Sentences with phrase «observed upward trends»

The observed upward trends in drinking among adults 60 years of age and older, particularly women, are of public health concern.

The observed upward trend in associated infections is likely to continue, and aging water distribution systems might soon be an additional reservoir of costly multidrug resistance,» said lead study author Elena Naumova, Ph.D., professor at the Friedman School and Director of the Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Disease at Tufts University.

Confounding influences are accounted for in measurements and while they leave some noise in the record they can not account for the observed upward trend.

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It also accelerates an upward - sloping population trend in agreeableness for students from low socioeconomic status, boosting agreeableness scores from the lowest levels observed at baseline to the highest levels at the eight - year follow up.

So much even that the downward trend from 1975 onward turned into an upward trend from 2000 onward, this trend is comparable to the trend observed before 1975.

Or maybe, «As shown in Figures 1.4 and 1.5, since the end of the 1992 Pinatubo volcano, models have predicted a steady upward trend in global average temperatures, but the observed series have been comparatively trendless, and thus the range of model warming predictions since the early 1990s can be seen to have been biased towards more warming than was subsequently observed.»

While economic and demographic factors have no doubt contributed to observed increases in losses, 346 these factors do not fully explain the upward trend in costs or numbers of events.344, 347

While economic and demographic factors have no doubt contributed to observed increases in losses, 346 these factors do not fully explain the upward trend in costs or numbers of events.344, 347 For example, during the time period covered in the figure to the right, population increased by a factor of 1.3 while losses increased by a factor of 15 to 20 in inflation - corrected dollars.

Nonetheless, an upward trend in Atlantic and West Pacific tropical cyclone power dissipation in the past few decades — based on the frequency, duration, and intensity of observed storms — is well correlated with increases in sea surface temperature [16].

Map of trends (°C / century) of annual (July — June) mean surface air temperature for observing stations west of 116 ° W. Triangles mark statistically significant (p < 0.05) trends (red, upward pointing: positive; blue, downward pointing: negative).

Wardle and Smith (2004) argued that the upward rainfall trend is consistent with the upward trend in land surface temperatures that has been observed in the south of the continent, independent of changes over the oceans.

Roughly one - half to two - thirds of this difference from the observed trend is due to an overestimate of the SST trend, which is propagated upward because models attempt to maintain static stability.

Focusing on the past six decades, we observe no sustained upward trends in wind speed distributions (Figs. 1 and 3), the mean wind speed at landfall or the annual frequency of occurrence of landfalling segments (Fig. 8).

A related point is the possible upward movement of the tropopause which could explain in part the observed negative trends in O3 and temperature (Fortuin and Kelder, 1996).

The upward trend of the AMO SST index during recent decades coincides with the observed accelerated SLR along the US northeast coast.

Apart from increased DNIs at project locations between 2012 and 2014, the downward LCOE trend observed during 2012 and 2014 can be explained by a similar upward trend in the capacity factor of plants.

In fact, it is not possible to directly solving the natural versus the anthropogenic component of the upward warming trend observed in the climate since 1850 (about 0.8 °C) by using the harmonic model calibrated on the same data because with 161 years of data at most a 60 - year cycle can be well detected, but not longer cycles.

At the precise moment when the tree - ring proxies and actual temperatures are in near perfect agreement on a decades - long cooling trend, Mann dumps the tree rings and moves to «observed temperatures» - which have been conveniently revised upward from when they were originally observed.

But relative to other cryptocurrencies, a clear upward trend and moderate stability can be observed in both candidates.