Sentences with phrase «wider global level»

It employs an aesthetic framework to focus on the structures we inhabit and the networks that connect them, while reflecting at a wider global level on the many ways space is encoded as social, political or economic territory.

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Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.
Meanwhile, bid - ask spreads in major corporate bond markets have narrowed sharply in recent years, but remain somewhat wider than the levels observed immediately before the global financial crisis (Graph 2, right - hand panel).
The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited availability of water for crops, the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.
Science and Engineering Indicators is the most comprehensive source of high - quality federal data on a wide range of topics that include trends in global R&D investments and knowledge - intensive production, K - 12 and postsecondary STEM education, workforce trends and composition, state level comparisons, and public attitudes and understanding of science and related issues.
On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.
Lack of knowledge about the ice sheets and their behavior is the primary reason that projections of global sea level rise includes such a wide range of plausible future conditions.
The TANs bring together a wide array of nongovernmental organizations, citizens associations, trade unions, communities and alternative media in forms of activism which target global level institutions and issues, while also attempting to use global level visibility to level changes at the national level.
Fernand Braudel (1982) said that the global capitalist economy consists of a top layer of a structure on three levels: a lower layer, a wider, of an economy extremely elementary and basically self - sufficient that he called
The Global Education Conference (GEC) is a collaborative and world - wide community event designed to reduce participation barriers and significantly increase opportunities for globally - connecting educators (primary, secondary and tertiary levels), students, and organizations.
-- a class poetry book — a book of things your class learned on a topic — collaborate to make an anthology of stories on the same topic — grade level stories / book — school wide project — collaborative research projects — a global project with pages from different classes from all over
Payden Global Low Duration Fund seeks a high level of total return, consistent with preservation of capital, by investing in a wide variety of debt instruments and income - producing securities.
«His deep knowledge of the travel industry and wide range of sales experience from Cruise lines to OTAs, will take our global sales operations to the next level
Through their art's wide reception, the stylistic features of SoCal scene resonated worldwide, influencing street artists on a global level.
It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...
The ranges of solar energy deployment at the global level are extremely large, also compared to other RE sources (see Section 10.2.2.5), indicating a very wide range of assumptions about the future development of solar technologies in the reviewed scenarios.»
This is so because the world will need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions from current levels by 80 % or greater by the middle of this century to prevent catastrophic climate change as greenhouse gas emissions increase world wide increase at 2 % per year under current trends.
ENSO involves feedbacks: wind, cloud, sea level pressure, surface temperature, Rossby waves — it is a complex and dynamic system in its own right — but only part of the wider global dynamic.
The best news came not in the form of the incremental environmental improvements made by thousands of businesses and governments around the world, but in the signs of interlocking, economy - wide, systems - level change that could yet provide a route to curbing global emissions during the 2020s.
The authors observe that wide variations in rates of tectonic uplift and subsidence in different locations around the world at particular times mean no effective coastal management plan can rest upon speculative computer projections regarding an idealised future global sea level, such as those provided by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Bouin, Z. Altamimi Geocentric sea - level trend estimates from GPS analyses at relevant tide gauges world - wide Global and Planetary Change 57 (2007) 396 — 406 made a correct recalibration with the ITRF (International Terrestrial Reference Frame) defined by the International Earth Rotation Service
In their discussion of national - level and macroeconomic rebound effects, the report cites work by Barker et al (2009) using IEA modeling data that finds global average economy - wide rebound effects will reach approximately 31 % by 2020 and 52 % by 2030.
and has spoken extensively in a wide range of forums to explain the environmental dangers we face on a global level.
The only proposal to date that could result in a slight reduction in 2100 atmospheric CO2 levels by maybe 60 to 80 ppmv and a miniscule reduction in global warming of 0.5 to 0.6 C, would be to replace essentially all new coal - fired power plants world - wide with nuclear plants.
But given that carbon dioxide levels were now substantially higher than anything in the past two millions of years, in either glacials or interglacials, it had become abundantly clear that the greenhouse effect was something we needed to take extremely seriously: even if the precise future increase in temperature was still an unknown quantity, with a fairly wide error - range, models indicated that for a doubling of carbon dioxide from pre-industrial levels, a rise of three degrees celsius as a global average was the most likely outcome.
deCOALonise.africa will help amplify regional campaigns, and highlight campaigns against coal on a continent - wide as well as global level.
According to «Job Opportunities for the Green Economy,» (pdf) a report released in May 2008, «millions of U.S. workers — across a wide range of occupations, states, and income levels — will all benefit from the project of defeating global warming and transforming the United States into a green economy.»
Being the second largest nation across the worldwide, India is supposed to lend support to global prices that trading close to the highest level, which could eventually lead to the wide trade deficit of the country.
Social media defines global communications and allows a greater level of world - wide exposure than ever possible before.
While the global platforms have been exploding, making it easier to follow events at a world wide level, local news sources have atrophied.
My past work experience and educational success as shaped me into an employee with skills in Senior Level Recruitment servicing wide array of Scholastic institutions and global corporations.
My past work experience extensive educational successes has shaped me into an employee with skills in all college level teaching and lecturer servicing wide array of global entities.
My past work experience has shaped me into an employee with skills in Senior Level Sales and Account Managing servicing a wide array of global corporations.
For example, if you were a VP of Financial Services and now you would like a Management of Operations position, you would focus on your people skills, organizational skills, and you must be ok with downplaying your executive - level accountabilities such as global - market strategies, market assessment, and enterprise - wide initiatives.
My past work experience has shaped me into an employee with skills in Inside Sales and Senior Level Candidate Research servicing wide array of global corporations.
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«With global buyers consistently drawn to both the city's athletic scene as well as its wide array of cultural offerings, Engel & Völkers Scottsdale will provide the international reach and top - tier level of service to best serve our clients» comprehensive real estate needs,» says Nathan.
Both on a national and global level, volatility has been continuing to radically escalate and experience wide swings.
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