Sentences with phrase «regional studies from»

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«The impact from potential floods are a major risk identified in our study,» said Pitcairn, «and we welcome the collaborative approach announced by the Fraser Basin Council today, to implement an integrated regional flood management strategy.»

The regional oversamples were then weighted using the same targets from the Survey of Consumer Finances as used to weight the national study.

In reality, these specialists or those historians of religions engaged in the study of regional cultures or specific religions need informed criticisms both from, say, Buddhologists or Indologists, and from generalists in the field.

He said the evidence gathered from these studies would inform the design of the regional project on the development of the food packaging sector in sub-Saharan Africa.

One of its cutting - edge studies is the measuring of food loss and waste at all stages — from production and post-production to processing, distribution and consumption — in order to identify the origin and cost of food waste and loss at the local, regional and global level.

In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.

It pools information mainly from national and regional surveys, and studies dealing specifically with the prevalence and duration of breastfeeding and complementary feeding.

The regional ethics committees for medical research approved the study and written informed consent was obtained from the women.

The study from Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects projected a rehab cost «far more than we thought it would be,» said Sam Hoyt, regional vice president for Empire State Development and an Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. board member.

Results from a 2006 study in Ireland and the U.S. suggest that patients who undergo surgery to remove breast or prostate cancer might be less prone to recurrence if they are administered regional anesthesia during their procedures, rather than general anesthesia alone.

They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional research on stroke risk factors is needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.

After studying high - resolution satellite imagery and compiling records from local and regional government agencies, the authors concluded that all land leased for palm oil production in Indonesia added up to an area the size of Greece.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

Unlike in previous studies, the study behind this new publication looked at the regional density shifts of species during different decades, starting from the 1970s.

Co-author, Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland says global patterns of species richness will change significantly, with considerable regional variability.

After seeing the regional effects in this new study, she agrees that the toxic element likely comes from outside the U.S. «We see for other types of pollutants that [the Rocky Mountain region] tends to be more influenced by nonlocal sources because of its higher elevation — it has access to the free tropospheric air,» she says.

But immigrants from Latin America are less likely to have those requests granted than are immigrants from other regions, according to a new study conducted by scholars at MIT and Brown University — a study that also suggests a potential remedy for this problem, by finding that this regional disparity does not exist when officials examine cases in greater detail.

The study was presented at the IOF Regionals 4th Asia - Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting, held in Hong Kong from December 12 - 15, 2013.

In a study of how recent Chinese imports affected the U.S. labor force, the researchers found that counties with higher rates of self - employment suffered fewer negative effects, such as reduced job growth, from increased imports than counties with lower self - employment rates, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

This study is the first to collect baseline coral restoration survival and productivity data at regional scales including data from 1,000 s of individual A. cervicornis colonies, more than 120 distinct genotypes within six geographical regions to develop benchmarks to fully assess the progress and impacts of the region's coral and reef restoration efforts.

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

A new study from the University of Exeter has revealed that the Central African country of Gabon is providing an invaluable nesting ground for a vulnerable species of sea turtle considered a regional conservation priority.

The study provides concrete starting points for developing measures targeted at increasing regional wood supply from forests or lowering harvest pressure in regions where forests are heavily used.

A new study from an international team led by UA scientists Matthew Sullivan, Jennifer Brum, Simon Roux and Julio Cesar Ignacio Espinoza draws on viral genome data to explain how oceanic viral communities maintain high regional diversity on par with global diversity.

Though they seem discouraging, results from the study will help Forest Service managers classify watersheds in response to human - produced stressors and develop regional climate adaptation plans.

Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of emissions sourced from major industrial carbon producers to regional scale climate impacts.

Procedures for top - level sports students have been developed in dialogue with and according to wishes from students, departments at the university and sports organisations at local, regional and national level so that Uppsala University can to a greater extent facilitate the combining of academic studies and with top - level sports activities.

Late - Holocene climate variability in southern New Zealand: A multi-proxy study of laminated lake sediments from Lake Ohau to reconstruct regional climate Heidi Roop, Marcus Vandergoes, Richard Levy, Gavin Dunbar, Sean Fitzsimons, Jamie Howarth, Bob Ditchburn, Gary Wilson, Jennifer Purdie

Leung describes a hierarchical framework to systematically evaluate climate simulations at regional scales and insights from several studies that analyzed simulations generated as part of the hierarchy to understand discrete challenges in regional climate simulations.

The study used IIASA's GAINS model, along with emissions reports from countries, to calculate sulfur dioxide emissions for the entire world on a detailed regional scale.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by 2050.

Our results concerning the regional distribution of authorship can be compared with the results of Xia et al. [18] who studied the authorship distribution for seven pharmaceutical predatory journals, and Ezinwa Nwagwu and Ojemeni [19] who studied 34 journals from two Nigerian - based predatory publishers.

Analysis from the New Schools Network has found stark regional differences in the proportion of pupils studying A-levels in local state schools in England.

Through their study of people in diverse places, including those countries from which migrants to Australia have come, students come to recognise their similarities with other people, to better understand their differences, and to demonstrate respect for cultural diversity and the human rights of all people in local, national, regional and global settings.

She conducted regional and national studies over the last 30 years on leadership preparation approaches and school and district reform initiatives, and published numerous books and articles on leadership preparation and its impact, including (with Linda Darling - Hammond and others) Preparing principals for a changing world: Lessons from effective school leadership programs (Jossey - Bass, 2009).

These studies explore trends in enrollment and school segregation patterns from 1989 to 2010 at the state and regional levels, including various metro areas for each state.

A recent spate of gold - standard research studies from regional education laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Education has yielded the following disappointing findings:

In Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, anthropologists who study sites across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shape...

By hearing detailed case studies from full service, low - cost, hybrid, leisure and regional carriers that have already invested in a variety of connectivity and IFE solutions, attendees will be able to cut through the noise, learn from the first - movers and identify which solutions are right for their airline today, in five years» time and further into the future.

The six institutions were selected for their established interest in studying and featuring contemporary art from Latin America; the regional influence of their art collections, exhibitions, and programs; and for serving as important references for an international artistic community.

This is common in the arts now; when styles are studied around the globe and people, artists and art communities are as interconnected as they are, there is, at least in an academic sense, a shift from regional to national to international.

He gained widest fame for his warning, derived from studies of past climate fluctuations, that great flows of fresh water from melting ice sheets could disrupt Atlantic Ocean currents and cause regional cooling (such an idea was caricatured in the Hollywood disaster film «The Day After Tomorrow «-RRB-.

The NOMADE study aims to inform regional epidemic control initiatives spanning six West African countries from Mauritania to Chad, which aim to dramatically improve health and economic development prospects in this semi-arid region.

The objective of our study was to quantify the consistency of near - global and regional integrals of ocean heat content and steric sea level (from in situ temperature and salinity data), total sea level (from satellite altimeter data) and ocean mass (from satellite gravimetry data) from an Argo perspective.

Alaska Arctic Tundra CH4 Flux Study — Impacts of AGW / CC Published 8 - Jan 2018 Estimating regional - scale methane flux and budgets using CARVE aircraft measurements over Alaska Conclusions Analysis of CH4 column enhancements supplemented by simulated atmospheric transport allowed us to estimate the monthly - mean CH4 fluxes from our study domain (50 — 75 N, 130 — 17Study — Impacts of AGW / CC Published 8 - Jan 2018 Estimating regional - scale methane flux and budgets using CARVE aircraft measurements over Alaska Conclusions Analysis of CH4 column enhancements supplemented by simulated atmospheric transport allowed us to estimate the monthly - mean CH4 fluxes from our study domain (50 — 75 N, 130 — 17study domain (50 — 75 N, 130 — 170 W).

Prior to blogging, Zach received a bachelor's degree in sociology and environmental studies from Florida's honors college, New College of Florida, and then a master's degree in city & regional planning from UNC — Chapel Hill, the top graduate program in the nation for land use planning.

Also referred to as synthetic scenarios (IPCC, 1994), they are commonly applied to study the sensitivity of an exposure unit to a wide range of variations in climate, often according to a qualitative interpretation of projections of future regional climate from climate model simulations (guided sensitivity analysis, see IPCC - TGCIA, 1999).

The massive new study, involving 80 researchers from around the world with the Past Global Changes (PAGES) group, is the first to look at continental temperature changes over two thousand years, providing insights into regional climatic changes from the Roman Empire to the modern day.

(05/01/2013) Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.