Sentences with phrase «represent global changes»

We used a 5 - d average for food intake for each condition to most accurately represent global changes in food intake that occurred during each condition.

According to the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the UB, «the data from these trees that grow in heights over 2,000 metres represents the global changes, since their growth is not influenced by the effects of the local human activity (wood cutting, industry).»

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Demand growth «has stalled and that represents a significant change in the environment for producers both in OPEC and outside it,» said Dave Ernsberger, global head of oil content at S&P Global Pglobal head of oil content at S&P Global PGlobal Platts.

The drivers weren't able to achieve «global changes» at Lyft, but those changes are still possible at Uber, explained Shannon Liss - Riordan, the attorney representing both Lyft drivers and Uber drivers in their respective cases.

The megatrends illustrated in Figure 1 represent five significant trends in the global sector which are already changing the F&A products demanded by consumers and the business models of F&A companies.

Miliband represented the UK at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, from which emerged a global commitment to provide an additional US$ 10 billion a year to fight the effects of climate change, with an additional $ 100 billion a year provided by 2020.

The essays represent a wide range of scientific topics: neuroscience, biology, «Big Data», forensic anthropology, science policy, STEM education, wildlife ecology, environmental sustainability, sociology, medicine, global health, science ethics, stem cell research, materials engineering, crowd - sourcing, computer science, biotechnology, genetics, agricultural sciences, climate change, and information technology.

The big question is will they be enough to help keep global warming below 2 °C, a politically agreed threshold generally deemed to represent the level of dangerous climate change.

«I think that this decision represents a clear and powerful recognition of how serious the threat of global warming is and that our reliance on coal for power generation needs to be changed,» says Eric Young, spokesman on global warming at New York City — based environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.

«Too often in debates about climate change risk, the starting point is a presumption that only global warming in excess of 2 °C represents a threat to humanity,» says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, College Park.

Yet a small addition to the facility — a tiny boiler that pipes 30 MW worth of steam to local industrial customers — represents a hope for salvation from the global climate - changing consequences of burning fossil fuels.

The word represents harmony, balance and health, which campaign group 350.org sees as key goals in the global effort to tackle climate change.

Aside from waffling a bit on questions about the wisdom of nuclear - weapons testing and whether climate change represents a global crisis, Perry generally said the right things, says Michael Lubell, a physicist at the City College of New York.

This represents a major step forward in U.S. — India partnerships to strengthen their economic growth and energy security, while also addressing the threat of global climate change.

The mutations in these regions represent key changes in human evolution over the last 40,000 years, after our ancestors first left Africa and were going global.

Twelve of the interdisciplinary team of 20 coauthors are from the University of Maryland, with multiple other universities (Northeastern University, Columbia University, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University, and Brown University) and other institutions (Joint Global Change Research Institute, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Institute for Global Environment and Society, Japan's RIKEN research institute, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) also represented.

«It shows permafrost represents a huge source of mercury, and if it thaws due to climate change the mercury could be released and could significantly add to the global mercury burden.»

For example, substantial commitments to reduce carbon emissions from the US and China, Europe, and a host of high income countries form the basis of negotiations, while ten global cities representing 58 million people have drawn up ambitious plans to tackle climate change.

Methods: A global collaboration of scientists responded to a request from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and generated a set of four scenarios to represent future greenhouse gas emissions and land use cChange, and generated a set of four scenarios to represent future greenhouse gas emissions and land use changechange.

To our knowledge, this paper represents the first attempt to combine statistically rigorous analysis methods and a global proxy database to reconstruct global sea - level change over this time period.

The transformation of forested lands by human actions represents one of the great forces in global environmental change and one of the great drivers of biodiversity loss.

Why it matters: Atmospheric aerosols represent the greatest unknown in global climate change research.

The goal of this project was to craft a collective narrative from interviews of 30 global leaders who represent government, civil society and business interests — all making the case that deforestation must stop immediately if we are to protect our planet from the grim realities of climate change.

Values represent the deltaAIC change [38] from dropping each of the indicators from the global model.

Clarke, working at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a partnership between PNNL and the University of Maryland, was acclaimed by the group for his skillful and tireless leadership to ensure the significant work of the Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) community was objectively and prominently represented in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Responsible for more than 70 percent of global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, cities represent the single greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

A closer inspection of the search results reveals that there are 1 million global searches for the term «online dating at», of which only 4 % is represented by Australia; so change the country selection to see which countries produce the highest search volumes, as on these results, you are targeting the wrong territory, and richer pickings lie elsewhere.

Another threat is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change.

Another threat, environmental, is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change that tends to produce serious impact on economic activities and increased social problems of mankind.

Representing a wide range of contexts, theories of action, and strategies (from government - initiated top - down reform to bottom - up change from the grassroots), the presenters this panel will offer insights into the challenges and possibilities for the education sector in the Global South and North America.

Taking a longer view, passive investors should generally applaud any index changes that better represent the global markets.

Millennials represent the generation that most staunchly believes in global warming, and this will be the demographic that will lead the fight against climate change in the coming years.

This past March, a group of independent pet specialty retail chains representing over 300 stores met at Global Pet Expo to discuss the ongoing changes in our industry.

The situation represents a stark contrast with other big productions of the Japanese developer released over the last five years, and perhaps signals a change of cycle in which brands like Monster Hunter grow more popular at a global scale, while other classic properties might not able to recover from their current situation.

That story is a complicated one, woven from the threads of debates about how to represent blackness, social struggle and change, and global migrations and diasporas.

There are also global datasets of indices representing the more extreme aspects of climate called CLIMDEX, providing a list of 27 core climate extremes indices (so - called the «ETCCDI» indices, referring to the «CCl / CLIVAR / JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices»).

The two kinds of climate change are sometimes confounded by non-experts — e.g., when it is claimed that DO events represent a much larger and more rapid climate change than anthropogenic global warming.

or had a heads up on the following: «Science Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate» «The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human - induced global waGlobal Warming Debate» «The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human - induced global waglobal warming.

The point I am trying to make is «when it is claimed that DO events represent a much larger and more rapid climate change than anthropogenic global warming,» perhaps DO events do cause rapid regional climate change larger and more rapid than anthropogenic global warming generally.

Transport is no small piece of the climate change pie: the sector represents approximately one - quarter of global CO2 emissions.

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration project).

Under the most generous assumptions, whereby you assume the oil transported by Keystone XL would not be either shipped elsewhere or replaced with some other source, then this represents an incremental change on the order of fractions of a percent of global emissions.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human - induced global warming.

Consider, for example, Bjorn Lomborg, who has never «denied» global warming, climate change, nor that they represent serious problems which ought to be addressed, probably by government intervention.

Leonardo DiCaprio sounded a dire warning at his charity foundation's annual climate change gala Wednesday night in St. Tropez, telling the dozens of celebrities and dignitaries in attendance that they represent the «last generation» that has a chance to halt the deleterious effects of global warming.

(8) Since at least 1980 changes in global temperature, and presumably especially southern ocean temperature, appear to represent a major control on changes in atmospheric CO2.»

OHC may be one of the best measures of the top of atmosphere imbalance available - averaged over long time periods, global, representing (for the full depth of the oceans) ~ 93 % of the energy changes.

The relationship is not perfect but it represents a significant improvement over the incredibly lame human - CO2 and global warming / climate change relationship claimed by the IPCC's anti-CO2 Climategate scientists and alarmists.