British Columbia also experienced
substantial impacts from the storm.
«To see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could be
substantial impacts from climate change even if that global warming target is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.
Starbucks has maintained the brand's perception hasn't seen
any substantial impact from those social - media driven boycotts.
TEVA is probably too globally diversified to really see
substantial impact from region - specific issues.
Together these emitters are responsible for 40 % of the city's carbon emissions, creating
a substantial impact from the scheme.
Not exact matches
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the
impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the
substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention
from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.
MaRS Discovery District announced today that
substantial funding support
from the Rockefeller Foundation and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation will be made available for the Centre for
Impact Investing, to be housed at MaRS.
The Fund can and will accept a
substantial amount of
impact from market fluctuations when the combination of valuations and or market action is sufficiently favorable (which represents the broad majority of historical market periods).
Interpretation of these words has been tortuous, involving convoluted counterfactual worlds lacking
substantial market power, disembodied
from a proper consideration of the competitive
impact of the conduct.
Diets that incorporate increased consumption of resistant starch
from high - amylose corn can have a
substantial positive health
impact on the American population,» adds Lorraine Niba, PhD, global director, nutrition at Ingredion.
Furthermore, since the
impact of father absence on child development is often negative; since absent fathers can loom large in their children's imaginations, often unhelpfully as «heroes or villains» (Kraemer 2005); and, since father absence can cause their children
substantial distress and self - doubt (Laumann - Billings and Emery 1998), current thinking is moving away
from the idea of severance of unconstructive father - child relationships as a simple solution.
Post-partum depression poses
substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9
From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social, emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the
impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19
Turnout among minority voters and younger voters could affect the result in a district here or there, but an increase in suburban turnout or a
substantial shift by suburban voters (especially suburban women)
from the Republicans to the Democrats could have a much broader
impact on the fight for control of the House.
He added that the trail's
impact could be
substantial for the community because it brings in money not only
from residents, but
from tourists coming to the county and purchasing things within the community.
Reductions in biodiversity
from illegal wildlife trade can have other
substantial negative human health
impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.
A new study of the hazards posed by
impact - generated waves suggests that coastlines face
substantial risks of being slammed by tsunamis
from asteroid spla
As researchers have been discovering for the past century, it is a highly variable cocktail, and its particular makeup can have a
substantial impact everything
from coral to currents.
Invasive Asian carp consume plankton
from the base of the food web and reproduce prolifically which could pose
substantial environmental risks and economic
impacts to the Great Lakes if they become established.
Ca seasonal variation follows the behaviour expected
from impact vaporization by interplanetary dust, due to Mercury's
substantial radial excursions (heliocentric distances between 0.306 AU at perihelion and 0.465 AU at aphelion).
As you can see
from above, changing some elements of your diet can make a
substantial impact on your overall health and the functioning of your liver, as well as helping to keep you free
from illness and disease.
Simply maintaining weight
from adulthood onward could have a
substantial impact on population health.
While researchers often shy away
from using rankings in serious statistical analyses of test scores, they can have a
substantial impact on political rhetoric, and consequently, education policy.
In each case, the approach is likely to prevent the volume
from having a very
substantial impact.
This finding, however, masks
substantial variation in
impacts among students
from different ethnic groups.
«Multiple research studies meeting the highest bar for methodological rigor find
substantial learning
impacts from the adoption of specific curricula.
Steiner and his colleagues reviewed pretty much every extant study that meets rigorous methodological criteria and found «
substantial learning
impacts from the adoption of specific curricula.»
The decision to close a school is frequently met with fierce resistance
from the community, as closings have big
impacts on neighborhoods where school buildings are important community resources and sources of neighborhood stability; where public schools are significant employers; and where distances to other schools can be
substantial.
Given that even small amounts can provide
substantial growth if they compound over a long enough period of time, it should be readily apparent
from these examples that time is of the essence when it comes to maximizing the
impact of compound interest on your savings.
Tip - offs to Rip - offs Steer clear of debt negotiation companies that: 1) guarantee they can remove your unsecured debt 3) promise that unsecured debts can be paid off with pennies on the dollar 4) require
substantial monthly service fees 5) demand payment of a percentage of savings 6) tell you to stop making payments to or communicating with your creditors 7) require you to make monthly payments to them, rather than with your creditor 8) claim that creditors never sue consumers for non-payment of unsecured debt 9) promise that using their system will have no negative
impact on your credit report 10) claim that they can remove accurate negative information
from your credit report.
Investors clearly understand that higher fees can have a negative
impact on their net return, as is evident in the price war in mutual fund fees, but a few basis - points difference in visible fees is far less meaningful in performance
impact than the often - large hidden costs.14 For example, switching
from a low - turnover strategy to a sloppily constructed strategy that spends scores of basis points in incremental trading costs can cost the investor dearly in performance.15 The same holds true for the buyers of opaque high - fee products (hedge funds and illiquid private investments), for which
substantial costs may be hidden
from sight.
Bacteria can be released into the bloodstream whenever the patient chews or engages in any other oral activity can place a stress on the immune system of your pet, thereby rendering your pet more vulnerable to infections in areas distant
from the mouth, and can have a
substantial negative
impact on overall health and longevity.
Granted, these changes have relatively little — if any —
impact upon the road warriors who belong to these programs, but there are a
substantial number of members who do have miles that they have saved
from prior travel and need some advice on just how to extend the life of their miles.
Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted
from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in
substantial part, to the
impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.
From the Physical Science Basis: «Shindell et al. (2009) estimated the
impact of reactive species emissions on both gaseous and aerosol forcing species and found that ozone precursors, including methane, had an additional
substantial climate effect because they increased or decreased the rate of oxidation of SO2 to sulphate aerosol.
And, if it still had settled on Augustine, the university could have been more completely forthcoming about his
substantial income
from ConocoPhillips, a company that — as the NPR regional news project State
Impact reported last week — calls itself «one of the nation's largest natural gas producers.»
The paper uses evidence and modeling to explain how the sun - blocking
impact from a 50 - year stretch of unusually intense eruptions of four tropical volcanoes caused sufficient cooling to produce a long - lasting shift in the generation and migration of Arctic Ocean sea ice, with
substantial consequences for the Northern Hemisphere climate that lasted centuries and left a deep imprint on European history.
While it's clear,
from the Arctic to the tropics, that human - driven warming and other human activities can, and will, have
substantial ecological
impacts, projecting outright extinction remains one of the trickier enterprises in biology.
He explained that per capita meat consumption, which also has
substantial environmental
impacts, had tracked in a similar way, rose in China by 42 percent
from 1995 to 2003, with recent projections of a 40 percent, to 70 kilograms per capita per year, within a few years.
Given the
impacts those kinds of seasons currently have on terrestrial forests, agriculture and human health, we'll likely see
substantial stress
from severely hot conditions.»
In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the
substantial global
impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk
from drought, hunger, flooding.»
More
substantial changes would be along the lines of «Exploring potential
impacts of a 2C world using insights
from paleo climate records, modern observations and climate modelling» or «Exploring the potential for tipping points in the climate system before 2C».
Removal of floating plastic debris
from the open ocean can cause
substantial impacts on marine ecosystems.
Additional escalation of the mining
impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance
from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with
substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].
But they differ
from mainstream views because they're not convinced there's a
substantial risk that future warming could be large or its
impacts severe, or that strong mitigation policies are desirable.
It presently is not possible to place exact probabilities on the added contribution of climate change to extinction, but the observations noted above indicate
substantial risk that
impacts from climate change could, within just a few decades, drop the populations in many species below sustainable levels, which in turn would commit the species to extinction.
Far
from having a
substantial impact on reducing net emissions of GHG, Wolf says, European rapeseed oil - based diesel and U.S. corn - based ethanol have in fact only made small contributions - 13 % less than conventional diesel and 18 % less than petrol, respectively.
A
substantial reduction of
impacts would only be possible with a
substantial worldwide diet change, away
from animal products.
Records have been created by merging data
from nine different MSUs, each with peculiarities (e.g., time drift of the spacecraft relative to the local solar time) that must be calculated and removed because they can have
substantial impacts on the resulting trend.
Over the course of the two - week EcoChallenge the car miles converted to alternative transportation, waste diverted
from our landfills, energy and water saved, and food sourced sustainably adds up to
substantial impact.
Costs advanced in personal injury cases for medical reports, outside investigation expense, trial exhibit preparation and expert witness consultation and testimony can be
substantial, so how these expenses are to be handled, and how they
impact computation of the attorney's fee, should be explained in, and readily understood
from, the language of the written contingent fee contract.