Sentences with phrase «on bifurcations»

The above is a lecture Professor Lenton on bifurcations in the climate system, and clues which suggest one is approaching, a trajectory which hopefully can be reversed.

My selection of works represents artists pushing new formats for artmaking, and speculates on the bifurcation of scarcity and authenticity in contemporary art.»

On the bifurcation of our two initiatives, we believe they have always existed in complementarity to each other.

Not exact matches

«Element Group founder Stan Miroshnik, whose investment bank is focused on digital token crowd sales and ICOs, calls it the somewhat inevitable bifurcation between «tier one issuers and everybody else,» wherein the «big, quality offerings are drawing the majority of capital.»

Ultimately, we see a bifurcation of strategies to mitigate an increasingly protectionist trade agenda in the U.S. — the China approach, which focuses on developing countries and developing new markets through the BRI, and the «rest» that seek to participate in open intra - and inter-regional trade agreements that are a mixture of 21st century trade rules that leave the doors open for U.S. participation, even if that means renegotiation or modification of agreed - upon rules.

For Whitehead, on the contrary, bifurcations, divergences, incompossibilities, and discord belong to the same motley world that can no longer be included in expressive units, but only made or undone according to prehensive units and variable configurations.

Hittinger admirably illustrates how the bifurcation of two Thomisms» one focusing on the metaphysics of the Prima Pars of the Summa Theologiae and the second concentrating on the social and political questions of the Secunda Pars» is intellectually untenable.

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

Whereas in the»70s my «public image» was marked by scholarly bifurcation — among scholars I was known as an «expert» on the Apocalypse and among women as an emerging feminist theologian — this perception has changed dramatically in the»80s.

In my judgment the grouping together of Whitehead's Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (PNK) and The Concept of Nature (CN) by such scholars as Victor Lowe and Nathaniel Lawrence, coupled with the dramatic impact of Whitehead's attack on theories of the bifurcation of nature in the later of the two books, has almost...

His hypothesis is that slow development and often even cultural decay are the fruits of this bifurcation, whereas the inadvertent wedding of these two disparate functions of reason during the last century and a half have produced an unprecedented cultural advance: imagination now focused on the improvement of technique; technique guided, illuminated, and immeasurably enhanced through experiment with imaginative alternatives to the given and the known (FR 42).

11The latter comments occur in the context of the chapter on the «bifurcation of nature, but it is clear that Whitehead (at this point in time) holds the idealists responsible for this bifurcation, along with reductionists like Newton and dualists like Locke, because all bog down on the alleged difference, and the subsequent question of the relation between, nature and mind, rather than developing a pure concept of nature in itself.

This baffled me, because I did not know what Whitehead meant by «bifurcation,» but I deferred this point, because Whitehead then goes on to say what he is aiming for:

I am inclined to offer an interpretation that, at this point in the discussion, can be nothing more than a suggestion: Whitehead is leaning toward a form of naïve realism a leaning that will culminate in his famous attack on theories of the bifurcation of nature.

In my judgment the grouping together of Whitehead's Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (PNK) and The Concept of Nature (CN) by such scholars as Victor Lowe and Nathaniel Lawrence, coupled with the dramatic impact of Whitehead's attack on theories of the bifurcation of nature in the later of the two books, has almost completely obscured the epistemological subtlety that is to be found in the Enquiry, by one year the earlier of the two books.

Neither his relational conception of space, which is basic for understanding his concept of extensive abstraction and which gave his theory of relativity its unique character, nor the problem of the bifurcation of nature, with its differentiation between the materialistic and personalistic outlook on the world, seem to be clearly in Whitehead's mind at this time.

Nearly three - quarters of the 44 who opposed the bill either are on House Republicans» target list or are running for statewide office in a conservative leaning state in 2010 — a classic bifurcation between those who are on the ballot in a midterm election and a president who doesn't stand in front of voters for another three plus years.

Running re-enactions of real cases, she found that bifurcation better enabled the jury to focus on the correct information, so that they gave a fairer judgement overall.

These bifurcations cause vortex - antivortex pairs to move together along the «magnetic roads» either in one orientation or the opposite, depending on their polarities.

Lastly, this may be the most important piece of information on the page: The Unified Theory of Heart Disease, proposed by Linus Pauling and Mathias Rath suggests that subclinical vitamin C deficiency (scurvy), Lipoprotein small (a) and mechanical stress at key arterial sites (such as bifurcations) are the major players in causation of heart disease.

Debts of style and sensibility to both Hou Hsiao - hsien (leisurely pans on slowly developing interior scenes; long camera distance) and Apichatpong Weeresethakul (dream narration and unceremonious narrative bifurcation) are apparent.

The activity introduces pupils to the language of fractals: bifurcation; initiator; generator; self - similarity and so on.

I am planning to invest 10000 per month through SIP route in below mentioned portfolios.Please advise me whether the below bifurcation is suitable for my profile on a long term prospective.My age is 26, unmarried and as of now i do not have any liability.

Francis Alÿs uses public actions, video, painting, installation, and drawing to articulate the bifurcations and boundaries imposed by politics and culture on society.

Although I would disagree with you on Lenton et al 2008 — whose paper includes a reasonable listing of feedbacks potentially leading to chaotic bifurcation but with a content that is very much only in principle.

Fred, I'm must looking at Held's blog on radiative convective equilibrium and it looks like to me that they «discovered» that convection is inormously conplex with bifurcation points and possibly nonuniquess:

A concern with «large» climate changes (i.e., on the scale of snowball Earths or runaway greenhouses) is that there's bifurcation (loosely, tipping points) in the system.

«I was there to give a speech on the application of probabilistic computronics to the identification and quantification of phase transitions and bifurcations in a chaotic object, as one does....»

We study this low - frequency variability of the winddriven, double - gyre circulation in mid-latitude ocean basins, via the bifurcation sequence that leads from steady states through periodic solutions and on to the chaotic, irregular flows documented in the observations.

We could, of course, hit some bifurcation in the system where we lose all the summer Arctic sea ice or the Amazon forest, which is bad enough, and could possibly transition the climate to a different «solution» on a hysteresis diagram... this to me would represent more of a step-wise jump (akin to a larger bifurcation that you get in a snowball Earth as you gradually reduce CO2 or the solar constant); but ultimately these represent different behavior than «the interannual variability of the large scale dynamics will increase» or that for some reason the climate should be susceptible to more «flip flops» (as in the glacial Heinrich / D - O events), of which I am aware of no observational or theoretical support.

Sensitivity is more correctly sensitivity to initial conditions and can indeed be negative or positive at different times depending on the distance to a bifurcation point, the direction of approach and the nature of the resultant instability.

In discussions of global change, the term tipping point has been used to describe a variety of phenomena, including the appearance of a positive feedback, reversible phase transitions, phase transitions with hysteresis effects, and bifurcations where the transition is smooth but the future path of the system depends on the noise at a critical point.

Previous reviews (6 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 10) have defined «abrupt climate change» as occurring «when the climate system is forced to cross some threshold, triggering a transition to a new state at a rate determined by the climate system itself and faster than the cause» (8), which is a case of bifurcation (i.e., one that focuses on equilibrium properties, implying some degree of irreversibility).

Some single - column model studies reveal bifurcation in the transition to seasonally ice - free conditions (Abbot et al., 2011; Merryfield et al., 2008; Flato and Brown, 1996) but others do not, due to the stabilizing effects of ice thickness on ice growth (Eisenman and Wettlaufer, 2009).

This hypothesis is based on the network synchronization ideas of Tsonis et al. and bifurcation analysis (e.g. Livina and Lenton).

The other paper on noisy bifurcation — noisy being another term for Dragon King — I linked to suggests that we may be able to predict tipping points by looking at slowing down and Dragon Kings in particular.

Interactive comment on «A recent bifurcation in Arctic sea - ice cover» by V. N. Livina and T. M. Lenton.

Concerning the climate processes I have not seen any convincing evidence on real bifurcations or knowledge on dynamics that would lead to bifurcations.

Elaboration on the arctic sea ice «bifurcation» blunder added here: https://judithcurry.com/2012/09/16/reflections-on-the-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-part-i/#comment-241199

It is a balance hinged on a tipping point, a catastrophe in the sense of Rene Thom, a chaotic bifurcation or a phase transition.

As for bifurcation, I look forward to a meeting in a few weeks» time when members of the teams working on both projects next gather together.

Bifurcation can be a useful method of litigating claims where a decision on one portion of the case may resolve with finality other contested issues without requiring trial on those issues.

Not every case is suited to bifurcation and the parties may have different perspectives on whether bifurcation is appropriate in a given case.

While the Courts recognize that many intellectual property cases are bifurcated, the onus is still on the party seeking bifurcation to show it is appropriate in a particular case, given that the default is for all issues to be resolved at one trial.

Some recent decisions suggest that on contested motions seeking bifurcation, the court will look critically at contested requests to bifurcate, often recognizing the additional time required for final resolution and the right of the plaintiff to get all issues resolved.

The learned arbitrator has recorded a finding that no prejudice was caused to the respondent on account of bifurcation of issue of liability and quantification.

Merely because the learned arbitrator had passed an order of bifurcation it can not lead to inference of bias on the part of the learned arbitrator against the respondent.

It means unjustifiable bifurcation of the service for New York alone as well as unjustifiable expense for the opportunity to compete on a small market.

You may have one Judgment terminating your marital status (usually referred to as a «bifurcation»), and a separate Judgment on reserved issues (i.e. support, parenting and division of property).

«We believe the bifurcation will continue to grow with new, consumer - oriented short - stay properties, such as those transitional care centers we currently develop and operate, dominating the post-acute market, but there will always be the need for longer - term care on a residential basis although more on the assisted - living side than in current long - term care, skilled properties.