Sentences with phrase «little variation over»

This «airborne fraction» has shown little variation over this period.»

It's the latest research in more than a decade of work producing a climate «hockey stick» — graphs of global or regional temperatures showing relatively little variation over a millennium or more and then a sharp uptick since the middle of the twentieth century (the blade at the end of the stick).

The changes over geologic time are so much more massive, the REAL news is that we've seen rediculously little variation over the past 4000 (10,000?)

The average probability that some form of precipitation will be observed in any given day is only 2 %, with little variation over the month.

A plot of average overall vehicle fuel economy (CAFE) for new model year passenger cars, the required by law CAFE standard target fuel economy value (CAFE standard) for new model year passenger cars, and fuel prices, adjusted for inflation, shows that there has been little variation over the past 20 years.

Not exact matches

After assuring us Tuesday that China's economy — which is growing a little slower than the 7.5 % target and, is expected to slow further over the rest of the year — was nonetheless «operating within a reasonable range», in his Tianjin speech on Wednesday Premier Li suggested again that the China's 7.5 % growth target is not a hard target, and that there may be «variations» in China's growth relative to the target.

Interestingly, even the enormous short - run variation in U.S. inflation rates over time has had very little impact on that long - term dynamic.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

I have made many variations of zucchini fritters over the years, but prefer this recipe best which adds a little baking powder into the batter which I find keeps the fritters light and tender.

Over the years, the biscuit has become my basic biscuit / shortcake recipe and have applied all sorts of variations: half whole wheat pastry flour, added blueberries to the biscuit, molded them instead of dropped, when I don't have buttermilk, I've subbed yogurt thinned with a little milk.

This cake recipe works for both but I do prefer the different frosting variations since the whipped frosting is a bit thinner and seems to drizzle better over the individual bars which are a little thicker than the sheet cake.

Voters appear to make up their minds over long periods and with startlingly little variation.

The mammals, who diversified over the last 60 million years, have very little variation in the nutrient needs of their bodies.

Since gene sequencing technology became a key part of the medical and health sciences around a little over a decade ago, we now understand a lot more about the importance of genetic variations.

There were several variations in the early days of Book Links; in January 1992, a little over a year after our inaugural issue (November 1990), editor Barbara Elleman penned «Book Links Salutes «A Few Good Books» of 1991,» wherein she compiled a list of particularly effective and evocative picture books from the previous calendar year.

Again, the reason that the (Investment — Foreign Savings) term adds little variation to profits over the business cycle is that variations in gross domestic investment as a share of GDP are tightly and inversely correlated with variations in the current account deficit (a chart is presented in Taking Distortion at Face Value).

It would look good on billboards, and it certainly would get the attention of our World Cup visitors.And, at least for a little while last week, it looked like the sort of motto we could live up to.Or could we?Our collective opossum consciousness was raised when Doc Holliday and Johnny Magic, of radio station WXXL - FM (106.7), suggested turning one of the critters loose on a high - speed roadway as sort of a local variation on Groundhog Day.The idea went over like the proverbial foreign object in a punch bowl.

This is the major factor in me buying the game and although it offers the Fiend's Cauldron I don't want to be just playing the same level over and over again with little variation.

Overall a regular pinball game with a great game engine but little variation which means you will get tired of playing the same table over and over.

It's over in about twenty minutes, it doesn't look that stunning, and there is very little variation.

In order to unlock that arm you'll need to play Arms» single player modes repeatedly, over and over, seeing very little variation from one playthrough to the next.

Generally, absorption lines in the absence of any line - broadenning, would absorb over an infinitesimal portion of the spectrum, and saturate (ie reduce the photon travel distances to a scale where there is very little temperature variation) relatively more quickly.

Cochelin et al used a model of intermediate complexity to show that the orbital variations over the next 100,000 years are weak enough that even a little human CO2 remaining in the atmosphere is enough to keep the earth out of an ice age («Simulation of long - term future climate changes with the green McGill paleoclimate model: The next glacial inception»).

4 Tropical Wet Little variation in temperature over the year.

The result is that the position of Jupiter had little effect over Earth's Milankovitch cycles, or the variations in Earth's orbit and tilt that result in changes in climate.

It's good for establishing a long term trend (a nice robust number over a long enough period to be little affected by the variation), but not for determining if that longterm trend has ended.

report that ocean sediment cores containing an «undisturbed history of the past» have been analyzed for variations in PP over timescales that include the Little Ice Age... they determined that during the LIA the ocean off Peru had «low PP, diatoms and fish,» but that «at the end of the LIA, this condition changed abruptly to the low subsurface oxygen, eutrophic upwelling ecosystem that today produces more fish than any region of the world's oceans... write that «in coastal environments, PP, diatoms and fish and their associated predators are predicted to decrease and the microbial food web to increase under global warming scenarios,» citing Ito et al..

The study, published in Palgrave Communications, found that climate variations such as regional drought and global temperature played little part in the causation of conflict and displacement of people in East Africa over the last 50 years.

IF CO2 is the overarching factor, than any variation will have little and diminishing impact over time.

This suggests that colder winter temperatures over the NH continents during portions of the 15th through the 17th centuries (sometimes called the Little Ice Age) and warmer temperatures during the 12th through 14th centuries (the putative Medieval Warm Period) may have been influenced by long term solar variations.»

Little is known about normative variation in stress response over the adolescent transition.

With regard to the sample size required for valid application of this modeling approach, we are hesitant to speak of sufficient sample sizes, since a large number of observations with little score variation over time (as in our second empirical application) does not necessarily provide richer information than a smaller sample with more fluctuations.