Sentences with phrase «of systematic change»

Regional downscaling of climate information is a popular activity in many applications addressing the assessment of possible effects of a systematic change of the climate characteristics at the local scale.

In the light of the satellite record, as well as the absence of any systematic change in global temperature for almost two decades, the proclaimed interpretation of this summer should be recognised for what it is: a simplistic explanation of a complex physical system.

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However, due to lack of systematic evidence on the portion of compliance activities that have already been undertaken, thus rendering the associated costs sunk, the Department is unable to quantify the potential change in start - up costs that would result from a delay in the applicability date and elimination of the transition disclosure requirement.

According to this meta - study (a fancy name for a literature review), there seems to be a systematic tendency to downplay the economic costs of climate change policies:

We define «anticipate» as evidence of a systematic relationship between points at which the normalized slope of the ten - day average P / C changes sign and points at which the normalized slope of the S&P 500 index changes sign in the same direction.

This book takes you through a systematic approach to significantly increase your odds of succeeding in making a world changing and sustainable company.

But in the constructive thought of a systematic thinker, admission of change seems to indicate an acknowledgment of inadequacy and error..

Its experimental character means it is a kind of theology well suited for times of uncertainty and change, when systematic, comprehensive construction seems inappropriate if not impossible.

Since I have not in fact» «changed my mind» in any basic way on the availability, of a positive response to all three questions, I will here move on to the more difficult question of the public nature of systematic theologies.

Furthermore, there is systematic reflection on how each aspect of the program can become more productive of healing, growth, and social change.

«This feels like another unachievable soundbite to try and change the government's image given that the UN classifies the UK government as having committed systematic violations of the rights of disabled people recently.

Evolutionary cosmologies may begin simply as rival evolutionist theories — alternative causal explanations for these observed phenomena of development, change, and transformation.3 An evolutionist theory becomes an evolutionary cosmology whenever the favored evolutionist theory is extrapolated from its original context as an account of geological or biological change, and made to serve as an overarching cosmological category, such that «evolution» in some idiosyncratic sense becomes the basis for a systematic and unified interpretation of a wide array of diverse phenomena beyond the domains of biology and geology.

Here I am at present, and as a result of the change, a self - confessed Christian systematic theologian working in a large department of religion in a state university.

My change of mind in moving from the philosophy of religion to the task of systematic theology came roughly in the middle of the decade.

Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.

More recently, systematic theologian Donald Bloesch has explained that while «God's ultimate purposes, are unchangeable... his immediate will is flexible and open to change through the prayers of his people.»

(Hollenbach and Hicks offer good reasons to be dubious of an approach limited to government policies unsupported by systematic moral arguments and changes in civic institutions,)

Around the age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys, developmental changes will enable youth to slowly increase training distance and duration leading to participation in a systematic and competitive training environment.

Two weeks before the Systematic Review was published, the Lucas study — which aimed to test a hypothesis that «duration of breast feeding is related to changes in vascular function relevant to the development of cardiovascular disease» — was published in the BMJ alongside 2 press releases and a leader article.

[iii] Changes in health in England, with analysis by English regions and areas of deprivation, 1990 — 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Lancet 2015; 386: 2257 — 74 Published Online September 15, 2015 http://thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736 (15) 00195 - 6.

If there is majority support for replacing FPP with a PR voting system, is there a systematic approach that supporters of voting reform could follow to bring about this change?

«Affordability without the investment necessary to sustain and improve quality is a systematic short - changing of students who come from the poorest communities in NYC.»

If the errors are not systematic, than before a vote is set aside it must be shown that the errors could reasonably have resulted in changing the outcome of the election.

Calling for a systematic change to American politics in Tuesday's State of the Union, President Barack Obama gave a somewhat surprising shout - out to bipartisan redistricting reform.

It marks the victory of the party that believes, in the end, in a second chamber which will never mean very much, over the party, Ashdown's party, which has campaigned for years in favour of a systematic, joined - up approach to constitutional change that takes the need for checks and balances as seriously as the appetite all governments have for untrammelled power.

These problems underscore the need for a systematic change and true accountability of transgressions of law enforcement agencies in Westchester County.

APC's National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi said: «With rrevelations of how money - for - votes and systematic rigging was brazenly perpetuated during the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress is mindful of the popular axiom, «A leopard can not change its spot.»»

Over the past thirteen months, the unending series of controversies and scandals that has rocked Albany and the preliminary findings of the Moreland Commission illustrate the urgent need for comprehensive and systematic changes.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climate Fund.

«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.

The whole subject of systematics has really changed enormously in the last 10 years as the result of the weight of prolific analysis together with the molecular data.»

It should have been taking decisive action but engaged instead in systematic understatement of the danger: it has made ridiculous assertions that the U.S. should not do anything that China does not agree to do and has stubbornly insisted that no action should be taken to improve climate change «if it hurts the economy.»

The results, published today in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, highlight a serious care disparity for these severely injured patients, and point to the need for systematic changes to improve care.

Executive Summary The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was created to make the best possible estimate of global temperature change using as complete a record of measurements as possible and by applying novel methods for the estimation and elimination of systematic biases.

By using all the data and new statistical approaches that can handle short records, and by using novel approaches to estimation and avoidance of systematic biases, we expect to improve on the accuracy of the estimate of the Earth's temperature change.

Offering that «it's very hard to do a systematic change,» Girard cited her work as the chairwoman of Boston's interagency green building committee, in which every major construction project has to pass a checklist produced by the agency to comply with new adaptation codes.

In their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intChange in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term intchange during a long - term interval.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

Nevertheless, Physica, Aristotle's treatise on the nature of motion, change, and time, stands out because in it he presented a systematic way of studying the natural world — one that held sway for two millennia and led to modern scientific method.

A formula «pleases us, the academics, because it is a systematic way of responding to inevitable population changes,» Pukelsheim tells Science.

Trenberth says that the climate monitoring principles set by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the lead international organization for oversight of systematic climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising» climate - change results based on satellite data.

This decline had been attributed in part to the widespread introduction of systematic STI management and changes in sexual behavior, and partly because AIDS deaths broke up many sexual networks.

The Genome Sequencing Centers will play a pivotal role in our systematic effort to assess the range of genomic changes associated with malignancy,» said Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D., director of NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research.

Conclusions — This systematic review identified and graded the evidence for a range of population - based strategies to promote lifestyle change.

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

We have used systematic molecular bioengineering of the meningococcal LPS through deletion of enzymes involved in LPS biosynthesis in combination with induction of LPS modifying enzymes (for example the deacylase PagL) to yield a variety of novel LPS mutant strains with changes in both lipid A acylation and phosphorylation.

Similarly, analysis of splicing changes with PMI did not show conclusive evidence of systematic splicing deregulation (as measured by the splicing entropy) across tissues.

Results: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have reported the first systematic investigation using global proteomics to identify changes in the abundance of bacterial proteins associated with macrophage colonization and a new protein that helps the bacterium to survive inside macrophages.

«We conducted a systematic analysis of the changing physical appearance of the bacteria during the experiments,» Zea explained in a statement.

These results demonstrate the value of a systematic investigation of bacterial protein changes in identifying proteins of likely importance in detecting bacterial pathogens and developing effective vaccines.