Sentences with phrase «large number of degrees»

The other problem is a mathematical one, in terms of how you actually evaluate with observations a model with a very large number of degrees of freedom that is nonlinear / chaotic as well.

What I'm trying to get at is that although the problem with records is clearly the arbitrarily large number of degrees of freedom that they invoke.

Not exact matches

However improbable in a mechanistic sense the elaborate organic structure created by life may appear, it seems increasingly evident that the cosmic substance is drawn toward these states of extreme arrangement by a particular kind of attraction which compels it, by the play of large numbers in which it is involved, to miss no opportunity of becoming more complex and thus achieving a higher degree of freedom.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

There have been a number of studies, some widely publicized, in which attention has been called to the large number of crackups of various degrees of severity among the clergy.

But the attempt to reduce living systems to such, that is to say formal reductionism, fails in part because the number of possible combinations or classifications is generally immensely larger than the number of degrees of freedom.

The large number of people who are involved in small groups, the depth of their involvement, the extent of their caring for each other, and even the degree to which they reach out to others in the wider community all suggest that the social fabric has not unraveled nearly to the extent that many critics have suggested.

But it also nourishes the achievement of a vastly larger number of voluntary associations, a higher degree of voluntary social cooperation, a broader base of love and gratitude for the commonwealth, and a more explicitly consensual national community than was known in ancient or medieval times.

A number of cities that contain large universities have found their governments influenced in varying degrees by university - based activists, many of them sixties» radicals now safely tenured faculty members.

Considering the large number of barbecue restaurants in the state (one book reviews 114 of them) and their enormous popularity, I see North Carolina barbecue as a symbol of resistance to mass market fast food, preserving the local «cue tradition while still having the same degree of convenience.

Out of all the previous generations, millennials have the largest number of college degrees.

Finally, a Finnish trial of universal home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the large number of effects measured in this study, replication of the findings is warranted.38

As we have explained elsewhere, the degree of competition in the system for the election of committee chairs and members is limited by a number of factors that inhibit the potentially transformative effect of the 2010 reforms — including the absence of frontbenchers from candidacy and electorate, the fact that candidates from opposing parties can not compete against one another, and the large number of uncontested chairs.

As teachers get pink slips, students are growing reluctant to pursue degrees in teaching, and education experts warn of a shortage of new teachers just as larger numbers of youngsters are entering elementary school.

parliament has set us strict rules on reducing the number of constituencies and bringing greater equality of electorate size between the new constituencies — these new rules mean that there is likely to be a large degree of change across the country.

In August, for example, the journal Science printed a study showing that increasingly large numbers of women have been earning doctoral degrees in virtually every scientific discipline for many years but are still not proportionally represented on university faculties.

It also employs a large number of technicians and support scientists with bachelor's and master's degrees in science, as well as undergraduate students.

Both the number and the proportion of women earning master's and doctoral degrees have risen steadily over the past 30 years; nevertheless, the discrepancy between women and men remains much larger than at the baccalaureate level.

Laboratory studies suggest that explosive development of ice crystals can occur in these conditions, at temperatures between -4 and -8 degrees Celsius, and this «rime - splintering» mechanism is often invoked to explain past observations of the rapid development of large numbers of ice crystals in cumuli.

One important step in understanding a physical system consisting of a large number of entities — for example, the atoms making up a magnetic material — is to identify among the many degrees of freedom of the system those that are most relevant for its physical behaviour.

They found that of the three networks of sage - grouse priority areas — the Washington network, the Bi-State Network comprising California and Nevada, and the Central network, which is the largest and includes parts of ten states — only the priority areas of the Central network had a high degree of connectivity, and even there connectivity was dominated by a small number of large, centrally located sites.

But the trend towards employing postdocs for positions traditionally given to single degree holders was not as strong as expected considering the large number of postdocs looking for jobs, says Paul Leonard of the CIA.

«If you trace a large number of parallel rays that strike a drop of water at various points on the drop, you will discover that a concentration of rays emerges at one specific angle, 42 degrees from the angle at which the light entered.

He added: «While firms complain about a shortage of qualified physicists and engineers on the labour market, a very large number of graduates in these fields work in the financial sector, where they only use their STEM skills to a very limited degree.

Also at stake are a number of high profile U.S. politicians who have staked, to a large degree, their upcoming reelection by campaigning on the claimed successes of the oil and gas companies operating within their state's shale formation.

I bet you there's a large number of people who have a college degree in something that they didn't even end up going into the workforce to do.

Large numbers of students in these advanced countries pursue the equivalent of the U.S. four - year bachelor's degree as well.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

Finally, WGU offers only a select number of high - demand degrees, including education, which allows it to gain the benefits of scale from the large number of students in each program.

Characterized as «anytime and anywhere learning,» online degree programs are currently attracting an increasingly large number of in - service teachers who lack opportunities to attend traditional face - to - face classes during specific time periods (Belanger & Jordan, 2000; Birnbaum, 2001; Mehlinger & Powers, 2002; Schulz, 2003; Zern, 2001).

We need a greater degree of support for the large number of special education students, English Language learners, and high poverty students.

This disconnect contributes to gaps in the workforce, as well as a «completion crisis» in postsecondary education, in which a large number of students enter postsecondary education but leave before obtaining a degree or credential.

Large numbers of PUC students have now successfully graduated high school with either an AA degree being awarded from a community college simultaneously or up to 50 college transferable college units or more already having been completed.

Advanced suspension technology, featuring a large number of light - alloy components, the torque steer - free Electric Power Steering, finely - balanced axle load distribution (50:50) and a torsionally stiff lightweight body ensure outstanding handling attributes and a high degree of agility and precision.

It is the most important two years degree program in which a large number of students are enrolled in various business schools around the globe.

Commercial coverages are typically larger in size, and do not share in the law of large numbers to the same degree that life and personal lines do.

In a society where advanced degrees are required in a large and increasing number of fields, restoration of the in - school interest subsidy would help increase the affordability of, and access to, graduate and professional education, while serving the aims of the federal aid system and benefitting society in the process.

Veterinary school requires that the student have completed a large number of college science and math courses, so most individuals seek a bachelor's degree that is related to their veterinary goals.

There are a large number of diseases which can produce third degree of AV block, in addition to disturbances in the potassium levels in the blood.

You can pick from the game's large selection of tracks and drivers, set the race options such as number of laps and degree of wear on the cars, and then hit the track.

Bits of story are delivered at very specific intervals, and the pace is carefully controlled to a large degree by a number of design decisions such as most dungeons being purposely linear.

There are many game design courses and there are large numbers of students graduating each year with A * degrees.

Since a large number of students are accomplished artists and earn a living, Transart's concept is ideal to work toward a degree and to expand one's artistic career in addition to having a job.»

We were fortunate in having opportunities to view an exceptionally large number of private collections in 1976: Mrs. Belle Shenkman's in May, combined with the Royal College of Art's degree show and the Howard Hodgkin show at the Serpentine Gallery.

She lists her degrees — a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2012 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2015 — and notes Columbia is «New York City's 12th largest employer and the number one cause of gentrification in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York.»

The interesting thing to me about the abuse heaped on Silver is that other aggregators came in with numbers that predicted an Obama victory by a larger margin or announced a larger degree of confidence in an Obama win.

Clearly, like Spence UK rightly said, the number of the degrees of freedom will be large.

Owing to the decreased number of spatial degrees of freedom in the earliest reconstructions (associated with significantly decreased calibrated variance before e.g. 1730 for annual - mean and cold - season, and about 1750 for warm - season pattern reconstructions) regional inferences are most meaningful in the mid 18th century and later, while the largest - scale averages are useful further back in time.

«Without a doubt, it is in the utmost interest of a large number of countries to pursue the 1.5 - degree C target, as ambitious or idealistic it may appear to date, and to see it anchored as a binding goal...» she wrote in an article for Climate Change Responses.

The number of North Pole freezing degree days was larger in 2008 than 2007.