Sentences with phrase «impact as»

Representatives from multiple career - stages were invited to discuss policies to define and measure societal impact as well as research excellence.

All applications will be judged both on scientific impact as well as on impact on healthcare and society.

How significant are these emissions to the climate, considering methane's potent impact as a greenhouse gas?

That says that those dollars are not giving us as big an impact as if perhaps they were given to somebody who had no grants.»

Commerce secretary Ronald Brown predicts the data networks will have as profound an impact as the American highway system, which made it easy and cheap to ship goods around the nation.

The researchers say the results show that Narp is a specific target needed for ECT's impact as an antidepressant.

The idea is that we are not just writing academic papers that go to a very select audience — we want to try and have as broad an impact as possible.»

degrees are expected to have the same scientific depth as Ph.D. s, but they must have an industrial impact as well as an academic one.

The study also shows that the departure of teachers who were identified by IMPACT as low - performing resulted in substantial improvement in overall teacher quality and student achievement.

Lave says he had too little performance data to use the Impact as a baseline.

Okin calculated that meat - eating by dogs and cats creates the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, which has about the same climate impact as a year's worth of driving from 13.6 million cars.

I've also compared the overall environmental impact from three different electric motors, and can therefore provide basic advice on how to design electric motors to produce as little environmental impact as possible,» he says.

«If we're really going to have an impact as to a reduction in the stockpile, we have to address the whole stockpile,» Steve Henry, deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear matters, said at a press conference announcing the design winner.

Published in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper uses laboratory simulations of an Earth impact as evidence that a stratified layer beneath the rocky mantle — which appears in seismic data — was created when Earth was struck by a smaller object.

Whatever happens after that in the story has more impact as a result.

Furthermore, it had been proposed that animals and plants in the polar regions would have been more resilient to global climatic changes associated with an asteroid impact as a result of living in environments that were always strongly seasonal.

Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and Innovation Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, written by Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury, and Bob Stembridge, highlights these countries» public and private investments in research and development, their scientific and engineering labor forces, their output of research papers and particularly active areas of research, their academic impact as measured by citations, and their economic potential based on innovation and patenting.

For all of Brown's success as a collector, his direct impact as a scientist was strangely modest, compromised by his time abroad and by his laxity in publishing his discoveries.

In the longer term, the genomic knowledge will help to streamline the aquaculture industry while providing consumers with healthier farmed salmon, produced with as little environmental impact as possible.

They observed three types of ice losses, each with a distinctive and detailed sound signature: the splash of an ice block falling off into the water; the crack of a fragment sliding down the glacier's rough surface; and the soft thud of an underwater ice chunk breaking away and floating up, followed by a secondary impact as it surfaces.

Also confounding the effort is the collapse of major financial institutions, such as investment bank Lehman Brothers, which had a team of brokers specifically dedicated to trading in such carbon markets, which will have an impact as it may limit the number of financial speculators in RGGI.

This study's findings could also have a significant impact as a new treatment option in countries where surgery is not readily available, Li said.

In 2014, it promises to have a wider impact as a load of new apps and technologies connect your data with other aspects of your life, and the lives of others.

The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

While government agencies try to craft and implement development and zoning standards to help reduce storm water runoff problems caused by commercial and industrial entities, there is still much that individuals can do to reduce their impact as well.

For example, a generalized statement such as «I learned a variety of techniques» won't make the same impact as «I learned to express, isolate, and purify two proteins, which I used in an assay to test their interaction.»

Since we can grow it in much closer proximity to our production sites, we can further reduce both the environmental impact as well as our logistics costs by a substantial margin.

Learning to communicate effectively is a lifelong challenge, particularly for those who have chosen the translation of ideas into tangible experiments and actions that have an impact as a career path.

Natural gas's impact as a bridge fuel to a cleaner energy future has been oversold, new research suggests

The rebuttal also said Stringer «mistakenly assumes» that an Airbnb rental listed on the site — even if it is only available for one night in a year — has the same impact as a «full - time, professional managed listing.»

Looking to have as broad an impact as possible, the seven - person panel tackled a wide swath of issues.

Black Westchester Magazine was just recently honored by the African - American Heritage Celebration Coalition for making a positive impact as African - Americans in media and nominated for two awards by the New York City Housing Authority branch of the NAACP, in the last 30 days.

He can hold meetings, organise «eye catching initiatives», table written questions or even a Private Member's Bill, but does a couple of weeks, or even a matter of days if he gets voted out, alter his ability to have the same impact as he would have done?

Mr Miliband's position was bolstered by the result after criticism that he had failed to make more of an early impact as leader.

But this legislation allocates no funding and wouldn't take effect until April 1, after the state budget is scheduled to be completed — meaning that for Cuomo to sign the bill would have essentially the same impact as for him to veto it.

«In past lead agency disputes on energy projects, the DEC commissioner has pointed to the department's large staff of professionals with unique expertise in the many areas of potential environmental impact as favoring DEC lead agency,» town officials wrote.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

So maybe at one time it did have an impact, but I have seen no evidence in the last election at least, that it has the same impact as it used to... if any at all.

One of the highly experienced politicians in Ghana's political history, who studied at the feet of great men like Kofi Abrefa Busia, Victor Owusu, perfected their arts, corrected their mistakes and rose to become the «successful leader of the Danquah - Busia - Dumbo tradition» by serving as President of Ghana, has repeated his call for an extension of the presidential term arguing, the four - year term, is not enough to make a meaningful impact as President.

The business must also demonstrate a negative impact as a result of the work.

Those involved with building affordable housing across the state are bracing for a potential significant impact as the House and U.S. Senate look to reconcile legislative differences when it comes to how certain types of municipal bonds are treated in the federal tax code.

«A ban on selling beer at below duty plus VAT will have a negligible impact as supermarkets sell only a tiny proportion of beer at below these levels.»

So far, the travel ban has had a symbolic, if minimal impact as a SUNY men's basketball team was prohibited from traveling to the state.

On this evidence, the candidate who would make the greatest impact as leader might be Sadiq Khan.

Some were dismissive: «Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon have as much impact as a vampire with no teeth,» wrote Welshracer.

But, she said, NARAL's endorsement was timed to hopefully make an impact as voters started paying more attention.

This maltreatment can have a lifelong impact as this trauma can impair proper brain development,» said Social Services Commissioner Al Dirschberger.

In other words, the chaos we've seen in a chamber of 63 lawmakers would be transferred to a body more than twice its size — a cataclysm that would have a devastating impact as a slew of complex issues remain under negotiation.

I think Ed had a lot of impact, positive impact as we led up to November 2.»

«I think it was very clear that there was something to this,» said Brian Krebs, digital director for Mr. Udall's campaign, although he cautioned that other aspects of the campaign's fund - raising operation could have had an impact as well.