Sentences with phrase «global figures who»

The exhibition continues with works by Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisa Merz, Senga Nengudi, Lygia Pape, and Ursula von Rydingsvard — a Post Modernist generation of increasingly global figures who are far more expansive in their use of space, and whose works signal a foundational shift from discreet sculptural objects toward more installation - based practices.

The exhibition continues with works by Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisa Merz, Senga Nengudi, Lygia Pape, and Ursula von Rydingsvard — a Post-Modernist generation of increasingly global figures who are far more expansive in their use of space, and whose works signal a foundational shift from discreet sculptural objects toward more installation - based practices.

The exhibition continues with works by: Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Liz Larner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisa Merz, Senga Nengudi, Lygia Pape, and Ursula von Rydingsvard, a Post Modernist generation of increasingly global figures who are far more expansive in their use of space, and whose works signal a foundational shift from discreet sculptural objects toward more installation - based practices.

Not exact matches

CEO Joe Jimenez, who recently announced that he would retire next year, is also cochair for a global «value - based pricing» project that wants to figure out how to best match health care costs with patient outcomes.

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

Having said that, there ae signs some sought the spotlight (those with narcissistic tendencies which describes EVERY US emergent figure on the stage today) and those who decided to keep it grassroots - y and real (those who were part of the global scene and did» t move to the US fit this bill).

In September 2015, UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group released updated joint child malnutrition estimates for the 1990 to 2014 period, which represent the most recent global and regional figures after adding 62 new surveys from 57 countries to the joint dataset.

Home birth is uncommon in the United Kingdom and uncertainty exists about its safety.1 2 Almost all mortality figures available nationally1 provide merely a single global figure for planned and unplanned home births, though the constituent rates differ greatly.3 The only recent figures for planned home birth in England and Wales relating to 19794 and 19935 provide an inaccurately low estimate of risk because it was not possible to account for those mothers who originally booked to have a home delivery but ended up delivering in hospital.

Who's the chief of staff figure, now that Ed Llewellyn is tied up — understandably — with the enormous issues of global security and eurozone collapse?

The figure is falling fast towards the current global replacement rate which, allowing for girls who do not reach adulthood, is 2.3 children per woman.

The second half of the 20th century, and the rise of television, introduced yet a new change in communication technology that was accompanied by the rise of a new cultural icon: the sports figure, who for the first time in history rose to the status of global celebrity.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Those who argue otherwise are confusing short - term noise with long - term global warming (Figure 2).

I, Tonya is a story covering the rise and fall of Tonya Harding, a former American figure skater, who first gained prominence due to her immense skating talent, and gained global notoriety for a single, shocking act of violence — an attack, in January 1994, on a rival American figure - skater, Nancy Kerrigan, that was orchestrated by Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.

With recent figures from The Prince's Trust showing that 31 % of teachers consider the development of soft skills more important than achieving good grades, teaching specialists TeachingAbroadDirect.co.uk analysed findings from global education technology company Promethean World, who surveyed over 1,600 educators from across the UK to see if teachers believe technology has hindered the ability for students to learn and acquire soft skills.

Rigid, clad in gray with her back to the camera, Sooja situates herself and the viewer against a global metropolis, her silent presence eliciting responses from passersby who together weave a social fabric around the artist's needle - like figure.

The market for Lucio Fontana, the prolific Argentine artist who spent the most important part of his career in Italy, peaked last year during the October Italian sales when 26 works were offered and 21 sold for a combined total of # 36.6 m. With a large body of work — the slashes — that is both easily recognizable and was created in a seemingly endless variation of color and slashes, Fontana looked to be riding a wave of interest in Italian abstract artists to become a market - driving figure, a bellwether of the global Contemporary art market.

Praneet Soi, who lives in Amsterdam and Kolkata, India, made a mural in which global currents seem to course through nomadic figures.

In the two decades since Walker's groundbreaking show at the Drawing Center in New York when she was just 24, the artist has become a polarizing art world figure, a pivotal female African - American visual artist who has achieved unmatched global success.

In the 20 years since her breakout installation at the Drawing Center in New York, when she was only 24, Ms. Walker has become a towering figure herself, an African - American visual artist who has achieved unparalleled global success.

These trends are derived from exactly the same data as those used in the original figure, that was used to argue that the global warming had stopped — by two professors and a statistician, the very same who performed curve - fitting and removed data not fitting their conclusion.

It took me a while to get my head around it, and I was in good company; «Figure 4 in the actual paper shows the global mean temperature trends and there is no projected cooling» I wonder who said that; --RRB-

[UPDATE 12:15 p.m.: Nice blow - by - blow coverage by Itsgettinghotinhere.org of the Clinton Global Initiative panel in which Mr. Gore pushed for all kinds of cllimate activism, and a good post from Joe Romm on where disobedience works, and where it doesn't, and why public figures who live in big houses should do more than speak.]

Anybody who can do basic arithmetic could have figured that out for themselves: the biggest emitter is China — less than 30 % of the global total — the second - biggest is the US — under 20 % — and no other single nation accounts for even 10 %.

And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological climatology and spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

As a result, their «urbanization bias - corrected» global temperature trend estimates was pretty much the same as the estimates of the other groups who didn't apply any urbanization bias corrections (you can see this by looking back at Figure 1, at the start of the essay).

In seeking to sue ExxonMobil and other oil and gas companies for contributing to climate change, San Francisco hired the one lawyer who has spent the last decade conspiring with activists to try and figure out a way to blame individual companies for global warming.

Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly - some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is «not settled» denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole.

See figure 4, although anyone who can get a global 69 % increase in OHC over the period with the SH increasing by 62 % and the NH by 68 % needs watching.

They include James Hansen, who created one of the earliest global climate models in the 1980s, which has turned out to be remarkably accurate (Figure 2).

In October 1998, CEI staff figured prominently in a press advisory sent to reporters by the conservative Media Research Center, offering them as «credible sources» who can show that «many scientists are skeptical of climate change theories,» «a warmer earth may be a prosperous earth,» «global warming policies would harm the US economy,» and «the Kyoto protocol could undermine US national security.»

We are yet to see a «Churchill» - figure of our time who will champion the need to a «World War II - kind of mobilisation» against the threats of global warming and climate change — with both the necessary rhetoric skills and a sufficient scientific understanding to actually make voters listen.

Not every scientist or professor is a public figure, but a scientist who writes celebrity columns for The Huffington Post and The Guardian, and appears in campaign commercials for powerful politicians, and stars in a big - budget James Cameron telly series with Matt Damon and Jessica Alba, and writes a book not about science per se but about an epic global struggle for truth and justice with him as the embattled hero can hardly claim he wants to be left alone with his Bunsen burners.

Two scientists who believe we are on the wrong track argue in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change that global warming is inevitable and it's time to switch our focus from trying to stop it to figuring out how we are going to deal with its consequences..»

Folks across the internet who favor action to stop man - caused global warming repeat that combined figure and label.

Absent from mainstream media reporters over the last two decades is an elemental question which could be posed to any politician or public figure who says people skeptical of man - caused global warming are paid to lie: who was the source for the accusation and did that source ever provide any physical evidence to back up the accusation?

Amateur theories about global warming are a dime a dozen and, unfortunately, that can make it hard for the general public and policy makers to figure out what's based on sound science and what has just been made up in 5 minutes by someone who doesn't know anything about climate science.

In light of trends showing a likely 3 °C or more global temperature rise by the end of this century (a figure that could become much higher if all feedback processes, such as changes of sea ice and water vapor, are taken into account) that could result in sea level rises ranging from 20 to 59 cm (again a conservative estimation), Hansen believes it is critical for scientists in the field to speak out about the consequences and rebuke the spin offered by pundits who «have denigrated suggestions that business - as - usual greenhouse gas emissions may cause a sea level rise of the order of meters.»

This stew of paranoia finds expression in figures such as Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her «global warming fanaticism... She has said that she's just trying to save the planet.

Who among hot climatists will want to commit to writing a desire to collaborate in figuring out a way to discredit the more accurate satellite data that shows no global warming going on 2 decades in preference to greater reliance on the use of massaged land - based temperature records that support the global warming alarmists» meme that free enterprise capitalism is destroying the Earth?

Global energy practice is headed from Aberdeen by Bob Ruddiman, «a respected industry figure who runs his team intelligently and efficiently».

John is rated as a leading practitioner in Who's Who Legal and in 2011 was chosen as one of the «Hot 100» figures in the Asian legal industry by Asian Legal Business and was the youngest practitioner to be named in Global Arbitration Review's «45 under 45» leading arbitration practitioners.

Global sales of the Galaxy S8 series are weaker to those of the Galaxy S7 lineup, South Korean media reported on Tuesday, citing local analysts who expressed skepticism regarding the fact that Samsung isn't publicizing the sales figures of its latest Android flagship pair any longer.

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