Sentences with phrase «urban effects on»

2010 ** Shepherd, J.M., J.A. Stallins, M. Jin, and T.L. Mote, 2010: Urban effects on precipitation and associated convective process.

The BEST paper reported on here focuses on urban effects on the temperature record.

Not exact matches

According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

This paucity of data has the pernicious effect that any claim of an effect by foreign investment on urban real estate could be true or could be false.

Still, ideologies like these are having their effect on many schools in urban systems now.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

The steam engine led to oppression for miners and other workers, the spread of vast urban slums, and a ruthless stranglehold by capitalistic investors on the wage earner.24 In the twentieth century, the effects of the automobile have been similarly far - reaching and ambivalent.

The precipitous plunging of people from the life of nomads, peasants, and forest dwellers to that of urban industrial workers has had catastrophic effects on morale.

A thought - provoking contrast in the effects of Christianity on the political life of Western Europe is seen in the Crusades, initiated (1095) by Urban II.

Young dads: the effects of a parenting program on urban African - American adolescent fathers.

Students in DC Public Schools depend on breakfasts, lunches, after school snacks, supper, and fresh fruit and vegetables to counter the effects of a rough economy and widening urban income inequality.

She also notes that the promises made by Walmart are non-binding and may be abandoned once the publicity fades away, and she's unimpressed with Walmart's promise to build more urban markets, given its abysmal labor record and its detrimental effects on local economies.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

Effect of a sudden infant death syndrome risk reduction education program on risk factor compliance and information sources in primarily black urban communities

By exaggerating the economic benefits of road capacity increase and underestimating its negative effects, omission of induced traffic can result in overallocation of public money on road construction and correspondingly less focus on other ways of dealing with congestion and environmental problems in urban areas.

The Social Market Foundation (SMF) quickly came out against the cap, saying it would have a disproportionate effects on single - parent families with three or more children living in urban areas.

At the Wednesday meeting, Steyer will also sit down with former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros to confer on a forthcoming report assessing the economic effects of climate change.

I've passed legislation that's had a positive effect on the environment, I've passed legislation to address the city's blight and urban decay through enacting our county land bank, which has been incredibly successful.

Insufficient water not only harms trees, but allows other problems to have an outsized effect on trees in urban environments.

«It's very encouraging because it suggests that we may be able to make smart management decisions to mitigate the damaging effects of extreme weather events on urban ecosystems.»

Additionally, using organs - on - chips for testing avoids unnecessarily exposing patients to drug treatments that might be ineffective or have harmful side effects, Urban added.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development sponsors research on the effects of lead - based paint exposure and other housing - related health hazards.

There is an increasing body of evidence on the effect of urban nature on human health.

After years of watching engineers model traffic flow with advanced physics to alleviate jams, a team of urban planners called Shared Space have adopted a simple solution based on a zoological concept known as the risk compensation effect.

A University of Georgia study using a new method for calculating urban heat island intensities clarifies the conflict on whether urban density or sprawl amplify these effects more.

For the first time, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health studied the effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk among a multi-ethnic urban population.

[Jennifer S. Malpass, Amanda D. Rodewald, and Stephen N. Matthews, Species - dependent effects of bird feeders on nest predators and nest survival of urban American Robins and Northern Cardinals]

By relying on this well - validated prediction model, the team was able to include subjects who live in unmonitored and less - populated areas so that the effects of air pollution on all 60 million people could be analyzed regardless of whether they lived in urban, suburban, or rural areas.

«Jordan's ability to satisfy future urban and agricultural water demands will be stressed by cascading effects on its freshwater supply,» said study co-author Steven Gorelick, the Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

A third focuses on the urban heat island effect and a fourth looks specifically at temperature stations that have been labeled as problematic by skeptics.

How we create and reshape our urban landscapes and systems will have a powerful effect on the future of our world: «As cities go, so goes the planet,» writes architect William McDonough in «How Cities Could Save Us.»

The four - year study is the first real - world trial looking at the effects of human behavior at the pump on urban air pollution.

This implies that the urban environment imposes a challenge to developing birds, with potentially irreversible effects on lifespan.

Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study: «The effect of urban heating on the global trends is nearly negligible,» Andy Skuce

«It is good to get economic numbers on the likely effect of urban heat island mitigation,» said Rohinton Emmanuel, a professor of sustainable design at Glasgow Caledonian University who works on the impacts of urban heat islands.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

I wonder if Gavin Schmidt (on realclimate) inadvertently provided an example of the urban heat effect.

Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: randomised controlled trial in an urban slum.

Then line the eyes with a deep purple pencil, like Urban Decay 24/7 Glide - On Eye Pencil in Lust, for a dramatic effect that's downright sexy.

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The effect of Marc Jacobs on your skin is amazing and I like it better than Urban Decay.

Chungking Express is really a sly and perceptive examination of the effects of urban alienation on romance — specifically in its scarily dense and overdeveloped setting of dazzling Hong Kong.

In addition to the scads of on - set footage, we get comments from Barrie Osborne, unit production manager Zane Weiner, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic Monaghan, Andrew Lesnie, John Rhys - Davies, Peter Jackson, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Sala Baker, Karl Urban, Orlando Bloom, Mark Ordesky, Bernard Hill, Miranda Otto, Andy Serkis, Richard Taylor, Brad Dourif, Carrie Thiel, John Mahaffie, Jed Brophy, Sean Bean, David Wenham, Rick Porras, Craig Parker, Lani Jackson, George M. Ruge, Philippa Boyens, and physical effects supervisor Steve Ingram.

In this respect, San Andreas makes good on its promise, with a sizable chunk of its nearly 2 - hour runtime dedicated to demonstrating in painful detail the effects of a series of earthquakes that rattles California and reduces San Francisco to a pile of urban mush.

Transitioning from countryside to sea to village to city, the film reveals the effects of the urban landscape on natural ones.

Thedevelopment planningof cities, the spatial distribution of population and economic activities of the municipality and the territory under its influence should avoid and correct the distortions of urban growth and its negative effects on the environment.

The market for administrators in urban school districts is increasingly becoming national in scope, yet for mobile administrators retirement benefit systems with 5 - to 10 - year vesting systems can have a devastating effect on retirement savings.

Based on our findings of what causes teachers to leave their schools, we calculated the salary increases that would be necessary to offset the effects of difficult working conditions in large urban versus suburban schools.