Sentences with phrase «global scale study»

Landmark Global Scale Study Reveals Potential Future Impact of Ocean Acidification on Species» Distribution

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On a global scale, women are 32 % more successful than their male counterparts, according to the study, which analyzed more than 450,000 seed crowdfunding campaigns across the globe.

Last week, The Lancet journal published the results of a global, large - scale study about abortion trends.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

I have emphasized global and national problems, but many believe solutions must be local, and, in any case, large - scale problems can sometimes be best studied locally.

Field expeditions to learn about and describe biological and cultural diversity and the history of life and civilization generally require museum scientists engage on a global scale with their counterparts to gain access to field sites, samples, and permits, and to begin a discourse of the study target.

The latest study uses a new calibration of data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 spacecraft, to quantify how much water is present on a global scale.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.

Studying surging glaciers could also offer insights into grander - scale ice flows with global consequences: the movements of the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, which can change abruptly, altering the ice discharges that affect sea level.

A large - scale study of ancient feline DNA charts the domestication and global spread of house cats

It is the first study of this scale to investigate the effects of global warming and drought on decomposer soil animals.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

A recent study found that such actions, carried out on a global scale, could provide a cheap and easy way to accomplish a third of the CO2 mitigation needed in the next decade to be on track to meet the Paris goals.

On a global scale, replacing the steel used in construction with timber such as CLT could cut CO2 emissions by 15 % to 20 %, according to a 2014 study in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry.

The mechanism for the maintenance of cooperative behaviour in sociable weavers revealed by this study is unlikely to operate at such a global scale, but within smaller communities the idea of kin - directed cooperative behaviour is likely to be widespread and relevant across many other species.

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.

University of Wyoming researchers studied inbred domestic ferrets and determined the mammals have low genetic diversity on a global scale, according to a paper recently published in Evolutionary Applications.

The results of their study confirm that oceans are good at balancing the nitrogen cycle on a global scale.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scale.

Until now, those landscape changes have never been studied on a national or international scale, Schimel said, adding that research suggesting a climate impact, either global or local, is «kind of a new thing.»

Coastal sea ice formation takes place on relatively small scales, however, and is not captured well in global climate models, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who conducted the study.

A study conducted by the University of Kent's Dr Amy Hinsley and Dr David Roberts, and published by Conservation Biology, represents the first large - scale global survey of wildlife trade via a social - media site, using the orchid trade as a case study.

For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

«These waters are thought to be the underpinning of the large - scale global ocean circulation,» said Macdonald, a WHOI senior research specialist and the study's co-author.

A new analysis of worldwide customs and trade data published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark - fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade «Although we can't say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,» says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.

«This is just a bizarre paper,» climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, adding that the effect of direct heating from burning fossil fuels is «completely trivial» on a global scale.

«The rapid spread of this species has inspired biologists to study the process of invasion on a global scale,» says Helen Roy of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the UK.

The study published in Environmental Research Letters is the first global - scale analysis with a focus on changes in national diets and their impact on the blue and green water use of food consumption.

«The study represents an important step towards a better understanding of the molecular - level processes controlling methyl mercury levels in boreal lakes at a global scale.

Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.

We find parallel evolution across three scales: within individual patients, in different patients in our study, and in the global influenza population.

Despite the apparent controversy, the basic conclusion — that the global and hemispheric - scale warmth of the past few decades appears anomalous in a very long - term context — has stood up remarkably well in many independent studies (see Figure 1).

Study reveals discrepancy in approach commonly used to model organic aerosol formation at global scales

In this study, the team first set up and validated CLM4 in terms of runoff generation at the global scale; then, they calibrated the parameters associated with the irrigation module that features dynamic groundwater pumping in CLM4 at the global scale against water use data compiled by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) from census information.

Figure 4 - Spatial variability of the sea surface temperature (SST) trends scaled with the global surface air temperature (SAT) trend for each simulation used in the study.

Studies to investigate the joint effects of climate change and irrigation at the global scale are limited.

Figure 1 - Sea surface temperature trends scaled with global surface air temperature trends for half the climate models used in the study.

POGO is an international network of collaborators who foster partnerships that advance efficiency and effectiveness in studying and monitoring the world's oceans on a global scale.

He has had a central role in PNNL's global aerosol, chemistry, and climate modeling, and in modeling studies of aerosols and cloud - aerosol interactions at local and regional scales.

According to a feasibility study conducted by the National Nuclear Laboratory, there is a very significant global market need for energy that can not, in all circumstances, be met by large scale nuclear reactors and so presents a real opportunity for SMRs.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

TRAC is a large - scale collaboration coordinated by the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, and comprises research groups and National Malaria Control Programmes in each of the study - site countries, along with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and the Global Malaria Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO GMP).

Our new study, published today in the journal Earth's Future, finds that — at least from measurements of global sea level and continental - scale Antarctic ice - sheet changes — scientists won't be able to tell which road the planet is on until the 2060s.

However, the validity of the scaling relations depends on the homology between the star under study and the r... ▽ More The scaling relations between global asteroseismic observables and stellar properties are widely used to estimate masses and radii of stars exhibiting solar - like oscillations.

Comprehensive Genome Scale Phylogenetic Study Provides New Insights on the Global Expansion of Chikungunya Virus.

The scale of bleaching has been rising steadily in the last four decades, a study author tells Carbon Brief, with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8 % in the 1980s to 31 % in 2016.

The development of STEAM allows studies of ship emissions ranging from harbor scale to global applications.

Comprehensive Genome Scale Phylogenetic Study Provides New Insights on the Global Expansion of...