Sentences with phrase «not on any significant scale»

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Keep in mind that even if you do not have significant demand for a co-work space, you should still pursue the idea on a smaller scale.

The latter two didn't appear to be significant indicators of depression and, predictably, depressed participants» photos were ranked higher on the «sadness» scale.

Start with a showcase and by working on a small model, show what you can do; something that is manageable but makes a significant impact, if not on a large scale but even a village or a house.

The utopian dream of the free thinkers from Santa Monica to Riga and Tel Aviv of an anonymous community Digital Autonomous Organization, DAO currencies, managed by the membership will not happen on any significant scale while central banks exist.

«Various reports say that the Bank of Israel said at a meeting with foreign banks that it does not plan intervening in the foreign currency trading market on a significant scale and this persuaded the banks that the shekel was about to strengthen.

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

I simply am not convinced that change can be achieved on any significant scale.

Small improvements on the behaviour scales for crying and inconsolable crying were not statistically significant.

The 13 - point swing to Labour is not on the same scale as those of Crewe & Nantwich in 2008 or Wirral South in 1997 — but it means a comfortable victory for the opposition and would mean a significant overall majority for Ed Miliband if repeated at a general election.

Without a program like 421 - a, one can't build multi-family rental housing with a significant below - market, or affordable, component on a scale necessary to address the City's needs,» said REBNY President John Banks, though he echoed Mr. LaBarbera's suggestion of a new system of some kind.

Clearly, this is not evidence of entryism on a significant scale.

Cahill said he is «not opposed to the Nevele casino project» and believes «that the destination resort setting is the most appropriate and that a project on the scale of what is proposed for the Nevele could be a significant boost for the local economy, particularly the greater Ellenville area.»

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

It's «nice chemistry,» says marine chemist Jeffrey Bada of the University of California (UC), San Diego, but he is not convinced that hydrothermal vents, or any other likely habitat on early Earth, could have provided the conditions created in the lab: «The processes outlined are not likely to take place on a significant scale on the Earth or elsewhere.»

The results were even more auspicious when the investigators stratified vaccinated subjects by antibody responder status: subjects who successfully mounted an immunological response to the vaccine enjoyed statistically significant benefits as measured with the IGA, the two motor function subscales of the MDS - UPDRS, and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ - 39) of quality of life (though not on the PD Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire (NMS - Quest / PD - NMS)-RRB-, while no benefit was observed in nonresponders on any scale (Table 1).

You may have large - scale RNA - Seq data, and don't know whether technical effects are relevant; or you may have large grouped cohorts of DNA - Seq data, and need to narrow down your variant list to a few significant ones, associated with disease; or you may want to do an integrated study on a dataset containing RNA and ChIP - Seq samples.

(Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray all Coen staples, were also the adult cast of Moonrise Kingdom) As the two filmmakers working today that do not operate in franchises or sequels, but still make popular entertainment on a significant scale, they feel like increasingly rare birds in the American movie landscape.

And what these studies found is yes, there is an influence, it's a significant influence, it's not huge but in a usual task where we're assigning grades, it might amount to four or five points on a zero to 100 scale.

In round one, however, scores only changed by 4.6 points on average after the interviews, not a significant margin on the 500 - point grading scale.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

In music, students averaged 150 on a scale of 300 eight years ago, and last year the average score was 147 — not a statistically significant difference.

Amazon had expected Monday's 8.9 - inch Kindle Fire HD sale to clear out significant inventory; that it's running the same promotion (albeit on a smaller scale) suggests that perhaps that goal wasn't met.

Due to such a short tenure, he does not have a significant track record with student loans on the federal scale.

If something isn't done, the student loan crisis could quickly evolve into a full scale mental and physical health crisis that will have significant consequences on millennials as a generation.

Frankly, Argo's future as an asset manager can't depend (solely) on performance & client / AUM retention — ultimately, success requires fresh fund - raising on a significant scale.

On Tuesday afternoon I received a copy of the Inspector General's audit of the APHIS Animal Care Program — Inspections of Problematic Dealers. This report was not based on a handful of breeders, either. In fact, the report looks at 4,250 violators. The inspection was spurred by significant media coverage concerning large - scale dog dealers (i.e., breeders and brokers), animal rights groups, Congress and the publiOn Tuesday afternoon I received a copy of the Inspector General's audit of the APHIS Animal Care Program — Inspections of Problematic Dealers. This report was not based on a handful of breeders, either. In fact, the report looks at 4,250 violators. The inspection was spurred by significant media coverage concerning large - scale dog dealers (i.e., breeders and brokers), animal rights groups, Congress and the publion a handful of breeders, either. In fact, the report looks at 4,250 violators. The inspection was spurred by significant media coverage concerning large - scale dog dealers (i.e., breeders and brokers), animal rights groups, Congress and the public.

According to Eurogamer, Playground is hiring on significant numbers of new staff to get ready for full - scale production on the new Fable project (read: don't expect a release date or even an official announcement anytime soon).

«He was always immensely enthusiastic about her work, but it became clear working on the exhibition what a significant influence she had been on his — not just in his use of colour, which is widely acknowledged, but her judgment about his work, about scale, about materials, about what worked and what didn't, was absolutely spot on.»

All of the Abstract Expressionists created significant works on paper, not to mention Conrad Marca - Relli's very powerful large - scale collages made with canvas and mixed media (Ornations, L - R -4-57, 1957, pictured).

They have not analyzed the first year of data yet, but in my lab we have looked at results from a similar set of moorings at 15N (Uwe Send's work) and find rather significant variability on weekly to monthly time scales (but no trend over the 4 years of data).

Well, it is unfortunate, though probably not coincidental, that the modern record starts at the same time that significant modifications of atmopsheric composition (greenhouse gases, aerosols etc.) were occuring on a global scale.

«One thing that is certain, however, is that these events were not capable of causing any significant melt - off on the basin scale.

While obviously not on the same scale as other notorious spills in recent memory, any oil spill is still significant, with detrimental effects on wildlife and plants.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

While the U.S. has stabilized its emissions of CO2, that is not sufficient to combat climate change, which requires much more significant reductions in CO2 emissions, and on a global scale.

Even during the PETM, it took extended volcanic eruptions on a massive scale that were extensive but not of the kind to eject significant stratospheric sulfates so as to cause cooling.

10/7/15 — In a significant shift detailed in the New York Times, many environmentalists are now arguing that conservation must work on a larger scale, focusing not on preserving single species in small islands of wilderness but on large landscapes and entire ecosystems, and on the benefits that nature provides to humans.

(At least for the first order effect — perhaps the effect of T on CO2 is significant enough to affect the analysis at the millikelvin scale, I don't know)

I would not dispute 100 - 300 year oscillations as a possibility, but my reading of the climate records reveals no evidence for a significant role for such oscillations — or at least, no role substantial enough on a global scale to have created a discernible signal outside of changes occasioned by solar variations, volcanism, and other known entities (changes on a regional scale are a very different matter and may have involved such oscillations).

That something was significant, since the Science paper's Supplementary Information discussion said it did not enable discriminating such a temperature variation (i.e. a «blade») on such a short a time scale.

In my experience (and that of many many folk I know who volunteer their time in the name of environmental causes and the conservation of significant ecological heritage), the clout and $ $ $ $ wielded by Big Business and environmental lobby groups is simply not even on the same scale, let alone comparable.

On the time scale that this paper looks at (2050) SLR is not a significant factor in damage.

I'm very convinced that the physical process of global warming is continuing, which appears as a statistically significant increase of the global surface and tropospheric temperature anomaly over a time scale of about 20 years and longer and also as trends in other climate variables (e.g., global ocean heat content increase, Arctic and Antarctic ice decrease, mountain glacier decrease on average and others), and I don't see any scientific evidence according to which this trend has been broken, recently.

The fact that unforced variability in the climate system can offset anthropogenic forcing changes on a time scale of about 15 years and smaller does not logically imply that unforced variability is also the primary cause of the statistically significant temperature increase since the mid 1970ies.

v) There is no prospect of anything that mankind could do or not do that would reliably scale up to the degree necessary to exert a significant effect on the natural surface air pressure distribution.

Furthermore, on these times scales the differences between MSU data sets are often not larger than published internal uncertainty estimates for the RSS product alone and therefore may not be statistically significant when the internal uncertainty in each data set is taken into account.

Heartland and its funders are not so delusional that they can imagine getting their curriculum adopted on any significant scale (among climate denialist private schools and home schoolers, sure, but such people are already not teaching the science), so its primary purpose is as a tool to make the teaching of climate science seem so controversial that it's best to just drop the subject entirely.

That doesn't stop them from putting forward hypothetical feedbacks that have no evidence whatsoever of operating on a globally significant scale.

But in the short term we are not going to have fully electric powered cars on market on any significant scale and we still have to support the 200million cars on our road today.

Those who insist on the potential for a large - scale, populist movement to bring about significant change often point to the first Earth Day, when 20 million people took the streets and brought about the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, not to mention the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.