Sentences with phrase «acts as a negative»

Rovinescu said duopolies can get too cozy and act as a negative force against innovation, but the move can also help companies to scale up to ensure programs get to market.

A rise in BAA spreads acts as a negative for the CCI.

The interesting part is that more clouds in summer as well as less clouds in winter both act as negative feedbacks: less warming in summer with more clouds reflecting the sunlight and more cooling in winter from less clouds allowing more heat to escape to space.

This contradictory behavior explained that Cyclin D1 acts as a negative regulative protein under some conditions rather than a positive regulator in the cell cycle, i.e. the modest increase in Cyclin D1 expression could hasten the G1 phase while the overexpression may lead to block the progression through the S - phase [28, 29].

When stress levels are chronic, cortisol is constantly produced, and it doesn't act as a negative inhibitor to the HPA axis.

The CTLA - 4 gene acts as a negative regulator and supressor of T - cell activation that could result in an exaggerated T cell activationand lead to the development of autoimmunity.

He believes that the project, with its ideology and collective thinking, acted as a negative charge that helped galvanize abstract expressionism into existence.

However, sea ice then grows very rapidly, since the growth rate for thin ice is much higher than for thick ice, which acts as a negative feedback on thickness during the growth season (Bitz and Roe, 2004; Notz, 2009).

Perhaps all of this newly freed up ice - cold water at the poles is temporarily acting as a negative feedback, but as it absorbs more of the solar radiation, over time, it will transform into what we rightly think: a predominately positive feedback system, rapidly intensifying the warming.

Is TC saying that increased fertilization due to CO2 is going to act as a negative feedback of sufficient magnitude that the problem of anthropogenic emissions is smaller than generally believed?

The carbon cycle today is actually acting as a negative feedback, absorbing our fossil fuel CO2.

It's possible that CO2 contributes about a.6 C increase in temperature and that the effects of clouds acts as a negative feedback to moderate further increases.

# 27 CCPO It's possible that CO2 contributes about a.6 C increase in temperature and that the effects of clouds acts as a negative feedback to moderate further increases.

16 (DBB) If more water vapor leads to more precipitation then water vapor will act as a negative feedback on rising global temperature.

Lindzen also suggested that water vapor would act as a negative feedback on global warming because the upper troposphere would dry out as it warmed (which also fits the «sky will open up» ideas) but the fact is that the troposphere has gotten wetter.

It acts as negative feedback of a sorts.

Except perhaps that CaCO3 is a remarkably efficient solid for the purpose of cutting off sources of Ca in upwellings in oceans, acting as a negative feedback?

So long term trends act as negative feedback on CO2 levels, and therefore your physically impossible scenario is impossible indeed and has nothing to do with my writings or opinions in any way.

The adiabatic lapse rate also acts as a negative feedback by moving heat higher up into the atmosphere where it can more easily escape, which also serves to cool the surface.

However as we can see above the exact opposite is happening WV is acting as a negative feed back so to put t bluntly John YOU ARE WRONG, your theory is wrong, Al Gore is wrong, Flip Flop is wrong, Steffen is wrong and the IPCC are wrong.

If, as Willis suggests, they are acting as negative feedbacks which make a significant contribution to the stability of the climate system (and it has proved to be remarkably stable to massive changes in conditions historically) then incorreclty assuming it is a random, mean zero process will lead to incorrect conclusions.

But water vapor, unlike CO2, acts as a negative feedback mechanism, too, because as the atmosphere heats and more water vapor enters the air, we also have more clouds, which reflect heat.

I don't need to know all of the subtle characteristics and interactions in a climate model to understand that it doesn't account for water vapor forming additional clouds which act as a negative feedback on warming.

«He also * claims * clouds have negative feedback, completely neglecting studies that show clouds to have both negative and positive feedback» he does indeed state that clouds can act as a positive and negative feedback, but he claims that he believes based upon his own observations that mostly clouds act as a negative feedback, might I also say that this observation is also made by Professor.

For example one of the most significant climate forcing is cloud activity, which acts as a negative feedback.

Clearly there are other transient factors which dominate the actual radiation balance so could any of these act as negative feedbacks?

My vision is to build a product development company that makes consumer products that also act as negative carbon sinks.

As regards the role of clouds and water vapour, Schmidt claims that Lindzen is unique in his belief that they act as a negative feedback, adding that there are now strong observational data to the contrary.»

The increased albedo from melting arctic ice should not matter very much, but the newly exposed cold surface water might absorb extra carbon dioxide, acting as a negative feedback on the whole system.

Describe how trauma symptoms may act as negative hypnotic trances and how that may affect therapeutic outcomes.

Not exact matches

The September 1 Gross Domestic Product release will be the one that will let us know whether or not we are in a recession, at least by the semi-official definition of «a period of at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product for Canada, as reported by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act.»

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The response offers a small glimpse of the negative impact such laws, known as Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, legislation, can have on state economies.

«Interest, surprise and amusement behave as emotional multipliers for positive emotions, and empathy seems to act as an emotional multiplier for negative emotions,» says Jones.

One of the few escape clauses is a recession, which the statute defines as «a period of at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product as reported by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act.»

In the current - year quarter, the tax rate decreased from 42.9 percent to a negative 35.1 percent reflecting the one - time favorable net tax benefit recorded as part of the Act.

Although strong bipartisan support has been voiced for the JOBS Act amendments, Aguilar's negative sentiment echoes that of Senator Carl Levin (D - MI) who said, «It's as if the SEC is jumping out of an airplane today, and then proposing to check the safety of its parachute on the way down.»

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

But while failure carries with it a negative connotation, it can also act as a catalyst for many positive experiences.

Positive values act as a kind of «lure», negative values as a threat.

The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.

the evidence is your negative reaction and my response, remember i am part of him and He delegated to me as his conscious being now th this point in time of the evolution as the thesis and you will act or represent the anrithesis of the process

I see no way to show that any single creature, sufficiently integrated to act as one is totally immune to aesthetic values, positive or negative.

When the negative movement of religion is understood as being a reversal of the profane, there is a clear implication that religion acts by way of a backward movement or return, with the inevitable corollary that the sacred is an original or primordial Reality.

For this purpose we make our act of resistance, to allow the «negative capability» of being in the presence of things as they are.

There is some point in the view that Augustine had much to do with fastening a negative and morbid attitude toward sexuality upon the Christian church, but we want to find what it is in his view of love which led to this.12 We have to go deeper than the familiar point that Augustine thought of the stain of original sin as transmitted through the act of procreation.

She commends cultures in which «abortion is viewed as one way of completing the sacred cycle that begins with sexuality,» condemning the squeamish «white Western culture» in which we «don't want to accept responsibility for our destructive acts or our negative side, so we deny their existence.»

Countertestimony also includes acknowledging the negative side of the character of Yahweh, as when Israel experiences punishment in great disproportion to its guilt or when God is silent and fails to act.

If the bishops and other negative absolutists would speak of tradition, let them speak of it in its full ambiguity and subtlety, instead of acting as though the tradition were a simplistic, Platonic negative floating through time untouched by contradiction, nuance or complexity.

I hope Gazidis called him up and spoke to him but no way to tell either way, I don't mean this as a negative but as something good, we could act quicker in the summer window.