Sentences with phrase «impact at all time scales»

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TIME spoke with Hanke, who's been traveling in Japan, to chat about the game's runaway success, the impact of augmented reality (AR) at this scale, and what he finds interesting about the medium going forward.

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation argued in the legal case that its plan to build roads and harvest trees would have minimal impact on grizzlies because it called for logging of small areas at different times rather than a full - scale clearing operation.

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

«On a bigger scale, sensors could be placed at different locations at catchment scale to observe any changes in the level of salinity within a field over time, having a direct impact on irrigation strategies.

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program promotes transformational advances in science and technology for computationally and / or data intensive, large - scale research projects through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centers, operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

The combination of high - energy optical lasers at MEC with LCLS's bright X-ray pulses allowed the scientists for the first time to directly measure the species separation at ultra-fast time scales and free from the impact of materials that hold the sample.

As told in Kevin Brownlow's definitive biography of Lean, the director and Neame thought the simple story would gain impact if they filmed it in color, which at that time was generally saved for larger - scale productions.

Studies of modern, scaled - up programs that intend to impact long - term child development find, unlike the studies of small hothouse programs from the last century, that improvements in children's measurable skills and dispositions found at the end of participation in such programs usually fade away entirely by the time children are in the first few grades of elementary school.

«There are a number of different strategies that we can take from the work that was done here to be able to scale collective impact across our district, and help us improve student achievement one building at a time,» Driver says.

A large scale study under review at the time of writing in the US suggests LS has a significant impact on pupil learning as a result of teacher learning.

I disagree that at the very least VAMs might be useful when conducting large - scale research, because the other methods often used to measure gains or the impacts of large - scale interventions and policies over time seem to fare well as well.

I've heard time and time again recently that Amazon is all about scale, and it is this that will kill off publishers... But I am not sure publishing books is scalable, or will be greatly impacted by it: at least not on the creative side.

Erin Smith is a young painter who will be showing her small - scaled but high - impact work at Amy Li Projects (The Right Place at the Right Time).

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

The challenges are significant, but the record of progress suggests that within the next decade the scientific community will develop fully coupled dynamical (prognostic) models of the full Earth system (e.g., the coupled physical climate, biogeochemical, human sub-systems) that can be employed on multi-decadal time - scales and at spatial scales relevant to strategic impact assessment.

Science - based study of fire impacts often occurs at scales of time and space that differ from those that are relevant to wildfire management decisions.

At the same time, some of these companies» own shareholders are pushing them to scale back their dependence on carbon - based fuels, worried about the future financial impact of heightened global - warming regulation.

This paper reviews advances made during the last decade to better understand the impact of global SST variability on West African rainfall at interannual to decadal time scales.

At sub-annual and inter-annual time scales, the impact of land hydrology is minimal and ocean dynamics and atmospheric pressure loads become more important.

-- the overall change to the global heat balance climate from basic physics bounded by paleo observations (over time increasingly constrained by modern observations)-- the probable overall patterns of regional change at a large scale — the range of impacts.

If they continue to mislead, however, without quantifying their level of skill at predicting changes in regional climate statistics on multi-decadal time scales, they are not being honest to the impact and policy communities.

To present regional multi-decadal climate projections to the impact communities as part of their driving forces and boundary conditions (for their models and process studies), when there is NO skill on this time scale at predicting changes in climate statistics, is a serious misleading application of the scientific method.

Within the confines of our work with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional models for downscaling arctic simulations from global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity models.

Climate models, unfortunately, are still unable to provide skillful predictions of changes in regional climate statistics on multi-decadal time scales at the detail desired by the impacts communities.

For example, in the forthcoming U.K. Climate Impacts Program (UKCIP08) scenarios that Lenny refers to (and in which I'm involved), we plan to supply information on changes in a number of climate variables, at a range of space and time scales, for different periods during the twenty - first century.

The impact of land use change on the energy and water balance may be very significant for climate at regional scales over time periods of decades or longer.

Might the «weather» of orbital cycles be impacted by K / T but not the «climate» — perhaps the trajectories of obliquity, precession and eccentricity would become completely different given sufficient time, but maybe with the same general character — periods and amplitudes and average values being similar enough that a casual glance at any given time segment (on the necessary scale to characterize the orbital cycle «climate») wouldn't look like anything different.

My favorite quote from that paper is: «Because ENSO is the dominant mode of climate variability at interannual time scales, the lack of consistency in the model predictions of the response of ENSO to global warming currently limits our confidence in using these predictions to address adaptive societal concerns, such as regional impacts or extremes (Joseph and Nigam 2006; Power et al. 2006).»

At the same time, learning and action at the local scale can translate back (especially through organizations such as Second Nature, and efforts such as the US National Climate Assessment) to impact national and international understandinAt the same time, learning and action at the local scale can translate back (especially through organizations such as Second Nature, and efforts such as the US National Climate Assessment) to impact national and international understandinat the local scale can translate back (especially through organizations such as Second Nature, and efforts such as the US National Climate Assessment) to impact national and international understanding.

Given the scale of the data breach, the sensitivity of the information involved, the impact on affected individuals and the international reach of ALM's business, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner jointly investigated ALM's privacy practices at the time of the data breach and on Aug. 22, 2016, published a detailed and damning report that found ALM had contravened the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act in myriad ways.