Sentences with phrase «such as impacts»

The widening gap between escalating costs and narrowing research budgets is placing a strain on basic earth monitoring and means that fewer scientists are tackling increasingly complex issues, such as the impacts of aerosols, writes Kintisch.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

There may also be benefits that we are not able to capture, such as impacts on SAT scores, graduation rates, and college attendance.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

Interestingly, despite 77 % of the participants taking selfies regularly, 62 - 67 % agreed on the potential negative consequences of selfies, such as impacts on self - esteem.

Compressional forces, on the other hand — forces that are delivered vertically, such as the impacts of hooves, tires, and feet — can break up the soil and make it vulnerable to wind erosion.

Preston studies how adaptation efforts can reduce risk from climate change, especially at the state and city level (such as impacts to critical energy, water and transportation systems).

The Wild Boar Action Plan will cover a wide range of topics such as impacts of wild boar and their management, minimum recommended firearms calibres, best practice and safe shooting and public awareness and how to react to boar in the wild.

Agricultural production and marketing systems can have a variety of impacts, such as impacts on the nutritional content and safety of the food and on the environment.

It has been at the heart of political revolutions, such as the Arab Spring, it has given a voice to individuals who have been wronged and those socially disenfranchised, such as the impact it has had on raising awareness of the #metoo movement, or the GoFundMe campaign that raised over $ 200,000 for a homeless veteran.

Ultimately, McCoy was trying to fix an unimaginable mess at a company with operations all over the world, and proved slow to react to market changes such as the impact of e-commerce and changing demographics.

Creating and analyzing benchmarks for private investments, especially for a younger, emerging portion of the market such as impact investing, poses a number of challenges.

Gasoline prices, however, also reflect demand and follow national trends, such as the impact Hurricane Harvey had, causing gas prices to go up.

(After all, if a 10 - 20 % error rate hasn't prevented the widespread use of neurocognitive tests such as ImPACT, why should it be any different with sensors?)

: Instead of automatically voiding the certification, NOCSAE decided it would leave it up to helmet manufacturers to decide whether a particular third - party add - on affixed to the helmet, such as a impact sensor, voided its certification of compliance with NOCSAE's standard

The long answer is that, it is true that the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) initially decided in July 2013 that modification of helmets with third - party after - market add - ons, such as impact sensors installed inside a helmet or to its exterior, would be viewed as voiding the helmet manufacturer's certification, and that the certification could only be regained if the helmet was retested by the manufacturer with the add - on, NOCSAE later issued a press release clarifying that position: Instead of automatically voiding the certification, NOCSAE decided it would leave it up to helmet manufacturers to decide whether a particular third - party add - on affixed to the helmet, such as a impact sensor, voided its certification of compliance with NOCSAE's standard, and now allows companies which make add - on products for football helmets to make their own certification of compliance with the NOCSAE standards on a helmet model, as long as the certification is done according to NOCSAE standards, and as long as the manufacturer assumes responsibility (in other words, potential legal liability) for the helmet / add - on combination.

The development of computerized neurocognitive tests such as ImPACT have been a big advance in terms of making sure an athlete has recovered their cognitive function necessary to return to play or work, but the usual and primary treatment remains rest, with follow - up testing using the ImPACT paradigm, and return to play or work following the algorithm of the ImPACT program based on test results.

Try and research online to find out which brands of car seat stroller combo offer things such as impact protection and distribution of crash force.

That means the domestic social consequences, such as the impact on inequality, would be an important factor, and I think managed migration with a policy of integration and citizenship is important, as I have often argued.

In contrast, Low - Hogan stated that she was unconvinced that the map could act as a «road map» for criminals seeking targets, though she did express support for exceptions in the case of risks to health and safety of specific persons such as those impacted by domestic violence.

The report stresses that its gloomy conclusions are based less on the immediate issue of Corbyn's leadership than on long - term issues such as the impact of Brexit, the collapse of support in Scotland and electoral mathematics.

The work revealed that spider webs consisting of uniform thread diameters are better suited to bear force applied at a single point, such as the impact coming from flies hitting webs; a nonuniform diameter can withstand more widespread pressure, such as from wind, rain, or gravity.

Leaving aside the usual criticisms, such as the impact on poorer people, I have a different reason for being troubled by tax interventions.

It uses material properties to smoothly project velocities near impact sites to model many real world impact situations such as the impact and rebound between a soft printed material and a table, for instance.

What hasn't been clear is how such a neuron can specialize in sensing just one type of membrane - distorting stimulus — such as the angle of a limb joint — yet exclude others, such as impact pressures.

«There is a general trend that the higher the performance of an energetic material, the more sensitive the material is to insults such as impact, spark and friction,» said Chavez.

The minerals could not have been formed in a local event, such as an impact into an ice - filled crater.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

Hubble resolves Martian surface features with a level of detail only exceeded by planetary probes, such as impact craters and other features as small as 30 miles (50 kilometers) across.

Extraterrestrial sample analysis and terrestrial field work on fundamental geological processes such as impact cratering, and their implications for the origin and evolution of life.

Previous bariatric studies looked at factors such as the impact of lowering blood pressure or cholesterol.

First, I use estimates that economists have developed of the social cost of crimes, which include tangible costs, such as lost productivity and medical care, as well as intangible costs, such as impact on quality of life; these estimates are extremely high for fatal crimes.

There might also be benefits that the researchers said they are not able to study, such as the impact on graduation rates and college attendance.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

McCulloch said today's results «exacerbated» secondary schools» concerns about the resits — such as the impact on pupils» self - esteem and on the year 7 curriculum.

In determining future value, however, there are other, equally important factors, such as the impact the car made on the market, the people who bought them when new, and its general mystique.

A: Your cats may seem healthy, but if you haven't taken them to the veterinarian to rule out underlying health problems, such as impacted anal glands or irritable bowel disease, that should be your first step.

Note that scooting can also occur for other reasons such as impacted anal sacs.

So much of my abstract work revolves around emotional subjects such as impact, attachment, and schematic relationships.

To be sure, some of these effects (such as the impact of irrigation on surface water vapour, or land use changes on evapotranspiration) are not easily dealt with in terms of the tropospheric radiative forcing — a point that was well made in the National Academies report on radiative forcing (on which Dr. Pielke was an author).

That latter school is also benefiting from marijuana in other ways: Thanks to $ 900,000 from the state's marijuana tax fund and $ 270,000 in county pot excise taxes to be used for «community enhancement,» CSU - Pueblo last year opened the Institute of Cannabis Research to study topics such as the impact of legalization on local economies, industrial hemp cultivation, and the efficacy of cannabidiol.

The topics were broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

Failure to address impacts due to climate change — notably rising sea levels and hotter, drier summers - may have profound implications here in the Southeast such as impacted coastlines and diminished agricultural yields.

Homogenisation refers to the method of adjusting temperature records to remove artificial biases, such as the impact of a weather station moving from one location to another.

Critics say that some aspects of the projected effects are «alarmist», such as the impact on conflict and migration caused by climate change.

Or perhaps you have more practical concerns, such as the impact of the amendment on marriages that took place following the California Supreme Court's June 2008 ruling striking down the ban on gay marriage.

It will be interesting to see how cases such as these impact the pending federal legislation and any provincial legislation that follows.

Although I thought the article was going to be about ways to overcome information overload, it quickly shifted to an analysis of scholarly research and the metrics used to measure it, such as the impact factor (IF).

The blog will discuss legal issues, such as how to deal with investigations of abuse and neglect in nursing homes, and breaking news such as the impact of Hurricane Katrina on long term care providers in Louisiana and neighboring states, said partner Jerri Lynn Ward.