Sentences with phrase «onset events»

With slow - onset events like sea - level rise and drought threatening farmers in the Mekong Delta, the search is on for policies that can protect farmers

While it is true that not all disasters are caused by climate change, extreme weather and slow - onset events can be clearly attributed to climate change, he says.

And what, precisely, are the «important linkages between extreme weather events and slow - onset events»?

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)'s technical paper on the subject says that the negative effects of slow onset events are already affecting developing countries and the resulting loss and damage associated with slow onset events is likely to increase significantly, even assuming that appropriate mitigation and adaptation action is undertaken.

It precludes a focus on climate variability over time as well the risk of impacts from slow onset events, such as sea level rise and rising temperatures.

Slow onset events are mentioned in the Cancun Agreements with a footnote saying that these are events «including sea level rise, increasing temperatures, glacial retreat and related impacts, salinization, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, and desertification».

Area II also came out with a technical paper on slow onset events and a literature review of existing information.

Loss and Damage encompasses how to deal with the adverse impacts of extreme weather events and slow onset events, and the economic and non-economic losses and damages suffered from them, those impacts that can not be recuperated either through mitigating or adapting.

Given the current socio - economic, political and environmental context, the countries with more risks of losses and damages due to extreme weather events and slow onset events are developing countries, those which have contributed the least to climate change and those less capable of adapting to its impacts.

«For example, there was a call coming out on slow - onset events, which, in the UNFCCC language, means sea - level rise, glacial retreat, ocean acidification, desertification.

Not exact matches

Should the rate of uplift also return to the rapid values of 1982 — 1984, we would further expect the onset of VT event rates as high as 800 — 1,000 per month.

This event was coincident with the onset of the greatest gyration in the rate of interest on a world - wide scale.

Spacious and well used — one large hall with a stage, and one room just off the hall with a pop - up supply shop, workshop space and café Cost of stand: # 30 Entrance: # 1.50; # 5 for specific workshops that ran during the day Crowd: Women of all ages and families with a spattering of gentlemen Footfall: Busy from the onset with a slight drop - off after lunch Organisation: An incredible amount of organisation went into the entire event and it showed on the day Sales: Really good — unexpected for the time of year and area Would you do it again?

One event that's not guaranteed before the onset of labor is your water breaking (aka the rupture of the amniotic sac surrounding your baby the last nine months).

Compared with weather events like floods or cyclones, the droughts are a slow - onset manifestation of changing climate.

The gene for NPAS4 was a top hit, and significant for an important reason: it is an early - onset gene, meaning that its effects could be exerted on the brain rapidly unless HDAC5 was there to inhibit it — just the molecular event Cowan and his team were seeking.

The finding supports previous research suggesting that colossal volcanic eruptions in what's now Siberia, about 300,000 years before the onset of the extinction event, probably triggered the die - off of nearly all marine species and two - thirds of species living on land (SN: 9/19/15, p. 10).

The study is titled «New Onset Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation Predicts Long - Term Cardiovascular Events Following Radical Cystectomy.»

«These are the strongest events measured since the onset of the seismic crisis at Bardarbunga and the strongest since 1996,» the office said.

The close temporal association of the [Ca2 +] i transient with the onset of anaphase suggests that calcium may have a signaling role in this event.

Exactly what caused the composition of the crust to change during the first oxygenation event remains a mystery, but Lee said the team believes it may have been related to the onset of plate tectonics, where Earth's surface, for the first time, became mobile enough to sink back down into Earth's deep interior.

Compared to surgery, TAVR also yielded significantly lower rates of acute kidney injury, severe bleeding events and new onset atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm problem that is a common complication of open procedures.

Life events — such as trauma or stress — can contribute to its onset, but it is not clear why some people are more likely to develop the condition than others.

MAVEN's Solar Energetic Particle instrument was able to observe the onset of the event that day.

So the relatively gradual onset of slip in the Gorkha event explains why this patch, which experienced a large amount of slip, did not generate many high - frequency waves.

Plots are aligned to two events in the trial: left, target onset; right, saccade onset.

Swedish researchers evaluated 248 stroke survivors, below age 70 (average mid-sixties), and their spouses at stroke onset and compared the results with 245 non-stroke controls for seven years after the stroke event.

Without it being clinically relevant the presence of erectile dysfunction can indicate doubling of new onset CVD events during the next decade, in middle - aged diabetic men (345).

Remarkably, blood CD4 T cells are resistant to this death pathway, in part because the cells are in a deeper state of rest, meaning the virus is unable to infect them completely, which prevents the onset of the chain of events that leads to pyroptosis.

The model also accounts for the timing and magnitude of upward plasma motion to the corona observed 29 s after the event onset in 171 Å by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly / Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Catherine Wetherell, 52, attested to what she calls a «miraculous» series of events, after the sudden onset of stroke symptoms in April 2017.

The National Weather Service favors the onset of a La Niña event by late this summer or this fall, during which ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific are cooler than normal.

Amplitude and Duration: The most significant events are terminations of the glacial period and rapid onset of global warming of the interglacial period.

Termination events and onset of the interglacial period are labeled.

The Holocene's warming onset started out like MIS 5e and 9 but was interrupted by the Younger Dryas (YD) cooling event.

This early onset suggested to Al that the number of predisposing events in these pediatric tumors must be quite small.

Accumulation of 8 - oxoG in the AD brain is an early event, occurring before the onset of dementia.»

Because mitochondria are also the main location that suffer from ROS, oxidative stress further exacerbates mitochondrial dysfunction and this vicious circle is more prone to occur and has been demonstrated to be an event occurring before the appearance of senile plaques and the onset of clinical manifestations.»

«It is difficult from our findings to determine the sequence of events between the onset of mitochondrial depolarisation and the arrival of any inflammatory cells within the spinal cord.

The effect of a health intervention on surrogate measures of risk is of only academic, nonclinical interest if the treatment does not reduce subsequent major health events such as the onset of diabetes, dementia, and CAD.

Some OCD sufferers think a stressful event precipitated the onset of symptoms, but for Coulter they came out of the blue.

Kaight shop in Brooklyn is celebrating the onset of spring with a special event!

Wiseau invokes Hitchcock and Kubrick in asserting his right to be an onset jerk, a self - inflating idea that Rogen punctures with a well - timed (especially given recent events) joke.

Curtis begins to wonder if his visions are some future event or the onset of the mental disease.

Read these events as a study of confused girl dealing with things beyond her control, or see it as an examination of the onset of depression.

The author weaves his fictional characters, real people and events into a story that captures the reader's attention from the onset and never lets up.

Horse owners are advised to follow these basic CDFA and UC Davis Center for Equine Health (CEH) biosecurity guidelines to decrease the potential EHV - 1 / EHM spread at equine facilities and events: • Limit horse - to - horse contact • Limit horse - to - human - to - horse contact • Avoid use of communal water sources • Avoid sharing of equipment unless thoroughly cleaned and disinfected between uses • Monitor horses for clinical signs of EHM including fever of 101.5 °F or greater, nasal discharge, cough, reddish mucous membranes, puffy and red eyes, swollen legs and acute onset of neurologic signs (ataxia, recumbency, urinary incontinence) In 2011, an EHV - 1 / EHM outbreak at the Western National Cutting Horse Event in Ogden, Utah potentially exposed the virus to at least 2,106 horses at 242 equine facilities in 19 states (including California) and one Canadian province, and forced the cancellation of horse shows from coast to coast.

While dogs are yet not capable of using a crystal ball to predict the future, some appear almost to have a «sixth sense» when it comes to detecting the onset of some events.

Think of all the epileptic dogs, and all of the dogs showing aggression, and start asking questions about the onset of these problems in relation to vaccine events.

FCE is a stroke - like event within the spinal cord: signs (symptoms) are very sudden in onset and vary with the location of the FCE.