Sentences with phrase «scale systems precisely»

But mimicking large - scale systems precisely is often a challenge, and the lack of quantitative consistency between the two disciplines makes data comparison difficult and answers more elusive to researchers.

Not exact matches

Again, we're scaling DOWN — a system based on letting people know where you are is only interesting for folks who actually go places (for most people with jobs and kids, Foursquare would show precisely three locations — home, work and the liquor store).

This is precisely what the authors of The Widget Effect report did, after which they argued for wide - scale system reform, so that increased discrimination among teachers, and reduced indifference on the part of evaluating principals, could occur.

To help aid agencies respond effectively to a food crisis in Somalia, a system was established in 2004 to precisely define and analyse local food insecurity, using a scale consisting of five categories: None / Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency, and Humanitarian Catastrophe / Famine.

It is characterized by multiple intersecting and uncertain future hazards to natural and human systems, that are expected to unfold over a very large range of spatial and temporal scales, and whose probabilities may be difficult, or in some cases impossible, to quantify precisely (because of intrinsic and / or irreducible uncertainties about the future).