Sentences with phrase «scale expansion of»

Large scale expansion of cellulosic crops for BECS may put pressure on food security (Msangi et al. 2007), forest conservation (Danielsen et al. 2009), and other uses of productive land.

By contrast, we assess that large - scale expansion of natural gas use would not mitigate the climate problem and would cause far more deaths than expansion of nuclear power.»

Plus, a large - scale expansion of nuclear power is just not going to happen.

But I don't spend much time worrying about safety issues around a large - scale expansion of nuclear power, because such an expansion is neither necessary nor effective to address AGW, so there is no need to deal with the very real dangers and risks of such an expansion.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

From 1999 - 2004, pressure on Amazon rain forests increased dramatically as commodity markets drove large - scale expansion of farming for soy, allowing local economies to prosper.

Although I'm not very familiar with these particular companies, a large scale expansion of nuclear energy always seems just beyond the horizon.

The BMW i8 Roadster will launch in 2018 as part of a large - scale expansion of Project i, said BMW Chairman Harald Kruger at the company's annual accounts press conference.

«There is some concern about the rapid and large - scale expansion of something that is not necessarily a better or superior option.»

Any effort at any large - scale expansion of charter schools within LA Unified is a signal that whoever is behind that expansion is purposely and intentionally trying to bring about the end of this district.»

«The bottom line is clear: Large - scale expansion of parental choice and competition will not, by itself, solve the problems of the most distressed urban schools.»

Corning dissolvable microcarriers provide an ideal solution for the large - scale expansion of hMSCs for bioprocess applications.

Although these platforms can be used successfully for small - scale expansion of hMSCs, other platforms will be required to generate the quantity of cells required to support the increasing number of clinical trials utilizing hMSCs and the subsequent large - scale production.

Some education leaders expressed doubt that Trump's proposal would be roundly welcomed at a time when there has been increasing skepticism of large - scale expansions of alternatives like charters.

Not exact matches

Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

Building a global - scale order book was the first phase of AGT's expansion; the second is now focused on vertical integration, buying key infrastructure up and down the supply chain.

I've already mentioned some of the things that you need to plan for, such as global expansion and what systems you need to integrate with, but you should also think about whether you will be supporting multiple brands and products over time and whether your customer support solution can scale as you grow.

The AHCA attempts to preserve certain Obamacare components (mandating coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions, requiring insurers to provide certain benefits, etc) while massively scaling back others (including the Medicaid expansion which has covered millions of low - income people and replacing more generous insurance subsidies with optional tax credits that can be used to buy coverage).

«Instead of scaling quickly, we're scaling smarter,» Layne said about Appear Here and its expansion plans for 2018.

Growth and scale demand different management styles and therefore different types of leadership, while the pace at which expansion takes place also requires careful judgment.

Smart scaling: In late 2015, Kalt, 49, raised $ 25 million from Summit Partners of Menlo Park, Calif., to fund international expansion.

This funding will support the continued rapid expansion of Doctor On Demand's platform and further its commitment to delivering access to quality care at scale.

The firm's investment strategy is to help scale companies that are generating revenues and looking to finance their next stage of expansion to become market leaders.

Economy of Scale - This is the possible cost advantages a company gets through expansion.

Combined with the announcement that Tesla will be unveiling its semi-truck on November 16 — yet another product poised to disrupt a multi-billion dollar industry — on top of its continued expansion into the solar market and ability to provide grid - scale energy solutions, and it becomes more clear why Tesla short sellers might be changing their tune.

«This reflects the necessity to scale cannabis businesses, to get some kind of advantage, and to explore strategic opportunities, both through acquisitions and international expansion.»

Okeechobee, FL, routinely closes and hands over entire public side streets to allow expansion of church campuses / At urging of local monied «fundamentalist believers» including major insurance agency heads and realtors, city just approved a full scale commercial restaurant open to public on COG campus without changing tax status or collecting fees.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

During this time Christianity expanded on a far greater scale than during any preceding period and Protestantism played a greater role in this expansion than did the other branches of the Christian movement.31 From within Protestantism came a surge of missionary endeavor unparalleled in strength and magnitude of goal in previous Protestant history, and perhaps unparalleled in the history of Christianity.

On the other end of the scale, if expansion had been to slow the Universe would have collapsed back on itself before the stars, planets and humans had time to develop.

This work was originally conceived as an expansion of the last chapter of Norman Perrin, The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus (London: SCM Press, and Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963), into a full - scale study of the teaching of Jesus.

Civilization is the dimension of religio - culture which, through its long process of historical cumulation and geographical expansion, constitutes the matrix of community life of the peoples; its inner, organic nexus crosses the boundaries of human communities, organizing them into a large - scale constellation.

[25] Lemaitre's famous differential equation for cosmic expansion is: R [2] = C / R + 1 / 3AR [2]- k where R is the scale factor for cosmic expansion which is proportional to the radius of the universe when that radius has meaning; C > 0 and proportional to the average present - day density of non-relativistic matter in the universe; cosmological constant, - C [0] < A < C [0], which serves to create a cosmic repulsion that keeps galaxies from being drawn together by gravity when it is positive and adds to the attractive force of gravity when it is negative; and spatial curvature, k = -1,0, +1.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

The final challenge is to scale up what is working well, strengthen the missing links to facilitate the spread and viability of non-certified organic agriculture, and create the key consumer / farmer networks for local market expansion and the types of partnerships and alliances that provide the appropriate research - extension services needed to improve the productivity of non-certified organic agriculture.

This book covers: - The need to advance exclusive breastfeeding - Obstacles and opportunities for exclusive breastfeeding during the reproductive health continuum - Findings related to the obstacles, opportunities, current interventions, and gaps at eight time periods during the reproductive health cycle - Suggestions for innovative implementation to advance exclusive breastfeeding - The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding - Monitoring, evaluation, and research needs - Considerations for expansion, replication, and scaling up of activities - Next steps

«That the cuts are modest is easy to demonstrate, given the sheer scale of the expansion in government outlays over the last decade,» he wrote.

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.

Another argument is that mayoral control makes it more feasible to carry out large - scale changes or initiatives like Mr. de Blasio's expansion of prekindergarten and «3 - K for All,» his plan to offer free preschool to all 3 - year - olds.

With a state committee edging toward wrapping up its budget deliberations, lawmakers are seeking to slash transportation borrowing while a diverse coalition pushes to scale back planned expansions of major highways.

Meanwhile the light - subtracting techniques may improve measurements of other phenomena, such as large - scale galaxy motions and the expansion of the universe.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

«We think, but have not yet been able to establish, that this is connected to independently observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation,» Emanuel says, referring to a large - scale pattern of global winds, which in recent years has also moved further poleward.

12.9 %: reduction in forest cover in South - East Asia due largely to an increase in timber extraction, large - scale bio-fuel plantations and the expansion of intensive agriculture and shrimp farms (1990 to 2015)

According to the first theory, the seeds which gave rise to the present day structure in the Universe are quantum fluctuations, minute variations on a subatomic scale that were expanded by more than 60 orders of magnitude as the Universe went through an «inflationary phase» — a period of extremely rapid expansion — first proposed by Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That's why, on the largest scales, all galaxies seem to be moving away from each other: Every location not only looks like the center of the expansion, in a meaningful sense, it truly is.

On the largest scale, everything is flying apart, a cosmic divorce dictated by the expansion of the universe in all directions.

The expansion of the BAM mentoring and Match tutoring approach to serve more CPS students will allow researchers to better understand the mechanisms of how these programs work and whether they can produce the same results on a larger scale.

This study, which documents the oldest known case of an eco-cultural niche expansion, demonstrates that the processes that allowed our species to develop modern behaviours must be examined at regional scales and in conjunction with past climatic data.

Recent experiments including BOSS and the Planck satellite study of the cosmic microwave background put the BAO scale, as measured in today's universe, at very close to 450 million light years — a «standard ruler» for measuring expansion.