Not exact matches
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation
over our business and the potential
effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism,
natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer
time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger;
effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.
Turmeric powder is very safe to consume but side
effects can occur when very high quantities are consumed
over a long duration of
time continuously — and can be from supplements which have been manipulated by technology with the turmeric no longer in its
natural form.
At the same
time, I can honestly say I'm probably more stressed and sleep deprived now as a mom of six than I was in college and
over the last few years I have researched and evaluated several
natural types of nootropics for their
effect on cognitive performance (without the negative side
effects of smart drugs).
First of all, the less of any sweetener you can use, the better... if you can slowly
over time adjust your taste buds to enjoy the
natural taste of foods and drink without the need for heavily sweetening them, you'll see many benefits for your body including maintaining more stable blood sugar and insulin levels, managing your body weight, and reducing inflammatory
effects of too much sugars and artificial sweeteners.
Natural antibiotics are too mild to clear up SIBO by themselves but
over time as part of a good diet antimicrobial herbs can have good
effects.
Applying effortlessly to skin, the bouncy, weightless texture blends seamlessly, and promotes micro-circulation to create a
natural blush
effect over time.
However, with
natural management with proper diet, exercise, and supplementation, you can minimize the deleterious
effects of diabetes on the body, while minimizing insulin doses, which tend to otherwise progressively increase
over time.
The artist explores the residual
effects of
natural phenomena and human intervention on the landscape
over time and how these forces shape cultures and identities.
American photographer ANDREW MOORE (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken
over many years, which record the
effect of
time on the
natural and built landscape.
She is a
natural fit, joining our program of artists who have worked to rewrite historical inaccuracies, expose the continued
effect and violence of colonization, and visualize the bodies of those who have been systematically erased or ignored
over the course of
time.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/quikscat-20071001.html In other words, we read in the press that this melt was caused by global warming
effects exceeding projections, but it would be more factual to say we are seeing
natural effects superimposed on global warming
effects over a pretty short
time frame
over which projections aren't specifically made.
Also, due to the multiplicity of anthropogenic and
natural effects on the climate
over this
time (i.e. aerosols, land - use change, greenhouse gases, ozone changes, solar, volcanic etc.) it is difficult to accurately define the forcings.
This provides good results and shows a notable slowdown — but only since 2004, and probably the change
over such a short period of
time is mainly due to
natural fluctuations and in itself hardly reveals anything about the possible
effects of climate change.
The Clean Power Plan increases
natural gas use significantly relative to baseline at the start of Clean Power Plan implementation, but this
effect fades
over time as renewables and efficiency programs increasingly become the dominant compliance strategies.
Whether the suppositions it makes that there is a cause and
effect underpinned by mans activities are accurate or not will take more
time to elapse and a better understanding of the
natural processes
over many centuries to evolve..
Over short periods of
time natural variability such as from ENSO for example, can create short term
effects that run contrary to the longer term trend of increasing ocean heat content and higher tropospheric temperatures.
Given that the
effect of human emission (positive flux) and remediation (negative flux) is distributed
over the entire planet and multiple years, small differences in spacial location or
time within the year will make no more difference than differences in the larger
natural sources and sinks.
It doesn't mean that there can't be any
natural variability that appears as wobbles in the temperature record (or in other climate variables), masking the multi-decadal temperature trend
over a
time scale shorter than 20 years with the
effect that the longer term trend is not statistically detectable in the
time series, if one chooses the
time period only short enough.
Jan Perlwitz says:» It doesn't mean that there can't be any
natural variability that appears as wobbles in the temperature record (or in other climate variables), masking the multi-decadal temperature trend
over a
time scale shorter than 20 years with the
effect that the longer term trend is not statistically detectable in the
time series, if one chooses the
time period only short enough.»
The difference is that
natural effects average out to zero (as you showed earlier)
over longer
time periods.
However each
natural component,
over the given
time period (e.g. multiple of years to eliminate seasonal
effects), must either be a net emitter, net sink or neutral.
If they are not conservative and cumulative
effects to simulate future climate, they should be removed from the data and the simulation must start from a base temperature to disregard such
effects, since these are
natural and variables, up and down, nothing can be said that the basis for the temperature increase generated by CO2 go preserve these values, it can be beyond the
natural variation
over time, a return to a point below the current source.
Which raises the dilemma: if whatever
natural effects were driving temperatures up until 1950 can not be explained, then how can anyone say with confidence that this mystery
effect just stops after 1950, conveniently at the exact same
time anthropogenic warming «takes
over»?
That means that no matter what the individual flows were, even if these are 100 or 1000
times the emissions, the net
effect of all
natural flows
over a year, and certainly
over several years, is a net loss of CO2 out of the atmosphere.