Sentences with phrase «feedback loops as»

This development also sets up dangerous climate feedback loops as reflective white snow and ice turn into heat - absorbing dark - blue water.
The female hormonal system is meant to self - regulate through feedback loops as well, but PMS and a grueling, symptomatic shift into menopause for many woman seems to be the norm.
The results suggest that human - dog interactions elicit the same type of oxytocin positive feedback loop as seen between mothers and their infants, the team reports online today in Science.
«That provides an instant scorecard plus an ongoing feedback loop as to how we are doing in the service of our customers.»
There's obviously a little more to it than that, but pinball offers a great feedback loop as you hit targets, bumpers and ramps and the machine blasts noise and light at you to indicate you're doing well.
... you're on the right track when you visualize a positive feedback loop as a mechanism which is nested inside a negative feedback loop.

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The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.
So that feedback loop isn't as dangerous.
Everything that's smart today is built on a dynamic, data - infused, two - way or multi-party conversation — not a static presentation — and, most importantly, every campaign or initiative that's going to have any value and / or ultimately succeed in building connection and engagement needs to anticipate and build an effective plan that incorporates a feedback loop and a real - time response capability as well.
Companies that offer customization are able to use consumers as merchants — continuously gaining insights from customized designs and finetuning products in a feedback loop that helps companies stay one step ahead of the competition.
WDAY's reliance on issuing stock, both as a form of compensation and as a way to raise money, could create a negative feedback loop if the stock price begins to fall quickly.
As the panic to buy increases, it is a self - fulfilling positive feedback loop.
This skepticism about the future — even with asset prices rising — has created a negative feedback loop, driving investors to safe harbors such as cash, bonds, gold and yield - generating securities thereby reducing demand, inflation and growth in an ongoing vicious cycle.
Catholic governance is a closed circle, a feedback loop where popes appoint bishops of like mind and bishops, as elector cardinals, elect a pope of like mind.
As long as the people at the top stay the same, the feedback loop of incompetence will just keep spinning alonAs long as the people at the top stay the same, the feedback loop of incompetence will just keep spinning alonas the people at the top stay the same, the feedback loop of incompetence will just keep spinning along.
But Raver contends that that feedback loop can function in the opposite way as well.
If you start paying attention and letting them go when they need to or changing their diapers right away, it forms a feedback loop and the older they get the more obviously they signal that they need to go (just like they signal more obviously that they need to eat as they get older).
Another reason 6 months is often suggested as a starting time has to do with the return on investment / feedback loop.
As the Macaca moment showed in 2006, unflattering content can spread particularly far and fast when it gets caught in a feedback loop involving citizen journalists, corporate media outlets and the campaigns themselves:
As we see all too clearly elsewhere, a banking sector balance sheet worth 500 % of GDP — compared to just one fifth of that in the US - creates the very real risk of a destructive negative feedback loop between the sovereign and the financial sector.
Voting doesn't happen often, so we don't have as many opportunities for that feedback loop he talks about.
Moreover, the process of democratization is more important which means how the system evaluates itself, gets feedback (See «feedback loop» in the theory of political systems by David Easton) and use it as demand or support to correct itself.
A voter data feedback loop lets you constantly judge the state of different segments of the electorate, allow you to focus on the voters you absolutely need to reach and helping you use your ad dollars and volunteer time as efficiently as possible.
Now it's suddenly a «thing» and it feeds back in the next day's news when someone says something «interesting» about it (such as «he was just hoarse»), and the feedback loop continues.
Money can't fix the problem, because the problem is really a societal feedback loop, rooted in the individual desire to have what's best for one's own children, rather than on a global desire for what's best for society as a whole.
PER and TIM block the ability of CLOCK to turn on these genes at the same time as they are producing the oscillations of the central feedback loop — setting up extended patterns of cycling gene activity.
Vegetation change underway in boreal forests as a result of climate change creates a feedback loop that prompts more warming, scientists say
Doyle demonstrated that this behavior takes place through a series of feedback loops inside the bacterium, akin to the feedback loops that keep an airplane on autopilot steady even as the plane is buffeted by gusts.
«The findings suggest that intensification and hierarchy promoted each other, perhaps as a part of a feedback loop that may also have involved population growth,» explains first author Oliver Sheehan, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Auckland.
«There is a scientific interest, as well, in this data,» professor Markku Kulmala says, «the researchers could find new mechanisms and feedback loops in this coherent data set.»
As the ice - breaking feedback loop accelerates in years to come, more and more towering waves are likely to batter the shrinking ice cap.
IL - 17 is in a signaling pathway that acts as a feedback loop for the immune system.
As the brain's feedback controls get rewired, the neurons end up in a self - sustaining loop, producing a constant ringing.
Researchers found that EMT in the cells «involves a number of double - negative feedback loops functioning as switches,» said Zhang.
The shrinking sea ice drives a classic positive feedback loop: as more ice melts, fewer patches of white snow reflect solar energy, and larger regions of dark, sunlight - absorbing seawater open up — both causing the ice to melt even faster.
Wheeler's hunch is that the universe is built like an enormous feedback loop, a loop in which we contribute to the ongoing creation of not just the present and the future but the past as well.
In this way, the system formed a negative feedback loop that automatically slowed the rise in oxygen levels as the levels increased.
They show that CHRONO functions as a transcriptional repressor of the negative feedback loop in the mammalian clock: the protein CHRONO binds to the regulatory region of clock genes, with its repressor function oscillating in a circadian manner.
The disappearing blood vessels could also act as a feedback loop, signaling to the animals to eat less — and indeed, Arap and Pasqualini saw that the treated monkeys consumed less of their regular food but ate just as many treats as control monkeys, suggesting that they weren't feeling nauseous from the therapy.
As Qian honed China's weapons systems, scientists in North America and Europe began applying systems approaches to intractable policy problems, modeling them as a collection of inputs and variables linked by direct or inverse relationships and feedback loopAs Qian honed China's weapons systems, scientists in North America and Europe began applying systems approaches to intractable policy problems, modeling them as a collection of inputs and variables linked by direct or inverse relationships and feedback loopas a collection of inputs and variables linked by direct or inverse relationships and feedback loops.
The researchers predicted that the TRPC5 mechanism might play a similar role in other types of progressive kidney disease — even if, in those cases, the damaging feedback loop was kickstarted from chronic disorders such as high blood pressure, rather than a specific genetic mutation.
Basic research needs to grow at least as fast as the economy because it is part of the feedback loop for most of the economy's growth.
But humans, who combine the VTA and the prefrontal cortex, can see beyond plain causality, tapping into a subtle, continuously updated feedback loop that enables us to defer immediate gratification in favor of rewarding long - term projects, such as learning to play an instrument.
Bringing together the observed macaque behavior and environmental conditions, we interpret the variation seen in macaque stone tool selection and shellfish characteristics on Koram and NomSao Islands as the result of a feedback loop driven by the level of predation pressure.
These researchers found that EMT in the cells «involves a number of double - negative feedback loops functioning as switches,» said Zhang.
These are known as feedback loops.
[Response: The loop doesn't, but the thing that starts the loop can change direction and as long as the entire feedback loop is not unstable, you simply have an amplified response to the drivers (in this case, orbital forcing).
Interestingly, BDNF expression was found to be regulated by FNDC5 in a cell - autonomous manner, and recombinant BDNF treatment led to the decreased expression of FNDC5 as part of a negative feedback loop.
As summarized by geoscientist James Kasting in his 2010 book «How to Find a Habitable Planet»,» [h] abitable zones around Sun - like (F, G, and Early K) stars should be relatively wide because of the natural feedback between atmospheric CO2 [carbon dioxide] levels and climate — the same feedback loop that kept the Earth habitable early its history.
To benefit from this feedback loop [known as the carbonate - silicate cycle], of course, planets must be volcanically active and they must be endowed with adequate supplies of both water and carbon.
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