Sentences with phrase «for small magnitude»

ElarmS is designed to detect earthquakes small and large, because «only if it works for small magnitude events can we be sure the system is operational,» Allen says.

Not exact matches

The proportion of energy lost is an order - of - magnitude smaller than the 5 % estimated for the main VT - deformation trend during the 1982 — 1984 episode of major uplift (see the section «Regimes of deformation in Campi Flegrei» in the main text).

The result: XRT has an order of magnitude greater small - and micro-cap exposure versus our retail benchmark, and by industry it loads up on apparel and accessory retailers to make up for its tiny 1 % position in Walmart.

The number of people repressed for their religion under Communism is far smaller (at least an order of magnitude) than the excess deaths caused by these regimes.

Peirce argued that, since zero magnitude is one of an infinity of possible magnitudes, all except one greater than zero but too small for us to definitely detect in nature, the improbability of the zero size being the exact truth is infinite.

The timing of the 1998 peak suggests that curbs on industrial production were responsible, at least in part, for the decline, but the magnitude of the drop has baffled scientists because the best models had predicted a smaller decline.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / kickers A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook buildings and sent people in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas streaming outside into the summer weather on August 23 might seem like small shakes for residents of more quake - prone regions of the nation.

«We demonstrate that the simplest small mixing, related to the ratios of the scale at which electroweak physics operates, and a possible Grand Unified Scale, produces a possible contribution to the vacuum energy today of precisely the correct order of magnitude to account for the observed dark energy,» Krauss explained.

In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs particle, and possible new particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy density.

Of course, our immediate response is that we are still six orders of magnitude too small in energy, and there is no possibility for nuclear fusion from sonoluminescence.

For months in early 2009, the small city of L'Aquila shook with minor tremors and then with a more significant 4.1 - magnitude shock.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

Evidence is adequate that visual skin examination by a clinician to screen for skin cancer leads to harms that are at least small, but current data are insufficient to precisely bound the upper magnitude of these harms.

The mathematical expression of the law at the seismic moment, proposed by Serra and Corral, meets all the conditions needed to determine both the probability of smaller earthquakes and of large ones, by adjusting itself to the most recent and extreme cases of Tohoku, in Japan (2011) and Sumatra, in Indonesia (2004); as well as to determine negligible probabilities for earthquakes of disproportionate magnitudes.

That is the magnitude of the task facing astronomers as they search for small, rocky Earth - like planets around other stars - planets that might harbor life

Orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional Raman microscopy, they allow mapping of 3D distributions of small molecules, such as metabolites and drugs, as well as tumor identification in tissues, which open many exciting new possibilities for biology and medicine.

For instance, their data could be used to explore whether locked patches of the fault separately host magnitude 6 or smaller earthquakes, and if larger, less frequent earthquakes might rupture across patches.

Have a look for yourself: a comparison of the predictions below (such as «visible in small telescopes») to the magnitude of each comet shows just how poor an indicator the magnitude alone really is.

Right now, stem cell products are commonly produced on a very small scale to use in lab experiments, but we need to make them in much greater orders of magnitude for use in future human therapies.

For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes as small as eight - tenths of a nanometer in diameter can transport protons faster than bulk water, by an order of magnitude.

The associations between high versus low consumption of decaffeinated coffee and lower risk of type 2 diabetes21 and endometrial cancer40 were of a similar magnitude to total or caffeinated coffee, and there was a small beneficial association between decaffeinated coffee and lung cancer.48 The other outcomes investigated for decaffeinated coffee showed no significant associations, though it should be noted that meta - analyses of consumption would have much lower power to detect an effect.

However, the hugely increased production costs and timeframe involved for massive AAA titles might push something of that magnitude into the far future, allowing a smaller niche release like Bully 2 to jump in sooner.

The estimated effect of charter school attendance for each of our measures is very small in magnitude; none is statistically significant.

Infants» auditory enumeration: Evidence for analog magnitudes in the small number range.

Genuinely taken aback that demand for the Raspberry Pi proved to be orders of magnitude larger than a small pool of aspiring UK computer engineers.

The need we are addressing is the absence of an active R&D platform in the early childhood field (particularly in the first three years after birth) to confront the longstanding over-reliance on «evidence - based» programs that produce statistically significant but small magnitude impacts rather than a balanced agenda that includes the design and testing of innovative strategies that are aiming for substantially larger impacts at scale.

The magnitudes of the associations between functional zone overlap and math interactions were somewhat smaller than they were for walking distance, although still statistically distinguishable from zero.

By contrast, the impacts for students whose SAT scores were in the highest third of all NHRP - eligible students were either considerably smaller in magnitude or indistinguishable from zero.

For black children, the relationship between race and special education remains positive but gets smaller in magnitude and becomes statistically insignificant.

For Democrats, the small magnitude of the effect is likely an artifact of Democrats» predisposed alignment with teacher policy preferences, regardless of whether they are exposed to teacher policy preferences.

There are many websites that would pay millions of dollars for a leaked Star Wars Episode 7 script and with a billion dollar franchise, its no small wonder why a leak of this magnitude has not occurred.

Historically, the fund's distributions have been small, except for the one of 11.5 % of NAV in 2011; future distributions of that magnitude will make the fund less suitable for taxable accounts.

That increases the size of the temperature change per «small change» of doubling of CO2 by almost one order of magnitude, and many people would dispute that an approximately 10 % GHG - driven temperature increase for a «small change» in greenhouse forcing is a «small temperature change».

Also connect with problem areas and things that may seem counterintuitive or unimaginable to people's lived experience — like scales for instance: of time, of large magnitudes and finiteness, of how seemingly small percentages of compounds or changes in temperature can have large impacts.

For smaller changes, this may not be so apparent or important (a doubling of CO2 from 280 to 560 ppm may have about the same magnitude of forcing and result in the same magnitude of feedback as halving CO2 from 560 to 280 ppm).

Over the multi-decadal time scales, there is more reasonable evidence for an NAO and surface temperature response to solar changes though the magnitudes are still small.

The 20 - 40 x figure for cars relates for pollutants that make up a small % of total emissions so its an apples and pears comparison in terms of magnitude.

This difference would not be all that noteworthy, except for the fact that Loehle 2008 is supposed to be a global reconstruction... and the magnitude of the MWP - LIA difference should almost certainly be smaller for a global reconstruction than for a Northern Hemisphere one.

However the ARGO errors are much much smaller than the pre-ARGO measurements (maybe by two orders of magnitude, one for each temperature reading and one for the sparseness of sampling?).

The extinction coefficient for absorption is also 5 or 6 orders of magnitude smaller than that for water vapor in the same wavelength range.

The epicycles and pseudocycles appear to be truly lower in scale by an order of magnitude for global effect, so the AMO and PDO and all the other regional currents and flows and exchanges and bends, being that they don't all or even mostly synchronize in any demonstrably regular way, are small compared to the whole globe and net out to nearly zero.

We can at best estimate that natural variability is an order of magnitude or two smaller than the GHE for climate timescales, which is good enough, since our precision on temperatures on climate timescales barely has enough significant digits to be affected by a two order of magnitude lower effect.

In addition, they indicate that «a lack of developmental deformities at early stages for pCO2 ~ 1000 ppm has been previously reported for this species...» And they say «there are even reports that survival is increased in this species and its congener S. droebachiensis under some low pH conditions...»... conclude, that «the effects of small magnitude in these urchin larvae are indicative of a potential resilience to near - future levels of ocean acidification.»»

«The magnitude of the difference [between the top - and bottom - of - column temperatures], and the mechanism proposed for this separation are irrelevant...» You didn't say that mean molecular kinetic energy had to be uniform — except for a negligibly small gravity - imposed skew toward the bottom.

One of the problems with irradiance as a driver for climate change is that though the changes seem to be fairly well correlated with the temperature anomaly, many scientists think the magnitude is too small to totally account for temperature changes.

For 1400, all indicate > warming but with smaller magnitude than the 20th > century.

I agree that reduction in snow or ice cover resulting from warming constitutes a likely slow positive feedback, but its magnitude may be quite small, at least for the modest changes in surface temperature that can be expected to arise if sensitivity is in fact fairly low, so the Forster / Gregory 06 results may nevertheless be a close approximation to a measurement of equilibrium climate sensitivity.

• The cost of a general distribution system for methane is orders of magnitude smaller than for major electrical grids, so areas still developing their energy systems can invest in local grids powered by small, re-deployable gas generators using a much cheaper distribution system that can also provide direct gas for heating, cooking, and other such purposes.

However, those forcings weren't operative during the transition from ice age to interglacial; in order to explain the amplification necessary (rate and magnitude) for the small slow changes in solar influence due to Milankovic cycles to result in the rapid (compared to the descent into an ice age) transition to an interglacial, CO2 sensitivity must be higher.

The energy use reductions for higher - income households are small, and the net present value of savings is an order of magnitude smaller than the increase in home prices, even if we assume a high marginal price of electricity.