Sentences with phrase «by several orders of magnitude»

Also virus abundance increased by several orders of magnitude when corals were exposed to temperature, nutrient, and pH stress.

Usually they follow a «boom and bust» strategy, varying in biomass by several orders of magnitude from year to year, changes that are notoriously difficult to predict.

In this example, the planetary signal has been increased in strength relative by several orders of magnitude relative to the actual signal.

Like your tax return, only multiplied by several orders of magnitude.

The mass of insects alone exceeds man by several orders of magnitude.

The huge industry dependent on fossil fuels has more to lose by several orders of magnitude than the renewable power business.

The means for simple systems to become complex has increased by several orders of magnitude.

In 2012, Reed's elite geek squad upped the ante by several orders of magnitude in scale and scope.

Invariably, the human cost differs by several orders of magnitude.

«Building an acoustic buffer inside a chip improves our ability to control information by several orders of magnitude,» said Merklein.

Lewontin, a Marxist whose philosophical sophistication exceeds that of Sagan by several orders of magnitude, came to see the issue as essentially one of basic intellectual commitment rather than factual knowledge.

The number of people in the world who believes in some form of deity far outnumber people who don't believe in a god by several orders of magnitude.

To further assess the differences in these various populations within individuals, Anderson, Ping and their team found that chemical messengers called cytokines and chemokines «can be concentrated in semen by several orders of magnitude» over those in the blood.

Kurzweil has his skeptics — most of whose counterarguments can be summarized as, nah, that would just be too weird — but even if he's grandiose in his predictions by several orders of magnitude, it still seems a safe bet that we are heading into a world where discretion has no meaning.

In an editorial accompanying the article, postdoctoral fellow Nadia Roan, along with Warner Greene, a senior investigator at the University of California, San Francisco's Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, wrote: «If SEVI truly increases the real world heterosexual spread of HIV by several orders of magnitude, then negating the activity of this factor could conceivably diminish these frequencies to levels that might virtually eliminate semen - driven HIV transmission.»

Although large dams are generally considered more harmful than their smaller counterparts, the research team's surveys of habitat loss and damage at several dam sites on the Nu River and its tributaries in Yunnan Province revealed that, watt - for - watt, the environmental harm from small dams was often greater — sometimes by several orders of magnitude — than from large dams.

«We were able to speed up their software by several orders of magnitude,» said Robert Sinkovits, SDSC's director of the Scientific Applications Group, which helps researchers make optimal use of SDSC's larger supercomputers.

Although the optical clock used in the demonstration had about one tenth the accuracy of atomic clocks used on GPS satellites today, the researchers are already working on a new version that will improve accuracy by several orders of magnitude.

«They show an increase in diversity by several orders of magnitude,» Farrell says.

A recently developed enhancement technique uses pristine graphene as a substrate, which can enhance the Raman signal by several orders of magnitude.

This finding suggests that using lighter elements should prolong the time quantum dots containing single magnetic ions store information, perhaps even by several orders of magnitude.

In any case, «The classical theory of nucleation has turned out to be off - target by several orders of magnitude in some systems when it comes [to] quantitative predictions.»

This, in spite of the fact that the world's total imaging capacity has expanded by several orders of magnitude in the past 20 years.»

The axon typically exceeds the length of the cell body by several orders of magnitude.

The situation further deteriorates for trapped metal nanoparticles when the incident light overlaps with a plasmonic resonance, whereby electrons move in response to light collectively, causing enhancements to local fields by several orders of magnitude.

By preventing death, vaccination greatly increased the infectious period of the most virulent strains, increasing the total amount of virus shed by several orders of magnitude, and increasing it above that of the least virulent strain (Fig 1, bottom panels).

Albeit the plot is horribly contrived and the trio has noticeably gotten dumber by several orders of magnitude (except for maybe Dale who was already whiny and stupid), the guys still mesh relatively well together on screen when they're not stomping on each other's words or tripping over one another.

Or being sucked inside a gigantic kaleidoscope full of images of folding cityscapes like that famous scene in «Inception,» only expanded and amplified by several orders of magnitude.

Mind you, the eye's response to blue light is logarithmic, so you'd have to lower the amount of blue light by several orders of magnitude to have any real effect.

In his talk, Jeff Sebo pointed out that if we value future animals similarly to animals living in the present, then future non-human animals might very well be the top priority, since we have every reason to expect that they will outnumber humans by several orders of magnitude on into the future.

We discovered that Greenpeace — just one player — had had more money at its disposal than Exxon's recipients by several orders of magnitude.

The problem is that my approach requires the task to be broken down into chunks, which slows the process by several orders of magnitude due to the computational overhead that results from iterations, as well as my own time to write the code.

It would seem this can exceed temperature induced evaporation by several orders of magnitude and this effect is not, it seems, included in GCMs.

Yet it turns out that the cash available to the alarmists — who more often than not make arguments that are well out of kilter with the «consensus» position without drawing Monbiot's criticism — exceeds the denialists» efforts by several orders of magnitude.

As for AOGCMs, but in contrast to simple models, the number of degrees of freedom of an EMIC exceeds the number of adjustable parameters by several orders of magnitude.

It's a way to bring the fees back down and increase transaction throughput by several orders of magnitude.

«Over the course of the river, we saw the concentration of resistance genes increase by several orders of magnitude,» Pruden says, «far more than could ever be accounted for by chance alone.»

«We found that the Kondo effect makes the Weyl fermions move with a velocity that differs by several orders of magnitude from the noninteracting case,» Lai said.

What if the income in Washington is disproportionally larger (by several orders of magnitude in absolute terms, and by 2 × — 3 × on per annum basis) than that in Indiana?

The Surface is therefore too expensive in both categories, and in tablets it's by several orders of magnitude.

The accuracy and the stability of optical clocks are mainly based on the fact that the frequency of the optical radiation used is higher (by several orders of magnitude) than that of the microwave radiation which is used in cesium atomic clocks, which makes optical clocks much more precise than cesium clocks.

And worse, possibly outsell me by several orders of magnitude.

We then need a physical basis (i. e. a physics based explanation) to relate these arbitrarily small (by several orders of magnitude) net perturbations to Earth's climate system, you know cause AND effect, or causality;