Sentences with phrase «by known phenomena»

«I am a minimalist — if you can explain something by known phenomena, you should.»

Not exact matches

This is what's known as «a phantom traffic jam,» and according to new research out of MIT (hat tip to Lifehacker for the pointer), the phenomenon isn't caused by ghosts (or even road conditions).

Since then, longer rates have come closer to being overtaken by short rates, a phenomenon known as yield curve inversion, which has been a reliable precursor of past recessions.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

The research threw up a concept known as homophily — a word invented by social scientists to describe the sociological phenomenon in which people are most drawn to others resembling themselves.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Otis Charles - described by the Times as «the only openly gay Episcopal bishop,» thereby implying that others are in the closet — says, «The new phenomenon is that we're no longer willing to remain silent and invisible.

The more one considers this eventuality (which can not be dismissed as a myth, as certain morbid symptoms, such as Sartrian existentialism, show) the more does one tend to the view that the grand enigma presented by the phenomenon of Man is not the question of knowing how life was kindled on earth, but of understanding how it might be extinguished on earth without being continued elsewhere.

Its self - contradictory dynamic is evident in the way those who have most recently arrived in suburbia are often the people most vociferously opposed to its extension (the political phenomenon that has come to be known as NIM BY - ism — «Not In My Back Yard»).

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.

Confronted by the phenomenon of «socialization» in which Mankind is irresistibly involved, do we seek to know how to act that we may better conform to the secret processes of the world of which we are a part?

But we can not deny that, no matter how great the influence of forms already in existence may have been at its inception, and no matter how complex and manifold and colorful its components may appear to be in historical analysis, Mahayana Buddhism is nonetheless a unique phenomenon, which we can not «explain» by summarizing its constituent elements.

Inquiry is governed, not, as in the «Athens» type, by an interest thereby indirectly to come to know God, but by an interest to discover as directly as possible the truth about the origin, effects, and essential nature of «Christian» phenomena.

As is well known, the method of Newton's Philosopiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, after which Russell and Whitehead's work was modeled, was to infer particular propositions from phenomena and then render these general by induction.

Christians who believe with Cullmann that «the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief in the Resurrection» will no doubt join him in denouncing all attempts, ancient or contemporary, to make of death a natural phenomenon (Cullmann, p. 19).

This time Saul's efforts to take David are frustrated by a religious phenomenon known among the Canaanites and common in early Israel.

Please let us know what this evidence is, but remember that it has to stand up to OUTSIDE scrutiny by those of us who know just how much the human brain is unable to process subjective phenomena and things of that sort.

This is also indicated by the aim of IM as enunciated in chapter one: «The object of the following chapters is not so much to teach mathematics, but to enable the students from the very beginning of their course to know what the science is about, and why it is necessarily the foundation of exact thought as applied to natural phenomena» (IM 2).

Best known is the collapse of the traditional model when confronted by the phenomena of the subatomic world.

These phenomena could be known to be universally valid by the deeper reaches of reason and revelation....

If you are Pumpkin Spice Latte devote, I am pretty sure Starbucks would be the one to thank for this seasonal coffee phenomenon (now known by an acronym, PSL).

Wikipedia states that the well - known phenomenon of «garlic breath» is allegedly alleviated by eating fresh parsley so you may want to follow this soup up with munching on a sprig of parsley or two.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

It also had the ring of plausibility: It proposed a phenomenon permitted by the known laws of physics, no new science required.

The placebo effect, also known as non-specific effects and the subject - expectancy effect, is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will work.

(The leading hypothesis is that ripples in space - time caused by a phenomenon known as inflation made the universe rapidly expand.)

One way to get many types of cells or proteins from the same genetic starting material is by mixing and matching different parts of one gene to produce multiple gene readouts, a phenomenon known as alternative splicing.

Mallon's prior research has shown that such species - rich communities may have been enabled by dietary specializations among the herbivores, a phenomenon more commonly known as niche partitioning.

Their paths shift slightly from one orbit to the next — a phenomenon known as precession — but when astronomers use general relativity to predict the amount of this shift, their answers are off by a factor of four.

The researchers aren't exactly sure how the bats are able to do this, but suspect it occurs by some combination of tongue deformation and the ability of fluids like nectar to flow without external force in certain narrow spaces, a phenomenon known as capillary action.

In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary.

Therefore, if the Tunguska event was in fact caused by a comet, it would be a unique occurrence rather than an important case study of a known class of phenomena.

These outflows are driven by the life and death of stars, specifically stellar winds and supernova explosions, which collectively give rise to a phenomenon known as «galactic wind.»

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

A team of University of Toronto physicists led by Alex Hayat has proposed a novel and efficient way to leverage the strange quantum physics phenomenon known as entanglement.

Alan Chattaway's call to name the phenomenon where something is known more widely by an erroneous name than by its...

To achieve this, the researchers took advantage of a phenomenon known as quorum sensing, which is used by many species of bacteria to coordinate gene regulation in response to their population density.

The phenomenon, known as Warburg effect, is typical for cancer cells and the mechanism behind is believed to benefit cancer cells by switching biochemical engines from energy manufacturing reactions to anabolic reactions, which primarily support growth of the cell size and proliferation.

In response to Alan Chattaway's call to name the phenomenon of something being known more widely by an erroneous name...

This rare phenomenon is achieved by limiting the location of the magnesium ions to relatively uncomfortable atomic positions by design, based on the way the vanadium pentoxide is made — a property known as metastability.

The dilution of a cold stimulus by a warm one implies that the different signals are blended over a broad patch of skin — a phenomenon known as spatial summation.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

This phenomenon, known as synaptic plasticity, was demonstrated by the researchers in their own device.

In one of the new papers, Reich and a cast of dozens of collaborators chart the spread of an ancient culture known by its stylized bell - shaped pots, the so - called Bell Beaker phenomenon.

This followed an earlier claim of mine that the phenomenon popularly known as globalisation was in the process of rolling over, and that it will be replaced in the coming years by its opposite, localisation.

Looking through the objective of a microscope, he noticed that pollen grains floating in water were constantly jiggling around as if driven by an invisible force, a phenomenon now known as Brownian motion.

This phenomenon, known as the Hispanic Paradox, has been noted before by other researchers looking at disease and survival rates across the spectrum.

Scientific study of this phenomenon, known as polarity, could reveal how the fate of a human embryo may be shaped — and predicted — by extremely early biological events that predate conception by days, weeks, or even months.

Wüthrich found a way to determine the precise shape of a very large biomolecule by studying how its hydrogen nuclei wobble when exposed to carefully tuned magnetic fields — a phenomenon known as nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR.

When these photons hit electrons in the cosmic web, they can gain energy and their wavelengths shorten by a tiny amount, in a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich (SZ) effect.