Sentences with phrase «than any other region on»

The tropics are home to a far greater diversity of life than any other region on the planet, but the reasons for this disparity have puzzled scientists for centuries.
«The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth and is changing beyond recognition as open water replaces sea ice and permafrost is thawing.
The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth.
Although the U.S. sees more tornado touchdowns than any other region on earth, West Virginia ranks low among the 50 states for twister sightings, averaging only two per year.

Not exact matches

This let them build their state on other terms than the rest of the region.
Part of the implication for other parts of the country is that there may be ways to implement successful policies if they build on the strengths unique to those regions, rather than try to imitate New York City.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
The Midwest receives 25 percent of all research dollars in America and graduates more computer science degrees than any other region or country on planet earth.
On some measures, and in some products, Australian markets are smaller than others in the Asian region, but nonetheless, at the height of the Asian and Russian crises, overseas banks chose to operate in Australia to cover positions established in Asian markets because liquidity in those markets was inadequate at the time.
We believe our operations, as they are focused on Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO), are more susceptible to seasonality than some of the other domestic airlines because our discretionary customers in California may be less likely to fly to other regions of the United States during the colder seasons.
Citi raised $ 3.1 billion in equity capital for its clients in the region, more than any other bank, in 12 deals that were large enough to make up a 13.9 % market share, including a follow - on deal for Russian bank VTB Group.
Taking market share from UBS last year, Goldman Sachs raised $ 24.8 billion in 96 equity deals, more money than any other bank in the region, including a $ 7.8 billion follow - on deal for Japan Tobacco in March 2013.
VTB Capital advised its clients on 24 M&A deals with a total value of $ 28.4 billion, more than any other bank in the region, taking enough market share away from Deutsche Bank to accumulate a 17 % share.
The prevailing conditions in the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding regions drove Muhammad Ibn Abd al - Wahhab to lay greater emphasis on some of Ibn Taymiyya's teachings than on others.
While the company — which delivers milk and other dairy products to 40,000 homes a week in the Puget Sound region around Seattle — prides itself on friendly service and making a connection with its customers in a way that recalls a simpler era, it offers more than warm memories.
Moreover, EVEL does not engage with on - going reforms in the other nations of the UK nor within England, appearing designed to operate in parallel, rather than in tandem, with other policies such as devolution to England's cities and regions and the wider Northern Powerhouse agenda.
Europe's economic prosperity depends on trade more than that any other region's in the world.
But, one need look no further than the current debate in the UK over the EU referendum to find other parallels with Repeal — e.g., an internal split in the Conservative party over British identity (particularly in a world with increasing trade linkages); the difficulty in ascertaining the winners and losers from a fundamental reorientation of trade policy, amidst inherent uncertainty; the existence of tensions between different sectors and regions, stemming from trade exposure; and so on.
More than 2,000 doctors referred their pain cases to Dr. Eugene J. Gosy, and other pain specialists in the region don't have the capacity to take on the indicted doctor's 8,000 to 10,000 active patients, Gosy's lawyers said.
Addressing members of the Tertiary Education Institution Network, TEIN, at the Tamale Technical University, Vice President Amissah - Arthur said it is a known fact that some regions are well resourced than others and it is incumbent on government to bridge that gap as part of nation building.
For more than two hours hours, Capital Region Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko took questions at a town hall meeting on, among other topics, environmental policies pushed by Trump, the manufacturing workforce, efforts to repeal of the Affordable Care Act and hate crimes that have gained considerable attention since the election.
Lincolnshire also received more than others - a total of # 140,836 - because some of the costs were incurred on specific advice from the Home Office, and Dorset will be given # 287,600 because its claim is made on behalf of the five south - west region forces.
County Executive Joanie Mahoney said Central New York, on the whole, has received more state money than any other region, including a half - billion - dollar economic development grant in 2015.
What has it to do with Scotland and why should they benefit from such a project when as far as I know the regions in England, other than London, will not receive a penny and in anycase it has no direct effect on any region bar London.
She said Destiny developer Robert Congel does not deserve one, having already received tax exemptions on his mall that are much greater than those received by any other project in the region.
The resulting interaction converted magnetic energy into kinetic energy and sent charged particles such as cosmic rays raining down on Earth's magnetosphere, the region around Earth where its own magnetic field is stronger than other magnetic fields in space.
«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.
In the Southern Ocean, the extra drawdown of heat had gone unnoticed and is increasing on a much longer timescale (multi-decadal) than the other two regions (decadal).
Local temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula, meanwhile, have risen by about two degrees Celsius over the past 50 years, an increase that is more pronounced than in other regions of the world.
Some researchers suggest this or that region of the brain corresponds to a mental faculty; others say it amounts to little more than phrenology, a 19th - century pseudoscience that claimed bumps on the skull could explain personality.
The Great Barrier Reef lies directly below the largest hole in the ozone layer, which means the region receives significantly more UV radiation than other place on Earth.
«We show that a direct consideration of these other biodiversity facets identifies different regions as high - priority for conservation than a focus on species does, and more effectively safeguards functions or evolutionary heritage,» Jetz said.
Some regions are slightly bigger on one side than on the other, and these differences translate into imbalances in how the human brain works.
In a study of structural brain connectivity led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and UCLA, those participants with anorexia nervosa who scored lowest on a test measuring their ability to form insight had more connective abnormalities than other patients in brain regions linked to error detection and conflict monitoring as well as self - reflection.
Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in
One of the most widely recognized features on a world other than our own, is a mesa of resistant rock located in the Cydonia region of Mars.
Putterman [10], for example, suggested that the dominance of Western European cultures indicates the transmission of «civilization» traits (other than knowledge on agriculture) from regions of first domestication.
«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.
However, in comparison with the solar case, the FIR photosphere of alpha Cen A appears marginally cooler, Tmin = T160mu = 3920 + / -375 K. Beyond the minimum near 160mu, the brightness temperatures increase and this radiation likely originates in warmer regions of the chromosphere of alpha Cen A. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time a temperature minimum has been directly measured on a main - sequence star other than the Sun.
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's more likely than not we'll see more intense hurricanes in the North Atlantic and western North Pacific Oceans, but a lack of data means the same can't be said of other regions just yet.
We're number - one in that category: cutting back on processed foods happens more in North America than in any other region in the world.
Housed on a region - free disc in a regular plastic Amaray case, «Raw Power Live» includes liner notes by none other than Mike Watt, who writes eloquently of the 63 - year - old Pop's huge influence, on both him a generation of other musicians.
After having to wait nearly two more months more than other regions, Japan will finally be getting Mario Party 9 on April 26.
As his human patchwork evolves, Sayles throws an uncompromising spotlight on a region which, more than any other in American history, has thrived on a deceptively singular legend.
For putting a human face on the civil war in Rwanda, and for all future wars in remote regions filled with people who may not look or speak the same language as the rest of us, Hotel Rwanda more than succeeds in relating just why it is so important to not turn a blind eye to events happening in other countries.
A private Cloud, on the other hand, can give you a distributed, on - demand scalable environment that will be more fault tolerant than an isolated data center (assuming it's distributed across different regions, with data replication, etc.), and that will free your IT to handle services that can't or should not get migrated to the Cloud (legacy back - office services, etc.).
• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.
Of course, some of these ideas will be more practical than others depending on your region, type of farm, etc..
The Samsung Galaxy TabPro S will go on sale in select regions in Wi - Fi and LTE variants from February, and is the first Galaxy device running an OS other than Android.
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