Sentences with phrase «of equilibrium at»

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«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium, wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of productivity is — so how much workers can produce — and the increase in prices for the goods they produce,» he said at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

This only adds to the stress of black professional women who are often focused on maintaining equilibrium at home and in their communities.

It could have left families owning their homes at the same cost they would have had to pay in rent — the economic definition of equilibrium in property prices.

One of his views that always stuck with me on that subject, at least as a starting point for thinking about it, was that it was somewhat nonsensical to talk about what «equilibrium exchange rates» should be in a world of fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking.

Neoclassical economics, when looking at the labour market, plots its supply and demand curves, with all of their loaded and unrealistic assumptions, and finds an equilibrium wage and employment.

If it is a new era of faster growth and new investment opportunities, then the equilibrium real interest rate (the rate at which monetary policy neither boosts nor restrains the economy) would rise, so the central bank would be right to move interest rates towards that level.

Policy makers at the Fed seem to be thinking about this issue so loosely that they don't recognize that security markets operate under the constraints of equilibrium.

In order for this presumptive «wealth» to be spent, the overvalued securities have to be sold, but at that moment - Iron Law of Equilibrium - someone else has to buy them.

Not even a small fraction of this incremental demand would be available in the physical gold market at this time, given that it already operates at a supply / demand equilibrium.

It is also important to note that at the beginning of the current boom, the unemployment rate was around 6 per cent, suggesting that there was some excess capacity in the labour market at the outset of the adjustment to the mining investment boom (this is another point of departure from the theory presented in Section 2, which assumes that the economy is in equilibrium prior to the boom).

Jury is still out on secular stagnation — «At present, it looks likely that the equilibrium interest rate will remain low for the policy - relevant future, but there have in the past been both long swings and short - term changes in what can be thought of as equilibrium real rates»

And yes, actually the market reaction has really being quite muted and I don't know whether this partly reflects the new economic norm, you know the flattening of the Phillips Curve, disruptive change, lower inflation the Fed talked about at the Jackson Hole Summit last year, something called Our Star which is going to lower long - term rate of equilibrium interest rates.

Some studies show that people maintain a kind of moral equilibrium, meaning that giving money to charity may lead them to skimp on the tip at dinner, whereas partying too much may inspire a volunteer day at the soup kitchen.

And here we can see with complete clarity the importance of the idea, suggested above, that it is at its point or superstructure of spiritual concentration and not at its base or infrastructure of material arrangement that humanity must biologically establish its equilibrium.

Jay W. Forrester, professor of management at MIT whose sophisticated computer modeling of social and environmental issues led to the Club of Rome report on «The Limits of Growth,» sees the political and economic stresses in the world as caused by the necessary transition from worldwide growth to equilibrium.

e We are at the point where, if we are to restore complete equilibrium to the state of psychic disarray which the atomic shock has induced in us, we must sooner or later (sooner?)

At the same time, the balance of power concept sought to establish restraints by an equilibrium that prevented any one nation from being dominant and confined wars to relatively limited areas.

At a minimum, you can expect that a healthy body, emotional equilibrium, and an alive mind will give you one hell of a good start....

The presumed duration of the whole human development (a few million years) is so trifling compared with the extent of astronomic time, even at the lowest estimate, that the chance of a variation of the solar equilibrium while the anthropogenesis is in process may be ignored.

At any given temperature, there is a particular concentration of gaseous iodine that is in equilibrium with solid iodine.

At any real temperature (one that is above absolute zero) all the components of the crystal are in motion, but all remain near their equilibrium positions.9

And yet the Japanese will play to a draw with equanimity, content at the last simply to let go, so that all forces can reach equilibrium, and I do not believe their version of the game is necessarily any less elegant or profound than ours.

Whatever our assessment of that point of equilibrium may be, we can not lose sight of why Tocqueville thought a social state that at once recognized difference and similarity had such appeal.

The process of separation, transition, and reintegration occurs in terms of the disruption of a steady state at or near equilibrium, which brings matter increasingly far from equilibrium to a point at which a «decision» is made between alternative possibilities randomly presented by its environment, resulting in its reorganization in novel emergent form.

Just two years prior to the Roe decision, the philosopher John Rawls had deployed a concept in his A Theory of Justice called «reflective equilibrium,» which largely has to do with the epistemological dynamics of arriving at a new, more «considered» belief in light of beliefs already held.

And then, when the group's moderator was in the process of moving and we were struggling to gain equilibrium again if at all possible, the pastor handpicked a new teacher (to limit any «wandering theology»).

At moments of crisis, what Stephen Krasner calls punctuated equilibrium (Krasner, 1984), the entire people may be mobilized to civic action.

Anne Cooper of Equilibrium Master Roasters, will be holding a range of workshops at this year's Tea & Coffee World Cup.

Two, when I hit the bottom of the ramp and throw the jets on, one might not fire and I'd go cartwheeling off the ramp at such an incredible speed I don't think a man could keep his equilibrium.

Maybe he likes to upset the equilibrium of the team just to show how good he is at scraping through even though he puts the spanner in the works himself?

It sounds to me like that's exactly what happened, that he was in a smooth state of equilibrium when he got out of the diapers at night, but has now moved into the stage of disequilibrium and he just can't control his body like he used to.

The other, called «punctuated equilibrium,» dictates that evolution comes in rapid bursts after long stretches of nothing happening at all.

At the moment, the kelvin is defined in terms of the temperature at which ice, liquid water and water vapour can coexist in equilibrium — 273.16 K or 0.01 °At the moment, the kelvin is defined in terms of the temperature at which ice, liquid water and water vapour can coexist in equilibrium — 273.16 K or 0.01 °at which ice, liquid water and water vapour can coexist in equilibrium — 273.16 K or 0.01 °C.

Although filaments like fishing line are thin, they are orders of magnitude thicker than a soap film in equilibrium, meaning that the area of the soap film can change depending on the point at which the film contacts the loop.

In the new view, the brain looks like «a fluctuating mosaic of areas in a state of dynamic equilibrium,» says V. S. Ramachandran, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego.

«Wettability plays a key role in determining the equilibrium contact angles, contact angle hysteresis, and adhesion between a solid surface and liquid, as well as the retraction process of a liquid droplet impinged on the surface,» explained Doo Jin Lee, lead author, and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials and Engineering at Seoul National University.

«Until these kinds of innovative products or design methods or construction methods are in the code, they're not likely to be widespread,» says Eric Karsh, a principal engineer at Equilibrium Consulting in Vancouver, who has worked on other tall wooden buildings.

Rohling: Yeah, so what we see is that for a current level of forcing, so 1.6 watts per meter square net forcing, if we look in the relationship that we now recognize between sea - level change and climate forcing, we're are, more or less, looking at in the equilibrium state, natural equilibriumstate, where the planet would like to be that is similar to where we were 3.5 million years ago and that's where we're looking at sea level, you know, at least 15 meters, maybe 25 meters above the present.

About 35 % of added calcium ions are bound at pH = 9.00 (∼ 4 % carbonate ions in the buffer equilibrium), whereas ∼ 75 % of added calcium ions are bound at pH = 10.0 (∼ 25 % carbonate ions in the buffer equilibrium).

Setting each of the qubits in its own heat bath, each at a different temperature, throws the system out of equilibrium.

This increasing per capita energy supply has also hiked up Earth's carrying capacity — the number of people it can sustain at equilibrium — and allowed the population to grow at an ever - faster, or exponential, rate.

The researchers developed atmospheric models of the equilibrium chemistry for a brown dwarf at 250 degrees Kelvin and calculated the resulting spectra under different assumptions, including cloudy and cloud - free models.

After several years of teaching, they each went on to earn master's degrees (Bill at MIT; Larry at Stanford University), then Ph.D. s. Bill's work at MIT resulted in two publications and unpublished contributions toward the solution of a difficult experimental problem: the deceptively simple 2NO2 / N2O4 equilibrium, which was still under investigation 25 years after his graduation.

It represents the warming at the earth's surface that is expected after the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere doubles and the climate subsequently stabilizes (reaches equilibrium).

The AI has spent the equivalent of 15 million hours of computation honing its strategies, heading towards what game theorists call a Nash equilibrium: the point at which no further improvement is possible.

The machine had to go through an inordinate amount of trial and error to find the «ground state»: the crystal structure and electron configuration in which the energy was at a minimum and all the forces were in equilibrium.

Scientists currently define the kelvin and the degree Celsius using the temperature of the triple point of water — the point at which liquid water, solid ice and water vapour can all exist in equilibrium.

«This study supports the idea that punctuated equilibria exist but also suggests a limit to its overall effect on genetic change,» comments Don Waller, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The molecules coming to rest — at least on the macroscopic level — is the result of thermalization, or of reaching equilibrium after they have achieved uniform saturation within the system.