Sentences with phrase «half year interval»

«The visa is initially valid for one year, renewable twice thereafter at 2 - year intervals.»

In the 20 - year interval, the number of full - time faculty increased 5 percent and the number of part - time faculty 129 percent.

How do they know that's a five billion - year interval?

Presidential elections, after all, have worked fairly well in the U.S. Through war and economic crisis, they have been held at four - year intervals.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

A commission that studied closing the jail facilities at Rikers — one impaneled by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and led by Lippman — endorsed the 10 - year interval.

To look at the worst - case scenario, Vossler projected the city's payments assuming that the state comptroller would increase stable - rate contributions twice, at five - year intervals, which would be his option.

From that point onward, the county auditor would run in four year terms beginning from January 1, 2015, so that they are staggered at two - year intervals with the county executive in order to ensure their independence from the administration.

Under the terms of the Licensing Act 1961, on the application of 500 local electors, a referendum could be held in each local government area at seven - year intervals on whether that district should be «wet» or «dry» on the Sabbath.

The team compiled a list of more than 1000 species of vertebrates that lived in the 96 - million - year interval straddling the mass extinction.

Parkfield, which had a long record of similar quakes at roughly 22 - year intervals, rated a 99 % probability of repeating in the next 30 years.

Lee Kump of Pennsylvania State University in University Park says earlier studies missed the dip because they calculated levels at 10 - million - year intervals and the ice age lasted only half a million years.

Analysis of about 1 million women screened at Kaiser Permanente Northern California suggests that HPV screening with a three - year interval between negative tests is at least as effective as co-testing every five years.

To account for that uncertainty, the new map describes probabilities over an extremely short, 1 - year interval.

«The most recent 10 - year interval (1999 — 2008) was the warmest of the past 200 decades,» they wrote.

To account for this difference in their analysis, the researchers performed statistical adjustments and also assessed outcomes for separate age groups, divided into five - year intervals.

Researchers surveyed approximately 900 healthy children and their mothers living in Santiago, Chile at five - year intervals from the child's infancy through age 16.

Group leaders, mid-career scientists arriving at Janelia Farm already equipped with impressive records of accomplishment, will supervise as up to six additional people — postdocs, grad students, and permanent scientific staff members — and hold initial appointments that will be reviewed and can be renewed after 6 years and then at 5 - year intervals.

Van Lommel then repeated this process after a two - year interval and found the group with near - death experience still had complete memories of the event, while others» recollections were strikingly less vivid.

Why was there a 35 - year interval between Gregor Mendel's experiments on pea breeding and the realisation of their importance by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns?

Probably not coincidentally, says Clapham, this 10 - million - year interval is the first one after the evolution of Archaeopteryx, long considered one of the first birds, and other early birds.

The seismic events in that supposed grouping, consisting of 3 magnitude 9 or higher temblors, struck Kamchatka, then Chile and then Alaska within a 12 - year interval.

For their new study, paleontologists Matthew Clapham and Jered Karr of the University of California, Santa Cruz, sorted more than 10,500 fossils of flying insects that lived in the past 320 million years into 10 - million - year intervals.

Partly, too, it's because nomadic hunter - gatherers have to keep their children spaced at four - year intervals by infanticide and other means, since a mother must carry her toddler until it's old enough to keep up with the adults.

Burn marks appeared in the tree rings at roughly 10 - year intervals for several hundred years.

Each Section Committee shall have a Steering Group to (i) take action on policy matters between meetings of the Section Committee; (ii) annually submit to the Executive Officer for presentation to the Council an approved slate of nominees proposed for election as Fellows (see Bylaw Article I, Section 2); (iii) at four - year intervals, appoint the Section Secretary; (iv) in the event of a vacancy in the position of Section Secretary, Section Chair, Section Chair - Elect, or member - at - large, appoint a replacement for the remainder of the unexpired term.

It shall (i) prepare the agenda for meetings of the Council; (ii) receive or initiate, coordinate, and advise the Council on reports of Council committees, resolutions, and proposed actions submitted for consideration by the Council; (iii) review applications for affiliation with the Association and petitions to terminate affiliation, and make recommendations thereon to the Council; (iv) at three - year intervals, review the process for nominating and electing Fellows, and make recommendations thereon to the Council; (v) annually present to the Members of the Association for election by mail ballot, or by electronic means, at least two nominations for each position to be filled on the Committee on Nominations through election by the Members.

Television viewing and aggressive behavior were assessed over a 17 - year interval in a community sample of 707 individuals.

At five - year intervals, on the basis of the number of Members then enrolled in each Electorate as their primary Electorate, the Council shall reconsider the validity of the formula which determines the number of Council delegates to be elected by the Electorates [see (a) above] and, when necessary to insure equitable representation of the Members, shall change the formula and amend the relevant portion of this Section accordingly.

(Because tornado numbers vary so much from year to year, the team grouped their data into 5 - year intervals.)

About 1.2 million years ago, the sedimentation rate accelerated — the same time that Earth's ice ages began to occur more intensely at 100,000 - year intervals rather than in 40,000 - year cycles.

Scientists estimate that these megathrust quakes occur at 400 to 600 - year intervals.

Cholesterol readings were taken at three - year intervals over the course of a decade from 1987 to 1989, before widespread statin use began.

Based on the number of adults who get booster shots within the recommended 10 - year interval, they estimate that changing to a 30 - year schedule would reduce the costs of vaccination by two - thirds, a reduction of approximately $ 280 million per year in health care costs, and approximately $ 1 billion in cost savings within four years.

I plotted out the variability in million - year intervals and found that about 6 million years ago, that variability went off the charts and kept increasing.

Measurements of SBP were taken at baseline and at three - year intervals.

Yet the cave record lacks tsunamis in a 1900 - year interval between about 5400 years ago — when a thick tsunami deposit was laid down — and about 3300 years ago.

The graph in Figure 1 shows the full 4 year interval of Kepler data.

The researchers estimated that the number of tornadoes in the most extreme outbreak in a five - year interval doubled over the last half - century.

Second, the researchers examined the state of the two groups» family trees at ten - year intervals, beginning in 1790 for the catarrhines and in 1840 for the flightless dinosaurs.

Based on measurements made by the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have produced a sequence of maps showing the varying surface temperatures on Saturn's moon Titan at two - year intervals, from 2004 to 2016.

That's partly why he chose to focus on 40 - year intervals, which strip away year - to - year noise and represent an important time horizon for infrastructure planning.

Our climate simulations in this section are five - member ensembles of runs initiated at 25 - year intervals at years 901 — 1001 of the control run.

By verified, I mean that for a 50 year prediction, you move the start and end dates back in time at 10 or 20 year intervals until you run out of good data to compare against.

Then there's an option for continuing the mission for an additional three years, and then there will be opportunities for extensions at three - year intervals going forward.»

In order to produce the 69 - year interval between eclipses, the astronomers calculate that they must be orbiting at an extremely large distance, about 20 astronomical units, which is approximately the distance between the Sun and Uranus.

A five - year interval between trawling is not enough for the kelp forest in Nordland.

Nondietary covariates were also updated during follow - up using the most recent data for each 2 - year interval.

I've worked on Jesse, which is the main character from the Before movies, at nine - year intervals.

He used a similar approach in making his romantic trilogy (Before Sunrise - 1995, Before Sunset - 2004 and Before Midnight - 2013), which follows the same couple (played each time by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) at nine - year intervals.