Sentences with phrase «reduce impact damage»

It combines a protective outer shell — in a «Titanium» color scheme — with a microfiber cloth interior to prevent scratches and reduce impact damage from drops.

Not exact matches

The collision caused extensive damage partly because a safety barrier meant to reduce the impact into a concrete lane divider had been removed or crushed in a prior accident without being replaced, according to Tesla.

In addition to the damage that can be caused to an individual animal, «the presence of lead indirectly impacts upon the Griffon vulture population due to changes to bird behaviour, reduced reproductive success and lower immunological response,» the researcher concludes.

In case of a crash, the plane shears its wings from the body to absorb most of the impact, in turn reducing damage.

«It is another row on a ledger sheet called the «spill impact mitigation analysis,»» which assesses various strategies and tools to reduce environmental and economic damage caused by oil spills.

The treatment reduced symptoms and moderately mitigated the impact of the lung damage.

Writing in the journal Weather, Climate and Society, the University of Manchester researchers argue that cutting greenhouse gas emissions, while crucial to reducing humanity's longer - term impact on the planet, will not eliminate violent storms, tornadoes or flooding and the damage they cause.

Hundreds of studies on bottom trawl impacts, including those on soft sediment habitats, have shown that trawling can remove or damage structure - forming organisms, alter the composition of communities living in the sea bed (infauna) and reduce their productivity.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

This reduces the amount of micro damage to the muscles that can occur when they shake on impact and reduces muscle pain both during and after exercise.

Not only that, but it absorbs more of the bar's impact, and reduces any acute damage and long - term wear to the barbell.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

Tying the impact of stereotype threat to the achievement gap, Steele strategizes how to reduce its damaging effects.

«So far, forward collision technology is reducing claims, particularly for damage to other vehicles, and adaptive headlights are having an even bigger impact than we had anticipated.»

Simply managing to slow a vehicle down before impact can significantly reduce the cost of damage to a vehicle and the severity of injuries to passengers.

• Post-Collision Braking: Helps reduce the impact of a potential secondary collision by automatically applying moderate brake pressure when an initial collision event is detected; slowing the vehicle can potentially lessen injury to occupants and damage to the vehicle

Should an accident occur, new Post-Collision Braking technology helps to reduce the impact of a potential secondary collision by automatically applying moderate brake pressure when an initial collision event is detected; slowing the vehicle can potentially lessen injury to occupants and further damage to the vehicle.

Bill would damage credit scores of million of consumers Consumer Action joined the National Consumer Law Center and other organizations in opposition to HR 435 — legislation that would reduce consumers» control over their own data by preempting state and federal privacy protections, damage the credit scores of millions of consumers with a disproportionate impact on African Americans, and conflict with long - standing state utility regulatory consumer protections.

«But it's really important that we keep in mind that you don't always reduce impact by reducing numbers, as one individual might cause 90 per cent of the damage.»

These figures underscore the importance of financial organizations staying aware of wide - ranging cyber threat vectors and potential impact of those threats, so they can implement best practices that keep their information secure and reduce potential damages if they do suffer a cyberattack.»

For those familiar with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, our pinnacle need — self - actualization — would include reducing our impact, reversing some of the damage that's been done, and inspiring others to do the same.

• Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns, AA guns, and Jet Cannons against infantry • Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns against jeeps • Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and Jet Cannons, players under attack from these weapons should no longer lose control • Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly • Increased the range and minimum damage of the.357 Round from the MP412 Rex • Increased the range of all.45 cal and 9 mm weapons • Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW - R • Slightly increased the range of the 5.56 mm PDW - R and decreased the minimum damage at long range • Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62 mm rifles • Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR - H 7.62 mm weapons • Reduced the damage from FIM - 92 and SA - 18 IGLA missiles against aircraft • Increased the damage and range of the 40 mm BUCK rounds • Reduced the damage.50 cal weapons do against Helicopters • Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells

Balance changes • Increased the damage of helicopter miniguns, AA guns, and jet cannons against infantry • Increased the damage of helicopter miniguns against jeeps • Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and jet cannons so players under attack from these weapons no longer should lose control • Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly • Increased the range and minimum damage of the.357 Round from the MP412 Rex • Increased the range of all.45 cal and 9 mm weapons • Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW - R • Slightly increased the range of the 5.56 mm PDW - R and decreased the minimum damage at long range • Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62 mm rifles • Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR - H 7.62 mm weapons • Reduced the damage from FIM - 92 and SA - 18 IGLA missiles against aircraft • Increased the damage and range of the 40 mm BUCK rounds • Reduced the damage.50 cal weapons do against helicopters • Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells

Yet mine - related contaminants persist in streams well below valley fills, forests are destroyed, headwater streams are lost, and biodiversity is reduced; all of these demonstrate that MTM / VF causes significant environmental damage despite regulatory requirements to minimize impacts.

We argue that we should at least consider the impacts of developing this wilderness landscape relative to the reduced risk of damages to other human and wilderness landscapes (Jacobson et al. state that New York's energy transition is necessary to prevent a collapse of the Arctic ice sheets).

Mitigation has the potential to reduce climate change impacts, and adaptation can reduce the damage of those impacts.

You don't know if you're going to crash your car, or how bad the damage will be, but you buy insurance anyway to reduce the financial impact of the worst - case scenario.

A failure to act to reduce the impacts of climate change could cost Europe dear in lives lost and economic damage, according to a European Commission study.

While aggressive emissions cutbacks of short - lived warming agents could halve the warming projected to 2050 and determined efforts to promote adaptation and enhance resilience could help reduce impact costs and damages, many regions will suffer greatly over this period.

«Clean energy businesses commend the president for reaffirming his commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to address the damaging and costly impacts of climate change,» Lisa Jacobson, president of Business Council for Sustainable Energy, said in a statement.

Although the small number of impact assessments that evaluate stabilisation scenarios do not take full account of uncertainties in projected climate under stabilisation, they nevertheless provide indications of damages avoided and risks reduced for different amounts of emissions reduction.

It outlines a range of policy solutions to address climate impacts that are related to: assessing loss and damage to ecosystem services; avoiding and reducing loss and damage; risk reduction; and identifies areas for future research.

In practical terms, the law requires the government to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity; to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.

These include reducing: mortality from disasters, the number impacted, economic losses, and the damage to critical infrastructure.

Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies), in which climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means

So, at the Met Office now, we have a series of international partnerships that we're growing that takes our climate science to help understand the vulnerabilities in China, Brazil, South Africa, South - east Asia and India, and work with the scientists in those regions to develop climate services that takes that climate science and converts them into services that can help reduce the impact of climate change, or reduce the damage done by natural disasters.

Dutch plan restricts biofuels that damage environment Dutch plan restricts biofuels that damage environment mongabay.com April 29, 2007 The Netherlands has proposed a system to reduce the environmental impact of...

As the damages of climate change tend to increase exponentially with rising temperatures, many economists argue that the biggest impacts of climate change will occur later in the century, and that the main focus should be on reducing longer - term warming.

Human modifications of ecosystems and landscapes often increase their vulnerability to damage from extreme weather events, while simultaneously reducing their natural capacity to moderate the impacts of such events.

If we decide that we should worry about those effects then it is as important to decide whether New York should fund mitigation efforts like a carbon price or adaptation efforts that avoid climate damages to foreign countries to reduce the chance that these impacts will radiate benefits back to New York.

During the Copenhagen conference representatives from poor vulnerable nations begged developed countries to: (a) commit to reduce GHG emissions to levels necessary to prevent dangerous climate change; and (b) to fund adaptation programs in developing countries that are necessary to protect the most vulnerable from climate change impacts that could be avoided or compensate for the damages that could not be avoided.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

When impacts can be reduced but not eliminated, there is an obligation not only to offset the damaging consequences associated with the construction process, but also to strive for corrections in the industry itself.

That implies that land use CO2 sink enhancement might have a much greater impact on reducing atmospheric and ocean CO2 more quickly than radical scared out your knickers, economically damaging mitigation at all cost ala Greg the idiot Craven.

But the carbon lost from the increasing numbers of trees that are damaged or die could reduce this effect and reverse the positive impact of forest management measures aimed at reducing climate change.

Setting measurable targets — in some cases, with baselines provided as a point of comparison — to reduce disaster deaths, economic losses and damage to infrastructure, for instance, will help countries to deal with the impacts of climate change.

The public, universities and academic journals need to understand the techniques denialists employ to impinge on scientists» academic freedom, in order to reduce their damaging impact on science.

Unless we take immediate action to reduce global warming emissions, these impacts will continue to intensify, grow ever more costly and damaging, and increasingly affect the entire planet — including you, your community, and your family.

«Given that the UK are under immense pressure to build more homes year on year, any improved initiatives which might lead to measures during the construction phase to improve or reduce the impact on the environment and help mitigate flood damage, particularly from surface water run - off has to be a good idea.

Reporting on the impact of this trademark infringement in The Trademark Ecosystem: Insights from Intellectual Property Professionals around the World, customer confusion was identified as the biggest effect (44 %), followed by loss of revenue (40 %), reduced customer loyalty (34 %) and damage to reputation (33 %).