevitable, there is no clear roadmap for how we're going to get
from contemporary automobiles offering autonomous aids — adaptive cruise control, lane - following systems, and so on — to vehicles that require no
human input other than providing a destination.
The BMW already has a five - level autonomous driving technology which does not require any
input from human beings.
The goal is an Android - based tablet that is able to see the world around it, hear
input from humans, respond and think about the next...
The goal is an Android - based tablet that is able to see the world around it, hear
input from humans, respond and think about the next task that needs to be done.
The dog should be left to interact with the enriched environment without any
input from the
humans and be free to walk away when they want to.
Even with a healthy and involved momma dog, during a puppy's first month he / she needs some
input from their
human caretakers.
As in
human medicine, there are times when your pet may require
input from more than one specialist.
More often than not this behavior has developed simply as a learned response
from human or environmental
inputs.
Whereby the brand name product comes directly
from the manufacturer with several quality control measures taken during its production, compounding pharmacies require
human input to create the product, and this inherently leads to mistakes.
A quote
from Jonathan Beales I found rather spot on was when he said, «All though his documentary was centered around the video games, the story is always about the
human input» to go one with another quote
from him «The rich experiences of making games, playing them or even going to game launches will always remain the center stage».
My own biases point me toward the coming surge of inexpensive, ubiquitous, accessible
human enhancements —
from prosthetics that enhance our motor outputs to sensory
input devices that will give us entirely new perceptual experiences.
The former — an abstract collection of images created by
inputting a series of numbers corresponding to frequencies, amplitudes, and color values into a custom - designed program — plays with the role technology plays in photographic representation; the latter, staged scenes
from a imaginary emergency situation of power loss in New York City, explores what happens to
human emotions in such scenarios.
So if the hockey stick is incorrect & climate varies wildly
from natural causes, then even a «small» (as skeptics view it)
input of
human GHGs, would then have a much larger impact by virtue of triggering a more sensitive and wild nature.
Nature (with hopefully some constructive
input from humans) will decide the global warming question based upon climate sensitivity, net radiative forcing, and oceanic storage of heat, not on the type of multi-decadal time scale variability we are discussing here.
As the neuroscientist Antonio D'Amasio made clear in 1994 in «Descartes Error, Emotion, Reason, and The
Human Brain» (review by Daniel Dennett here), the «thinking» cognitive cortex needs
input from the limbic «feeling» parts of the brain to make sense of any factual information.
Here's some of the
input I received
from researchers doing epidemiological work or analyzing the relationship of the environment to
human health:
[UPDATED:] The language in these provisions was written by Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly with
input from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a Pennsylvania - based group providing legal assistance to governments and community groups trying to mesh
human affairs and the environment.
The models currently assume a generally static global energy budget with relatively little internal system variability so that measurable changes in the various
input and output components can only occur
from external forcing agents such as changes in the CO2 content of the air caused by
human emissions or perhaps temporary after effects
from volcanic eruptions, meteorite strikes or significant changes in solar power output.
These global climate models typically receive
inputs from neoclassical economic and
human demographic models for calculations of future greenhouse gas emissions.
Using
input from the scientific community, the report identifies priority areas that advance the dual role of atmospheric chemistry: first to advance fundamental understanding of the Earth system; and second to advance research needed to address the societal challenges of climate change,
human health, and ecosystem health.
Unlike the monotonous, steady state, fast CO2 growth, the major climate measurements are highly variable, obviously unlinked to the CO2
input from humans.
As I describe in that article the weather systems on Earth (primarily the jet streams and the high pressure cells either side of them) ramp up their thermal efficiency in tune with the scale of any positive or negative energy
input changes
from any source including that
from human CO2.
It DOES N'T take any net CO2 outgassing
from the oceans in the case that the atmospheric CO2 growth is caused to a significant degree by warming climatic factors — there's MORE than enough
human input to achieve the equilibrium between ocean and atmosphere.
They are meaningless figures
from the total volumes to the annual flows and the
human inputs as depicted in the IPCC carbon cycle (diagram).
It was a debacle because Judith wasn't so afraid of debate that she felt she had to ban the topic, because she trusted the people here to discuss it and judge it with hardly any
input from her, because she treats people with whom she disagrees with deep respect as
human beings.
Observing the world's oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)-- marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide through the ocean without any real - time
input from human...
Unlike many other places, which have had huge
inputs from human development which complicate the picture, Mongolia can be seen as somewhere that the impact of global climate instability can be observed clearly, especially as the climate there seems to be changing more rapidly than many other places on the globe.
As they stand at present the models assume a generally static global energy budget with relatively little internal system variability so that measurable changes in the various
input and output components can only occur
from external forcing agents such as changes in the CO2 content of the air caused by
human emissions or perhaps temporary after effects
from volcanic eruptions, meteorite strikes or significant changes in solar power output.
Runoff
from chemical
inputs and CAFO waste pollutes our water and contributes to global warming; monoculture — planting a single crop over a large area year after year — depletes soil and reduces biodiversity; overuse of antibiotics in meat production threatens our ability to fight
human disease.