Sentences with phrase «runaway growth»

The 1977 work showed a stabilizing effect that appeared to override the impact of a later effect by French physicist Paul - Henri Rebut that attempted to demonstrate runaway growth of the islands.

(Bloomberg)-- Office landlords are bracing for a cooling of San Francisco's red - hot market as weaker startup valuations and lower venture - capital funding temper years of runaway growth in the technology - industry hub...

With the ability to put the brakes on plasticity and halt its own runaway growth, the brain could organize itself efficiently.

«You need to have something to prevent runaway growth.»

Genetic Changes Outside Nuclear DNA Suspected to Trigger More Than Half of All Cancers A buildup of chemical bonds on certain cancer - promoting genes, a process known as hypermethylation, is widely known to render cells cancerous by disrupting biological brakes on runaway growth.

An evil corporate executive (Malin Akerman) has been experimenting with for - profit pathogens that alter DNA and cause runaway growth and aggression.

This article minimizes what credibly could be the largest challenge in dealing with climate change: Holding the atmosphere to a CO2 content no greater than 450 PPM to prevent an increase of no more than 2 degrees C, beyond which runaway growth in CO2 could occur from natural sources.

But it's worth beginning a conversation about ways to live safer in such hazard zones given that this storm season is just getting under way and that big regions of America's tornado hot zone have deep vulnerability resulting from runaway growth and a human tendency to discount threats that have a low probability but disastrous potential.

[4]: 3 Longer - term speculative scenarios over the next two centuries can predict anything between runaway growth to radical decline (36.4 billion or 2.3 billion people in 2300), with the median projection showing a slight decrease followed by a stabilization around 9 billion people.

Runaway growth threatens to overtake the valley faster than the invasive «mile - a-minute» weed.

It proved a turning point for the company, sparking runaway growth that saw Facebook add an average of 200 million users a year en route to becoming the world's biggest and most powerful social network.

In this study, the researchers found that macrophages from mice lacking Smurf1 were unable to attach the death - tagging protein ubiquitin to intracellular bacteria, resulting in a failure of the autophagy pathway and runaway growth of the bacteria inside the cells.

Despite the runaway growth of larger competitors like Netflix, smaller streaming entertainment services are catering to niche audiences seeking deeper cuts

That runaway growth has been very good for Green Mountain, but it has also lured in new competitors, from the Tassimo system made by Kraft Foods to the Nestlé Nespresso system to Starbucks» own Verismo.

You would think that, after all that training, MBA grads would be the perfect candidates to halt the runaway growth of CEO pay.

That runaway growth may come at a serious cost, says Tania Simoncelli, a science and technology fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union.

Cancer cells have runaway growth, so the researchers thought the compound might inhibit those cells.

Leksell Gamma Knife 4C courtesy of Smoothape / Wikimedia Commons Years of surgeries and medications were unable to stop Sultan Kosen's runaway growth.

The first results spectacularly corroborate the prevailing ideas about cosmic origins, including the theory that the universe began with an episode of runaway growth.

On the other hand, the material expanded far faster than it decayed, so even though decay might stop inflation in certain regions, runaway growth would continue in others.

Unless, that is, its runaway growth is somehow being canceled out by new, yet - to - be-discovered massive fundamental particles.

The zones occur where fertilizer and sewage runoff, carried by rivers into the ocean, feeds the runaway growth of algae.

Knowledge may be power, but the runaway growth of our personal data clouds suggests that we may not be happy about where that power ends up.

The true challenge posed by the runaway growth in information is to unearth useful bits from this mountain of dross.

That runaway growth has given rise to fears that science is taking over (just watch any Hollywood science - fiction potboiler to see how deep - seated those feelings are).

Then this runaway growth spurt abruptly ended; the universe continued to expand but not nearly at the rate of that fleeting surge.

The team, led by Charlotte Kuperwasser and Philip Hinds, also identified the protein that allows these cells to differentiate, which can ultimately lead to the runaway growth that is cancer.

The cause, according to a theory advanced by PPPL physicist David Gates and colleagues at the Laboratory, lies in the tendency of bubble - like islands that form in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to shed heat and grow exponentially — a runaway growth that disrupts the crucial current that completes the magnetic field that holds the plasma together.

Despite its runaway growth, Android (s goog) is still trailing iOS» (s aapl) larger ecosystem when you count the installed base of iPhones, iPads and iPod touches, according to recent figures from comScore.

If you're one of the 40 million Americans with student loans, that means taking a closer look at President Trump's statements about the runaway growth of college tuition and student loan debt, and his proposed plans to remedy the problems.

Runaway growth - Georgia is the fastest growing US state east of the Rocky Mountains - and a seeming refusal to plan for the future seem to have

Runaway growth - Georgia is the fastest growing US state east of the Rocky Mountains - and a seeming refusal to plan for the future seem to have been the other key factors.