Sentences with phrase «small scale changes»

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That may all change by this coming summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases that have the potential to rebalance the scales in favor of small businesses.

There are many small - scale businesses around the world — from organic vineyards in Australia to llama knitwear co-operatives in Ecuador — that are changing for the better how business is done.

«It's obvious that they've designed for a smaller body, and then scaled it up without thinking about how a body shape changes, with curves.»

On a global scale, the Canadian market is simply too small to cause those kinds of changes, and size matters when influencing international prices.

I explained that the driver of this change in the Fed's toolbox was the fact that the massive quantity of reserves injected into the banking system by QE (Quantitative Easing) meant that it would no longer be possible for the Fed to hike the FFR in the traditional way, that is, via the sort of small - scale shrinkage of bank reserves that was used in the past.

Macroevolution posed a problem to Darwin because his principle of descent with modification predicts gradual transitions between small - scale adaptive changes in populations and these larger - scale phenomena, yet there is little evidence for such transitions in nature.

Having a high EQ at work makes you more flexible, helps you adjust to large - and small - scale changes more easily and makes it easier to work as a team — something many employers are looking for in a candidate.

Except for the small - scale but highly trafficked site located in Maryland's Baltimore / Washington International Airport, all of The Greene Turtle's 33 franchise and company locations use the same menu — occasionally with slight variations — which changes once or twice annually.

In addition, climate change continues to wreak havoc on small - scale farmers and increase pressures on the global food supply.

With a small domestic market and an industry predominantly consisting of small businesses, collaboration is essential for generating scale, efficiency and agility across rapidly changing value chains and markets.

In late 2016, Blackmores was hit by changes in the way small - scale Chinese traders known as daigou operated.

The Postharvest Education Foundation is involved in providing technical advice, mentoring and training activities for extension workers, change agents and small - scale farmers, traders and marketers, working with a variety of partners in support of the following projects:

Our submission also cites egregious examples from Victoria's meat regulator PrimeSafe, the huge impact of knee - jerk changes to regulation of raw milk on small - scale dairy farms (many of whom have now gone out of business), and the complicated business of ensuring appropriate labeling of GMO and imported ingredients while not creating an extra burden for small - scale producers who sell directly to the public.

Indeed, the first year of your child's life is a time of tremendous changes on both a small and large scale.

It's simultaneously raising a huge alarm about how important but minimized school lunch is, and giving you the ammunition and morale to start making good changes on small and bigger scales.

Small - scale accounting changes also proposed last November, on which the parties do agree, could see improvements in transparency which could pave the way for more meaningful reform.

[1] The question of change rather than absolute levels of immigration has rarely been addressed at a small geographic scales; this is because of changing electoral boundaries, making direct comparison difficult.

Being «a little» more open in that way is a small step in the right direction, but the scale of the cultural change to do that substantively There are conflicting accounts of the negotiations.

Osborne is likely to come up with a series of small - scale, tinkering measures in December, seeking to placate as many as possible but with the ultimate goal of concealing his «no changes» approach.

A report commissioned by the Worldwide Wildlife Fund warned yesterday emissions from power stations have soared and risk undermining small - scale changes.

Fariña has chosen to address smaller - scale special education reforms rather than system - wide changes.

The incidents reported began on smaller scales, with seizing of toll booths and public toilets, normally witnessed after the change of power from the National Democratic Congress to the NPP and vice versa.

Changes in ocean salinity, nutrient runoff and other pollution can cause small - scale bleaching, but scientists say the widespread global bleaching this year is a symptom of unusual ocean warming.

High - resolution gravity measurements show changes over relatively small distances that could reflect small - scale convection.

In the world of nano - scale technology, where work is conducted at the atomic level, even the smallest changes can have an enormous impact.

«Even small changes within an ecosystem can have detrimental effects: Interactions between small organisms are «keystone» interactions that scale up to shape whole ecosystems.»

Adaptationism certainly appears to hold true in microevolution — small - scale evolutionary change within species, such as changes in beak shape in Galapagos finches in response to available food sources.

OPOWER asked him to design small - scale studies to see whether small prods could get customers to change their energy habits.

Previous studies tend to underestimate such connections as simulated land - atmosphere interaction is also resolution - dependent, which means that the signals for changes in small - scale land use are likely to be much weaker in a coarse resolution model,» says Minchao Wu.

ADVANCES: Meteorologists can now detect precipitation changes at a smaller scale, making it much easier to forecast flash floods, says Jonathan Gourley, a research hydrologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla..

But, says Michael Varney, head of the small molecule drug discovery group at Genentech, those hiring trends are about to change: «For us, over the next 3 years, we'll hire more medicinal chemists and more process and scale - up chemists than we will analytical chemists.»

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

The Ising model was introduced in 1920 to simulate how small - scale changes, such as interactions between atoms, can contribute to large - scale order, such as whether a sliver of iron will be magnetic.

«It was surprising to discover that small - scale changes in the environment can influence ecosystem - level reef processes,» said Silbiger.

But while food industry giants that have long opposed new regulations are beginning to change their tune, small - scale producers are growing increasingly vocal about their own concerns.

The smaller the squares, the higher the model's resolution and the better it will be at detecting small - scale atmospheric changes that could spawn storms.

But Varmus says the award should start at a «small scale» because it is hard to anticipate how it will «change the structure» of a lab and its workforce.

«These small - scale processes might be important to understanding the full impact of climate change,» Ravelo said.

The historical land connections can reveal how much a structural change, whether that is the shifting of continents or even on a much smaller scale, like building a dam or paving a road, can influence ecosystems.

However, no linear correlation has yet been confirmed and it is unclear whether even small changes on the scale at the different times affect the risk of neurological morbidity.

These comparatively small - scale changes may mark the beginning of a fundamental and irrevocable transformation in the southern Weddell Sea.

This may be small scale for, say, particle physicists — the Large Hadron Collider is expected to generate an annual 15 petabytes (1015 bytes) of data — but it marks a substantial change for oceanographers, who are used to obtaining isolated bursts of data from week - long cruises, and then spending a year analyzing the results.

At the moment the company is working with NASA to develop technology that would predict how small - scale, seasonal shifts in temperature as well as large - scale climate change influence the presence of bacteria in the soil, air and water around crops.

«However, our study finds that it would take only relatively small changes to tip the scales back in favor of offering the LAIV, so close monitoring is very important.»

And they came up with some technologies that can potentially do remote sensing on a very small scale and watch how the system changes noninvasively.

Saying that changes on a small time scale are small compared with changes that happened over hundreds of thousands of years isn't saying an awful lot.

«By improving how we simulate the biological pump in the ocean, we both improve the model and reveal this unexpected resilience, whereby global - scale changes to the physical properties of the ocean have a smaller effect on the biological pump.

As the smallest structural change in the scale of biological world, the isomerization and the catalysis of this reaction by isomerases is of great interest, to bridge the dynamics of chemical bonds and the biological functions of the macromolecules.

It uses algorithms to detect changes to the forest in areas as small as 10 square meters, about 100 square feet, allowing scientists to find small - scale disturbances that can not be detected by traditional satellite methods.

I often hear critics dismiss carbon removal approaches as both too expensive and too small - scale to have a material impact on mitigating climate change.