Sentences with phrase «long lags between»

There can be a long lag between cutting down a forest, say, and losing the species that lived there.

Thus, there must have been a long lag between when this group branched off the modern human family tree, roughly 200,000 years ago, and when they left their genetic mark in the Altai Neanderthal, about 100,000 years ago, before themselves being lost to extinction.

Conclusions from the physical sciences, such as the rapidity with which emissions must be reduced to avoid obviously unacceptable consequences and the long lag between emissions and consequences, lead to implications in social sciences, including economics, law and ethics.

There were many times when there was a long lag between Saturday and Wednesday and I was impatient to share something.

Unfortunately, the longer the lag between when a student submits work and receives feedback, the less useful that feedback is for helping students learn.

If you have a long lag between twisting the throttle and getting power then it could be a few things.

You've noted that the energy industry spends 0.23 percent of revenues on research and development, compared to 20 percent for pharma and 15 percent for IT, and you blame the long lag between invention and impact in energy on those paltry investments.

Conclusions from the physical sciences, such as the rapidity with which emissions must be reduced to avoid obviously unacceptable consequences and the long lag between emissions and consequences, lead to implications in social sciences, including economics, law and ethics.

This would maybe explain the long lag between cause (shifting disposition of gravitational bodies), and effect (shifting currents of sub-surface matter).

And considering the long lag between actions that commit the planet to the long - term impacts of climatic change, assessments also need to pay more attention to the potentially dramatic consequences of actions taken (or postponed) today.

Not exact matches

There are often long lag times between the date of a seizure and its appearance in a report.

Blacktop politics are as old as the roads that led to Rome, but the time lag between a politician promising to improve public infrastructure and cutting the ribbon has grown longer — to years, and sometimes as much as a decade.

Specifically, they apply wavelet transforms to analyze the degree of co-movement (coherency) and lead - lag tendencies between changes in the Gold Bugs Index and gold futures price measured at both short and long intervals.

This distribution is difficult because what is beneficial to one group of people often is detrimental to another; because frequently those who receive the benefits are not those who pay the costs; and because there is a considerable time lag between the imposition of either costs or benefits and the realization of long - term effects.

Anthropologists have long believed that there was a protracted lag between when humans started domesticating cattle for food — about 9,000 years ago — and when they managed to harness the animals to plows and collect their milk.

The longest documented fisheries lag is eight years, documented both between the AMO and striped bass (Morone saxatilis) surveys (Bob Wood, personal communication) and between the NAO and Labrador snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) landings [30].

«The lag between when something is discovered in education and when it makes a difference is much too long,» he says.

Even after you find a literary agent and publisher, the time lag between their acceptance of your manuscript and the final publication of your book could easily be as long as two to three years.

Kindles (of the non-Fire variety) have always demonstrated a slight lag between user input and onscreen action and, given Amazon's emphasis on maintaining long battery life, that trend will likely continue until power management can be brought in line.

If a longer term moving average is employed (ie., 40 day moving average) the time lag between the transformation from an uptrend to a downtrend will be delayed long after the change of price trend is underway.

The long lag - times that often occur between the time a cat was likely exposed to coronavirus in a group situation and the time it shows illness can be quite long — months or even years and it is often a stress or trauma that appears to trigger full blown disease.

For example, the end lag after one of your special moves is often much more than what you would expect, which can often make it feel like you're standing defenseless for several seconds before you are able to act again, and when an opponent has caught you in a combo, putting up your guard can often be impossible despite what feel like very long pauses between attacks.

Exposure to these works — with which many Chinese artists might be familiar only in reproduction or online — is seen by Tinari as a means of fostering creative dialogue between the two artistic traditions and diminishing the «time - lag» that hindered domestic art for so long after the Reform and Opening Up period that followed Mao's death in 1976, traditionally taken as the «starting point» of contemporary Chinese art (Tinari concedes that this is a useful marker, but suggests that a new generation of art historians should «complicate» such simplified narratives).

This lag time between a CO2 increase and the manifested related weather change I find very frightening in that we are experiencing weather related events to the level of CO2 that occurred a long time ago with much lower CO2 levels.

Another issue with many of these indicators is that they have a long and unknown lag time between a temperature change and the indicator changing; e.g., a glacier might start melting decades before it's retreat is clearly measured, permafrost might have been warming up since the 1930's and just started visibly melting, etc..

It would require a much stronger relationship of temperature driving CO2 than occurred during the ice age — interglacial oscillations (and it is also important to remember that those changes occurred over much longer timescales too... which is the presumed reason why there is a several hundred year lag time between temperatures starting to rise or fall and CO2 starting to rise or fall).

We also know that there is a lag of a couple of months between the longest day of the year and the peak in surface air temperatures near coasts.

The vast majority of greenhouse gases (GHGs) exhibit relatively long atmospheric residence times, some upwards of a hundred years, creating a lag time between the release of atmospheric pollution and realization of the actual side - effects.

True, but I keep thinking the entire system is dominated by negative feedback and so really as a whole it is never quite in equilibrium, but is always chasing equilibrium, Taking a look over a long time period and quantifying the lag time between cause and effect, even when the cause is unknown might help to isolate what the cause might be.

Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..

This paper is in discussion at Climate of the Past and has some interesting things to say about Solar / Volcanic forcing difference between hemispheres and how some lags may be a tad longer than some might have suspected.

Our long - term analysis of MISR data finds no statistically significant correlations between cosmic rays and global albedo or globally averaged cloud height, and no evidence for any regional or lagged correlations.

If the sun stays quiet we should soon see the level of atmospheric CO2 stabilise and then begin a slow decline but since there is a long term lag of some 800 years shown in the historical record between temperature and CO2 amounts we may still be seeing CO2 consequences from the Mediaeval Warm Period which could skew the figures away from those expected from current solar variations.

There is always a long lag time between Science / Tech and the public awareness of what is and what isn't.

Like I said earlier, the problem is that the lag between emissions and effect is so long, that it occupies half an average lifespan, and people dismiss it or aren't worried about it since they are more worried about immediate survival.

Manfred says: «I would like to see above graphics extended over a longer time than just 1 year, because we have learned this year (with El Nino) that there are significant multi month lags between ground and satellite data sets.»

During my roughly week long testing of the 10.5 - inch iPad Pro, I didn't run into a single instance of lag or slowdown, whether I was multitasking, watching high definition video, or rapidly switching between resource intensive games.

I noticed no appreciable input lag or graphical distortion while playing either game — as long as I stayed within 15 feet and didn't let any major masonry get between me and my PlayStation 4.

There's a 2 - second lag between live events and when you'll see the image if you're watching live via the app or a browser, while automated recorded sections of footage can be opened and viewed as you please - although the inability to scroll through long clips from the History section with ease is frustrating and not very «Nest» in an app that ought to be more refined.

While games like Bug Village on iPhone receive regular updates, the Windows Phone versions often go much longer between updates (see Fruit Ninja, Pocket God, Doodle Jump, etc.) and thus lag behind the primary version in content.

Lagged OLS regression models assessed both short - term (1 1/2 years) and longer - term (5 1/2 years) prospective links between fathers» antisocial behaviors and children's behavior problems.