Sentences with phrase «scale effects on»

Year - to - year climate variability in the form of drought or flooding already has large - scale effects on food security today.

While the local nature of ABCs around polluted cities has been known since the early 1900s, the widespread transoceanic and transcontinental nature of ABCs as well as their large - scale effects on climate, hydrological cycle, and agriculture were discovered inadvertently by The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international experiment conducted in the 1990s over the Indian Ocean.

an event occurring naturally that has large - scale effects on the environment and people, such as a volcano, earthquake, or hurricane.

A new University of Washington study shows that impacts at individual armored sites can scale up to have cumulative, large - scale effects on the characteristics of Salish Sea shorelines and the diversity of life they support.

But we find organisms can have a large - scale effect on a system that was previously studied in an abiotic context.»

Not exact matches

«But its effect on certain symptoms is well established, and confirmed by molecular science and large - scale hospital applications.»

Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

Baccini went on to say that forests were the only carbon capture and storage «technology» we had in our grasp that was «safe, proven, inexpensive, immediately available at scale, and capable of providing beneficial ripple effects.»

Stephen Sapp, an associate professor of finance - economics at the Richard Ivey School of Business, noted that the effect on Canada will likely be indirect if the slowdown in growth is confined to countries we don't trade with on a large scale.

«Global Adventure»: A three - minute look at the effect the Avengers have, not just on US audiences, but on a global scale with an overview of some of the locations in which the movie was made.

Republican lawmakers argue that the BAT would offset the price increase since the shift in the trade balance would cause the dollar to strengthen, improving the purchasing power of Americans and scaling back the effect on consumers.

Canadian regulations only affect existing coal plants once they have been producing for approximately 50 years or plants undergoing major refurbishment: Their effect will not be felt on a large scale for decades.

In many dark energy models, we would expect to see significant effects on both laboratory and cosmological scales.

EBay's inflammatory research paper with its uninflammatory title («Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment»), put it this way: «The non-brand keyword experiments show that SEM had a very small and statistically insignificant effect on sales.»

«While an incredibly difficult decision for us given the effect on our core operations, it became clear that we needed to close the Maple operation here in New York and look for a partner with scale — one that would allow us to leverage all that we had built across a broader platform.»

Superficially, it's obvious why: There are the global - scale economic and political effects a manipulated outcome could have, and the psychological appeal of attacking a democratic process that the US holds on a pedestal.

The effect on Amazon has been equally significant: I detailed last year how the revelation of AWS» financial results was effectively a Facebook - level IPO, and subsequent earnings reports in which AWS has demonstrated the power of scale — increased revenue plus increased margins — have only solidified the fact that AWS will be a substantial driver of Amazon's revenue and (eventual!)

They probably won't have much effect on the large - scale investment plans in the resources sector, but households and firms watching what is happening may continue their precautionary behaviour for longer than otherwise.

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).

The effect of shock dynamics on compressibility of ignition - scale National Ignition Facility implosions

He also discussed the large - scale asset purchases of the Fed's quantitative easing program, casting doubt on much of the literature of the day — which tended to find positive, but limited effects of such purchases on reducing bond yields.

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

But were Australia to enter at some stage a period of declining housing prices, it is likely that this equity withdrawal would be scaled back, or would possibly go into reverse, resulting in a cutback in spending, with a potentially destabilising effect on the broader economy.

Spillover effects on other countries, as reflected in bond yields, were more limited than in previous episodes of turmoil, reflecting the relatively small scale of Cyprus's problem, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington.

Yet the capacity to split genes and atoms, and to effect the environment on a new scale and in grave ways, is only one reason human power — and its relation to divine power — has become a theological preoccupation.

The earth is a mere atom on a grand scale and any event happening on earth no more effects anything else the same way a fly that flapped its wings1 billion years ago has no effect on you now.

I know some of you aren't going to like that and I do hope that rather than taking the time to comment or email to that effect, that you'll just go ahead and decide that you're going to trust me on this one and head over to Amazon and buy a scale =)

«The Wal - Mart Effect on Organics: A Defense of Large - Scale Organic Production,» Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Vol.

«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects of climate change on a global scale.

The large - scale disruptions in children's home environments reflected in the ten ACE categories clearly have detrimental effects on their development.

More recently, researchers using variations on Anda and Felitti's ACE scale have found that growing up in a chronically stressful home, as indicated by an elevated ACE score, has a direct negative effect on the development of children's executive functions and, by extension, on their ability to learn effectively in school.

I find this HUGE to teach kids, having an 8 yr old on the autism scale I can truely attest to the calming effect this has on kids and what a great tool it is to teach!

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change on our community.

By bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale, we can gain insight on the effects of climate change in our community.

We calculated the odds ratio and the absolute risk difference to provide estimates of effect on both relative and absolute scales.

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We used mean difference (MD) with 95 % confidence interval (CI), employing a random - effects model for continuous outcomes measured on the same scales.

Despite aromatherapy's long history of use, there is still a lack of large - scale clinical trials exploring the effects of aromatherapy on anxiety.

The scales found on alpaca fibre are much shorter than on any other meaning they are less likely to interlock which creates the «pilling» and «balling» effects.

As our study has a power of 80 % (α = 0.05) to detect a difference of at least 5.7 points for the Bayley PDI and 2.6 points for the Peabody motor scales, we can not exclude a small positive effect of breast feeding on motor development.

These large - scale studies may disguise bigger effects on particular sectors.

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.

The small - scale exploratory study is the first to examine the effects of the policy on children and their education.

The Committee had found that the competitiveness of the UK's large scale scientific resources was being compromised by the lack of a long term plan, and that the UK was missing out on vital research opportunities because large scale scientific equipment was not being used to maximum effect.

However, this Keynesian effect of economic stimulation only works on a large scale; within smaller economic units, economic stimulation may not work because money can more easily flow out of the system.

But these findings are stark and a timely reminder of the racially segregating effects of religious schools, the division of communities that ensues, and that an expansion of such «faith» schools will only lead to racial segregation in state schools on a scale we have never seen before in this country.

Next year, the effects are unlikely to be on the scale of 2004 — because Germany and France have to open their borders too.

Current research projects focus on the process and outcomes of food system localisation in a globalising environment, the sustainability implications of a large scale transition to agriculturally derived bio-fuels, the effects of school and community context on childhood obesity, and the micro-politics of animal welfare in alternative livestock systems.