Sentences with phrase «at extreme scales»

«Our goal is to fundamentally change the way the world uses energy at the extreme scale.

Interesting features emerged at this extreme scale after Molecular Foundry scientists used code they developed to analyze the atomic structure.

Dongarra has long been a champion of the need for algorithms, numerical libraries, and software for HPC, especially at extreme scale.

Not exact matches

Most daunting of all, Rutan and Scaled had never built a rocket motor — the source of fully half of all space - launch failures — and had never had to deal with the nightmarish heat and extreme forces generated from reentering the atmosphere at high speeds.

Still, it's a pretty accurate perspective, especially if you find yourself at the extreme ends of the Innovation Quotient scale!

Soft, soothing music is low in arousal, which measures the intensity of a piece (while my husband's picks are at the extreme other end of the scale).

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

To illustrate that point, CNN Greed & Fear Index is pegged at 2 (read: extreme fear) on a scale of 0 - 100.

In any case, Welty and Sharp aren't in the least interested in such restrictions: if Augustine's rigid definition of friendship is at one end of the scale, and Lewis» not much closer to the center, Welty and Sharp stand at the opposite extreme.

In the extreme, this model could create a de facto market share cap, leading to a perverse outcome in which firms with substantial market power are prevented from innovating or achieving economies of scale, or in some cases, merging at all.

On a scale of -100 to +100, with -100 being extreme left wing and +100 being extreme right wing Cameron was at +34, almost unchanged from February's +35.

«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.

The late Proterozoic — the time period beginning less than a billion years ago following this remarkable chapter of sustained low levels of oxygen — was strikingly different, marked by extreme climatic events manifest in global - scale glaciation, indications of at least intervals of modern - like oxygen abundances, and the emergence and diversification of the earliest animals.

Comparing Figure 2a to 5b reveals that native Israeli participants rated more at the middle of the VAS scale and native Ethiopians rated more at the scale extremes.

«A subgroup analysis that combines data from children in both the single - and multiple - dose studies demonstrated a mean 5 point increase in muscle function score in children who received at least 9 mg of ISIS - SMNRx between the ages of two and 10 who did not have severe scoliosis or baseline HFMSE scores at the extreme low or high ends of the scale.

To this end, researchers at the National University of Singapore have devised a method for shaping photons with extreme precision, allowing for an unprecedented look at these light - matter interactions at atomic scales.

«[The Nature study is] heavily smoothing the data so as to look only at centennial - scale shifts, not what we usually think of as droughts or rainfall extremes, which would be scales of days to at most a decade or two.»

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

The genome itself shows an unusually extreme large - scale compositional bias, being noticeably higher in G+C near the origin than at the terminus.

The scientific strategy of the CNM unites three crosscutting and interdependent scientific themes that collectively aim at the discovery and integration of materials across different length scales studied at the extremes of temporal, spatial, and energy resolutions.

The integrated HPCAT facility has established four operating beamlines in nine hutches An array of novel X-ray diffraction — imaging at tiny scales — and spectroscopic techniques to reveal chemistry, has been integrated with high pressure and extreme temperature instrumentation.

At the more extreme end of the scale, sleep deprivation can cause cognitive impairment, memory lapses, decreased reaction times and, ultimately, an impaired immune system.

Muscle fatigue was evaluated at the same time using a visual - analogue scale consisting of a 10 - cm line with «no fatigue» printed at one end and «extreme fatigue» at the other.

don't know why my body refuses to loose wt, but that is the way it is....10 days scale is stuck... at least the extreme fluctuations have vanished, but it is still a little irritating to not be loosing anything....

, but it can become fraudulent at the extreme end of the scale.

Leave no child behind — National averages often conceal extreme inequalities and the severe disadvantage of groups at the bottom of the scale

The first is that you are talking about particular individuals, at the extreme end of the competence scale, and therefore analyses of the generality of teachers are unlikely to apply.

At the other end of the scale the extreme Jaguar XJR575 delivers figures of 25.5 mpg and 264g / km, that's assuming you can resist the temptation to plant your right foot at every given opportunitAt the other end of the scale the extreme Jaguar XJR575 delivers figures of 25.5 mpg and 264g / km, that's assuming you can resist the temptation to plant your right foot at every given opportunitat every given opportunity.

Evolved from the Exige Sport 380, the Cup version tips the scales at 1,057 kg (2,330 lb), thanks to the extensive use of carbon fiber and extreme engineering.

While the Range Rover retains those extreme abilities, it has put on a lot of weight over the ages, now tipping the scales at more than three tons with a driver aboard.

This'll mean more devices at the extreme ends of the price scale.

I know David Gaughran has some fairly accurate estimations that he's used before, but here's a what if for you: What if you could accurately model Amazon's ebook sales using data submitted by selfpub authors (which I remember seeing a blogger on the Writer's Cafe who was already doing this with extreme accuracy) combined with a sliding scale, using the same data, to determine sales at any given time (because being the # 5 bestseller in the Mystery category on Tuesday doesn't mean the same sales on Thursday).

Seizures and death are at the extreme (but not unlikely) end of the scale.

Whether working on the scale of monumental sculpture or de-materialized gesture Martin's practice positions itself at the extreme brink of cognition — how knowledge and wisdom is gained at the close of experience or how life is recognized only at the edge of death.

She is known for the wide range of both materials and processes she employs, as well as her capacity to work at the extremes of scale: from the hand held object to all but monumental sculpture.

Kysa Johnson's work explores patterns in nature that exist at the extremes of scale.

Artist statement: «My work explores patterns in nature that exist at the extremes of scale.

Biography: Artist statement: «My work explores patterns in nature that exist at the extremes of scale.

His use of scale alludes to an extreme vulnerability, but at the same time conveys an aloof distance.

The university already has initiatives on everything from «urban resilience to extremes» to «negative emissions» — developing ways to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in amounts large enough to matter at climate scale.

Additionally, the publication aims to highlight the full range climate - related health issues and risks (i.e. nutrition, NCDs, air pollution, allergens, infectious diseases, water and sanitation, extreme temperatures and weather, etc.) where health decision - making can benefit from climate and weather knowledge at historic, immediate, seasonal, or long - term time scales.

«We call it the extreme scale,» Eric Loth, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia, told the Union - Tribune.

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

That's based on a thermodynamics equation called the Clausius - Clapeyron relation — and it's what you see if you look at extreme rainfall on the scale of days.

Climate shifts unpredictably at multi-decadal scales producing extreme variability at centennial to millennial scales.

To plan for and adapt to the potential impacts of climate change, there is a need among communities in British Columbia for projections of future climate and climate extremes at a suitable, locally - relevant scale.

«Therefore, it is concluded that the influence of anthropogenic forcing has had a detectable influence on extreme temperatures that have impacts on human society and natural systems at global and regional scales»

There is medium confidence that anthropogenic influences have contributed to intensification of extreme precipitation at the global scale.

«It is likely that anthropogenic influences have led to warming of extreme daily minimum and maximum temperatures at the global scale.

Michael # 29, the classical economists of the 18th and 19th centuries (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill) all wrestled with the problem of limits to growth and came up with scenarios for the human future ranging from extreme pessimism (Malthus) to optimism (John Stuart Mill's expectation that at a certain stage of economic development human society would cease to grow in material scale and reach a «stationary state» where the emphasis would be on qualitative human, social and cultural development.