Sentences with phrase «on global scale»

By using satellites, biologists are now able to map which areas are most sensitive to climate variability on a global scale.

By the end of 2012, 35 mm film in movie theaters is expected to decline to 37 percent on a global scale, which is a dramatic decline from 68 percent of global cinema screens in 2010.

After two neutron stars collided, researchers numbering in the thousands collaborated on a global scale to make sense of the data.

MDR E. coli and K. pneumoniae are among the major contributors to the health and economic burden of antibiotic resistance on a global scale.

Such biotechnology is «critical for achieving the ecological intensification required to meet human food demand on a global scale,» argues agronomist Ken Cassman of the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.

For changes happening on a global scale and in remote regions with extreme conditions, the satellites provide researchers with information impossible to get by any other means.

«The rapid spread of this species has inspired biologists to study the process of invasion on a global scale,» says Helen Roy of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the UK.

Duffy, meanwhile, is spearheading the Smithsonian's Marine Global Earth Observatory program, which he says is a «major opportunity to map out the links between diversity and functioning of marine ecosystems on a global scale».

Sullivan's findings stem from key advances in methodology, including the ability to systematically collect biological samples on a global scale and pushing the analysis of marine viral characteristics into the realm of the quantitative.

A project called the Jellyfish Database Initiative was recently launched to determine whether the increases are happening on a global scale and if they could be part of a natural cycle.

Changes in wave energy flux on global scale over the time.

Columbia University physicist Peter Eisenberger created an effective model that proves, through real world testing, that carbon sequestration can be used on a global scale and can prevent the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from ever exceeding 450 ppm, below dangerous levels.

«This is just a bizarre paper,» climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, adding that the effect of direct heating from burning fossil fuels is «completely trivial» on a global scale.

And this means developing a surveillance system, which might be challenging on a global scale.

They did not know how large this effect could be, however, because there were no instruments that could measure these changes on a global scale.

«If we're going to be able to work for the betterment of humankind on a global scale, the scientific community has to be able to function as a global community in and of itself.»

To quantify the potential value of conservation partnerships on a global scale, the authors analyzed protected areas recognized by the United Nations Environmental Programme and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered by climate change could trigger a forest decline on a global scale.

However, on a global scale variability is mostly driven by temperature fluctuations, the research showed.

But she began to rearrange her game plan after her future husband «asked me if I would consider working on a community scale rather than on a global scale.»

If the new regimen could achieve this same impact on a global scale, over 100,000 new cases of MDR - TB could be averted every year.

«In addition, on a global scale, anomalies of water availability also compensate in space» adds Jung.

China is home to about one third of the world's smokers and reducing smoking in China could have an enormous public health impact, even on a global scale.

New restrictions on U.S. seafood imports, which will require seafood to be harvested in accordance with the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), will likely offer significant marine conservation benefits on a global scale.

From the economic perspective, liveability is a key characteristic that attracts people with talent and money leading to putatively self - fulfilling economic growth and resilience and power on the global scale.

«NASA is at the forefront of the scientific investigation of the dynamics of the Earth's climate on a global scale,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

This is the first time scientists have been able to do this on a global scale.»

On a global scale, the new results suggest that humans use about 10,700 cubic kilometers of water per year, more than all the water in Lakes Michigan, Huron, Ontario and Erie combined.

Success hinged, in part, on understanding the feedback loops between photosynthesis and respiration on a global scale.

«While the potential exists for rapid shifts in energy systems at the regional level, energy transitions tend to occur slowly on a global scale.

«If you look at the nutrient distributions in the oceans on a global scale, you can see regional differences,» says Dr. Browning.

This collection of marine microbial genomic, the first in the world on a global scale, will provide new clues about a reservoir of biodiversity yet to explore, considering that it could imply the discovery of tens of millions of new genes in the coming years.

Those emissions are dwarfed by others sources on the global scale, such as cars and power plants, amounting to just 5 percent of total global carbon dioxide emissions.

Its Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) puts out a maximum of 3.6 megawatts sending signals at 2.8 to 10 MHz — powerful enough heat up a small (on a global scale) but measurable part of the ionosphere.

But Wiedinmyer found that, on a global scale, «there wasn't kind of a consistent story.»

Duarte emphasizes: «This collection has an incalculable strategic value because no country has this kind of samples on a global scale.

To repeat such successes on a global scale, a huge increase in funds is needed.

In order to guarantee the compatibility of these tests on a global scale, the laboratories use model species specified by international guidelines, including a species of earthworm.

Dr Mike Romano, another co-author on the paper said: «Dinosaur remains of Middle Jurassic age are generally rare, even on a global scale.

The European Space Agency is expanding its satellite data network to better track air pollution on a global scale

We hope to thus improve the quality of ecotoxicological routine tests and to ensure that the results are compatible on a global scale,» explains Pfenninger.

That extra CO2 is not a huge amount on a global scale.

«These simulations do a very good job of telling you what's happening on a global scale,» Ciesla said, but many meteorites can fit into the palm of a hand.

These specified procedures guarantee the compatibility and uniformity of tests on a global scale.

More specifically, the spread of exotic predators is considered to be one of the major causes of population decline and species extinction on a global scale.

«The issue appears to be small on the global scale.

Scientific collaboration on the global scale is necessarily fraught with challenges.

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said

Lag time between translational research and product development is a pressing issue that is further exacerbated when the two processes are separated on a global scale.

But on a global scale the eruption was tiny — perhaps one one - hundredth the size of Pinatubo.