Sentences with phrase «occurred in the past decade»

But the latest lockout is the second to occur in the past decade and the third under commissioner Gary Bettman's watch.

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

Although many in the blended - learning world sometimes discount fully online course providers, by doing so they miss where much of the innovation in education has occurred in the past decade.

A separate analysis from the University of South Carolina and cited by the Associated Press found that the odds that nine out of the 10 warmest years would occur in the past decade by chance alone are about 650 million to 1.

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Case in point is synthetic biology (the field itself) and the major breakthroughs that have occurred in just the past two decades (including DNA sequencing).

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

These focused on changes that had occurred over the past three decades in culture, church and educational practices.

Surely most people over age forty have noticed that in the past two decades a dramatic change has occurred in our attitude toward the fortunes of the West.

A change in emphasis has occurred in Mormonism during the past few decades.

This book centers around the structural and economic changes in rice farming that have occurred in the Philippines during the past five decades.

Town Councilwoman Marisa Muratori speculated that someone who was driving up the Northway within the past several years might have dumped the remains into the woods — as had occurred in another incident about a decade ago.

Also of major interest, the team notes, is that the sudden collapse of the nearby Guge kingdom of western Tibet (ruins shown) around 1620 C.E. — which had previously been ascribed to military conflicts — occurred near the end of the region's driest 3 decades in the past 5700 years.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

Peak tornado activity, which occurs in the region from early May to early July, has moved an average of seven days earlier in the year over the past six decades.

An analysis of trends in sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) over the past two decades finds that the drop in such deaths that took place following release of the 1992 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) «back to sleep» recommendations, did not occur in infants in the first month of life.

«The past decade of United States combat missions, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have occurred at a more equatorial latitude than the mean center of the United States population, increasing the potential for ultraviolet irradiance and the development of skin cancer,» Powers said.

Several large severe wildfires have occurred in the state over the past decade, leading some to hypothesize that the beetle's destructive spread may be a contributing factor.

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In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result of gradual movements or events that occurred over a hundred million years ago.

The majority of that warming has occurred in the past three decades.

The protective «practice run» was observed in three - quarters of stress events that occurred on the GBR in the past three decades.

«What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge.

Specifically this Notice: 1) develops principles based on 20 years» experience of providing instruction in responsible conduct of research by the scientific research community; 2) is more specific about who should participate, how often instruction should occur, and the form that instruction should take; 3) addresses issues that have arisen as the practice of biomedical, behavioral and clinical science has evolved; and 4) provides guidance to applicants, peer reviewers and NIH staff in determining how well specific plans for instruction in responsible conduct of research compare with the best practices accumulated over the past two decades by the research training community.

For the past few decades, scientific dogma is that genetic alterations occur in the breast cancers themselves.

A subsequent study by Balmaseda, Trenberth, and Källén (2013) determined that over the past decade, approximately 30 % of ocean warming has occurred in the deeper layers, below 700 meters.

Angela C Estampador, 1,2 Paul W Franks1, 3,4 1Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden; 2Department of Endocrinology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 4Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Abstract: Evidence has emerged across the past few decades that the lifetime risk of developing morbidities like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease may be influenced by exposures that occur in utero and in childhood.

We examined changes in tree growth rates over the past two decades for all species occurring in large (50 - ha) forest dynamics plots in Panama and Malaysia.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), increases in sugar intake over the past four decades parallel our expanding waistlines, and studies have connected added sugar, not the naturally occurring kind, to heart disease and diabetes.

Wilson notes the dramatic withdrawal from arithmetic in the elementary grades that has occurred over the past two to three decades, reflecting the mistaken but increasingly popular view that learning whole number operations (such as the multiplication tables) to the point of instant recall is bad for a student, not necessary to higher math, and impedes students» ability to understand mathematical principles.

In fact, one of the longest periods of growth - stock outperformance on record occurred during the past decade, from 2007 through 2015.

As far as a ceiling goes, I highly recommend the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds which offers insight on a number of mania that have occurred not just in the past few decades, but over the centuries.

This particular divergence between U.S. large - cap stocks and U.S. small - cap stocks has only occurred on two other occasions over the past four - and - a-half decades — in early 2000 and in the summer of 2007.

Although hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used worldwide in human medicine, its use in veterinary medicine is relatively new, occurring primarily during the past decade.

My study of dog bite - related fatalities occurring over the past five decades has identified the poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining dogs, and maintaining them as resident dogs outside of regular, positive human interaction, often for negative functions (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their dogs (chained dogs, loose roaming dogs, cases of abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.

Much like we have seen a rapid increase in diabetes in humans over the past few decades, an uptick of the condition in our pets has also occurred.

While Merida is a city rich in traditions with gastronomy that evokes its Mayan past, a contemporary renaissance has been occurring for the last decade or so.

5 Year Review MoMA PS1's First Floor Painting Gallery will be dedicated to 5 Year Review, a showcase of some of the most important exhibitions, performances, concerts, movies, fashion, design, happenings, and events to have occurred in the past half decade.

The first, a showcasing on P.S. 1's first - floor painting gallery, will review significant exhibitions, performances, concerts, movies, fashion, design, happenings, and events to have occurred in New York in the past half - decade.

The intense discussion stems from the increase in gun - related deaths and mass shootings that have occurred throughout the U.S. in the past decade.

While Walter is correct in saying that 0.6 C of warming occurred over three decades, it would also be correct to say that 0.4 C of warming occurred over the past six decades.

When it is written that within a decade or two abrupt climate change will occur and the earth will switch from the mild climate of the last ten thousand years (the Holocene), to a hotter dryer climate that has been responsible for mass extinctions in the past, what is meant is not that total heat accumulation will instantaneously jump.

Both the radiosonde and reanalysis data show that the frequency of occurrence of high tropopause days in the subtropics of both hemispheres has systematically increased during the past few decades, so that tropical characteristics occur more frequently in recent years.

For July temperature in Moscow, we estimate that the local warming trend has increased the number of records expected in the past decade fivefold, which implies an approximate 80 % probability that the 2010 July heat record would not have occurred without climate warming.

The science is clear to me and to most experts in the various fields associated with climate science: Humans are causing most of the observed global warming in the past several decades and, if we continue emitting GHGs under a «business as usual» scenario, it will become increasingly difficult and costly to adapt to the changes that are likely to occur.

States that while no significant trends have been identified in the Atlantic since the late 19th century, significant observed trends in TC numbers and intensities have occurred in this basin over the past few decades, and trends in other basins are increasingly being identified

In the past few centuries, smaller transitions (such as the ending of the Little Ice Age at about 1650 AD) probably occurred over only a few decades at most.

For example, as discussed in Nuccitelli et al. (2012), the ocean heat content data set compiled by a National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) team led by Sydney Levitus shows that over the past decade, approximately 30 percent of ocean heat absorption has occurred in the deeper ocean layers, consistent with the results of Balmaseda et al. (2013).

The observed global greening has occurred in spite of all the many real and imagined assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades, including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, deforestation, and climatic changes in temperature and precipitation, more than compensating for any of the negative effects these phenomena may have had on the global biosphere.

There has nonetheless been a sizable increase over the past decade in the percentage of Americans who agree that «most scientists believe that global warming is occurring,» from 48 % in 1997 to 65 % this year.

If you would like to read more about the factors that have brought about the changes that have occurred in the political reception given to market - based environmental policy instruments over the past two decades, here are some references: