Sentences with phrase «on human time»

«The permafrost carbon feedback is irreversible on human time scales,» says the report, Policy Implications of Warming Permafrost.

What I particularly like about the presentation is that he agrees there is a «consensus», but that this consensus isn't that weather will become «worse» in every respect imaginable, largely it'll just grow a little warmer (and slowly on human time scales, not least due to thermal inertia).

I think we still need to be open to the possibility that natural variability has played a role in the recent warming of the Arctic and that the summer ice could come back, but with each year that goes by without a return to the pre-2007 summertime Arctic climatology it seems a bit more likely that the remarkable change that we have witnessed will prove to be irreversible on a human time scale.

A failure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly within the next decade will have large adverse effects on the climate that will be essentially irreversible on human time scales.

And, on a human time - scale, the climatic changes during the recent Holocene are dominated by multi-decadal oscillations, as seen in power spectrum of the 20 yr rate - of - change of Greenland GISP2 ice - core δ18O: http://s1188.photobucket.com/user/skygram/media/graph2.jpg.html?o=1

Normally on human time - scales the climate in one place does not change too much, so we get used to it and mistakenly think that it will never change, after all it has not changed in our life - time.

But this still begs the meaning of abrupt on human time scales.

Soil that was formed on a geological time scale is being lost on a human time scale.

Their analysis is the first to determine which specific crops come from groundwater reservoirs that won't renew on human time - scales and where they are consumed.

The difference of more than two orders of magnitudes between sea level change on a human time scale and sea level change on a geological time scale is the result of several mechanisms affect sea level at different amplitudes and over different time periods.

The total size does not change much on human time scales, and our contribution to changes in the composition is tiny (less than 0.1 %).

La Nina / PDO is a perfect example where changes in ocean currents / ocean upwelling affect heat transfer between the phases of the system (and cool the air)-- on a human time scale.

The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.

On the human time scale, release of fossil CO2 is absorbed and stored in the ocean based on the partial pressure across the air water interface.

A failure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly within the next decade will have large adverse effects on the climate that will be essentially irreversible on human time scales.

«As Earth continues to warm, it may be approaching a critical climate threshold beyond which rapid and potentially permanent — at least on a human time - scale — changes not anticipated by climate models tuned to modern conditions may occur,» the report says.

On human time scales, that's a long time,» Duncan Brown, an astronomer at Syracuse University who's a member of the LIGO research collaboration, previously told Business Insider.

Not exact matches

Tests show that the human brain can only concentrate on something for so long at a time.

Outsourcing human resources functions can reduce your administrative workload and free up your time so you can focus on your business objectives.

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

As a result, this new technology saves you, the business owner, time and money on human resources.

I believe in the years to come, how we choose to spend our time and what we decide to work on is going to make us less mechanical, and more human.

The plan entails getting the first humans on the planet in 2023, then ferrying 100 people at a time in reusable rockets and running the flights with regular frequency.

Even if they manage to score an endorsement without paying for it, the time commitment is strain enough on valuable human resources.

The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.

Halverson and Morrow - Howell use research and psychological theory to hypothesize that as humans see their time on Earth running out, they seek to focus their energy on activities that are emotionally fulfilling.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.

«That being said, we are all human, and I think you'll see that most of the time I spend on weekends is focused on spending time with people.

This time, the conversation often turned to how the world will cope if the U.S. refuses to lead on issues from international trade to human rights to environmental policy.

«One Strange Rock» illustrates the idea that Earth has several frontiers humans have yet to conquer, and functions as a love letter of sorts to the planet at a time when humans have their sights set on redder pastures.

Some parents raising children in the smartphone and tablet era limit their kids» «screen time,» because they believe emerging research that shows that speech and language development hinges on everyday human interactions.

The big lure for companies that use them: more basic tasks can be automated, giving humans more time to interpret and act on more complex problems.

The reality is that all but a very select group of cities are struggling to figure out how to create jobs in a time when companies are less dependent on human beings and traditional industries face technology - and trade - driven disruption.

Drugs that worked in the microtumor worked 88 percent of the time on humans, and drugs that failed in the microtumor failed 100 percent of the time in the patient.

The problem, according to the post by Melissa Dahl, is that our instincts on how to best utilize our time off are often at odds with the psychology of what actually refreshes the human brain.

Thirty - three musical pieces, each 10 seconds long, a tutorial on how humans keep time, and when we will be listening for a response.

On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.

«Especially during tough economic periods, it's important to give people face time and basic human appreciation on a regular basis,» says Debra Condren, a business psychologist and founder of Manhattan Business Coaching in New York City.

Companies like TaskRabbit, which now has 35 employees, don't have the resources to bring on a full - time human resources staffer, so they need to get creative when they want to grow.

The company has moved from research on rats to the cusp of human trials in less than five years at a cost of less than $ 5 million, a process that can often take twice that long and cost many times more.

After all, Musk explained, he spends at least 90 % of his time on either the electric car company or SpaceX; 3 % to 5 % on Neuralink, a venture aiming to create interfaces between the human brain and machine - learning technology; 2 % on his new tunneling project called the Boring Company; and the remainder on OpenAI, a non-profit dedicated to artificial intelligence research.

But despite the widespread nature of this problem, many of these companies still rely on outdated pen and paper scheduling books which are both time - consuming to manage and vulnerable to human error.

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

Automation doesn't put HR professionals out of a job — it helps them to do their jobs better, enabling them to spend even more time on the human and strategic aspects of their work.

It's closer to an immersive film than a fully interactive simulation, but as Fortune reported when we first checked in on StriVR in 2015, research shows that seeing real humans in action helps the brain refine its timing and stay focused.

As Liz Ryan, founder and CEO of consulting firm The Human Workplace, writes in a post on LinkedIn, «How are you ever going to increase your earnings if every time you change jobs, you get a tiny raise over what they paid you at the last place?»

Then, through its human - trained algorithms, it makes split - second decisions on triaging patients and getting them where they need to go — prepping the surgical team ahead of time in cases like Rodney's.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.