Sentences with phrase «use global measures»

Although the only previous longitudinal epidemiologic study to use global measures of carbohydrate consumption found no relation between dietary GI and depression, this was a study of intake during pregnancy and the prediction of postpartum depression 2 — 9 mo after giving birth (15).

One explanation for our inability to find mediation could be that we used a global measure of self - care behavior.

Not exact matches

I've written before about how Canadian carriers score very well on the Merrill Lynch Global Wireless Matrix, which measures just about every statistic, from minutes of use to percentage of revenue derived from data.

A separate paper published on Monday proposed what the authors said was a more accurate way of measuring global warming than those we currently use.

In December 2015, S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the S&P Real Assets Index, the first index of its kind, which is designed to measure global property, infrastructure, commodities, and inflation - linked bonds, using liquid and investable component indices that track public equities, fixed income, and futures.

The Bank of Canada is applying lessons from the global financial crisis as it updates its framework for the use of unconventional monetary policy measures, Governor Stephen S. Poloz said.

In selecting the holdings, Fehr initially used his firm's version of an «equity action call tool» to measure the pace, direction and flow of global equities.

In addition, a widely used measure of future inflation based on US Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities, which had mirrored the slump in the price of oil and had fallen to its lowest level since the global financial crisis by early February, rebounded in line with the pickup in oil prices.

Appeal was determined by the number of Google searches for property in the country in May 2014 and price growth was measured in both the short term (six months) and long term (12 month) using data from Knight Frank's Global House Price Index.

«A «failure of diversification» during the global financial crisis has prompted wider use of factor analysis across portfolios and reduced reliance on simplistic asset allocation measures.

There is no binding mechanism at the global level to hold corporations accountable for violating these measures (although there are instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child that give them weight in international law and are being used to remind governments of their responsibilities, and there have also been some attempts at European Union level to hold corporations to account for activities in third countries, with little success due to lack of satisfactory reporting mechanism).

«The Global Compact is being used to try to derail legally - binding measures, while our experience shows it is worse than useless and lacking in integrity.

After all, we have doubled the population in the past 50 years while the world economy measured as global gross domestic product has increased seven-fold and resource use has increased nearly four-fold.

The global arginine bioavailability ratio, GABR, is an indicator of the body's arginine levels, and the ratio has previously been used to measure the body's capacity to produce nitric oxide.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

Such a discrepancy exists because for the last three decades the global health community — governments, international organisations and aid agencies — have used just one or two «tracer» vaccines to measure immunisation coverage, usually the third dose of DTP or sometimes the first dose of measles.

The new study measured how four sixth - grade science textbooks adopted for use in California frame the subject of global warming.

The research team used a global climate model to measure present - day conditions (1975 through 2004) and future scenarios (2071 through 2100), both at daytime and at night.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

Using a global climate model, a team led by Princeton University researchers measured how severely heat waves interact with urban heat islands, now and in the future, in 50 American cities across three climate zones.

Now a group of American and British scientists have used a new chemical technique to measure the change in terrestrial temperature associated with this shift in global atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

A curious detail also shown by the study is a reduction in atmospheric pollution from lead during the last few decades, which, as Lozano concludes, «suggests that the global measures taken to reduce lead emissions, such as the use of lead - free gasoline, have helped to reduce the levels of this metal in the atmosphere.»

The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.

In turn, sharing scientific and indigenous predictive capabilities is meant to improve coastal ice interpretation and prediction based on satellite imagery, assist communities refining public safety measures, and to add local sea ice to parameters used in assessing global climate change in the Arctic.

Traditionally, the United States and other countries have used satellites to measure emissions in a general way, to be used in global climate models.

A new study suggests that standard ways of measuring well - being and sustainability in communities used by global organizations may be missing critical information and could lead to missteps in management actions.

The findings also suggest that previous techniques using satellites to measure drought stress in rainforests may be missing dire impacts of a warming global climate, which many scientists believe will cause more droughts in those critical habitats.

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

Using technofixes to tinker with global climate systems is an excuse to avoid unpopular but necessary measures to reduce carbon emissions

To solve this problem, Pielke suggested measuring environmental variables from a regional scale up to a global scale as a more inclusive way to assess environmental risks than the top - down approach used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The figure shows an image of Mercury's surface (left; obtained using publicly available mosaic of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft found at http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/) and a color - coded view of the global crater areal density (right), obtained by measuring craters greater than 25 km.

In this study for Geology, Makan Karegar and colleagues use precise Global Positioning System (GPS) data to measure subsidence rates of the Mississippi Delta.

«We're the first to have developed a strategy using data assimilation to successfully forecast the evolution of magma overpressures beneath a volcano using combined ground deformation datasets measured by Global Navigation Satellite System (more commonly known as GPS) and satellite radar data,» explains Mary Grace Bato, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) in France.

The NRC has amended FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC)'s operating licence for Perry to include revisions to the safety limit minimum critical power ratio - a measure of heat limits within the reactor core - enabling the unit to use Global Nuclear Fuel's GNF2 fuel design.

Techniques broadly used are various systematic perturbations (e.g. CRISPRs, shRNAs), single cell sequencing, ChIP - seq, and affinity - based proteomics to measure at the global and draft level scales.

The differences between the «natural forcing» model predictions and measured global temperatures were used to determine AGHG forcing functions for their final climate prediction model.

Two missions will use space - borne lasers to measure tree height: an instrument mounted on the International Space Station, called the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI); and a satellite called the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), that will focus on measuring snow and ice, but will also measure the planet's forests.

The early warning module, called G - FAST, uses ground motion data measured by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to estimate the magnitude and epicenter for large earthquakes — those magnitude 8 and greater.

Using its three main science instruments, Odyssey has mapped the global distribution of many minerals and chemical elements across the Martian surface, found evidence of large amounts of buried water ice near the planet's poles and measured the radiation environment in low Mars orbit, which could help NASA plan out future manned missions to the Red Planet.

We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature.

Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Côte d'Azur Observatory and elsewhere used observations made by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's (SOHO) Global Oscillations at Low Frequency (GOLF) instrument to measure solar oscillations, then used a new technique to determine the speed at which the solar core was spinning.

We use measured global temperature and Earth's measured energy imbalance to determine the atmospheric CO2 level required to stabilize climate at today's global temperature, which is near the upper end of the global temperature range in the current interglacial period (the Holocene).

We analysed these parasite genotypes for genetic structure using principal component analysis and assessed local and global clustering using statistical measures of spatial autocorrelation.

The ecological footprint is a methodology used to measure the amounts of land and water (in terms of global hectares — gha) that would be needed to support domestic consumption.

To begin tackling this problem, CMU backward - mapped from the ACT's definition of college readiness to establish grade - level achievement targets for grades 2 — 8 that can be used with Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) or the Performance Series by Global Scholar.

The standard of scientific and technological performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of the productivity of the economy that is measured by the relationship between global GDP and sectoral GDP and resources used in production processes (raw materials, supplies and labor); 2) reduction of the costs of agricultural, industrial production, and services; 3) increase in investments in R&D; 4) innovation of new products and processes that is measured by its advance over previously used products and processes; 5) increase of the durability of products / services; 6) increase of physical safety of products / services provided to people and users; and, 7) decrease in the levels of technological dependency of the country from the outside.

Using research capabilities from MIT and other leading universities, the effectiveness of the learning apps is measured to ensure the continuous improvement of every child's learning and to reach their aim of spreading literacy on a global scale.

The economy was then becoming more global, and President Reagan embraced the report's recommendations to raise academic standards, measure students» mastery of those standards, and improve the curriculum that schools use in their classrooms.

If you want to succeed in your problem and solution essay writing, never make use of any global topic while writing, such as for example, the problem of abortion, cancer, or war as it is just impossible to speak about such serious problems in the measures of simple problem and solution essays and of course, it is impossible to give a solution to these very problems.

Problem and Solution Essay: Make a Research If you want to succeed in your problem and solution essay writing, never make use of any global topic while writing, such as for example, the problem of abortion, cancer, or war as it is just impossible to speak about such serious problems in the measures of simple problem and solution essays and of course, it is impossible to give a solution to these very problems.