Sentences with phrase «most significant activity»

«I believe that the human spaceflight program is in the long run possibly the most significant activity in which our nation is engaged.»

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Most small businesses spend 6 hours per week or more on social media activities, but a significant amount also spend 11 to 20 hours per week.

The company generates most of its revenue in Western Australia, which has seen a significant downturn in economic activity in recent years.

And then, just to clarify, I know this was a big discussion topic kind of intra-quarter, but which of your non-U.S. countries have the most significant amount of pricing that are done in dollars, and has there been any material amount of discounting or extra competitive activity in these countries just given how much other currencies have depreciated versus the dollar in recent months?

The second, probably the most significant, feature of Malayarayan religion was that, many aspects of existence, agricultural activities, physical health, social well - being were blended with it.

In the last installment of the «fraternal war between my brother and me,» titled «The Only Way Into the Kingdom of God,» H. Richard says that the most significant issue between himself and his brother is not inactivity versus activity, as the essays» titles misleadingly imply.

Recent works report that inflow and outflow activities were most significant eleven billion years ago (at redshift ~ 2), and were about a hundred times more active relative to those in the local universe.

«One of the most notable differentiating factors is, while septic or arthritic knees usually come with significant pain, knee effusions caused by Lyme disease are often very large, not activity - related, and mostly pain - free.»

Although wearable devices have received significant attention for their ability to track an individual's physical activity, most smartphone applications are just as accurate, according to a new research letter in JAMA.

According to the literature review led by Nationwide Children's Hospital Sports Medicine, most causes of low back pain in this population are benign; however the effect of low back pain can be significant, affecting daily activities such as school attendance and participation in gym class or other athletic activities.

NIH research fuels the pipeline of discovery and innovation necessary to prevent, treat and cure our most vexing diseases and it has a significant economic impact, supporting more than 350,000 jobs across the United States and contributing some $ 60 billion annually in economic activity....

The most significant changes were found in the temporal and prefrontal lobes, which control the physical activities, attention, and motor control.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

In their most recent study, conducted on a nationwide scale, psychologists Andrea Taylor and Frances Kuo have found that children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder, or ADHD, experienced a significant reduction in symptoms after they participated in activities in green settings.

Hi Laura, as with diastasis recti, one of the most important things to consider with an umbilical hernia is whether or not the activity creates a significant increase in intra-abdominal pressure.

Research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Center for AIDS Research has found significant evidence that the acetic acid found in vinegar provides powerful disinfectant activity against even the most resistant bacterial strains (19).

P. maliformis leaf methanol extract was shown to have the most significant source of TPC, and strongest antioxidant activity.

Most of the statistical significant changes regarding students» acculturation orientations are related to the domain of school activities, which means that their participation in the project and activities of the program had a direct impact on this dimension, without being extrapolated to the other dimensions.

For nearly half of those surveyed (45 per cent) the most significant concern was business dictating education policy, and 36 per cent were also highly concerned at teacher activities being outsourced.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

Enter Mattel's «Thunder Burp» Machine Gun.3 The most significant thing about this toy is that children's play shifted from the activity of play to being focused on the toy itself.

So intense has the legislative interest been that the National Conference of State Legislatures cites early - childhood education and child care as the «most significant new areas of legislative activity in education in 1985.»

Each perspective here is correct: students are routinely bored at most significant educational leadership activities, and teachers are often underwhelmed or frustrated by students» disinterest in opportunities to change their education.

It found, among other things, that charge card activity is the single most significant element analyzed by credit reporting agencies when determining credit history.

Most of its smartphone activity came in the later part of the year and was criticized for a significant amount of overlap, where the delayed Droid Bionic shipped in September only to be supplemented by the more advanced Droid RAZR just two months later, triggering confusion as well as resentment from early adopters who bought the Bionic.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says significant regional differences in home construction will be apparent over the coming years, with slower activity in most areas dragging down overall construction in 2016 and 2017.

If you're trying to improve your credit, these tools can give you an idea of the activities that will result in the most significant increase in your credit score.

The study concluded «removal of shoes at the door and the activity level of the children and pets were the most significant factors affecting residue levels indoors after application.»

For people living in apartments in New York City, I think size, noise, and activity level are probably the most significant things to evaluate when choosing dogs.

«Electromagnetic pollution may be the most significant form of pollution human activity has produced in this century, all the more dangerous because it is invisible and insensible.»

The last significant volcanic eruption, the Capelinhos volcano (Vulcão dos Capelinhos), occurred off the coast of the island of Faial in 1957; the most recent volcanic activity occurred in the seamounts and submarine volcanoes off the coast of Serreta and in the Pico - São Jorge Channel.

Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim will explore not only avant - garde innovations from the late 19th through mid-20th centuries, but also the radical activities of six patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day.

Assembling many of the foundation's most iconic works along with treasures by artists less familiar, this celebratory exhibition explores avant - garde innovations of the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, as well as the groundbreaking activities of six pioneering arts patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day and established the Guggenheim Foundation's identity as a forward - looking institution.

Without suspecting the dimensions that this act would come to acquire, she thereby initiated an activity that she has maintained until the present day, and which has gained in passion, professionalism and tenacity, three qualities which have enabled her to amass Spain's most significant private collection of international contemporary art and one of the most important in Europe.

This collaboration's extensive representation of artistic activity including painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, installation, video, cartooning, and filmmaking made by today's most significant and innovative artists showcases Chicago, LA, Mexico City, and Vancouver as vibrant and diverse centers for art.

Among other themes, it highlights royal patronage, luxury industries, and the dynamism of cultural activity, which found in book production one of its most significant moments.

Beginning with a core of works by artists who in some way are tied to the Museum's history — be they present in collections or part of some of the most significant events that have distinguished the Castello's thirty years of activity — the investigation is broadened to include others who, in the recent past, have proven to be, with their works, decisive for newer generations of artists.

Last week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 10 other leading world bodies expressed the consensus view that «there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring» and that «It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities».

Those main conclusions are that climate is changing in ways unusual against the backdrop of natural variability; that human activities are responsible for most of this unusual change; that significant harm to human well - being is already occurring as a result; and that far larger --- perhaps catastrophic — damages will ensue if serious remedial action is not started soon.

Now, try your assertion the other way around: We have pumped out a significant fraction of the pollution that some of the most devastating activities the world has inflicted on life in it's entire history.

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

I have been keeping notes on significant cold weather anomalies since appox 2014 and I will paste them below, obviously the low solar activity is the principle cause of these anomalies but does human activity such as pollution - aerosals that humans emit make the conditions worse — that can not be proven but it's obvious that most of the climate change, whether it's cooling or warming is natural not»cause d' by human activity.

«A peer - reviewed paper [Krivova et al.] published in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that reconstructions of total solar irradiance (TSI) show a significant increase since the Maunder minimum in the 1600's during the Little Ice Age and shows further increases over the 19th and 20th centuries... Use of the Stefan - Boltzmann equation indicates that a 1.25 W / m2 increase in solar activity could account for an approximate.44 C global temperature increase... A significant new finding is that portions of the more energetic ultraviolet region of the solar spectrum increased by almost 50 % over the 400 years since the Maunder minimum... This is highly significant because the UV portion of the solar spectrum is the most important for heating of the oceans due to the greatest penetration beyond the surface and highest energy levels.

published in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that reconstructions of total solar irradiance (TSI) show a significant increase since the Maunder minimum in the 1600's during the Little Ice Age and shows further increases over the 19th and 20th centuries... Use of the Stefan - Boltzmann equation indicates that a 1.25 W / m2 increase in solar activity could account for an approximate.44 C global temperature increase... A significant new finding is that portions of the more energetic ultraviolet region of the solar spectrum increased by almost 50 % over the 400 years since the Maunder minimum... This is highly significant because the UV portion of the solar spectrum is the most important for heating of the oceans due to the greatest penetration beyond the surface and highest energy levels.

The most significant threats to arctic marine mammals comprise loss of sea ice habitat and its associated highly productive food web along with the increase in anthropogenic activities at high latitudes (Ragen et al. 2008).

This is in strong contrast with the current position of the US National Academy of Sciences:»... there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring... It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities... The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action.»

The proxy record is clear that only long periods with well below average solar activity are associated with significant cooling, and the Sun just had a clear above average activity period that lasted most of the 20th century (from about 1930 to about 2005).

For example one of the most significant climate forcing is cloud activity, which acts as a negative feedback.

The most common of these gases and thought to be the most significant greenhouse gas is water vapour but it's one on which human activity has little effect.

If you plot average annual temperatures on Earth, solar cycles and mankind's supposed most significant climate altering activity, the burning of fossil fuels, the solar cycles and temperatures match and the use of fossil fuels seems to be unrelated.