Sentences with phrase «potential magnitude»

«Many of these communities haven't the infrastructure nor adequately staffed emergency services to respond to disasters of such potential magnitude,» he said.

Based on his graduate work at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, the work published in Science reports that the potential magnitude of deep earthquakes in the central Puget Sound region is determined by just how deep they are.

This study has helped us understand the potential magnitude of the impact of these new guidelines.»

«The potential magnitude of the effect on dementia of reducing these risk factors is larger than we could ever imagine the effect that current, experimental medications could have,» Schneider says.

Accordingly, for those households looking to maximize their level of sustainable retirement income, and / or to reduce the potential magnitude of any shortfalls in adverse scenarios, portfolios that start off in the vicinity of 20 percent to 40 percent in equities and rise to the level of 60 percent to 80 percent in equities generally perform better than static rebalanced portfolios or declining equity glide paths.

This also indicates the potential magnitude of the reduction in inbreeding that could be achieved by a change in breeding strategy.

It may also impress clients with the potential magnitude of the problem while at least getting the basics across.

Explaining the company's prospects in a world committed to the 2 - degree target «provides a common reference point that is aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and will support investors» evaluation of the potential magnitude and timing of transition - related implications,» the report said.

While this research has improved our understanding of the potential magnitude and implications of the rebound effect, is has not fully elaborated the mechanics of how and why rebound actually occurs.

While we can't define future climate - change risks with precision, they should be included in economic policy, fiscal and business decisions because of their potential magnitude.

«The potential magnitude of the effect on dementia of reducing these risk factors is larger than we could ever imagine the effect that current, experimental medications could have,» says commission member Lon Schneider, MD, professor of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

We can estimate the potential magnitude of the ice mass biases by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat smaller than that of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant fraction of all published ice mass rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].

Under R. 30 (1), courts routinely considered, as one of many factors, the severity of the plaintiff's injuries and the potential magnitude of the plaintiff's claim in addressing the appropriateness of further independent medical examinations.