Sentences with phrase «edge effects»

«To our knowledge, our study provides the first evidence of edge effects from oil palm plantations on [frog] diversity in adjacent forest landscapes,» said study co-author Sarah Scriven, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of York in the U.K.

This shape creates a double edged effect though.

A dynamic real - time congestion pricing could be implemented covering all city streets, eliminating undesirable edge effects created by a cordon, charging based on actual congestion, increasing public perception of system fairness (charges based on real congestion, not arbitrary geography)

Fire as a large - scale edge effect in Amazonian forests.

But in forests that abutted on plantations, the richness of species declined — evidence of so - called edge effects from the plantations.

I especially love the scalloped edge effect — a lovely look and no waste.

However, they only had tiny graphene flakes with diameters in the microns available to them, so that edge effects predominated.

Meanwhile, physicists and chemists at HZB produced graphene surfaces several square centimeters in size so that edge effects play hardly any role in comparison to the surface processes.

Built - in evaporation protection enhances live cell kinetic assays, minimizing edge effects for better reproducibility and more reliable data.

Some digital smoothing may have been applied but it's not intrusive and no significant edge effects are apparent.

Similarly, the Intens sedan comes with ADAS as standard with the addition of Blind Spot Warning, Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Distance Warning, side parking sensors, 8.7 - inch touch - screen, Easy Park Assist, MULTI-SENSE, 18 - inch Grand Tour alloys, rear privacy glass, electric panoramic sunroof, dark charcoal cloth upholstery, front LED daytime running lights with 3D Edge effect and Pure Vision LED headlights.

But there are times, particularly around edges, where even the act of jumping can be a bit weird due to some button latency or edge effect issues.

First, a very common request has been to eliminate the traditional «screen edge effect» that simulates the classic Asteroids wrapping from one side of the play area to the other.

Her transition to acrylic paint (largely in the 1960s) allowed for different kinds of color, and different edge effects, but the larger opportunities of surface and space and interrelationship continue.

The coring fieldwork I did was on stand response to disturbance — namely fire [e.g. release after fire and N cycling response], and stand edge effect as suppression after clearcuts [e.g. heat intolerance, shade tolerance response, N fixation response in mychorrizae presence / absence (with mycologists)-RSB-.

In a Yale Environment 360 interview, physicist Kate Marvel discusses the double - edged effect clouds have on rising temperatures

The study found «strong indirect edge effects over decades» in forests more than a kilometer (0.6 miles) from oil palm plantations, «suggesting the true global ecological footprint of human food production has been substantially underestimated.»

Also, and this is my opinion, the infinity edge effect the curved screen of the S9 gives, is way more immersive than the experience notched phones give, especially when watching video or playing games.

There is virtually no evidence of untoward digital manipulation, only one or two slight suggestions of edge effects.

The use of classical music for babies has a doubled edged effect.

More importantly, edge effects create species communities near edges that bear little resemblance to the communities of forest interiors, and this species turnover likely reflects dramatic changes to the ecological functioning of modified forest habitats.

Instead of a fixed amount per book sold, the new program will pay authors by the number of pages that a reader actually reads, a change that will have two - edged effects in this industry.

His group has produced many key findings that have uncovered the double - edged effects of growth hormone and IGF - 1, which the liver secretes in response to growth hormone, in aging.

The «very interesting findings suggest that edge effects are additive — in corners, two create more problems than one,» says William Laurance of the Biological Dynamics of Tropical Rainforest Fragments Project in Manaus.

But she found that the edge effect is amplified in corners.

Like researchers studying other logged forests, she found evidence of an «edge effect»: the density of shade - tolerant seedlings decreased within several hundred meters of the fragment edge, where young trees are more exposed to sun, wind, and competition from invading species.

That's got to be the leading - edge effect.»

«Our analysis allows us to track species» abundances in response to edge effects to predict the impact on biodiversity caused by forest loss and fragmentation,» adds Dr Pfeifer.

She measures 23 ″ in length and had a modest amount of fullness, with tiered layers and not too much ruching in each layer (which seriously helps reduced the «edge effect» you can often get with petticoats that aren't the exact right length for your skirt).

All the positives that go along with that - light grain, natural colour, excellent contrast - and none of the negatives - digital smoothing, edge effects - are present.

There is ample grain in evidence, and some edge effects are apparent at times.

Black levels are suitably deep and there's virtually no evidence of edge effects.

The real and virtual «edge effect» activity [real - life collaborations like the GT Academy racing driver development programme] is the part with the real possibilities.

Whether on the cutting edge or even double — edged, the word literally cuts through to the point, and Edge Effect, the San Francisco Art Institute's MFA Exhibition at the May 14 through 17

Around 1910 you might see small differences (due to the smoothing technique used, and edge effects) but not later.

Note that like any filtering this can lead to edge effects, i.e. in this case particularly to unreliable trends in the radionuclide - based records towards the youngest several hundred years of the data.

How do the dynamics of predator and prey change due to the edge effects of road cuts or hard packed snow roads in the winter months?

Forest fragments were highly accessible to hunters and exposed to edge effects and fires, thereby severely diminishing the predictive power of species - area relationships -LSB-.]

The gray band quantifies the errors due to the cone of influence (edge effects).

Here we use a statistical approach to quantify the edge effects.

The thin gray curves are the 90 - y low pass of 3,000 Monte - Carlo synthetic data of 37,000 mo long, obtained by random resampling in 100 - y blocks for the purpose of quantifying the edge effect.

The edge effects describe the changes in species diversity that occur at habitat boundaries, and can be pronounced when habitat structure alters abruptly between two different types of ecosystem.

A different kind of edge effect has previously been attributed oil palm plantations.