Sentences with phrase «limited by the degree»

Their ability to measure influence on a broader definition of student achievement, however, is limited by the degree to which the testing data incorporated in the value - added model correlate with student achievement beyond the test score itself.

Unfortunately, the problem is that the collar's effectiveness is limited by the degree to which the gas fumes are released.

Not exact matches

The likes of Exxon and Enbridge, therefore, have as much as admitted they have no expectation or intention of adhering to the 2 - degree limit established by international convention.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

Everybody's going to have their own tolerance limits, and it's a good idea to check with your doctor to make sure the cold exposure is safe for you, but a study by Nikolai Shevchuk had people stay in a shower around 68 degrees Fahrenheit for just two or three minutes.

The Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

He avoids the fray by relying heavily on excerpts from Soloveitchik's published writings, transcriptions of tapes, and, to a limited degree, second «hand reports.

For instance, public veriability (e.g. through experiment - like activity) is acknowledged by Ward as applying clearly to some values, and to a limited degree to most values.

It is made out of a degree of freedom — not total freedom, for we are always burdened and limited by the impact of our past decisions — and responding to the empowering offer becomes itself a moment in a sequence of ever more empowering offers.

You can definitely limit the size of the church (in a healthy way) by making sure that you multiply small groups that grow beyond a specified size (18 - 20 works nice, at that point you are losing a degree of intimacy already) but more important you make sure that you cultivate the gifts needed to lead these groups — otherwise you end up with a bunch of small churches and a burned out pastor.

The political act which is from God alone must show in an incontestable way to what degree God is the Lord, and the limited faith of Jerusalem and the church can only be the occasion by which the sovereignty of God over all nations is recognized.

By limiting the actions of government and religious institutions, as well as the degree of contact between them, this rhetoric actually undermines religious freedom.

The redaction critics have discovered a surprising degree of theological sophistication as well as a previously unsuspected degree of coherence in each of the Gospels, but the method is severely limited by its inherited inclination to view the Gospels essentially as edited collections of traditional material.

And to a certain degree, there's a limit to how much of the vanilla flavoring will be extracted by the alcohol.

As we have explained elsewhere, the degree of competition in the system for the election of committee chairs and members is limited by a number of factors that inhibit the potentially transformative effect of the 2010 reforms — including the absence of frontbenchers from candidacy and electorate, the fact that candidates from opposing parties can not compete against one another, and the large number of uncontested chairs.

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

She tried to avoid career stagnation by pursuing master's degrees in health services management and global health and disaster medicine, attending conferences, and networking, but it was clear that the opportunities to move her career forward in Greece were limited.

Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

The findings, which were published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, show that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) would reduce the likelihood of an ice - free Arctic summer to 30 percent by the year 2100, whereas warming by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) would make at least one ice - free summer certain.

To the degree that managers are driven by values that motivate them to respond to financial incentives, this bias in rewarding financial over CSR performance is likely to limit the effectiveness of including CSR measures in the balanced scorecard as a way to encourage managers to engage in CSR behaviors.»

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

While the earlier report from Eltahir and his colleagues showed that this survivability limit would start to be exceeded occasionally in the Persian Gulf region by the end of this century, actual readings there in the summer of 2015 showed that the 35 - degree wet - bulb limit had almost been reached already, suggesting that such extremes could begin happening earlier than projected.

According to this study, by 2100 that will increase to about 70 percent of the population, and about 2 percent of the people will sometimes be exposed to the survivability limit of 35 degrees.

There are multiple mitigation pathways to achieve the substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades necessary to limit, with a greater than 66 % chance, the warming to 2 degrees C — the goal set by governments.

It is a steep hill to climb if the world is to avoid warming the earth's surface by no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the limit beyond which we will seriously harm the planet.

In other scenarios, CO2 emissions were curbed significantly to the extent that the target of limiting warming to below 2 degrees by 2100 is achieved.

Although these doubled proteins can identify and fight many foreign proteins within the mammalian immune system, their use in the emerging field of biosensors has been limited by their instability at high temperatures of about 60 to 70 degrees Celsius.

However, the performance of these microscopes is often affected by problems with chromatic aberrations — optical effects that limit the resolution or degree of fineness to which images of the material structures can be acquired — and previous solutions to the problem have often proved difficult to manufacture and implement.

Prof Freer said: «Current oxide thermoelectric materials are limited by their operating temperatures which can be around 700 degrees Celsius.

The ambitious goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels may be compromised merely due to the warming caused by the reduction of fine emission particles.

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was developed in hopes to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The most widely accepted threshold is two degrees of warming relative to pre-industrial times — this is the limit recommended by the UK's Committee on Climate Change, for example.

To limit warming to 1.5 degrees, CO2 emissions need to fall, on average, by 20 % for every tenth of a degree of warming.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. Climate Panel, says the cuts are needed to limit temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, an amount seen by the EU, some other nations and many environmentalists as a threshold for «dangerous» climate change.

Human - induced warming is already close to 1 degree, so to limit warming to 2 degrees, CO2 emissions need to fall, on average, by 10 % of today's emission rate for every tenth of a degree of warming from now on.

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues found that if followed by measures of equal or greater ambition, individual country pledges to reduce their emissions called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have the potential to reduce the probability of the highest levels of warming and increase the probability of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

We use this sample to limit any azimuthal variations in the median metallicity within the ~ 45 degree - wide azimuthal region covered by the current sample to be < = 0.02 dex, which is more than an order of magnitude smaller than the radial metallicity gradient.

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

The world's biggest carbon emitters agreed that the world should limit warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, and raise $ 100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change.

The Copenhagen Accord, agreed by major economies including the US and China, made a commitment to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius and raise 100 billion US dollars annually by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change.

If you start out by doing flat dumbbell presses the amount of weight you can use when you get to 90 degrees will be severely limited.

I find that by using dumbbells where I have infinite degrees of motion I can push my limits more and therefore increase my strength and muscle mass more.

HFCS, despite that the moms in the commercial funded by the CRA advise, «high fructose corn syrup in moderation,» should be eliminated from all diets while white sugar should be limited to a certain degree, depending on an individual's health and how their processes sugar.

Regarding carbohydrate source, a diet with a low versus high glycemic index can be used to reduce HbA1c moderately (by ∼ 0.5 %).13 Case series and pilot studies reveal more substantial improvements in HbA1c and other benefits (less hypoglycemia and reduced glycemic variability) with a very low — carbohydrate diet (VLCD).14 — 21 Although varying to some degree among studies, a VLCD is typically defined as ≤ 20 to 50 g per day of carbohydrates or ≤ 5 % to 10 % carbohydrates as a proportion of calories.22 — 24 In T1DM, small sample sizes and methodological issues limit the significance of VLCD benefits, and little is known about prevalence, practice, and sustainability.

Not only does pursuit of the associate's degree cost less, by itself a legitimate concern for those with limited means, but the two - year training program, unlike the four - year degree program, also may allow for entry into one of the trades — and it may strengthen ties with families and friends when the new degree holders seek out work opportunities in their home communities.

In a study released by the College Board in 2003 (the panel's majority report cited a 2001 draft version of this study), Brent Bridgeman, ETS's principal researcher, and his colleagues analyzed the degree to which the SAT is «speeded» — or how much the SAT's standard three - hour time limit affects students» scores.

For example, what if top - down accountability as defined and enforced by states and the federal government were limited to basic skills, something like the MCTs of the 1970s but based on clear, empirically validated standards about what students need to know and be able to do to hold down the types of jobs that do not require a college degree?