Sentences with phrase «operating at time scales»

This coastal melting has been operating at time scales of hundreds to thousands of years.

Not exact matches

Some pundits and companies have found the cost prohibitive for firms operating on a smaller scale than behemoth Google, but at least one tech company is willing to take the idea and run with it — big time.

At the same time, independents like BG Group, Devon Energy, and EOG Resources grew increasingly successful in exploration and unconventional plays, but they still struggled to scale operations without copying the bureaucratic operating models of the majors.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

Over time, the release of talent that has learned to operate at Shopify - like scale will hopefully form the next wave of great entrepreneurs.

They operate at scale and have achieved a level of performance few others can claim — a proven business model that is generating heady revenue growth and is yielding profitability today or at any such time of their choosing.

Although these innovations are operating on different time scales — MPLs are an immediate consideration, and blockchain - based supply chains could take a few years to mature — wholesale bankers need to get up to speed on each, at an equal degree of urgency.

«We are encouraging accelerated development to be the first to market and beat the competition while realizing economies of scale with development, marketing and operating costs at the same time.

In 2001, Belsky suggested that, «as more and more children were spending more and more time in non-maternal care arrangements, at younger and younger ages, even small effects, when experienced by many children, might have broad - scale implications for how classrooms, communities and even societies operate.»

Remaining facilities will be scaled back to the bare minimum or reorganized to operate at a lower cost by downgrading positions, shifting some jobs from full - time to part - time and introducing a new, para-professional job title that could perform certain tasks at less expense than other titles.

«Tracing and controlling electrons in solids will enable us to identify the most promising routes for novel ultrafast electronics and photonics operating on sub-fs time scales and at Petahertz clocking rates,» Goulielmakis said.

Musser: Right and even our best microscope or, in a sense, microscope, is the Large Hadron Collider — the one being built or one about to start up, really, now in Switzerland — and it can penetrate to, I think it is 10 - 19 to -20 meters; in effect it's a microscope down to those distances; and the plank scale, the scale at which strings seem to operate these other types of entities is another 1015 times smaller; it is 10 - 35 meters.

The efficiency of a traditional rooftop solar panel tends to break down by the time temperatures have reached 100 degrees Celsius, but larger - scale parabolics would be able to operate at much higher temperatures and retain the heat by using the cesium - coated semiconductors, Melosh said.

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program promotes transformational advances in science and technology for computationally and / or data intensive, large - scale research projects through large allocations of computer time and supporting resources at the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) centers, operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

While it is too soon to say whether they are effective over time or at scale, these diverse charter schools are revealing themselves to be popular, controversial, and — not surprisingly — complicated to operate.

They operate at a huge scale where they print and warehouse tens of thousands of books at a time at costs per unit that are well below what the average POD publisher pays.

At the time, there happened to be a veterinary clinic that operated on a sliding income scale, so you paid what you could afford, dependent on income.

Many contemporary approaches to conceptual art have become nearly synonymous with vastness, and at times just as romantic, in the sense that the experience of an idea is expected to operate on a scale of largeness, and infinitude.

They operated on all of the levels that I wanted them to — scale, the complexity of subject, the treatment [of paint and technique]-- all of those things seemed to come together in those two pictures in a way that I had always been struggling with before, but had hit right on the mark at that time.»

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

Going back to Ed Davies and Rasmus» replies at # 2: We know that there are feedbacks and system responses (e.g. ocean convection and advection of energy) that operate on various time scales.

Even without the «Distract - o-rama Culture» cited by Cliff, I think there's a more basic problem: climate is big and abstract, operating at a broader scale in space and time than weather.

I don't think anyone's arguing that black - swan variability is impossible, just that it's unlikely, and furthermore that it operates at shorter time scales than anthropogenic warming.

Simple to deploy and operate, WindHelm is at the same time capable of providing the comprehensive services of a large - scale wind farm operations, maintenance and optimization control center across the range of turbine brands.

We also obtain an empirical estimate of f = 2 - 4 for the fast feedback processes (water vapor, clouds, sea ice) operating on 10 - 100 year time scales by comparing the cooling due to slow or specified changes (land ice, CO2, vegetation) to the total cooling at 18K.

At this time, the cheapest generating system is based on coal and gas — with relatively small scale opportunistic generation using hydro, landfill gas, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc depending on resource availability, local construction and operating costs and local distribution costs that vary with technology.