Sentences with phrase «apparent decrease»

In a new article in Current Anthropology, researchers Dean Falk and Charles Hildebolt question some of the assumptions made in Pinker's book, arguing that because rates of violence are blind to actual population sizes, it remains to be seen whether or not the apparent decrease in contemporary violence is an artifact of scaling factors.

In fact, the mechanism of this apparent decrease is well known.

From his office at Humboldt University here in Berlin, which is decorated with posters of both the Ishtar Gate and the Antikythera mechanism (thought to be the world's oldest known computer), he explained that the tablet plots the apparent decreasing velocity of Jupiter from the planet's first appearance along the horizon, to 60 days later, and then 120 days later.

We further determined that depigmentation was due to pigment cell loss — light exposure eliminated KMO - 1 / PBGD -1-positive cells, with no apparent decrease in expression of these genes within remaining pigment cells at intermediate timepoints (Figure 5C).

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good practice would be to have a comparability study to forecast the apparent decreases and help explain the changes to students and parents and the public when the results are released.

In some cases the first sign of this disease is an apparent decrease in obedience as your dog may hesitate before sitting or lying down.

Easterling and Wehner (2009) explained that it is not surprising to see some brief periods with an apparent decrease in a temperature record that increases in jumps and spurts, and Foster and Rahmstorf (2012) showed in a later paper how temperature data from the most important observations show consistent global warming trends when known short - term influences such as El Niño Southern oscillation (ENSO), volcanic aerosols and solar variability are accounted for.

If so, then the apparent decrease in tornadoes shown on the official plot could be in error.

There has been much speculation about how the report will address an apparent decrease in the rate of warming over the past few years, dubbed a «global warming pause.»

Stations illustrated with negative trends (blue - to - purple) are experiencing global sea level rise and a greater vertical rise in the local land, causing an apparent decrease in relative sea level.

While environmentalists are no doubt welcoming of the apparent decrease, some are awaiting all deforestation data to be consolidated in early 2012 which will better reflect the clearing rate than the current month - by - month figures assessed by PRODES.

For example, over the last few years high rental statistics have been attributed to an apparent decreased interest in homeownership.