Sentences with phrase «physical process understanding»

physical process understanding and research, that will help ESRL meet critical NOAA objectives in climate and weather research.

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When confronting a crier, part of displaying professional empathy is to understand the profoundness of the process — that the tears are one component of a complex physical response to emotion.

It should be left in the thought processes which represent numbering and an understanding of the physical world around us (physics).

If we view the whole of physical reality as composed of throbs of nonconscious emotion, we can understand how, out of this, there emerged in an evolutionary process the highly complex subjectivity that constitutes our own experience.

Very well, Chad, be the former and lay out your explanation for how theistic evolution works, including the mechanisms by which God intervenes in the world of gene frequencies, the physical process by which God «orchestrates» the universe, and the observations that this understanding is based upon.

But it is also impossible, from Kim's viewpoint, to say that the mental event somehow initiated the causal path that led to the physical motion, and this for two reasons: The first is the usual problem of understanding how a nonphysical event could influence physical processes.

After examining the impact of such factors as physical setting, 48 size, tenures of staff, ages, roles, and religious intentions of the church and its members, Schaller tailors a planning process that recognizes the strength of the organization and encourages members to gain an understanding of their situation and alternative futures.

Recently, there has been considerable increase in scientific understanding of the spontaneous development of spatial and temporal organization (structure) in physical, chemical, and biological systems.3 In an earlier note (PS 11:35), I suggested that this progress in science raises points that may be helpful in dealing with a question of current importance for process philosophy.

If we interpret the unconscious in terms of Whitehead's doctrine of physical feeling, it is easy to understand why amplification of mental processes elicits strong feelings of relationship to the world around us as well as it reveals elements of the unconscious: both are elements of our physical inheritance.7

The medium has shown the necessity of letting go, trusting the process and understanding that there is more than what we can see in the physical realm.

An understanding of physical nutrition including the process of metabolism and the essential nutrients — carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water.

Ability to understand the physical, hormonal and psychological process of placental separation and subsequent birth of the placenta.

This is because the models are based on equations representing the best understanding of the physical processes that govern climate, and in 2001 they were not fine - tuned to reproduce the most recent data.

These peculiar galaxies are like a natural experiment played out on a cosmic scale and by cataloguing them, astronomers can better understand the physical processes that warp spiral and elliptical galaxies into new shapes.

We thus have to lean over our saucepans, and a bit further still, over the microscopic and molecular scales, to understand the numerous physical and chemical reactions and processes that lead to a meat cooked but tender, a puffed - up sponge cake, a soufflé full of air, a dish of crunchy vegetables.

To understand this evolutionary achievement requires an awareness of wood structure, some of the biological processes occurring within trees and the physical properties of water.

For years, the central objectives of climate change science were to document the phenomenon, understand the basic physical processes involved, and determine the degree to which human activity is at fault.

Sorting out these processes could contribute to our understanding of an intriguing aspect of physical conflict — that animal combatants become more similar biologically through combat.

A central aspect here was to understand the processes in terms of the physical phenomenon of ergodicity.

Thus by understanding the properties of glasses at ultra-high pressures, researchers can gain insights into the melts» properties in the deep Earth's interior, providing a clearer view into the physical processes which made the Earth and might be still occurring today.

Understanding how fluid affects particle flow might also help engineers develop better industrial processes that use powders to make food or drugs, the scientists report November 2 in Physical Review Letters.

The results are also being compared with findings from other fault zones, such as the San Andreas Fault in California, to better understand the physical processes before an earthquake.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

NGC 6240 is an important object to investigate in order to understand the physical and evolutional relationship among the processes of galaxy merger, the action of a starburst, and the phenomenon of an active galactic nucleus.

A better understanding of this effect would expand our knowledge of elementary physical processes.

There is no generally accepted picture for the formation of structure in the Universe, but it might have happened something like this: just after the big bang, when the Universe was perhaps the size of a grapefruit, small irregularities were generated by an exotic physical process that we do not fully understand.

Furthermore, so as to understand the chemical and physical nature of the shaping process, standard characterization techniques (spectroscopy and electron microscopy) have been employed, as well as new theoretical models and advanced computer simulation techniques.

Using climate models to understand the physical processes that were at play during the glacial periods, the team were able to show that a gradual rise in CO2 strengthened the trade winds across Central America by inducing an El Nino - like warming pattern with stronger warming in the East Pacific than the Western Atlantic.

«Steve can help us understand how the chemical and physical processes in Earth's upper atmosphere can sometimes have local noticeable effects in lower parts of Earth's atmosphere,» said MacDonald.

The aim of Joep van der Zanden's PhD research was to improve our understanding of the physical processes involved in sand transport in the surf and swash zones, in order to improve existing sand transport models and thus make beach nourishments more efficient.

«On the sun, these large scale energy releases are driven by small scale physical processes,» said Clarence Korendyke, principal investigator for VERIS at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. «So we need to look at and understand the tiny details of those processes.»

Roe and his U.W. co-author, atmospheric physicist Marcia Baker, argue in Science that, because of this inherent climate effect, certainty is a near impossibility, no matter what kind of improvements are made in understanding physical processes or the timescale of observations.

«Our findings therefore may have implications for understanding social processes apparent in settings such as boot camp - style physical training programs, team sports, executive challenges, and other physically challenging experiences shared with others.

Gwen Rudie studies the chemical and physical properties of very distant galaxies and their surrounding gas in order to further our understanding of the processes that are central to the formation and development of galaxies.

Research at EMSL, located on the PNNL campus, focuses principally on developing a molecular - level understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that underlie the nations» most critical environmental and energy challenges.

His citation reads: «for the effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical processes in the sea,»

Astronomers should devote all their available time and energy to exploring, discovering and understanding the physical principles and processes that govern celestial mechanics and planet formation.

Challenges for future studies of tropics - midlatitude interactions and teleconnections include a need for a better understanding of the physical processes involved.

Consideration will be given to individuals whose work demonstrates the candidate's effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea.

He brings an interdisciplinary and systematic approach through his extensive experimental knowledge and computational modeling with an understanding of biological, physiological, and physical processes.

«By understanding the fundamentals of cluster synthesis through thermochemistry, we may control and exploit these processes to create superior materials for a variety of energy - related applications,» said Dr. Grant Johnson, a PNNL physical chemist who worked on the study.

Diagnostic modelling can be used to improve the understanding of the processes controlling the behaviour of a particular ice stream, or to study the importance of one or more physical process in an ice sheet in general.

Our approach is focused on understanding the fundamental physical and chemical processes relevant to this problem over a range of temporal and spatial scales.

Understanding the role of these underlying physical factors — dehydration and phase separation — could enable scientists to engineer improved plants and pretreatment processes and ultimately bring down the costs of biofuel production.

This prize is given to recognize a person for the effective use of sound in the discovery and understanding of physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea.

As impact scientists, we tend to lag behind physical scientists in our understanding of this (as we are the next step along in the scientific process of drivers — impacts — adaptation): It's not complacency, more trying to understand exactly what the uncertainties are, how big they could be, and then understanding their interactions.

This work is part of PNNL's work to develop tools and understanding required to control chemical and physical processes in complex multiphase environments.

This work supports PNNL's mission to strengthen U.S. scientific foundations for innovation by developing tools and understanding required to control chemical and physical processes in complex multiphase environments.

To understand the physical processes driving their star formation, we must spatially resolve the star formation and gas dynamics within the ISM of high - redshift galaxies on scales of individual star forming regions.

Our group aims to understand the role that information plays in the process of learning about and manipulating our physical environment.