"Alternative scenario" refers to a different possibility or situation that could happen instead of the one being discussed or considered.
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Next steps for the system operator's modeling initiative will include consideration
of alternative scenarios with higher levels of energy efficiency and storage resources.
The financial specialist also assists the team by creating
alternative scenarios for asset division and support, based on the parties expressed needs and interests.
In some cases, pointing to an entirely different suspect or
creating alternative scenarios can help to limit the prosecution's ability to build a persuasive case.
Regardless of regulatory focus manipulation, more committed individuals were also less likely to perceive quality
among alternative scenarios and to be attentive to alternative others in general.
Good investors think this way, and often find opportunity by identifying situations where the consensus view, while quite possibly right, is already priced in,
whereas alternative scenarios are not.
Together, we will hold your partner with deep respect; imagining his or her experience as we work with yours;
imagining alternative scenarios that would enhance your connection and intimacy.
Traditionally, paleontologists have put forward
alternative scenarios in which flight evolved either from the trees down or the ground up.
This enabled the team to estimate how temperature - related mortality rates will change
under alternative scenarios of climate change, defined by the four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for climate modelling and research in 2014.
Citizens will now be asked to review these three
different alternative scenarios along with a «Business - as - usual» scenario to find out what each could mean for the region's fiscal health, housing stock, agriculture productivity, transportation systems and more.
At the level of an individual researcher, I (and others like me) have the option of simply using the SRES and knowing no - one will bat an eyelid at my choice, or trying to find / create
credible alternative scenarios, which is far outside my area of competence and will risk adverse comment from referees.
Several alternative scenarios are evaluated, ranging from historic trends to a «Climate Sensitive Transportation Management» (CSTM) policy that would seek to stabilize U.S. vehicle miles traveled (VMT) at projected 2010 levels through 2050.
From confrontation in the future between these three major military powers may
result alternative scenarios to the current that is characterized at the time by the weakening of US hegemony on the world since the end of the bipolar world that confronted the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Bank's usual practice is to assume for our projection that oil prices will remain stable and use our economic models to
test alternative scenarios.
It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of
alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.
There is a website called Electoral Calculus which allows one to
offer alternative scenarios for vote shares and see what the projection those would mean in terms of seats should a uniform swing apply.
«But we can address it by creating some
intelligent alternative scenarios that represent ranges of possibility, so we don't get caught with unanticipated surprises by putting more people in harm's way,» he added.
«It's pretty convincing stuff: observations and the physical law of energy conversation have been used to show greenhouse gases are responsible for global warming and that
alternative scenarios violate this law of nature.
If we take strong actions to limit further emissions starting today — what the authors call the AS
[alternative scenario]-- we can limit total warming from preindustrial levels to about 2 °C, but even that risks sea level rise of one meter per century.
Auggie's imagination is also let loose in
endearing alternative scenarios, which sees himself envisioning himself as an astronaut, and recruiting Chewbacca as his ally at school to face his bullies — the delicate handling of his naïve outlook saves the film from becoming overly manipulative.
Or divide the class into small groups and ask them to prepare short skits reenacting scenes from the book and discuss and
perform alternative scenarios for Piddy.
The actuaries at the Social Security Administration have also
outlined alternative scenarios, ranging from trust funds being depleted even earlier to not being depleted at all.
You say that the ABARE AP6 reference emission scenario is largely based on IEA projections.The only IEA emissions scenarios to which I give credence are the Reference and
Alternative Scenarios published in the Agency's excellent World Energy Outlook.
• characterize national emissions • explore alternative emission reduction scenarios • calculate country - level health, agriculture and global climate benefits • compare results
across alternative scenarios • inform nationally appropriate action on SLCPs
The first by Shadi Hamid at Vox argues the intervention was a success - obviously not as compared to democratic Tunisia, but as compared to the most
likely alternative scenario, Syria's, with two orders of magnitude more deaths.
Although «narrowly persuaded» that it was sufficient to throw the burden of proof back on to G (the propounder of the will) the judge found that she plainly discharged that burden as the
only alternative scenario was «literally incredible».
Because you're creating templates to be used by many, you can take advantage of economies of scale: You can invest in technology that allows users to customize templates to reflect the
key alternative scenarios.
However, as the authors discussed, a general measure of
perceived alternative scenarios was used, which does not necessarily reflect romantic interest, whereas in our study we asked participants to report their initial attraction to a specific attractive target.