The single most important lesson from assessing changes in land use across the Holocene is that changes in the productivity of land - use systems, and especially productivity per area of land, has likely been the main long -
term driver of change in human impact on the terrestrial biosphere.
it would be both ignorant and arrogant to rule out something other than human GHGs as a long -
term driver of our climate.
Ocean oscillations are widely acknowledged to be the dominant short
term driver of global temperature
It is the orbital characteristics of Earth that is the long -
term driver of climate, with NH land masses sensitive to TSI at around 65 deg N. Leading to build - up / melt of snowfield and consequent albedo change, leading to temp change.
However, we believe that human numbers are a major and long
term driver of consumption and hence human impact and that therefore a reduction in human numbers can make a contribution to a sustainable future.
The major long -
term driver of the gold price is confidence in the official money and in the institutions (governments, central banks and private banks) that create / promote / sponsor the official money.
Earnings are the true long
term driver of dividends and stock price.
«We found that a primary short -
term driver of this is investments.
In their view, fear is the medium to short -
term driver of the gold price.
The major long -
term driver of the gold price is confidence in the official money and in the institutions (governments, central banks and private banks) that create / promote / sponsor the official money.
Targets exposure to a factor that has been a long -
term driver of returns, such as momentum, quality, size and value
Forward - looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the future business plans, earnings and performance of Yum China, anticipated effects of population and macroeconomic trends, statements regarding the capital structure of Yum China, and beliefs regarding the long -
term drivers of Yum China's business.
«Investors have sufficiently dissected the key near -
term drivers of the shares.
«We believe the investors have sufficiently dissected the key near -
term drivers of the shares.
The Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network measures the atmospheric distribution and trends of the three main long -
term drivers of climate change, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), as well as carbon monoxide (CO) which is an important indicator of air pollution.
«Though the main long -
term drivers of housing activity remain stalled — namely below average growth in median household income, labor force participation, bank lending and household formation — metro markets continue to get a boost from pent - up demand caused by the low inventory that plagued housing for the past two years,» Redfin researchers note.
Not exact matches
In a release Monday, Lyft and GM announced the expansion
of their joint vehicle - rental program, which allows Lyft
drivers to rent a nearly - new GM vehicle for the short -(or, occasionally, long --RRB-
term.
It works with millions
of drivers — who it insists are contractors, not employees — but no matter what the
term, there are a lot
of people affected by the company's decisions and actions.
As for Schlumberger, investors appear jittery about the stock, in part because the world's supplier
of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near -
term driver for sales ---- than competitors.
An earlier version
of this story erroneously stated that General Motors plans to provide short -
term leasing to Lyft
drivers.
Long -
term drivers are intact: Drug pipelines are notoriously challenging to predict over the short
term, given the deep level
of medical knowledge required, clinical testing and regulatory review.
The recent partnership is part
of automaker's long -
term vision: a network
of GM self - driving cars within Lyft's service that can shuttle passengers around town without a
driver.
Since GM's driverless cars are years away from hitting the road as part
of Lyft's service, the automaker plans to provide short -
term car rentals (for a day, week or month) to Lyft
drivers in the immediate future, as well as lease financing through its GM Financial arm, said Ammann.
But they have yet to design a heart, atomic or not, that works long -
term within the confines
of the human body and doesn't require external
drivers or batteries.
«There is a lot
of work to be done to make the technology perfect in
terms of identifying the events and determining what accurately leads to safer
drivers,» Lambert explained.
Sentiment is now a more important
driver of the S&P 500 than fundamentals, and sentiment suggests there is still room for stocks to move higher in the near
term,» wrote BofA Merrill Lynch strategists in the 2018 outlook press release in December.
«This program denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our
terms of service — whether that's people aiming to physically harm
drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret «stings» meant to entrap
drivers,» the company said.
«Their
driver monitor system isn't as good as some other systems in
terms of assuring that someone is paying attention,» said David Friedman, Director
of Cars and Product Policy and Analysis for Consumers Union, the advocacy division
of Consumer Reports.
The company itself will not be a party to any lease between a
driver and the subsidiary, so any change in
driver rates would not alter the
terms of a lease.
In 2015, the company's test
drivers disengaged — a jargon
term that means they had to take manual control
of the vehicle because the software failed or for safety reasons — at a rate
of 0.8 times per 1,000 miles in California.
«Individual preferences are still the main
drivers for «doing good,» and price matters, too, in
terms of tax relief, but we have to think about social interactions in order to really understand behavior,» Smith said.
«We are pleased to have resolved this matter on
terms that preserve the flexibility
of drivers to control when, where and for how long they drive on the platform and enable consumers to continue benefitting from safe, affordable transportation,» said Lyft general counsel Kristin Sverchek in a statement.
That's because, city by city and state by state, transportation companies
of all sorts — cab, sedan, limo — are heavily regulated in
terms of the insurance they carry, the structure
of their fares, the background screening
of their
drivers, and the condition
of their vehicles.
The end result, investors say, is that the national team is unwittingly encouraging short -
term trading patterns that amplify the detachment
of stock markets, which have become less responsive to fundamental
drivers such as earnings trends, domestic economic data and shifts in global markets.
Seeks to provide diversified exposure to a variety
of factors that have been identified as
drivers of long -
term performance: momentum, quality, size and value
That's one apparent example
of this program's short -
term impact on
drivers.
Longer
term, emerging markets are the
drivers of global economic growth and investors would do well to have some exposure, even if it comes with higher volatility.
Difficult — not impossible Looking at SDGs through a gender lens matters in
terms of which SDGs we expect to be new market
drivers.
The reasoning is that the general public associates the
term with a false sense
of security while also relying on the (false) fact that, when Autopilot is on,
driver engagement is optional.
As one can see, there is little variation between the holdings
of KIE, XLF and the average Financials sector stock in
terms of ROIC, which is the primary
driver of stock prices.
At some point, if these policies are inflationary, then the vigilantes or those that hold dollar reserves, such as China and Brazil and Mexico, they will be in the
driver's seat in
terms of longer -
term Treasury debt, 10 years and 30 years Treasury debt in
terms of their yield.
While the Committee believes that financial performance should be the most significant
driver of compensation, other factors that drive long -
term value for stockholders are also taken into account by the Committee, including improvements in market share, successful product launches, achievement
of strategic objectives and customer satisfaction.
In this webinar, we will examine the long -
term fundamental
drivers of China's secular economic growth, highlighting risks and investment opportunities in the A-Share market.
This makes sense, as equities are — for most investors — the main
driver of both long -
term capital growth and risk within their portfolio, and therefore garner the most attention.
In addition, we believe the market has underrated the effect
of one recent change that should be a significant
driver of long -
term shareholder value.
While valuations drive long -
term returns, the primary
driver of market returns over shorter portions
of the market cycle is the attitude
of investors toward risk, as indicated by the uniformity or divergence
of market internals.
«While health care spending is a key programmatic and policy
driver of the long -
term outlook on the spending side
of the budget, eventually, spending on net interest becomes the largest category
of spending in both the 2016 Financial Report's long -
term fiscal projections and GAO's simulations.»
Not all
driver monitoring programs and technologies are created equal in
terms of user friendliness,...
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A three - step process to anticipate and shape change, beginning with the identification
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