Sentences with phrase «scale effects from»

Additional studies have found similarly wide - scale effects from 9/11 and other terrorist attacks.

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In an episode of the «Masters of Scale» podcast with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Sandberg discusses the effects of preventing women from making their own career decisions.

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

These healthcare brands will have the effect of soothing out the inevitable fluctuations that occur on the pharmaceutical side, though right now, Glaxo's portfolio is boasting robust growth from small - scale HIV drugs Triumeq and Trivicay (which, as the CEO noted in the last annual report, sport year - over-year sales growth of 41 % and 43 %, respectively).

-- Relative wealth effects from the housing bubble: Yes, there are a lot of people who own shares of stock but the vast majority of stock market wealth is concentrated at the top of the wealth scale: 80 % of stock market wealth accrues to the top 10 %; over a third to the top 1 %.

Many of the largest IT companies benefit from the network effect or from massive scale, meaning the more people that use their services the better the service becomes.

We live in a universe where the so - called «butterfly effect» plays a strong role, so that things at a quantum microscopic level affect things at a large scale, and a universe where there is true randomness at the quantum level, which gives theoretically uncaused events which can't be empirically distinguished from events with unseen causes.

But the size of any effects — whether on wages, housing or anything else — will depend on the scale of net migration from Romania and Bulgaria.

Research by Håvard Hegre and colleagues suggests that UNPKOs may have a stabilising effect by depressing violence: they seem to ensure that minor conflicts do not scale up into major conflicts, on the one hand, and that the transition from minor conflicts to peace becomes more likely, on the other hand.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

Also speaking during the visit, Johnson said, «Boko Haram has generated suffering, instability and poverty on a huge scale, with profound knock on effects far from Nigeria's borders, and I am proud of Britain's commitment to supporting the Nigerian people in tackling terror.

Those who promoted the Parliament Act 1911 at least perceived this point, as is evident from the preamble to the Act, which states that it was, in effect, intended to be a holding measure pending full - scale reform of the second chamber.

That question is central to understanding the effects of ice sheet melting on ocean water properties, circulation, and biological systems, on scales from local to basinwide.

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He also adds: «The tidal effect on an asteroid, which rapidly rotates under the gravitational field of a planet, can fragment these objects or release large rocks from its surface, which could then become such dangerous projectiles at a local scale as the one fell in Cheliábinsk (Russia) on February 15th 2013.»

«We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to provide the first evidence in the literature of the effects of large - scale teacher retirements on student achievement.

Dr Ceri Fielding from Cardiff University's School of Medicine said: «The scale of the effect of CMV's genes on the immune system surprised us.

The team found that even though El Niño starts halfway around the world, its effects are very localized in the city, changing from one district to another on the scale of kilometers.

«With the rise of ecohydrology as a discipline, we can now work across scales — from the individual tree to the mountain stream — to see the actual effects of species change in relation to climate.»

Under pressure from the Kyoto Protocol, which went into effect in February for just about every country except the United States and Australia, people elsewhere have actually begun to think about such questions, often in ways that are startling for their scale and severity.

Larger groups could have different dynamics, and the effects might not scale up from four to groups of 100 or more in an introductory engineering class.

«One of the greatest uncertainties in EU environmental legislation is that we do not know the precise effects of synergistic chemicals when determining the scale of damage to nature from chemical cocktails,» says environmental chemistry professor and lead researcher, Nina Cedergreen.

In addition, the community's experience with the recent decrease in the rate at which NIH can pay individual's salaries, from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($ 199,700) in FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary support.

Essentially an AOP tells a toxicological story in terms of a logical sequence of causally - linked «key events» that occur at different levels of biological organisation, from perturbations at the molecular scale up to effects occurring in a whole organism or a population.

In much previous work, scientists had simulated the effects of large - scale shocks resulting from colliding asteroids or from asteroids colliding with Earth.

Interestingly, also negative effects of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers and pesticides can be seen even at the coarse European scale and even more worrying is the fact that these negative effects are likely to be amplified with increasing temperatures as they can be expected from climate change.

For instance, will the state save enough money from the effects of the new coverage to offset its required future spending to support the Healthy Michigan Plan when federal funding is scaled back in 2017?

Dark matter's presence has for decades been inferred from its gravitational effects on large - scale structures such as galaxy clusters, but because it does not interact much with ordinary matter and does not emit or absorb light — hence the «dark» moniker — it has so far proved impossible to observe firsthand.

«This is just a bizarre paper,» climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, adding that the effect of direct heating from burning fossil fuels is «completely trivial» on a global scale.

However, evidence from both small - scale, intensive interventions and Head Start suggest that despite this convergence on test scores, there are long - term effects on important societal outcomes such as years of education completed, earnings, and reduced crime and teen pregnancy.

Some of the best evidence so far comes from the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, which obligingly conducted a large - scale experiment for us on the effect of injecting sulphur into the upper atmosphere.

Those studies revealed both the huge scale of human impacts on the sea, and the means of protecting marine ecosystems from such effects.

What we are developing now are a really unique set of tools that are going to allow us to monitor the changes in the retina at the cellular scale over time in the same person; and we think that this is really going to have a transformative effect because it's not only very powerful from the statistical point of view but it really is going to allow us to do experiments that were not possible before.

Studying the effect of dark energy on large - scale structure involves measuring subtle distortions in the shapes of galaxies arising from the bending of space by intervening matter, a phenomenon known as «weak lensing.»

General relativity follows from Einstein's principle of equivalence: on a local scale it is impossible to distinguish between physical effects due to gravity and those due to acceleration.

Every study that attempts to remove the effects of ENSO from the surface temperature record by scaling an ENSO index and by subtracting the scaled and lagged ENSO index from surface temperatures assumes surface temperatures respond proportionally to El Niño and La Niña events.

But at the nano - scale, a quantum effect comes into play: some electrons jump through the insulating material and travel from one nanoparticle to the next.

Our strong expertise allows us study lipid - protein interaction based phenomena at different scales, from the organ and cellular systems down to minimal synthetic systems in which we can control the proteins as well as the lipid, for instance to monitor the allosteric effects of specific lipids on fundamental receptors such as the EGF receptor (Coskun et al (2011) PNAS) and the insulin receptor.

Using individual - level data from 335,464 participants in the UK Biobank and summary association results from seven large - scale genome wide association studies, we examined the effect of this nitric oxide signaling score on cardiometabolic and other diseases.

From our small scale trial of this (7 people), there does seem to be an effect.

Heather: I would start with a disclaimer to the effect that BMI is a precise enough measure for large scale screenings, but it's far from perfect for assessing health on an individual level.

The glycemic index is a scale from one to 100 that measures a food's effect on blood sugar compared to straight glucose, which has a rating of 100.

For answers, we will have to wait for results from large - scale, randomized control experiments exploring the effects of keto on mood swings in bipolar disorder.

After the outside lot, we returned inside, to displays of all the amazing creatures and special effects from the movies, various scale models of different sets, and then, one of the parts I had been most excited about — we walked up Diagon Alley!

We find notes from director Peter Jackson, extras wrangler Josie Leckie, director of photography Andrew Lesnie, camera operator Richard Bluck, armour weapons standby John Harding, greens master Brian Massey, co-producer Rick Porras, designer / sculptor Daniel Falconer, senior machinist / engineer Dominic Taylor, animation supervisor Randall William Cook, stunt performer Steve Reinsfield, extras casting Miranda Rivers and Victoria Cole, painter Brett Larsen, carpenters Geoff Goss and Ross Hoby, supervising unit location manager Richard Sharkey, 2nd AD Marc Ashton, stunt performers Mana Davis and Sala Baker, 2nd unit director Geoff Murphy, boom operators Eoin Cox and Corrin Ellingford, on set art director Simon Bright, camera operator Peter McCaffrey, motion control operator Henk Prins, previsualisation supervisor Christian Rivers, digital surveyor Nick Booth, stable foreman Lee Somervell, gaffer David Brown, set finishing supervisor Kerry Dunn, on set art director Joe Bleakley, effects technician Peter Zivkovic, on set prosthetics makeup Tami Lane, 3rd AD Chris Husson, Weta Workshop's Richard Taylor, effects technicians Darryl Richards and Scott Harens, stunt rigger Paul Shapcott, New Zealand stunt coordinator Kirk Maxwell, swordmaster Bob Anderson, medic and safety officer Andy Buckley, supervising art director Dan Hennah, conceptual artist Alan Lee, Gimli scale double Brett Beattie, and actors Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Andy Serkis, Bernard Hill, Brad Dourif, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Miranda Otto, and Viggo Mortensen.

It begins in spring with a close - up of a face locked in abject misery: Asked by a counselor how happy she is on a scale from one to 10, Janet (Imelda Staunton) says one, in effect setting the tone for much of the film.

The big draws include no - splatter violence on an industrial scale, rendered through dizzying special effects but with the leavening agent of humor to keep the sullen aspects of the story from dimming the enjoyment; and the characterizations of those superhero Avengers as they test their powers against an implacable foe.

But if the panel lacked for concrete fan information, it was filled to the brim with grade - A fan service, with Abrams going out of his way to emphasize the movie's focus on practical effects over CGI work, up to and including bringing out that camel creature — whose name, «Baba Joe,» scores a disappointingly low «3» on the Star Wars Stupid Naming Scale — from the charity video he released last year.

From there we go through historical influences and liberties, assembling a crew, costume and set design, building needed items, casting and research, rehearsal, storyboarding, using the natural elements, Scott's approach on the set, complexities of the movie's scale, extras, practical and computer effects, score and editing, sound design, and the movie's relevance in the modern world.

Then again, Hollywood's addiction to scale, effects, and relentless music and sound probably doomed this version of disturbed tombs and unearthed malevolence (written by David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie and Dylan Kussman from a story by Jon Spaihts) to an expectedly mechanical fate.