Sentences with phrase «magnitude of the impact on»

«Ocean acidification is already having impacts on marine organisms and the scale and magnitude of the impact on life in the ocean and the services they support will increase.

Not exact matches

Without refilling in orbit, you would have a half - order of magnitude impact, roughly, on the cost.

«The impact of tax reform on our earnings reflects the magnitude of our historic investment in the U.S. and strengthens our commitment to further grow our business here,» Chairman and CEO Darren Woods said in a statement.

«Based on 2017 production mix, if the proposed tariff of 25 % on imported steel translates into a similar magnitude of increase in steel prices, it would impact each firm by roughly $ 1 billion, representing 12 % and 7 % of their 2017 adjusted operating income, respectively,» Kostin said.

The original OFL release provides info on the magnitude of these impacts for the 15 largest census metropolitan -LSB-...]

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.

It is too soon to assess the magnitude of Brexit's impact on the UK economy.

However, the effect this has on the net income deficit is being roughly offset by the corresponding valuation impact on foreign assets, since these are of similar magnitude to the foreign - currency - denominated component of external debt.

While the remedies announced so far have lacked sufficient magnitude individually to have a noticeable impact, in aggregate they could help to dispel some of the deflationary pressures weighing on the region.

However much the Gospel portraits may have to be scaled down to enable us to see the historical figure of Jesus, they still show us a man who made an impact of such magnitude on those who knew him best and who had left all to follow him, that no unexpected calamity, such as the crucifixion, could have erased this from their thoughts and their experience.

[Magnitude and impact] Arsenal home to Chelsea = City away to West Ham So if we win the third battle or even draw with City, I can see that we have come out of our critical fixture well on top considering we are without of 4 Genevieve stars

With the impressive start to the season all the media attention has focused on the magnitude and impact of the signing of Mesut Özil and the resilience that Mathieu Flamini has added to the side.

The critical point to always keep in mind about impact sensors is that they are just another tool in the concussion toolbox or, put another way, another set of eyes, with which to identify athletes who (a) may have sustained impacts of sufficient magnitude that (b) may have resulted in some cases in concussions, so that they (c) may be monitored for signs of concussion, or (d) may be asked to undergo a balance, vision, and / or neurocognitive screen / assessment on the sideline or in the locker room, the results of which (e) may suggest a removal from play for the remainder of the game and referral to a concussion specialist for formal evaluation away from the sports sideline, which evaluation (f) may result in a clinical diagnosis of concussion.

Although an on - board acceleromter system may not be able to accurately predict injury, it may have utility as a screening device by alerting sideline personnel of an impact that has occurred above a predetermined magnitude that triggers either observation or clinical evaluation of an athlete.

It is up to parents to make sure that the helmet their child wears fits properly, maintains that fit over the course of a season, and has been properly reconditioned, and, if the football program does not buy impact sensors for the whole team, to consider buying one on their own, weighing the benefits of knowing the magnitude and frequency of the hits that their child is taking to the head against the risk that adding a two - ounce piece of plastic to the inside or outside of their helmet may void the manufacturer's warranty and NOCSAE certification or increase the risk that the protection the helmet's polycarbonate shell provides against skull fractures will be compromised;

In the summer of 2012, Pop Warner responded swiftly to the findings of the Virginia Tech researchers on 6 - to -9-year-olds by adopting new practice rules [2] designed to reduce the number and magnitude of helmet - to - helmet impacts.

They could provide a mechanism for conducting longitudinal studies on head trauma, allowing researchers to assess years of data on the frequency, magnitude and ramifications of head impacts.

With reference to (1) to (6) above, we assessed the likely magnitude and direction of the bias and whether it was likely to impact on the findings.

With reference to (1) to (6) above, assessed the likely magnitude and direction of the bias and whether we considered it is likely to impact on the findings.

«What price do you put on quality of life and the impact a project of this magnitude would have?»

Each volcano's magnitude and its impact on climate can be estimated from the amount of sulfate deposited in the ice.

All these forces still exert pressure, but currently on orders of magnitude less than human impact.

Although only 22 % of practice sessions were spent on tackling or blocking drills, the data showed that these drills led to 86 % of all high - magnitude head impacts sustained during practice.

It focuses on these younger players and the head impacts they sustain throughout the football season and offers suggestions to reduce the risk of high - magnitude head impacts.

«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.»

However, when high - magnitude impacts (60g or greater) were evaluated, in some drills — namely, open - field tackling, Oklahoma, one - on - one, and position skill work — the most common impact location was the top of the helmet, which the authors suggest may represent improper tackling technique.

But the effect on a structure could be even larger than what's anticipated from a magnitude 6 earthquake due to the longer duration of shaking that would negatively impact the resilience of a structure.»

Thorough examination of variations among practice drills with respect to the number of head impacts, their magnitude, and the location on the head where they occur provides researchers with information on what drills are more likely to increase risks of injury.

To define specific circumstances in which high - magnitude head impacts occur, the researchers characterized these impacts based on 1) the position of the team member who received the head impact, 2) the place in the field where the impact occurred, 3) the cause of the impact, and 4) whether the impact occurred during a game or practice drill.

His findings have gone a long way toward educating the science community, if not yet the public, on the magnitude of marine pollution and its impact on life — all life.

Gabriele Villarini, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Iowa and the second author of the paper, studies extreme meteorological events, what drives the frequency and magnitude of those events, and their impact on policy and economics.

Land - based impacts were, on average, an order of magnitude more dangerous than asteroids that landed in oceans.

«Rises in global average temperatures of this magnitude will have profound impacts on the world and the economies of many countries if we don't urgently start to curb our emissions.

«It's the magnitude of the problem and the impact on the global economy that makes it extremely important that capture processes be highly optimized when they are rolled out at full scale.»

Our beliefs about differences between the sexes have an impact on society vastly out of proportion to the magnitude of those differences, from female scientists defending their mathematical and technical expertise to boys accused of lacking the communication and emotional skills to succeed at school.

«Going forward we will need much more precise constraints on the magnitude of oxygenation and the physiological requirements of early animals to continue testing the impact of oxygenation on Cambrian animal life,» said Erik Sperling, an assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University, and first author on the paper.

By instituting adaptation and mitigation programs, forest managers can act now to lessen the likelihood and magnitude of climate change impacts on Montana's forests.

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

Human activity increases the amount of nitrogen that reaches the oceans by 50 %, on top of natural processes, according to a new report which assesses the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs to the ocean.

It's not necessarily obvious to the uninitiated what a huge effect this ~ 2ºC uncertainty in ECS estimates has on scenarios that attempt to predict the magnitude and timing of climate change impacts (e.g. the AR5 RCPs).

Such clean energy schemes and improved agricultural and forestry practices are likely to be more economic than direct air capture of CO2, but they must be carefully designed to minimize undesirable impacts and the amount of CO2 that can be extracted on the time scale of decades will be limited, thus emphasizing the need to limit the magnitude of the cleanup task.

While there is considerable anecdotal evidence that principals are important — including various movies about the charismatic principal or the bumbling bureaucrat, there has been very little systematic evidence about the magnitude of differences among principals or about their impact on student learning.

The need we are addressing is the absence of an active R&D platform in the early childhood field (particularly in the first three years after birth) to confront the longstanding over-reliance on «evidence - based» programs that produce statistically significant but small magnitude impacts rather than a balanced agenda that includes the design and testing of innovative strategies that are aiming for substantially larger impacts at scale.

Opponents of discipline reform often ignore the magnitude of the problem and its impact on educational opportunity.

Figure 1 compares the magnitude of the effect of instructional days on standardized math scores to estimates drawn from other high - quality studies of the impact of changing class size, teacher quality, and retaining students in grade.

We then use data from the British Cohort Study, which regularly surveys all those living in Great Britain born in the United Kingdom between April 5 and 11 in 1970, to estimate the impact of an improvement in reading scores of this magnitude on future labor market earnings.

While these calculations illustrate the magnitudes of teachers» impacts on students, they do not by themselves offer a blueprint for the design of optimal teacher evaluations, salaries, or merit - pay policies.

While such a policy would have many costs and benefits that are beyond the scope of our study, we can illustrate the magnitudes implied by our analysis by calculating its impacts on students» earnings.

A loss of funding of this magnitude will have a devastating impact on our district, particularly those students and schools with the greatest needs.

«When you're dealing with something of this magnitude, there are lots of questions and no one knows the impact on charter schools and LEAs themselves.