Sentences with phrase «scale changes within»

Many people have a natural and deep - seated resistance to large - scale changes within our educational systems.

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This large - scale deforestation is pushing many species to extinction, and findings show that if nothing changes species like the orangutan could become extinct in the wild within the next 5 - 10 years, and Sumatran tigers less than 3 years.»

«We are the first business in the world to have launched an SMS platform that enables farmers to access tailored information sourced sustainably — and with the potential to scale — from within the farming community itself, so that they can increase resilience to climate change, increase crop yield and improve their livelihoods whether or not they are online.»

A specialist in strategy and business leadership driving transformational change, Collins has a successful background in implementing business improvement platforms across market sectors within SMEs and large scale PLCs.

«Even small changes within an ecosystem can have detrimental effects: Interactions between small organisms are «keystone» interactions that scale up to shape whole ecosystems.»

Adaptationism certainly appears to hold true in microevolution — small - scale evolutionary change within species, such as changes in beak shape in Galapagos finches in response to available food sources.

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.

«Macro-level changes in the structure of citation clusters» is the title of one of the articles in this collection, and «multidimensional scaling» within «a hierarchical or nested structure of clusters four levels deep» is what it is all about.

The change occurred at an astonishing pace: Within a few months, native lizards had begun shifting to higher perches, and over the course of 15 years and 20 generations, their toe pads had become larger, with more sticky scales on their feet.

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.

Once considered remote and disconnected, now we know that changes within the Arctic can have a direct impact on the rest of the world, affecting physical and biological systems near and far at regional and global scales.

«On a bigger scale, sensors could be placed at different locations at catchment scale to observe any changes in the level of salinity within a field over time, having a direct impact on irrigation strategies.

From May to August 1995, several flares were observed with changes within a time - scale of weeks, and archival data suggests that the star may have a long - term activity cycle (Guinan and Morgan, 1996).

Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.

Because meter - scale suboxic zones occur today within the mobile mud belts of tropical river - dominated continental shelves, such as the Amazon Shelf, we hypothesize that sedimentological and hydrological changes during the PETM fostered the development of analogous conditions on the Eastern seaboard of North America.

Conversely, within non-diabetic populations, periods of IER (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) do not typically affect fasting glucose levels 37, 41, 45, 48 or HbA1c 41, 48; results of which can often be replicated by short term CER studies.62 - 65These findings are unsurprising given that frank hyperglycaemia within the T2DM diagnostic range is effectively a late - stage manifestation of IR, which along with compensatory increases insulin secretion, can precede the onset of T2DM by many years.66, 67 Findings from one large scale prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, reveal a sharp increase in the trajectory towards fasting hyperglycaemia which is only detectable three years prior to diagnosis with T2DM.67 Consequently, it can be argued that changes in circulating insulin concentrations, fasting (hepatic) insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake / clearance are more sensitive markers of deteriorating glucose control than fasting glycaemia in non - diabetics.68 - 70

Given the scale of this change, the easiest way forward would be to create a pilot program within a college of education rather than attempting schoolwide reform.

To Provide leadership development for key actors within the Saving Brains community to support their ability to lead large - scale systems change necessary to create and sustain innovation at scale.

Provide leadership development for key actors within the Saving Brains community to support their ability to lead large - scale systems change necessary to create and sustain innovation at scale.

The SEED - SCALE method harnesses the energy and effort of community to foster education and change within a community.

We have strongly recommended that school governing bodies adopt the reference scale and cause as little disruption as they can within their school by making as few changes as possible to the pay structure.

Then came the challenge of digital technology: to deploy internally, and at scale, a set of soft skills and work methodologies capable of accelerating this change by creating a true digital culture within the organization.

With so many unmanageable and unpredictable variables, whole - school reform will always be tenuous, because it attempts to simply glide by many of the institutional constraints — the variety of programs operating within a school, all with different goals; the requirements of the administrators» and teacher unions» contracts — that make large - scale change so tortuous.

Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policy.

As a result, the overarching guiding question for this study was, «What is the relationship between learning preference and teachers» resistance to change within the context of a school undergoing a large - scale complex technology intervention?»

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.

Although Achievement Level Descriptors are intended to aid interpretation of the four categories, they are less precise than scaled scores for describing student growth or changes in achievement gaps among groups of students since they do not reveal changes of student scores within the four levels.

Most commentators agree that the speed of contemporary arts investment / change within China is unlike anything we have ever witnessed — the building of vast futuristic culture castles across China, the scale of growth in the commercial gallery sector and the growing numbers studying art and design — suggest that an ongoing cultural engagement between Greater Manchester and China during this present period of growth is essential.

Among these are the alteration of color and light through time, the association of vertical and horizontal intervals, the distance between forms and their relativity to scale, the cycle of cluster to interstice to matrix as the seasons change, and the nuance of variation within the geometry of form or growth.

On view will be several smaller - scale, early works in metal and cord from the 1960s; significant permutational works from the 1970s that change over time; reliefs and site - situational constructions from later in the artist's career; and a selection of drawings and artist's books, thus demonstrating the scope of formal and conceptual invention that the artist achieved within his defined idiom.

Most of these variations are given changes in scale and tonal intensity from painting to painting within a series.

It seems a little odd to validate the models only at a seasonal macro scale after adjusting small scale parameters since that would aggregate the effect of parameterizations across large scale pattern changes within each season and make it impossible to determine cause and effect.

The aggregate properties and changes of complex systems can not be determined from sum of the individual components, owing to interactions among the components and the different scales of organization within the system.

If you look at rates of change already and that changes are from decades to a century ahead of schedule, and think Arctic permafrost and clathrates have a realistic probability of breaking down on a massive scale within years or decades, then you take another.

Most people worth their salt, (pun intended), know that the 6th Epoch, the Anthropocene, has indeed been ushered in by mankind.Climate changes that before occurred in scales of hundreds of thousands of years are now taking place within decades.The sheer evidence of many, many, unstoppable feedback mechanisms is enormous.

This failure is a little strange as the assessed scale of future permafrost CH4 emissions are plain within the paper's Fig 6 while Section 6.4 — Sensitivity of Permafrost Methane Fluxes to Climate Change concludes «The potential strength of the permafrost CH4 feedback may be considered small through to 2100 but remains uncertain at these and longer timescales.»

For weather predictions, accuracy disappears within a few weeks — but for ocean forecasts, accuracy seems to have decadal scale accuracy — and when you go to climate forcing effects, the timescale moves toward centuries, with the big uncertainties being ice sheet dynamics, changes in ocean circulation and the biosphere response.

Current attempts by national governments worldwide to control industrial CO2 emissions following the recommendations of the IPCC could be viewed within the scientific paradigm as the projection of a large scale experiment on the earth's climate system to validate the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes (inter alia) are a major factor driving climate change.

There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between climate and fields such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

Large - scale singular events are abrupt or irreversible changes within the climate system.

This policy documents serves as a guiding instrument to scale - up the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)'s support for actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change within Latin - America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Large - scale TOA radiation changes during the past decade are observed to be within 0.5 Wm ^ 2 per decade based upon comparisons between Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments aboard Terra and Aqua and other instruments...

The irregularity of the temperature changes within those main background trends can not have been anything to do with humanity and can adequately be catered for by varying oceanic effects on multidecadal time scales.

Working at the local scale means you can meet face to face as a group, and work to change the institutions within your immediate reach: whether that's your village, town or city.

Climate change in Greenland and at a hemispheric scale was simultaneous (within ~ 4 years) as supported by climate model results (LeGrande et al., 2006).

The 25 D - O events during the last glacial, where temperatures rose and fell by 5 to 10 degrees C (10 - 15 degrees C for Greenland) within a span of decades that were «explained by internal variability of the climate system alone ``, deemed global in scale, and they occurred without any changes in CO2 concentrations, which stayed steady at about 180 ppm throughout the warming and cooling.

However, as many people know, individual and familial efforts even if all of us were paragons of climate virtue within our various means, do not add up to the systemic changes required to cut emissions on a grand scale across the economy.

The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

Hence, for example, it's an appropriate definition for looking at temperature changes involved in the ice age, or millennial scales within the Holocene.