Sentences with phrase «episodic periods»

In reality, this is incredibly challenging given the difficulty of forecasting these episodic periods of high volatility and constraints around expanding balance sheets in order to exploit market weakness,» it says.

- the human body has evolved to survive episodic periods of starvation.

The human body has evolved to survive episodic periods of starvation.

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Episodic memory is information that is new and useful for a short period of time, such as where you parked your car on any given day.

Episodic flooding alternated with long dry periods when water could evaporate or soak into the ground.

Based on evidence from electrophysiological studies showing that both synaptic plasticity and strength of inputs to hippocampal region CA1 vary systematically with ongoing theta oscillations (Hyman et al., 2003; Brankack et al., 1993), it has been suggested that the theta rhythm functions to separate periods of encoding of current sensory stimuli and retrieval of episodic memory cued by current stimuli so as to avoid interference that would occur if encoding and retrieval were simultaneous.

In addition to speciation, a second major process that begins during this period is the episodic migration of hominins out of the Rift Valley and into Eurasia.

The 4 mental states comprised: An unconstrained period of mind wandering; a ruminative mental state self - induced by recalling a time of personal disappointment; a euphoric mental state self - induced by recalling what brings the subject joy; and a sequential episodic recollection of the events of the day.

Long periods of starvation were normal, whether due to seasonal changes or due to episodic weather events.

Employment statistics for women in the director's chair are as grim as ever: only 9 percent of the top 250 domestic grossing films and 28 percent of supposedly diverse festival films had a female director in 2015; in TV, only 18 percent of first - time episodic directors were women over the five - year period from 2009 to 2014.

Lady Bird is, instead, episodic and rambling, a ruminative look back at a crucial, defining period in its creator's life.

Most episodic games come out over a period of a few months, not nearly a year later (at least, it feels like that).

After announcement, Square - Enix indicated that the only way to get the game released in a timely period without cut content was to release it in episodic format, breaking the game apart into separate releases over the generation.

Inspired in part by period episodic television programs such as Rod Serling's Night Gallery, as well as incorporating French existentialism and absurdist dialogue, Gaines, Gordon and Segade appear in videos in which, among other things, an unemployed woman romances a supernatural being; a man turns to witch doctors following a health insurance hassle; and art curators trapped in an executive board room curate — literally — nightmares drawn from today's economic anxieties.

Specifically, tamino addressed 3 sources of variability: 1) ENSO, short term 2 - 3 years, averages out, removing it removes most of the noise 2) solar, 11 year, but roughly sinusoidal and well characterized, easily removed for that reason 3) volcano, episodic, no characteristic time period.

Episodic wet periods may increase vulnerability to invasive alien species and subsequent fire outbreaks and this, combined with land overuse, will increase vulnerability to degradation and desertification (Dukes and Mooney, 1999; Dube and Pickup, 2001; Holmgren and Scheffer, 2001; Brooks et al., 2004; Geist and Lambin, 2004; Lioubimtseva and Adams, 2004).

Peak ozone is an episodic problem with the highest concentrations observed during high energy demand periods.