Sentences with phrase «losses by conversions»

In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.

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Buchanan's conversion to economic nationalism resulted from becoming aware of the losses sustained by the American working class.

The region's critical deforestation crisis is driven by population growth, unscrupulous timber extraction, and agricultural conversion — resulting in the loss of 9.3 percent of its forest cover from 2001 - 2009 alone.

Common threats include: loss of nesting and roosting sites, habitat fragmentation by conversion or destruction of vegetation, habitat fragmentation by excessive exposure of nectar plants to herbicides and pollinators to pesticides, over-hunting, disruption of nectar corridors required by migratory pollinators, and competition by invasive species65.

Washington State ran just 51 plays all game in a 19 - 6 loss to the Beavers, primarily because the offense couldn't hold onto the ball — turnovers and a poor third - down conversion rate (created by poor first and second downs, of course) doomed Mike Leach's Cougars.

Large - scale landscape change — loss of wildflower - rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.

Very short (fs) single pulses improve the photothermal efficacy by minimizing heat loss by NPs, though at the same time they limit the efficacy of PT conversion, since maximal energy is limited by the optical breakdown threshold.

If acne and hair loss are controlled by elevated dihydrotestosterone, via conversion from bioavailable testosterone by 5 alpha - reductase.

A series hybrid could overcome conversion losses by using a more thermally efficient engine such as multiple expansion diesels.

Energy loss in the conversion efficiency of the transaxle and electric motor is reduced by approximately 20 %, and its cooling system's energy loss is cut by approximately 10 %.

2014 — The conversion into grassland showed the highest soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration rates, ranging between 0.4 and 0.8 t C ha − 1 yr − 1, while the opposite extreme scenario (100 % of grassland conversion into arable) gave cumulated losses of up to 2 Gt of C by 2100.

Re 392 Chris Dudley — I don't understand what you mean by R ^ 2T ^ 4 — and there should be something about how optical depth is proportional to R, and also, if you're going a significant distance toward the center of such an object, there is the issue of spherical geometry; if the optical thickness is large enough across small changes in radius, then you don't need to account for the spherical geometry in the calculation of the flux per unit area as a function of the temperature profile and optical thickness; however, the flux per unit area outward will drop as an inverse square, except of course within the layers that are being heated through a different process (SW heating for a planet, radioactivity, latent and sensible heat loss associated with a cooling interior, gravitational potential energy conversion to enthalpy via compression (adiabatic warming) and settling of denser material under gravity (the later both leads to compression via increased pressure via increased gravity within the interior, and also is a source of kinetic energy which can be converted to heat)...

Even then you are going to recharge the storage by using the fossil fuel plants and have an extra level of conversion losses.

But a key issue is whether, in net climate terms, the loss of (some) biomass for direct conversion to energy is balanced by the gain from CO2 entrapment and extra CO2 absorption by more fertile soils — especially if the combustion route also used geo - sequestration i.e. CCS?

It's reduced by transmission losses and conversion to AC, but otherwise, it generates revenues from free solar power.

Their analysis suggests that carbon storage loss caused by peatland conversion could be equivalent to as much as... Read more →

The planetary boundaries hypothesis, first introduced by a group of leading earth scientists in a 2009 article in Nature, posits that there are nine global, biophysical limits to human welfare: climate change, ocean acidification, the ozone layer, nitrogen and phosphate levels, land use change (the conversion of wilderness to human landscapes like farmland or cities), biodiversity loss, chemical pollutants, and particulate pollution in the atmosphere.

The correct measure of damages in a case of conversion is that which will provide just compensation for loss suffered by the claimant having regard to the particular circumstances of the case, and so it is impossible to ignore the claimant's own conduct in relation to that loss, since, if he has failed to take advantage of an opportunity reasonably available to him to avoid it in whole or in part, it will be difficult for him to justify requiring the defendant to pay compensation for a loss that could not fairly be attributed to his wrongful act.

The three cases involve five different alleged wrongs, raising possible causes of action for economic loss: inducing breach of contract (Mainstream), causing loss by unlawful means (Zeta - Jones) interference with contractual relations (OBG); breach of confidence (Zeta - Jones) and conversion (OBG).

The Nova Scotia Barristers» Society's Lawyers» Fund for Client Compensation was established in 1957 to reimburse clients who have suffered a loss as a result of the misappropriation or conversion of their money or other valuable property by their lawyers.

The Alberta automobile policy excludes loss or damage «caused by the conversion, embezzlement, theft or secretion by any person in lawful possession of the automobile under a mortgage, conditional sale, lease or similar other written agreement.»

The changes were made in response to the losses suffered by the FHA in connection with the home equity conversion mortgage (HECM) program.