Sentences with phrase «recent decades the trend»

Obviously other cities have grown up around subways and trains to a much greater extent, but we all know that during recent decades the trend has been in the direction of Los Angeles.

In recent decades a trend has emerged in the location of the most religious and least religious states.

Not exact matches

As I've written previously, Election 2016 was a repudiation of the globalization trend that helped drive post-World War II growth but in recent decades has spread its benefits unequally across the population.

La Crosse was built around manufacturing, but this segment of the local economy, following a national trend, has fallen sharply in recent decades.

In spite of this long record of federal support for profit sharing and employee stock ownership, the Federal Government has backed off its support for broad - based employee stock ownership and profit sharing during virtually every recent Presidential administration for almost four decades, a trend that has lasted to the present.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Several factors, including policy changes and peak - globalization trends, could potentially cause inflation to accelerate faster than many investors» subdued expectations based on recent decades of disinflation.

Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University Larry Diamond sees the countries of the world as heading more and more in recent decades towards democratic ways as if such a trend is inevitable (but also unpredictable).

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

To put recent trends in even sharper relief, 205 abortion restrictions were enacted over the past three years (2011 — 2013), but just 189 were enacted during the entire previous decade (2001 — 2010).

This is not an acceptable state of affairs for a modern democracy, and it is why the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee decided to look into why voter engagement in the UK has declined in recent decades, and what can be done to reverse this trend.

He found the Senate and Assembly passed 650 bills one of the lowest numbers in decades, and part of a recent trend.

«This trend to have even more dramatic numbers of overnight lower temperatures being exceedingly warm is consistent with what we have seen in recent decades,» he said.

Dr Ghassem Asrar, Director of JGCRI, a co-author of study, said: «Among global regions, there was notable variability in trends in estimated emissions over recent decades.

«Whilst they likely capture an element of natural variability, the strong anthropogenic trends observed over recent decades likely masks the true natural rhythms of the climate system.

«While binge drinking among eighth, 10th, and 12th grade students remains well below the levels seen a decade ago, the downward trend in binge drinking appears to have slowed somewhat in recent years,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Smoking in the military has trended significantly downward in recent decades, mirroring trends in the general population.

Individuals who are of American Indian or Alaskan Native descent exhibit the highest smoking prevalence (24.3 % male and 23.4 female), and women in this group also experienced a recent upward trend after a nearly two - decade downward trend.

The temperature plots show trends for increasing annual temperatures in recent decades, especially within the Upper Midwest and Alaska, which are indicative of polar amplification.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

Total hurricane frequency is projected to decline, and over recent decades, there is no clear trend, but only year to year variations.

A recent scientific review article on climate and the sun similarly notes «the lack of detection of an underlying irradiance trend in the past three decades,» and concludes, in rather strong terms, that:

The overall trend in named tropical Atlantic storms in recent decades is undeniably positive.

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

Like the rage in bone scans in recent decades, scanning the body's muscle mass will soon become the latest healthcare trend.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

Age of Ultron is just one of the more recent examples of a trend running more than a decade.

Many education reformers look at results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and other macro measures and see some positive trend lines in recent decades.

Following recent demand - driven reforms, some universities are admitting larger numbers of teacher education students with increasingly low Year 12 performances — a trend that may continue as the number of teachers required to staff our schools grows over the next decade.

More legislatures have been in special session this year than in recent years, continuing a trend that has been gathering steam for a decade.

Unlike income achievement gaps, the racial academic achievement gaps have declined significantly over the past four decades, the researchers said, so the recent narrowing of the racial readiness gap among kindergarteners is merely a continuation of the trend.

The report also notes that nearly two decades of revenue caps have taken a steady toll on school resources, and recent steep cuts in support for K - 12 education in the 2011 - 2013 biennial budget are likely to accelerate that trend.

Recent K - 12 test results reveal a sobering trend: despite decades of reform, academic achievement gaps (and their resultant opportunity gaps) are wider than ever across the Bay Area.

Interestingly enough, the notable social - studies selections from the last decade included a total of 55 works of poetry, with an average of 5 poetry titles per year — and the most recent list (2012) continues that trend of including 5 poetry books relevant for social - studies instruction.

In recent decades experts have noticed a decided trend to use more and more swearing and vulgarity in creative writing.

Despite the recent uncertainty around emerging markets, it's important to remember that EM's transformation in both shape and size has been building for decades, and has been driven by the convergence of several key trends, with long - lasting impacts:

Then the numbers leveled off for about a decade, before the recent emergence of a trend toward shelters not only encouraging and cooperating with neuter / return programs, but also refusing to accept feral cats and / or participating in «shelter / return» programs.

Travel Incorporated has offered group air services for over a decade under the TI Groups umbrella, servicing corporate clients and incentive houses nationwide; however the recent surge in industry demand for high - touch services, together with corporate trending towards Strategic Meetings Management initiatives has created a void in both the services and expertise now available industry - wide, which is the underlying principle behind launching GTP as a separate entity.

In line with other recent reappraisals of the culture of the British underground scene (most recently an exhibition of drawings by doomed club kid Trojan at the ICA), Bowie Nights at Billy's Club, London, 1978 forms a revealing portrait a half - forgotten milieu that presaged the cultural trends of the following decades.

Finally, to show that cosmic rays were actually responsible for some part of the recent warming you would need to show that there was actually a decreasing trend in cosmic rays over recent decades — which is tricky, because there hasn't been (see the figure)(Missing step # 5).

«Finally, subtropical drying trends predicted from the warming alone fall well short of those observed in recent decades.

With the NOAA updates, the recent trends goes from 0.06 ± 0.07 ºC / decade to 0.11 ± 0.07 ºC / decade, becoming «significant» at the 95 % level.

I thought he might be unhappy to see: — the adjustment (in the new paper) losing the 1998 RSS high temp shown in Zeke Hausfather's older graph, so the «cooling trend» argument gets hurt, or — the newer graph having one more recent data point than the older, so the «cooling trend» argument gets hurt, or — the newer graph showing a shorter time span and so not showing the lower temps in earlier decades, so the «cooling trend» argument gets hurt, or — the newer graph isn't directly comparable to an older graph he prefers to look at without thinking about the numbers along the side, or — I du n no.

If one plots the records from GISS, HADCru, RSS and UAH; GISS is the outlier, and three of the four primary global temperature measuring systems show a decrease over the most recent six years and a downward trend over the past decade; not that this establishes a significant trend yet.

Granted, we can not say that the remaining two decades will continue on the recent trend.

«However, compensation for a different potential source of bias in SST data in the past decade the transition from ship to buoy - derived SSTs, might increase the century - long trends by raising recent SSTs as much as 0.1 °C, as buoy - derived SSTs are biased cool relative to ship measurements»

The «selling point» of the paper is that with the updates to data and corrections, the trend over the recent decade or so is now significantly positive.

Anthony Watts has posted a package at his blog on a new paper (like Muller's pre-publication) concluding that United States temperature trends in recent decades «are spuriously doubled, with 92 % of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well - sited stations upward.

My point was simply that the most recent decade and a half trend is virtually identical to the previous one so one ought not to be declaring it rare.

Given the importance of the ENSO phasing for the «pause» (see Schmidt et al (2014), this can help assess the underlying long - term trend and whether there is any evidence that it has changed in the recent decade or so.