Sentences with phrase «scale pattern which»

This anti-correlation might indicate the a direct influence of dust on hurricanes, or a connection between the dry air the dust resides in and hurricanes, or might even be related to a much larger scale pattern which controls both hurricanes and dustiness.

Not exact matches

The move, first reported by Bloomberg Law, would scale back a 2013 Obama - era policy, known as Directive 307, which had expanded the DOL's ability to investigate and sanction federal contractors that showed a pattern of paying female workers and employees of color less than their white male colleagues.

The aspects of evolution to which you refer follow the same pattern — some localized increase in order and complexity, but an overall decrease in order and complexity on a broad scale, regardless of the local increases.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

A study by Joseph L. Lawrence and Milton A. Maxwell in the state of Washington indi cated that the heavy and unrestrained drinking at the bottom of the social scale, which Dollard had postulated, did not seem to be the pattern of the majority of this group, particularly the women.

21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.

Co-author Professor Jonathan Bamber, based at the University of Bristol, and President of the European Geoscience Union (EGU), added: «We are seeing changes in the large - scale circulation patterns, which leads to more frequent sunshine and higher amounts of solar energy reaching the surface of the ice sheet.

«We think, but have not yet been able to establish, that this is connected to independently observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation,» Emanuel says, referring to a large - scale pattern of global winds, which in recent years has also moved further poleward.

Chaoplexologists harp on the fact that simple rules, when followed by a computer, can generate extremely complicated patterns, which appear to vary randomly as a function of time or scale.

It can be easily distinguished by its spherical acorns covered with a dense pattern of irregularly placed scales that completely conceal the nut, except for a tiny opening at the top, and which are arranged in dense clusters on upright spikes.

For each prime, as the exponent grows, the formulas recur in ways that are reminiscent of fractals — structures in which patterns or shapes repeat identically at multiple different scales.

At a global scale, the increased melting of the ice sheet contributes to rising sea level and may impact global ocean circulation patterns through the so - called «thermohaline circulation'that sustains among others, the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe warm.

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.

This took place with the aid of a standardized questionnaire (on the basis of a Social Responsiveness Scale — SRS), in which 65 behaviour patterns were evaluated by the parents before the start of group therapy, at the end of the intervention as well as three months after the end of the intervention in order to measure stability.

Light from distant quasars is partly absorbed by intervening gas, which is imprinted with a subtle ring - like pattern of known physical scale.

The new approach, which moves solutions around in computationally prescribed patterns, could enable experiments to be conducted more efficiently, cost - effectively, and at larger scales.

They believe they can scale things up so commercial and industrial applications are feasible, perhaps using nanoprint lithography, which is a common technique for producing nanometer - scale patterns.

Another study looking at lizard family trees will test whether these patterns might play a role in evolution on a larger scale: By giving lizards protection as they move around, stripes may allow them to explore different habitats, increasing the speed at which new species appear.

That's largely because of a long - time - scale weather pattern called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which is masking the global effect.

With their delicately branching form, akin to the recurring geometric patterns of fractals, which look similar at different scales, ferns fascinated the Victorians.

These patterns can also be exploited to greatly improve a material's function, which is why scientists are eager to determine the 3 - D structure of nanoparticles at the smallest scale possible.

The Human Connectome Project, which is an international effort to map the connectomes of 1,000 people on a macro scale — mostly just the white matter, or active myelinated (insulated) nerve cell bundles — using magnetic resonance imaging, this week announced its finding that brain wiring patterns correlate with behavioral and demographic traits.

These climate indices are correlated with population dynamics [8], [9] because they reflect atmospheric circulation patterns which regulate large scale oceanographic processes and ecosystem productivity [10], [11].

It is called «Bilateral tactile input patterns decoded at comparable levels but different time scales in neocortical neurons» and investigates to which extent individual neurons of the primary somatosensory can decode contralateral and ipsilateral input.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, Shapiro and his colleagues introduced a method to correlate magnetic field patterns in tissue, which occur on micrometer scales, with the larger, millimeter - scale features of MRI images.

Perfect for a night out, a trip to Vegas, holiday parties, or anything in between - this little black dress is adorned with gold sequins on all sides which form a pattern that is reminiscent of mermaid scales.

They're both pretty small - scale patterns, which shouldn't work together, but somehow, it does — at least to me.

The sides and handles of the bag is made from brown color grain textured unique pattern e-leather, which also matches and compliments the scales of python snake skin e-leather.

It's not the fault of anyone in the system today, but patterned after the dominant factory model of the era in which public schooling scaled, our education system functions as though all students learn at the same pace and have the same learning needs, which we know is not true.

In the Gym Schoolhouse of St. Moritz, the large - scale videos are on display, focusing on the bell jars, the interiors of which have been activated with swirling patterns of light or atmospheric effects.

Often working on a large scale, Phillips has co-opted entire rooms as surfaces on which to apply her prints, bringing together multiple layers of individual images and repeated pattern in a single installation.

Having abandoned painting for over two decades, Mack resurrected his practice in 1991 and began his Chromatische Konstellation (Chromatic Constellation) series of large - scale paintings and works on paper that explore colour, tonal scale, light, rhythm and abstract patterning, which he continues to this day.

Dyed with ink, the patterns of Hefuna's large - scale screens are woven with spare words and phrases, with past and present resonances with which viewers are called to engage.

The resulting drawings range from small - scale abstractions to monumental figures and scrolls, which demonstrate Ramírez's unique draftsmanship of concentric lines, undulating patterns, and surreal topography.

The similarly scaled White Shadow (1998) consists of a densely painted elongated oval from which a pattern reminiscent of wood grain extends, repeating in concentric bands.

Reflective Radiation will feature large - scale geometric paintings, which blend continuous patterns of color with dynamic metallic reflections.

This patterning is used on multiple scales from paintings to immersive installations, which unfolds across exhibition spaces as meditative encounters.

The large - scale show at Brown's new quarters in Harlem includes a selection of props, found objects, and drawings on the ground floor; the second floor houses the video installation Reanimation, which was previously shown at Documenta (13) in 2012, while the top floor is devoted to her latest major work, stream or river, flight or pattern.

Using layered improvisation to create hypnotic, highly rhythmic, psychedelic environments, they perform in front of Alvarado's large - scale paintings, equally reminiscent of psychedelic environments, which feature patterning and bright colors like those used by the AfriCOBRA artists in the 1960s.

For NOAH, this pattern covers large scale encaustic paintings, which are hung over a wallpaper of the same pattern.

In 2006, she created Equivalents: After Stieglitz 1 - 18, a suite of 18 photographic prints which break down the gray scale of the original photographs into chessboard - pattern squares of solid hues.

I was struck by the visual rubric with which we were looking and enjoying the sites along the road: color, pattern, shape, scale, line.

However, none of these issues really affect the attribution argument because a) differences in magnitude of forcing over time are assessed by way of the scales in the attribution process, and b) errors in the spatial pattern will end up in the residuals, which are not large enough to change the overall assessment.

Instead, it is a dynamically active, essentially turbulent fluid, in which large - scale tracer patterns arise from active turbulence and do not necessarily imply domination of the physics and climate system by large - scale flow fields....»

There is so little understanding about how the ocean parses its response to forcings by 1) suppressing (local convective scale) deep water formation where excessive warming patterns are changed, 2) enhancing (local convective scale) deep water formation where the changed excessive warming patterns are co-located with increased evaporation and increased salinity, and 3) shifting favored deep water formation locations as a result of a) shifted patterns of enhanced warming, b) shifted patterns of enhanced salinity and c) shifted patterns of circulation which transport these enhanced ocean features to critically altered destinations.

The correlation between surface temperature and the Arctic Oscillation (AO) index (18), which can be used to represent large - scale circulation patterns, is shown in Fig. 5.

Optimal detection studies that attempt to separate the responses to solar and other forcings in observations can also account for gross errors in the overall magnitude of past solar forcing, which remains uncertain (Chapter 2), by scaling the space - time patterns of response (Section 9.2.2.1).

MM directly note the link between bristlecone / foxtail pines and precipitation (p. 85, MM05b), which is exactly the kind of large - scale pattern registration that the MBH CFR method takes as axiomatic because large portions of this region are known to have important ENSO / precipitation teleconnections (cf. Rajagopalan et al., 2000; Cole and Cook, 1998).

This audit shows Fahrenheit.0 rounding patterns in New Zealand similar to audit results in Australia, suggesting a common unrecognised and unadjusted anomaly in countries which have converted their temperature scales from Fahrenheit to Celsius since the 1960s.

Addressing this topic requires first determining patterns of economic development in the Arctic at a regional scale, which are shown for the past two decades using night light satellite imagery.