The level of sunlight is very predictable as it varies
with cyclical changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun and in the tilt of the Earth's axis, called Milankovitch cycles.
Orcam Financial Group specializes in constructing diversified, low fee, tax efficient portfolios that match an investor's risk profile
with the cyclical changes in the markets as the business cycle evolves.
Not exact matches
For a petro - economy such as Canada's, the financial risks associated
with the pending battle against climate
change are much greater than any
cyclical downturn in oil prices.
The modest
change to our hedge is intended to maintain our downside protection while hopefully producing a little bit less day - to - day discomfort on days when Wall Street suddenly goes «risk on» and chases banks, financials, materials, and high - debt
cyclicals, all of which we hold
with smaller weight than the major indices reflect.
Watkins» decision to fundamentally
change the way CCA markets to consumers and transacts
with customers is recognition that the challenges facing the bottler are more than
cyclical.
Some women experience symptoms of a bipolar depression, which is a
cyclical, deep depression
with periods of very high energy, decreased need for sleep, and
changing moods (mania).
We offer beauty rituals that complement the
cyclical hormonal
changes and specific skin needs associated
with hormonal swings.
The response of the antarctic system to climate
change is just one mechanism by which Earth's system will continue its
cyclical evolution,
with no concern for man's industrial and political motivations.
With each pulse, a bit of the excess contents were released and a
cyclical breathing - like
change in the artificial cell's texture was produced.
In several species of primates, males often discern when to mate
with a female based on
cyclical changes in the size and firmness of her sexual swelling — a visual signal of a female's probability to conceive.
The responsibilities are enormous, but as the Center for Creative Leadership's Bill Pasmore writes in Leading Continuous
Change: Navigating Churn in the Real World, it's time to replace single - change management with a comprehensive, cyclical app
Change: Navigating Churn in the Real World, it's time to replace single -
change management with a comprehensive, cyclical app
change management
with a comprehensive,
cyclical approach.
Management's long - range plan to
change Ingersoll from a
cyclical company to one
with steady sales and earnings growth is working.
I wouldn't disagree
with that: i) one can argue Saga's business has always been
cyclical & the Chinese have merely amplified that cycle... which could see Saga's results come back even stronger in the next up - cycle, but ii) if the market's undergoing a major secular
change, I'm not convinced management have the will / guts to radically chop the staff / cost - base to preserve shareholder value.
Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and
cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid
changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships
with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.
The techniques, ideas and themes addressed in this exhibition include long - term engagements versus chance encounters
with various land and waterscapes, the capacity of the camera to document slow, subtle
changes, and the infinitely
cyclical qualities of life and nature.
As to the example of the megadrought in the 1600s, I know little about this, but can you be so certain this was the result of chaos and not a
change in forcings, or a non-chaotic combination of a
change in forcings timed
with a
cyclical ENSO - like event?
The sun's actual heat output varies slightly in a
cyclical way,
with sunspot activity waxing and waning over an 11 year cycle, but despite careful measurement, that has been done for well over 100 years, there's no significant long term
change in the sun's heat output.
# 36, The hockey stick graph, especially its blade, has gathered the most violent, I would say emotional response from skeptics, not satisfied that it matches their theory, claiming climate
change is totally
cyclical and.human generated pollution has no effect whatsoever
with that cycle.
My opinion expressed elsewhere is that almost all the temperature
changes we observe over periods of less than a century are caused by
cyclical changes in the rate of energy emission from the oceans
with the solar effect only providing a slow background trend of warming or cooling for several centuries at a time.
The second would lead us to believe that solar activity and
cyclical changes in ocean current systems are the primary drivers
with CO2 at best a bit player.
As Earth descends into an 80 - year, sun - spotless Dalton or Maunder Minimum reinforced by a confluence of deep - ocean magmatism
with long - term
cyclical reversals, climate -
change alarmists will have much to answer for.
The advantage of recognising a reversed sign for the solar effect high up in the atmosphere is that it enables a scenario whereby the bottom up effects of ocean cycles and the top down effects of solar variability can be seen to be engaged in a complex ever
changing dance
with the primary climate response being
changes in the tropospheric air circulation systems to give us the observed natural climate variability via
cyclical latitudinal shifts in all the air circulation systems and notably the jet streams.
«There's that odd
cyclical behavior in Holgate's sea level
change rate plots, which looks remarkably like it's in phase
with solar activity.»
Watts contends that if the global data were properly adjusted for urbanization and station siting, and land use
change issues were addressed, what would emerge is a
cyclical pattern of rises and falls
with much less of any background trend.
As Sarah Palin said, «while we recognize the occurrence of these natural,
cyclical environmental trends, we can't say
with assurance that man's activities cause weather
change».
This seems to be consistent
with the proposition that the Chinese hold beliefs about
change as non-linear or perhaps
cyclical (Ji, Nisbett, & Su, 2001; Ji, et al., 2010) whereby
change might initiate or indicate both progression and deterioration in relationships at different point of time or from different point of view.