Sentences with phrase «scaling factors for»

Figure 10.4 of AR5, reproduced as Figure 2 below, shows in panel (b) estimated scaling factors for three forcing components: natural (blue bars), GHG (green bars) and «other anthropogenic» — largely aerosols, ozone and land use change (yellow bars).

However, the «other anthropogenic» scaling factors for both periods have wide ranges.

The second CMIP5 model in Shindell's analysis, CSIRO - Mk3 -6-0, shows completely unconstrained scaling factors using 1901 — 2010 data, and extremely high scaling factors for both GHG and «other anthropogenic» over both 1861 — 2010 and 1951 — 2010 — so much so that the GHG scaling factor is inconsistent with unity at better than 95 % confidence for the longer period, and at almost 95 % for the shorter period.

The first of the five individual CMIP5 models included in Shindell's analysis, CanESM2, shows negative scaling factors for «other anthropogenic» over all three periods — strongly negative over 1901 — 2010.

Leaving aside the generally less well constrained results using the 1901 — 2010 period that started with two anomalously cold decades, none of these show scaling factors for «other anthropogenic» — predominantly aerosol and to a lesser extent ozone, with minor contributions from land use and other factors — that are consistent with unity at a 95 % confidence level.

As this is likely not the case in any of the regions, one aim within C3S is to obtain scaling factors for several regions, to correctly upscale the field measurements to the entire region.

One Mile at a Time reported last night that American has updated these scaling factors for travel on partner airlines on or after August 1.

[25] Lemaitre's famous differential equation for cosmic expansion is: R [2] = C / R + 1 / 3AR [2]- k where R is the scale factor for cosmic expansion which is proportional to the radius of the universe when that radius has meaning; C > 0 and proportional to the average present - day density of non-relativistic matter in the universe; cosmological constant, - C [0] < A < C [0], which serves to create a cosmic repulsion that keeps galaxies from being drawn together by gravity when it is positive and adds to the attractive force of gravity when it is negative; and spatial curvature, k = -1,0, +1.

It was chosen to use the local monthly temperature tendency as a scaling factor for the temperature from the runs forced with the Hadley Centre data, while precipitation rate and wind force are kept unscaled.

The scaling factor for the Kuroshio - Oyashio Extension data in Figure 13 was 0.7.

The really short answer is that for n = 1 it has no effect while for n > 1 it's a scaling factor for the one - octave bands HALE, TSI, and ENSO to compensate for the midpoint of each of those three bands being relatively low down on the slope of F3.

Not exact matches

However, political uncertainty seems to be scaling up and remains a key factor for investors.

For Harry's, vertical integration was driven by one crucial factor: There are only a few manufacturers in the world that can make what it sells — high - end razor blades — at scale.

What's important for entrepreneurs with ambitious agendas is that they understand why they have chosen one approach over the other, how they have organized their infrastructure and culture to make it happen, and where they will integrate growth or scale with other competitive factors to make it harder for others to emulate their success.

If scaling up is the limiting factor for cellular ag, the key challenge in making viable plant - based meat is more rudimentary: getting ingredients like sorghum to taste like sirloin.

The relative size of our economies may be one factor, since there are clearly more opportunities for economies of scale and scope in the larger US economy.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

Healthy religion has a vigorous concern for the growth of individuals, but alongside this is an equally vigorous interest in changing the factors in society which produce personality damage on a mass scale.

For the sour element, I tried rice wine vinegar first, but its tang - factor is pretty low on the scale.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

They adjusted for the underreporting of total food intake by applying scaling factors of 16 % and 1 % for women and men, respectively, in 1995 and of 21 % and 17 %, respectively, in 2011.

It's this terrain, paired with the close proximity to major metro areas, base area facilities, experience hosting large - scale events and shared history with the rise of obstacle racing, that all factored into Tough Mudder's desire to return for 2017.

Low levels of physical activity and inefficient sleep patterns intensify the effects of genetic risk factors for obesity, according to results of a large - scale study presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2017 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla..

A large - scale genetic analysis in PSP patients, however, identified a common tau sequence that increases by 5.5 times a person's chances of developing the disease, making this variant a stronger risk factor for PSP than one copy of the apolipoprotein E-ε4 variant is for Alzheimer's.

«The explanation is, in brief, that in metals, irradiation produces on picosecond time scales a liquid - like zone, which during the cooling - down phase recombines much of the initially produced damage, leading to a factor of 1/3 reduction in damage,» says Professor Kai Nordlund who was in lead of the team on search for more accurate predictions of usability of materials in nuclear environments, that now present their results freshly in Nature Communications.

We found that when you factor in the energetic costs, grid - scale batteries make sense for storing surplus solar energy, but not for wind.»

Today, results of large - scale surveys identifying individual and community risk factors for HIV and other infectious diseases can take years to show up, so having a real - time look at the conversations happening on Twitter could prove to be very advantageous, Albarracín, Ungar, and their colleagues discuss on their Health and Social Media Group page.

For instance, long - period ocean waves called Kelvin waves, which operate on the same time scale as El Niños, could also be a factor.

New findings from large - scale studies of more than 3.6 million people who underwent screening for cardiovascular disease reveals that a person's age and gender affects the prevalence of certain types of peripheral vascular diseases (PVD), and that diabetes is a major risk factor for developing these diseases, even in patients without heart disease.

After accounting for numerous other factors such as income, education and political ideology, the researchers found that for each one point increase (on a scale from one to five) in symbolic racism there was a 50 percent increase in the odds of having a gun in the home and a 28 percent increase in support for policies allowing people to carry concealed guns.

«There's a big effort to understand friction and control it, because it's one of the limiting factors for nanomachines, but there has been relatively little progress in actually controlling friction at any scale,» Vuletic says.

«I'm hoping that there will be funding for a large - scale longitudinal study of gun violence, one that includes good measures of media habits as well as various family, community, and biological factors.»

On a wider scale, looking at the overall comparison between the study's roughly 22,000 nonusers and 4,000 users, and statistically adjusting for certain factors, the researchers found a similar outcome: Users of statins were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes.

Regarding the overall distribution, the CoRoT candidates with amplitudes of 0.5 % or larger closely follow that of Brown, except for being lower by a scale factor of about 5.5.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

Recovery is also highly variable and depends upon interactions of numerous factors, e.g., scale of the disturbance, availability of larvae from surviving corals, availability of substrate for coral settlement, and the type of coral community that existed at the time of the disturbance.ref Changes in storm patterns also threaten associated coral reef habitats such as mangroves.

«A key factor in this process will be that funding opportunities are opened up for large - scale integrative projects, long - term monitoring and international collaborations.»

Study Finds Alzheimer's Disease Likely Not Caused by Low Body Mass Index May 9, 2017 A new large - scale genetic study found that low body mass index (BMI) is likely not a causal risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as earlier research had suggested...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, research scientists from SciLifeLab present for the first time a large - scale study of the significance of genetic, clinical and lifestyle factors for protein levels in the bloodstream.

«The fact that we were able to detect genetic risk factors on this massive scale shows that schizophrenia can be tackled by the same approaches that have already transformed our understanding of other diseases,» said the paper's senior author Michael O'Donovan, deputy director of the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University School of Medicine.

Each array was checked for general assay quality (3 ′ -5 ′ ratio of Gapdh < 1.5, noise (RawQ) < 4 and scaling factor at a TGT value of 200 < 4).

There's a battle inside your digestive system for control over your food's energy and there are so many factors that can tip the scales toward weighty problems or a healthy longevity.

Whatever the factors involved, however, it's clear that winter squash scores lower on the GI scale than other equivalently starchy vegetables (for example, potatoes).

We have not seen large - scale, human research studies showing benefits of soy miso consumption for the digestive tract, but we would expect such studies to show digestive benefits based on the above factors.

We adjusted for type 2 diabetes risk factors and nutritional factors using a stepwise approach, with age as the underlying time scale.

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.»

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