Sentences with phrase «sharp peaks of»

Compared to strong cycles, such cycles typically feature a broader maximum, with a 3 - year plateau on top of which two or more surges of activity can produce sharp peaks of similar height (see graphic).

The place is very diversified - on the one hand the ocean just at your fingertips, the sharp peaks of the mountains rising above the water and the endless black beaches of Isleta.

Not exact matches

In Pakistan, where the drone campaign began in 2004 under the Bush administration, the US conducted eight strikes in 2017, a sharp difference from previous highs, including a peak of 117 in 2010.

After the peak prices at the end of 2016, there was a sharp drop which inclined me to unload my gold and silver miners for a hefty profit.

So the sharp fall in oil prices has certainly been disruptive, but stabilization from distressed trough levels should be good for economic growth even if the price of oil doesn't rebound back to peak levels of above $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

The new calendar year has witnessed a sharp improve in revenue downgrades from oil and fuel firms, which have been strike by the cost of Brent crude a lot more than halving from its peak of $ 115 a barrel in June.

NEW YORK / LONDON (Reuters)- Bitcoin plunged by 30 percent to below $ 12,000 on Friday as investors dumped the cryptocurrency after its sharp rise to a peak close to $ 20,000 prompted warnings by experts of a bubble.

That was a bit worse than even the estimate based on a terminal P / E of 7, because the brutal 1974 bottom formed a sharp but temporary «V.» In contrast, in the 10 years beginning in 1990 (when the price / peak - earnings ratio was close to 11), the S&P 500 achieved a total return of fully 20 % annually.

And what I thought were mountain peaks in Virginia are rolling hills compared to this state's sharp upward inclination of rock.

As much as Bell finds every detail along Curiosity's path intriguing, he is «going a little batty» to keep rolling and visit one of the most spectacular showcases of Martian weirdness: Mount Sharp, a 5,500 - meter - high peak at the center of Gale Crater.

The typical wavelength - dependent response of a microsphere is a sharp, symmetric peak centered on the resonant wavelength of the cavity.

The 3.5 - meter (137 - inch) WIYN on Kitt Peak near Tucson in Arizona is the newest of 27 telescopes on the mountain and collects some of the world's sharpest images, despite its relatively small primary mirror.

Those particles should emerge with a definite energy determined by the mass of the dark energy particles, leading to a sharp peak in the energy spectrum of electrons and positrons from space.

The low hand hygiene compliance rates at case start and case end corresponded with sharp peaks in bacterial contamination of the 20 most frequently touched objects during these same time periods.

The sharp outline of the Baby Eagle Nebula is a tribute to the imaging advances contained in NSF's Mayall Telescope on Arizona's Kitt Peak.

Wind vortices blowing across the crater slowly formed a radial moat in the sediment, eventually leaving only the off - center Mount Sharp, a 3 - mile - high peak similar in height to the rim of the crater.

That difference can be accounted for by the nonlinear nature of the waves, which are not sinusoidal — but instead have rounded troughs, along with sharp peaks that result from the water being pushed upward against the pull of gravity.

The resulting spectrum was essentially smooth, without any sharp peaks indicative of absorption by specific molecules.

Maps of Earth are sharp in detail, as are those for Mars, showing mountain peaks and impact basins in high relief.

This is, in part, because of the very characteristics that make it so interesting: Typically, the constituents of a chemical compound can be determined through spectroscopy, among other tools, but in the case of eumelanin the spectrographs don't show the sharp peaks that are ordinarily useful in identification.

A spectrum of our Sun, created by the HERMES spectrograph (Credit: N.A. Sharp, NOAO / NSO / Kitt Peak FTS / AURA / NSF)

Nigel Sharp, Kitts Peak National Observatory / NOAO / NSF (Spectrum of the Sun from 4,000 to 7,000 angstroms — larger image) © Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA).

With gigantic sharp white - gray peaks emerging from the lush green of Alpine meadows, these mountains rise where the African continental plate...

The waves of data are added, and the interference pattern created by their overlap refines true peak signals into sharper points and flattens the random noise.

Nigel Sharp, Kitts Peak National Observatory / NOAO / NSF (Spectrum of Arcturus from 4,000 to 7,000 angstroms — larger image) © Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA).

The distribution of tags in a defined cluster, at least in their figure, looks like a bell curve, with a sharp peak in the middle.

Increasing muscle fascicle length through eccentric training could therefore be a valuable method for improving athletic performance in movements that have peak contractions at long muscle lengths, such as the terminal swing phase of sprinting, or the ground contact phase of sharp change of direction (COD) maneuvers.

You couldn't ask for two actors better suited to play a couple of sharp - featured, hipster vampire lovers than Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, two actors who've hit the absolute peak of coolness at this point in their respective careers.

Somewhat boldly, a sharp first - act tonal shift (signalled by a shot of a storybook opening in classic Disney style) quickly sweeps Crimson Peak into the ballrooms and creaky mansions of grim fairytales.

After important legal precedents were set and institutional support waned, the average number of cases declined but then took a sharp upturn from 1993 on, with a peak of 76 cases in 2000 and a total of 65 in 2007.

The 3.0 - litre, twin - turbo engine has picked up another 17kW of power to peak at 287kW and AMG has also tweaked the nine - speed automatic transmission for sharper, crisper gearshifts.

It is, however, weighted by overall total sales (they put this back in after having dropped it for a couple of years), keeping long - term big sellers afloat even after their sharp sales peaks have leveled out.

Board our private jet and fly west to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, where secluded bays and sun - kissed beaches meet lush forests and sharp peaks.

From France into Italy, you'll follow an ancient trade route on a winding trail that brings you through quaint Italian villages and climbs to breathless heights, where the sharp snowcapped peaks of the Alps frame deep valleys and golden meadows.

Situated on the crater of the extinct volcano and enclosed by the sharp peaks and lush rainforest.

This is the peak of Mario's three - dimensional outings, with the controls at their sharpest, level design at its most creative, and an overriding sense of joy throughout.

The plots are similar — little or no warming from 1978 to before the El Nino peak in 1998, a sharp increase from 1999 to 2002, and varying degrees of fall - back from about 2005/2006 led, surprisingly, by the radio - sonde data.

In the case where this happens on both sides of L, the Planck function could have a sharp peak or dip at L or else follow an S - shape going through L, with an approximate B = a + b / ztau ^ c on both sides of L except at small ztau (a and b could be different on each side of L, but for simplicity of behavior of net intensities and flux, keep the same c on each side of L.)

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Most recently the peak in 1998 coincided with the Sun, and the quick halt of any rise is consistant with the sharp drop off of Sun spots.

Might be: The 30 year temperature declines between 1880 and 1910, and between 1940 and 1970 are slightly sharper than the current flattened peak of 2000 — 2010.

By the way, I am talking of actual temperature measurements here and am excluding the sharp peak in GISTEMP at the beginning of 1998 which gives it a boost of 0.07 degrees.

If one had, without the older tree rings, a nearly straight line series up to the modern era, and further if the modern era peaks and valleys did not correspond well with the instrumental record, I would think some major doubt on the validity of the Yamal series as a climate proxy could be cast - even with sharp blade up.

The sharp 1,470 - year peak that dominated the millennial band is removed, with power redistributed to a larger number of low - amplitude peaks (see figure on last page).

The power density spectrum of CET shows the highest, sharpest peak at periods around 176 months; it and lower frequencies (incl.

The 1997 book «Climate of the British Isles» edited by Mike Hulme and Elaine Barrow (page 188) has a graph showing a temperature peak around 1550 followed by a very sharp decline straddling the beginning of the 17th century.

What makes reliance on harmonic components highly precarious here is that even Scafetta's analyses do not show the sharp spectral peaks characteristic of narrow - band processes, which might be usefully approximated over short prediction horizons by pure sinusoids.

The customary representation of this process is a sharp peak, instead of the broad plateau suggested here.

If your firm's caseload tends to have notably sharp peaks and valleys from month to month, it might be time to consider some form of advertising — something beyond a standard directory profile, that is.

Bitcoin prices took a sharp downturn on Wednesday due to fears of a crackdown from South Korea, falling below $ 10,000, half the price of its peak a month ago.