Sentences with phrase «major area of change»

Another major area of change during Lagemann's tenure was the reorganization of HGSE's academic areas and degree programs.

The huge drive to equip state schools with interactive whiteboards (IWB) resulted in huge market saturation for the technology but many IWBs are now nearing the end of their natural lives, and one of the major areas of change I'm seeing in schools is their decision to think about next generation technology.

One of the major areas of change facing VA Home Loan Centers, as an agency responsible for administering the VA Home Loan Guarantee to veterans, is the question of same - sex marriage.

Not exact matches

The pace of innovation in healthcare has accelerated in the last decade due to demographic changes and significant unmet needs in major disease areas like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

Sweden is demonstrating that major change in this heavily ingrained area of culture is possible.

National strategies have been implemented to accelerate research and its application in areas including biological control, crop rotations and polycultures.This has resulted in major changes in some of the goals of Cuban plant breeding and a search for more appropriate methods of participatory plant breeding.

Clearly this is a major area of F1 that needs to change and it's been something many have been demanding for quite some time.

The Gunners lost 3 - 1 at home to AS Monaco this week, likely putting their Champions League campaign to an end for this season barring a miraculous second leg turnaround, and it is clear from the result that major changes need to be made in a number of areas.

In this post I look at Trump's proposals for trade, health care, financial regulation and climate change and conclude that his administration is likely to run into major obstacles in each of these areas.

Governor Andrew Cuomo recommended a slew of changes to New York law in his State of Opportunity Agenda today, but the only major new proposal in the area of government reform involves increasing the pay for state legislators.

To remedy this and other ills, the report calls for major changes in the current two - tier voting system, where parents first cast an advisory vote and then leaders of parent organizations in the respective area make the final choice.

Despite such local funding shortages, experts believe that interdisciplinary climate change research is a major area of career opportunity.

Major changes in Stone Age toolmaking in the area were less dependent on movements of H. sapiens out of Africa than investigators have often proposed, Pappu contends.

As ICREA Prof. at ICFO Valerio Pruneri comments «the device means a major step forward for light microscopy techniques, especially for microarray platforms since it could definitely be used as a point - of - care tool in the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases such as Sepsis, a critical area where fast and accurate results can translate into life changing health outcomes for individuals.

This is of great concern to ecologists because the populations in these areas include pockets with the highest levels of genetic diversity, thanks to their ancestors having survived major climate change events such as ice ages.

At odds with the low levels of factual knowledge, most respondents reported that they had a «moderate amount» or a «great deal» of understanding about climate change, where polar change has been a major area of interest.

Climate change has resulted in increased temperatures, and a major portion of the area is projected to be uninhabitable in the future.

The potential effects of climate change on the spread of insect - borne diseases is a major public health concern, but this study found little evidence that mosquito populations in these areas were responding to changes in temperature or precipitation.

The assessment concludes with an analysis of the major information gaps — and thus areas for future research — related to climate change and its impacts to the three sectors covered herein (Chapter 6).

The assessment concludes with an analysis of major knowledge gaps — and thus areas for future research — related to climate change and its impacts on the three sectors covered herein (Chapter 6).

If you are the leader of a large area, such as a major city or a county, we may ask you to change your name to a smaller area if someone living in the same district (but further away than 10 miles) wants to set up a chapter.

«I've always had problems with fat in my back right above my waist, well, not always but a good deal of my life, and I can see major changes in that area.

Although there wasn't any major changes to the way you play Tiger, the inclusion of the stellar photo Game Face, and the new Gamer Net community really pushed this game to the next level, and just gives so many more areas in which this game can expand for years to come.

This inspired another major change from the series so far — the player character can walk and drink a healing potion at the same time, something developers described as a necessity given that the «magic wall» of a load screen into the next area over has now been removed.

EN: What will the major changes on the teacher quality front be in the area of teacher preparation?

While the overall number of teachers has kept pace with changing pupil numbers, the NAO reported that 54 per cent of school leaders in areas with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem».

While AUIS initially didn't offer majors in any of those areas, this is something that is slowly being changed.

In total, the cumulative cost of major tax changes since 2013 will be at least $ 3.5 billion annually — neglecting critical areas of public investment.

«in an area of old - school nat - asp cars turning turbo, this is one of the few examples to have survived without a major character change.

There are three packages that have a major impact on the car's mission, and all directly change the configuration of the rear seating area.

But even with a large area to report and subscribers in a variety of locations, the need to adapt to the changing landscape was just as important for this paper as it was for any major news source.

Major advancements in the methods of a mostly mechanical pre-press area have now changed to a completely computerized book design department.

Fundamentally it seems to me that a major earthquake would change the value of the actual area significantly in a way a fire or flood would not.

Changes identified include pancreatic enlargement, changes in echogenicity of the pancreas (hypoechogenicity is generally believed to be an indication of pancreatic necrosis and hyperechogenicity that of pancreatic fibrosis) and of peripancreatic fat (hyperechogenicity of the peripancreatic fat is generally believed to indicate peripancreatic fat necrosis), fluid accumulation around the pancreas, a mass effect in the area of the pancreas, a dilated pancreatic duct, and a swollen major duodenal pChanges identified include pancreatic enlargement, changes in echogenicity of the pancreas (hypoechogenicity is generally believed to be an indication of pancreatic necrosis and hyperechogenicity that of pancreatic fibrosis) and of peripancreatic fat (hyperechogenicity of the peripancreatic fat is generally believed to indicate peripancreatic fat necrosis), fluid accumulation around the pancreas, a mass effect in the area of the pancreas, a dilated pancreatic duct, and a swollen major duodenal pchanges in echogenicity of the pancreas (hypoechogenicity is generally believed to be an indication of pancreatic necrosis and hyperechogenicity that of pancreatic fibrosis) and of peripancreatic fat (hyperechogenicity of the peripancreatic fat is generally believed to indicate peripancreatic fat necrosis), fluid accumulation around the pancreas, a mass effect in the area of the pancreas, a dilated pancreatic duct, and a swollen major duodenal papilla.

Major depression has been shown in imaging studies to produce changes in neural activity or volume in areas of the brain which regulate aggressive and other behaviors.

Occasionally, we have to make a «significant change» before departure such as a change of accommodation to that of a lower official classification or standard for the whole or a major part of the time you are away, a change of accommodation area for the whole or a major part of the time you are away, a change of outward departure time or overall length of time you are away of twelve or more hours, a change of UK departure point to one which is significantly more inconvenient for you or a significant change of itinerary missing out one or more major destination substantially or altogether.

And today, contemporary visual artists and critics from New York and other major metropolitan areas, who have been and continue to be at the forefront of a progressive, changing art world - Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Rudy Burkhardt, Jonathan Borofsky, Kenneth Noland, Neil Welliver, Robert Indiana, Lucy Lippard, William Wegman - come to Maine to refocus and refresh their work in an inspiring landscape.

A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said «We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.»

There is something in this tool for all of the major sectoral areas interested in planning for greater resilience in the face of a changing climate.»

A significant consideration when examining specific instrument sites is whether the area surrounding the candidate instrument site has a high degree of probability of continuing in its present condition, without major changes for very long periods of time (50 to 100 years).

An apparently small change in just one aspect of the ocean's behaviour can produce major climate variations over large areas of the earth.

Given projected increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the Midwest (Chapter 2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 6), 57 it appears that sewer overflow will continue to constitute a significant current health threat and a critical source of climate change vulnerability for major urban areas within the Midwest.

We do need to invest in infrastructure in the face of the climate change we've already locked in, and if we don't simultaneously radically lower our emissions, and that by the way has huge implications for the industry that is the dominant industry in precisely the areas that are being hardest hit, the oil and gas industry, which is a major economic engine in Texas and Louisiana, and specifically in some of the areas that are being hardest hit, which is a whole other layer of risk that we have seen very little about.

Given the rapid climatic changes affecting the region, the identification of taxa and geographic areas in the Southern Ocean that are likely to be the most affected by climate and oceanographic changes should, therefore, be a major priority to enable the best use of limited funds and resources and to highlight the early signs of any changes.

«In light of previously suggested driving mechanisms, our analysis renders two of the prime suspects, i.e. landscape [9, 18, 20] and climate change [15, 18, 21, 37], as UNLIKELY explanatory factors for this major decline in aerial insect biomass in the investigated protected areas.»

Urban areas are both greatly affected by the impacts of climate change and major contributors to the emission of greenhouse gases.

Since the millenium, exceptionally strong storms have prevailed globally, oceans are covering once habitable islands, Beijing is suffocating, 100 year and 150 year floods are frequent, major aquifers have been depleted (the Salton Sea is drying up), weather patterns have changed drastically, winters in the S.E.states are definitely experiencing drastically warmer averages (some areas only 10 - 14 nights of freezing temp vs. 1970 28 - 30 nights of freezing temp).

Geoarchaeological evidence of marshland destruction in the area of Rungholt, present - day Wadden Sea around Hallig Südfall (North Frisia, Germany), by the Grote Mandrenke in 1362 AD Geophysical and geoarchaeological investigations were carried out in the Wadden Sea of North Frisia (Schleswig - Holstein, Germany) to elucidate major environmental changes that considerably altered the coastal landscape since medieval times.

Or the efforts of major metropolitan areas like San Francisco, New York, and Seattle to plan resilient strategies for a changing climate.