Sentences with phrase «more widespread changes»

Although any one strategy could influence a selected portion of teacher education, the strategies are working in tandem to produce more widespread change.

In this case, it is our hope to expand on these ideas to create more widespread change throughout the state.

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That trend shows no sign of changing as automation becomes more widespread — and many predict the number of jobs will shrink by a large number.

Proposed changes to the legislation introduced on Monday may actually lead to even more widespread coverage losses.

«The bright line on a map is an illusion,» he said, particularly in flat places like Houston, where a slight change in flood waters can result in far more widespread inundation.

A survey of more than 5,500 business leaders from all over the world from the 2016 Global Opportunity Report revealed widespread support of the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals, including the ones relating directly to climate change (SDG 7, 11 and 13).

Security experts worry that these types of attacks will become more widespread if mobile phone operators do not make significant changes to their security procedures.

We are already caught up in a process of cultural change more rapid, more deeply rooted and more widespread than ever before in human history.

This is a dramatic change from the widespread assumption of the past hundred years or more that smoking cigarettes is a remedy for respiratory problems and one of the surest ways to extend life expectancy.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The certainties of Christianity's past have gone, and we are caught up in a process of cultural change more rapid and widespread than ever before in human history.

The extremely widespread conviction that such a change of direction is impossible makes this reversal still more difficult.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Since I am (as you now know from last week's Civil Eats post) more of a realist than an idealist, I'm not especially hopeful that our elected officials will suddenly find the courage to defy Big Food — and forgo its campaign contributions — nor am I hopeful that industry will change its ways voluntarily on a widespread basis.

More recently, the Welfare Reform Act, which received Royal Assent in March 2012, attracted widespread criticism during its troubled passage through Parliament, with the changes relating to disability benefits being particularly controversial.

Scientists are finding more evidence that commonly prescribed antidepressants aren't effective in people battling both depression and a chronic medical disease, raising a critical question of whether doctors should enact widespread changes in how they treat millions of depressed Americans.

Among proposed changes: more widespread adoption of so - called no - till farming, a practice that involves leaving unharvested crop stalks and other plant matter behind in the field undisturbed by plows and other soil - agitating instruments.

Looking beyond the 2030 timescale of the SDGs, scenario analysis highlights that continuation of past and current trends in drivers of change will inhibit the contribution of the region to the widespread achievement of the SDGs, while scenarios which focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature's contributions to people and incorporate a diversity of values are more likely to contribute to achieving the majority of the SDGs.

But the field began to change as molecular biology techniques became widespread, and an incident with the antihistamine drug Seldane (terfenadine) in 1992 galvanized the research community to pay more attention to drug interactions.

«The totality of evidence clearly indicates that the more widespread and appropriate utilization of statins, as adjuncts, not alternatives to therapeutic lifestyle changes, will yield net benefits in the treatment and primary prevention of heart attacks and strokes, including among high, medium and low risk patients unwilling or unable to adopt therapeutic lifestyle changes,» said Hennekens.

Given that trees play a key role in keeping carbon dioxide levels in check, widespread die - offs could exacerbate the climate change that caused them — and render the Southwest's terrain even more desolate.

If the same processes and threshold govern the future, their results suggest that more widespread die - offs of aspen forests triggered by climate change are likely by the 2050s.

«Our studies clearly show that widespread species have a much more diverse intraspecific gene pool than species that are adapted to a specific habitat,» explains Dr. Jan Christian Habel of the Technical University in Munich, and he continues, «Once these animals — due to the fragmentation of their habitats — lose the opportunity to maintain this genetic diversity by means of exchange, they will no longer be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions in the future.»

Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists — a finding that could provide critical insights into which ecosystems must be managed with extra care because they are vulnerable to biodiversity loss and which ecosystems are more resilient to widespread tree removal.

Heart muscle changes are more common and widespread in runners with lower fitness and less training, according to new study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology

But preliminary research has not shown any evidence of genetic changes, and the government of Saudi Arabia, where most of the new cases occur, says the sudden upswing is mostly the result of more widespread testing.

As the same volume of water now has to pass through a narrower channel, high tides rise higher, causing deeper and more widespread floods (Global and Planetary Change, doi.org/s8h).

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

Climate change is causing the widespread thawing and degradation of permafrost, subsurface soil or rock that remains frozen for two or more consecutive years.

The increasing burden of CVD in developed and developing countries underscores the need for more widespread therapeutic lifestyle changes as well as the adjunctive use of drug therapies of proven net benefit in the primary prevention of CVD.

«We observed widespread changes in gene expression profiles in more than 4000 genes following nanoparticle exposure, something that had not been reported on previously,» say first authors Jake Carrow and Lauren Cross.

Wildfires are becoming more common and widespread as temperatures rise and large parts of the U.S. become drier — a trend likely to worsen thanks to manmade climate change.

«Therefore, the change point in forest damage in 1990 may at least partially be due to the strongest storms having more widespread gusts with wind speeds exceeding 42 m / s», says Hilppa Gregow.

In Patagonia, analysis of glacier area and length changes shows that recession is widespread (90.2 % have retreated since 1870), is more rapid in smaller land - terminating glaciers, and that rates of recession are accelerating.

Yet those films were addressing micro-issues that can be targeted much more easily than a widespread issue like climate change.

Not only is that more appealing to modern sensibilities, it's justified within its 19th century setting because of a widespread zombie uprising in England that has changed expectations for how proper young ladies should conduct themselves.

For the success being seen now with «Black Panther» to translate into widespread industry change, Boyd believes it's going to take more than just diverse blockbusters that make money hand over vibranium - clawed fist.

Second, despite a decade of calls by everyone from leading educators to leaders in the business community to shift our schooling from fact - based learning structured by academic disciplines to one that develops creative, flexible thinkers using a more interdisciplinary approach, this change is still not happening in any widespread way.

For 2016, a «new and more challenging» programme of study has been announced, featuring a number of key changes and additions which have been met with widespread uncertainty.

By adding pockets of change that link firmly to our vision into the timetabled curriculum, assessment reform can become more widespread in our school.

To enable more widespread, successful turnarounds in education, state and district leaders need to focus on two critical policy changes.

«By adding pockets of change that link firmly to our vision into the timetabled curriculum, assessment reform can become more widespread...»

For all these reasons and more, we haven't seen the widespread changes President Obama or his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, might have hoped for when they made teacher evaluation one of their signature policies.

Then, nearly all U.S. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom.

Last month it was revealed more than half a million pounds of public money is to be spent on explaining the new numerical system, following widespread confusion over what the changes mean in real terms.

The European ebook market has made headlines recently for some of the myriad changes being made to bookselling practices — particularly in book price matching and VAT — that will hopefully make digital reading a more widespread practice, and with greater access to digital content through partnerships such as this one greater demand for ebook accessibility will follow.

And, while it usually takes at least 12 months for any increase or decrease in interest rates to be felt in a widespread economic way, the market's response to a change (or news of a potential change) is often more immediate.

However, redoing it would likely see widespread changes to valuations and risk some paying substantially more (others less).

A new phenomenon of widespread negative equity — homeowners owing more on their mortgage than the underlying property is worth — has wrought a sea change in borrower behavior.

Orange County kills 10,811 dogs and cats each year but that number could be cut by more than a third if commissioners make widespread changes in their animal control department, a committee says.The group has recommended a new animal control ordinance that would allow animal control to handle pet adoptions and let workers ignore anonymous complaints about barking dogs and stray cats.

Veterinarians, pet - shop owners and humane society officials said Tuesday that widespread changes proposed for Orange County's animal control law could do more harm than good.Those changes were first unveiled in November by the county's animal control committee.Commissioners took no vote on the proposal, which would add 80 pages to the county's 14 - page animal control ordinance, but will discuss the matter Monday.Several of the speakers praised the county's animal control committee for working hard on the proposal, but said some of its changes were uninformed and unreasonable.