Sentences with phrase «few decades of use»

Modern SSDs like the Samsung EVO 850 (one of the more popular SSD lines), for example, can handle hundreds of TiBs of data written over a few decades of use — more use than most people will put a drive to.

But after a few decades of using this information, not much seems to have changed.

Not exact matches

These are just a few of the fundamental rules of copywriting that direct response writers have been using for decades to build multi-part content funnels, create compelling landing pages and write long email chains.

There's this pressure to determine the infamous ROI of social, and yet when you look at other major marketing channels over the last few decades that we've used — billboards in the sky, ads in newspapers, even commercials on television — those extensions of campaigns are traditionally measured in eyeballs or ears.

Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

We're a few decades into modern finance as we know it and the tendency is to think of the categorization schemes that we use as universal truths.

Fewer than 10 percent of Norwegians are still using paper currency or coins, which could completely disappear in a decade, according to the local authorities.

Hardly any of us know what we'll be doing in a few years, let alone in a few decades, so trust that God is using your current situation to give you wisdom and equip you for His purposes.

For the last few decades, our church leadership, both ministerial and musical (and including our ministerial training colleges), has completely lost sight of the centrality of the full, systematic use of the book of Psalms in Christian worship.

This became such an integral part of his identity that only a few decades after his death this Jewish title was used in its Greek translation — Christ — as part of Jesus» proper name.

My experience with professional growth groups for theological students over the last decade has convinced me that the quality of professional services could be raised significantly in a few years if growth groups were used widely in professional education.

(c) He was married to a woman whom he refers to only once as «the prophetess» (8:3) He does not apparently mean a female prophet (although the term is later so used in the Old Testament of Huldah, II Kings 22:14), but simply the wife of a prophet (cf. Duke - Duchess) In Amos» day only a few decades earlier the term «prophet» was in disrepute in the Northern Kingdom and Amos disclaimed the title (Amos 7:14).

Other scholars use more radically modified methods of literary criticism proceeding from the basic assumption of multiple sources; and in Germany in the past few decades interest has shifted to a different approach known as form criticism which asks different questions of the text.

As you'll see in this timeline, over the last few decades athletes were all too often punished by teams, leagues and the law for the use of cannabis.

The sporting press, after ignoring steroids for decades, even turning on one of their own for writing about Mark McGwire's use of androstenedione in 1998, * made a sudden 180 - degree turn only a few years later.

Take a decade - by - decade look at just a few of Mathematica's projects that have made a lasting impact on the field of research and the use of data to make a difference.

If you were a party girl before, or used to be the life of every event you went to, you might as well say goodbye to them for the next few months (or years, no wait, make that a decade or two).

Time use data indicate that men have nearly tripled their time spent providing primary childcare (the amount of time when childcare is their primary activity) over the last few decades (Wang and Bianchi, 2009).

In the last few decades, residents of the island have increasingly used the ancient stones to build walls to shield their homes and livelihoods from pounding waves and creeping sea water.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

Some of the consequences of increased prescribing of opioids over the last few decades have been increases in the use of heroin; overdose deaths; and cases of HIV, hepatitis C, and other injection - related harms.

It is likely that medical interventions in the past few decades, such as the use of pneumonia and flu vaccines and decreased smoking helped reduce ear infection incidences.»

A curious detail also shown by the study is a reduction in atmospheric pollution from lead during the last few decades, which, as Lozano concludes, «suggests that the global measures taken to reduce lead emissions, such as the use of lead - free gasoline, have helped to reduce the levels of this metal in the atmosphere.»

The increasing use of computers over the past few decades has fuelled an explosive growth in the microelectronics industry.

For over two decades, consumers have used the internet to research, shop, make friends, find dates and learn about the world with the click of a mouse or a few keystrokes.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

«It's an evolution in our ability to use climate models to make predictions, particularly on timescales of a few decades,» says McKinley, also an affiliate of the Center for Climatic Research at UW - Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

«The past few decades have seen an alarming rise in opioid use in the United States, and the negative consequences are dramatically increasing,» says study co-author Hassan R. Mir, MD, MBA, associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation at Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute.

The more rigorous methods used to rate tornadoes now are only a few decades old, making it hard to compare tornadoes now to those in the middle of the 20th century and earlier.

Other studies which have assessed the importance of the Montreal Protocol have used models to predict atmospheric winds and temperatures and have looked a few decades into the future.

The advent of MRI technology, which is used to observe details of specific organs or blood vessels, has been an enormous boon to medical diagnostics over the last few decades.

In the last few decades, the use of DNA as a template for the arrangement of functional elements like organic dyes into precise arrays has undergone rapid advance.

The promise of brain — computer interfaces (BCIs) for restoring function to people with disabilities has driven researchers for decades, yet few devices are ready for widespread practical use.

The results of the first study using a health economics model to project osteoporosis - related fractures and costs for the Chinese population, shows that the country's healthcare system will face a dramatic rise in costs over the next few decades.

Perhaps this is all obvious and is in fact a description of the approach that many parties, particularly climate skeptics, have been using for the past few decades.

On time - scales of a few decades, the current observed rate of warming can be used to constrain the projected response to a given emissions scenario despite uncertainty in climate sensitivity.

CESM1, the state - of - the - art climate model used in this study, has improved performance in the last few decades.

January 24, 2018 - The use of nanotechnology has exploded over the past few decades, with more and more manufacturers including nanoparticles (microscopic particles that are bigger than an atom but smaller than what the human eye can see) in clothing, food, and various...

Possible reasons include increased oceanic circulation leading to increased subduction of heat into the ocean, higher than normal levels of stratospheric aerosols due to volcanoes during the past decade, incorrect ozone levels used as input to the models, lower than expected solar output during the last few years, or poorly modeled cloud feedback effects.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

In a study published today, scientists at deCODE genetics use genomic and genealogical data from across the population of Iceland over many decades to show that people who carry sequence variations linked to higher levels of education have fewer children than average...

Integrative medicine has advanced remarkable in the last few decades but strangely, very few of the powerful and healing integrative medicine methods have been made available to those in recovery from substance and alcohol use disorders.

Herbal therapies have become increasingly popular in the past few decades — some sources indicate that more than 80 % of the world population use herbs for health care.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

In the past few decades, standard health care had used basic cholesterol testing as the cornerstone for the treatment of heart disease.

I used to own a pair of cowboy boots that were a few inches below the knee (over a decade ago) and I liked them actually.

I was expecting to get a few years use out of it, but it's been nearly a decade, and that flat iron is still going strong!

This was also the case just a few decades ago in fact — so much so that online dating is still considered a fairly new concept, even with its years of use.

Most of the time the movie is a knockabout slapstick comedy with a «Back to the Future» feeling, staging grand action sequences and feeding audiences new plot information every few minutes, but of course, being a Pixar film, «Coco» is also building toward emotionally overwhelming moments, so stealthily that you may be surprised to find yourself wiping away a tear even though the studio has been using the sneak - attack playbook for decades.