Sentences with phrase «global scale remains»

Western Union chief information officer John «David» Thompson says bitcoin is innovative but its success on a global scale remains uncertain.

However, quantification of photosynthesis at the ecosystem - to - global scale remains uncertain.

«Despite recent advances in the state of the global ocean observing system, estimating oceanic variability on basin - wide to global scales remains difficult.

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Tull, who will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Legendary, has been seeking to expand in Asia with Legendary East and in 2013 signed an agreement with China Film Co. to jointly produce large - scale films for global audiences, such as «The Great Wall,» which will star Matt Damon.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

In the foreword to the report Dr Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief said: «Despite global commitments to promote and to protect freedom of religion or belief, the scale of violations remains enormous, with almost 80 per cent of the world's population living in countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.»

His core beliefs which give him a coherent political outlook remain to help the underprivileged, a belief in the universal welfare state and the promotion of peace and human rights on a global scale.

The sudden changes were thought to be global in scale, but new research suggests that the Southern Hemisphere remained relatively balmy as the Northern Hemisphere froze.

But even if the carbon released during production were somehow captured and sequestered — a technology that remains unproven at any meaningful scale — some studies indicate that liquid coal would still release 4 to 8 percent more global warming pollution than regular gasoline.

Scaling up of interventions for PWID remains a crucial priority for halting the HIV and HCV epidemics,» says UNSW's Dr Sarah Larney, lead author of the paper on global coverage of interventions.

Dr Mike Romano, another co-author on the paper said: «Dinosaur remains of Middle Jurassic age are generally rare, even on a global scale.

«The coupling of citizen science approaches with global collaborations among researchers will provide the scale of information required to address some of the complex ecological questions that remain unanswered,» Roy says, explaining what the future holds for research related to the harlequin ladybird.

Lastly, it remains to be determined whether this mechanism is operating on a global scale in the brain or whether it is restricted to regions with high baseline spine turnover.»

For example, fast ice provides a critical habitat for emperor penguins, yet this remains difficult to distinguish from pack ice at a regional and global scale.

The film does exactly what it promises to do: shows you a condensed year in the life of the paper and the people who create it as they address a rapidly shifting business climate while trying to remain true to the Gray Lady's goal to provide in - depth reporting on a global scale.

The primary players in every online training project on a global scale still remain content developers, online learners, online instructors, project managers, and system administrators.

Moving in a different direction will undoubtedly initiate a catastrophic sense of confusion and doubt that will cause long and lasting damage as Connecticut seeks to remain competitive on a national and global scale.

From ambitious beginnings as the Centre for British Teachers in 1968 to today's Education Development Trust, a major force in education improvement on a global scale — under the leadership of Patrick Brazier, we remain focussed on our mission to transform lives by improving education around the world.

Saying it revived open - car sales on a global scale isn't an overstatement, as it quickly became, and still remains, the best - selling roadster on the planet.

It remains unknown at this point whether Xiaomi plans to launch its MiPad on a global scale in the future, but if it does it would give Apple's iPad Mini a run for its money.

On a broader scale, while the global penetration rate for EVs remains very low, the recent growth in EVs should not be ignored.

While African American experience, with its social, political, and cultural implications, remains the core of Marshall's stunning body of work, the portrait of human condition on global scale is what the painter seeks to address.

Shaped by its colonialist and slave - trade past, Brazil remains a fragile example of the fight against democracy occuring on a global scale by capitalist elites.

And it remains an absolute pipe dream if considered at anywhere near the scale that would be required to impress the global atmosphere in a world where coal use is expected to surge for decades.

Translating this principle to a «grand social scale» or «global scale,» humanity should stop sprawl development and do everything possible to preserve and expand the world's bioregions and the few remaining areas of true wilderness.

Without the safeguard, REDD monies projected to help developing countries protect their remaining forests and reduce the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction could instead allow industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations.

It remains that there are no evidence lines on a global scale that indicate the planetary temperature is either stable or cooling, or that it is natural cycle.

Current work1 has provided evidence of the increase in frequency and intensity of winter storms, with the storm tracks shifting poleward, 2,3 but some areas have experienced a decrease in winter storm frequency.4 Although there are some indications of increased blocking (a large - scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere, 5 the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remain an active research area.6 Some recent research has provided insight into the connection of global warming to tornadoes and severe thunderstorms.7, 8

154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches the science «While the Paris Agreement remains unbinding and global warming has received minimal attention in the recent elections, governments worldwide are presiding over a large - scale demise of the planetary ecosystems, which threatens to leave large parts of Earth uninhabitable.

On the one hand, the major obstacle remains the funding challenge of implementing REDD + on a sufficiently global scale to reduce worldwide tropical deforestation and its greenhouse gas contributions, yet any financial mechanism that is capable of generating such large - scale sums and transferring them to developing countries are considered «unacceptable» by REDD + critics.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

Key remaining uncertainties relate to the precise magnitude and nature of changes at global, and particularly regional, scales, and especially for extreme events and our ability to simulate and attribute such changes using climate models.

Nuclear remains the only proven technology capable of reliably generating zero - carbon energy at a scale that can have any impact on global warming.

However, the need to define outside influences on land use in regional - scale models, such as global trade, remains a challenge (e.g., Sands and Edmonds, 2005; Alcamo et al., 2006b), so IAMs have an important role to play in characterising the global boundary conditions for regional land - use change assessments (van Meijl et al., 2006).

Despite the tremendous effort to collect and homogenize soil moisture measurements at global scales (Robock et al., 2000), discrepancies between large - scale estimates of observed soil moisture remain.

These fluctuations are a useful reminder that «global warming» as yet remains smaller than natural temperature fluctuations on regional and seasonal time scales.»

The fact that the median country's 15 % increase in lighting from 2012 to 2016 nearly matched the median 13 % increase in GDP suggests that outdoor light use remains subject to a large rebound effect on the global scale.

Several comments and replies (6 - 10) have been published regarding the new results, but one key question remains: Are the global tropical cyclone databases sufficiently reliable to ascertain long - term trends in tropical cyclone intensity, particularly in the frequency of extreme tropical cyclones (categories 4 and 5 on the Saffir - Simpson Hurricane Scale)?

Literature since TAR confirms that there may be effects from Annex I countries» action on the global economy and global emissions, although the scale of carbon leakage remains uncertain (high agreement, medium evidence).

In its Global Risk Report 2017, the World Economic Forum found that «large - scale cyber-attacks or malware causing large economic damages» or «widspread loss of trust in the internet» remain the primary business risks in North America.

Never a first - rate smartphone vendor on a global scale, despite going into the Android handheld manufacturing business more than five years ago, Asus stubbornly remains committed to the often confusing ZenFone lineup.