Sentences with phrase «recent global numbers»

Where to be had, the most recent global numbers for Friday thru Sunday also are incorporated.

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Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, has warned its customers it has seen «a number of recent cyber incidents» where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

In contrast, export volumes decreased over this period, despite strong global demand, as capacity and infrastructure constraints and supply disruptions restricted growth; such supply - side factors have hampered exports for a number of years, with resource export volumes now lower than during 2000 (see the chapter entitled «Australia's Resource Exports — Recent Trends and Prospects» in this Statement).

The chart below shows the volume of proceeds and number of new issues of global high yield debt in recent quarters (source: Thomson Reuters).

By: Mohamed Soliman Mubasher: The recent wave of surprising Saudi resolutions, which involved the arrest a number of princes and ministers through the government's new anti-corruption campaign has negatively impacted global markets.

The global pick - up in demand and activity has generated strong upward pressure on a range of commodity prices over recent months, notably for oil, gold, base metals and a number of rural commodities.

Record High Debt The most recent number for global debt is at $ 233 trillion, and about $ 63 trillion of that is central government debt.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Sonoco's Staff Vice President of Global Technology Consumer Packaging Jeff Schuetz observed that, among «important recent trends is designing packages with the end - user in mind, whether that is a food service or consumer application, there seem to be a number of design elements built in to satisfy the consumer.»

Mondi (mondigroup.com) the global packaging and paper Group, demonstrated to a record number of attendees at the recent PACK EXPO Las Vegas, how its packaging solutions are addressing key industry trends food freshness, food safety, flexible packaging and sustainability.

A number of media outlets tried to link this recent cold outbreak with a wavier jet stream that is possibly caused by the reduction in temperature difference between a much warmer Arctic, which is heating up rapidly due to global warming, and the lower parts of the world.

Holgerson and co-author Peter Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale, conducted their analysis by combining recent estimates on the global number of lakes and ponds with a compilation of direct measurements of CO2 and CH4 concentrations from 427 lakes and ponds.

That's the take - home message from a global survey of Ph.D. and master's students published today, which adds to the meager but growing literature on the subject and corroborates anecdotal evidence and discussion about the topic from recent years, including a number of personal tragedies and numerous testimonials and concerns expressed on social media and elsewhere.

Most institutions responding to the survey expect the number of students seeking postgraduate study in England to plateau or even decline as a result of the high undergraduate fees introduced in recent years and increasing global competitiveness.

«Despite recent market turmoil, mobility continues to be a critical part of the global work force, and we expect to see healthy growth in the number of mobile workers,» Crook said.

There have been quite a number of papers published in recent years concerning «emergent constraints» on equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) in comprehensive global climate models (GCMs), of both the current (CMIP5) and previous (CMIP3) generations.

Despite this low number, at the recent S&P Dow Jones Indices Municipal and Global Bond Forum, various panelists Read more -LSB-...]

In taking stock of the recent wave of storms's impact, our friends at Allianz Global Assistance have released some numbers: 7,000 claims and 1,200 + calls to its customer service center (as of September 15) from customers seeking help after Irma.

So when the White House and State Department announced a new U.S. Study Abroad Office under the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs during the recent White House Travel Blogger Summit on Study Abroad and Global Citizenship, it was not difficult to embrace the administration's goal to increase the number of students who study abroad.

In recent years esports has become a global phenomenon and has gained immense momentum, outcompeting many traditional sports in terms of the number of practitioners, prize pools and even viewership — and is a potential future Olympic...

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

In recent years, the Rijksmuseum has been able to buy a number of rare works of art photography due the support of the global law firm Baker McKenzie.

Established in 2000, this global practice has won a number of prestigious commissions, the biggest and most recent being the Moscow School of Management and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History.

If potentially pernicious effects such as global warming are human - driven, then it is reasonable and sensible to ask what is fueling the recent skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers that, in turn, are destabilizing Earth's global ecosystems and dissipating Earth's limited resources in our time.

For instance, using the UAH troposphere numbers, the drop from January 2007 (recent peak) to January 2008 (recent dip) is 0.64 degrees C in the global average (it's 0.75 degrees in the GISS numbers).

According to a recent article in Eos (Doran and Zimmermann, «Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change `, Volume 90, Number 3, 2009; p. 22 - 23 — only available for AGU members — update: a public link to the article is here), about 58 % of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97 % of specialists surveyed.

but nothing since, do you have, or can you point me to, the global CO2 emissions numbers for more recent years?

In a recent paper by Bengtsson & Hodges (2006), simulations with the ECHAM5 Global Climate Model (GCM) were analysed, but they found no increase in the number of mid-latitude storms world - wide.

Meanwhile, modeling results in this area don't lead to definitive conclusions; as the recent WMO statement puts it, «Although recent climate model simulations project a decrease or no change in global tropical cyclone numbers in a warmer climate there is low confidence in this projection.

The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in - and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming.

From Rasmussen Reports Voters in recent months have been increasingly skeptical of the idea that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity, but the number who blame long term planetary trends instead has now fallen back to its lowest level in nearly a year.

Over recent times there has been an increasing number of global powers and emerging market economies announcing plans to enter the space race, many announcing plans to visit the moon; India, China, Russia, USA to name a few all accelerating plans for visits to outer space and the moon.

In recent decades, a number of groups have tried combining sets of these proxy records together to construct long - term estimates of global temperature change over the last millennium or so.

In a recent survey of over 2000 peer reviewed scientific papers on global warming, the number which argued against these three claims was zero.

There is no modern maximum and recent global warming is unrelated to solar group number activity.

I do hope that the (much - hyped) issue of global sea - level rise and putative recent acceleration will be examined seriously here as a geophysical problem and not be subjected to summary number - crunching by inept blog lions who naively think that simple detrending of highly different tide - gauge records alleviates all issues of establishing a common datum - level.

We show that the index commonly used for quantifying long - term changes in solar activity, the sunspot number, accounts for only one part of solar activity (William: Closed magnetic field) and using this index leads to the underestimation of the role of solar activity in the global warming in the recent decades.

Since then there are a number of papers published on why the warming was statistically insignificant including a recent one by Richardson et al. 2016 which tries to explain that the models were projecting a global tas (temperature air surface) but the actual observations are a combination of tas (land) and SST oceans, meaning projected warming shouldn't be as much as projected.

Numerous studies in recent years have found no evidence that the number of hurricanes and their northwest Pacific Ocean cousins, typhoons, is increasing because of the rise in global temperatures.

The recent listing of polar bears as «endangered» was based on junk science and GIGO computer models that claim manmade global warming will send the bears» record population numbers into oblivion.

A number of recent studies have found a strong link between peak human - induced global warming and cumulative carbon emissions from the start of the industrial revolution, while the link to emissions over shorter periods or in the years 2020 or 2050 is generally weaker.

Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to prevent very dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional warming, if the international community seeks to limit warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that global emissions do not exceed the number of tons of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to levels that will cause warming of 2 degrees C.

Although there is a net trend toward dam decommissioning in the United States, most of these removals have been small dams, and the global number of removals is more than offset by recent increases in dam construction (O'Connor et al. 2015).

The IPCC notes in its most recent scientific assessment that there are «[n] o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin,» and that there are «no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency.»

In recent years, a number of glaciologists have claimed that man - made global warming has had the opposite effect and glaciers across the world are melting dramatically.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in its most recent scientific assessment that «[n] o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes... have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin,» and that there are «no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency.»

The number of land surface weather stations in the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) drops off in recent years.