Sentences with phrase «relatively slow rate»

The relatively slow rate of warming over the past decade has lowered some estimates of climate sensitivity based on surface temperature records.

Consequently, you pay down your principal (i.e. the amount you borrow) at a relatively slow rate early on in your loan but at an increasing rate over time (as the orange lines depict in the above graphic).

Mentioned above, considering the relatively slow rate of protein and other nutrient digestion, it appears that even a moderate sized meal maintains an anabolic state for at least five to six hours.

But the universe is still here, and expanding at a relatively slow rate.

Instead, they trace out continuous patterns, which represent the relatively slow rate at which species diverge.

1) Japan continues to have a relatively slow rate of monetary inflation, despite popular opinion to the contrary.

«Sturgeon are thought of as a living fossil group that has undergone relatively slow rates of anatomical change over time.

Not exact matches

The Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index also reported that approval rates by credit unions and alternative lenders were relatively unchanged, while institutional lenders continued slow but steady growth in approval percentage.

However, we expect the gains to be moderate over the short term, as Fed rate rises will likely be slower than in past cycles given relatively tame U.S. inflation.

It's relatively slow progress, because everything depends on your savings rate.

These low rates have encouraged investors in recent months to pile on risk, taking U.S. equities markets to record highs earlier this year despite an economy that's still being slowed by relatively high unemployment, huge debt levels, and tighter government spending.

Canada's banking sector also enjoyed spectacular growth in 2016, in spite of a slowing economy, low interest rates and relatively modest commodity prices.

However, the expansion and absorption rates of cellulose - based sponges are still relatively slow.

For a long time it was a mystery as to how some firefly species manage such a high flash rate, considering the relatively slow speed of the muscles that control oxygen transport.

The function of these genes were involved in molecular maintenance strategies, such as DNA repair, chromosomal maintenance, immune response and programmed cell death The authors argue that the «slower rate of change in these functions is consistent with increased constraint on somatic cell maintenance as would be required in these relatively long - lived and large - bodied mammals, illustrated by the additional large and long - lived species with slower rates in these genes (e.g. double - strand break repair gene XRCC4 is also highly constrained in elephant.»

I tend to have a relatively slow recovery rate compared to most everyone else around me.

Slow - twitch fatigue at a relatively low rate and Fast - twitch fatigue very fast.

When real life motions are extremely quick and captured at a relatively slow frame rate, the image may look blurry.

We shifted from relatively slow progress through the first half of the 1900s into a much faster rate of growth between 1950 and 1980.

E-book sales continue to soar, although at a slight slower pace than in the first two months of the year (for January and February, sales increased at a rate of 169 % while for March it was a «relatively modest» increase of 145.7 %).

My one knock about the stocks is that the dividend growth is relatively slow at a compound annual growth rate of about 7.5 % and 5.0 % in the last 10 years and 5 years, respectively.

However, we expect the gains to be moderate over the short term, as Fed rate rises will likely be slower than in past cycles given relatively tame U.S. inflation.

CH4 — yes, the rate at which, as a feedback, a C reservoir is depleted with some fraction going into the atmosphere would be relatively more impotant if more of it is as CH4; if Chuvian runaway (thanks, wili) can be achieved, to the point of exhausting some (designated portion of a) surface C reservoir, with a CH4 flux, then there would be a cooling period afterword (setting aside other slow feedbacks), and if the CH4 feedback were slowed down, then the feedback wouldn't be as strong, and perhaps the C reservoir wouldn't be exhausted unless the external forcing were larger (this being a hypothetical discussion; no assertion that it will happen).

However, exchange with the deep ocean is still relatively slow, and the amount that the upper ocean can hold for a given atmospheric CO2 amount depends on various ions present, which are generally supplied at a slow rate (this involves chemical weathering and also the dissolution of carbonate minerals).

I agree that the multimillennial «tail» of the CO2 decay trajectory is relatively unimportant in its own right, but it is not trivial, because it affects the overall rate of decay that includes processes that occur over many decades or a few centuries involving CO2 mixing into the deep ocean and carbonate buffering, and makes them slower than they would be otherwise.

In stark contrast to the relatively slow ice loss during June, July saw quite rapid ice loss (Figure 6), with rates averaging over 100,000 km2 per day through the month.

In developing and emerging economies, slowing the rate of growth of using conventional transport modes with relatively high ‐ carbon emissions for passenger and freight transport by providing affordable, lowcarbon options could play an important role in achieving global mitigation targets.

A significant component of this key ecosystem characteristic is dependent on relatively slow processes such as rates of recuitment, mortality, and changes in vegetation composition.

Focusing on the relatively short time periods where the rate of warming is slower in order to claim that global warming is not happening is a misleading way to use statistics, yet one that has been the focus of attention.

Dryland ecosystems comprise a substantial proportion of total land cover and constitute a significant component of global biogeochemical cycles1, 6, yet owing to strong limitations by water and nutrients7, 8, undisturbed drylands are typically thought to maintain relatively low annual rates of ecosystem processes — such as plant photosynthesis5 (but see refs 9, 10)-- and to harbour biological communities that change composition on relatively slow timescales11.

The relatively quick penetration of the social - networking trend represents a departure from the legal profession's traditional resistance to new technologies and slow rate of adoption, according to Vanessa DiMauro, author of the 2008 Networks for Counsel Survey.

Fitbit cites relatively slow adoption rates in the US as the reason for this.

The one downside is its relatively slow recovery rate of just 80 liters (21 gallons) per hour.

Most experts agree that interest rates will rise from their historic lows this spring — but the process will be slow, keeping interest rates relatively low for a long time.