Sentences with phrase «slow rate of change»

Many women, frustrated at the slow rate of change in law firms, choose to leave and take positions in business or government or start their own firms where there are not the same barriers to advancement.

And what are law firms doing about the slow rate of change?

«We do typically see these [street interventions] when the public is pushing back against officials when they're dismayed at the slow rate of change,» said Andrew McFarland, community engagement manager for the LivableStreets Alliance.

I'm not for a moment suggesting this makes global warming go away, only it might slow the rate of change down - a bit - in the short term (perhaps the average transit time of deep currents).

Michael McElroy concluded, «If we choose to take on this challenge, it appears that we can slow the rate of change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.

The IPCC most - likely future projected moderate acceleration of sea - level rise in a warming world, but still a slow rate of change compared to the fastest rates we can envision.

Here's the chart of existing and projected shifts in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity — which is pretty reliable given the slow rate of change in large - scale technologies:

[ANDY REVKIN says: I was at the first Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto in 1988, but mainly recall the worried look on the representative from the Maldives, and the statement by Michael McElroy of Harvard, quoted in my 1988 Discover Magazine article on the greenhouse effect: «If we choose to take on this challenge, it appears that we can slow the rate of change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.

In general, I look for industries with a slow rate of change, companies with some type of moat, and companies with hard assets.

Michael McElroy concluded, «If we choose to take on this challenge, it appears that we can slow the rate of change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.

While some scientists in the region complain about the slow rate of change, Nicolelis sees many positive changes taking place.

The function of these genes were involved in molecular maintenance strategies, such as DNA repair, chromosomal maintenance, immune response and programmed cell death The authors argue that the «slower rate of change in these functions is consistent with increased constraint on somatic cell maintenance as would be required in these relatively long - lived and large - bodied mammals, illustrated by the additional large and long - lived species with slower rates in these genes (e.g. double - strand break repair gene XRCC4 is also highly constrained in elephant.»

When they compared the butterflyfish to some of these relatives, they found that it had the slowest rate of change in body shape, despite a perfectly typical rate of genetic change.

Not exact matches

While you probably won't ever be able to slow down the rapid rate of change, what you can do is put systems in place to increase your knowledge while lowering your time spent consuming content.

In the wake of an ever - changing World Wide Web, another emerging trend is the increasingly slowed growth rate of Google searches conducted each year.

After years of downward forecast revisions that strained the central bank's credibility, the Fed finally settled in 2016 on expectations that maybe the economy's growth rate would not exceed 2 %, having been permanently affected by the Great Recession, slowed by changing demographics, or a combination of the two.

This would mean significant change to the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and would slow down the rate of warming.

The slowing in 2015 results from a further decline in the growth of trend labour input coupled with no change in the growth rate of trend labour productivity.

It is difficult to model the many ways credit intensivity of growth can change, but if we simply assume that there is no improvement except as growth slows, so that the ratio between credit growth and GDP growth stays constant, the table below shows debt levels at the end of ten years at different GDP growth rates:

Investors need to accept the fact that the pace of change and, sometimes, the rate of adoption, will be slow.

And we have the ECB [European Central Bank], again, likely to tell us what their plans are and not for selling bonds back into the market, I think not at this stage for changing their interest rate policy, but again, slowing the rates of purchase of bonds.

We know foreign sector accumulation of Treasuries is slowing meaningfully on a rate of change basis (48 %).

This comes out to a 60 % growth rate, but the figure changes significantly based on the observation points: if the index experiences very slow growth for most of the term, only to see rapid growth late in the term, then the average appreciation will decrease, since 67,500 divided by 5 is 13,500, or 35 % growth.

We have previously described studies of pacing strategy using various experimental interventions, including faster and slower starts, higher temperatures, hypoxia, hyperoxia and altered energy substrate availability.1 We have proposed the presence of a complex, regulatory system that mediates changes to skeletal muscle motor unit activation and work rate in order both to optimise performance and prevent potentially harmful changes to homeostasis.

Heart rate that is too fast, too slow, or changing abruptly is usually among the signs of fetal distress.

But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.

After the first 7 days, changes continue at a slower rate until milk reaches the «mature» stage around Day 21 (Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences 1991).

Sources with knowledge of the talks in Albany said that disputes remained over matters of time and space: the length of the period in which the change should be implemented, and the regions outside of New York City where the phase - in could occur at a slower rate due to a lower cost of living.

The slow rate of improvement in postdocs» attitudes toward their professional and career development point toward the need for a culture change more profound than what has so far occurred, Mellors - Bourne says.

There has been lot of it in the news recently, but the CO2 rates are going up slowly and the climate change is going to be slow and changing the industrial situation of the world is going to be slow.

«Sturgeon are thought of as a living fossil group that has undergone relatively slow rates of anatomical change over time.

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

While that is close to true for coelacanths, other famous «living fossils,» which have the slowest molecular evolutionary rate among vertebrates, the Lingula genome has been evolving rapidly, despite the lack of changes in appearance.

The pattern of tricellular lineages rarely re-evolving the bicellular state suggests a reduced ability to respond to changing pollen dispersal conditions over evolutionary time, which in turn has slowed their rate of diversification.»

The rate of energy production can be adjusted simply by changing the angle of the device, thus speeding up or slowing down the rate of flow.

In contrast, rapid environmental change may slow the overall rate of evolution driven by direct interactions within large networks, making each species more vulnerable to extinction.

If RNA editing allows changes in the cephalopod's DNA to occur at a markedly slower rate than is normally assumed, the animals most likely arose many millions of years earlier than current time lines suggest.

As long as the field changes at a rate slower than the natural oscillation frequencies of the atom, the dipole moment remains aligned with the field.

If the researchers incorrectly estimated a 200,000 - year - old salamander species to be 2 million years old, then their result was off by a factor of 10, making the salamander's rate of evolution 20,000 times slower than climate change instead of 200,000 times slower.

At the same time, tropical conditions are expanding poleward as a result of climate change, but at a slower rate than previously believed.

The researchers found that there were specific elements of both vocabulary and grammar that change at a slow rate, as well as elements that change more quickly.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Mutation rates tend to be slow and steady, and in the absence of environmental change, slowly accumulate in a population.

«We can attach different drugs to the nanoparticles, and by changing the chemistry of the bond linking the drug to the nanoparticle, we can alter the release rate of the drug to be faster or slower,» says Andrew Clark, a graduate student in Davis's lab and the study's first author.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

Results: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow the rate of climate change is not the news.

«What everyone wants is a medicine that not just boosts cognitive function on a short - term basis, but also changes that slope and slows the rate of decline enough that people never develop dementia,» Dr. Lipton says.

[pagebreak] Surprising disorders that can cause fatigue Your thyroids out of whack If you cant lose weight or have unexplained weight gain, drier skin than usual, a slowed heart rate, a change in your periods, or a feeling of being cold — along with fatigue — you may have hypothyroidism, says Francine Kaufman, MD, head of the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

As your body composition changes the rate of weight loss will slow down, and it's important not to lose motivation at this stage.

This was also the same change noted in cases of starvation, as the body attempted to slow its metabolic rate (in order to store fat and stave off illness and death).