Sentences with phrase «highly nonlinear»

Changing a girl's name from something fairly feminine, like «Sue» (which is less masculine than the mean female voter's name), to a more gender - ambiguous name, like «Kelly,» increases her probability of becoming a judge by roughly 5 %.16 This effect may appear small, but it is highly nonlinear in nominal masculinity; changing a girl's name from «Sue» to a predominantly male name, like «Cameron» (75 % of those named «Cameron» in South Carolina's voting population are male), increases her probability of becoming a judge by a factor of 3 (roughly).

A system can not be «highly nonlinear».

That «the climate system exhibits highly nonlinear behavior» (AR4, Appendix 3A, p. 336) is doubly meaningless.

As shown in Sect. 2.2, this concern was bolstered by the possibility of a huge, highly nonlinear temperature drop if the climate system reached the upper - left bifurcation point of Fig. 1.

It would seem that use of the 100 year factor linearizes a highly nonlinear process in a way that significantly underestimates the impact of a CH4 release on decadal time scales.

Juxtapose it with Erwin et al and the notions of highly nonlinear evolutionary history — hopeful monsters — etc..

Even in the Antarctic, the much larger Larsen A and B shelves, the Wordie, Jones, and Muller shelves, and a significant part of the Wilkins ice shelf have recently broken up in highly nonlinear «tipping point» events.

Consequently, the effects of these storms are highly nonlinear and one big storm may have much greater impacts on the environment and climate system than several smaller storms.

Furthermore, conceptual work on the potentially chaotic nature of the ISM (70) has been developed (V. Petoukhov, K. Zickfeld, and H.J.S., unpublished work) to suggest that under some plausible decadal - scale scenarios of land use and greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing, switches occur between two highly nonlinear metastable regimes of the chaotic oscillations corresponding to the «active» and «weak» monsoon phases, on the intraseasonal and interannual timescales.

Clouds then are highly nonlinear temperature regulators — both increasing daytime albedo and increasing nighttime greenhouse trapping.

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual,... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate..»

However, the key point about radiocarbon dating is that the «calibration curve» relationship of «true» radiocarbon age t14C to the true calendar date ti of the event corresponding to the 14C determination is highly nonlinear.

Here is a July, 2014 paper finding the climate is «highly nonlinear» Synchronization of North Pacific and Greenland climates preceded abrupt deglacial warming

In the relatively unlikely event that a proxy indicator represents a truly local climate phenomenon which is uncorrelated with larger scale climate variations, or represents a highly nonlinear response to climate variations...

We now recognize more of the natural climatic variations caused by the interaction of five highly nonlinear coupled chaotic processes: earth's atmosphere, oceans, volcanoes, solar weather, and galactic cosmic rays (Curry 2016, Curry 2017).

capt. dallas, it would have to be highly nonlinear to show up in a perturbation of a few degrees.

IPCC makes the same kind of mistake writing about «highly nonlinear» and «strongly nonlinear» processes.

The sluice gates at the top of a dam are highly nonlinear.

(It is highly nonlinear, for 10 % it is 1.1 to the power of 3 = 1.33).

We suggest that ice sheet disintegration is a highly nonlinear process and poses a danger of rapid sea level rise.

Unlike the prequel, the game world is highly nonlinear; the player would often return to already visited locations several times from various directions, often traversing time portals to visit the same places in the present and the past in order to find ways around obstacles which would be impassable in either time alone.

Dilkina said one of the surprises of the research was the highly nonlinear nature of the benefits.

The ceramics in the NIST study are highly nonlinear, meaning the capacitors get less stiff and their resonant frequency drops when they vibrate more strongly.

As the STM tip was moved along the length of the nanotubes, well - defined positions were found where the transport current changes abruptly from a graphitic - like response to one that is highly nonlinear and asymmetrical, including near - perfect rectification.

Designs for highly nonlinear ablative Rayleigh - Taylor experiments on the National Ignition Facility

Not exact matches

Therefore, the results achieved in this study have shown that nonlinear effects in graphene nano - mechanical resonators reveal a hybridization effect at high energies that, if controlled, could open up new possibilities to manipulate vibrational states, engineer hybrid states with mechanical modes at completely different frequencies, and to study the collective motion of highly tunable systems.

«The results demonstrate the ultra-silicon-rich nitride platform to be extremely promising for highly efficient nonlinear optics applications, particularly in the field of CMOS photonics leveraging existing electronics infrastructure,» says Dr. Doris Ng, Scientist III at the A * STAR Data Storage Institute.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

A nonlinear story offers players the chance to roam and alter the world as they see fit, and provides a highly replayable experience.

One part of the difficulty is that the Earth is a highly multivariate and chaotic driven / open system with complex nonlinear coupling between all of its many drivers, and with anything but a regular surface.

Given that the number of interacting nonlinear deterministic components is some large fraction of n, such «simple» indices are actually highly simplistic, simplifying to the point of major distortion.

The Earth is an open highly multivariate dynamical nonlinear non-Markovian chaotic driven system, and statements like «1 to 1.5 degrees of warming» are themselves consequently moderately suspect.

Nonlinear dynamics, threshold effects and surprise are common in highly modified systems due to cumulative human impacts, trophic cascades and stochastic effects [25].