Sentences with phrase «not robust»

«This is not a robust recovery, but I feel confident that we are not sitting here lingering,» says Zelman, who predicts that home prices will end the year up about 1 percent.

We expect the investment sales market in 2017 to be a continuation of 2016, a healthy though not robust market with values for stabilized assets remaining strong and those with leasing and other challenges suffering.

However, these findings are not robust, as other studies have found no associations between EE status and experience or training, 12,21,27,28 or associations between age and other sociodemographic variables.12, 21,28

Results were not robust across informants.

Although the changes shown in table 2 are suggestive of a beneficial impact on other aspects of children's mental health, the evidence here is not robust.

Other adventurous applications of a more disruptive nature are simply not robust enough.

The criticism made by a few members circulates around the point that the protocol is yet not robust enough to handle multiple users at a time and also has some loopholes which can cause them to lose funds.

While the Huawei Watch 2 has some useful fitness features, they're still not robust enough for us to recommend this Android Wear watch.

In the earlier stages of a company, it's possible that policies are not rigorous enough and the guardrails on various APIs are not robust enough that this kind of information can just get out in the open without additional scrutiny, allowing firms to take advantage of those shortcomings.

Uninsured / underinsured motorist car insurance helps cover any costs incurred by an accident with another driver who has no liability coverage, or has coverage that is not robust enough to cover your costs.

These were not cases involving operators who were found to be subject to COPPR because their age - screening mechanism was not robust enough.

Negative experiences No java means that I can't use it like a laptop to connect to our VPN — there may be a Citrix based option to connect but I haven't figured it out yet Mixed ability to multi-task, you can open multiple sites with the browser, and it remembers where you were, but multi-tasking is not robust Lack of flash for viewing some media (like those on the Canadian Lawyer website)

Smedley says: «The current arrangements for regulating this vital sector of the UK economy and legal services sector are not robust enough.

I suspect that many firms do not have a formal risk management role within the firm because they don't believe there is much risk beyond compliance issues or that the role is not robust enough to warrant a special position within the firm.

As short as 6 weeks ago in a SLAW post on my most frequently used iPad apps I bemoaned the fact that there was not a robust word processor for the iPad.

«The Windows search tool is not robust enough,» Kosa continues.

You say: «A world that offers only mediated, interest - based resolution of civil disputes is a world where the rule of law is weaker, where rights are not robust and predictable.»

In short, a rate analysis done over too short a time period is not robust.

Even if it now turns out that the analysis was not robust, it was not that the analysis was not worth trying, and the work being done to re-examine these questions is a useful contributions to the literature — even if the conclusion is that this approach to the analysis is flawed.

In their guest commentary, they go over some of the technical details, and conclude, somewhat forcefully, that the LC09 results were not robust and do not provide any insight into the magnitudes of climate feedbacks.

Caldwell regarded a proposed emergent constraint as not credible if it lacks an identifiable physical mechanism; is not robust to change of model ensemble; or if its correlation with ECS is not due to its proposed physical mechanism.

And the author himself admits its «not robust.»

We also demonstrate that the methodologies used in Scafetta & West [2005, 2006a, b, 2007, 2008] are not robust to these same factors and that their error bars are significantly larger than reported.

Oddly enough, through all the denailosphere, there are not robust projections or even causes that meet standards of being workable.

So you are telling me that there are not robust discussion about these topics, including peer reviewed literature to understand them?

Well, doesn't this just show that the method is not robust?

However, considering the temporal resolution of our data set and the small number of records that cover this interval (Figure 1G), this difference is probably not robust.»

If the 20th century uptick was not robust, why was it included in the study?

The article nevertheless implied that the large sharp 20th century uptick was itself robust in the context of the article, since when a different procedure produced a different result, the difference was written off as not robust.

The models are not robust to provide any corroboration.

For the 100th time now, if you or Duarte or anyone else believes the results of Cook13 are not robust, then you should take the time to do what researcher do: Produce your own research testing the scientific consensus on climate change.

Both Mann and ourselves have done calculations showing that the MBH98 reconstruction is not robust to the presence or absence of bristlecone pines: this is not under dispute.

If the modern period is not robust, which seems obvious to me and likely was to the authors, then it seems that the two questions are how well were the proxies calibrated to modern instrumental temperatures, and to what extent could the modern period of warming have occurred during the proxy periods without showing up in the reconstruction?

Marcott et al. stated that a RegEM variant reconstruction eliminated 0.6 of the 0.7 C closing uptick, but that due to data limitations the difference between reconstructions was «probably not robust» (p. 1198).

But regardless, if Mann et al knew that the AD1400 network was not robust to the presence / absence of dendroclimatic indicators (which they did), then they had an obligation not to omit this fact (just as they had an obligation not to omit reporting the failed verification r2 statistics for networks prior to AD1820.)

In Marcott's original email to me, he had referred to the above paragraph in the article, arguing that the above sentence (which stated that the difference between reconstruction versions was not robust constituted a statement that the reconstruction itself in the modern portion was not statistically robust.

And if «not robust» and irrelevant to their conclusions, then why was the 20th century portion included at all?

But now they say the 20th century uptick is not robust, can not be considered representative of global temperature changes, and is not the basis of any of our conclusions.

Observed trends in the middle latitude jetstreams and annular modes are not robust across all months (IPCC, 2007c).

The latter one would have been more spectacular to look at, but form a performance standpoint, we felt that a glass - to - glass connection was not robust enough.

Dr. Mauri Pelto: This is a very short term data set, which means it is not robust.

But if the results were not robust to a range of suitable processing methods then your claims would quickly — and rightly — be refuted by other researchers.

The resolution wasn't improved; the spike was due to end effects («not robust»).

That would seem to be more relevant than this excessive focus on the universally agreed to be «not robust» proxy uptick.

The study showed that the current warming is unprecedented for 11500 years, but it really did not because of it's proxies» low resolution, but it did not have to because we know that the spikes did not exist (as there is no mechanism for that) in the past and the current warming, the spike, though a product of dubious procedures and «not robust» in the study (but this does not matter because we know from instrumental records that there's a spike), is unprecedented, because we know it is (and we know why and we already know that it's gonna continue)... So what exactly did this «excellent study» add to the knowledge when all that it was supposed to add, it did not but we already know all of this without the study.

However, that said, it is clear that surface temperatures are not a robust metric for climate change because they respond to ENSO events.

The latter argument is not robust in the way of the former as the effect of regional weather extremes of warming global average temperatures is highly uncertain.

6 - 1179 B 30:27 30:27 Mann and Jones use a 3 - series average of Tornetrask, Yamal and Taimyr, which is not robust to the Yamal substitution.

«20th century... not robust».

is not satisfactory, but a serious understatement, when the truth seems clearly be that it's an artifact rather than «not robust».