Sentences with phrase «widespread shifts in»

Rainforest destruction in the tropics could hurt farmers in Europe, U.S. Large - scale deforestation in the tropics could drive significant and widespread shifts in rainfall distribution and temperatures, potentially affecting agriculture...

Large - scale deforestation in the tropics could drive significant and widespread shifts in rainfall distribution and temperatures, potentially affecting agriculture both locally and far from where forest loss is occurring, concludes a study published today in Nature Climate Change.

While the slumping price of oil is bearing the brunt of the current volatility in the markets these days, there are other signs that indicate more widespread shifts in the credit cycle.

So it's not a big stretch of the imagination to think that some change, like food additives or antibiotic use, might have caused a fundamental, widespread shift in gut flora, making it easier for many people to gain weight, and increasingly difficult to shed extra pounds.

Therefore, the authors use their collective insight to propose a widespread shift in how educational leaders, school leadership teams, teachers, students, parents, and the community think about and talk about what it takes to improve schools.

It's also due to a widespread shift in preferences.

For me, one of the major signs of a problem is the widespread shift in scientific communication from «nullius in verba» to «argumentum ad verecundiam».

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A staggering amount of wholesale change is happening — from unprecedented and widespread aging to rampant urbanization and growth in a global middle class to an eastward shift in economic power and a growing number of disruptive technologies.»

For an example of how quickly NFL dynamics have shifted since protests have gotten more widespread, JPMorgan cites the spike in jersey sales for Pittsburgh Steeler offensive lineman Alejandro Villanueva.

First: widespread layoffs, lower budgets, new levels of austerity, and a shift in the corporate culture.

«The general sentiment in equity markets has certainly shifted to one of caution, so I think today is one of those days where the news certainly wasn't new by any stretch, but the potential that this protectionist rhetoric will eventually spill into something a little more widespread in terms of a trade war continues to worry equity markets.»

Like other tech companies such as Amazon.com (AMZN), rumored to be considering a foray into checking accounts, Chime sees an opportunity in financial services amid a shifting customer base and widespread dissatisfaction with big bank services.

Javelin's findings tell us that with the adoption of embedded chip cards now widespread in the U.S., criminals have begun to shift their fraud operations away from physical stores, favoring online transactions, new account fraud, and identity theft.

This is a time of a major paradigm shift going on in the minds and hearts of millions of Christians in North America, a shift from an older and very widespread way of seeing Christianity, to a way of seeing Christianity again.

The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.

Sometime this year the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki gave sincere advice that due to widespread insecurity in the North East as well as inability of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to distribute permanent voter cards (PVCs), it was necessary to shift elections.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape EcologIn addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecologin the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

Contrary to widespread view that the recession led to a substantial backlash against immigration, Professor Timothy Hatton, at the University of Exeter, found that the two most influential variables shifting public opinion on immigration are actually the share of immigrants in the population and the share of social benefits.

Zika was known for 60 years as a mild virus that appeared sporadically, but since 2007, two troubling shifts have taken place, Dye said: Zika virus now results in widespread outbreaks of hundreds or thousands of cases, and it is associated with neurological disorders like microcephaly and Guillain - Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves.

It's really a pretty dramatic shift from the existing and widespread agreement globally that human germline editing should be prohibited,» says Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, California.

The White House will meet with state representatives on 9 July to discuss preparations for the autumn flu season in the US, while the UK has shifted its response to dealing with widespread infection.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

Covert psychological operations (psyops) techniques from hideously honed spycraft in the past, combined with widespread dissemination via social media with cascading amplification of messages has shifted balances of power allowing for the control of many by the few, without the many even knowing.

As the adoption of SABR for the treatment of early stage operable lung cancer would be a paradigm shift in lung cancer care, it warrants further thorough evaluation before widespread adoption in practice.

As the adoption of SABR for the treatment of early stage operable lung cancer would be an important paradigm shift in lung cancer care, it warrants further thorough evaluation before widespread adoption in practice.

The projected result: widespread climate - induced forest die - offs, shifts in ecosystem structure and function, a concomitant loss of habitat for plants and animals, and the elimination of large carbon stores.

And, in my opinion, the smartest minds in the field do tend to implicate widespread environmental factors as a leading reason for such a dramatic shift in our endocrine health.

The election of Donald Trump in the US, Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the rise of right - wing nationalist parties across Europe signal a sharp shift away from the political and economic liberalism that have underpinned Western policy for decades, sowing widespread uncertainty and threatening to slow the integration of global markets with new curbs on the free movement of both people and products.

Second, despite a decade of calls by everyone from leading educators to leaders in the business community to shift our schooling from fact - based learning structured by academic disciplines to one that develops creative, flexible thinkers using a more interdisciplinary approach, this change is still not happening in any widespread way.

There is widespread recognition of the need for a shift to a greater focus on higher order thinking skills in today's technological and global world.

While recent brain research has helped shift the approach with students to experiences that are more fluid, collaborative, and learner driven, such adjustments have not been made in any widespread way for teachers.

,» examines current trends in special education that are likely to influence next steps for IDEA, including widespread use of tiered systems of support, the shift from regulatory compliance to results - driven accountability, and an increased focus on postschool transition planning.

Drawing from ASCD's Common Core State Standards summits in Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, and Utah, the report shares that educators» knowledge of the standards is growing exponentially, but many do not understand the instructional shifts necessary for helping students reach the higher standards; educators are focused on the new common assessments and the technology issues associated with their deployment; and there is widespread initiative fatigue in the field because of the standards implementation efforts, new educator effectiveness initiatives, and other initiatives like Race to the Top.

In particular, the dawning recognition of this paradigm shift has not yet been translated into widespread changes in teacher preparation practicIn particular, the dawning recognition of this paradigm shift has not yet been translated into widespread changes in teacher preparation practicin teacher preparation practice.

Anglicising non-English words for use in English is just one case of the widespread domestication of foreign words that is common to many languages, sometimes involving shifts in meaning.

This, combined with the shift in scale, plays on the recognizability of the font whose usage remains widespread in the encoding of checks, another technology destined for obsolescence.

And despite widespread skepticism, concern and even mistrust, I am certain the art market is deep and not under threat due to fundamental shifts in global patterns of consumption.

The volume also holds up a mirror to the rapidly changing context for Guyton's work, which in a few short years shifted from discussions of the widespread use of modernist motifs in art during the early 2000s to others revolving around the artwork, anticipating its continuous circulation as digital media became ubiquitous in art and culture alike.

The very strong evidence from Greenland ice and other sources of large, rapid, widespread climate changes in the past, and the fairly clear evidence that freshening of the north Atlantic could trigger a large climate shift, had raised LOTS of big questions, and at the time of Inevitable Surprises, many of those questions were poorly answered.

They include soaring temperatures, declining late - season snowpack, northward - shifted winter storm tracks, increasing precipitation intensity, the worst drought since measurements began, steep declines in Colorado River reservoir storage, widespread vegetation mortality, and sharp increases in the frequency of large wildfires.

... Conclusions Since 1950, global average temperature anomalies have been driven firstly, from 1950 to 1987, by a sustained shift in ENSO conditions, by reductions in total cloud cover (1987 to late 1990s) and then a shift from low cloud to mid and high - level cloud, with both changes in cloud cover being very widespread.

HAPPI enables detailed analysis of the shifting distribution of extreme growing season temperatures and precipitation, highlighting widespread increases in extreme heat seasons and heightened skewness toward hot seasons in the tropics.

From providing flexible resources to enable widespread deployment of renewable energy resources, to improving grid resiliency and efficiency, to shifting peak loads and reducing harmful emissions, storage brings a multitude of benefits to the grid that are not being fully valued in our electric system today.

The three lines are: (1) the beginning: the Khirthar transgression and the onset of neritic carbonate accumulation in the Bartonian Age (preceding onset of the Middle Eocene climatic optimum [MECO]-RRB-; (2) the midlife change (Bartonian - Priabonian transition): the shift from carbonate - rich to carbonate - poor, higher - nutrient environments under estuarine circulation, causing widespread dysaerobia culminating in opaline silicas; and (3) the Eocene - Oligocene = Priabonian - Rupelian boundary and glaciation during oxygen isotope event Oi - 1, with return of improved ventilation in neritic environments and resumption of carbonate accumulation.

Contrary to widespread opinion at the time, the decline in energy intensity was driven not through increased energy efficiency but sectoral shifts largely independent of state policies.

In fact, the researchers found that behavioral shifts could be faster than waiting for national climate policies and widespread energy transformations.

Scientists at the University of Montana, the University of California, Davis, and the University of Idaho are the first to find a widespread downward shift in Californian mountain plants.

One of the most significant potential mechanisms is a shift in an ocean circulation pattern known as thermohaline circulation, which would have widespread consequences for Europe and the U.S. East Coast.

Widespread networks of observers are especially well - suited to detecting global change — shifts in weather patterns; movements in the ranges of species; large - scale transformations of eco-systems — and that, unfortunately, is something we will need to know far more about if we are to mitigate and adapt to the fateful effects we are having on the planet.