Sentences with phrase «scale changes taking»

The study, published in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research Letters, is the first to document fine - scale changes taking place on the ice shelf that help maintain its natural balance with the surrounding ocean waters.

Not exact matches

It takes time to change consumer norms on a wide scale.

While it's certainly unfortunate that it took mishandling user data on a large scale to do so, the incident has become the straw that broke the Facebook camel's back when it comes to privacy — and that appears to be catalyzing change.

Since taking over, he has reportedly scaled back an investigation into the Equifax data breach, relaxed restrictions on often predatory payday lenders, and recommended Congress pursue sweeping changes to the CFPB's powers.

But the change of scale is not enough in itself to explain the sudden and irreversible rise of the industrial phenomenon which we see taking place around us.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

Take measurements as well as tracking your weight via scale, as often there can be changes in size but no change on the scale.

It says the government is taking steps to tackle the problem in school but adds the key to large - scale improvement remains changing people's eating habits.

All the evidence from large - scale change programmes suggests that it takes time and requires strong, stable (usually clinical) leadership.

Firstly, it was a week that laid bare the potentially seismic shifts taking place electorally in Scotland, with Lord Ashcroft's seat - by - seat polling of 16 Scottish constituencies showing the scale of change that may be at hand.

Chicago Tribune: Blagojevich plans to take witness stand at his corruption retrial, sources say Rod Blagojevich's retrial on corruption charges has been mostly a scaled - back repeat of last summer's first installment, but that could soon change dramatically if the former governor testifies in his own defense and calls Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel among his first witnesses.

Paleoclimatology is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of the earth.

«I take what the models tell us may happen to our climate at large scales and try to understand what impacts these changes could have on society.

These events took place within millennia — fairly quickly, on a climatic time scale — and resulted in changes of up to 10 degrees Celsius in mean annual temperatures.

The changes to and propagation of light waves in an electrical field take place on a time scale of a few hundred attoseconds — in other words, within one billionth of a billionth of a second.

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scales.

Using a new technique, Van Heumen and McLeod are now able to visualise the changes taking place in the material during such a phase transition on the nanometer scale.

The sensor's technical goals are threefold: to operate at depths of at least 3,000 meters, take measurements that are precise to the level of the annual pH change (roughly 0.002 on an acid - to - base scale that stretches from 0 to 14) and avoid the need for frequent recalibration.

«However, our study finds that it would take only relatively small changes to tip the scales back in favor of offering the LAIV, so close monitoring is very important.»

«There are many lessons to be learnt and changes to be made that will hopefully stop an outbreak occurring on this scale again, but for me, the most positive message to take from this outbreak is the dedication and courage of the staff who worked in the many Ebola treatment centres in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

«Ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation are essentially irreversible on centennial time scales,» found the Royal Society, a London - based group specializing in scientific research, in a 2011 paper, «[O] nce these changes have occurred, it will take centuries for the ocean to recover.

This relatively new and still emerging way of seeing depends on taking MRI measurements with conventional millimeter - scale resolution, and developing theoretical models to interpret the resulting data in terms of changes occurring at the scale of microns.

Insect outbreaks such as this represent an important mechanism by which climate change may undermine the ability of northern forests to take up and store atmospheric carbon, and such impacts should be accounted for in large - scale modelling analyses.

The changes that are happening can take time to convert to scale change.

«Traditional scales only track your weight, and looking in the mirror everyday makes it difficult to visualize changes that are taking place gradually.

Take body measurements as muscle weighs more than fat (well not really but muscles is denser than fat so 1 lb of lean muscle will take up a lot smaller room on your body than 1 lb of fat) so if you are gaining muscle and losing fat there might not be as much change on the scales and this could lead to you getting de motivaTake body measurements as muscle weighs more than fat (well not really but muscles is denser than fat so 1 lb of lean muscle will take up a lot smaller room on your body than 1 lb of fat) so if you are gaining muscle and losing fat there might not be as much change on the scales and this could lead to you getting de motivatake up a lot smaller room on your body than 1 lb of fat) so if you are gaining muscle and losing fat there might not be as much change on the scales and this could lead to you getting de motivated.

Also, with all of your challenging workouts you are likely building muscle and lean mass as well as losing fat so if you increase your lean muscle mass by 1 lb and lose 1 lb of fat the scale wont change but your physique will (muscle is approx 15 % denser than fat so 1 lb of fat takes up much more space than 1 lb of lean muscle).

To really see the changes your body is experiencing as you go through the challenge, you DEFINITELY should take PROGRESS PICTURES every week, and NOT rely just on the scale.

Muscle is denser than fat, and takes up less space in your body - so as you lose fat and add muscle, you may not see the number on the scale going down as fast as you expect, even though you are noticing the shape and tone of your body changing.

The frequent changes of personnel and the political pressures to balance the competing interests of voters, parents, unions, businesses, and so on, often preclude the continuity necessary to reflect on large - scale trends, plan for long - term goals, take calculated risks, or embrace change and innovation.

While some of the gain reported in the graph was influenced by changes in scaling procedures, even when corrections are introduced that take into account these changes, the size of the improvement in the average English score between 2000 and 2001 was 7 to 8 percent, not 4 percent.

The powerpoint takes students through how we can very simply change a recipe for 4 biscuits into a recipe for 8 biscuits and then evolves to see how we could perhaps change recipes for 6 into recipes for 8 by scaling down and then up.

The frequent changes of personnel at both the staff level and the ministerial level, and the political pressures to balance the competing interests of voters, parents, unions, businesses, and so on, often preclude the continuity necessary to reflect on large - scale trends, plan for long - term goals, take calculated risks, or embrace change and innovation.

Using variation in course - taking that arises both from changes in course offerings at particular campuses in a particular term and from variation across students in the distance that they have to travel to take in - person courses, we find that taking a course online reduces student grades by 0.44 points on the traditional four - point grading scale, approximately a 0.33 standard deviation decline relative to taking a course in - person (See Figure 1).

However, most of these will never achieve meaningful scale unless America takes a fundamentally different approach to how it brings about change in its schools.

She admitted that the government «needs to do more» to help some organisations «because of the nature of the huge change and the huge scale, particularly for the public sector, who have taken a bit more time to adjust because they are managing day to day business».

Mr Lewis said: «The scope and scale of the changes he envisages are both fundamental and wide ranging and will take time to create and secure».

Doesn't large - scale systemic change take seven years?

Taking into account the need for more empirical information in this area, this study represents an exploration of the relationship between teachers» learning styles and their level of resistance to change within a group of schools implementing a large - scale technology intervention, as well as the relationship between those variables and teacher attrition.

She talks about the challenges of generating educational change at a national scale and how to take advantage of the technological rich infrastructure that Uruguay has in order to accelerate results.

She's a big girl no doubt, but despite its 4,471 lb curb weight (the four - cylinder diesel drops to 4,359 lbs, four - cylinder gas versions tip the scales at 4,217 lbs), direction changes take place with relative ease.

Other changes will continue to take place as quickly as possible, such as a more aggressive approach on all recalls which we have already begun to see this year with recent large - scale recalls of GM cars.

As an Android engineer, Dianne Hackborn puts it: «For developers, when designing your app to scale up from its phone UI, this mostly means you should pick the break point at which any major change in your layout should occur and let the layout managers take care of all of the sizes in - between.

«The issue of feral cats is not going away any time soon,» he and his colleagues warned, «and no matter what options are taken, it may well be a generation or more before we can expect broad - scale changes in human behavior regarding outdoor cats.»

No doubt the immediate response from feral cat advocates — the scale of which, I suspect took city and county officials by surprise — played a role in their decision to change focus.

The experience points earned by playing the game — win or lose — will unlock new powerful abilities to take with you that will not only tip the scales, but will also invariably change how you play the game.

DeFeo took enormous chances throughout her career by changing media, shifting styles, and deviating beyond the usual bounds of scale, efficiency, practicality, or propriety.»

For this series, she began redrawing some of his original architectural drawings, plans and elevations from the 1960's and 70's, changed their scale, and using silvered mylar she collaged them to make the buildings take form.

But there no denying that a change takes place when the compositions reach their intended scale.

Kristin Pluhacek and Robert Spellman take inspiration from the natural world; Pluhacek changes scale and thus meaning, Spellman uses abstraction and texture to approximate the feeling of weather.