Sentences with phrase «change at a slow rate»

Japanese and American visitors to Europe often complain that television pictures appear to flicker because the picture changes at a slower rate in Europe.

The researchers found that there were specific elements of both vocabulary and grammar that change at a slow rate, as well as elements that change more quickly.

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It is difficult to model the many ways credit intensivity of growth can change, but if we simply assume that there is no improvement except as growth slows, so that the ratio between credit growth and GDP growth stays constant, the table below shows debt levels at the end of ten years at different GDP growth rates:

And we have the ECB [European Central Bank], again, likely to tell us what their plans are and not for selling bonds back into the market, I think not at this stage for changing their interest rate policy, but again, slowing the rates of purchase of bonds.

After the first 7 days, changes continue at a slower rate until milk reaches the «mature» stage around Day 21 (Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences 1991).

Making the city more walkable and accessible to cyclists can help make alternatives to cars and other carbon - dioxide emitting vehicles more appealing, and slow down the rate at which our climate is changing.»

Sources with knowledge of the talks in Albany said that disputes remained over matters of time and space: the length of the period in which the change should be implemented, and the regions outside of New York City where the phase - in could occur at a slower rate due to a lower cost of living.

«I was expecting to find that a few genes would be evolving rapidly, while probably the overall distribution would be changing at about the same rate among all the primates, but instead we saw that the brain's gene evolution in the human lineage has actually slowed down,» Wu says.

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

The world's surface temperatures have risen at a slower rate over the past 15 years than at any time since 1951, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

For the E.U. and Japan, national emissions grew at a much slower rate, due in part to slower economic expansion, fortuitous changes in their energy systems and societal choices to use energy more efficiently.

If RNA editing allows changes in the cephalopod's DNA to occur at a markedly slower rate than is normally assumed, the animals most likely arose many millions of years earlier than current time lines suggest.

As long as the field changes at a rate slower than the natural oscillation frequencies of the atom, the dipole moment remains aligned with the field.

At the same time, tropical conditions are expanding poleward as a result of climate change, but at a slower rate than previously believeAt the same time, tropical conditions are expanding poleward as a result of climate change, but at a slower rate than previously believeat a slower rate than previously believed.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

[pagebreak] Surprising disorders that can cause fatigue Your thyroids out of whack If you cant lose weight or have unexplained weight gain, drier skin than usual, a slowed heart rate, a change in your periods, or a feeling of being cold — along with fatigue — you may have hypothyroidism, says Francine Kaufman, MD, head of the Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

As your body composition changes the rate of weight loss will slow down, and it's important not to lose motivation at this stage.

This change — combined with an inevitable increase in body fat — invariably slows down your metabolism, the rate at which you burn calories.

For example, when the GT - R begins moving from a standstill at a slow rate of acceleration, the gearshift change to second from first gear is now much smoother than before.

Here's another update: Got the transmission fixed at one of the top rated dealerships fairly close to the house and I've had no issues with it since; however, it doesn't go quite like it originally did; a little slower to change gears and get up to speed.

At present, the banks are slightly slow to change their interest rate in accordance with Repo Rate change by the rate in accordance with Repo Rate change by the Rate change by the RBI.

Economies grow at different rates and at different times, so a portfolio that is diversified geographically benefits from changes in faster growing economies and offers some protection from slowing economies.

Rising posted rates come at a time when Canada's housing market is adapting to regulatory changes designed to slow home - price appreciation in particularly hot markets — notably Toronto and Vancouver.

Each time Wizzrobe hits the ball back, the speed at which it reaches Link will change, sometimes coming extremely fast, while other times come at a very slow rate.

[ANDY REVKIN says: I was at the first Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto in 1988, but mainly recall the worried look on the representative from the Maldives, and the statement by Michael McElroy of Harvard, quoted in my 1988 Discover Magazine article on the greenhouse effect: «If we choose to take on this challenge, it appears that we can slow the rate of change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.

«The rate at which sediment is deposited and new land is created is much slower than the rate at which climate change and sea level rises are taking place,» he said.

Another question we must ask is: will greater numbers of hurricanes of Category 4 or 5 strength make landfall as a result of climate change (due to SSTs warming along with, but at a slower rate and with some time lag as, the atmosphere)?

However it is unlikely that the past atmospheric concentrations would have led to a significantly lower pH in the oceans, as the rate at which atmospheric CO2 changed in the past was much slower compared with the modern day.

My opinion expressed elsewhere is that almost all the temperature changes we observe over periods of less than a century are caused by cyclical changes in the rate of energy emission from the oceans with the solar effect only providing a slow background trend of warming or cooling for several centuries at a time.

The cores coming out of the ocean floor indeed showed slow changes, and so did the ice core from Antarctica — but few understood then about how special Antarctica is, how insulated from the rest of the world its weather can be (that ring of westerlies and its vertical curtain of rising air at 60 ° S) and how its low rates of snowfall limit time resolution.

«At any rate, it is tempting to argue that our societies collapsed because they were myopic, had no resource management institutions, did not grasp their problem, did not pass information over time, or did not notice slow environmental changes.

So, if you looked at less than 18.6 years worth of data without considering that effect, you might be mislead into thinking that the rate of change of mean sea level had slowed down or sped up, when, in fact, it is doing the opposite.

As such, it may be correct to say that CO2 may temporarily affect the rate of cooling, but without a change in the rate of energy input, eventually the rate of cooling will return to its original value, at which point the «cooling» has not been «slowed down».

The IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment of climate change science concluded that large reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, principally CO2, are needed soon to slow the increase of atmospheric concentrations, and avoid reaching unacceptable levels.However, climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid.

Had Hansen used a climate model with a climate sensitivity of approximately 3.4 °C for 2xCO2 (at least in the short - term, it's likely larger in the long - term due to slow - acting feedbacks), he would have projected the ensuing rate of global surface temperature change accurately.

While only a few recent species extinctions have been attributed to climate change, natural global climate change at rates slower than current anthropogenic climate change caused significant ecosystem shifts and species extinctions in the past millions of years.

«Much of our confidence stems from the fact that our model does well at predicting slow changes in ocean heat transport and sea surface temperature in the sub-polar North Atlantic, and these appear to impact the rate of sea ice loss.

Our climate change actions at this point can slow down the rate of sea level rise and limit the damage, but we can not stop it.

Ocean uptake of CO2 slows the rate of anthropogenic climate change but comes at the cost of ocean acidification.

The cover crops help to change the rate at which the vines grow, for example, if a vine is growing too fast and becoming stressed out, the winemakers can add cover crops to slow the plants down.

«We do typically see these [street interventions] when the public is pushing back against officials when they're dismayed at the slow rate of change,» said Andrew McFarland, community engagement manager for the LivableStreets Alliance.

«The rate at which sediments is deposited and new land is created is much slower than the rate at which climate change and sea level rises are taking place.»

In looking at the rate of change in warming I found what of which I was somewhat aware previously but still a little surprised to find the warming slow down over the periods just before and after the join year of 2005 where the Historical part of the RCP scenarios meets the scenario part of the series.

Hansen and Sato (7) argue that the climate of the most recent few decades is probably warmer than prior Holocene levels, based on the fact that the major ice sheets in both hemispheres are presently losing mass rapidly (9) and global sea level is rising at a rate of more than 3 m / millennium (25), which is much greater than the slow rate of sea level change (less than 1 m / millennium) in the latter half of the Holocene (26).

Looking at the last decade, it is clear that the observed rate of change of upper ocean heat content is a little slower than previously (and below linear extrapolations of the pre-2003 model output), and it remains unclear to what extent that is related to a reduction in net radiative forcing growth (due to the solar cycle, or perhaps larger than expected aerosol forcing growth), or internal variability, model errors, or data processing — arguments have been made for all four, singly and together.

Many women, frustrated at the slow rate of change in law firms, choose to leave and take positions in business or government or start their own firms where there are not the same barriers to advancement.

The changes were especially notable in Chile, which saw wages for people in executive positions increase substantially, and Australia, where wages in high - skill occupation categories like database and systems administrators, ICT security specialists and medical practitioners, have continued to grow at the same rate as they had in the previous year, while lower - skill occupations experienced much slower wage growth.

Life expectancy rates, in particular, can only be expected to change at a slow pace.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveiled sweeping changes on Monday that will affect all pockets of the housing market, including rules aimed at slowing the flood of foreign money and strengthening a mortgage rate stress test.