Sentences with phrase «key assumptions about»

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/05/ipcc-on-renewable-energy.html» The IPCC does note that there are obstacles — both social and technological — that must be overcome, and appears to make some key assumptions about how this might occur (p. 12 — exact details will have to await the full report, but track records for forecasting technological innovation and social acceptance are not so good)»

The plans hinged, the report said, on the success of four key assumptions about the financial markets and the school's ability to cut costs.

Do we need to rethink key assumptions about leaders and leadership?

An international team of scientists has challenged one of the key assumptions about how the body - shapes of the world's animals evolved.

The data support most cosmologists» view that the universe is «flat,» but cast doubt on some key assumptions about the balance of matter it contains or the nature of its early expansion.

Noticeable blurring would help justify some key assumptions about how quantum gravity works, or even allow us to discriminate between competing theories.

Please note that what I say below is based on the following two key assumptions about the stock market.

The problem with your two key assumptions about stocks is that they vary in lenght.

Any attempt to assess the potential economic impact of a Syria mission depends on a key assumption about foreign policy: Should President Obama decide for intervention, will the mission look more like Iraq and Afghanistan or Libya?

Not exact matches

This retrospective summarizes key models that make psychology - based assumptions about: individual preferences; individual beliefs; and, the process by which individuals make decisions.

In order to determine this, the entrepreneur will have to make vast assumptions about how much time it will take to get key scientific results such as a proof or principle or a first working prototype.

You're testing assumptions about your concept, target market, app functionality, customer requirements, messaging and branding, customer acquisition and retention, and other key metrics which together drive dating industry success.

In doing so, our key assumption is that these factors do play a role in shaping teachers» expectations about their students but don't otherwise affect the student's likelihood of completing college.

This is why curation skills are likely to become key characterizing traits of future teachers / guides, and why the adoption of curation approaches inside any learning curriculum will rapidly transform our present assumptions about how we teach and learn most effectively.

It is the first to explore how those key moments — coinciding with times of American social, political, and cultural upheaval — challenged traditional hierarchies and assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist.

Most analyses use models that have very optimistic assumptions about the implementation of carbon pricing globally and the availability of key technologies like carbon capture and storage.

«A plausible description of how the future may develop, based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about key relationships and driving forces (eg, rate of technology changes, prices).

Scenario - A plausible and often simplified description of how the future may develop, based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about driving forces and key relationships.

The assumption about no autocorrelation is key to the statements of statistical signficance.

Scenarios provide plausible, albeit simplified, descriptions of how the future may develop, based on a coherent set of assumptions about key driving forces.

As specified by the RCPs, which encompass a multitude of assumptions about the future but entirely elide key carbon cycle feedbacks.

«Among the obvious problems are the failure to cost key policies, the effective abandonment of the 5 % emissions reduction target and bogus assumptions about an economic dividend from the removal of the carbon price.

Lackof accurate boundary conditions, insufficient understanding of key variables i.e, air pollution and aerosols and most of all wrongheaded assumption about the existence of positive feedback.

One key aspect of this type of study is that it makes no assumptions about various solar effects.

Recommendation: Given the importance of reducing key risks to JPSS satellites, the Secretary of Commerce should direct the Administrator of NOAA to update the program's assessment of potential polar satellite data gaps to include more accurate assumptions about launch dates and the length of the data calibration period, as well as key risks such as the potential effect of space debris on JPSS and other polar satellites» expected lifetimes.

In grade five, you begin to make assumptions about work based on the key messages you receive from parents, teachers, media and society.

In «The Four Agreements,» Don Miguel Ruiz talks about the importance of avoiding assumptions as a key pillar to success.

In the first episode, I spoke with Dr. Winter about the history of clinical hypnosis, key assumptions, goals, the client's role and types of problems that might be addressed with clinical hypnosis.

Today I speak with Dr. Elizabeth Winter about the history of clinical hypnosis, key assumptions, goals, the client's role and types of problems that might be addressed with clinical hypnosis.

A key development to watch in this situation, analysts say, is the attempt by Simon (with its partner Westfield America Trust) to pull off the $ 3.55 billion takeover of Taubman, which would consist of about $ 1.75 billion in equity and the assumption of $ 1.8 billion in Taubman debt.