Sentences with phrase «scale has occurred»

No volcanic carbon dioxide emission of comparable scale has occurred since.

Volumes range from a few hundred cubic metres to more than a thousand cubic kilometres, and the larger ones can travel for hundreds of kilometres although none on that scale have occurred for several hundred thousand years.

Not exact matches

The rotation occurring underneath the surface of the S&P 500 this month — out of tech and into other more attractively - priced areas — has played out on a smaller scale a few times in the past several months.

A 100 - year flood has a 1 in 4 chance of occurring in the 30 - year span of a typical home mortgage, he said, adding that's the kind of time scale that gets people's attention.

Computing will increasingly occur on the network, and that means the ability to scale — to amplify — will be dramatically better than anything we've had before.

«Not blind optimism, not one that ignores the scale and scope of our challenges, but that hard - earned optimism, that's rooted in the stories of very real progress that have occurred throughout human history.»

These healthcare brands will have the effect of soothing out the inevitable fluctuations that occur on the pharmaceutical side, though right now, Glaxo's portfolio is boasting robust growth from small - scale HIV drugs Triumeq and Trivicay (which, as the CEO noted in the last annual report, sport year - over-year sales growth of 41 % and 43 %, respectively).

The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

The first warning shot occurred a couple of weeks ago after some governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board indicated that the time has come to consider scaling back the quantitative easing (QE) program that is pumping $ 85 billion a month in new money into the economy.

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

Since that time, change and development have occurred on a different scale.

I would like to stay around for the speaking in tongues, should it occur, but the mosquitoes, worked into a frenzy by all this talk of His blood, are launching a full - scale attack.

Second, and more important, these trials exhibit in exaggerated form what is also happening on a smaller scale throughout the criminal justice system: «Though no avalanche has occurred,» Wilson observes, «the courts are having difficulty keeping their footing on a slope that has become increasingly slippery.»

He says Australia does not currently have the scale efficiencies or manufacturing technology and has not had the growth in raw milk production that has been occurring in New Zealand.

The Legislature passed a scaled - back version of Lavern's Law that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current law.

I've heard of no such large - scale thing occurring in New Rochelle or Westchester County.

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.

The Legislature on Wednesday passed a scaled - back version of Lavern's Law that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current law.

Though large - scale reintroduction across eastern North America will probably not occur soon, Benson said the study emphasizes the value of preserving delicate predator - prey balances that ecosystems have calibrated over millennia.

While this system has worked pretty well in the U.S. so far, some worry that a Bhopal - scale tragedy, whether due to an accident or terrorist attack, could still occur on American soil.

Experts want more research, more demonstrations Because CCS has never been tried at a commercial scale, it is impossible to pinpoint the exact leakage rate that would occur with 3,000 gigatons of gas, analysts say.

Now James Chin - Wen Chou of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, and colleagues have used atomic clocks to confirm that they also occur at everyday scales (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1192720).

«To put this in some kind of context, if those small scale eddies did not increase with wind stress then the saturation of carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean sink would occur twice as rapidly and more heat would enter our atmosphere and sooner.»

«We now have a way to study this process in real time at the scale it's occurring, which will help scientists better understand the process and possibly optimize it,» says David Shapiro, a physicist with the Advanced Light Source who helped Chueh develop the technique at the facility.

The change occurred at an astonishing pace: Within a few months, native lizards had begun shifting to higher perches, and over the course of 15 years and 20 generations, their toe pads had become larger, with more sticky scales on their feet.

Mr Allan said the study found that Niassa's protected area status had helped save it from large - scale land clearing that had occurred in Mozambique.

But it has not been proved that they do this, or if sublethal effects occur and damage bee colonies on an important scale.

«My group had been looking at the early mechanical changes associated with liver fibrosis, which progresses to cirrhosis, but then, by collaborating with Vivek, we started to wonder if these large scale changes in the architecture of the liver could have a mechanical basis and if something similar to what is seen in gels might be occurring in the liver.

«One thing we've been able to show is that using VLF measurements in a network like HAMMA can give us a better idea of the location of different - scale processes that occur during initiation,» Dr. Bitzer said.

But there has also been a lot of shaking, with 183 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater on the Richter scale occurring in Oklahoma from October 2013 through April 14, the USGS said.

Mass drug administrations have rarely been carried out on such a large scale, and this study reports the first to occur during an Ebola outbreak.

Even as advances in ancient - DNA technology have made it possible to probe population mixing and large - scale migrations that occurred thousands of years ago, researchers have had trouble studying the genetic history of the Near East because the region's warm climate has degraded much of the DNA in unearthed bones.

He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.

AAAS has had a long history of supporting more diversity in science - related fields and has noted the setbacks that can occur when courts, state lawmakers, or regulators try to scale back efforts at more inclusive admissions policies.

Without such large - scale inhibition, some circuits in the brain would seize up, as occurs in epilepsy.

Glicksman and Ankit have found a subtle internal energy source - the bias field - occurs that actually modulates the speed of the solid / liquid interface on small scales and ends up creating remarkably complex structures.

He points out that this magnetic signal can be associated with large - scale processes of mountain formation, and how these ranges can be curved until they create structures known as oroclines: «With a rock sample, we can analyse a process that has occurred on the tectonic plate level; and, specifically, offers new data that allows us to discover how this orogeny or large Variscan range and its curvature occurred.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

Glasses have many important industrial applications, yet understanding the changes that occur over the wide range of time and length scales of the glass transition remains a challenge.

As part of the «Research in Collaborative Mathematics» project run by the Obra Social «la Caixa,» researchers of the Mathematics Research Centre (CRM) and the UAB have developed a mathematical law to explain the size distribution of earthquakes, even in the cases of large - scale earthquakes such as those which occurred in Sumatra (2004) and in Japan (2011).

Thus, these waters have naturally occurring high CO2 and low pH» [an acidity / alkalinity scale; the lower the number the greater the acidity], says Derek Manzello, a biologist from the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, lead author of the study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

It is also important that the scale up of HCV treatment occurs in combination with traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange which have previously also been shown to be highly cost effective.»

Those changes are local, occuring on a different time scale, and if due to direct external forcing would require higher changes in solar radiance than claimed.

«The design of this composite coating was inspired by recent advances in the field that have revealed how water - splitting reactions occur, at the atomic scale, on materials.

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).

We would also welcome work with conservationists of endangered, barberry - dependent insect species to ensure that planting of common barberry occurs away from arable land, thus safeguarding European cereals from a large - scale re-emergence of wheat stem rust.»

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].

Though this is the first time such a phenomenon has been seen in a disk around a young star, «Similar structures and dynamics commonly occur on small and large scales throughout the Universe.

«Ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation are essentially irreversible on centennial time scales,» found the Royal Society, a London - based group specializing in scientific research, in a 2011 paper, «[O] nce these changes have occurred, it will take centuries for the ocean to recover.

For many human diseases, large - scale genomic studies have identified common genetic variants that occur more frequently in people with cardiovascular, autoimmune, inflammatory and infectious diseases, diabetes and asthma than in those without these diseases.