Sentences with phrase «scale problems such»

NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.

Not exact matches

In developing their resilience scale, the researchers highlighted traits such as being a good problem - solver, having control over your emotions, being able to maintain a feeling of optimism and a feeling of self - efficacy.

That's a particularly useful option for smaller - scale problems, such as a single hard - drive failure or a power failure affecting just a few users.

This is such a major problem that Startup Genome identified «premature scaling» as the number one cause of startup failure.

Macroevolution posed a problem to Darwin because his principle of descent with modification predicts gradual transitions between small - scale adaptive changes in populations and these larger - scale phenomena, yet there is little evidence for such transitions in nature.

God didn't give us the capacity (physical, mental, or emotional) to deal with such large - scale problems.

There is widespread agreement among futurist writers with respect to the most crucial world problems — issues of such magnitude that failure to resolve them will result in enormous destruction, conflict, and misery on a global scale.

When such a man comes to rule a city or a nation, the same problems replicate on a grander scale.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

A new nationwide project aims to monitor the environment of the U.S. and enable comparisons of large - scale problems and variables such as climate change, pollution and sprawl

Dr. Stamenova adds that a comprehensive neurological consult would be helpful to patients, since individual cognitive screening measures such as the Cerebral Performance Category Scale, Mini Mental Status Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, can not detect the memory problems faced by cardiac arrest survivors.

In 20 percent of the study participants, the researchers observed problems such as heel and toe web scaling or toenail changes consistent with possible fungal infections.

The basic problem that such a species must solve is how to create an environment that nurtures its large - scale sociability.

If you then consider the same problem, but on a quantum mechanical scale, so you're thinking of, for example, of a particle such as an electron, if its experiencing the same kind of a potential, it's in a well or a [bowl] and there's a barrier that the electron needs to overcome to get outside.

Catherine Carr, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, agrees that the study is «very exciting» — particularly because the katydids have overcome the problem of impedance matching «on such a tiny scale.»

The findings, published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hold implications for dealing not only with the problem of aggressive behavior in individuals, but also for better understanding of large - scale, long - standing cross-group conflicts such as the Arab - Israeli clash and racial strife in the United States.

There's also the not insignificant challenge of implementing such solutions globally — otherwise known as the problem of scale — as well as overcoming the reasons of engaging in traditional practices, such as burning the residue in agricultural fields to increase fertility, in the first place.

Predictable as such publicity is, it belies the true scale of the medical problem.

Such an approach could be practically manufactured on an industrial scale and without the need to resort to nano sizing of silicon and its associated problems.

The other problem is that the scale of the difference is masked more readily by variability, events such as Krakatoa, and the needs of statistics to hit significance levels... TBH I haven't done the math, but we shouldn't be surprised if we now achieve in a year, in emissions terms, what would have taken most of the nineteenth century to manage.

According to advocates of the glycemic index system, foods that are high on the GI scale such as rice cakes, carrots, potatoes, watermelon or grape juice are «unfavorable» and should be avoided because high GI foods are absorbed quickly, raise blood sugar rapidly and are therefore more likely to convert to fat or cause health problems.

On its website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls insufficient sleep a public health problem in America, «which may be caused by broad scale societal factors such as round - the - clock access to technology and work schedules.»

Such was the scale of the problems at launch, that the organizers of the Evo Championship Series in June opted to only use the Xbox 360 version of the game.

The story takes multiple garish hairpin turns, including one on such a scale that the petty (though entertaining) problems of this wacky family begin to pale — and not for the first time you may begin to question your allegiance to a show with so little regard for probability.

This is a problem encountered when such assessments are used on a large scale for high stakes.

Nansi Ellis, an assistant general secretary of the National Education Union, said Troops to Teachers had «got almost nowhere», and warned such «one - off, small - scale» initiatives are «not the solution to the deep problems faced by schools».

They draw the planets to scale, describe the differences in scale needed to represent both the inner planets and the outer planets, and identify the problems that arise with such a model.

Though some education reform advocates have dismissed the idea that districts can't sufficiently downsize when students leave for charters — they chalk the problem up to bureaucratic recalcitrance — many people acknowledge that such expenses as pension commitments simply can not be scaled back when student enrollment shifts.

It also ignores that not everyone could follow such a strategy because there would be scaling problems.

Most dogs with seborrhea develop the scaling as a complication of another medical problem, such as allergies or hormonal abnormalities.

But most dogs with seborrhea develop the scaling as a complication of another medical problem, such as allergies or hormonal abnormalities.

It is natural that, however vague, such stories would alarm us here at BCR, and we sought to ascertain the scale of the problem and the reasons why this may be occurring.

Walt, one of the problems we have with climate mitigation is that we've never confronted such a grand issue on a global scale, so nobody is quite sure how to approach it.

The problem is really that SW assume that all climatic fluctuations in the 17th to the 19th centuries to solar activity, and hence neglect factors (natural forcings) such as landscape changes (that the North America and Europe underwent large - scale de-forestation), volcanism (see IPCC TAR Fig 6 - 8), and internal variations due to chaotic dynamics.

There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between climate and fields such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.

However, if you plan to build new power plants to match supply to demand at all times, you're running into the same problems: it takes too much resources, money and time to go nuclear at such a scale.

Large scale errors on the boundaries lead to large scale errors in the interior for solutions of such elliptic equations (reference depicting this problem available on request).

Supposing I could give you a mathematical proof that social problems are of such an order of chaotic complexity that the last thing that will work is large scale government intervention?

By mathematical and physical necessity (Newton's «three - body problem») such systems are chaotic / fractal, non-random but indeterminate, self - similar on every scale — subject to Edward Lorenz's celebrated «butterfly effect,» a «sensitive dependence on initial conditions» that renders all non-linear projections futile.

However, this potential can only be realised by also addressing problems associated with the large - scale production of biofuels, such as poverty, impacts on biodiversity and climate change, and water scarcity.

It's tipping points like these that make climate change such a distinct problem: If we don't act quickly, and on a global scale, then the problem will literally become insoluble.

It's an ambitious undertaking, given the scale of such a project, but successfully making it happen would solve many problems with one solution.

It also shifts funding that might have gone directly to communities to governments and non-governmental organizations focused on tackling large - scale climate change, according to Govan, which leaves communities less prepared to adapt to everything from regional problems such as resource degradation to climate change more broadly.

The report sees problems with the storage technologies that are available today, such as Tesla's Powerwall, or the larger scale technologies for entire power grids, citing high costs.

The promise is that In a few more decades it will become possible to use such global [superparameterizations] to perform century - scale climate simulations, relevant to such problems as anthropogenic climate change.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

The new volume compares ten global problems on a comparative scale, calculating GDP losses for issues such as air pollution, malnutrition, gender inequality, and more.

Effects of AGW combined with other large scale problems in the earth system (related or not), in relation to the human system such as peak oil, bees dying, ocean degradation, soil nutrient loss, soil moisture loss all point to the punitive effects of mankind's collective tax upon himself.

All of the recent problems associated with the scaling of Bitcoin (such as increasing TX fees and slower confirmation times) have made it more difficult for crypto enthusiasts to gamble online, as the options for casinos who support cryptocurrencies like LTC, DOGE and BCH is almost non-existent.

Every smartphone brand goes through this, few such isolated incidents may happen but if it starts happening on a larger scale then — Houston we have a problem!