Sentences with phrase «orders of magnitude when»

Also virus abundance increased by several orders of magnitude when corals were exposed to temperature, nutrient, and pH stress.

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This, then, is why I think Facebook is underrated: a company's potential is first and foremost measured by its market, and Facebook's potential market is, when you consider both sheer numbers and time spent, an order of magnitude greater than the PC - based Internet market ever was.

This type of volatility will be an order of magnitude larger in the cryptocurrency world when futures and other derivatives expire or need to be rebalanced.

The point is that we may judge according to it whether we ought to achieve a better consequence by breaking a promise, by asking whether we would regard it as desirable that regularly when the scales are balanced in a certain way all persons should break a promise of a certain solemnity in order to achieve an advantage of a certain magnitude.

But when physicists use the equations of quantum theory to calculate the amount of that virtual energy, they get a ridiculously huge number — about 120 orders of magnitude too large.

Producing a cloak to hide objects from visible light, which has a wavelength several orders of magnitude smaller than microwaves — let alone cloaking objects when viewed from any direction — seemed a more remote possibility.

«There were previous scientific attempts to turn off the links when there is no data, however the timescale to switch on and off the link was orders of magnitude longer than that of an individual data packet.

The Large Hadron Collider will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator when it goes online next year, and yet it is many orders of magnitude too weak to probe directly the microrealm where strings supposedly dwell.

Although it's impossible to pinpoint when such a quake might occur, Floyd says this one could be powerful — on the order of a magnitude 7 temblor, or stronger.

When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastropWhen it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastropwhen combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).

In any case, «The classical theory of nucleation has turned out to be off - target by several orders of magnitude in some systems when it comes [to] quantitative predictions.»

«When we exposed them to fresh nutrients and antibiotics at the same time, we were able to reduce their numbers by an order of magnitude.»

When the birds weren't vaccinated, infection with highly virulent strains killed them so fast that they shed very little virus — orders of magnitude less than when they were infected with less virulent straWhen the birds weren't vaccinated, infection with highly virulent strains killed them so fast that they shed very little virus — orders of magnitude less than when they were infected with less virulent strawhen they were infected with less virulent strains.

When he and his colleagues at Scripps and Brigham Young University ran a methane reaction with thallium — a main group metal — alkanes pushed the solvent molecules aside 22 orders of magnitude faster than when the reaction was run with iridium, reducing the overall energy required by about one - third, they report online today in ScieWhen he and his colleagues at Scripps and Brigham Young University ran a methane reaction with thallium — a main group metal — alkanes pushed the solvent molecules aside 22 orders of magnitude faster than when the reaction was run with iridium, reducing the overall energy required by about one - third, they report online today in Sciewhen the reaction was run with iridium, reducing the overall energy required by about one - third, they report online today in Science.

But when we calculate its theoretical value, the answer is about 120 orders of magnitude larger than the observed one.

One can't stop bad people from doing bad things, but when bad things happen to tall buildings, the situation quickly becomes desperate — for the occupants, for firefighters, and for adjacent buildings — in ways that are an order of magnitude worse than in low buildings.

And estimates of species numbers can vary by two to three orders of magnitude, even when applied to the same sample, because different software packages are being used to analyse the amplified genes7.

from the University of Washington reported a surprising finding - when delivered via AAV infection, gene targeting vectors with relatively short (1 kb) homology arms underwent homologous recombination at a frequency three orders of magnitude higher than identical targeting vectors delivered through transfection of naked DNA

In that year, Russell and Hirata from the University of Washington reported a surprising finding - when delivered via AAV infection, gene targeting vectors with relatively short (1 kb) homology arms underwent homologous recombination at a frequency three orders of magnitude higher than identical targeting vectors delivered through transfection of naked DNA.

Can tumors be detected when they are two to three orders of magnitude smaller than those currently detected with in vivo imaging modalities?

When I was an undergrad I learned about how much energy the brain used and how much computation it did with that energy, and it was orders and orders of magnitude — six orders of magnitude or more — more efficient than a computer.

The situation further deteriorates for trapped metal nanoparticles when the incident light overlaps with a plasmonic resonance, whereby electrons move in response to light collectively, causing enhancements to local fields by several orders of magnitude.

Wehner pointed out that while humans can (and do) perform well in identifying and tracking extreme weather events in real time, they simply can not keep up when climate models run two to five orders of magnitude faster.

Predictions match existing tools when run in localized mode, but the program is an order of magnitude faster and requires an order of magnitude less memory.

Conclusion «This study showed that whereas no major between - group differences were observed over the first 12 weeks, the strength and endurance training order and time - of - day of the training may be important factors to optimize the magnitude of adaptations to combined strength and endurance training, when the training period is extended beyond 12 weeks», the Fins concluded.

But let's transform this into an evolutionary question: the fact that humans have a hybrid digestive system and hybrid metabolic engine does not necessarily mean that our fuel intake and usage needs to match the ratios present in the environment, particularly when, even in a lean person, fat storage dwarfs carbohydrate storage by an order of magnitude.

Dropping and disassembling the transmission to get at these parts when they start to slip is orders of magnitude more costly in both time and money than a break job.

A recent survey that showed more people prefer print books over ebooks will be taken as gospel, when Amazon knows from their data that ebook readers read an order of magnitude MORE books than print book shoppers.

That means there's an order of magnitude more Financial Simplicity Carnival posts than there were when Nick launched it!

When it comes down to it though, Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins» biggest issue is just how many compromises it has to make in order to run on the Nintendo 3DS, which leaves me thinking if an open world game of this magnitude was really an appropriate fit for the console.

From the menu screens to playing games, the visuals pop with a clarity that if you are used to 3DS or Wii U visuals, are an order of magnitude more impressive and really hammer home that this really is a super powerful gaming system when taken handheld.

I find it particulary «alarming», that when a neccesary correction is done, most of the result (the confidence drops more than two orders of magnitude) disapears.

Cleary, the focus on controlling population in countries where per capita emissions are minute is unreasonable, when per capita emissions in the developed world are larger (by orders of magnitude!)

When playing computer games, much of the graphics are simulated because more realistic ray - tracing algorithms takes many orders of magnitude more computing time.

When the excitation frequency increases to the point where the physical size of the circuit has the same order of magnitude as the associated wavelength, wave propagation must be taken into account.

This compounds to an order of magnitude growth in population since 1700, which further compounds to more than two orders of magnitude of atmospheric loading from byproducts of energy consumption when taking into account that per capita energy consumption increased by more than an order of magnitude over those three centuries.

A few years ago, Pierce and Adams modeled the potential cloud forming effect of cosmic rays and found it wanting by more than an order of magnitude, even when the most favourable assumptions possible were made.

In justice, Marcott has tried to corrent the most egregious press coverage, for example at Discover blogs where he said exactly what I have said about it: It is impossible to speak of relative rates of change when comparing two records whose time resolution differs by 5 orders of magnitude.

As we now that there has been a period of 18 years with no surface warming when atmospheric CO2 was increasing for each and every year we know that the majority of the warming in the last 50 years was not due to the increase in atmospheric CO2 and the IPCC general circulation model calculated warming due to CO2 is orders of magnitude too high.

When the non-radiative effects are orders of magnitude more effective than the radiative ones, and we see this clearly on the surface of the sun (or in a boiling tea kettle), does this not scream net - negative feedback in the climate system?

It's hard when the short - term variability is nearly an order of magnitude greater than the long - term trend.

When I had the chore of grading assignments and exams in the past, I easily spent an order of magnitude more time trying to point out to the poor student where his derivation went south, as opposed to the student that did it right.

Russell Given the three order of magnitude disparity between fossil fuel and carbonate reservoirs, lists of geophysically driven CO2 excursions are far from compelling when it comes to predicting anthropocene outcomes.

BBD Given the three order of magnitude disparity between fossil fuel and carbonate reservoirs, lists of geophysically driven CO2 excursions are far from compelling when it comes to predicting anthropocene outcomes.

The warming proponents have falsely assumed that the observed changes are human induced when in fact they are the result of natural changes an order of magnitude or two greater.

You are looking at fractions of a degree in the global average, when the local variability is orders of magnitude higher.

Further, when mixing occurs, the first mixing will be between the micron layer and the mm layer — but we already know a) that in fact the mm layer is actually cooler than the water below it; and b) that the heat capacity of a layer measured in microns is three orders of magnitude less than that of one measured in millimeters.

So the carbon cycle sensitivity to temperature should be more relevant than the climate sensitivity to CO2... or maybe not after all, considering that the ppm / C ratio around 280 ppm seems to be an order of magnitude higher when CO2 is a forcing rather than a feedback.

However, it is pretty much impossible, because it is equivalent to the latent heat released when so much water vapor gets condensed, that it would raise global sea level by 37 mm, a swing almost an order of magnitude larger than observed in annual sea level changes.

(And when you make some simple calculations you will see that this ridiculous idea is of the same order of magnitude as Wind Power!)