Sentences with phrase «rapidly changing period»

Dumas was an intriguing character who lived during a rapidly changing period in history, and Reiss's prose vividly conveys both the man and the time.

Polaris may be experiencing a rare and rapidly changing period in its evolution, says astronomer David Turner of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Thomas Friedman says we're in a period of rapidly accelerating change and he suggests we adopt a «Mother Nature» strategy of resilience.

Large price spikes immediately before and after mid-day periods when both utility - scale and distributed solar generation reaches its peak level suggest a need for dispatchable generation sources to help cover ramping periods, when the need for power from the grid to meet load is rapidly changing.

The latter theory suggests that biological forms are surprisingly stable over long periods of time, and mutate suddenly and quite rapidly in response to equally sudden and dramatic environmental changes.

No other 9 months period will change a healthy woman's body so rapidly and usually to the worse compared to the ideal body appearance according to our culture.

I often say about the «Baby Blues» that you may find yourself crying over a commercial on television in this time period, primarily because of rapidly changing hormones plus exhaustion and general emotional overwhelm.

Babies rapidly change; they go through difficult periods; they get sick a lot.

Methane is a key greenhouse gas; the Arctic is a key region for natural emissions of methane; high summer and autumn are key periods when emissions can peak and change rapidly.

«We built a system to observe our changing environment during the period it's been changing rapidly,» said Mote.

Matt Cosad Climate change is happening rapidly, but it is arrogant of humans to believe that this period in earth's history is apocalyptic https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7276/abs/nature08649.html

The technique works by presenting a volunteer's left eye with a stimulus — a mathematical sum, say — for a short period of time, while bombarding the right eye with rapidly changing colourful shapes.

Several surveys have suggested that highly diverse plant communities are more resistant than species - poor ones, changing less from their normal state during periods of drought — and recovering more rapidly afterwards.

Be it snow on a slope that can sit there for days before being sent descending by an overambitious skier or bonds in macromolecules that change dramatically upon appropriate activation — systems that reside for extended periods of times in one state before switching rapidly to another, energetically more favourable one are found in many different contexts.

What's going on in Jonah's brain: The brain is changing most rapidly in adolescence, and it's the period when new behavior patterns are most easily established.

But as a telescope that stares at single patches of space for long periods of time, it can capture a vast trove of other cosmic treasures — especially the kind that change rapidly or pop in and out of view, like supernovae.

Other symptoms include a change in the shape of your breast that's not explainable by your period, pregnancy, or nursing; a retracted or flattened nipple; an indentation in your breast that doesn't go away after you take off your bra; persistent pain on one side; skin that changes color rapidly; and a lump in your armpit.

Now there's Scott Cooper's old - school yet wholly relevant «Hostiles,» starring Christian Bale, a majestically shot slow - burning epic that's convincingly set in the 1890s West, a trigger - happy period in which a rapidly changing America was forced to not only acknowledge how terrible it had treated Native Americans but figure out how to adapt to a different world.

Education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is currently undergoing a period of remarkable systemic change and is now recognised by PISA as «one of the most rapidly improving education systems in the world».

As showers swept over the Le Mans circuit and teams changed tires to cope with the rapidly changing track conditions, driver Oliver Gavin reported a problem with the drivetrain after his fourth pit stop at 1:39 into the race while the circuit was under a safety car period.

«A user can cause information that does not change rapidly to be provided or moved to a relatively static display element, such as an electronic ink display, which enables that information to be displayed for a period of time with little additional power consumption.»

Most moving averages are some form of either the simple moving average (SMA), which is just the average price over a given time period, or the exponential moving average (EMA), which is designed to respond more rapidly to recent price changes.

This comprehensive report, which was first published as part of the IEA flagship publication World Energy Outlook - 2017, contains an assessment of China's rapidly changing economic and energy landscapes over the period to 2040.

He overlooks how nature and climate change rapidly, dramatically and in very short time periods.

It was warmer and climate changed more rapidly than in recent years during the Medieval Warm Period, as well as during half a dozen other warm periods.

Indeed what the IPCC failed to learn from climate changes in that period was that climate could change rapidly from rising to falling temperatures, which could only be attributed to limits on the amount of narrow band earth's radiation that CO2 could absorb.

The strongest evidence in support of climate change is the melting of the polar ice caps, Langcake acknowledges, noting the temperature in Antarctica rose by 2.5 degrees centigrade between 1945 and 1995 and a Norwegian study supporting the idea of a rapidly accelerating melt at both poles, but claims this theory may not be borne out over a longer period.

So I took a practical jobbing phsyicist / engineers look at the macro «science» of climate change over extended periods, not atmospheric weather, which, in fact, rapidly revealed itself as Feynman's pseudo science, «they follow the methods, but haven't prove any laws».

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that a well - known period of abrupt climate change 12000 years ago occurred rapidly in northern latitudes but much more gradually in equatorial regions, a discovery that could prove important for understanding and responding to future climate change.

If one station is warming rapidly over a period of a decade a few kilometers from a number of stations that are cooling over the same period, the warming station is likely responding to localized effects (instrument changes, station moves, microsite changes, etc.) rather than a real climate signal.

Second, historical data may not be an accurate prediction of the future, given that a new market is expected to evolve rapidly through time, hence price and volatility patterns could change significantly in periods ahead.

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