Sentences with phrase «like urban effects»

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Still, ideologies like these are having their effect on many schools in urban systems now.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

Not only in urban areas either, but as steamships and trains began crossing the oceans the effect must have been like or even worse than contrails from jets.

Then line the eyes with a deep purple pencil, like Urban Decay 24/7 Glide - On Eye Pencil in Lust, for a dramatic effect that's downright sexy.

The effect of Marc Jacobs on your skin is amazing and I like it better than Urban Decay.

Like virtually all prior work, their results suggested that the effect on educational attainment is largest for urban minority students.

Understanding the effect of private school choice on real - world success beyond test scores requires data on outcomes like college enrollment and graduation, and thanks to three recent Urban Institute studies, we know more about this than we did a year ago.

There are three key assets: synergy effects related to the development and assembly of small and very small cars; instant access to cost - efficient production sites in Japan and in important emerging markets like China, India, and others; and access to leading motorbike / scooter / quad / basic - urban - transportation technology, a fast - growing segment in which the VW Group is currently not active.

Alas, 10 years from now, we might just find out that a longevity - promoting effect of ovaries in dogs is limited — limited to large breeds, urban but not rural dogs, or only those individuals with particular polymorphisms in insulin - like growth factor - 1.

Differences between the temperature anomaly products is related to: different selections of input data, different methods for assessing urban heating effects, and (most important) different methodologies for estimating temperatures in data - poor regions like the Arctic.

In like manner, if I believe that the urban heat island effect is responsible for AGW, why can't I just subtract the urban temperature profile from the global surface temperature record and «whalla», problem solved.

While the effects of some pollutants like PM2.5 in urban smog are well known, significant data gaps remain for other disturbances.

As discussed earlier, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that communities of color, poor communities, and certain other vulnerable populations (like new immigrant communities) are at a higher risk to the adverse effects of extreme weather events.263, 264,239 These vulnerable populations could benefit from urban planning policies that ensure that new buildings, including homes, are constructed to resist extreme weather events.303

So no need to appeal to the usual, debunked «skeptic» talking points about urban heat island effects and the like, in order to explain lack of amplification over land.

«I am disappointed that a scientist like Judy would repeat what smacks of junk science without even raising an eyebrow, and worse yet, proposing that a perfectly sound name be changed to «Tyndall effect» without bothering to check whether there is any substantive justification for this urban legend that originated with Wood's parody of a physics experiment.»

Like other occupied roof decks, they provide an active amenity to building tenants, and bring eco-system services such as mitigating urban heat island effect and managing stormwater.

The uncertainty in the European averaged temperature due to effects like the Urban heat Island effect is discussed by Chrysanthou et al. (2014).

A pilot project like this could start a ripple effect across other urban areas in the state and the entire US.

An expert of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification said that the green roof has a good many practical strongpoints, like strengthening the buildings» anti-mechanocaloric effect ability, releasing the effect of acute temperature change in winter and summer, absorbing and minishing urban noise, as well as creating new eco-environment for the species of animals and plants in cities.

But what about the urban heat island effect around major cities like Babylon and Alexandria?