Sentences with phrase «small changes in his variables»

Is it possible that one or two small changes in his variables or the parameters (like the probabilities assoicated with the initial conditions seeding the storms) could have changed his conclusions a great deal?

Aren't the predictions of such models extremely dependent on small changes in the variables and all the parameters?

Not exact matches

Instead of leveraging the MBA to make one or even two career changes — such as securing a promotion or moving from a small financial services firm to Morgan Stanley (MS)-- triple jumpers shake up three variables all at once: country, job function, and industry — and they do all of this in a highly compressed timeframe.

I know I am lucky, that if one small variable had changed, I could have had a series of interventions in both of my girls» births.

What we call the weather is a highly detailed mix of events that happen in a particular locality on any particular day — rainfall, temperature, humidity and so on — and its development can vary wildly with small changes in a few of these variables.

Correlational evidence shows that sizable changes in teacher - related variables are associated with much smaller changes in student learning outcomes (Hill, Rowan, and Ball, 2005; Hanushek and Rivkin, 2012).

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitablIn No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitablin core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

You can't dig out of the hole if you are dead, so when you are near that boundary, even small changes in the distance from death can affect sensitive variables lke the stock price.

The system can have a net negative feedback and still change very much provided a radiative forcing from sunlight or CO2 is sufficiently large, although for typical changes in these variables that Earth encounters, one would indeed expect only relatively small climate changes to occur if negative feedbacks did in fact dominate.

If proved correct, this theory would suggest that relatively small, naturally occurring fluctuations in greenhouse gases are the master variable that has driven global climate change on time scales of ten thousand to one million years.

The number, duration and intensity of heat waves (although highly variable over a small number of years) should not change over decades in a stable climate.

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.

Carbon dioxide may in fact have very little effect as a control variable in pushing climate to shift state — a small change lost amidst multiple other factors of which clouds, ice, UV and orbital irregularities are the obvious candidates.

What services do storage offer a power system with high variable renewable energy penetrations, and how might the value of these services change in different power system contexts (e.g., moderate versus high variable renewable energy penetrations, large versus small power systems, market and non-market systems)?

Conceptually — small changes in conditions precipitate non-linear responses in the system and the system shifts into a «new» state that is either warmer or cooler by amounts that, because of multiple negative and positive feedbacks, bear no linear relationships to the original control variable.

Contribution from working group I to the fifth assessment report by IPCC TS.5.4.1 Projected Near - term Changes in Climate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle variables.

The system is pushed by small changes in control variables past thresholds at which points the balance of ice, dust, cloud and biology shifts.

The point I was trying to make, was that with only these few variables, you can have lots of temperature variation caused by relatively small changes in one of the parameters and depending on the scale of the changes, or the coincidence of one or more changes acting together, or even opposing each other, the readjustment time of the temperature in the room would vary.

These are decadal shifts that are non-linear responses to small changes in control variables.

They are systems that are non-linearly sensitive to small changes in control variables.

While many aspects of the response of the climate system to greenhouse gas forcing appear to be linear, regime or mode transitions can not be quantified by a simple number because responses do not scale with the amplitude of the forcing: small perturbations can induce large changes in certain variables of the climate system.

Your internal body temperature is not necessarily singularly a function of the temperature of the fluid surrounding you, in some situations your body can compensate, but your body's ability to maintain homeostatis can certainly be affected by a relatively small change in only one of the variables which normally create that homeostasis.

In sum, «numerically small changes in climatic variables may produce significant environment changes,» Bryson (1974), pp. 753, 756, 75In sum, «numerically small changes in climatic variables may produce significant environment changes,» Bryson (1974), pp. 753, 756, 75in climatic variables may produce significant environment changes,» Bryson (1974), pp. 753, 756, 759.

Fluctuations are damped — they tend to settle down into a particular state until the pressure from relatively small changes in control variables results in instability in the system as a whole which fluctuates wildly before settling into a different state entirely.

The other problem with computer models, besides the fact that they are not and can not constitute evidence in and of themselves, is that their results are often sensitive to small changes in tuning or setting of variables, and that these decisions about tuning are often totally opaque to outsiders.

Mandelbrot argues that stochastic behavior often arises in systems where large numbers of input variables affect the output and where small perturbations in some of the input variables can lead to large changes in the output.