Sentences with phrase «plausible scenario for»

A plausible scenario for a DAC could also be a fully automated speakers agency that acts on behalf of its keynote speakers.

This example is offered as only one reasonably plausible scenario for the next 10 years.

«Based on the likely location of ice deposits during this period of Mars» history, and the amount of meltwater that could have been produced by Lyot ejecta landing on an ice sheet, we think this is the most plausible scenario for the formation of these valleys» said David Weiss, a recent Ph.D. graduate from Brown and the study's lead author.

This is a «plausible scenario for the demise of Lucy,» says paleoanthropologist William Jungers of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who reviewed the paper for Nature.

The most plausible scenario for Ms. Pelosi to exit, Democrats believe, is one in which the party just barely wins control of the House.

The best plausible scenario for the Army Men is to finish third in the group and qualify for the Europa League.

If you are trying to suggest a plausible scenario for his version of the night's events, then I need only say that shooting someone through a door without any indication of who is actually behind that door and if they do, in fact, post a threat, is manslaughter at best.

How about the marvelous apocalyptic novels by Michael D. O'Brien (published by Ignatius), which, like LaHaye, purport to give plausible scenarios for end «time events?

The tale of the «cut hunter» is just a theory, but it's considered one of the most plausible scenarios for how a simian immunodeficiency virus jumped from chimps to humans and became HIV.

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«What is interesting is how plausible the world found this scenario, like just waiting for the shoe to drop,» said Christopher Balding, an associate professor of finance at the Peking University HSBC School of Business in Shenzhen, China.

Again, a plausible scenario of the future might well include a picture of a husband and wife shopping at the local «sperm and egg bank» for the desired characteristics of sex, IQ, temperament, and eye and hair color for the new baby they want.

Though his focus on the «flagship» universities is otherwise sensible, these omissions make it nearly impossible for the reader to imagine any plausible historical alternative to the scenario he presents.

that accomplishes just what I believe Dave Spadaro's job description calls for in this case: to provide an upbeat picture of Carson's rehab and outlook for the 2018 season with enough facts to make the optimistic scenario plausible.

One plausible resolution in this scenario would be Davis being financially compensated and the Saints and NFL pledging to revise workplace rules for cheerleaders and dancers.

Combined with the expectation of a slight incumbency boost — that same bump the Conservatives have been praying for months for now - a hung parliament with the Tories as the largest party seems a plausible scenario.

Contagion Steven Soderbergh skillfully deploys an all - star cast in this taut pandemic thriller — made extra-terrifying by a global outbreak scenario too plausible for comfort.

Rough estimates indicated that under the most optimistic scenarios, corresponding to the lowest plausible value for the Planck scale, black holes could be produced at the rate of one per second.

«It's very plausible,» says planetary physicist William McKinnon of Washington University in St. Louis, but he cautions that «it's early days» for judging the new scenario.

It also showed that the public cost of expanding public coverage for high - cost drugs — such as treatments for cancer and rheumatoid arthritis — would be modest and, under most plausible scenarios, would be offset by savings achieved in relatively common drug classes — like treatments for high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

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But the list of plausible ways for these «direct - collapse» scenarios to happen is short, and each option requires a perfect storm of circumstances.

Rutledge said of the four IPCC scenarios, he found the second RCP scenario, RCP 4.5, where carbon dioxide emissions flatten out around 2080, to be more plausible under a business - as - usual scenario for coal exploitation.

We discuss recent advances in CRISPR - Cas research that reveal elaborate molecular mechanisms and provide for a plausible scenario of CRISPR - Cas evolution.

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

Although the nature of the electromagnetic engine powering brown - dwarf aurorae is still to be determined, the scenario of the subcorotation of magnetospheric plasma on closed field lines, powering in turn magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling currents, has been suggested as a plausible model for this case (Schrijver 2009; Nichols et al. 2012).

The assessments in this chapter are based on the climate trends for which we had sufficient data and climate projections that represent plausible future scenarios, as described in the Climate chapter of this assessment (see Water chapter for snowpack trends and projections) and summarized in Table 4 - 1.

The analysis in the Forest chapter is based on the climate trends for which we had sufficient data and climate projections that represent plausible future scenarios, as described in the Climate chapter.

For Joyaux, that favors the traditional albeit fanboy - friendly Dunkirk, which is a plausible scenario.

It's really a no - win scenario for this remake (already infamous for its delays in production after deciding to change the invading country from China to North Korea because, well, China has over 40 times the people of North Korea, which, by the numbers, is more potential tickets to be sold worldwide and a far less plausible setup).

The fundamental forms of science assessment that result in learning addressed by the assessment component include the following student outcomes: (a) identifying, constructing, or distinguishing between of examples illustrating the presence or absence of a concept in everyday scenarios, (b) predicting or describing how to produce a specific outcome in everyday scenarios, based upon knowledge of concept relationship (s), and (c) explaining plausible reasons for an occurrence based upon prior knowledge of relevant concept relationships (i.e., abductive reasoning).

Daniel Winner, formerly responsible for Vodafone's multimedia division, predicted a multi-device future, with tablets as the principal reading device, but with smartphones occupying a supporting role: an entirely plausible scenario, and one which goes some way to answering those tedious questions as to whether anyone would ever really read the entirety of War and Peace on a smartphone — of course they won't, but if you're reading it already, you might well want to make a start on chapter XXI on your phone while you're waiting for a bus.

I knew some publishers could enrol their books in Kindle Unlimited, without providing any exclusivity to Amazon, so this scenario seemed plausible for a moment.

Take this more plausible scenario... A family buys a house for $ 165k, and puts 10 % down.

CDC tables are underestimating lifespans by about two years, so this scenario seems plausible especially in light of the low rate of maturities to date (which affirms that the CDC numbers are way off at least for the population of TLI policies).

Such plausible scenarios are supported by science, even if they haven't been proven by science... but science isn't in the business of proof or final absolute authority... and if that's what it were to take to be scientifically supported, then science would be useless for policy... but fortunately is not.

Thus, for economic policy purposes we ought to take a cost - weighted mean of the plausible scenarios, rather than the cost of the plausibility - weighted scenarios.

The most we can hope for, given the high uncertainties, is a range of plausible scenarios or projections for any given region.

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are increasing, and accelerating, and current proposals for reducing them present no plausible scenario in which emissions will actually peak and decline in anywhere near the time frame that is required to avoid what are generally considered «dangerous» levels of CO2 (although points 1 - 3 above suggest that the current levels are more dangerous than has been generally believed).

Scientific evidence indicates that the global climate is moving outside the bounds of past experience and can be expected to put new stresses on societies around the world, prompting examination of a variety of plausible scenarios through which climate change might pose or alter security risks for the United States.

On any plausible business as usual scenario, emissions will grow substantially, while for any plausible climate science model, we need to reduce emissions substantially if we are to avoid highly damaging climate change.

As the new Ceres report notes: «ExxonMobil does not analyze or quantify the effect on the company and on shareholder value of any plausible greenhouse gas regulatory scenarios; in fact, the company states that «it is impossible today to assess the potential implications for shareholder value from initiatives to address climate change,» in part because no governments have established definitive regulations for the 2008 - 2012 Kyoto period or for post-2012.

But Hansen et al. have laid out a plausible (good enough to pass a very public peer review), if not likely, scenario that would have major consequences for human society.

However, the main spark for some environmentalist soul - searching was David Wallace - Wells» sweeping New York magazine exploration of the plausible worst - case climate scenarios we could be facing and the deeply unsatisfactory response from much of the green community to this ear - splitting clarion call.

«It is hard to imagine any plausible scenarios where clearing tropical forests for agricultural biofuels could be carbon beneficial.»

Three plausible, relevant and challenging regional scenarios are presented, which provide a clear and enabling framework for decision making under deep uncertainty and a platform to guide the development and consideration of more and better -LSB-...]

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change model projections for 2100 exceed the full distribution of Holocene temperature under all plausible greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

The results for the Plausible Scenario show that through the advanced adoption of landfill methane, installed in over 70 percent of the world's landfills, the net first costs compared to the Reference Scenario would be US$ 1.82 billion in savings from 2020 - 50 and approximately US$ 67.57 billion in operational savings over the same period.

The UCS scientists and colleagues took the IPCC to task for issuing reports that present different future scenarios, while making no judgment on the relative likelihood of the varying projections, «implicitly treating all scenarios as equivalently plausible.»

In fact, the maximum temperature on Saturday would need to be below freezing across Victoria for the record not to be set, and there is no physically plausible scenario that could lead to that happening.

Drawdown's combined plant - rich diet and reduced food waste solutions mitigate 3.5, 5.0, and 6.5 gigatons per year by 2050 for the Plausible, Drawdown, and Optimum Scenarios, respectively.