Sentences with phrase «for differences in scale»

In order for currency on a scale such as local community currencies or loyalty points to be linked to other currencies, there is a need for a method to provide a medium of exchange that allows for the difference in scale.

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In his interview on Masters of Scale, Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, mentions a story about how his move to New York in the early days of the company to be near customers made all the difference for Airbnb's focuIn his interview on Masters of Scale, Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, mentions a story about how his move to New York in the early days of the company to be near customers made all the difference for Airbnb's focuin the early days of the company to be near customers made all the difference for Airbnb's focus.

IDEABOOST is a business accelerator with a difference — a bootcamp for technology companies that want to achieve success and scale in the media and entertainment ecosystem.

The height difference between the two sides of the scale is not the same for every baby in every situation.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

Increased time for prenatal appointments was associated with higher scale scores (see Table 6), and there were significant differences between providers with respect to average time spent in prenatal appointments (see Fig 4).

Increased time for prenatal appointments was associated with higher scale scores, and there were significant differences between providers with respect to average time spent in prenatal appointments.

So it seems that broad cultural differences can not account for the lack of whistle - blowing tradition in Germany and that «Europe» is definitely not the right scale to think about this.

What has been called the modern synthesis of the two fields emerged in the 1940s with the idea that the sorts of genetic differences you could observe in populations, right out your window, when compounded and extrapolated over vast periods of time, could account for the large - scale changes we see in the fossil record.

Based on the resulting differences in intracranial pressure, the team developed an equation, or scaling law, to estimate the risk of brain injury for each species.

Modelling flood risk in Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomein Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomeIn the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomein projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomein flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomes.

Douglas Robinson, an ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, calls the approach «probably the wave of the future» for determining geographic connections on a regional scale, but he thinks that more detail will be needed to make a difference in conservation.

For small amounts, the difference in price between pure sources of carbon and cookies is small; but if you scale up production, that difference becomes absolutely critical.

But for the large - scale opinion surveys typically carried out in the developing world — many questions covering broad topics that are designed to identify the differences between communities — «this is exactly the appropriate method for detecting fabrication,» Kuriakose says.

But the subtle, molecular - level differences unveiled by the DNA analyses tipped the scale well in favor of species richness for tropical mayflies.

He analyzed recordings of 81 different birds, measuring the difference in frequency between each note and the next and looking for the same intervals used in diatonic, pentatonic, and chromatic scales.

Under nature the slightest difference of structure or constitution may well turn the nicely balance scale in the struggle for life and so be preserved.

For example, a custom coded numerical model has been used to predict differences in the diffusive scaling laws across the depth of a microchannel.

«We were thinking through the difference between using a scale that scores responses along a range, such as a Likert scale, versus asking respondents «yes or no» - type questions, for instance regarding women's access to information or equitable decision - making in the household.

The 2012 Kavli Prize laureates were selected for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the outer solar system, the differences in material properties between nano - and larger scales, and how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch.

The team's work highlights this by presenting a comprehensive view of genome evolution on many different levels (e.g., differences in ploidy, aneuploidy, genetic variants, hybridization, and introgressions) that is difficult to obtain at the same scale and accuracy for other eukaryotic organisms.

This year's laureates were selected for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the outer solar system, the differences in material properties at nano - and larger scales, and how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch.

For example, if the meditation group improves from 10 to 19 on a mental health scale and the control group improves from 11 to 16 on the same scale, the relative difference between groups in the change score is: -LCB--LSB-(19 − 10) − (16 − 11)-RSB- / 10 -RCB- × 100 = 40 %.

I haven't seen a difference on the scale in years, and my main purpose for training is to put on mass, bulk up and gain weight.

Those who met online also reported a slight difference in marital satisfaction — rating their unions on a 1 - to - 7 scale at 5.6, versus 5.5 for those who met offline.

«And we know that high - quality practices in social - emotional learning can make a substantive difference in children's educational experience, and can serve as a powerful lever for transforming behavior at scale.»

This effect is as large as the average difference in exam scores for two students whose cumulative GPAs at the start of the semester differ by 0.17 grade points on a standard 0 — 4.0 scale.

Democrats are more supportive than Republicans of increasing teacher salaries and especially overall school spending, for which the difference in average positions is larger than 0.5 on the 5 - point scale.

Studies by the Renzulli folks at the University of Connecticut have shown that there is little or no difference between the quality of work on school projects, for example, between these 120 - something kids and those in the top 5 percent of the intelligence scale.

So I thought I would take the most recent report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), called «Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales: Results from the 2013 NAEP Reading and Mathematics Assessments,» and released July 9, 2015, and convert it into something both my mother and my daughter can understand: grade levels, as in the difference between sixth and seventh grade.

While our test car weighs in at 3,418 pounds, the comparable BMW, which would be the automatic - equipped 435i coupe, tips the scales at 3,610 pounds for a 192 - pound weight difference.

The differences in gray scales among all eleven devices tested for this series are striking and explain much of the differences in picture quality that we witnessed in the viewing tests.

There is an incredible amount to be said for the small difference educators make daily in the lives of students and colleagues, but many of us don't realize how easy it can be to expand that difference to a global scale.

In order to reach the summits of academic endeavors, they have had to scale many mountains of applications, and they have taken the knowledge they gained to develop the skills needed to create powerful application essays that can help make a real difference when you apply for a scholarship.

Samsung is going to let out the new Galaxy S2 tablet with reading mode and 4:3 scale with less final price for states» markets to be capable of competing with apple in price in this over-saturated marketplace.If I have a ten inch tablet with those capabilities, who wants to purchase for an e-book reader which is more pricey, more heavy, and more limited to the specific region?Three inches difference can not justify the decision.

Of course the last game was also set in the US, and there doesn't seem to be a huge difference in terms of scale, but everything has been reshaped and tailored for all the vehicles.

The difference in output between the Pro and the X is still subtle enough that the majority of consumers will struggle to confidently distinguish between the two systems, so it does leave me wondering whether or not it will actually tip the scales away from Sony in any way, but it's a big, bold step forward by Microsoft and I have to applaud them for their efforts.

It is worth pausing, at least for a moment, to think of the differences between Monique van Genderen's four super-large paintings in the opening gallery of Susanne Vielmetter and the paintings of the era about which van Genderen is pointedly thinking: the broad and massively scaled canvases of Abstract Expressionism.

When differences in scaling between previous studies are accounted for, the various current and previous estimates of NH mean surface temperature are largely consistent within uncertainties, despite the differences in methodology and mix of proxy data back to approximately A.D. 1000... Conclusions are less definitive for the SH and globe, which we attribute to larger uncertainties arising from the sparser available proxy data in the SH.

I don't think most people, including a few here, really appreciate the scale of the problem and the difference in energy quality between oil and any other alternative (for the uses of oil, particularly).

Given that you comment that the largest differences between the different forcings is between land and ocean or between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, have you looked at the land — ocean temperature difference or the Northern — Southern Hemisphere temperature difference, as they both scale linearly with ECS, in the same way as global mean temperature for ghg forcing, but not for aerosol forcing.

Remember in the 1950s there was huge demand for all the new appliances and so huge growth, now its just new smartphones and gadgets, there is a difference in scale in here.

Further even the calibration period and scaling / regression methods play a huge role and can give a difference of 0.5 K in amplitude for the same reconstructions.

Over the next two weeks, however, negotiators will look to lessons learned in the voluntary markets while looking for ways to integrate REDD into the UNFCCC — for only with that integration can REDD achieve the kind of scale necessary to really make a difference on a global scale.

''... models produce precipitation approximately twice as often as that observed and make rainfall far too lightly... The differences in the character of model precipitation are systemic and have a number of important implications for modeling the coupled Earth system... little skill in precipitation [is] calculated at individual grid points, and thus applications involving downscaling of grid point precipitation to yet even finer ‐ scale resolution has little foundation and relevance to the real Earth system.»

The reasons for the regional differences in historical scaled - interannual and future 30 - year trend regressions are unclear, since as noted above the model's interannual NAO variability does not appear to be affected by climate change between 1850 and 2045.

The difference in time scales between medium and long - term adaptation plans and pressing short - term issues poses a significant problem for prioritizing adaptation.

The Court found the program «impermissibly [intruded] upon» FERC's domain because of its specific structure: it promised subsidies based on contracts for differences, where generators were guaranteed a specific price for auction participation and that payment (subsidy) would scale in response to wholesale market prices.

Oil and gas pipelines are a typical analogy for the scale and nature of infrastructure required, but have significant differences: the science of fossil fuel reserves was limited when much of the industry was created, and under business - as - usual the price of oil can be expected to rise as reserves go down, thus stretching out the time in which the investment is worthwhile.

The variations over time depicted for the various datasets are in generally good agreement, notwithstanding differences in absolute amounts, but there are differences on the longest time scales that are prominent for some regions.