Sentences with phrase «scale system meaning»

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This means systems of any scale could be laid quickly and cheaply.

One is on «utility - scale solar,» which means solar systems larger than 5 MW.

Fred Wilson describes some of the work required to enable operational scalability in this way: «Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.»

I explained that the driver of this change in the Fed's toolbox was the fact that the massive quantity of reserves injected into the banking system by QE (Quantitative Easing) meant that it would no longer be possible for the Fed to hike the FFR in the traditional way, that is, via the sort of small - scale shrinkage of bank reserves that was used in the past.

This follows the model of TransfairUSA (now rebranded as FairtradeUSA) in lowering standards so that plantations could get certified in a system meant for the 25 million small scale farmers around the world.

At the same time, large - scale reforms to the health, education and welfare systems — along with reductions in youth service provision and the number and services of children's centres — means confusion and real concern for professionals and families alike.

He even goes much further than Labour ministers ever dared by using the «R» word (redistribution) and spelling out exactly what he means — «a tax system that means people at the bottom end of the scale pay less and at the top end of the scale pay more».

But over the last 15 years, most commercial - scale ships have been outfitted with automatic identification system (AIS) transceivers, a tracking system meant to help ships avoid collisions.

One main issue discussed in the correspondence is how to view the needed «transformation» of the global energy system: Does transformation mean we can make a major dent in emissions by just scaling up existing technologies, or do we need some profound breakthroughs?

This would mean that, if scaled up, the setup would likely not require complex, costly systems to highly concentrate sunlight.

In a price - responsive system, however, rainy days could mean slightly higher energy prices, which could cause homeowners to scale back on energy consumption, says Ron Ambrosio of IBM * Research, a branch of the company researching new energy strategies

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

And this means developing a surveillance system, which might be challenging on a global scale.

But urine recycling may never become a part of large - scale farming in industrialized countries, because implementing it would mean drastically remodeling sewage systems in order to collect and transport liquid waste.

This information is the EPA's primary means of tracking the system's health on a national scale.

This means a planetary system could scale up in size with a proportionally larger Kuiper Belt feature and scaled - up planet orbits.

It's a demonstration - scale system that's meant to help prove the characteristics of the technology and collect data about how it works.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

Climate system inertia also means that, if large - scale climate change is allowed to occur, it will be exceedingly long - lived, lasting for many centuries.

And equally important, when we create a sense of stress around numbers — the scale, our food amount, our calorie counting — we literally go into stress chemistry, meaning sympathetic nervous system dominance — which translates into increased cortisol and insulin levels, which in turn will tend to signal the body to store weight, store fat, and not build muscle — just the opposite effect of what we are looking for by obsessing about numbers.

The scale of national assessments in a system the size of England means that effective implementation of change is a major challenge in itself.

The next generation of Range Rover was developed under the auspices of now - owner BMW, which means this Range Rover was more easily scaled up with the inclusion of BMW systems and parts.

The timing for this will no doubt mean many questions regarding the recently discovered XP scaling system, where fans noticed that Destiny 2 was secretly scaling their experience earnings to slow down the late game progress.

Working in a mixture of commercial house paint and alkyd medium to create a multi-layered surface, the artist combines bold color and grand scale, employing a geometry that obfuscates meaning even as it seems to describe the workings of a complex system.

In addition to an interest in exploring binary positions, Alexander Kroll's work deals with scale, painting history, intuition, systems, emotions, and painting as a conversational nexus and means of producing an object that can embody and contradict these issues.

Venus transits were recognized by astronomers as early as the 17th century as offering a means to approximate the scale of Earth's solar system.

greater than 1 % means a depression / recession on a large scale and our systems just are not designed to cope with.

If energy demand grows at even 2 % per year, that means the scale of our energy system must double every 35 years.

That is, changes to the system are more clearly discerned in the global mean temperature than at a regional level, mainly because the noisy «weather» component increases as you go to smaller scales.

The pH system is a logarithmic scale which means that the molar concentration of H +, protons or [H +], in the water is converted to its log value and given a negative sign, pH = - log [H +].

100 % certainty means we know every possible potential driver of global temperature on the scales of subatomic particles, atoms and molecules, the microscopic, the macroscopic, the Earth, the Solar System, the galaxy, and the Universe.

The critical radiation can be computed from Thus for large l (as observed in some monsoon systems) the critical threshold is well approximated by r c ≈ − l. Note that l is scaling like q Oα / β where α and β have clear - cut physical meaning (39).

One year (August 1998ï ¿ 1/2 July 1999) of tropical rainfall estimates from the Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) system were used to produce monthly means of rainfall diurnal cycles at hourly and 1ï ¿ 1/2 ï ¿ 1/2 1ï ¿ 1/2 scales over a domain (30ï ¿ 1/2 Sï ¿ 1/2 30ï ¿ 1/2 N, 80ï ¿ 1/2 Eï ¿ 1/2 10ï ¿ 1/2 W) from the Americas across the Pacific Ocean to Australia and eastern Asia.

Combined heat and power systems (CHPs) are a highly efficient means of producing heat and electricity at the same time for large - scale industrial and residential use.

Your «argument» above relies on the contra - factual assumption that there is no C - 14 in the sinks before adding the bomb impulse to the atmosphere (which would mean that the C - 14 system wasn't a scale model of the C - 12 system, and hence the IRFs would be different)-- but C - 14 is well mixed in all parts of the carbon system: That's why carbon dating works.

It means creating a community of integrated buildings and systems that perform like natural nutrient cycles, an organism or metabolism of viable size and density to serve as urban - scale infrastructure.

In the case where the gravitational scale height is (as usual) much larger than the mean free path and the characteristic length of secular changes in temperature (which goes to zero as the system approaches thermal equilibrium, which this paper does not study) the paper itself clearly states in the introduction that the usual symmetric Fourier law holds.

One is on «utility - scale solar,» which means solar systems larger than 5 MW.

Climate system inertia also means that, if large - scale climate change is allowed to occur, it will be exceedingly long - lived, lasting for many centuries.

Economic, social, and natural systems are also inter-connected on a global scale, meaning that climate impacts in other regions of the world can pose serious economic and security risks to the United States.

While probabilistic projections of the global mean and regional temperatures exist, process - based probabilistic assessments of large - scale dynamical systems such as the Atlantic overturning are still missing.

Previously, solar power plants had depended on back up energy plants powered by carbon emitting fuels because a solar system's peak generation hours do not coincide with the utility's peak load hours after 5 p.m. Low sunlight meant low energy generation, and this challenge scaled back the environmental benefits of solar plants.

Monthly temperature, precipitation, 500hPa geopotential height, mean sea - level pressure and soil moisture over the entire globe are also output to assess larger scale weather systems.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

At what may, without belittling the victim, be called the lower end of the scale where injury happens through the negligence of non-state agents, the state's provision of a judicial system of civil remedies will often suffice: the individual state's legal traditions will govern the means of compliance in the particular case.

And second, the software scales favorably, meaning building a system for US law, with its vastly bigger volumes of content on most topics than in Canada, would not take that much longer than for smaller content set in Canada.

In short, this means that the system will scale resolution up or down on its own.

Provided technical leadership in a team that designed and developed analysis systems to extract meaning from large scale data.

Having a system that can go to scale, encourages self - sufficiency, and can reach vast numbers of parents — as Triple P does — means the impact can be seen across the society - at - large.

Now, the sheer scale of a solar voltaic (also known as PV) system means a home owner is playing a whole different ball game.