Sentences with phrase «nonlinear relationship of»

Issues remain over the proper treatment of thermobaricity (nonlinear relationship of temperature, salinity and pressure to density), which means that in some isopycnic coordinate models the relative densities of, for example, Mediterranean and Antarctic Bottom Water masses are distorted.

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The kinds of nonlinear relationships needed to give multiple steady states are common in physical, chemical, biological, and social interactions.

Although the CIs cross zero for incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, premenopausal ovarian cancer, and premature deaths, the associated costs are statistically significant because of the nonlinear nature of these relationships.

A summary of the studies, released last month, warns of a nonlinear relationship between the strength of future storms and potential losses, which stand to grow even if the worst predictions about hurricanes aren't realized.

They converted those relationships into a coupled pair of nonlinear differential equations.

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

Such topics include time - resolved, coherent and non-linear Raman spectroscopies, nanostructure - based surface - enhanced and tip - enhanced Raman spectroscopies of molecules, resonance Raman to investigate the structure - function relationships and dynamics of biological molecules, linear and nonlinear Raman imaging and microscopy, biomedical applications of Raman, theoretical formalism and advances in quantum computational methodology of all forms of Raman scattering, Raman spectroscopy in archaeology and art, advances in remote Raman sensing and industrial applications, and Raman optical activity of all classes of chiral molecules.

Figure 5 shows this phenomenon of the classic hyperbolic paradigm, ie, the nonlinear inverse relationship between the 2 processes.

In contrast to a number of phenological studies showing nonlinear relationships between phenology and temperature, due largely to unmet chilling and photoperiod requirements, our findings demonstrate the relationship to be linear and to explain most of the variation in flowering.

Three Wives resembles All About Eve in its uses of a nonlinear narrative, a large intertwined cast, and compelling relationships defined by sharp dialogue.

A musical theater version of Blue Valentine, adapting writer / director Richard LaGravenese's The Last Five Years intimately explores a relationship from its grinning beginning through a devastating end, albeit with nonlinear retrospect.

Experiments can not faithfully represent a real world characterized by multivariate, nonlinear (and often reciprocal) causal relationships Moreover, few education researchers have much difficulty detailing contingencies likely to limit the effectiveness of a proposed reform that were never part of a study's design.

However, artists continue to find that the nonlinear structure of hypertext makes for productively fluid relationships among artists, characters, and audiences.

Her colorful and chaotic compositions are results of active and nonlinear processes of accumulating, arranging, reusing and reworking layers of visual material that expose / amplify the connections and relationships between works of art and their physical and social contexts.

(a condition which tends to be satisfied for a doubling of CO2, unless the temperature variation is sufficiently compressed toward L, analogous the cases discussed in 15.3 a with c larger than 1 except for the nonlinear relationship between the intensity or flux and the BT — and preexisting non-CO2 CDS will actually make it harder for ΔBTc0 to be larger relative to BTc0i),

The dependence of sliding on basal friction is a key unknown: nonlinear relationships favour higher contributions.

In the long term, forward, process - based models of proxy formation are needed for explicitly representing multivariate, nonlinear, and potentially nonstationary relationships between the proxy and climate systems [Evans et al., 2013].

One can think of there being a nonlinear but exact functional calibration curve relationship s14C = c (ti) between calendar year ti and a «standard» 14C age s14C, but with — for each calendar year — the actual (true, not measured) 14C age t14C having a slightly indeterminate relationship with ti.

I find myself a little surprised that use of a non-informative prior is not a standard practice for nonlinear parameter relationships.

However, the key point about radiocarbon dating is that the «calibration curve» relationship of «true» radiocarbon age t14C to the true calendar date ti of the event corresponding to the 14C determination is highly nonlinear.

Two types of nonlinear model — both one - sided GEV regressions where linear relationships are allowed to differ above / below a Niño3.4 index threshold — are considered.

Optimum Niño3.4 breakpoints are positive (> +0.4 °C) in the majority of the nonlinear models, confirming that ENSO / precipitation relationships differs between La Niña / neutral and El Niño winters.

And, through a transformation of state variables, you can reduce the expansion to a smaller set of ODEs, with a nonlinear relationship for the observable, with well separated resonant frequencies in the model.

In general, it is striking that climate relationships for dust fluxes spanning the globe and five orders of magnitude (Fig. 3D) appear to follow similar nonlinear relationships with greatly enhanced fluxes for extreme glacial temperatures.

Blowers et al. (10) have examined the GWPs of hydrofluoroethers (HFEs) and noted that their radiative forcing values increase with an increasing number of C ─ F bonds, but they assert a linear relationship between the radiative forcing and the number of C ─ F bonds, rather than the more complicated, nonlinear relationship found in our study.

Finally, to examine possible threshold and nonlinear relationships that might cut across current overweight and obese cut points, locally weighted regression techniques were used to generate lines of best fit for the relationships between BMI z scores and PedsQL total, summary, and subscale scores that differed significantly by weight category; P <.05 was considered significant.

IRT is a family of associated mathematical models that relate latent traits (ability) to the probability of responses to items in an assessment, and it has been widely used in health assessment.37, 38 It describes a nonlinear relationship between binary, ordinal or categorical responses and the latent trait (mental / behavioural problems in this study).

Manusov and Milstein (2005) refer to the ability to evoke change as the «transformational quality» of nonverbal cues, and such a conceptualization is consistent with Andersen's (2008) claim that nonverbal cues in relationships can be «capricious and nonlinear» (p. 207) as they play out in the complexities of real life.