Sentences with phrase «new regional study»

A new regional study shows that land - use policies in Peru have been key to tempering rain forest degradation and destruction in that country.

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In the 2013 JD Power & Associates Auto Insurance Study, Nationwide ranked «Average» at best in the regional categories, and even below average in the state of New York.

With the rise of new generations with the relevant academic expertise since the beginning of the 1990s, there have been new types of studies into the regional dynamics of the Gulf area (Nonneman 2001).

The study is being conducted through the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, a regional transportation planning organization mandated by the federal government that identifies, plans and seeks federal funding for such projects.

Buffalo Billion Projects: The budget will include money to study and design a MetroRail extension to Amherst, and will fund new tourism visitor centers on Buffalo's Outer Harbor and a Niagara Falls / Buffalo regional center on Grand Island.

Many regional studies, especially in the United States, have shown agricultural pollution to be a prime source of fine - particulate precursors, but the new study is one of the first to look at the phenomenon worldwide and to project future trends.

Therefore, according to the researchers, it has so far been difficult to pinpoint the effects, but the new - generation regional earth system models now enable such an impact study to be performed.

Prof Hui says while the current article took an invasive moth species as case study, the new theorem is applicable to the financial world, ecologists working on regional scale invasions or threatened species, as well as any biologist working with time - series data.

Unlike in previous studies, the study behind this new publication looked at the regional density shifts of species during different decades, starting from the 1970s.

A new study method also takes into account regional shifts in population density.

After seeing the regional effects in this new study, she agrees that the toxic element likely comes from outside the U.S. «We see for other types of pollutants that [the Rocky Mountain region] tends to be more influenced by nonlocal sources because of its higher elevation — it has access to the free tropospheric air,» she says.

But immigrants from Latin America are less likely to have those requests granted than are immigrants from other regions, according to a new study conducted by scholars at MIT and Brown University — a study that also suggests a potential remedy for this problem, by finding that this regional disparity does not exist when officials examine cases in greater detail.

The new study is one of the first to provide a global accounting of regional and local water impacts, taking into account seasonal changes and different types of intervention, including water withdrawals, reservoir regulation, land - use change, and irrigation.

A new study presented today at the IOF Regionals 4th Asia - Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting in Hong Kong supports widespread evidence that individuals who have suffered a fracture are at significantly increased risk of subsequent hip fractures.

A new study from the University of Exeter has revealed that the Central African country of Gabon is providing an invaluable nesting ground for a vulnerable species of sea turtle considered a regional conservation priority.

Pregnant women on Medicaid are more likely to receive timely prenatal care following Oregon's implementation of coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, which are regional networks of health care providers who work together to treat patients, a new study has shown.

A new study from an international team led by UA scientists Matthew Sullivan, Jennifer Brum, Simon Roux and Julio Cesar Ignacio Espinoza draws on viral genome data to explain how oceanic viral communities maintain high regional diversity on par with global diversity.

Late - Holocene climate variability in southern New Zealand: A multi-proxy study of laminated lake sediments from Lake Ohau to reconstruct regional climate Heidi Roop, Marcus Vandergoes, Richard Levy, Gavin Dunbar, Sean Fitzsimons, Jamie Howarth, Bob Ditchburn, Gary Wilson, Jennifer Purdie

After completing his studies, Ellis moved to New York City, where he began working in off - Broadway and regional theater.

Compelling research on CTE recently doubled with the release of a new study of regional vocational and technical high schools (RVTS) in Massachusetts.

New Jersey taxpayers could save an estimated $ 123 million annually if the state converted most of its regional high school districts into K - 12 districts, according to a study by a Rutgers University researcher.

Analysis from the New Schools Network has found stark regional differences in the proportion of pupils studying A-levels in local state schools in England.

Boston — The overall quality of New England's colleges and universities is slipping because of «a fundamental weakening» of public schools that has resulted in students who can not «think critically,» according to a regional study conducted by the New England Board of Higher Education.

Dr. Klein Friedman has served New York City students since the mid 1970s as a teacher of special education and reading in elementary, middle and high schools; staff development trainer; principal; director of literacy and social studies; regional director of academic intervention services and local instructional superintendent; director of secondary school reform, director of academic intervention services, director of a Supplemental Educational Services program internal to the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE); interim superintendent; and currently as executive director of literacy and academic intervention services at NYCDOE.

Following the study, all four school boards, the regionalization committee, three local governing bodies, the Hunterdon County freeholders, four school administrators and the state Department of Education unanimously endorsed the dissolution of all four school districts and creation of one new regional school district.

Isuzu's VehiCross sport - utility vehicle, which made a big splash at the New York auto show, is being studied for a potential U.S. launch.The silver two - door sport - utility vehicle is making the rounds of regional auto shows and focus groups, along with a cadre of American Isuzu product planners and market researchers, to test consumer reaction.

We focus on New England regional books in the areas of history, art, nature studies, and poetry,...

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The new research is a regional climate study of historical sea level pressures, winds and temperatures over the eastern Pacific Ocean and draws no conclusions about climate change on a global scale.

These facts suggest that the temperature trend most likely occurred through natural changes in regional climate dynamics, the new study concludes.

The new study takes a top - down approach, measuring what is actually present in the atmosphere and then using meteorological data and statistical analysis to trace it back to regional sources.

Prior to blogging, Zach received a bachelor's degree in sociology and environmental studies from Florida's honors college, New College of Florida, and then a master's degree in city & regional planning from UNC — Chapel Hill, the top graduate program in the nation for land use planning.

The massive new study, involving 80 researchers from around the world with the Past Global Changes (PAGES) group, is the first to look at continental temperature changes over two thousand years, providing insights into regional climatic changes from the Roman Empire to the modern day.

(05/01/2013) Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

One of the two new studies said regional brightening already has an impact on certain parts of the planet.

The new revision 3 (Easterling et al. 1996) data represent the best available data from the United States for analyzing long - term climate trends on a regional scale and may be used for studies attempting to determine the climatic impacts of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases.

A new study released Friday in the journal Science Advances helps clear up a bit of the mystery, by showing that man - made climate change is responsible for most of the change seen in ocean surface temperatures near the equator across Asia, which in turn affect regional rainfall patterns including the Indian monsoon.

With a drier future and higher regional temperatures amplifying possible late - century droughts, the situation presents a major adaptation challenge for managing the region's water needs, explains Ault, who along with lead author Benjamin Cook and Jason Smerdon, both of NASA, published their new study, «Unprecedented 21st Century Drought Risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains Drought Risk in Western North America.»

A recent analysis [1] by Dr Luke Harrington and Dr Friederike Otto of climateprediction.net introduces a new framework, adapted from studies of probabilistic event attribution, to disentangle the relative importance of regional climate emergence and changing population dynamics in the exposure to future heat extremes across multiple densely populated regions in Southern Asia and Eastern Africa (SAEA).

Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University,...

«Greenland ice takes on a new role in the climate change story, not just indicating change and contributing to sea level rise, but possibly playing an important role in destabilizing regional if not global ocean circulation that naturally exchanges heat north - south,» said Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, and a study co-author, in an email to Mashable.

«In the early 1990s, climatologists from NCDC and the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) undertook a new initiative aimed at creating a dataset appropriate for the study of climate change at both global and regional scales.

Mr. Woolf has reviewed and critiqued utility energy efficiency programs and policies in more than a dozen states and Canadian provinces — including Arkansas, British Columbia, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Nova Scotia, Rhode Island, Québec, and Vermont — and has led several national and regional studies addressing energy efficiency program and policy issues.

An ISO New England study found that as the fuel mix shifted toward natural gas, regional emissions dropped 91 percent for sulfur dioxide and 56 percent for nitrogen oxide (as well as 22 percent for carbon dioxide) between 2006 and 2015.

Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies.

In our new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we discuss how the scientific community is making progress towards detecting human - induced change in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challenges.

In our study, we discuss how new ways of identifying changes in regional rainfall are beginning to show some success, even in the presence of imperfect models and measurements.

This new work will couple field studies of microclimate and tree establishment and growth with regional climate modeling and spatial models of plant population and fire dynamics.

Project Manager / Urban Designer / Senior Planner with more than 20 + years of increasingly responsible public and private sector positions in architecture, urban design, Industrial design, design management, Sustainable design, new urbanism, regional and transportation planning, alternative analyses and operational / financial feasibility studies.

Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC) 05/2007 — 01/2010 Imaging Science and Information Systems Center — Insert Title • Train, supervise, and assure the work quality of a team of 3 - 6 regional analysts • Write analytical summaries of open source collections of biological threats and other national security threats • Develop and refine indication and warning methodologies and taxonomies for biological and radiological threats • Offer guidance and expertise on intelligence community interagency fusion cell for H1N1 «swine flu» • Assist in research and development work on plant health project • Conduct case studies on state and non-state actor biological weapons programs and orphan source radiological incidents • Participate in multi-agency tracking of nuclear proliferation activities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East • Perform project lead duties, participate in the selection process of new employees, and assist with performance appraisals • Awarded the National Intelligence Medallion for organizational work on Project Argus