Sentences with phrase «study estimated impacts»

The study estimated impacts on forest carbon accumulation in the region between 2007 and 2012, and projected potential changes out to 2017 based on forest growth and land use change scenarios.

Insulin resistance is an early stage in the diabetes development, and while several studies have demonstrated that it can be reduced with physical activity, this study estimated the impact on insulin sensitivity from long - term changes in daily step count.

The study estimates the impact of overturning a state's school finance system and finds that, seven years after reform, a state's highest poverty quartile experienced a 4 to 12 percent increase in per pupil spending and a 5 to 8 percentage point increase in graduation rates.

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Much has been said about the possible impact of automation: A Forrester study estimates that 6 percent of jobs will be replaced by robots within four years; others say half the world's jobs will be gone by 2035.

No comprehensive study has yet been done to estimate the impact of a $ 15 an hour federal minimum wage on jobs.

This study estimates the likely impact of terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement on the U.S. Economy, exports and jobs.

As such, their study showed that informal economies account for 30 % of direct costs to internet disruptions — amplifying the previous estimates of loss percentages and their direct socio - economic impact.

This study estimates the economic impact of the proposed U.S. tariffs and China's proposed retaliation in three different scenarios.

Various studies have explored the impact of these factors and attempted to estimate the extent to which they have reduced neutral real interest rates.

And to illustrate both the international dimension of this revolution in automation and its impact even on the newly growing service sector, a German multinational firm's study estimated that by 1990, 40 per cent of the jobs in the office could be rationalized and 25 per cent automated.

As Tom Talavage, the lead author of the Purdue study, told PBS's Frontline in a 2011 interview, he estimated that at least 50 percent of the high impact hits linemen and linebackers were sustaining were due to poor technique.

The randomized intervention design is one of strengths in our study, providing less biased estimates of impact of the intervention on socioeconomic inequalities.

A few longitudinal studies, along with a small number of experimental studies, have recently emerged allowing an improved estimate of the causal impact of parenting behaviour on emotional health.

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

We examined the likely impact on the overall pooled relation between breastfeeding and blood pressure of also including the five potentially eligible studies that did not provide quantitative estimates (table 1).

DEC Commissioner Joe Martens estimates the agency has received 40,000 comments in the public comment period which just ended on January 11th on a draft environmental impact study to permit hydro fracking on some private lands in New York State.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

An economic impact study in 2004 estimated UAlbany's economic impact to be $ 1.1 billion annually in New York State — $ 1 billion of that in the Capital Region [7]

· This 200,00 children is in addition to the 400,000 more children that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has previously projected will be living in relative poverty by 2015 as a result of coalition policies, and the 800,000 more children it estimates will living in relative poverty by 2020 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm121.pdf) · The government has not disclosed the likely impact of its sub-inflation uprating on absolute poverty rates which measure whether children are experiencing a real, as opposed to relative, fall in the standard of living.

Opponents of New York's nuclear subsidies released a study estimating the financial impact that $ 462 million a year in nuclear subsidies will have on towns, counties, school districts and other organizations.

Kearns sent a letter to New York State DOT Commissioner Joan McDonald Tuesday requesting an Environmental Impact Study and cost estimate for removal of the Buffalo Skyway.

A study released this week estimated the impact the $ 1 trillion in automatic across - the - board spending cuts had in the Bay State.

«Estimating the economic impact is challenging now, let alone in over a century,» says Edward Oughton, a research associate at the University of Cambridge's Center for Risk Studies.

The study used life cycle assessment (LCA) to estimate the impacts of microwave appliances, taking into account their manufacture, use and end - of - life waste management.

An «urgent call» to understand risks of stress Researchers who were not involved with the new study said it was a good initial estimate of the impact of last year's drought but cautioned that the ultimate effect of the dry spell is not yet clear.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Injury Center and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute studied the impact of installing these alcohol ignition interlock devices in all newly purchased vehicles over a 15 - year period; their estimates of injury prevention and cost savings are significant.

The Notre Dame study used expert elicitation, a process of formalizing and quantifying experts» judgments to estimate Asian carp impact to Lake Erie fishery biomass, a method designed by co-author Roger Cooke, senior fellow with Resources for the Future.

In this study, researchers at Emory University, CDC, and the University of Washington used network - based mathematical models of HIV transmission in a population of MSM to estimate the impact of applying these CDC guidelines to prevent new HIV infections in the U.S..

This is more than double previous estimates and, if correct, places the Alamo crater as one of the largest marine impacts in the last 550 million years, conservatively larger than the well - studied Chesapeake Bay impact crater (about 35 million years old) on the eastern shore of North America.

Led by Dr Katie Hampson of the University of Glasgow, the study is the first to estimate the impact of canine rabies and the extent of control efforts in every country in the world.

The study explored seven effects associated with asteroid impacts — heat, pressure shock waves, flying debris, tsunamis, wind blasts, seismic shaking and cratering — and estimated their lethality for varying sizes.

«This is the first study that looks at all seven impact effects generated by hazardous asteroids and estimates which are, in terms of human loss, most severe,» said Clemens Rumpf, a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Although a handful of recent studies have suggested that the blast locked the world in a deep freeze, a 1992 estimate indicated a milder climate impact.

«Medical error has an estimated economic impact between $ 735 billion to $ 980 billion annually in the United States alone,» said Eduardo Salas, the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair and Professor of Psychology at Rice and one of the study's authors.

Lead author of the study, Dr Adam Briggs, University of Oxford, UK, says «Our study provides the first estimates of the likely health impact of the UK soft drinks levy.

The UK soft drinks industry levy, due to be introduced in April 2018, is estimated to have significant health benefits, especially among children, according to the first study to estimate its health impact, published in The Lancet Public Health.

The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago.

A study, published in BMJ Open, has provided new estimates to assess how organisational factors in England impact clinical outcomes of infants born preterm.

Dr Søren Brage (MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge), joint senior author on the study says: «Providing quantitative estimates regarding the dose - response relationship is essential for approximating how changes in levels of physical activity in the general population would impact disease incidence, and would support more nuanced guidance to the public and evidence - based dialogue in clinical settings.»

Based on the reduction in hospitalizations seen in the studies, the University of Pennsylvania Health System estimates a return on investment of $ 2 for every $ 1 spent on IMPaCT.

Pollyea and his team caution that while earthquakes can not be predicted, the study indicates that geologists can test hypothetical wastewater injection scenarios before wells come online to estimate potential impact on earthquake activity.

«It's the first time that a scientific study compared different methods of estimating temperature impacts on global crop production.

As cannabis use is much more common than cannabis use disorder, its potential impact on cigarette use in the general community may be greater than estimates based on studies of cannabis use disorder alone, according to the researchers.

In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com

Researchers then used models to estimate changes in ambient pollutant concentrations due to the presence of coal - fired plants in the region and estimated health impacts using peer - reviewed methodologies used in similar studies around the world.

The model used in the study could also help researchers estimate populations of protected species present in others area of potential impacts, such as from fisheries, energy extraction operations, and military exercises.

This study is focused on three specific aspects: to assess the impact of vegetation density on energy efficiency of a roof located at a Mediterranean coastal climate; develop a simplified numeral model that can estimate thermal resistance values equivalent to plants and substrates, and finally, to verify the numerical model by using experimental data.

The results from their model are similar to estimates obtained by geomorphologists studying the erosion of impact craters and other features on Titan.

The study, published in the June 30 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, was based on an average global temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered a relatively conservative estimate and the limit needed to avert catastrophic impacts.

Quantitative MR estimates of blood oxygenation based on T2 *: a numerical study of the impact of model assumptions.