Sentences with phrase «whether a change occurs»

The New York Public Interest Research Group's Blair Horner, who's been a reform lobbyist for nearly three decades, says it's really going to be up to Cuomo whether change occurs at the Capitol.

The New York Public Interest Research Group's Blair Horner, who's been a reform lobbyist for nearly three decades, said it's really going to be up to Cuomo whether change occurs at the Capitol.

Regardless of whether a change occurs politically for charter schools, one thing the institute promised is change among its participants.

Not exact matches

Spreng and his co-authors found that as we get older, changes to the brain occur in regions that help us decide whether or not to trust someone, leaving us less likely to notice deceit.

What little difference exists between these two views revolves around whether religion's diminution (secularization) occurs automatically with pluralization or instead will occur only if the «holding in abeyance» is helped along (as by a changing legal order).

Transplanting children — whether this occurs as the result of remarriage, removal, adoption, parental loss, or change in custody — constitutes the most difficult challenge in raising children.

Whether a couple (or single parent) has been trying and trying for many months, got pregnant their first go - round, or made more of a surprise transition toward parenthood, babies are quite often seen as some of the most happy and miraculous changes that occur in this weird and wild life.

We can not assess whether such a boost will occur or not, but if it does, it will build on the existence of a large group who indeed want such a change.

Full Q&A: Question topics during the on - topic portion of a Q&A session included outstanding warrants on the shooting suspect, whether the mayor's view of the police has changed since he took office and whether he still views himself as a police «watchdog», how the seven steps will be communicated to police officers, a weekend attack on the 7 train, the background & origin of the seven steps, whether assignment rules will change to prevent the pairing of two rookie officers as occurred in the Bed - Stuy shooting, the current condition of the wounded officer, warrant enforcement procedures and current NYPD plans on instituting body - worn cameras.

The ranking member of the NYS Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, Manhattan Democrat Brad Hoylman, convened the panel after two top Republican senators said recently that this winter's cold temperatures and snow prompted them to question whether climate change is occurring.

Previous studies had shown that these changes occur with age, but whether they were also related to lifespan was unknown.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

«The coolest thing from an environmental perspective is that we can ask whether diet can influence this epigenetic process,» say Lanlan Shen of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, whose group has developed a way to direct where methylation occurs, allowing them to show that epigenetic changes can trigger tumours (see main story).

In future, the lab plans to compare aging astrocytes to astrocytes in models of disease to see whether there could be prepathological changes that allow the transition to disease to occur.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

Using genetic engineering, scientists resurrected the fruit flies» ADH protein from ancestral species to compare whether the amino acid changes that have occurred in D. melanogaster's ADH enzyme actually improved the fruit flies» ability to tolerate alcohol.

«Whether or not such rapid warming will occur... depends on actions taken to control climate change,» the authors write.

It is difficult to tell whether these brain differences are innate causes of feelings of discomfort towards gendered body parts, or whether a trans person's aversion to a body part could have caused changes like these to occur in the brain over time.

In a new study published in Nature, researchers in these two academic fields have joined forces at the University of Pennsylvania to solve an essential problem of how languages evolve: determining whether language changes occur by random chance or by a selective force.

The changes correlated with standard tests of a mother's attachment to her infant — and they occurred whether a woman conceived naturally or using in vitro fertilization.

According to Deborah Stine, associate director of COSEPUP, their goal was to compare results with the earlier survey and measure whether any change had occurred.

A recent wave of studies are starting to bear fruit: We are now learning that in the first few days after birth, changes occur in the brains of both the dad and the baby, depending on whether the father is around or not.

Mr Adane said the increased risk due to weight change and occurred regardless of whether the woman's body mass index (BMI) was initially categorised as healthy or overweight.

The acknowledged role of sunspots and cosmic rays in forming clouds has been fertile ground for climate deniers, who have cast doubt on whether anthropogenic climate change (in other words, change caused by humans) is occurring at all.

The new findings «will change [geologists»] perspective on the Rodinia breakup,» especially regarding when the event occurred and whether it happened in several phases, he notes.

Certain characteristics of the patterns that occur during phase changes are universal — no matter whether you are studying water, or quarks and gluons, or magnets.

Still, no study to date has followed the same person over the course of their romantic life to determine whether neural changes do occur over time.

«The ability to adapt to changing conditions is going to become even more important as humans impact the environment, whether it's from ocean acidification or increasing temperatures or other types of global changes that are occurring.»

They were asked to complete a questionnaire including detailed information on whether pubertal changes occurred before, at the same time or later than among their peers.

I am not scientist, and I can not say anything about the scientific side of whether climate change is occuring or not.

The changes occurred regardless of the women's initial body weight or whether they developed gestational diabetes.

Also, Wheeler says, the current study is simply too small to show whether the vaccine did indeed reduce precancerous changes in the older women, because this occurs so rarely.

Whether this trend was an intentional fashion statement — or it occurred one sleepy morning because a man forgot to change his shoes before heading out the door — gym socks and slides are a popular look that doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.

The most direct way of establishing whether successful learning has occurred is to monitor changes in what students know, understand and can do.

In concise and clear - eyed prose, the Alliance for Excellent Education's Robert Rothman lays out exactly how the new standards could change current instructional practices — and aims to speak directly to educators, whose efforts will determine whether or not these changes will occur.

SB279 would charge the task force of lawmakers and State School Board members to evaluate whether Utah schools are «offering authentic formative assessments throughout the year to recognize mastery when it occurs,» and to make recommendations on changes needed to «hold student mastery as a constant and time as a variable.»

Whether all models will make into the final product plan remains to be seen — knowing that BMW has been very agile lately with killing and / or creating new projects — but nonetheless, some changes will occur past 2018.

It's up to you whether you do or do not approve of this evolution, but the change has occurred, and there is no way to ignore it.

This chart shows how the total value of those stocks would change depending on whether a one - time 50 % decline occurs early, mid-way, or late in the 30 - year investing period.

Economists predict whether interest rates go up or down, when this will occur, and how many basis points they will change.

See whether your status stacks up and document any changes that may have occurred since you signed up for the card, as evidence that you're worthy of an increase.

«A pivotal question for sponsors to answer is whether they want their plans to encourage plan participation to continue through retirement, or rather, to actively encourage distribution of assets once active service separation has occurred, either as a result of a job change or retirement,» the researchers suggest.

Your veterinarian can compare the dog's yearly results to determine whether worrisome changes have occurred.

A recent study investigated whether a link exists between obesity and many of the changes that occur in diabetic cats.

Evaluation of the changes that occur in laboratory results and in x-rays will help the doctor determine what the most likely disease process is, whether current therapy should be continued, and whether additional tests are required.

Once morphological changes have occurred, PET can tell whether the changes are still active or not.

Like with human health insurance, if you decide you want to change your insurance after a medical condition has occurred, that condition will likely be excluded under any new insurance whether or not a claim was ever made.

To determine whether similar processes occur in the aging dog, changes in markers of inflammation and oxidative stress were investigated in 80 Labrador retrievers from adulthood to the end of life.

Pain and reduced mobility are likely symptoms regardless of whether the problem occurs acutely, like a traumatic fracture, or over time, like the arthritic changes seen with hip dysplasia.

If hot spots and other skin irritation occur suddenly, it can be helpful to think back to whether there was a recent change to a new food.