Sentences with phrase «certain fraction of them»

Even if we could assign a certain fraction of warming over the past century or so to natural variation, we still would face very large uncertainty in aerosol influences... and modelers would continue to use those vastly uncertain aerosol influences as as a «free» variable to «tune» the models.

This is larger than the above 211 GtC that has accumulated in the atmosphere, but that's accounted for in terms of Le Chatelier's principle, which says that adding a chemical (CO2 in this case) to a system will shift its equilibrium resulting in a certain fraction of the CO2 being taken up by the land and ocean.

A certain fraction of it?

There is probably a decent legal argument that the fossil fuel industry could be held legally responsible for a certain fraction of recent crop losses due to Midwest flooding, for example — especially since they've waged a very well - documented multi-decade PR campaign that attempted to hide and distort the evidence for global warming.

In the 1982 experiment, if the photons «rolled doubles» more than a certain fraction of the time, it meant that particles violated something called local realism: the idea that influences between particles ripple through spacetime like waves (locality) and that particles have hidden nonrandom properties (realism).

«The silicon absorbs only a certain fraction of the spectrum, and it's transparent to the rest.

First, they reflect a certain fraction of radiation back into space, which means that the earth receives less of the sun's energy.

Given the same hand, the program will not always take the same action, but instead will bet a certain fraction of the time and fold a certain fraction of the time.

Even with the cancers that are further along in their immunotherapy responses, a «certain fraction of those kinds of tumors, I don't know we'll ever cure,» Allison says.

But a provision inserted in the final bill also allows the deduction to be claimed up to a certain fraction of the company's depreciable property — property like buildings that lose their value over time.

Not exact matches

You can choose also certain automated portfolios for a fraction of the cost of traditional advisers.

With keyless locks, you can give entry codes to employees, revoke access, lock doors remotely, and even monitor who entered your business at a certain time — at a fraction of the cost or complexity of magnetic swipe card systems.

With this strategy, the borrower pays a certain number of points (or even a fraction of a point) up front, in order to secure a mortgage lower rate.

This is our reality: All day long God is reaching into our condition, sending certain thoughts and desires, arousing certain emotions and calming unhealthy patterns, calling us further towards love / life, showing us that he is to be experienced in every piece of His creation and known in every ordinary fraction - of - a-second.

In these cases, there is a certain (albeit very small) amount of voter fraud, but only a small fraction of that fraud could be prevented by voter ID laws.

It is certain that from the day that D. Hernando Cortés, the Marquis del Valle, entered this land, in the seven years, more or less, that he conquered and governed it, the natives suffered many deaths, and many terrible dealings, robberies and oppressions were inflicted on them, taking advantage of their persons and their lands, without order, weight nor measure;... the people diminished in great number, as much due to excessive taxes and mistreatment, as to illness and smallpox, such that now a very great and notable fraction of the people are gone...

But in their experiment, the researchers were able to prove, mathematically, that such answers wouldn't get someone any closer to inferring information about any single person or business that might violate privacy regulations — such as whether an employee held a job at a particular workplace, or precisely what fraction of a company's workforce belonged to a certain race or had a certain level of education.

Mandates, by contrast, specify what fraction of produced or distributed electrical power must derive from certain sources.

Rather, the work of folding is done by much smaller water molecules, which surround proteins and push and pull at them to make them fold a certain way in fractions of a second, like scores of tiny origami artists folding a giant sheet of paper at blazingly fast speeds.

In the past, the models formulated to predict what happens when these more realistic fluids are accelerated to a fraction of the speed of light have been plagued with inconsistencies: the most glaring of which has been predicting certain conditions where these fluids could travel faster than the speed of light.

It also estimates the total loss by measuring the fraction of heavier isotopes of certain atoms versus their lighter counterparts.

Rather than nature (i.e. genes) and nurture (i.e. environment) each kicking in a fraction of the influences that nudge traits in one or another direction, new studies show the innate potential we call nature becomes reality only when exposed to a certain kind of nurture.

The temperature jump can then be used to induce or suppress activity in specific neuronal circuits and thus change certain aspects of the flies» behaviour in a fraction of a second.

Findings from the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments suggest that loss of a fraction of the atmosphere, resulting from a physical process favoring retention of heavier isotopes of certain elements, has been a significant factor in the evolution of the planet.

With this reporter we split ES cell cultures into two fractions that both express certain stem cell markers but only one of which expresses low levels of an endodermal marker gene.

We observe a gain in the covered fraction only for very restricted genomic regions such as certain types of repeats.

While there are certain health claims that some supplements can carry, these claims are few and far between, and apply to just a small fraction of the actual supplements sold every year.

Grains were only a very TINY fraction of the ancient Paleolithic diet (and only in certain parts of the world) as there was no way to process large amounts of grain back in that day into flour, so amounts of wild grain would have been small such as a handful or two of gathered grains added to a meal of meat and veggies.

this outfit was heavily inspired by a certain see by chloe line... except it's like a teeny tiny fraction of the price.

Michelle Williams (Certain Women), as Paul's mother Gail — who married into the family and then antagonized them by divorcing her husband, addiction - prone J. Paul Getty, Jr. — especially shines as a woman desperate to save her son, and who must accept all manner of indignities to get even a fraction of the ransom money.

The children can then work out the fraction and ratio of their names that fall into certain criteria.

Most important, however, the standards recommended certain areas that should receive «decreased attention» in grades K - 4, including «complex paper - and - pencil computations,» «long division,» «paper - and - pencil fraction computation,» «use of rounding to estimate,» «rote practice,» «rote memorization of rules,» and «teaching by telling.»

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One boy said, «all times is is adding one number a certain number of times»... then I went home and figured out all the multiplication tables... I wondered what the fourth graders were doing... and couldn't understand why Kindergartners couldn't do fractions too.

It certainly does that, but on winding, bumpy country roads attacked with a knife between your teeth, a momentary stability - threatening tug at either rear wheel suggests that certain conditions can outfox the system for fractions of a second.

It's almost certain that ebooks, because they're often self published, and even when traditionally published have higher royalty rates than print, make up a substantially higher fraction of author earnings than they do of consumer spending.

«Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format,» said Jeff Ament, Vice President, Kindle Content announcing a call to arms to the writers, scientists, publishers to start producing this type of books, also at a fraction of price.

At this time, only a very small fraction of turtles eggs are surviving to hatch, and the area's sea turtles are headed towards certain extinction.

A molecule of CO2 from coal, in a certain sense, is different from one from oil or gas, because in the case of oil and gas, it doesn't matter too much when you burn it, because a good fraction of it's going to stay there 500 years anyway.

For instance, if the solar irradiance were to increase in a spectrally - uniform manner (over all wavelengths) then some fraction would be absorbed in the stratosphere, a region not well coupled by atmospheric motions to the lower atmosphere, and so a certain amount of energy will be radiated back to sapce without affecting the surface temperature.

This suggests that petroleums and other noncoaly organic matter in ancient sediments are derived from lipids, or at least from certain components of the lipid fraction.

But a certain fraction ought to be pushing the limits of knowledge.

It is almost certain that some fraction of that warming was completely natural, not due to human causes and we do not know that fraction — a reasonable guess would be to extrapolate the warming rate from the entire post LIA era, which is already close to 0.1 C / decade.

If you knew — knew for certain — that there was no God, would you continue to donate money to a Church, to spend a significant fraction of your life in Church hearing tiresome lectures on silly antique myths and singing songs and chanting things?

Well, even the most hard - core skeptic must at least admit to a certain odd fraction of a slight possibility that AGW could have at least some remote merit.

A large fraction of species on Earth face certain extinction, if we burn most fossil fuels without capturing and storing the carbon dioxide.

«Recent research, however, suggests that there is a possibility that this gradual global warming could lead to a relatively abrupt slowing of the ocean's thermohaline conveyor, which could lead to harsher winter weather conditions, sharply reduced soil moisture, and more intense winds in certain regions that currently provide a significant fraction of the world's food production.

IR active molecules mostly thermalize instead of emitting but there is always a certain fraction doing so.

According to section 80C of the Income tax Act, certain investments are deductible from the total income thus lowering your taxable fraction.

For a fraction of your overall trip cost, you can buy travel insurance to help protect your vacation investment from certain unexpected mishaps.