Sentences with phrase «response to human»

28 June 2010 UNODC announces the launch of the Needs Assessment Toolkit on the Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking

About Blog John Vanek is a speaker, author, and consultant focusing on the collaborative response to human trafficking.

Google's Instant Apps is a profoundly significant response to human behavior's deferment to the mobile web rather than apps.

Unfortunately, as Louise Arbour has pointed out, 283 there remains a prevailing domestic judicial bias against applying the Charter to require governments to act in response to human rights crises of this sort.

Vancouver [September 28, 2016]-- In response to a human rights complaint, the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation announced yesterday that it will end the practice of clawing back Employment Insurance (EI) maternity and parental benefits from families receiving income and disability assistance.

Keeping thorough and accurate records of the entire accommodation process, including the employee's and the employer's steps, is important as an employee's accommodation needs evolve and, if necessary, can provide evidence in response to a human rights complaint for failure to accommodate.

France banned blood donations by gay and bisexual men in 1983 in response to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic.

«Conservatives» attacked the proposal, characterizing it as a tactic for the administration to advocate for greenhouse gas emissions reductions as a response to human - induced climate change.

Emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and of reactive gases such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, which lead to the formation of secondary pollutants including aerosol particles and tropospheric ozone, have increased substantially in response to human activities.

His expertise is in predicting and understanding large - scale response to human - induced climate change and detailed changes at a regional level.

The question is not whether climate will change in response to human activities, but rather how much (magnitude), how fast (the rate of change) and where (regional patterns).

In addition to warming, many other aspects of global climate are changing, primarily in response to human activities.

Early work at GFDL relating to carbon focused on CO2 as a greenhouse gas and it's potential for doubling in response to human activities, through water vapor and other atmospheric feedbacks in the context of latitudinal, land - sea and other inhomogeneities influencing climate (e.g. Manabe 1968, 1986, 1987).

An overall increase in global - mean atmospheric temperatures is predicted to occur in response to human - induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of heat - trapping «greenhouse gases.»

«Surface temperature reconstructions for periods prior to the industrial era are only one of multiple lines of evidence supporting the conclusion that climatic warming is occurring in response to human activities, and they are not the primary evidence,» the report said.

This implies that it is important to consider how these fluxes may be changing in response to human activities.

Because 20 - year trends can be substantially influenced by just a few single or multi-year «warm» or «cold» events, they are not necessarily representative of the true response of the climate system to the more gradual changes in atmospheric composition that are taking place in response to human activities.

An outstanding question, however, is whether the frequency and / or intensity of these dynamical features are changing in response to human - caused climate change, and in...

Surface temperature and lower to mid-tropospheric temperature are different entities, which should not be expected to vary in precisely the same manner in response to human - induced and natural climate forcings during a particular 20 - year period of record.

«The idea that the climate of the Great Plains was changing, particularly in response to human settlement, was popularly accepted in the last half of the 19th century.

Once in place, these same plans will provide an adequate response to any human - caused change that may or may not emerge.

«Surface temperature reconstructions for periods prior to the industrial era are only one of multiple lines of evidence supporting the conclusion that climatic warming is occurring in response to human activities, and they are not the primary evidence.»

However, for regional downscaling (and global) models to add value (beyond what is available to the impacts community via the historical, recent paleorecord and a worst case sequence of days), they must be able to skillfully predict changes in regional weather statistics in response to human climate forcings.

A third fundamental challenge arises from feedbacks that can dramatically amplify or mute the climate's response to human and natural influences.

We can make two important observations about humankind's response to human - caused climate change --

4/7/17 — As the Earth continues to warm in response to human activities, the prospects of using engineering techniques to control climate change are gaining attention, the New York Times reports, noting that an important step is to invest more in research.

«The Amazon rainforest has some resilience in response to human - related disturbances - deforestation, fire etc. — but only to a certain degree,» said Wang.

Some 98 percent of working climate scientists agree that the atmosphere is already warming in response to human greenhouse - gas emissions, and the most recent research suggests that we are on a path toward what were once considered «worst case» scenarios.

It also underscores that adaptation is not just a response to human - caused climate change but a fact of life on planet Earth.

A good example here is the carbon sink in the biosphere (approximately 4.5 Gt / year) which has doubled over the past 50 years in response to human emissions of CO2 and, thus, provides a good example of Earth resilience at play;

Among other notions related to communicating environmental risk, I explore whether the public and media response to human - driven climate change might have been different if CO2 were pink.

Even though China's «one child per family» policy is implemented in ways that are incompatible with my personal values and, I believe, with universal human values, I do believe this policy can be implemented in humane and voluntary ways that provide a remarkably robust response to the human - induced global challenges which loom ominously before humanity.

Approximately 150 colorful fish - shaped Mylar balloons will float at various heights and move gently through the glass - enclosed Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion in response to human interaction and climatic changes.

Consecrated Reality speaks of the impulse to create as a ceremonious response to the human experience.

Having only been introduced in the late 28th century, the Nox represents one of the most recent additions to Aopoa's lineup and was designed as a direct Xi'an response to Human open - canopy vehicles.

This trend was most likely developed in more of a consumer response to human nutrition trends, rather than responding to the nutritional needs of our pets in general.

Some cats also use it in response to human sneezes.

The blinking of a cat's eye in response to his human is the equivalent of a «kitty kiss» and indicates deep affection.

Twenty - two of the dogs came to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, and their resilience and response to human kindness showed that these dogs, like every other type of dog, are indeed individuals.

«Our study suggests that dogs» facial movements have evolved in response to a human preference for childlike characteristics.

Pharmacogenetics: This branch is related to the clinical testing of genetic variation that primarily gives rise to the differing response to human - made drugs.

«This original and frightening ecological response to human activity dances tantalizingly on the edge of believability.

But it was a great examination of the depth and shallowness of human response to human frailty.

About Site - John Vanek is a speaker, author, and consultant focusing on the collaborative response to human trafficking.

Inadequate treatment of hypothyroidism (under active thyroid gland) may prevent optimal response to Human Growth Hormone.

Prediction of testosterone response to human chorionic gonadotrophin in idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism patients..

Observed decreases in arctic sea ice extent have been shown to be inconsistent with simulated internal variability, and consistent with the simulated response to human influence, but SH sea ice extent has not declined.

Added a response to the human evolution section of Icons of Evolution.

In addition to warming, many other aspects of global climate are changing, primarily in response to human activities.

Unfortunately, the data and our understanding are insufficient to usefully quantify the climate's response to human influences.