Sentences with phrase «eccentricity as»

He doesn't identify eccentricity as such in the title of the paper, but it is there in his orbital forcing model, as the amplitude modulation of precession, and needed for his model to work.

In fact it simplifies analysis of Milankovich forcing to consider precession modulation and eccentricity as one and the same phenomenon.

It maintains an openness to possibilities not yet engaged, and posits eccentricity as a great strength.»

In other words, she's a sculptor in the classic California tradition that celebrates eccentricity as a kind of instinctive intelligence.

Christopher Walken is a multiple Oscar nominee, but his talent has been overshadowed to significant degree by both his highly imitable vocal delivery patten and penchant for eccentricity as well as, simply put, his love to work, which has led to him appearing in many dozens of films, including a lot of dreck.

Similarly, few novelists have tapped into this era's motivations, anxieties and cultural eccentricities as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities did in the eighties or Jonathan Franzen managed a decade later with The Corrections.

Likewise, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) was important and influential in its day, but today's reader is more likely to notice such eccentricities as an astonishing chapter arguing that the postwar suburban home was «a comfortable concentration camp» that aimed at the «progressive dehumanization» of women.

Tucci revels in Flickerman's fantastic eccentricities as he presents the Hunger Games participants to the masses.

DiCaprio oddly suit Candie's eccentricities as well as his cruelty, making DiCaprio's first supporting performance in more than a decade one of his best.

Franco gives an impressive and accurate portrayal of Wiseau, but dismissing his eccentricities as punchlines, as well as forcing the story into a linear three - act structure, doesn't serve such a unique man or his movie well.

Kinect helped revitalise the Xbox 360 as a platform midway through its life, and there's the odd headline game, such as Swery's demented and sadly underloved D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, or Q Entertainment's sizzling laser display Child of Eden, that hints at what's achievable when you treat the sensor's eccentricities as an excuse to strike out afresh, rather than «enhancing» a proven formula with wonky gesture or voice inputs.

Installation view with Bridgette Ashton: A Summerhouse for George Howard, 2006 and Model for Banqueting Hall Cavern, 2014 Artist - run Space Station 65 has reopened with a teeming evocation of staged landscapes through such past eccentricities as grottoes, follies and pleasure gardens of which — in Diderot's phrase — «only the world remains».

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Downey received a tour of the SpaceX headquarters from Musk in 2007 and picked up on some of what he has described as «accessible eccentricities.»

As a decentralized currency, Bitcoin is theme to several eccentricities that normal fiat currencies avoid.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

He terms their instructions «limp platitudes» and «inconsistent nonsense,» the authors «grammatical incompetents,» and the book as a whole «a toxic mix of purism, atavism, and personal eccentricity.»

If you only said you believed in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent «friend», that might be regarded as a mild delusion, dismissible as an eccentricity.

Biographers have previously portrayed this family as a reasonably stable household with a few eccentricities.

It is as easy, and perhaps as perversely entertaining, to chronicle the eccentricities and extremes of the Jim Crow South as it is to observe certain eccentricities and extremes of Catholic practice.

To Buckland, they also offered strange deposits he identified as fossil droppings (coprolites) of extinct giant saurians; his pioneering work opened up an entirely new field of study — identifying animal's diets — and speaks to his eccentricity.

They have come to be seen in secular society as holdovers from the past: conservative, patriarchal, out of touch with contemporary values and lifestyles - even an eccentricity, as appears innumerous film and television portrayals.

There is always someone else to consider, it is not so easy to find time for yourself and there is a lot of compromising to be done as you bring two people's habits, eccentricities and family traditions into one household, so what is the hurry to move in together?

Such aspects of things as these, their naturalness and unnaturalness, the sympathies and antipathies of their superficial qualities, their eccentricities, their brightness and strength and destructiveness, were inevitably the ways in which they originally fastened our attention.

A beefy former All - Ohio single - wing center at Baldwin - Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, he's clearly as enthralled with the eccentricity of using the single wing in this era as with the formation's effectiveness.

That type of behavior is penalized pretty much universally, maybe, not always seen as MLS has the fortune of really good broadcasting able to catch eccentricities in between plays.

As we enter the run - up to the 2018 midterm elections, Trumpism is weakening under its own self - inflicted wounds, the ambivalent legitimacy of Trump's election by a popular minority due to the eccentricities of the Electoral College, and a spreading realization that behind the economic populism of his campaign rhetoric is the most reactionary Republican economic and social policy agenda since the late nineteenth - century era of Social Darwinism and Jim Crow.

As Ian has been discovering this week, their candidates are an odd mixture of affable eccentricity and knee - jerk negativity.

Referred to as «extreme KBOs» (eKBOs) by the authors, all of these have extremely large orbital eccentricities, in other words, they get very close to the Sun at one point on their orbital journey, only to swing far out into space once they pass the Sun, on long elliptical orbits that take these strange mini worlds hundreds of AUs away from the Sun.

They tested different degrees of axis tilt, which influences how much sunlight the planet's upper and lower latitudes receive, as well as different degrees of eccentricity — the extent to which the planet's orbit around the sun deviates from a circle, which can amplify seasonal temperature changes.

It is easy — for anyone who has not used one — to dismiss a Washlet as yet another product of Japanese eccentricity: Robo - toilets.

This is especially true in a setting like a university, where eccentricity is often tolerated and accepted — as long as the individual remains productive.

Kane and his colleagues were able to confirm its extreme eccentricity and the rest of its orbital parameters as part of the Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey (TERMS), a project led by Kane to detect extrasolar planets as they pass in front of their stars.

In fact, as Jackson points out, «Oumuamua's orbit has the highest eccentricity ever observed in an object passing through our Solar System.

Merline also discovered that these objects must be real by demonstrating that the new moons are moving in orbits that seem to be in the same plane as Charon, and with low orbital eccentricity — like Charon.

Recent research has focused on MIS 11 as a possible analog for the present interglacial [e.g., Loutre and Berger, 2003; EPICA community members, 2004] because both occur during times of low eccentricity.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which i... ▽ More Although the Earth's orbit is never far from circular, terrestrial planets around other stars might experience substantial changes in eccentricity that could lead to climate changes, including possible «phase transitions» such as the snowball transition (or its opposite).

But in a paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, UW astronomer Rory Barnes and his colleagues say their scheme includes other factors such as a planet's estimated rockiness and the eccentricity of its orbit.

In order to test their hypothesis, the researchers would need more data regarding the eccentricity of Charon's orbit, as well as the interior structure of Pluto and Charon and in particular the thickness, strength, and viscosity of the latter's underground ice shell, which are currently unavailable.

Turning on planet - planet interactions results in the innermost planet's eccentricity dropping to about 0.1, still suspiciously high but not quite as bad.

Planets with such orbits are also more likely to have greater orbital eccentricity which if not too large can in turn can contribute to non synchronous rotation such as 3:2 or even 2; 1 resonances, as seen in Mercury with an orbital eccentricity of 0.2.

In the case of Edasich, however, the high orbital eccentricity of its companion made its motion distinguishable from stellar pulsation as the cause of the observed velocity variations.

Factors such as the sizes of the planet and the star, continental distribution, ocean depth, the amount of water present, tectonic activity, variability of the surface temperature, atmospheric composition, the magnetic shield, speed of rotation, axial tilt, eccentricity of the orbit, the type and amount of radiation received, the age of the solar system, and the possibility of panspermia within the system are all considered.

These details are critical for assessing habitability parameters such as surface temperature and the eccentricity of the exoplanet's orbit.

Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.

This orbits places the planet near the inner edge of its host star's habitable zone, where liquid water could exist in liquid form under favorable conditions such as an albedo of 0.52 with an orbital eccentricity of 0.11 and more than 52 percent cloud cover under a sufficiently dense atmosphere of water, carbon dioxide, and molecular nitrogen like Earth's (ESO science release; Pepe et al, 2011; and Kaltenegger et al, 2011 — more below).

Although its tempting to think of OCD as a character flaw or eccentricity, experts say its a brain - based disorder.

Her eccentricity, perception and wit, as well as her sharp wit and sweeping pronouncements («I adore that pink!

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