Sentences with phrase «showed substantial changes»

Almost 80 percent of the communities the team examined showed substantial changes in species composition, averaging about 10 percent change per decade — significantly higher than the rate of change predicted by models.

He clearly was showing substantial changes in his neurocognitive testing on the computer that persisted beyond the season, and he showed changes in his fMRI that persisted beyond the season.

Although demographic changes tempered the effects somewhat, school enrollment data show substantial changes in the racial makeup of schools after 1968.

An employee who has been terminated may be required to return to the very same company by an offer of re-employment [2], absent any conduct which shows a substantial change in the terms of employment, provided that the work is not demeaning, the personal relationships are not acrimonious, and that there is no atmosphere of hostility, embarrassment or humiliation.

To modify most orders, you must show a substantial change in circumstances.

Barring a successful appeal from the order of child custody and parenting arrangements a spouse seeking to vary an order must show a substantial change in the conditions means and circumstances of the parents or the child has occurred since the last Order which if known at the time of the last order would have led to a different result.

In Iowa, modification of child custody and support requires that a parent show a substantial change in circumstances.

Not exact matches

A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report shows that substantial climate adaptation infrastructure will be required to ensure future clean and secure water supplies.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

Aristotle, as a great scholar (Chung - Hwan Chen) has shown in a work not yet published, substituted for the receptacle (as subject of changing predicates) the banal plurality of substantial identities, which of course in some sense are real.

After showing that all have substantial limitations, he changes the subject to the importance of cultural criticism in the human sciences.

A existing child custody order will not be modified in Florida unless a parent can show that there's been a substantial, material or unanticipated change in circumstances.

Mr Clegg admitted on BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show that substantial change was needed, following rejection in England, Scotland and Wales.

Taxpayers will receive the same net benefit, but SOF spending growth appears lower.3 Other substantial changes include shifts in workers from payrolls in the general fund to those paid by capital funds, reclassifying the Sales Tax Asset Receivable Corporation (STARC) funds from a miscellaneous receipt to an offset against spending, and shifting expenses off - budget as shown in Table 3.

NATO is a narrow alliance based on specific concerns and Greece's geopolitic position hasn't changed (Greece occasionally flirts with Russia, emphasising their shared orthodox heritage, but it's only for show and Russia clearly isn't prepared to offer anything substantial).

As written, the bill says that to sue you have to first contact the business, give the business two months just to respond, and another four months to show substantial progress toward changing a physical barrier.

«DNA evidence shows that salmon hatcheries cause substantial, rapid genetic changes.»

Using occupancy modeling to control for variation in detectability, we show substantial (∼ 500 meters on average) upward changes in elevational limits for half of 28 species monitored, consistent with the observed ∼ 3 °C increase in minimum temperatures.

Indeed, a recent Pew poll shows that there is a substantial and growing amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, including human evolution, the safety of vaccines and whether or not human - caused climate change is real and happening.

Such near - term benefits provide the basis for a no - regrets GHG - reduction policy, in which substantial advantages accrue even if the impact of human - induced climate change turns out to be less than current projections show.

We show different gene promoter sensitivities may make substantial changes to patterns of consolidation.

While not perfect, and no method is, the report shows that charter public schools are changing lives and continue to show achievement in spite of substantial restrictions — both economically and politically.

Interim research findings from the pilot show that teachers at both primary and secondary schools, across all key stages and settings, have noticed substantial changes in students» behavior, attitude and skills in particular confidence, communication and the ability to work with others.

The paleoclimate record (8.2 kyr, and earlier «large lake collapses») shows a dramatic drop in surface temperatures for a substantial period of time when the ocean circulation shuts off or changes, but is that actually what would be expected under these warming conditions?

On the frequency of the storms, I note that the weather really didn't change much during Dec 04 and part of Jan 05 such that you had four distinct spots in the oceans at 90 intervals in the Southern hemisphere that showed substantial chilling compared to historical data.

I note in passing the Wiley site is currently down for maintenance so Hargreaves is not accessible — however from the diagram that can be seen it looks as though the null hypothesis was «no change in temperature» rather than showing it «had substantial skill compared to any naive model.

While there have been occasional papers that have shown a large tail, and some arguments that this is stubborn — particular from constraints based on the modern tranisent changes — there has always been substantial evidence to rule these out.

Empirical research shows that a substantial part of the deep cultural divide over human - driven climate change is not a result of a lack of information or overabundance of disinformation, but filters in the human mind that powerfully shape how different people absorb, and respond to, information of any kind.

Research published last year, for instance, shows that climate change is adding to the death toll in India by making heat waves worse and «will lead to substantial increases in heat - related mortality» in the coming century.

The zonal means of the percentage change map (shown in Figure 10.6) feature substantial decreases in the subtropics and lower mid-latitudes of both hemispheres in the A2 case, even if increases occur over some regions.

A 2017 Pew Research survey showed that a substantial majority of people worldwide believe the climate crisis is a major threat — with respondents in 13 countries, mostly in Latin America and Africa, identifying global climate change as the topmost threat to their nation.

Contribution from working group I to the fifth assessment report by IPCC TS.5.4.1 Projected Near - term Changes in Climate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle variables.

Maps show projected change in average surface air temperature in the later part of this century (2071 - 2099) relative to the later part of the last century (1970 - 1999) under a scenario that assumes substantial reductions in heat trapping gases (B1) and a higher emissions scenario that assumes continued increases in global emissions (A2).

Our results show that this expected range resulting from internal variability of the NAO is substantial for both SAT and P trends over the next 30 years, and in the case of P can even change the sign of the trend.

In terms of your request for something substantial, I responded to your original claim that «the theory relies on computer models» with a link to a RealClimate post that shows this claim is not correct — rather than computer models, the foundations of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change are built upon our understanding of how the atmosphere works and how we are changing it by emitting greenhouse gases.

In general, these studies have shown that different ways of creating scenarios from the same source (a global - scale climate model) can lead to substantial differences in the estimated effect of climate change, but that hydrological model uncertainty may be smaller than errors in the modelling procedure or differences in climate scenarios (Jha et al., 2004; Arnell, 2005; Wilby, 2005; Kay et al., 2006a, b).

Projections of future changes in precipitation show small increases in the global average but substantial shifts in where and how precipitation falls.

We show that these indices yield an assessment of changes in heavy precipitation events that is qualitatively consistent with all - day percentiles, but there are substantial differences in quantitative terms.

By the way, we also did a paper on millennial - scale solar geoengineering (Cao et al, 2016) showing that, in at least one climate model, solar geoengineering behaves quite well on the 1000 - year time scale with no substantial long term growth in climate change as ocean circulation and such adjusts to the new conditions.

The impact of this alternative scenario was illustrated in the Climate Audit post last year, showing that a revised transition schedule resulted in a substantial change to received temperature history, eliminating the puzzling postwar decline in temperature.

«We have shown that a small and potentially inconspicuous change to tariffs can precipitate a substantial change to peoples» diets, including increased consumption of HFCS.

Updated information about ice extent in this region indicates substantial ice retreat in the eastern Barents and the Kara Seas, where ice is now well below climatological extent (Figure 5), with little change in the Greenland Sea and Fram Strait region, where the ice edge is within the decadal mean range except for the southernmost stretches shown in Figure 5.

In particular, recent studies have shown that more atmospheric CO2 is causing the PH of ocean surface layers to drop (ie become more acidic) leading potentially to coral kills and substantial changes in sea life.

That statistic, more than any other, shows how successful the forces of confusion have been: 85 % of Americans, apparently, can console themselves with the thought that a substantial minority of climate scientists doubts anthropogenic climate change.

Russell asked the court to dismiss the petition, arguing that Lilia failed to show a substantial and continuing change in circumstances.

To request a modification of custody or visitation arrangements, a parent has to show the court that there is a substantial change in circumstances that affects the child's welfare.

In order for the court to modify a parenting plan, time - sharing schedule, or child support order, the parent must show a substantial, material, and unanticipated change of circumstances.

Arizona courts permit modification of a spousal maintenance order only if a substantial and continuing change in financial circumstances is shown.

Modification of custody based upon custodial parent's relocation is determined under the general modification statute; substantial change in circumstances must be shown and that modification will serve the best interests of the child.

In order for the court to modify a parenting plan and time - sharing schedule, the parent must show a substantial, material, and unanticipated change of circumstances.