Sentences with phrase «large scale shifts»

Although THC seems significant in large scale shifts — there are of course other shifts that have been less persistent and long lived in the modern era.

The Sustainable World Coalition produces materials and programs for schools and the general public intended to deepen awareness of and foster large scale shifts towards sustainability — and towards living lives in harmony with nature and all beings.

In the new work Ford begins to loosen up, combining a more gestural painting approach and larger scale shifts with the tighter, more illustrative technique from previous outings.

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But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

The shift for large - scale manufacturing is what is truly gargantuan.

While not a new phenomenon, instances of elder financial abuse have soared as the United States experiences a large - scale demographic shift to an older population.

As we highlighted in October, investing in technology allows investors to tap into large scale, transformational shifts in the way entire industries operate — whether it be the growth of «big data,» cloud - based enterprise and infrastructure solutions, cyber security or the intrinsic importance of semiconductors.

The report calculates that under a large - scale shift to renewable energy, power prices would climb by 6.3 per cent by 2023.

The trends highlighted by Pew's Latino survey also mirror large - scale shifts in the American population as whole.

What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large - scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that «depended on work that had no other object than to keep people at work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained... an approximation of full employment» all without reference to the intrinsic quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction of the work that went into them.»

Of course not only is it true that earlier is better, but that larger scale, non-incremental shifts in policy are preferable to piecemeal changes.

More recently, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis Tsianos and Niamh Stephenson (2008) have written about clandestine migration as imperceptible politics, namely as a social practice that does not have an explicit political goal, but that brings about large - scale shifts in the political field.

Then, climate shifts, continent re-arrangements, and ecological variations caused large scale extinctions in some parts of the world.

The state is beginning to see a shift, however, as a number of large utility - scale solar arrays have been announced for the state, including Recurrent's 150 - MW array in West Texas.

This would require a large - scale shift to electric mobility and promotion of public transport in cities.

In April 2008, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-- a larger - scale, slower - cycling ocean pattern — had shifted to its cool phase.

Tropical widening is associated with several significant changes in our climate, including shifts in large - scale atmospheric circulation, like storm tracks, and major climate zones.

«It could potentially be a very large migration to the continental United States,» said Maria Cristina Garcia, a Cornell University historian, immigration expert, and author on large - scale population shifts, which includes a forthcoming book on climate refugees.

The change occurred at an astonishing pace: Within a few months, native lizards had begun shifting to higher perches, and over the course of 15 years and 20 generations, their toe pads had become larger, with more sticky scales on their feet.

As large - scale genome sequencing projects, such as the Human Genome Project, near completion, the research community's focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.

This shift in emphasis has created jobs in analytical chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, regulatory affairs, bioprocess and process developments, validation, quality control, quality assurance, clinical trials management, and large - scale manufacturing.

The public lands that dominate the border from Yuma, Ariz., through the boot heel of southwestern New Mexico present an opportunity to implement management solutions at a large scale to help species adapt to shifting conditions.

Any large - scale funding shift forces scientists to take notice, but there's far more to this than just funding.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

The upcoming shift in focus toward large - scale screening of small - molecule collections will provide both opportunities and challenges for graduate students and postdocs wishing to explore this new domain of academic research.

Network analyses performed on the digitized map revealed that although Groane had never been subjected to large - scale planning efforts, the street network evolved to be more uniform in size and density, and its predominant shape shifted from triangular to rectangular.

While second - stage results showed no significant differences between participants continuing to receive weekly doses of the active drug, those receiving biweekly doses and those shifted to placebo, Kimball notes that, since it is typical for the severity of HS symptoms to increase and decrease and because the study protocol required treatment discontinuation for participants whose symptoms stopped responding to the drug, larger scale studies will be required to better define the ideal length and frequency of treatment.

«It's accurate for a funny reason — not because they really understood what was going on, but that they recognized that there was this potential for large - scale shifts to change the outcome in ways that we weren't detecting,» Pasek says.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

Ecosystem impacts include changes in basic processes such as photosynthesis; large - scale shifts in the distribution of plants and animals; and increased threats from fire, pests and disease.

These simulations helped them to understand the forces causing shifts in the jet that increase the survival of large - scale weather events, technically known as atmospheric mid-latitude synoptic waves.

Realizing such a major emissions cut would require further efficiency improvements in fuel consumption and, especially, the promotion of public transport in cities, alongside a large - scale shift to electric cars.

Endogenous and exogenous attention shifts are mediated by the same large - scale neural network.

As his career moves him toward shifting the health education paradigm on a larger scale, he plans to continue to work one - on - one with clients because it's a uniquely rewarding part of his skill set.

The sudden shift from small - scale to large - scale, from low - key to something more like a dream, and seeing how both parts connect thematically is nothing but sublime.

Techniques for Unleashing Student Work from Learning Management Systems Mind / Shift, 2/13/15 «Last fall, I taught T509 - Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale, a course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that examined a variety of large - scale learning environments with many learners and few instrucScale, a course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that examined a variety of large - scale learning environments with many learners and few instrucscale learning environments with many learners and few instructors.

Arnett also said that schools must be ready to foster a shift in classroom instruction and, on a larger scale, a change in school culture towards technology in the classroom.

The exemplars that follow indicate that this is possible — both through larger, comprehensive models, and through relatively simple, smaller - scale shifts in attitudes and practices by administrators and teachers that don't require new or significant infusions of funding.

Whether through large - scale media advertising or grassroots, political - style campaigns, these prominent school districts are showing that a shift in mindset can help stem the tide of declining enrollments.

«States and the federal government have a role in changing the way districts support effective leadership in every school;» said Jean Desravines, CEO of New Leaders, Inc. «To scale and sustain school improvement, state and federal leaders must recognize the important role that districts play and promote and model large shifts in organizational culture and operations.»

Investors have already been prepared for the fact that the company will be forced to front some large expenses in order to shift its retail focus to ebooks in an even larger scale way, although how much of an expense that will be has not been shared with the investors at this time.

But the idea is to gradually shift to a more conservative portfolio, so you don't find yourself with such a large exposure to stocks as you enter retirement that a market downturn would require you to dramatically scale back your retirement plans or even force you to postpone retirement altogether.

In blunt terms because the games were programmed for the PS3 not the PS4 that means recoding on a much larger scale than what Microsoft would have to do to run simulation Xbox360 processing on the Xbox one... That is just the blunt truth... and Sony knows that, that's why they shifted resources to make more ps4 built games than concentrating on Backwsrds compability..

I have recently started a series of large scale rubbings on shaped paper — circle, arch, ovals — they are strongly related to my recent paintings, but are monochromatic — greys and blacks — and shift between being voids and objects.

The theatricality of this scale - shift is underpinned by the often intentionally comic nature of these large - scale novelty items.

I am interested in accessing a scale that can encompass the shift between large image and small detail.

McCall regards these works as occupying a place somewhere between sculpture, cinema, and drawing: sculpture because the projected volumes must be occupied and explored by a moving spectator; cinema because these large - scale objects are not static, but structured to progressively shift and change over time; and drawing, because the genesis of each installation is a two - dimensional line - drawing.

The large scale Water Lily Paintings verge on abstraction and are unsurpassed in their pioneering efforts at creating viable pictorial structure from color, surface, luminosity, value, hue and chromatic shifts.

By 1964, Saint Phalle grew bored and weary from the shootings and began to shift her artistic energies toward a new suite of sculptural works that took the form of voluptuous female goddess figures, mothers, brides, monsters, and the large - scale, brightly colored Nanas.

Alex Israel's Sky Backdrop (2016) depicts Los Angeles's wide skies in scenographic terms, while Mary Weatherford, showing her first large - scale painting since joining Gagosian, captures the shifting atmosphere of the Pacific coast, evoking the sky and sea in painted layers and glowing, neon light.