Sentences with phrase «on cyclical changes»

In several species of primates, males often discern when to mate with a female based on cyclical changes in the size and firmness of her sexual swelling — a visual signal of a female's probability to conceive.

Not exact matches

While structural factors such as technological change - related disruptions and globalization will put a cap on underlying price pressures, the strength of cyclical factors will outweigh the structural factors, in our view.

Such challenges are hardly trivial, but the climate change - inspired policy dictates looming on the horizon carry more profound ramifications for oil prices than any mere cyclical downturn.

The modest change to our hedge is intended to maintain our downside protection while hopefully producing a little bit less day - to - day discomfort on days when Wall Street suddenly goes «risk on» and chases banks, financials, materials, and high - debt cyclicals, all of which we hold with smaller weight than the major indices reflect.

Scientific study of the Ice Age Floods is contributing to the understanding of cyclical climate change and of very large and destructive contemporary floods on Earth.

The market changes on a cyclical, constant basis.

The balls have changed before many times and home runs spiked, or the mound was raised and offense dropped, and so on — it's all part of the cyclical nature of the game.

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

There are other influences on the jet stream's behavior, and some scientists think that changes in tropical ocean temperatures, or the cyclical recurrence of El Niño, might have a bigger effect on the jet stream than changes in the Arctic.

Although humans aren't as seasonal as animals, these cyclical changes can have a dramatic effect on our biology.

There is no point in taking your basal temperature while you're still on hormonal birth control because it is preventing you from ovulating, and thus preventing your cyclical hormone changes which would trigger the temperature rise.

There is no cure for cyclical changes in security market values — diversified portfolios thrive on it, in the long run.

The FIG index attempts to forecast changes in the cyclical direction of inflation by tracking such things as materials prices, import prices, and delivery times (ECRI's Weekly Leading Index and Future Inflation Gauge are available on its website at www.businesscycle.com).

Therefore, we rebalance client portfolios on a cyclical basis to account for changing relative asset class risk.

Cyclical stocks, on the other hand, are more sensitive to changes in the economy and give investors satisfactory returns in expansion years, while typically providing negative returns during recession - era years.

The impact of such a structural change in the mean is twofold: First, it implies that the current cyclical extreme in the level of corporate profits as a proportion of GDP is less extreme than it appears on its face; and, second, that the ratio of corporate profits - to - GDP is less predictive as an indicator than it has been historically.

However, if the 3 - month LIBOR changes to 1 percent in the next quarter (remember, this scenario is working on a 3 - month cyclical change), then your monthly rate would increase to 4 percent for those next three months.

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two - part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b. 1959), who uses allegorical methods to explore the cyclical nature of change in modernizing societies, the urban landscape, and patterns of economic progress.

Time is cyclical and presents opportunity for reflection, change and the cultivation of a new vision while relying on the knowledge sharing practices and wisdom of the past.

To focus attention on climate change, support improved environmental policies, and encourage an appreciation for forests and their fragility, my work emphasizes the cyclical beauty of the seasons and the delicacy of nature,» says Potsic.

Initially a great deal of whining takes place. The old guard feeling threatened when some thing happens outside of the cocoon like somnambulism of a functional, institutional, or negotiable arrangement. Eventually the elders have a moment to reflect on what startled them. Then they change their minds. Its almost humorous the cyclical nature of the event, except that the few who disobey are demonized by a crowd of immobiliers wielding snarky crits, bellying a sentimentality.

I probably need the Complete Idiot's Guide, but what I get out of this is, using the mean of the whole data set (if it does have an actual hocky stick shape) as zero creates a higher horizontal line from which all the data vary in various amounts & it tends to «pull up» the negative differences & makes the positive differences look not so big (or it makes all the data look on average equally large in distance from the mean, both in pos & neg directions), making the whole thing look like nothing much is happening, aside from cyclical changes.

Would you be so kind as to comment on how such extreme value statistics illuminate a changing mean within cyclical systems, such as NAO or ENSO?

There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.

All these things have an understood impact on our quality of life today, and would be a far better investment than in climate change, which also has every indication of being a cyclical phenomenon.

There was a young lady several years ago (16 at the time I think) who wrote an excellent piece on «Global Warming» or «Climate Change» if you will, and why she thought it was cyclical.

These cyclical changes in turn affect surface temperatures and precipitation on land, and their impact can last for decades, according to the study.

I'm not saying that human activities do not have an impact on climate, I am just saying that we have greatly overlooked the natural cyclical nature of our solar system, as well as other factors that effect climate change.

Everything in nature is cyclical, it's also reasonable to assume that temperature and climate change on the planet are a result of nature.

4) The evidence that those variations go beyond a basic level of chaotic variability is those cyclical latitudinal shifts in the air circulation systems which always follow changes in SSTs on at least the 3 time scales we have evidence for.

«Professor Mojib Latif, (lead author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-RRB- from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany, has been looking at the influence of cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation.

For short - term cyclical changes, see the essay on Changing Sun, Changing Climate.

During floor debate in the legislature, however, Republican State Sen. Beau McCoy, a candidate for governor, amended the bill to direct scientists to focus only on so - called «cyclical» climate change — a term that has no legitimate scientific meaning.

When asked what accounts for the change, those that increased their budgets mentioned a new focus on cybersecurity, information governance, business continuity or disaster recovery concerns and security compliance requirements as well as lots of cyclical hardware refresh scenarios.

5 For biographical information on Reginald Heber Smith, see Henry Weinstein, Legal Aid for Poor Survives Cyclical Attempts to Kill It, L. A. TIMES, Dec. 30, 1995, at A1; Erwin N. Griswold, The Changing Legal Scene, NAT'L L. J. 17 (col. 1), Dec. 30, 1991.