Sentences with phrase «largest changes occurred»

The largest changes occurred in the oldest ice (i.e., ice at least five years or older), decreasing from 50 % of the multiyear pack to only 10 % this past March (Figure 6).

The largest changes occurred in smaller Pacific island countries.

«Now that we know such large changes occur, we think of hydrogen escape from Mars less as a slow and steady leak and more as an episodic flow — rising and falling with season and perhaps punctuated by strong bursts,» said Michael Chaffin, a scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who is on the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) team.

«Now that we know such large changes occur, we think of hydrogen escape from Mars less as a slow and steady leak and more as an episodic flow — rising and falling with season and perhaps punctuated by strong bursts,» said Michael Chaffin, a scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics who is on the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) team.

In Fever mode, two very large changes occur.

The more relevant question is how large a change: a relatively small one several decades into the future or large changes occurring today?

However, large changes occurred over longer (100 Myr) timescales (Tyrrell and Zeebe 2004).

Not exact matches

Sunk - cost bias occurs when your investment, financial or emotional, is so large that you refuse to change your mind or shift directions.

Valeri noted that could change, though, as occurred with the first round of quantitative easing, where a massive $ 1.25 trillion purchase of mortgage - backed securities was followed months later by a large - scale purchase of Treasury bonds.

Changes in circle 5 (larger, more impersonal organizations) and circle 6 (the systems beyond the local community) may occur through educational [and] persuasive approaches, but often they require the use of political [and other social action] methods....

Changes in circle 5 (larger, more impersonal organizations) and circle 6 (the systems beyond the local community) may occur through educational persuasive approaches, but often they require the use of political methods.

An indication of changing attitudes toward Catholics within America's largest Protestant denomination occurred in 1994 when the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution «On Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics.»

i honestly think that if this site, and other arsenal (and football) bloggers banged on about the fact that 5 - 10 % of the game is stoppages, and «extra time» (where large chunks of time are often wasted as well) are insufficient, then change might occur.

A 2016 study by Broglio [46] found that a rule change limiting full - contact high school football practices appears to have been effective in reducing head - impact exposure for all players, with the largest reduction occurring among lineman.

Departments whose administrative spending occurred mainly in the central Whitehall departments, and were correspondingly less affected by reclassifications, showed rather smaller proportional changes (11 per cent reduction on average, compared to 32 per cent among the four departments with the largest administration costs).

We can not assess whether such a boost will occur or not, but if it does, it will build on the existence of a large group who indeed want such a change.

However, the largest change has occurred among Latino and African American voters.

«This case illustrates the cultural shift that has occurred at the Clinton Correctional Facility due in large measure to the changes in policy, procedures and training programs implemented following the Inspector General's report,» he added.

There are a lot of changes occurring, including a new administration under County Executive Mark Poloncarz, and new, larger legislative districts.

Even though the actual rate of global warming far exceeds that of any previous episodes in the past 14,000 years, large changes in global climate have occurred periodically throughout Earth's history.

«And the transition seemed to occur right around the time that there were very large changes in ocean - atmosphere oxygen levels and just before the emergence of animals.»

Pinpointing the impacts of climate change is hard to do, Mowry added, but four of the 10 largest fire seasons in the state have occurred since 2004, an «indication there is something going on.»

Our study tells us that a large proportion of these changes may occur during very short and repetitive brain waves called spindles.

This phenomenon occurs every two to seven years and — after the seasonal changes — accounts for the largest variations in the world's weather.

Much larger changes might still occur on timescales longer than 4 billion years, the team admits.

These occur because when the body shape changes associated with developing large mandibles in males are transmitted to daughters it means a reduction in egg space.

They've become six times more likely to occur and four times as large since the 1980s, McCoy said, due to climate and population changes.

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

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.

Such biodiversity loss usually occurs on a large scale, and is due to habitat destruction, invasive species, overexploitation and climate change.

But where deformation does not occur — which the satellites revealed to be the case at the western wells — rocks are stiff and can break, resulting in earthquake activity in the aftermath of large pressure changes, including those caused by wastewater injection.

Developing a better understanding of the large - scale mechanical changes that occur over longer distances, specifically the process by which the extracellular matrix is pulled into compact, highly - aligned «bridges,» could eventually form the basis of treatments for related diseases.

«My group had been looking at the early mechanical changes associated with liver fibrosis, which progresses to cirrhosis, but then, by collaborating with Vivek, we started to wonder if these large scale changes in the architecture of the liver could have a mechanical basis and if something similar to what is seen in gels might be occurring in the liver.

By evaluating the molecular changes that occur in large cohorts of ovarian cancer patients, the researchers were able to identify several lncRNAs that are linked to the disease.

The brain attempts to adapt and respond to those challenges and that occurs in large part through changes in expression of brain genes through epigenetic mechanisms.

They estimated that their gravitational change occurs 46,000 light years out from the centre of a large galaxy and half that distance for a small galaxy.

They performed this identification at two points of time to study any changes that may have occurred, using «CLIP - seq,» an experimentally challenging procedure that, to Karginov and his team's knowledge, has not been used on mosquito tissues before, and that provides a large trove of potential microRNA - mRNA interactions for further investigation.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

Walking along the beaches of New England, it is easy to spot large amounts of a fine red seaweed clogging the coastline, the result of sweeping changes in the marine environment occurring beneath the water.

The investigators summarized a large and growing body of research examining the changes that occur at the cognitive / behavioral, neurophysiological, and neurochemical levels after a single bout of physical exercise in both humans and animals.

In 2007, the American Physical Society, the country's largest organization of physicists, adopted a strong statement on climate change that said «The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring.»

The uniquely large ensemble of simulations that is achievable with climateprediction.net allows us to deduce the changes in the climate due to this regionally - banded SRM geoengineering from the considerable inherent natural fluctuations that occur in local climates.

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).

An example of work in this testbed is to quantify large - scale cortical dynamics during learning and neuroplasticity induction, as well as changes in cortical dynamics that occur when users directly control brain stimulation using their thoughts.

The morphological changes manifested in the cell types linked to larger toepads exemplify cell type differentiation that must be controlled by the physiology of reproduction and properly timed nutrient - dependent reproductive sexual behavior, which probably occurs near the location of the higher perches.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

IV.Obtain direct measurements of group behavioral changes and stress hormone responses, if any, resulting from experimentally controlled simulated Navy MFAS for three delphinid species that occur in large numbers in Navy range areas, including common dolphins (Delphinus sp.), bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), and Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus).

If large scale changes in the ocean ecology occur because of acidification the model can not reasonably be expected to capture the effects.

By this time, atmospheric CO2 concentration will probably have become sufficiently high (and we will be committed to further increases) that a climatic change significantly larger than any which has occurred in the past century could be unavoidable.»

Our results establish gene conversion as a previously under - appreciated mechanism of generating copy number changes in humans and reveal the exceptionally large size of the conversion events that can occur.