Sentences with phrase «small changes in frequency»

But this human adaptation time scale may be longer than the time over which climate change affects storms, so that comparatively small changes in the frequency of generational events can have large social consequences.

«The bats also need to use the slow timing of the right hemisphere to use sonar — which relies on detecting small changes in frequency — to track the velocity of the fast - moving insects they fly after and eat,» Washington says.

Not exact matches

Among the likely changes to Dodd - Frank: raising the threshold for tougher oversight from the current $ 50 billion in assets to $ 250 billion; exempting small banks from the so - called Volcker rule, which currently bars them from speculative trading; reducing the amount of financial reporting, particularly racial and income data on mortgage holders; lowering the frequency of regulatory exams; and easing the conditions of stress tests.

Researchers have found that a small change in a fruit fly gene affects the frequency at which they sing to their mates, Ars Technica reports.

Analysis of 166 stars found almost a quarter — much more than expected — had small, rocky planets, which should force a change in thinking on the overall frequency of such bodies.

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

In addition, high frequency stimulation delivered via macroelectrodes has been shown to inhibit nearby neuronal somata, while also providing excitation to axonal projections, indicating that small changes in electrode location could lead to substantially different results (Herrington et al., 2016In addition, high frequency stimulation delivered via macroelectrodes has been shown to inhibit nearby neuronal somata, while also providing excitation to axonal projections, indicating that small changes in electrode location could lead to substantially different results (Herrington et al., 2016in electrode location could lead to substantially different results (Herrington et al., 2016).

• CpG methylation status quantification PyroMark ID provides highly reproducible quantification of methylation frequencies in individual consecutive CpG sites, enabling accurate measurement of even small changes in methylation levels that are associated with deregulation of gene expression and tumorigenesis.

Specifically, in this series of works it is demonstrated that the behavioral response of zebrafish individuals and small shoals varies as the aspect ratio, color pattern, and tail - beat frequency of a robotic fish is changed.

A small change in average global temperature leads to a dramatic change in the frequency of extreme events.23 24 25 The following graphs in Figure 5 help to illustrate this point.

If you don't like the noise you won't appreciate the slow, languid way the engine gains revs, subjecting you to every small change in tone and frequency.

Small changes in start dates, market capitalization, or frequency of rebalancing can have a huge impact on the results.

I live in a small town some 200Km north of Sao Paulo, and changes in the frequency of frosts and duration of Winter cold are noticeable comparing to, say, 20 years ago.

However, simple statistical reasoning indicates that substantial changes in the frequency of extreme events (and in the maximum feasible extreme, e.g., the maximum possible 24 - hour rainfall at a specific location) can result from a relatively small shift of the distribution of a weather or climate variable.

Box TS.5, Figure 1 shows a schematic of a such a PDF and illustrates the effect a small shift (corresponding to a small change in the average or centre of the distribution) can have on the frequency of extremes at either end of the distribution.

That doesn't sound like a big change, however, this small shift in absolute probability translates into a big change in the expected frequency (how often such a heat wave should occur on average).

Scientists agree that even a small increases in the global temperature lead to significant climate and weather changes, affecting cloud cover, precipitation, wind patterns, the frequency and severity of storms, and the timing of seasons.

Dramatic changes in the frequency distribution of lifetime maximum intensity (LMI) have occurred in the North Atlantic, while smaller changes are evident in the South Pacific and South Indian Oceans, and the stronger hurricanes in all of these regions have become more intense.

Also, changes in the frequency of other, smaller scale weather extremes, notably droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and extreme rainfall, although they have not been specifically assessed here, can occur.

Even a small change in average global temperature leads to a big change in the frequency and severity of heat waves.

While small changes in average temperature may be relatively easy to contend with, climate change is causing a marked increase in the frequency of extreme events — and these can be deadly.

«It is somewhat embarrassing for me to admit this, but part of the problem is that a small minority of my [scientist] colleagues, people who should know better, are feeding the extreme - weather / climate hype in the mistaken belief that by doing so they can encourage people to do the right thing — lessen their carbon footprint,» wrote Mass in a blog post, which derided attempts to connect the recent frequency of extreme weather events — superstorms, deep droughts, historically bad winters, etc. — to manmade climate change.

So the climate change signal is swimming uphill in the MSE criterion just because it's narrowband, let alone that it's amplitude is small compared to higher frequency components.

But that could be changing in the near future, as some small low - energy IoT devices could be powered by the virtual «electrosmog» that surrounds us all the time - the radio frequency (RF) transmissions of the wireless and mobile networks that are broadcast around us.

Not many Canadians have Twitter accounts (~ 25 %), and only a tiny fraction of subscribers engage with sufficient frequency to notice small changes in the service experience.