Sentences with phrase «scale events occurred»

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The event could have happened but never on the scale that anything of the magnitude occurring in the «literature of the bible».

It is an unfortunate fact of life that large scale tragedies will continue to occur, as the earthquakes in Japan and the horrific events in Norway attest, so Elizabeth's advice to other psychiatrists looking to help survivors and rescuers in future events would be to not focus on the therapy they have learned but instead invest time in listening and providing comfort by simple human contact.

All the loose speculation provoked by roborats is ironic considering that the experiment was just a small - scale replay of a major media event that occurred almost 45 years ago.

Using the naturally occurring uranium - lead isotope decay system, which is used for age determinations on geological time - scales, the authors deduced that these events took place at least 3.02 billion years ago.

Essentially an AOP tells a toxicological story in terms of a logical sequence of causally - linked «key events» that occur at different levels of biological organisation, from perturbations at the molecular scale up to effects occurring in a whole organism or a population.

Similar fluctuations in OMZ intensity have occurred during the Dansgaard - Oeschger (D - O) events (millennial - scale abrupt climate oscillations) during the last glacial period (Cannariato and Kennett, 1999; Schmittner et al., 2007).

By using model comparisons in an approximate Bayesian framework, we have shown that the speciation event and the major mutation responsible of for heavy metal accumulation both occurred in a very narrow time - scale [1].

These sources of stress can contribute to localized bleaching events (tens to hundreds of meters), but mass coral bleaching events occur at regional scales, often extending over tens to hundreds of kilometers.

These separate proteins should be useful for monitoring cellular events occurring at varied time scales.

an event occurring naturally that has large - scale effects on the environment and people, such as a volcano, earthquake, or hurricane.

Although these events are extremely energetic, in the cosmic scale of things, they are located too far and occur too infrequently for Earth - based scientists to observe.

The lack of information on numbers experiencing blended learning has created challenges at multiple levels — from understanding if the phenomenon is actually scaling to contextualizing if bumps on the road, like the recent demise of Amplify, are mere blips or catastrophic events, and from understanding where policymakers and philanthropists can make the most impact to knowing whether the blended learning that is occurring is a good or bad thing for students.

The current programme of commemorative events occurring across key WW1 battlefield sites in West Flanders is enabling students to understand experiences in the trenches and the sheer scale of human sacrifice at profound levels.

Now, certainly whether these effects will occur is uncertain, but the proper way to deal with this in risk mitigation is to scale effort by the potential cost of the adverse event multiplied by its probability.

You are correct that regional and average weather changes over various time scales of interest, and that extreme events continue to occur.

Large - scale flooding can also occur due to extreme precipitation in the absence of snowmelt (for example, Rush Creek and the Root River, Minnesota, in August 2007 and multiple rivers in southern Minnesota in September 2010).84 These warm - season events are projected to increase in magnitude.

LONDON, 19 March — Extreme storm events on the scale of Hurricane Katrina which caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 will occur far more often because of climate change, a new study says.

The 25 D - O events during the last glacial, where temperatures rose and fell by 5 to 10 degrees C (10 - 15 degrees C for Greenland) within a span of decades that were «explained by internal variability of the climate system alone ``, deemed global in scale, and they occurred without any changes in CO2 concentrations, which stayed steady at about 180 ppm throughout the warming and cooling.

Water vapor is thereafter transported by the large - scale circulation, which conserves the specific humidity (the ratio of the mass of water vapor to the total mass in a unit volume of air), except during subsequent saturation events, when loss of water occurs instantaneously to prevent supersaturation [Ed: that would be a fancy way of saying it rains?].

abrupt climate change occurring «over periods as short as decades or years,» which could be brought on by positive feedbacks triggered by such events as ice sheet collapse on a large scale, the collapse of part of the Gulf Stream, dieback of the Amazon forest, or coral reef die - off.

These damaging events are now occurring more quickly virtually eliminates any serious chance of large - scale recovery on a global scale.

Lord Carswell observed that the chance of a supervening event occurring may be anywhere on a scale between extreme unlikelihood to virtual certainty.

In an email to the Bitcoin Core Dev team, Garzik postulated that by not scaling bitcoin and instead pushing for higher transaction fees, it would create an economic change event, which «is a period of market chaos, where large changes to prices and sets of economic actors occurs over a short time period.»

During the initial assessment which occurred on school grounds, students completed a demographics form and the following questionnaires: (1) Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Radloff 1977), (2) Adolescent Life Event Questionnaire — Revised (Hankin and Abramson 2002), and (3) the Perceived Control Scale for Children (Weisz et al. 1998).

Participants were asked to indicate how often such events occurred on a Likert scale ranging from 0 (never) to 4 (always) with higher scores reflecting a greater number of negative life events.