Sentences with phrase «role of human influence»

So, in effect, to pin down the role of human influence on climate in 2013, we need to roll the weather dice again thousands of times.
The assessment of future weather extremes finds the role of human influence is «detectable» in summer heatwaves and in intense rainfall.
Climate scientists can quantify the role of human influence in individual flooding events; specifically whether they are made more or less likely in a changing climate.
Monday 27th February, 18.30 - 20.00 Room 1.07 Western Gateway Building Western Road, UCC, Cork Tickets free Eventbrite Professor Allen will explore the role of human influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.
Monday 27th February, 18.30 - 20.00 Room 1.07 Western Gateway Building Western Road, UCC, Cork Tickets free Eventbrite Professor Allen will explore the role of human influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.
Professor Allen will explore the role of human influence on climate in recent extreme weather events.

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New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.
June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.
Sperry has been deeply influenced by the role of consciousness as a cause and the role of values in human life.
The Godless Monster is right, people try and influence, control, manipulate, ect in every area of life when they have a position of authority, thats human nature, or the sin nature of man if you like.Because the church has a lot of organisation, its a hot bed of oppitunity for people with ideas or assperations to lead or control to position themselves, and once there become protective of their role, it gives them a voice.You will find them in schools, governments, offices, everywhere.IT really makes no difference if it christian or athiest place, its people being people
«The study of the Dravidian languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, as they played a significant role in influencing other language groups,» explains corresponding author Annemarie Verkerk of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
The Duke medical researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to identify which species flourish in early stages of the human microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play in critical diseases affecting infants as well as in chronic diseases that occur later in life.
Christmas Island's location makes it a model location to study the role of warming on reefs, but it also has a diverse array of reefs — from ones impacted by human fishing to ones that are in pristine condition — that make it ideal to see how different influences play out.
The research objective of Seth's study is to investigate the roles of human and organizational factors that influence software quality construction.
Zinke acknowledged climate is changing and humans have had an influence, but claimed there is a lot of «debate» over how much of a role humans have played and what can or should be done to combat climate change.
Delworth said that the role of human - influenced heat in drought wasn't necessarily the aim of the study, but that it could certainly be a factor.
Cilia play important roles in nearly every human organ and also are essential for the survival of many parasites, such as trypanosoma brucei that causes African sleeping sickness, giving Dong's work the potential for wide influence.
Using a reverse - genetics system, in which specific viral sequences are manipulated within the context of a full - length infectious clone of the virus, they have been defining the roles of particular viral components in influencing DENV and ZIKV infection in mice and human cells.
These findings raise the possibility that viral shell mutations may influence the T cell response to John Cunningham polyomavirus in humans, and play a role in the development of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, the researchers wrote in the Journal of Virology.
It addresses the cognitive and physiological factors influencing the complex role of food and nutrition in human health.
There is accumulating evidence to demonstrate the importance of omega - 3 fatty acids and their role as an important nutrient in maintaining a well balanced diet and an influence in human health.
Multiple questions one each of the following topics and sub-topics: Business activity 1.1 The role of business enterprise and entrepreneurship 1.2 Business planning 1.3 Business ownership 1.4 Business aims and objectives 1.5 Stakeholders in business 1.6 business growth Marketing 2.1 The role of marketing 2.2 Market research 2.3 Market segmentation 2.4 The marketing mix People 3.1 The role of human resources 3.2 Organisational structures and different ways of working 3.3 Communication in business 3.4 Recruitment and selection 3.5 Motivation and retention 3.6 Training and development 3.7 Employment law Operations 4.1 Production processes 4.2 Quality of goods and services 4.3 The sales process and customer service 4.4 Consumer law 4.5 Business location 4.6 Working with suppliers Finance 5.1 The role of the finance function 5.2 Sources of finance 5.3 Revenue, costs, profit and loss 5.4 Break - even 5.5 Cash and cash flow Influences on business 6.1 Ethical and environmental considerations 6.2 The economic climate 6.3 Globalisation
From examples of Chinese calligraphy that informed his cut - out period to African sculptures that influenced his depictions of the human figure, his personal possessions played a role in each stage of his career — and in many cases you can see the works they inspired displayed alongside.
Here, a fundamental role will be played by the current reinterpretation of the humanist view of life and its influences on the relationship between humans and natur.
Influenced by architecture and methods of scientific research, the works reveal human domestic needs and the role that objects play in our interaction with one another.
* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (big pdf file) and other climate - research groups have largely rejected the hypothesis that variations in the sun's behavior could have played a big role in warming since 1950 (the period in which the panel and the vast majority of climate specialists see abundant evidence that a human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases is the main influence).
Since people's beliefs about evolution are influenced by their perceptions of scientific consensus, the total role of science knowledge in shaping a person's opinion likely operates indirectly through beliefs about scientific consensus as well as directly through beliefs about whether humans have evolved over time.
In this way, natural and human climate influences can be separated, and as with disease and risk factors, the role of a specific factor in a specific outcome can be quantified.
Two articles recently published in the peer reviewed literature discuss the contribution of waves to coastal sea level rise and the roles of human and natural influences in Canada's warming climate.
But it did prevent the United States from playing a more central role in writing critical sections of the Intergovernmental Panel's report — particularly the part assessing the extent of human influence on the warming trend of recent decades.
How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes.
It is likely, though, that the main reason why these authors chose to aggrandize the influence of methane emissions on climate is because it is not currently acceptable to claim that human activity plays only a small role (< 25 %) in temperature variations.
Abstract: Over the last two decades, detection and attribution (D&A) of climate changes played a central role in assessing the human influence on climate.
While it is probably not out completely out of the question that some sort of weather influence may, in part, play some role in the current affliction of the Costa Rica banana crop, to implicate human - caused global warming, you'd have to have gone completely..., well, you know.
Paleoclimate evidence is simply one in a number of independent lines of evidence indicating the strong likelihood that human influences on climate play a dominant role in the observed 20th century warming of the earth's surface.
Trenberth also focused on climate attribution studies which claim the lack of a human component, and suggested that the assumptions distort results in the direction of finding no human influence, resulting in misleading statements about the causes of climate change that can serve to grossly underestimate the role of humans in climate events.
The summary related aviation's role relative to all human influence on the climate system: «The best estimate of the radiative forcing in 1992 by aircraft is 0.05 W m — 2 or about 3.5 % of the total radiative forcing by all anthropogenic activities.»
It is the understanding of the power of the carbon cycle and the primary role played by geological processes that promotes doubt in some geologists minds that present - day climate change is caused by human - sourced CO2 in the atmosphere; they simply don't believe that we humans have that much influence.
Increased global temperatures caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases are extremely likely to have played at least some role in more than four out of five flooding days from Key West to Fernandina, Florida, and the study indicates that at the locations analyzed, more than 3,500 flood days since 1950 would not have occurred without human influence.
«Lean and Rind (2008) analyzed the role of natural factors (e. g., solar variability, volcanoes) versus human influences on temperatures since 1889.
Similarly, Article 1 of the Draft Norms discusses the sphere of influence of companies and highlights the role of government in human rights protection:
Our results have further implications for our understanding of the role of individual personality traits in influencing fertility patterns in high - and low - fertility human populations.
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