Sentences with phrase «increasing over the past few decades»

While the life expectancy for children with cystic fibrosis has increased over the past few decades, many lives are still shortened in young adulthood by the ravages of lung infections.

There are also more economic reasons — minimum wage has increased over the past few decades so companies aren't hiring as frequently for positions normally filled by high schoolers, and a tough economy saw more grown workers taking jobs they usually wouldn't — but a lot of it can be attributed to students spending their time more wisely.

Pew Research Center reports that cheating has dramatically increased over the past few decades, with 89 percent of people who witness cheating accrediting it to the internet.

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But over the past few decades the burdens on medical practices have drastically increased.

The increases in crop yields seen over the past few decades are starting to slow, and the world's population is still rocketing up.

This is because international trade has increased rapidly over the past few decades as the world economy has become more developed and globalized — notwithstanding the flattening of the global trade - to - GDP ratio over the past few years.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

«Fortunately,» states Katerina Douka, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, «there have been an increasing number of multidisciplinary research programs launched in Asia over the past few decades.

Increases now and over the next few decades are the result of greenhouse gas emissions over the past 50 years, making some change inevitable.

Several studies have clearly shown that the spread of animal and plant species through global trade has increased massively over the past few decades.

It is possible that medical advances over the past few decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels have had a greater impact on people who are overweight — which increases the risk for these conditions — whereas the effect was much smaller in those of normal weight.

The increasing use of computers over the past few decades has fuelled an explosive growth in the microelectronics industry.

A University of Toronto student and professor have teamed up to discover that Britain's increasing cloudiness during the summer could be an important reason for the mysterious increase in Rickets among British children over the past few decades.

«Over the past few decades, wildfire suppression costs have increased as fire seasons have grown longer and the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires has increased,» Jones said.

Pop Quiz: Q. — The U.S. lags in science and technology A. — False As nations such as China and India increased their global science and technology presence over the past few decade, researchers have groused that the U.S. was in danger of losing its edge.

They found that AP increased faster than air temperature (AT) over land in the past few decades, especially in the low latitude areas, and the rise is expected to continue in the future.

Dlugokencky, in an e-mail, wrote there have been «no significant increases in Arctic emissions over the past few decades» and that it would take «centuries» for warming to affect methane hydrate — bearing sediments.

Over the past decade, many genes have been reported to increase the risk of heart disease, but few of these findings have held up in subsequent studies.

Due to the rising population and change in diet in some regions of the world over the past few decades, such as India and China, the demand for renewable resources increased and thus the pressure to produce as much food as possible.

This continues the trend of warming winters over the past few decades as the climate warms from increasing greenhouse gases, with the eastern two - thirds of the country warming the most during the winter.

Knowledge about our own Solar System has increased by leaps and bounds over the past few decades due to a combination of spacecraft missions and technical advancements... Read more»

Though the life expectancy of a person with sickle cell disease has increased dramatically over the past few decades, it is still much shorter than the average life expectancy.

Over the past few decades, most strains have been bred to increase the amount of the main psychoactive component, -LRB--)- trans - delta9 - tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

Rates of type 2 diabetes have risen over the past few decades, just as obesity rates have increased.

However, with the diversification of the population of Canada, the number of interracial dating and marriage has increased gradually over the past few decades.

The increased role of women in the military over the past few decades has added gender issues into the mix.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past few weeks (and, actually, longer than that), decades of dealmaking between states, districts, and affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers is rearing its ugly head just as state governments must also deal with increasing Medicaid costs driven by the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Over the past few decades the top German auto manufacturers have been trading punches at the upper end of the luxury performance segment, with ever increasing fervour.

Market research by IBISWorld shows that gym memberships have actually increased in the past decade, but when the cost of an all - inclusive gym averages $ 800 a year, many middle - class gym - goers are choosing smaller gyms with fewer amenities over their larger counterparts.

Increasing numbers of vaccinations for dogs and cats have become available over the past few decades.

Much like we have seen a rapid increase in diabetes in humans over the past few decades, an uptick of the condition in our pets has also occurred.

But you can look at past climate records, and see no sign, over many thousands of years, that solar variations have had effects of anything like the size needed to cancel out the expected effects of increased greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere over the next few decades.

Tropical land - surface precipitation measurements indicate that precipitation likely has increased by about 0.2 to 0.3 % / decade over the 20th century, but increases are not evident over the past few decades and the amount of tropical land (versus ocean) area for the latitudes 10 ° N to 10 ° S is relatively small.

I have made no attempt to relate the past CO2 growth rate to any exponential function, except to note that it increased at an exponential rate of around 0.45 % per year and over the past few decades it appears to have stabilized at an exponential rate of around 0.5 % per year.

Pielke is right that an increase in the number of valuable properties in high - risk areas is overwhelmingly the primary cause of increased financial losses from extreme weather events over the past few decades.

Although it's possible that stronger winds in the Southern Ocean over the past few decades may have caused the increase, satellite - based studies showing that transport has remained fairly steady during this time suggest that improved measurement tools, not increased wind, are responsible for the discrepancy.

Some excerpts copied for your info: Because of a dearth (line 42) of quality precipitation data, it is very difficult to assess whether precipitation trends over the past few decades in the Arctic drainage areas also show an increase (ACIA, 2005).

The rate of increase of the increase (that is not the same as the rate of increase itself, which is about constant over the past decade) did stall in the past decade, as good as in a few other periods, but in adjacent periods, the rate of increase of the increase doubled.

[1] The mid - to late snow season is precisely when significant loss of snow pack is seen at nearly all locations over the past few decades, both through decreases in snow accumulation and increases in snow melt.

There is no denying that the NGO has increased its influence over the past few decades.

Scientists contend levels of CO2 — a greenhouse gas — have dramatically increased in the atmosphere over the past few decades, contributing to global warming.

Recently there have been some studies and comments by a few climate scientists that based on the slowed global surface warming over the past decade, estimates of the Earth's overall equilibrium climate sensitivity (the total amount of global surface warming in response to the increased greenhouse effect from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) may be a bit too high.

Over the past few decades, sea level measurements taken using satellites show that this trend has continued, with the current rate of increase standing at about 3.36 mm per year.

Surprisingly, however, over the past two to three decades, the increase in extreme weather has included more (not fewer) severe cold - air outbreaks and heavy snowfalls observed both in North America and Eurasia6, 12,15,18,22,23,24,25.

Over the past few decades I have seen a marked increase in team - based business development, especially now in my role as executive director of a leading law firm network.

Over the past few decades, the dramatic increase in maternal labor force participation and dual - earner families has radically changed where and with whom young children spend much of their time.

With its emphasis on relaxation and restoration, retreat - based therapy has increased in popularity over the past few decades.

Advocates for both fathers and children have brought about significant changes in child custody law over the past few decades, and many divorced fathers can look forward to increased time with their children and even primary custody.