Sentences with phrase «particularly human scale»

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There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.

Liu's scientific research focuses on the functional genomics of human cancers, particularly breast cancer, uncovering new oncogenes, and deciphering on a genomic scale the dynamics of gene regulation that modulate cancer biology.

Indeed, the authors occasionally surprise readers, particularly with their recurring interest in the subtle institutional dynamics - from state charter laws to the nitty - gritty of making these human - scale organizations actually work over time - that mean life or death for fledgling charter schools.

This is particularly true for planet - scale problems like human - driven climate change, in which national governments tend to put national interests ahead of planet - scale interests.

It is the other end of the scale — the long tail — that is particularly problematic, however, because it portends climate effects of increasing CO2 that will persist far longer than the current history of human civilization.

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

So far, none of this story is particularly human; the same thing likely happens on a more local scale with baboons, which are monkeys that have adapted to treeless settings but will happily invade woodland.

His research is concerned with various aspects of air pollution at scales ranging from regional to global, particularly effects of acidifying deposition, eutrophying nitrogen deposition and gaseous pollutant impacts on crops, forests and human health.

Compared to previous HadEX / CMIP3 - based results, which identified human contributions to the observed warming of extreme temperatures on global and regional scales, the current results provide better agreement with observations, particularly for the intensification of warm extremes.

The failure of OSM to address these troublesome programmatic issues is particularly alarming given recent scientific studies that have documented the scale of the impacts to air and water quality, and the link between these impacts and human health problems in Appalachia.

He has also worked on air pollution issues from regional to global scales, particularly related to impacts of acidifying deposition, eutrophying nitrogen deposition and gaseous and particulate pollutant impacts on crops, forests and human health.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that at the same moment that scientists have concluded that we are now living in the Anthropocene, the age of humans, there has been a resurgence of interest in rewilding, the large - scale restoration of nature and the reintroduction of plants and animals (particularly large carnivores) by people to areas where they once thrived.

To have been so certain, with our limited knowledge of our biosphere, that we could have caused changes, on the huge scale as we have, particularly in regards to carbon dioxide emissions, as I have discussed above, and not seriously risk enormous and extremely damaging outcomes up to, and including, the outright extinction of the human species, is a degree of stupidity which still defies my capacity to comprehend.

What I particularly like about the presentation is that he agrees there is a «consensus», but that this consensus isn't that weather will become «worse» in every respect imaginable, largely it'll just grow a little warmer (and slowly on human time scales, not least due to thermal inertia).