Sentences with phrase «chances of a particular event»

The Met Office carries out attribution studies to assess how human influence has altered the chances of a particular event.

Not exact matches

Whether it be Christmas, summer, or basketball over half of your year could be riding on the chance that one particular event doesn't go overlooked.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

Whether or not a particular mutation will increase the chance of its possessor to survive and reproduce is dependent upon a second chain of events, which is quite independent of the event of mutation itself.

Hartshorne writes in Chance Love and Incompatibility:» «The first step toward a more intelligible view is to recognize with Scholz and a number of other logicians that absolute identity of the concrete or particular is given in an event or occasion, not in a thing enduring through time, like a person or a body.

As reported by The Daily Star though, in the event that he is given permission to move on, Chelsea are being considered as favourites to sign him by the bookmakers, with BetStars in particular favouring the chances of the Blues over Man Utd and Arsenal.

If shuffles are truly random, the chance of generating any particular sequence of 52 cards is 1 followed by 68 zeroes — and yet such an incredibly unlikely event happens each time any pack is shuffled.

IF BY CHANCE A new book explores how cosmic and geologic events — such as the particular details of the solar system's formation — have shaped human history.

A chance to rebuild With all of the violence and fear wrapped up in 9/11 and the events and threats it has spawned, it is a particular subject to frame for kids.

Usually themed around a particular passion or hobby, a New York singles event provides people with the chance to meet a lot of people in a casual atmosphere.

We have the privilege of working with great women in this particular field, so we were thrilled at the chance to support and celebrate them at this event.»

And, as with any large agglomeration of events in a particular space and time, there are unexpected connections to be made and chance encounters to be had.

Through the rapidly growing field of research known as «event attribution ``, scientists have a way to gauge whether climate change has altered the chances of particular types of extreme weather occurring.

In particular, over NH land, an increase in the likelihood of very wet winters is projected over much of central and northern Europe due to the increase in intense precipitation during storm events, suggesting an increased chance of flooding over Europe and other mid-latitude regions due to more intense rainfall and snowfall events producing more runoff.