Sentences with phrase «much against the model»

Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

Not exact matches

Ebner suspects that the socio - emotional changes we experience with age haven't been studied much until now because it goes against our understanding of getting older as a «decline model.»

As much as his approach puts him at odds with conventional economic wisdom, Keller can also seem at odds with himself — a registered Republican who calls for more regulation of industry; a plastics maker who speaks out against U.S. reliance on fossil fuels; a nonunion employer whose wages and benefits are a model for the region.

It's simple — by going against the evaluation - driven, centralized model that much of the Western world uses.

At the time, OJK was against the idea of allowing on - balance - sheet model as it was deemed too similar to financing companies or banks who are bound to much stricter regulations.

Swapping from stripes to horizontal hoops for the first time, Barca look to be going very much against their tradition with this new look, as modeled in the picture below by the likes of Neymar and Luis Suarez in the Daily Mirror.

Ramsey - Well I do nt know much about his position and attitude.But he seems to have modelled his game against good strikers.

My model already normalized the performance of the lineups by opponent's possession and strength, but it doesn't mean that, for example, Rugani would perform as well when playing against much stronger opponents.

In retrospect, the decision to reject Facebook, Google and Twitter embeds sounds familiar, since the Clinton campaign had so much faith in its own decisions and data models that staff routinely ignored information that went against their assumptions:

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

Likewise, while models can not represent the climate system perfectly (thus the uncertainly in how much the Earth will warm for a given amount of emissions), climate simulations are checked and re-checked against real - world observations and are an established tool in understanding the atmosphere.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as more affluent citizens turn against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and soil.

The model also counters another argument against oceans: that the proposed shorelines are very irregular, varying in height by as much as a kilometer, when they should be level, like shorelines on Earth.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

In this model of Titan, however, the roots extending below the ice sheet are so much bigger than the bumps on the surface that their buoyancy is pushing them up against the ice sheet.

The computer model's estimates were checked against known demographics and voting habits, with much success.

The model of aflatoxin - dosing used in these studies, discussed in more detail below, was much more realistic than the model used in most of Campbell's studies, and thus the balance of the evidence suggests that adequate protein likely offers very powerful protection against cancer in someone who hasn't already developed the disease.

Nothing against the models, but I can picture things so much better when the dress is on a form.

«The models very much benefit from calming treatments, which is why we I products and techniques that work against inflammation, redness, and dehydration,» Shiman explained when I asked how she conjured up the most optimal routine for the models.

In the earlier film O'Neal was engaged in a battle of wits with an insurance investigator (Warren Oates), very much a model of his former, straight self, who has sworn to nail him; here he is up against a manic police detective (Bruce Dern) determined to do the same, and to break the law if he has to to get the job done.

The performance differences, however, while statistically significant, are much smaller than those found in the NAEP analysis, which supports the view that control variables used in the NAEP models are biased against private schools.

Charles Jennings of the 70:20:10 Institute, an expert in the 70:20:10 model, warns against assigning too much significance to these numbers.

Much of the criticism of the Common Core should be understood against the backdrop of an increasingly industrial model of education in the U.S., in which educating whole persons for lifelong growth is replaced by a view of education as just another industrial sector, on a par with any other sector.

As per Rothstein's testimony (again summarized by Pew) he cautioned «against placing too much weight on the «value - added models» now being used by many states to try to determine the impact of a teacher on student learning.

There's no reason to pit school models against each other when we have so much in common.

The top model is powered by a 311bhp V8 driving all four wheels, and Volvo claims much - improved dynamics over its predecessor after benchmarking the new car against the BMW 5 - series during development.

Hyundai expects the 202kW i30N «Performance» to land in Australia for less than $ 50,000, pitting it directly against VW's Golf GTI Performance despite delivering more power and almost as much as the Golf R, and more go - fast technology than both German models.

The Jeep Patriot has been around for a long time and it shows, not much has changed for 2017 and as a new model is on the horizon it struggles to make a strong case for itself against far more refined and capable opponents.

Line this up against a MINI Countryman, and it's a bargain, more powerful than the base MINI and much cheaper than any of the German - accented Britisher's turbo models.

This is the 2018 Buick Enclave Avenir now there two things you want to know about this one it's a completely redesigned version of the Buick Enclave which is a big deal because it's been on the road since 2007 without a major redesign so this is a big deal for the brand and the model itself has a lot more competition now it's a little bit bigger inside has a lot more technology so this should help it out when it's competing against the Honda Pilot Toyota Highlanders of the segment the avenir brand is also new and this is basically a higher trim level so you get different wheels of different grilles some things on the outside but most noticeable are the materials and colors you can get on the inside which I think give it a much richer look and feel and in this segment that's something that differentiates it from some of its competitors look for this to go on sale in the fall of 2017 the 2018 buick enclave does a great job of actually looking small on the outside while offering more interior space along with new technology to see all our latest videos subscribe

«Each Kia model is not only competing, but winning against well - established and well - known manufacturers who have been racing much longer, and racers and consumers alike have definitely taken notice.»

Currently, a model like the RS6 Allroad doesn't have that much to compete against, but Mercedes may be up to the task.

Test Drove all models of the»17 Accord including Hybrid, EXL and Touring and very much liked this car, and was oh so close to pulling the trigger on it, however, decided against it for one specific reason....

Its unibody construction and independent suspension might make it much more liveable in terms of driving comfort, but that also means that it doesn't have the four - wheel - drive capability of «real» pickups like the Chevrolet Colorado, Nissan Frontier or Toyota Tacoma, midsize models that it ostensibly competes against.

And, while it hasn't been officially planned or confirmed, interviews with Albert Beirmann — the Executive VP of Vehicle Testing and High - Performance Development for Kia — has said that there have been talks of electrification, a move that could pit the Stinger against the likes of the Tesla Model 3 or even the Model S, depending on how much electric muscle Kia can come up with.

Revived in 1997 after more than 50 years of absence, the Maybach brand didn't make much of an impact on the luxury market, with its S - Class - based models failing to impress against the Rolls - Royces and the Bentleys.

Another problem that I found was that while Kindle is looking to embrace the Serialized fiction model of yonder days long past, Smashwords is very much so against it.

Because so much of the audiobook market uses subscription models (where listeners purchase flat - rate credits that can be applied to any book on offer), it can be hard for shorter books to compete against full - length titles at the same price through those distributors.

This resulted in a lot of publicity and Celia realised that her modelling career gave her an ideal platform from which to campaign against the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, and other animal abuses including, much later, the live export of sheep, calves and pigs across Europe from the UK.

I have gone into the question of the availability of the nude model, a single aspect of the automatic, institutionally - maintained discrimination against women, in such detail simply to demonstrate both the universality of the discrimination against women and its consequences, as well as the institutional rather than individual nature of but one facet of the necessary preparation for achieving mere proficiency, much less greatness, in the realm of art during a long stretch of time.

It's critical to test the models against real data, which is much easier when we have global high - res coverage like OCO - 2.

His error, however, is in suggesting that this discovery (with limited understanding of its magnitude) somehow throws into doubt existing models of AGW (which are based on much more firmly established physical processes with trends in different climate forcings that are directly testable against the historical temperature record).

DeBuys finds that things will be fine for the 3.5 million people who currently depend on this water for daily use as long as (1) predictions of climate change models prove groundless, (2) the kind of droughts documented by tree rings and other records of past climate disruptions don't occur, and (3) the cities of central Arizona don't grow so much that they consume their agricultural buffer, their main protection against uncertain years ahead.

I know enough about time series with limited data to not read too much into periodicities, yet all when has to do is some simple comparisons on the residual temperature anomaly against noise models and one can see what role it plays.

«Uncertainty» about whether or not something (very costly), which we do (in the «uncertain» attempt to change our climate from an «uncertain» model - generated threat) will have «uncertain» unintended negative consequences, which could be much more severe than the «uncertain» threat we are attempting to mitigate against in the first place, seems to ba a reasonable justification for NOT doing this mitigating action.

In many fields of science there is much discussion about computer models, withthe tendence for the scientist to defend them against reality..

«Feedbacks» argument: Here Bart argues against low climate sensitivity estimates cited by NIPCC by simply stating that they are much lower than the estimates, which are» accepted» by IPCC or that can «satisfactorily» be modeled by the IPCC models.

It requires a model that provides evidence against such interpretations that give a much higher climate sensitivity.

Models are often tuned by running them backwards against several decades of observation, this is much too short a period to correlate outputs with observation when the controlling natural quasi-periodicities of most interest are in the centennial and especially in the key millennial range.

For a complete discussion of this see Essex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvhipLNeda4 Models are often tuned by running them backwards against several decades of observation, this is much too short a period to correlate outputs with observation when the controlling natural quasi-periodicities of most interest are in the centennial and especially in the key millennial range.