Sentences with phrase «relatively stable period»

The middle case makes more sense to me as is because it was a relatively stable period of CO2 concentration, the system was more or less at equilibrium, 2,000 years is just on the threshold of where orbital forcing becomes significant, etc..

Not exact matches

The Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO) says a strong loonie and a relatively stable economy is fuelling a desire by many Canadians to get away over the Christmas - New Year's period.

Indeed, the recent spurt of integration has occurred during a sustained period of relatively strong global growth, relatively stable and low inflation, and, although less widespread, a reduction in the volatility of growth.

Growth in household credit has remained relatively stable at around 5.5 per cent since the beginning of the year, a pace below the historical average (Chart 22), following an extended period of rapid growth that led to a substantial buildup in household debt.

But it's even stronger than that: a period of relatively stable prices and relatively low and stable interest rates actually can feed financial excess.

Implied volatilities gradually declined around the world in the second half of 2003, as it became clearer that the easing cycle was drawing to a close, with some central banks beginning to tighten monetary policy after a prolonged period of relatively low and stable interest rates.

As Kurt Reiman, BlackRock's chief investment strategist for Canada noted in a recent blog, we believe the prospects for Canadian stocks have improved following a disappointing first half with relatively attractive valuations and more stable oil prices potentially leading to a period of outperformance.

Over the last 20 years — the period during which price increases have been relatively low and stable — M2 has grown at an average rate of 6.4 percent.

I remember, as if it were Camelot, one period of my life when my weight stayed stable for ten months, with relatively little effort.

Let me try again: One of the more compelling arguments for the «punk eek» position that most evolution occurs during relatively short (10K - 100K) periods of speciation, which typically occurs in small, isolated subpopulations, is that the stable species which spawns the new species often co-exists with the new species for a considerable period.

To Barton's point, retail sales data from IRI, a Chicago - based market research firm, show sales of most shelf - stable dry packaged sides and canned soups were down or relatively flat during a 52 - week tracking period ended Dec. 31, 2017.

Employment statistics show that fewer residents are part of the work force in 2000, 40,866, as compared with 43,136 in 1990, during a period when the population remained relatively stable.

Notably, the rise and expansion of both the Indus Valley civilization (from about 5350 years to about 4600 years ago) and the Vedic civilization (from about 3450 years to about 3100 years ago) occurred during periods when climate was relatively warm, wet, and stable.

Incidence rates of hypertension remained relatively stable during the period; rates were highest in 2005 (17.4 per 1,000 p - yrs.)

Until now, it was believed that glacial periods were characterised by extreme temperature variability, while interglacial periods were relatively stable.

In other notable periods, the relatively stable medieval society was characterised by more constant climatic conditions.

So in order to constrain the climate sensitivity from the paleo - data, we need to find a period under which our restricted subsystem is stable — i.e. all the boundary conditions are relatively constant, and the climate itself is stable over a long enough period that we can assume that the radiation is pretty much balanced.

After a relatively stable MIS 2 period, Termination 1 is marked by a rapid 13C depletion over the Glacial - Bolling transition followed by a return to somewhat heavier values during the Younger Dryas, similar to earlier observations [1].

Although DNA is known to be relatively stable over long post-mortem periods, RNA is much more labile in nature, and sensitive to degradation in a tissue - specific manner1.

However, if the existence of a relatively close, second companion (see Star Bc below) around Bab — with an orbital period of 2.2 to 2.9 years or less — is confirmed, then a planetary orbit in Star Ba's water zone may not be stable over the long run.

During periods when ice sheets have been relatively stable, such as the last several millennia (the late Holocene), sub-millennial sea - level variability arose primarily from changes in atmosphere / ocean dynamics.

The ratios of urine urea to creatinine with the high - protein and control diets were ≈ 14 ± 1.3 and ≈ 7 ± 0.7 at week 1 and remained relatively stable throughout the 5 - wk intervention period.

Estrogen is an important adaptogen for us: when it's just right, our mood is stable, our weight is relatively easy to sustain, our periods are not too heavy, our libido is just right.

If these factors are relatively stable across this period, this suggests it is more a trait of the student and not something that varies in response to different subjects, teachers, activities, and tasks.

But the Ofqual chief said, compared to recent years, the body was in a «relatively stable» period for qualifications.

Markets do look efficient under certain circumstances, namely, when investors have had a chance to adapt to existing business conditions, and those conditions remain relatively stable over a long enough period of time.

An objective based strategy that aims to deliver 5 % above Australian inflation (before fees) over rolling three year periods without taking undue risk, so that the journey to achieving this objective is a relatively stable one.

As Kurt Reiman, BlackRock's chief investment strategist for Canada noted in a recent blog, we believe the prospects for Canadian stocks have improved following a disappointing first half with relatively attractive valuations and more stable oil prices potentially leading to a period of outperformance.

So, a lender would expect the bond market to stay relatively stable for that period of time, but that not happening in Canada right now.

Interest rates can be relatively stable for extended periods, or they can rise quickly in response to bad economic news or world events that destabilize the financial environment.

Handling high debt levels can be tricky, but there are ways for dealing with this debt that will allow you to pay down your debts and become more financially stable in a relatively short period of time.

This was a relatively stable climate (for several thousand years, 20,000 years ago), and a period where we have reasonable estimates of the radiative forcing (albedo changes from ice sheets and vegetation changes, greenhouse gas concentrations (derived from ice cores) and an increase in the atmospheric dust load) and temperature changes.

For the entire period of human civilization, roughly 8,000 years, the carbon dioxide level was relatively stable near that upper bound.

However, human civilization developed in a period of relatively stable climate.

For roughly the past 10,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age, human beings have enjoyed a relatively stable, comfortable «interglacial» period, during which they've invented everything from agriculture to moon rockets.

Yeah, it wasn't so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about, used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a longer — 10 year — period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc..

but the possibility that we might be going through a longer — 10 year — period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc..

The expected response to a step increase in CO2 is to move from the relatively stable Holocene climate through a period of rapid (in geological terms) change to a new, relatively stable climate with a higher overall temperature and somewhat different circulation and rainfall patterns.

We know from archeology and paleontology that in fact the overall temperature of the earth is a relatively stable quantity over very long periods of time.

Not coincidentally, global temperatures began climbing in the late 1970s after the Clean Air Act was passed, ending a relatively stable 30 - year period of global temperatures.

In examining the record of sea level rise for the past two millennia — this was the first continuous sea level reconstruction of the time period, it should be noted — the scientists found that sea level was relatively stable from 200 BCE to 1000 CE.

It was a period of relatively stable global temperature and the earliest base period with good global coverage of meteorological stations, including Antarctica.

The 30 - y period 1951 — 1980 with relatively stable climate is sufficiently long to define a climatological temperature distribution, which is near normal (Fig. 9, Left), yet short enough that we can readily see how the distribution is changing in subsequent decades.

When both went up, there were relatively stable warm periods with high sea levels.

Winter Visual inspection of the Global average temperature graph in GISS Hansen, J et al 2006 suggests that the period 1966 to 1980 was relatively stable with little net change in average global temperature and we will use this as a baseline against which we will assess later decades.

While PS4 and 3DS remained relatively stable in the second half of the Obon shopping period, the Switch ran out of steam once more, probably affected by more shortages following the relatively larges shipment that Nintendo managed to pump into the market alongside Splatoon 2.

Furthermore, Hukkelberg and Ogden (2013) found that PMTO therapists» fidelity scores were relatively stable over a period of approximately 9 months (correlations ≥.30).

Rent prices have remained relatively stable in the Vilnius office market for a relatively long period.