Sentences with phrase «degrees of absence»

I can only attempt to fill varying degrees of absence.

The dictionary definition of purity in one general purpose dictionary is: 1 - freedom from contaminants: the absence, or degree of absence, of anything harmful, inferior, unwanted, or of a different type.

Even if, in the end, it is not possible to be fully clear about the degree of absence of activity during this period, and even if in the end it turns out that solar - like stars do not in fact show Maunder minima, the investigation sparked off by this issue will have proved invaluable.

Not exact matches

Blankmeyer alleges that the school did not provide her with appropriate alternate accommodation leading to her taking leave of absence and later finishing her degree remotely from New York.

«'' The Tribunal reached that conclusion after finding, among other things, that the VOW Restrictions have substantially reduced the degree of non-price competition in the supply of MLS - based residential real estate brokerage services in the GTA, relative to the degree that would likely exist in the absence of those restrictions.

But we do not believe the ECB will contemplate a major change in direction, since in the continued absence of a significant fiscal stimulus, the region's economic performance remains too weak for the central bank to risk measures that could create, however inadvertently, a degree of tightening in monetary policy.

Except for the absence of gleeful Assassination Arts and Crafts, the situations mirror each other to a remarkable degree, and the administration has little reason to fear anything from the right except for their boisterous opposition and the possibility that the more spiteful among them might sing «na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye» as Marine One carries the former President Obama to Andrews Air Force Base.

Indeed, judging by the reporting on the presidential campaign, it seems that in the absence of any substantive public debate on morality among religious leaders, media representatives have emerged as the new priesthood in our culture: they demand confessions of misconduct from public figures and then determine the seriousness of the sin and the degree of penance required for the sin to be forgiven.

After graduating with a Business degree, Brittany began working at a bank in Los Angeles, but grew tired of her commutes and took a leave of absence to travel the world to gain perspective on her life.

Tony Blake was conspicuous in his absence, one of the few students who had entered in the fall of 1989 and were not getting their degree.

The absence of guilt in a person, however, can be just as unhealthy: A lack of this emotion is implicated in individuals with a high degree of psychopathy.

If an older child has received a degree of special treatment such as foster care or a especially assigned and paid for caretaker within the institutional setting, this may certainly facilitate a smoother transition to an American home but it is so very important that newly adoptive families understand that they are a very different experience to the older post-institutionalized child who may view them as objects of indiscriminant attachment or people who can be easily manipulated into giving all the things which they never had: food, clothing, toys, games, socialization and unconditional love in the absence of structure or consistency.

For employers, it has been calculated that a lesser degree of breastfeeding will lead to more parental absence due to illness of the children and, thereby, to higher costs [13], [14].

In the absence of a clear answer, I believe a real possibility is that BOTH remaining schools of thought may be right (to a degree anyway).

As we have explained elsewhere, the degree of competition in the system for the election of committee chairs and members is limited by a number of factors that inhibit the potentially transformative effect of the 2010 reforms — including the absence of frontbenchers from candidacy and electorate, the fact that candidates from opposing parties can not compete against one another, and the large number of uncontested chairs.

I should declare up front that I am a proud possessor of a few science degrees, and as a priority candidates list member from its inception, I undeniably have a vested interest in highlighting the absence of scientists on the Opposition benches and amongst our group of selected candidates!

And while the representation of women in the professoriate increased at all levels between 2002 and 2010,» [t] his positive progress is nevertheless slow and should not mask the fact that, in the absence of proactive policies, it will take decades to close the gender gap and bring about a higher degree of gender equality.»

This new funding programme of the Spanish government offers postdoctoral positions to researchers with less than 3 years» postdoctoral experience and, as the FJI highlighted, it features «longer contracts, absence of the requirement to have the Ph.D. degree [before application], higher flexibility in the date of incorporation of candidates, and no discrimination by nationality.»

(Zero kelvin or «absolute zero» is the absence of all thermal energy and equivalent to -273.15 degrees celsius).

All together, it appears that the absence of p21 entails a higher degree of apoptosis and, consequently, a growth disadvantage that can explain the delayed incidence of radiation - induced thymic lymphomas in p21 - deficient mice.

The findings also suggest that a substantial degree of protection can be achieved against stringent virus challenges, even in the absence of high levels of tier 2 neutralizing antibodies.

Life of the Party (out May 10) is a comedy about a middle - aged mum (Melissa McCarthy) who heads back to college after a 20 + year absence to complete her degree.

An absence of differences in kind shouldn't obscure consequential differences in degree.

Chronic absence in the early grades reflects the degree to which schools, communities and families adequately address the needs of young children.

Other factors include absence of pathologic fracture, less than 360 degree involvement of soft tissues and firm soft tissue mass versus an edematous (An excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue spaces or a body cavity) lesion.

A Discretionary Leave of Absence for up to one year (2 semesters) with an automatic guarantee of reinstatement may be granted to students in good academic standing who are making satisfactory progress toward their degree.

The subject works varied in style to a degree, but were typically characterized by the absence of compositional structure, which represented (at least in Tapié's mind) a fundamental break with artistic tradition.

These degrees of time, space and cultures, accrued on each canvas of the sum, serve to measure their common spectrum, that face, the impending absence of which is now composed of the anonymous and multiple power of a human chain that each observation of the canvas transcends.»

Between 1935 and 2007, the Arctic appears to have warmed about half a degree which, in the absence of any other proven cause, I've assumed is due to increased GHGs.

It follows that we can state, with a high degree of confidence, that extreme anomalies such as those in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010 were a consequence of global warming because their likelihood in the absence of global warming was exceedingly small.»

Basically, in the absence of any longwave trapping gases, the sun will heat the surface to 255 degrees Kelvin.

Perhaps the absence of such was an oversight — or is the validity of the satellite / instrumental record, too, going to be «a matter of degree,» so to speak?

Why is it, that 97 % of seven year olds have no difficulty identifying the bottom data string as «bigger,» while opinion and professional engineering journal comment threads are loaded with folks who made it over the hump of Methods of Integration, and profess advanced degrees in quantitative disciplines, yet have emotionally dug in on the notion that those data demonstrate the absence of warming for those intervening 15 years?

In the absence of countries» recent emissions - reduction commitments, known as intended nationally determined contributions, or INDCs, we would see 4 - 5 degrees C of warming.

In the absence of any troposphere warming, what are the effects of a warming of a few hundreths of a degree of the oceans?

A generally accepted answer is that a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (it turns out that one gets the same value for a doubling regardless of what value one starts from) would perturb the energy balance of Earth about 2 percent, and this would produce about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warming in the absence of feedbacks.

George E. Smith (16:11:36): «''» A generally accepted answer is that a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (it turns out that one gets the same value for a doubling regardless of what value one starts from) would perturb the energy balance of Earth about 2 percent, and this would produce about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warming in the absence of feedbacks.

I accept the radiation physics indicating CO2 acts as a filter for certain electromagnetic frequencies, and also the estimate of 1 degree C of warming per doubling of CO2 in the absence of feedback.

Which one is more likely: All basic thermodynamics and stat mech textbooks are wrong, including the ones that make showing that there is no lapse rate a homework problem or that do it in the actual text, or some people who have a really hard time understanding what a degree of freedom is or how to do an integral or mess with logarithmic expansions have made a mistake, the biggest of which is assuming that the DALR worked out in climate systems is stable in the absence of a driving thermal gradient and that air is locally truly «adiabatic», instead of just having a thermal conductivity that is slower than convection?

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

That would be 0.9 degrees Celsius below the amount of warming that Climate Action Tracker projects to occur under current policies, and 1.4 to 2.1 degrees Celsius below the amount of warming the group predicts would occur in the absence of any global warming policies.

In the absence of feedback, a doubling of CO2 might increase temperatures one degree C -LSB-.]

In the absence of feedback, the total temperature increase from future CO2 increases is capped, maybe as low as 1 - 1.5 degrees C.»

Now, if we assume that two degrees of temperature increase moves the equilibrium from 450/1450 to say 900/1450 (in the absence of any human influence), we would expect 419 ppm in the atmosphere just from 2 degree warming.

A key provision of the ABC petition would have the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) establish a permitting process that would significantly improve the protection of birds covered by the MBTA and would afford the wind industry a degree of regulatory and legal certainty that can not be provided in the absence of such a process.

This hypothesis claims doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide in the absence of feedbacks will warm the Earth by about 1.2 degrees C.

The crucial words here are high degree of confidence, anomalies, consequence, likelihood, absence, and exceedingly small.

Thorne et al. (2007) suggested that the absence of the mid-tropospheric warming might be attributable to uncertainties in the observed record: however, Douglass et al. (2007) responded with a detailed statistical analysis demonstrating that the absence of the projected degree of warming is significant in all observational datasets.

... we can state, with a high degree of confidence, that extreme anomalies such as those in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010 were a consequence of global warming because their likelihood in the absence of global warming was exceedingly small.

Scarcely any sleighing, muddy roads, some fog, only five days... below zero,... and a mean temperature ten degrees warmer than any winter of which I have any record... The almost entire absence of snow has been somewhat detrimental to business generally and has proved a serious drawback to logging... The winter certainly has been a pleasant and comfortable one, making small demands on the fuel pile... While the mean temperature of the month was about the same as February of last year, it was in some respects less pleasant.