Sentences with phrase «magnitude change in»

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A change of that magnitude greatly improves airlines» bottom lines: Last year the four biggest U.S. carriers — American, Southwest, Delta, and United — brought in $ 22 billion in profits.

This lack of change in smoking cessation under such a dramatic tax increase accentuates the difficulty in improving quit rates at the population level.23 It does provide a reference point to evaluate the magnitude of change reported for the 2014 - 15 US Current Population Survey - Tobacco Use Supplement (CPS - TUS).

This number can and will change depending on the environment but in most cases stocks and bonds don't move together or with the same magnitude very often.

Employment was little changed in September from August, as employers added 112,000 full - time workers, offsetting a decline of similar magnitude in part - time work, Statistics Canada reported on Oct. 5.

If the U.S. does not make significant structural changes including entitlement reform, budgetary reform and a simpler tax system, he foresees another financial crisis of possibly greater magnitude in the years ahead.

In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying vital infrastructure, and changing the lives of everyone who lived on the island.

In periods of reflation, we find the developed economy growth transmission to China and emerging market (EM) economies matters more — even as the magnitudes of the knock - on impacts have changed.

Tax reform of this magnitude is the biggest change we've seen in a generation and will require intense focus to understand not only how the changes apply at the federal level, but also to navigate the ripple effect this is likely to have on state taxation as well.

In this blog, we continue the analysis to see if there is a relationship between the magnitude of interest rate change and magnitude of active return of the low volatility index relative to the S&P Read more -LSB-...]

As the Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a statement.

Many policy advocates in Washington are innocently unaware of the magnitude of change that shifting to, say, FICO 9 would entail for the housing agencies, the credit rating firms and for major bond investors.

Off in the distance we can see initial signs that the short term weather condition of liquidity is set to change, although we can not yet assess magnitude and timing of the change we know is to come.

In a world of grief beyond magnitude, what will change us and the world, is the attitude of Beatitudes.

There really is change in the Church, therefore, change which is different in nature and magnitude according to whether it concerns style of life, law, dogma or non-defined but authentic doctrine.

While some of these factors, such as food safety concerns and technological innovations, are unpredictable in magnitude and timing, others are observable (e.g. income growth), constrained by supply side factors (e.g. lack of feed) and determined by institutional changes (e.g. harmonization of standards) and policies (e.g. agricultural subsidies and environmental regulations).

Irma could be the first hurricane anywhere close to this magnitude to hit the state head - on since 2005 and the second in three weeks to change the college football calendar, after Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

Not often a game of this magnitude has these rivals in such poor form, yet United remain our nemesis, so let's hope for a change.

As part of this work, this fall I will travel to Ethiopia — I can barely wrap my head around the magnitude of this upcoming trip; I know it will change my lens on, well, everything else in my life.

The magnitude of this effect was surprising to us, though we are not estimating an amount of weight loss but rather changes in the fraction of children above a specific threshold.

«Their courage has awoken America to the stunning magnitude of the problem and created an overwhelming demand for change, not only in our culture, but in our laws.

Now that they are in decline, there remains no significant organised demand for a change of this magnitude.

It would feed the 650 MW CPV Valley Energy Center that would contaminate the soil, air, and water of New York's world famous Black Dirt Region and cradle to grave would emit 20 Million Tons of CO2e annually, resulting in public health and climate change crises of a cataclysmic magnitude.

Can anybody fathom the magnitude and depth of harm galamsey has cost the Republic of Ghana in terms of human resource abuses, land degradation, evil consequences on farming, water pollution and evil climate change (s).

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

But what we're looking at is a similar magnitude of change happening in less than a hundred years.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

«Including these errors in our analysis changes the magnitude of the trend but leaves all the substantial conclusions unaffected,» they say.

With this roadmap illustrating the magnitude of visual changes over time in the videos, Brookshire overlaid the participants» EEGs to see whether people entrain around the normal visual frequency of about 10 Hz, or at the lower frequencies of signs and phrases in sign language — about 2 Hz.

«We aren't just curious about whether climate change had an impact on an event — we're also asking what can this tell us about the likelihood and magnitude of events in future.»

Although filaments like fishing line are thin, they are orders of magnitude thicker than a soap film in equilibrium, meaning that the area of the soap film can change depending on the point at which the film contacts the loop.

Attributable human - induced changes in the likelihood and magnitude of the observed extreme precipitation during Hurricane Harvey.

The first changes to the San Andreas occurred in 1992 after a 7.3 - magnitude earthquake several hundred kilometres to the south.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

Using their satellite - based observations — recorded in 2007, 2010, and 2014 — they were able to estimate pore pressure changes at these wells over time, including during the 2012 magnitude 4.8 Timpson earthquake, the region's largest temblor.

Then the magnitude 7.3 Landers earthquake in Southern California in June 1992 changed that thinking.

While they are not suggesting the world will warm overall, according to their model the local changes are comparable in magnitude to those associated with a doubling of CO2.

When placed in a magnetic field, a power will emerge, which could be measured by changes in the magnitude of tunneling current.

For the RCP8.5 projections, which represents stronger increases in greenhouse gas concentrations than RCP4.5, there was a striking level of consistency in the magnitude of change in AR frequency — all models showed an approximate doubling of the number of future ARs compared to the simulations for 1980 — 2005.

«My guess is that when these magnitude 9 earthquakes go off, the game board changes completely in just a few seconds,» he says.

What this report is saying is that we can attribute an increased magnitude or frequency of some extreme weather events to climate change,» said David Titley, professor of practice in Penn State's Department of Meteorology and founding director of Penn State's Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.

The researchers then went to an intermediate elevation and simulated climate change by reducing the snowpack, which made the plants flower seven days early, similar in magnitude to flowering time shifts over 20 to 30 years of climate change.

A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences.

This new information can be incorporated into current climate models to predict future changes in the magnitude and pattern of the Walker Circulation due to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

On the whole, in terms of magnitudes of risks that we used in our analysis [in the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change for the U.K. government], my best guess is that we underestimated them.

And lastly, although the models get the precipitation trends spot - on, they «significantly underestimate the magnitude of change [in rainfall],» Hegerl admits, explaining that better modeling is near the top of the agenda for the researchers.

Although the diving reflex is involuntary, a 2000 study by Erika Schagatay, then at Lund University in Sweden, and her colleagues found that with experience, human divers could significantly increase the magnitude of some of these changes and delay the point at which they have to take a breath.

To date, Singer and Michaelides have used it to identify real climate change over a broad region, but they are in the process of coupling STORM to a runoff model to explore scenarios of climate change and how they might really affect the magnitude and the frequency of runoff.

'' [S] ea - ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next decades could substantially impact California's precipitation, thus highlighting another mechanism by which human - caused climate change could exacerbate future California droughts,» the study says.

The UCR team has changed that, developing a new approach that results in highly accurate positioning information with several orders of magnitude fewer computations.

«This doesn't sound like much, but keep in mind that if a change of this magnitude occurred in the human blood stream, we would die.»