Sentences with phrase «large scale problems»

Liboiron explained that climate shade balls strategy is just a technical fix, and more attention should be given to long - term solutions for problems like climate change, plastics being dumped into the ocean and other more complex and large scale problems.

Effects of AGW combined with other large scale problems in the earth system (related or not), in relation to the human system such as peak oil, bees dying, ocean degradation, soil nutrient loss, soil moisture loss all point to the punitive effects of mankind's collective tax upon himself.

Developmental Edit — In a developmental edit your assigned editor will be looking for large scale problems in the manuscript.

You will also receive a developmental letter that will go into more detail concerning any large scale problems your editor may have found.

This large scale problem reflects a pattern at major uranium districts world - wide.

Where the Batmobile comes into its own is as an external, remote - controlled tool to complete larger scale problems.

Not exact matches

Starting a business that attempts to solve large - scale social problems is even harder.

«If you want to solve really large problems in the world, unless it's a sustainable business, it probably won't scale,» she said.

As many of Silicon Valley's largest companies were wreaking havoc, others worked on important causes and large - scale problems, NYT reports.

A small but relentless group of impish bloggers and columnists — including Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider and Josh Barro of Bloomberg, as well as hapless Congressman Jerry Nadler — have created a large - scale trolling project that is meant to pressure the US Treasury into creating a trillion - dollar platinum coin to solve this problem.

Other new questions about environmental issues include large - scale land acquisitions in the supply chains of food companies and related human rights problems.

Our early detection and alerting service provides a reliable solution to the ever - increasing Account Takeover (ATO) problem and large scale «Credentials Stuffing» attacks.

The most common scaling problem faced by startups is the inability to accept a large new order, since they don't have the cash to build and deliver the product.

MissionPoint Partners is a leading impact investing advisor and asset manager focused on solving large - scale environmental and social problems through the deployment of high impact capital.

Rather than dig into the Earth Bitcoin Miners invest resources into large scale computer operations to solve math problems that provide ROI when they are first to solve a math problem and receive a Bitcoin reward.

Medicare and a bloated defense budget have also added greatly to the problem, as have other large scale Federal initiatives.

Macroevolution posed a problem to Darwin because his principle of descent with modification predicts gradual transitions between small - scale adaptive changes in populations and these larger - scale phenomena, yet there is little evidence for such transitions in nature.

The churches which have been active in family counseling have produced family education programs on a large scale; often these are based on clinical experience obtained in the counseling centers, thus relating to real problems in the lives of people.

God didn't give us the capacity (physical, mental, or emotional) to deal with such large - scale problems.

I fear that in China today many of the problems that beset the West, and especially the United States, are being repeated on a large scale.

In the name of freedom of the individual, we sacrifice them to that caricature of Christianity that some people call «the Protestant ethic,» an ethic that finds no way of dealing directly and massively with large - scale social problems.

With the emergence of large - scale industry in the mid-19th century the social and political implications of capitalist organization became manifest, though even today Americans tend to treat social problems as problems of personal morality.

«The problem certainly exists but it is not on a large scale.

I have emphasized global and national problems, but many believe solutions must be local, and, in any case, large - scale problems can sometimes be best studied locally.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

These same people have no problem with business men, Vegas casino owners, Large scale farmers, etc, etc, well you get the picture.

Although large - scale studies on green pea intake and these chronic health problems remain unavailable, researchers have already begun to suggest connections in this area, particularly with respect to type 2 diabetes.

Some in the European organic community are critical of the Action Plan, claiming that it's a PR strategy designed to make the public think that by introducing new regulations it will address trust issues, when in fact large - scale fraud problems are the reason behind mistrust.

Ox has the same problem though, but on a larger scale.

The infant formula industry is a part of the problems caused by large - scale dairy farming: deforestation, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

The fundamental problem with Clegg's «long - term» approach is an economic one - that there's not much evidence that rushed and large - scale deficit reduction is possible without seriously damaging consequences.

He said as many as 150 new units are currently being discussed, but that he understands why the New York City advocates, where the homeless problem is on a much larger scale, might be more concerned with the lack of a full five - year agreement.

It says the government is taking steps to tackle the problem in school but adds the key to large - scale improvement remains changing people's eating habits.

Glasgow East suffers from these problems on a larger scale compared to other inner city constituencies.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

A new nationwide project aims to monitor the environment of the U.S. and enable comparisons of large - scale problems and variables such as climate change, pollution and sprawl

This product works wonders for rat problems, even as large - scale as total infestations.

«There are many, many different kinds of citizen science projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen science.

Terry Collins, a chemist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says several practical problems will have to be worked out before the method is ready for large - scale use in industry.

The threat of large - scale electronic fraud is a mere fantasy, many election officials conclude, compared with the logistical problems they face every Election Day.

NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.

But clean - coal technologies have yet to be demonstrated on a large scale commercially, and by the admission of even the president's own climate - technology task force, clean coal doesn't have any prospect of making a big dent in the climate problem in the next 15 to 20 years.

The knowledge is needed for future, large - scale experiments and provides hope when it comes to solving difficult problems.

It represents the first large scale study of individuals seeking treatment for gambling problems in the UK, at a time when this disorder is being re-classified alongside drug addiction as the first «behavioural addiction».

The whole response operation would have been on a much larger scale... the national contingency plan does not contain any provision for this, nor does it address the other problems that would arise during a massive, long - term response operation.»

The problem is that large - scale storage technologies haven't been commercially realistic.

«If someone comes out and says, «Actually it doesn't work and it's going to cause you a problem,» that can decrease the chance that the government would be more open to trying [guppy release] on a large scale,» he says.

Currently, it is possible to make fuels out of CO2 — plants do it all the time — but researchers are still trying to crack the problem of artificially producing the fuels at large enough scales to be useful.

The meeting was the first large - scale attempt to bridge the gap between scientists and policymakers on a wide range of atmospheric problems, including not just the greenhouse effect but also acid rain and the depletion of the protective layer of ozone in the stratosphere.