Sentences with phrase «researchers measured the rise»

Instead of looking at the number of individuals using M - PESA, the researchers measured the rise in the number of service agents within 1 kilometer around each household — or «agent density» — during early rollout of the mobile - money services.

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For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

University of Alaska Fairbanks student researchers Dragos Vas and Sudipta Sarkar measure methane bubbles rising from an Interior Alaska lake.

But researchers found data from 1981 to 2015 on four reservoirs in Germany, allowing the scientists to calculate how much CO2 levels had risen and how much pH levels, measuring acidity in the water, had dropped, the scientists report online January 11 in Current Biology.

By measuring the levels of various substances in the shoots of the legume, which lives in symbiosis with fungi, and combining the results with large - scale genetic studies, the researchers have found that the levels of secondary substances (flavonoids and terpenoids) rise in the shoots as a result of the increased hormonal levels.

The authors note that many studies and measures indicate that Americans have become increasingly polarized in recent years, and that numerous researchers and commentators attribute increased polarization in part to the rise of social media and the internet.

To fill in the holes in the sea level rise models, the researchers used a sensor that measures seismic waves and tracked the glacier calving.

And the Arctic, where the average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world, has become the unfortunate laboratory where researchers can best measure their impact.

By measuring changes in winds, rather than relying upon problematic temperature measurements, researchers estimated the atmospheric temperatures near 10 km in the Tropics rose about 0.65 degrees Celsius per decade since 1970 — probably the fastest warming rate anywhere in Earth's atmosphere.

Ocean temperatures have risen only 0.1 degree Celsius over the last five decades, according to a landmark study some scientists argue could change the way researchers measure the ocean's temperature levels.

Researchers released CO2 at the bottom of the tank, and Woodward measured the size and quantity of the bubbles at various depths as they rose to the surface to understand how the gas dissipated.

Airborne Researchers Measure Greenland's Ice (Reporter package) View Animation Greenland's coastal ice is disappearing fast enough that at its current rate of decline it will contribute to a rise in the world's oceans of a little less than a centimeter in the space of a single human lifetime.

However, the «real» denial rate, a measure calculated by researchers at the Urban Institute that adjusts the «traditional» denial rate for changes in the mix of mortgage applicants and the denial decisions of mortgage lenders, has been rising since the end of the housing boom.