Sentences with phrase «by several waves»

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The difficult legal choices being weighed by the bank — should it settle or should it fight — coincide with an unusual wave of scrutiny for JPMorgan, which is now facing investigations from at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign nations.

The resolution covers trading from 2008 to 2013, several years after a far bigger wave of penalties tied to foreign - exchange trading by other global banks.

Facebook's new reputation as a threat to start - ups is a reversal from several years ago, when a wave of start - ups, from dating and food - delivery apps to political consultancies, were able to grow by targeting their customers» friends — and friends of friends — on Facebook.

Smaller tsunami waves were observed on the coast or measured by ocean gauges in several other places.

South Africa was badly hit by a wave of xenophobic violence in April 2015 tha left several people dead and thousands homeless.

Moments after the National Electoral Council's televised announcement, state television carried images of Mr. Maduro, holding his wife's hand and flanked by several of the more powerful members of his government, walking down a narrow lane outside the presidential palace, smiling and waving.

Several of the 19 women who have alleged sexual misconduct by Trump have gone on television this week, as the unceasing wave of charges against powerful men has renewed attention to the charges against him.

Alerts issued by earthquake early warning systems, called EEWs, are based on several parameters: the depth and location of the quake's origin, its estimated magnitude and the ground properties, such as the types of soil and rock that seismic waves would travel through.

Over time, that light's wavelength was stretched to several meters by the expansion of the universe, before being detected on Earth as radio waves.

When light waves strike an object, they can interact with it in several ways: They can be reflected back like those from a mirror; they can be absorbed, which means they are captured by the object; they can be transmitted and pass through it; or they can be scattered and deflected in different directions.

Using such tools, a group in Paris led by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France has argued for several years that a hallmark of conscious visual perception is a particular type of electric wave, called P300, that occurs whenever an adult subject is attending to a consciously perceived picture or a sound.

Astronomers have suggested several times over the past year that the BICEP2 team had been fooled by that Galactic signal (see «Full - Galaxy dust map muddles search for gravitational waves»).

Now, 5 years and several gravitational wave observations later, a neutron - star merger that Messick helped spot by analyzing gravitational wave signals is Science's 2017 Breakthrough of the Year.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

The wave also damaged a marine research station operated by the University of Concepción in Dichato, a fishing town about 50 kilometers from the city, and left its research vessel stranded several blocks from shore, according to Carlos Moffat, an oceanography professor at the university.

The NOAA team has set up several arrays of sensors, spaced hundreds of miles apart, that register slight variations in air pressure — a sign of a lengthy sound wave passing by.

Intellifit Corporation has a «virtual fitting room» in West Chester, Pa., where a millimeter - wave machine scans customers to determine sizing, and salespeople give advice about the perfect fit of clothing, such as blue jeans, sold by several national brands.

If these waves hit an object, they can interact with the object in several ways: they can be reflected back from the object like those from a mirror; they can be absorbed, which means they are captured by the object; or they can be scattered and deflected in different directions.

The photo taken by Hans Graber from the R / V Knorr on 31 July 2006 at 13:46 EST during experiment in the Mid-Atlantic Bight off the New Jersey coast shows one of these internal wave packets several 10's of meters below the surface approaching the ship.

We now have the best evidence yet that an enormous wave of volcanism, caused by several continents crashing together to form the even greater landmass known as Gondwana, was the reason for a sharp rise in global temperature.

``... being considered by the US Air Force and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,... using very low frequency radio waves to flush particles from [the Van Allen radiation] belts and dump them into the upper atmosphere over either one or several days.

Early evidence for the waves was found several decades ago by Princeton astrophysicist Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse, a former physicist for the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

In the winter of 2013/14, several stones weighing 100 tons were moved by the waves.

(These disturbances travel at the speed of light, while the fastest seismic waves of an earthquake propagate at several kilometers per second, which means that monitoring the disturbances could potentially improve existing early - warning systems by seconds or even minutes.)

In one group, just 8 - 13 minutes of wave therapy several times a week for 6 months improved cellulite by 26 %.

Inspired by romantic waves or some other things (who knows), women initiate their profiles on one or several sites, and then may never visit it or check their mails.

Ratner grew no less shy this weekend, according to Twitter and several Vulture sources: After a screening of his film Tower Heist at L.A.'s Arclight Cinemas, the director came out for a Q&A, and when asked by the moderator whether he prepares and rehearses with his actors before shooting a scene, Ratner waved his hand dismissively and said, «Rehearsing is for fags.»

Several education leaders I talked to were struck by the wave of white working - class voters, including many rural and rust - belt Americans without college degrees, supporting Trump.

Several states have resisted the wave of changes prompted partly by the Obama administration, which offered states and districts millions of dollars in federal aid in exchange for overhauling their education policies through its Race to the Top program.

According to the article by Jennifer Schuessler, «Over the past two weeks, Mr. Grunberg has spent several hours a day writing his novella, while a battery of sensors and cameras tracked his brain waves, heart rate, galvanic skin response (an electrical measure of emotional arousal) and facial expressions.

In the vicinity you'll find several dining options from affordable local cuisine to restaurants owned and managed by world famous chefs, but most importantly don't give up the chance of surfing some of the best waves in the world in the, only known by locals, spots nearby.

We will have a mix of good surfers and novice surfers with us, as well as several children - the older ones will want to surf but it would also be nice to have a beach area where the younger ones could play without being taken out by the waves.

With miles of golden sand backed by white crested waves, Coffs Harbour is home to several beaches that provide good conditions for all kinds of water sports.

Apart from Playa Cocles, right in front of the hotel, the secret spots in the area, that only by making friends with the locals you'll be able to find, you're a really short drive from Isla Uvita, Puerto Viejo and the legendary Salsa Brava (Angry Sauce) featured in several surfing movies and famous as the heaviest wave in Costa Rica.

Defeating a boss Salmonid, while holding off the rest of the Salmonid horde of course, will spawn Golden Eggs, which must be rescued by your team, grabbing several of them in each wave.

Containing waves (and much, much more) similar in vibe to several Lee Lozano paintings, Gutzeit's printed and painted whirling, flashing landscape is a spectrumatic fantansia, inspired by Lozano's rule - based process.

This second wave favored conceptually crisp work by artists fluent in several media: Robert Gober, Gretchen Bender, Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, and Jeff Koons.

The sale has made particular waves in the past several days following the auction house's announcement of an astronomical $ 150 million pre-sale estimate for Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché (Sur le Côté Gauche), a 1917 painting by the master modernist that is already being trumpeted as the new auction record holder for his work, based on the estimated price and fees alone.

Yumei Wang, whose analysis of earthquake risk and preparations in that state has been a focus here for several years, was in Hawaii last week when the waves generated by Japan's potent earthquake set off warnings there.

``... being considered by the US Air Force and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,... using very low frequency radio waves to flush particles from [the Van Allen radiation] belts and dump them into the upper atmosphere over either one or several days.

In the winter of 2013/14, several stones weighing 100 tons were moved by the waves.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer.5 The hottest days and nights have become hotter and more frequent.6 7 In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50 - fold.8 Over the contiguous United States, new record high temperatures over the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likely.

«There are several reasons why there should be opposite trends: 1) depletion of ozone, e.g. by CFCs 2) increased CO2 3) changing of upwards traveling planetary waves [which break and heat the stratosphere.»

[It would be interesting to request funds to study the «albedo of sunlight at low solar angles on open ocean waters under varying cloud conditions, wave heights, and wind speeds» by studying sunsets at a convenient location, such as Key West or Oahu, for several months.

Several years ago I had a conversation with Kevin Trenberth, where — as I remember — he pointed out to me that, on average, 30 Watt / m2 short wave absorption in the atmosphere can not be accounted for by calculations based on HITRAN molecular data.

Indeed, like a standing wave formed by an underwater rock in a moving stream, a drop in AmLaw defense - side representation over the last 2 - 3 months has consistently characterized the data since I first began investigating this topic several months ago.

«There are several reasons to believe that the price may spend some time being constrained by $ 700... The advance lacks the final parabolic price wave that we are used to seeing at the end of a bitcoin rally.