Sentences with phrase «several orders of magnitude in»

Update [2006-1-25 16:59:21 by Stuart Staniford]: Stig Oye pointed out that I had an arithmetic slip of several orders of magnitude in the «amusing aside», which I've belatedly corrected.

What if the income in Washington is disproportionally larger (by several orders of magnitude in absolute terms, and by 2 × — 3 × on per annum basis) than that in Indiana?

This, in spite of the fact that the world's total imaging capacity has expanded by several orders of magnitude in the past 20 years.»

In any case, «The classical theory of nucleation has turned out to be off - target by several orders of magnitude in some systems when it comes [to] quantitative predictions.»

In 2012, Reed's elite geek squad upped the ante by several orders of magnitude in scale and scope.

Not exact matches

The Surface is therefore too expensive in both categories, and in tablets it's by several orders of magnitude.

This infancy is also reflected in the relative size of each market — the WGC has put a value on all the gold that has ever been mined of $ 7.8 trillion, which is several orders of magnitude more than the $ 300 billion market capitalisation of all cryptocurrencies combined; while the market value of bitcoin alone is «just» $ 175 billion.

The number of people in the world who believes in some form of deity far outnumber people who don't believe in a god by several orders of magnitude.

To further assess the differences in these various populations within individuals, Anderson, Ping and their team found that chemical messengers called cytokines and chemokines «can be concentrated in semen by several orders of magnitude» over those in the blood.

Kurzweil has his skeptics — most of whose counterarguments can be summarized as, nah, that would just be too weird — but even if he's grandiose in his predictions by several orders of magnitude, it still seems a safe bet that we are heading into a world where discretion has no meaning.

In the Science paper, the researchers derived a quantity related to the fault's slow onset, called the slip weakening distance, and found it to be several orders of magnitude higher that laboratory experiments on rock samples would predict.

The researchers recruited over 800 volunteers to participate in the study and asked each participant to guess the number of gumballs in a jar, which ranged over several orders of magnitude from 54 to more than 27,000.

«They show an increase in diversity by several orders of magnitude,» Farrell says.

The strip - format ELISA used in pregnancy - test - like diagnostics tend to be several orders of magnitude less sensitive than RT - PCR, so may not be able to detect Ebola just after symptoms appear, says Sterghios Moschos, an industrial biotechnology researcher at the University of Westminster, UK.

Based on these results the researchers were able to explain why DMT1 binds the divalent metal ions iron and manganese (Fe2 + and Mn2 +), but not calcium (Ca2 +)-- in spite of the latter being several orders of magnitude more abundant.

The computational problems involved in interpreting genomic tests are several orders of magnitude more challenging that those posed by scanning a database of 4.4 million traditional records, says John Lutz, IBM's vice president of on - demand business.

As predicted, the concentration of abnormal prions detected in the nasal samples was several orders of magnitude higher than those found in CSF, the group reports online today in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

The accuracy and the stability of optical clocks are mainly based on the fact that the frequency of the optical radiation used is higher (by several orders of magnitude) than that of the microwave radiation which is used in cesium atomic clocks, which makes optical clocks much more precise than cesium clocks.

The UCR team has changed that, developing a new approach that results in highly accurate positioning information with several orders of magnitude fewer computations.

In this example, the planetary signal has been increased in strength relative by several orders of magnitude relative to the actual signaIn this example, the planetary signal has been increased in strength relative by several orders of magnitude relative to the actual signain strength relative by several orders of magnitude relative to the actual signal.

The situation further deteriorates for trapped metal nanoparticles when the incident light overlaps with a plasmonic resonance, whereby electrons move in response to light collectively, causing enhancements to local fields by several orders of magnitude.

It is important to note that the level of virus found in these fluids is several orders of magnitude lower than that found during the initial, acute, phase of infection.

«Despite huge changes in activities — several orders of magnitude — there was really only one mutation directly in the active site,» Jackson says.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Or being sucked inside a gigantic kaleidoscope full of images of folding cityscapes like that famous scene in «Inception,» only expanded and amplified by several orders of magnitude.

Quite a few of them, in fact, being led by the Grand Witch Muriel (Famke Janssen), who, as you may imagine, is several orders of magnitude worse than your average witch.

According to the conventional theories espoused in Dog Bite Prevention Week literature over the past several decades, an overwhelming free - roaming, unneutered, mostly male dog population, tethered if confined at all, should have been magnitudes of order more dangerous than the dog population of today.

a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence

Other specialized blood tests that detect DNA of the organism, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence and serologythe scientific study or diagnostic examination of blood serum, especially with regard to the response of the immune system to pathogens or introduced substances, are helpful.

Even with double the strength of your average man, we're still several orders of magnitude off what he'd need to produce the power and strength he displays in Super Mario World.

We are likewise ignoring reality in the environment, and the consequences could be several orders of magnitude worse.

The collision time between molecules in the medium (which is representative of our current atmosphere) is several orders of magnitude shorter than the excitation time, so the energy of the molecule will go into the energy reservoir of the local matter establishing a Maxwell - Boltzmann distribution at a new temperature, T + dT.

Just as the integrated circuit enabled the PC, there is analogous technology to enable several orders of magnitude more efficiency and potency in RE systems.

Therefore the stratosphere is several orders of magnitude too dry to be the major source of precipitation at any location in the troposphere.

SAL effects produce additional variations in ocean mass ranging from a few mm to more than 1 cm and can be of the same order of magnitude as the variations in dynamic bottom pressure in several ocean regions.

An ingenious theory, but the model set out in that paper seems to make predictions about what would happend to surface temperature if CO ₂ concentration were to vary which are out of kilter with empirical measurements by several orders of magitude in timescale and at least one order of magnitude and possibly the wrong sign in temperature.

That in turn is almost nothing compared to what we could get a moderate number of years from now if there is another grand minimum (like a second maunder minimum), which, from prior history, could give not just several percent but an order of magnitude more difference in cosmic ray flux.

Which is just to say that the variation in anthropogenic forcing over the last few decades (and the next few decades) is several order of magnitude larger than the change in Milankovitch forcing over the same short period.

«The extent of the state's new commitment for renewable resources is several orders of magnitude greater than anything we've seen before in our state,» said Richard L. Kauffman, Chairman of Energy and Finance for New York.

In essence the conclusion was that the money spent to promote the AGW cause was several orders of magnitude bigger than that spent on scepticism.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

In order to capture the magnitude, seasonality, and the OA physical and chemical properties, several global models now treat SOA as semi-volatile, based on an continuously increasing amount of experimental data on SOA formation in the atmospherIn order to capture the magnitude, seasonality, and the OA physical and chemical properties, several global models now treat SOA as semi-volatile, based on an continuously increasing amount of experimental data on SOA formation in the atmospherin the atmosphere.

In short, modeling an airplane wing is at least several, and likely many, orders of magnitude simpler than modeling the climate.

It would seem this can exceed temperature induced evaporation by several orders of magnitude and this effect is not, it seems, included in GCMs.

Changes in the CR flux during large FD events are of the same order of magnitude as changes experienced over the decadal solar cycle, but occur over a period of several days (Čalogović et al. 2010).

The authors do not mention that the estimated CO2 / CH4 release that led to the PETM was several orders of magnitude greater than all the carbon in all the combined fossil fuel reserves of our planet today, yet the authors state:

In the broader realm outside of formal, science the number of cranks to geniuses is several orders of magnitude greater.

This was - and still is - because water vapor in the upper troposphere occurs in concentrations several orders of magnitude less than in the lower troposphere where most of our weather occurs.

The emissivity of the atmosphere is going to be prefferentialy concerntrated in the H2O and CO2 bands because these are several orders of magnitude «better» at absorbing and emitting at these wavelengths than the N2 AND O2 are at any wavelength.

That's a more typical caption, obviously, and several orders of magnitude more specific even considering all the people named Randy in the U.S..