Thankfully, it doesn't move around quite as much since the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar, but on short timescales (< 500 years)
the impacts of leap years and the variation of the vernal equinox can alias climatic trends.
Not exact matches
The majority
of employers who have made the
leap and hired a disabled employee have seen a positive
impact on productivity and profitability.
Several factors
impact the availability
of LEAPS.
The
impact of modernity did not show itself again in Catholicism until Pope John XXIII called Vatican II, when Catholicism took a sudden but cautious
leap into the modern world with its policy
of aggiornamento (updating).
We look forward to working with all
of you as FRN takes a big
leap forward to accelerate our
impact across the country.
The
ImPACT - NYSIR partnership is a giant
leap forward in our endeavors to continually provide programs and services that protect our subscribers» student athletes, and a positive step in the education
of school officials and staff about the risks
of sports related head injuries.»
And in a new project called Legacies
of Agricultural Pollutants (
LEAP), Basu said, «we are collaborating with economists to better understand the economic
impacts of nutrient legacies in human -
impacted watersheds»
With a budget the fraction
of the cost
of a mid-size astrophysics mission, and a planned launch by early next decade, this venture represents an ambitious
leap forward in low - cost, high -
impact space exploration.
The mission aims to launch a lightweight space telescope to directly image exoplanets around Earth's nearest star system, Alpha Centauri A and B. With a budget the fraction
of the cost
of a mid-size astrophysics mission, and a planned launch by the end
of the decade, this venture represents an ambitious
leap forward in low - cost, high -
impact space exploration.
That Indy hasn't lost a step is an increasingly prominent facet
of Crystal Skull, typified by a sequence in which he
leaps into a car full
of Russian soldiers and easily cold - cocks them all, though this vision
of herculean strength has far less
impact than a preceding image
of a more vulnerable Indy jumping from a speeding car onto the back
of a motorcycle and almost disastrously missing the mark.
Granted, there's repeated shots
of Cal's ancestor, Aguilar
of the crazy cool hoodie, doing the «
leap of faith,» and it's thrilling, even if the film never bothers to explain how he survives it, always cutting away like a dream where you fall off a cliff and wake up right before the moment
of impact.
By that time
of the year, the rush and excitement
of the start has faded, you're tired, and you're not yet seeing the
impact of all the hard work you're putting in — you aren't yet seeing
leaps in student learning.
While 3D printing has come on
leaps and bounds in the past few years, buyers need to start thinking out
of the box when it comes to purchasing solutions which have a lasting
impact.
LEAP is defining and articulating the teacher practices that best meet individual student needs; determining the school - and classroom - level models that best personalize learning; and constructing the research methods and tools to best evaluate the
impact of personalized learning and edtech programs on student achievement.
National
Impact: Through its work in Chicago, home to the third largest school district in the country,
LEAP will build the foundation
of tools, resources and knowledge to scale its personalized learning work across the country.
Although a relatively young trust, early results indicate the positive
impact the organisation is having on education in the region, with this summer's Key Stage 2 tests seeing a
leap of 14 per cent on 2016's results.
Most impressive to me on all
of Porsche's new cars — 911, Boxster, Cayman — is the revised PASM active suspension, which makes a significant
leap over its previous form to swallow bumps amazingly well and with almost no
impact harshness, even when running over reasonably large bumps in the most aggressive Sport Plus mode.
I also left with the understanding that we only have one chance at making the
impact we want in the world, and even though many
of you are waiting for you chance to come, I decided to create my own by taking a
leap of faith, and believing in my own ability to bring forward the change I seek.
Availability
of LEAPS ® Several factors
impact the availability
of LEAPS ®.
The video below details how the world is
impacted by a «dynamic» day and night cycle as well as a offering a closer look into their new system to capture light realistically, advanced volumetric lighting, procedural destruction and impressive particle effects resulting in some pretty stunning looking graphics to excite those
of us who have taken a
leap to the next - gen systems and maybe entice those still stuck on the fence.
In the case
of both asteroid
impact prevention and reduction
of CO2 emissions, there are vast positive ancillary effects:
leaps in scientific knowledge in the first, cleaning up the ecosphere in the second.
It is the
leap from the first to second sentence that drives Soon's research — the notion that if you can find enough correlations to solar forcing, the
impact of CO2 must be diminished, if not obliterated altogether.
The constructed model via the Long range Energy Alternatives Planning System (
LEAP) software describes the
impacts of energy supply and demand along with their implications for national long — term policy.
The revolution in energy markets caused by the growing
impact of rooftop solar PV is about to take a dramatic
leap in scale.
From there could you possibly make the giant
leap of calculating the total volume
of the world's glaciers vs. the total surface
of the earth's ocean and seas and realize how small an
impact of their melting would have upon the sea level?
The plaintiffs also employ wild
leaps of logic divorced from reality: «By hiding what they knew about, and affirmatively misrepresenting the dangers
of unabated fossil fuel use, the Defendants protected fossil fuel demand, and obstructed the changes needed to prevent or at least minimize the
impacts of climate change.»
To
leap from that to the claimed 3 - 7ºC warming requires that the changes in the ice sheets and vegetation arising from the current and (medium term) committed warming would increase the radiative imbalance by another ~ 2 W / m2 — and that is extreme (for reference, the changes between the last ice age and now from these factors is only about 4 W / m2 (Kohler et al, 2010) with the huge
impact of the N. American and European ice sheets included).
After
impact, you often see drivers
leaping out
of their cars in fits
of rage, finger pointing to cast blame.
It didn't take any huge
leap of assumption to see that this was going to
impact longer term insurance products as well.
«MediaTek's support for «Make in India» and our Digital India initiative have delivered a massive
leap forward for handset design advancements in India, and the
impact of this crucial program will surely continue to be felt across our nation in its second year,» said Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry
of Electronics & Information Technology.
The IDC study showing worldwide tablet shipments show that the tablet industry in general is growing by
leaps and bounds, with Amazon coming in at 6 million units sold and third on the list and Barnes & Noble being the only company in the top 5 to have had less
of an
impact on the market than it did Q4 one year ago.
However, an optimized executive resume gets noticed because: - It's designed for immediate visual
impact to
leap out
of the stack for attention.
This Brief summarizes findings from the
impact evaluation
of the Ghana Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (
LEAP) programme on schooling outcomes overall and for various subgroups: by sex, age group and cognitive ability.The findings underscore the importance
of going beyond average treatment effects to analyse
impacts by subgroup in order to unpack the programme effect