The report includes the following findings: • The most
important drivers of change for consumer products companies in 2018 will be the economy (78 %), government regulatory change (71 %), and technological advancements (59 %).
In the pages of original research generated by the Canadian Bar Association's Legal Futures Initiative, technology and client expectations stand out as two of the most
important drivers of change in the profession.
In this respect, local utilities can be
important drivers of change, with ambitious targets for renewable heat for example in Paris and Munich.
Hence, changes in temperature due to climate change are expected to be one of
the important drivers of change in natural and managed systems.
One of the most
important drivers of change in the pharmaceutical industry was a wave of patent expirations that really picked up steam in 2010.
Therefore, changes in the expected cash flows are the most
important driver of changes in a stock price.
Not exact matches
«It takes guts to make the claim that the percentage
change is more
important than the absolute number
of daily users, especially considering that's the primary
driver»
of Twitter's business model, said James Cakmak, an analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt & Co..
The headline measure is
of most value in charting the direction
of change, but even with this objective it is
important to understand whether employment or labour force participation decisions are the
drivers.
Because credit and default risk are the dominant
drivers of valuations
of high yield bonds,
changes in market interest rates are relatively less
important.
In the aftermath
of the global financial crisis, broad
changes in global investor risk sentiment were
important drivers of currency movements, at times driving more than 50 percent
of the fluctuations, according to BlackRock analysis.
These
changes are an opportunity for public affairs companies although he argues that, in Brussels as elsewhere, the economic downturn is going to be the most
important driver for public affairs activity in the coming 12 months, not least because
of pressure for EU - wide legislation affecting the financial markets.
With that said, it is
important for
drivers to be aware
of this
change.
Sea - surface temperature is an
important driver of the weather, and because the oceans
change temperature very slowly compared with the air and land, they form a key, predictable component
of seasonal forecasts.
While being an innovative leader in the industry remains the major driving characteristic
of top employers, respondents nominated having top leadership that successfully makes
changes needed to keep the organization moving in the right direction as one
of the half - dozen most
important drivers; that
driver did not make last year's top six.
«It is
important to begin mechanistic studies
of these declines,» the team concludes in a paper presenting the finding published in today's Science, «with habitat alteration, climate
change and agricultural chemical usage being potential key
drivers of observed shifts.»
For the 11th year in a row, survey respondents ranked «innovative leader» as the most powerful
driver of their choice
of best company, followed by «treats employees with respect,» «is socially responsible,» «has loyal employees,» «does
important, quality research,» and «makes
changes needed.»
Analyses show that climate shocks are
important drivers of the expansions and contractions seen here, suggesting a large and previously overlooked negative impact
of climate
change on food production.
The results indicate that although land - use
change is currently considered as the major
driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most
important factor limiting the distribution
of pollinators at large spatial scales.
This, said Skinner, suggests that environment has a more
important role in mutations, disease and evolution than previously appreciated, and appears to be one
of the main
drivers of intergenerational
changes, not simply a passive component.
Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates
of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics
of each
important driver of recent climate
change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?
Climate
change is only one
of the
drivers motivating agricultural innovation, but it will become more
important as warming continues into the future.
«While this paper is an
important contribution, we still face several open questions about other
drivers of change on fire regimes,» said Max Moritz, a fire ecology and management scientist at the University
of California, Berkeley.
It is
important to regard the LGM studies as just one set
of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot
of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the
important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation
changes etc..
Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects
of global
change, like the
drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the
drivers, the feedback between both the
drivers and impacts are
important.
Education is recognized worldwide as the most
important driver of economic growth and social
change, and teachers are the ones leading the way.
With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels
of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster
of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace
of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort
of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line
of the hood it kind
of dominates the center
of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind
of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster
of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes
of the rest
of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system
of this car is riding to the same level
of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level
of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power
of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits
of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a
driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing
driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot
of those
changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one
of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure
of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front
of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood
of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch
of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top
of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's
important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level
of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot
of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort
of more civil minded stuff
of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one
of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot
of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat
of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle
of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort
of a shrine to it the way it pops out
of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience
of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some
of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out
of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 %
of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]
It is going to be super
important to make sure all
of our
driver changes and all
of our pit stops are quick because that will be where you can really make up some spots tomorrow is passing people in the pits.»
And it implies that
changing business conditions and adaptive responses are often more
important drivers of investor behavior and market dynamics than enlightened self - interest — the wisdom
of crowds is sometimes overwhelmed by the madness
of mobs.
But it's also
important to think about how insurance
changes based on personal events — new
drivers or
changes to a family auto policy can alter car insurance premiums, and other kinds
of insurance can be affected by
changing property values or even
changes in the local business world.
LAWCS» work is a critically
important driver of behavioural
change for thousands
of Liberia's children, who will one day grow up to be animal owners themselves.
Despite the open questions, the Eckert et al. (2013) study is
important because it provides a more solid timeline and integrated view
of the evolution
of euxinia in the Black Sea, which is highly useful for assessments
of climatic and other
drivers of temporal
change.
Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates
of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics
of each
important driver of recent climate
change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?
Scientists have examined several
important strands
of evidence about the LIA, including the activity
of the sun,
of volcanoes, and ocean heat circulation, principle
drivers of natural climate
change.
In the coming years, the role
of the UN will remain
important, but no longer be the primary
driver of global
change.
«Many other
important impacts
of climate
change are difficult to quantify for a given
change in global average temperature, in part because temperature is not the only
driver of change for some impacts; multiple environmental and other human factors come into play.»
According to the report, if current trends are not reversed, the Asia - Pacific region could be the most
important driver of global resource use and related environmental impacts, including resource scarcity and climate
change.
Those
changes are not easy to measure or reproduce with climate models, and some researchers think natural variability or
changes in the tropics are more
important drivers of weather extremes in the mid-latitudes.
Estimates
of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics
of each
important driver of recent climate
change.
The results confirm greenhouse gases produced by human activities are the most
important driver of global climate
change, according to the researchers.
The Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network measures the atmospheric distribution and trends
of the three main long - term
drivers of climate
change, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), as well as carbon monoxide (CO) which is an
important indicator
of air pollution.
This will only be meaningful if climate science returns to Square One and reexamine what
drivers are
important in a theory
of abrupt climate
change.
The fossil record indicates that the past 100 years has seen species extinctions at 100 — 1,000 times the background rate (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), and among five
drivers of global biodiversity loss between now and 2100 (climate
change, land use
change, atmospheric CO2 increases, nitrogen deposition, and species introductions), land use
change — not climate
change — is predicted to be the most
important (Sala et al. 2000).
Fuel combustion — fossil fuel combustion in high - income and middle - income countries» is a key
driver of pollution and that «coal is the world's most polluting fossil fuel, and coal combustion is an
important cause
of both pollution and climate
change.»
is the all -
important driver of climate
change that the President and others attending COP21 make it out to be.
«There have been many attempts to determine TCR and ECS values based on the history
of temperature
changes over the last 150 years and the measurements
of important climate
drivers, such as carbon dioxide.
Verification
of these forecasts will provide an
important opportunity to test the performance
of models and our understanding and knowledge
of the
drivers of climate
change.
That is, while the roles
of water vapour and cloud effects are very
important in the net greenhouse effect, they function as feedbacks rather than primary
drivers of change.
The single most
important lesson from assessing
changes in land use across the Holocene is that
changes in the productivity
of land - use systems, and especially productivity per area
of land, has likely been the main long - term
driver of change in human impact on the terrestrial biosphere.
The most
important driver for anthropogenic (human - induced) climate
change is the consumption
of fossil fuels for heat and electricity, oil for transport, industrial production, agricultural activities and waste generation.
This policy document highlights that climate
change will be an
important driver of genetic erosion in the future.