Sentences with phrase «on human systems»

Third, climate interacts with other types of stresses on human systems, in some cases reducing stresses but in other cases exacerbating them.

In many cases, the importance of climate - change effects on human systems seems to depend on the geographic (or sectoral) scale of attention (Abler, 2003; Wilbanks, 2003a).

Additionally, the IPCC Summary for Policymakers (SPM) noted that, if global warming trends persist as predicted over the next century, the impact on human systems could be catastrophic.

It doesn't have any direct effect on the human system other than the negative aspect of getting appendicitis and killing you.

While fertilizers and pesticides allowed for more efficient growing, the former comes at a cost of micronutrient depletion of the soil (i.e., selenium), the latter having toxic effects on the human system.

Changes in the Earth System, in turn, have important feedback effects on the Human System, with costly and serious consequences.

Changes in the Earth System, in turn, have important feedback effects on the Human System, with costly and potentially serious consequences.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].

However, in the IAMs, many of which are used in producing the IPCC reports, population levels are obtained from a demographic projection like the UN's population projections discussed in the first and second Sections, which do not include, for example, impacts that climate change may have on the Human System [181].

He was also «Principal Computer Scientist and lead of multiple projects focused on human system interaction with a recent emphasis on virtual and augmented reality.»

Not exact matches

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Today, many legacy systems still rely on manual checks by humans.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a raft of new nuclear weapons systems at his State of the Nation address on March 1 — and one demonstrates Russia's apparent disregard for human life.

Organizational development, meanwhile, focuses on fostering a successful system that maximizes human (and other) resources as part of larger business strategies.

«The human - computer speech interface is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks, cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list goes on and on.

It emerged from a system based on a belief that humans couldn't damage the environment on a global scale.

Daryl Schuck, principal engineer of human space systems at Honeywell, says he contacted RI in the fall of 2010 after stumbling by chance on a mention of RI's tech in Popular Mechanics magazine.

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.

Panoskaltsis - Mortari's team has been working on rebuilding lungs and other parts of the respiratory system using human stem cells.

The machine learning nature of RankBrain presumably means that the system gets smarter and more sophisticated by building on what it already knows and making connections without human assistance.

Although the FAA defines autopilot systems much the way Tesla does — as something that can assist a human who must nevertheless remain alert and ready to take over — popular perception is that autopilot systems can fly planes on their own while the pilots nap.

Once you make these qualities into a cornerstone of your hiring, you can smile at the fads and fancy scoring systems, knowing that your business is being built on the one foundation that never changes — human nature.

As the name implies, a fixed mindset is a belief system that presumes that human achievement is based primarily on innate gifts.

There is some urgency to simplify the system, what with the incorporation of technology into the human body on the horizon.

Hoping to learn something about how the human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T cells, common to the immune systems in both mouse and man.

Most outlets focused on the positive — that the da Vinci surgical system is just as effective as its human counterparts, if not more so.

SMALL business managers need to focus more on the development of formal human resource management systems, a new study has found.

At Thunderhill, teams tested two technological approaches: Systems based on so - called neural networks modeled after the human brain and those based on computer vision.

Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.

That's according to a blog post on Wednesday announcing Deep Text, an artificial intelligence system that Facebook says can understand text with near - human levels of accuracy.

The new system could potentially supply the power human crews on the Martian surface would need to energize habitats and run processing equipment to transform resources such as ice on the planet into oxygen, water and fuel, NASA said.

Engineering students from the University of Illinois have come up with a miniature model of Elon Musk's hyperloop concept proving that the high speed human transport system is feasible albeit on a scale of 1:24.

«Implementing these recommendations will improve our culture, promote fairness and accountability, and establish processes and systems to ensure the mistakes of the past will not be repeated,» Liane Hornsey, Uber's chief of human resources, said in a statement on Tuesday.

These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

The Trump administration is committed to transforming the health care system into one that emphasizes value over marathon tests with hazy prices, while empowering consumers to find doctors and services the way they find restaurants on Yelp or Open Table, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told health insurers.

On the other hand, corporate recruiters may well value an applicant tracking system that can integrate with their core human resource information system (HRIS), if they currently use one.

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 374 HR professionals (employed full - time, work in Human Resources and use, have primary or shared decision - making about the Human Resource system at their company) and 319 job seekers (unemployed, employed full - time or part - time and have applied for a job in the past six months) ages 18 and over between June 2 and June 25, 2014 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions).

Together, this system provides a view of the world that a driver alone can not access, seeing in every direction simultaneously and on wavelengths that go far beyond the human senses.

However, to sustain the significant adjustment, fiscal consolidation should rely on better targeted and more permanent structural reforms to the pension system, tax exemptions, and subsidies, while protecting public and human capital investment.

«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.»

Based on your information, the underwriting system generates a response in minutes, either approving, declining, or referring your loan for human underwriting.

Other groups have also put forth proposals on self - driving cars, including requiring the vehicles and even semi-automated systems to meet performance targets, greater transparency and data from makers and operators of the vehicles, increased regulatory oversight, and better monitoring of and engagement with human drivers.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

The development of a robust autonomous system that does not require a human to take over (level 4 autonomy), then, depends greatly on building out the capabilities of the other sensors.

That includes detailing what systems need attention — Uber is already working on overhauling its damaged human resources organization — and also identifying what top executives should be held responsible for the mess in the first place.

Biotechnology has been one of the hottest areas for investors over the last five years due to the advent of multiple game - changing new medicines, and the ever - expanding human population that's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.

«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers -LSB-...]

Here's another fun fact: according to Wikipedia (who's never wrong), the average human digestive system produces approximately 3 grams of ethanol per day (a little less than a third of a beer)... completely irrelevant to an article on intermittent fasting and alcohol, but interesting nonetheless.

Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its impact on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.

«The economic powers shall continue to justify the current world system, in which speculation and the aim for financial returns... ignore... the effects on the environment and on human dignity... environmental, human and ethical degradation are intimately connected.