Sentences with phrase «in human time scales»

Like other large scale perturbations in systems, climate forcing is certain to unfold in ecological and biological systems in very surprising ways as unknown limits are passed beyond a point of no return in human time scales...

But if we replace these sources of energy with others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of turning everything on earth into toxic waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any human time scale).

Because mixing is relatively slow, although important in the human time scale, when deeper waters mix with the surface it can now absorb more CO2.

Not exact matches

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

The human capacity to author life and skip all over the genetic alphabet raises theological questions, just as does the human capacity to destroy life on a grand scale and actually put ourselves, for the first time, in a position to be uncreators.

Oh, next time I go to the zoo, I'll say HI to some of your relatives that didn't evolve Mr. Catholic Christian believing in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.

Still further, Hartshorne points out that our loveless physics and biology have produced in our time loveless politics and economics, with the results that we have seen the revival of human cruelty on an unprecedented scale and the adoption of callous economic policies which leave the alleviation of human miseries to the automatic functioning of the «market.

Satan did it, and fell... man, seduced by the father of lies, and lust for power has allowed pride to swell up in his heart, has done the same... Scriptures were written long ago, but we see them fulfilled with our own eyes (Dan.12: 4) There has never been time as such we're living in, when man is so advanced, yet the deprivation of human character on WORLDWIDE scale, is unprecedented from any time in history of mankind!

«There has never been time as such we're living in, when man is so advanced, yet the deprivation of human character on WORLDWIDE scale, is unprecedented from any time in history of mankind!»

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

well i get where you come from but i wouldnt call it less passionate but more practical, i just do nt like to be butthurt ^ ^ i am fan of arsenal to enjoy the time i spend on football but if it ends in failures i try to get over its and be constructive about it, and i am not a fan of people who cant control their anger pains and have to project their frustrations onto the people who could be held responsible but not in this scale, in my opinion of the society humans should be able to control their emotions a bit and never stoop as low as to be abusive and i do think that a lot of comments on justarsenal were abusive and sorry but i do nt think of it as passionate an extreme example would be ultras you could call them muuuuch more passionate than me but in my opinion they are just scum of football, but of course i do nt want to compare the JA - commenters to ultras xD i just tried to illustrate my opinion ^ ^

It is an unfortunate fact of life that large scale tragedies will continue to occur, as the earthquakes in Japan and the horrific events in Norway attest, so Elizabeth's advice to other psychiatrists looking to help survivors and rescuers in future events would be to not focus on the therapy they have learned but instead invest time in listening and providing comfort by simple human contact.

And scientists who conduct human challenge studies, which typically involve a few dozen participants, say they have critical benefits: In addition to saving time and money, they can reveal harm caused by a potential drug or vaccine before it enters large - scale human efficacy trials.

«At the same time, small - scale trials have shown that consuming antioxidant - rich foods like virgin olive oil, tomatoes and berries improved HDL function in humans.

The ability to treat large areas of the spinal cord for extended periods of time in animals «will be important for scaling up to the larger human spinal cord for future translation of this therapy to the clinic,» she added.

In a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collageIn a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagein the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagein Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagen.

Additional animal testing on such a scale would be very time consuming, highly expensive, and politically very unpopular, especially given increasing doubts as to whether the data gathered could be used effectively in increasing protection of human health and the environment.

At the human scale, we experience just three dimensions of space and one of time, but string theorists argue that six extra dimensions are tightly knotted at every point in the fabric of our 4 - D reality.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

CIRELLI: Another task for the future is to bridge the gap between animal studies, in which we look at memory over very short time scales, perhaps 24 hours, and human studies.

Having reached for the first time a point in human existence where more humans are overweight than are hungry, where our children's life expectancy is less than ours, and where food resources and indigenous knowledge are vanishing faster than we can preserve them, increasing nutritional knowledge on both local and global scales is of vital importance.

There is growing awareness that the profound environmental changes (eg, in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry ≈ 10000 y ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary time scale for the human genome to adapt (2 — 5).

And they are so many times larger than the humans that I was reminded of the scale used in «The Incredible Shrinking Man.»

Despite the fact that 99 % of human beings are wiped out by the time of the 5th wave of attacks, the movie makes it seem like a small - scale problem in a localized area in mid-America.

And in the process, Boser acknowledges one of the fundamental contradictions related to this accrued scientific knowledge of education and human development: At no other time have we known so much about human potential — the plasticity of the brain, the conditions that activate and stimulate human performance, and the ways technology can deliver knowledge and skills - training at a scale and efficiency that was unimaginable even a decade ago.

Indeed, the authors occasionally surprise readers, particularly with their recurring interest in the subtle institutional dynamics - from state charter laws to the nitty - gritty of making these human - scale organizations actually work over time - that mean life or death for fledgling charter schools.

«The issue of feral cats is not going away any time soon,» he and his colleagues warned, «and no matter what options are taken, it may well be a generation or more before we can expect broad - scale changes in human behavior regarding outdoor cats.»

While his work bears similarities to that of American abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac» of Rothko's formalism and the erasure of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis on emotion, human scale, the visibility of the art - making process and the conception of a painting as the product of an individual and a time.

In Essenhigh's most recent large - scale canvases, action figures are cast alongside the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism, religion, competitiveness and heroism are played out in.In Essenhigh's most recent large - scale canvases, action figures are cast alongside the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism, religion, competitiveness and heroism are played out in.in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism, religion, competitiveness and heroism are played out in.in...

The clouds allowed us to experience this coincidence of cosmic time and scale on our terms and in our own human time.»

Spanning time periods and cultures, the box varies widely in scale and purpose — from a decorative piece that might fit in the palm of a hand, to a human dwelling designed to offer comfort and protection.

Her sculptural sites allow the viewer to channel the vastness of nature into human scale while creating a contemplative, subjective experience grounded in a specific location in real time.

Essenhigh's large scale paintings create an enigmatic world in which animated action figures are cast alongside mythological characters and the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism,...

While it possesses an archaic quality, the work's site - specific installation in the gallery underscores its spontaneous creation, calling attention to the artist's human scale and the passage of time.

He also spoke of the importance, whether riding a balloon in the jet stream or going up against British Airways as an aviation upstart 25 years ago, of «protecting the downside» and mused on why humans seemed to have a hard time with that kind of risk management when it was on the planetary scale.

The scale of tropical deforestation in the last 40 years is stunning — even if it took ten times as long, early human farmers could have deforested most of temperate Eurasia in far less than 1000 years.

I just go to the section where they get into discussing Arctic seabed methane in more detail, and the conclusion of that section is actually: «In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over time scales of decades to centuries.&raquin more detail, and the conclusion of that section is actually: «In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over time scales of decades to centuries.&raquIn summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over time scales of decades to centuries.»

Psychological studies * and surveys have revealed deeply ingrained human traits, many shaped by our evolutionary history as a «here and now» species, that prevent us from acting rationally in the face of threats with long time scales, dispersed impacts and inherent complexity.

This is because the time scales for it to «rain out» and the amounts involved are such that humans can not, at least at this point, put enough of it in the atmosphere directly to significantly alter the global climate (although we may be able to have some local effects).

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

On the human time scale, release of fossil CO2 is absorbed and stored in the ocean based on the partial pressure across the air water interface.

Due to the irreversible physical and chemical processes converting biomass to fossils the amount of carbon available in the biosphere is steadily diminishing and, on a geological time scale, it is certain that without human intervention it would eventually lead to critical shortage of carbon available for life on Earth.

It is simply this: Earth's body is finite, its resources are limited, and its ecosystem services capable of irreversible degradation by the huge scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the ones we see rampantly overspreading the surface of our planetary home in our time.

On the climate front, I think the result of human influence will be complex, but certainly not good for the diversity of life in the 100 year time scale.

The overall result of the phenomena involved in this process is, that the amount of carbon available in the biosphere is steadily diminishing and, on a geological time scale, it is certain that without human intervention it would eventually lead to critical shortage of carbon available for life on Earth.

But there remains far too much natural variability in the frequency and potency of rare and powerful storms — on time scales from decades to centuries — to go beyond pointing to this event being consistent with what's projected on a human - heated planet.

The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.

But this human adaptation time scale may be longer than the time over which climate change affects storms, so that comparatively small changes in the frequency of generational events can have large social consequences.