Not exact matches
As UPC Prof at ICFO Juan P. Torres states, «any
slight refractive index
change introduced by an impurity
in the sample is translated into a phase difference and thus an intensity variation
in the
pattern, showing the contours and therefore size of the irregularity.»
«Interestingly, even the
slightest manipulation of this balance
changes the
pattern of blood vessel growth, causing the blood vessels to grow into the motor neuron region prematurely,» explains the first author of the study, Patricia Himmels, a doctoral candidate
in the research group led by Dr Ruiz de Almodóvar.
There is nothing more frustrating than persisting
in a behavior
pattern that is not achieving the results we desire when a
slight change could deliver significant improvements.
Almost all of them undergo
changes in their attack
patterns mid fight, mixing up their moves, severely punishing the player for even the
slightest of mistakes.
In the way of colours, you have the ability to adjust and do
slight customisations, such as
changing your runners vision
patterns.
However, Shelley has always been intrigued with natural rhythms and
slight variations that create shifts
in pattern and perception, such as drum beats
in music, moving and migrating cloud formations and systematic
changes in color and size of similar shapes that cause an enhanced awareness of an otherwise unnoticeable feature.
The authors of the study said the
change could be temporary, given the short span of observations, but it matches a
slight but steady warming trend
in the affected ocean regions and also matches a
pattern scientists have predicted would occur under human - caused global warming.
Interestingly, the paper «Climate Trends and Global food production since 1980» (Lobell, Schlenker, Costa - Roberts,
in Sciencexpress, 5 May, Science 1204531) confirms my finding of the absence of climate
change in the USA: «A notable exception to the [global] warming
pattern is the United States, which produces c. 40 % of global maize and soybean and experienced a
slight cooling over the period... the country with largest overall share of crop production (United States) showed no [adverse] effect due to the lack of significant climate trends».
If we keep burning fossil fuels at our current rates, food may become harder and harder to grow
in many places — as even
slight changes in long - established precipitation and temperature
patterns can wreak havoc on certain fruits and vegetables — and what does grow could be less and less nutritious.
Namely that global agricultural irrigation is on the edge of sustainability
in many regions, including areas of the US, and that even a
slight change in rainfall
patterns across the temperate mid-latitudes would have extremely serious consequences?
Physically, one could expect a
slight decrease
in surface evaporation (a «dimming» effect) and related
changes to precipitation, a warming of the tropopause and lower stratosphere (and
changes in static stability), increased Eurasian «winter warming» effects (related to shifts
in the wind
patterns as are seen
in the aftermath ofvolcanoes).
Physically, one could expect a
slight decrease
in surface evaporation (a «dimming» effect) and related
changes to precipitation, a warming of the tropopause and lower stratosphere (and
changes in static stability), increased Eurasian «winter warming» effects (related to shifts
in the wind
patterns as are seen
in the aftermath of volcanoes).
Many of those they studied, particularly the species endemic to Southern California, are «right on the edge» and could tip into extinction at the
slightest change in weather
patterns.
It also means some
slight changes in people's sleep
patterns.