Sentences with phrase «analog for»

Like our very own Katherine's review of the Impossible Burger here, Robert comes away mostly impressed and suggests it's a tasty and mostly passable analog for its meat - based inspiration.

The nearest analog for London seems to be Vancouver.

The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a slate - wiping of the evolutionary record it functioned as a resetting of the planetary clock, and many climate scientists will tell you they are the best analog for the ecological future we are diving headlong into.

«Recent research has focused on MIS 11 as a possible analog for the present interglacial [e.g., Loutre and Berger, 2003; EPICA community members, 2004] because both occur during times of low eccentricity.

Carbon dioxide emissions during the Eemian and Pliocene era are an analog for today's levels, but sea levels at that time were higher than today.

This is contrary to the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), which had reduced variability and therefore may be misleading as an analog for 21st century warming, notwithstanding its warm (and arid) conditions.

One analog for the future comes from the work of Holland and Bitz using the NCAR climate model.

This certainly justifies climatic evaluations of older, concluded warm interglacial cycles such as the last interglacial (LIG), i.e., Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e (Eemian), lasting from about 130 to 115 ka and often proposed as a possible analog for our near - future climatic conditions on Earth11, 12.

That said, «Even though the Pliocene conditions could be an analog for CO2 concentrations today, we've probably never experienced such a fast transition to warm temperatures as we're seeing right now,» Willenbring said in the release.

If a cyclic pattern could be found that is a natural analog for these atmospheric oscillations, and upon investigation be found to out preform the lead time of the models, with as good a resolution as the 5 to 7 day modeled forecast, shouldn't that be at least considered?

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

With oilmen like Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, and Forrest Lucas, the founder of Lucas Oil, named as potential candidates to lead the departments of energy and the interior, respectively, in a Trump administration, the mostly likely historical analog for the next few years could be the start of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when he appointed senior officials who were often hostile to the policies of their own agencies.

«While looking at volcanoes as an analog for geoengineering is a good approach, we should be careful not to overinterpret the analogy,» said Ken Caldeira, a geoscientist with the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

In fact, the literature is pretty clear that the better analog for the Holocene is actually MIS11 (Droxler), around 400 kya, when orbital eccentricity was quite low as it is today, resulting in a longer interglacial (Berger) with sea levels higher than during the Eemian.

Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.

So to, does McEneaney's collaged viewpoint act as an analog for today's modes of viewing... By gaining access to different spaces, McEneaney becomes a kind of anthropologist of her neighborhood.

Instead, Kline seems to have embodied an expressive visual analog for the power and intensity associated with the subject.

And to me, attending artist residencies has always been an analog for pretending to be rich.

The bronze sculptures, inspired by «Tulip Mania,» the first recorded futures market bubble, provide a physical analog for the process of economic inflation and crash.

Jack Whitten's art — canvasses built up with what he calls «tesserae» of acrylic paint, at once minimalist and ornate — is an excellent analog for his manner.

On a gamepad this is at least easily rectified - the D - Pad is used for tank, and the analog for modern, so you can change on the fly.

The neutral positions should be: analog for left thumb, and buttons for right thumb.

The model formerly known as the Q30 is an analog for the A-Class, while the QX30 is based on the GLA - Class.

Video cameras are the most obvious analog for the human eye.

The sample analog for a term of this form is [with, for example,].

The sample analog for Eq.

Let be defined to solve a prediction problem such as The sample analog for Eq.

This fruit - and - cheese masterpiece is an analog for multidisciplinary learning.

Far more humbly, Terence Davies went analog for his upcoming «Sunset Song,» but with one key difference.

The torch - lit Rembrandt lighting of the first few episodes has, thanks to the profusion of oil lamps, given way to a more even, golden illumination, a visual analog for how social and technological progress removes some of the darkness from life, yet leaves the essential human drama — the collision of individuals stumbling from cradle to grave — untouched.

The production's now vacant audience is an appropriate analog for what's to come; a unique experience targeted at no one in particular.

There will be a day / night cycle dictating NPC movement patterns, as well as gambling minigames, stores, and a black market analog for purchasing less than legal equipment.

But you don't have to squint too hard to also see the itinerant community as an all - purpose analog for the ghettos of Nazi Germany, America's inner cities, and all of those other places where unwanted, powerless peoples have been herded off far from the backyards of the ruling class.

Men have no analog for it.

It's said to be the single most effective blood analog for a variety of health conditions.

Studying the wildlife of a modern East African savanna ecosystem provides students an analog for studying the ancient environment of the Lake Turkana Basin, which millions of years ago was much more lush and green than today.

There is no analog for climate change as humans have triggered it, so our sensitivities are even less sure than the science suggests, even with Earth System Sensitivity since it also presumably doesn't account for rate of change nor the preconditioning the human presence has resulted in.

To ensure device safety for human use, the researchers tested their device in pigs which are a typical analog for humans due to their similar physiology.

So this polar region of Earth can act as an analog for Mars» past.

Recent research has focused on MIS 11 as a possible analog for the present interglacial [e.g., Loutre and Berger, 2003; EPICA community members, 2004] because both occur during times of low eccentricity.

Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University, and published online this weekend by the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters in a paper titled, «Iceland is not a magmatic analog for the Hadean: Evidence from the zircon record.»

This alternate view of Earth's first geologic eon, called the Hadean, has gained substantial new support from the first detailed comparison of zircon crystals that formed more than 4 billion years ago with those formed contemporaneously in Iceland, which has been proposed as a possible geological analog for early Earth.

«It's our closest analog for future climate change.»

In the new study, pollen grains of a modern dwarf pine species, considered an analog for the ancient species, were similarly malformed under high levels of ultraviolet - B radiation (bottom row).

Now, researchers have exposed a more accessible analog for extraterrestrial life habitats: microscopic pockets of salt water in the Arctic Ocean's winter ice.

Marshall says, «There's no lab analog for lightning.»

«If you want an analog for Mars, you need to look at a time when Earth was like Mars.»

12 No analog for potential energy or reaction free energy is now known to be associated with this sort of structure.

Although they fit the mould of a conventional striker much more snugly than Salah, with their searing pace, individual skill and unerring finishing technique, Torres and Suárez are perhaps better analogs for the new star of Anfield than any of the aforementioned names from the more distant past.

«This is another example of a larger theme in our research, that of the synthesis of complex, rare natural products and their analogs for biological investigations,» Nicolaou said.