Sentences with phrase «of a rare event»

The vast majority of dogs who fly do so with no problems, so don't let the fear of a rare event ruin your plans.

Thus Santa Barbara is one of those rare events where the timetable is believable.

The chance of a double six with a good pair of dice is one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, you need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

By the early 1980s, some geologists were stressing the importance of rare events like the enormous floods that had drained temporary lakes during the melting of the continental ice sheets.

«They are therefore a rare opportunity for brands to reach large global audiences and for consumers to be a part of a rare event.

Next, we move to a classical Bayes» theorem which helps us to derive a conditional probability of a rare event given... yep, another event that (hypothetically) will take place.

When politicians use alarmist rhetoric like «we are under siege» and it turns out that the threat of this «siege» is roughly the same as the threat of something we use as an icon of rare event, ie deadly lightning strike, then there is something gravely and outrageously wrong with that rhetoric.

He and the homebirth midwife host had a good chuckle that an increased rate of a rare event is still rare.

Gibson's planned departure raises the prospect of a rare event in New York politics: an open seat election in a highly competitive «purple» congressional district.

«It is difficult to estimate the probability of a rare event using a small population, but given that around 500 chimpanzees have been born in captivity in Japan, the probability of this autosomal trisomy in chimpanzees may be comparable to that of trisomy 21 in humans, which occurs in up to 1 in 600 births,» speculates Hirata.

A new study published today in Nature reports discovery of a rare event — that Earth's moon slowly moved from its original axis roughly 3 billion years ago.

The free phone app created by the Transit of Venus Project allows every observer with a telescope to record timings of this rare event.

Characterization of rare events in the microcosmos with the Ti: Sa systems now used in attosecond laboratories requires observation times of hours or even days, assuming they can be captured at all.

When we have multiple gravitational wave observatories in operation, such as when LIGO India is built next decade, we will be able to pinpoint the location of these rare events.

Sonic Mania is the product of a rare event; a company seeing how talented members of a classic...

Watch the Law and Order SVU episode Raw for a particularly wonderful instance of this rare event occurring).

At one point, audience members were informed it was one of the rare events where «it's OK to spend the night texting.»

The chance of a double six with a fair pair of dice is only one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, we need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» Emanuel says.

There are enough straws in the wind that we could still be about to witness one of the rarest events in British politics: the defenestration of a major party leader.

The ensembles need to be as big as possible to obtain robust estimates of the probability of rare events.

This might very well be one of those rare events... one never knows anything for sure.

Due to its unique approach, GAMEHOTEL has established itself as one of the rare events to successfully reach the general public, the media, and industry professionals alike.

«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» he said.