Sentences with phrase «impact during the past year»

The ceremony recognizes special animals as well as individuals who made a positive and lasting impact during the past year.

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For the past couple of years, underlying inflation has been held down by the lagged effects of the exchange rate appreciation that took place during 2002 and 2003, but the maximum impact from that source has now passed.

Although imported input prices have been declining during the past year, as a result of the strengthening exchange rate, this appears to have been insufficient to offset the impact on profits of faster wage growth.

NHLC has worked with suppliers and brokers to raise $ 720,000 for nonprofit organizations making an impact in New Hampshire during the past three years.

At least two conferences during the past year on how the Web is changing science — ScienceOnline2011 and Science Online London 2010 — have included discussions of the career impacts of blogging.

An international team of scientists has used the fossil record during the past 23 million years to predict which marine animals and ecosystems are at greatest risk of extinction from human impact.

«Our data therefore illuminate the enormous impact modern horse breeding strategies — characterized by strong selection of males and the import of Oriental stallions — during the past few hundred years had on Y chromosome diversity.»

But evidence presented at a meeting at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra last month suggests that in the more distant past, the story was different: When humans first landed on isolated islands during the Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago and more, their impact was surprisingly light.

The wildlife populations of this spectacular landscape have been subject to heavy poaching during various periods over the past decades, and conservation efforts in the area, carried out thanks to longstanding EU financial support through PDRN, ECOFAC and ECOFAUNE projects, have been negatively impacted by the past three years of armed conflict.

DETROIT (March 12, 2018)-- It may not have been the first track on which Corvette Racing competed, but there is no doubting the impact the team has made on Sebring International Raceway — and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Advance Auto Parts — during the past 19 years.

The first Volvo car to be equipped with an airbag left the assembly line in 1987 - and during the past 20 years Volvo Cars has continuously refined the airbag technology to enhance protection in both frontal and side impacts.

In the past we have used the track for our Le Mans preparations, but we haven't tested there this year and the team will have to pull together and run contrasting setups during free practice, while assessing the impact of the new Michelin tyre and the post-Mosport Balance of Performance adjustment.

During the past year, the Fund paid 0.13 % of net assets in commissions, with a turnover rate of 63 %, and an average price impact of 0.26 %.

We believe that the poor economy, high unemployment, tight credit markets, and heightened uncertainty in financial markets during the past two years have adversely impacted discretionary consumer spending, including spending on the types of electronic devices that are accessorized by our products.

Every September for the past 13 years, they have shown the same passion while serving local communities around the world during our annual Responsible Business Action Month, creating a ripple effect of positive impact.

Given that all the infrastructure of civilization has evolved during the past 10000 years of relative climatic stability, it is not unreasonble to assume that significant changes will impact that infrastructure adversely.

I finally got around to doing a back - of - envelope calculation on the direct UHI impact — what we know «for sure» about the impact of urbanization — for the 6000 - acre suburban - U.S. community into which I and 75000 other people have moved during the past 45 years.

Singh and her Lamont colleagues research climate change impacts on weather patterns by analyzing weather trends in daily temperatures, precipitation, and atmospheric patterns that have occurred during the past 40 years, in the post-satellite era.

From direct observation we already know that the extreme predictions of CO2's impact on global temperature are highly unlikely given that about one - third of all our CO2 emissions have been discharged during the past 18 years and there has been no statistically significant warming.

However, such processes are unlikely during winter and occur during a limited period of the year (typically from late spring to early fall, 21), and we argue that their past evolution will have a negligible impact on the deep firn atmospheric record.

Had we focused during the past 20 years on increasing the resiliency at a regional level to impacts, what could we have already accomplished?

Santa Barbara, CA — Human impacts on the oceans have increased in more than two - thirds of the world during the past five years, though some areas remain lightly impacted, and still others are improving.

Clients benefit from our extensive expertise built on our lawyers» & consultants» work during the past 25 years in a vast range of areas of practice impacting domestic and international business.

At the start of each year Gartner nominates vendors who are too small to feature in the magic quadrant but are recognised as innovative («enables users to do things they couldn't do before); impactful («has or will have a business impact, not just tech for tech's sake»); and intriguing («has caught Gartner's interest during the past six months.»)

Laurel S. Terry, The Impact of Global Developments on U.S. Legal Ethics During the Past Thirty Years, 30 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 365 (2017)

The articles in this issue include the latest research about brain functioning during the first three years of life and the important role of early social interactions for later school readiness and lifelong learning; how toxic stress caused by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is having an impact on the health and development of children; a summary of what has been learned about early development during the past 15 years; and examples of how tribal communities using Federal funding opportunities and partnerships to build more coordinated, effective early childhood systems.

During the past five years, a near majority of Realtors ® experienced an increase in the number of international clients; we expect international buying activity to grow in 2017, which will have an overall positive impact on the commercial market's ongoing recovery,» said Yaman.