Sentences with phrase «small changes of a control»

«It's useful in modeling concepts in neuroscience to have a system that will yield a diverse range of behaviors for small changes of a control parameter, as this may help offer some insights about how the same neural tissue displays different responses,» Alonso said, whose research was funded by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Foundation.

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It also takes advantage of a hybrid proof - of - work and proof - of - stake mining system so that a small group can not take control of the flow of transactions or changes made to it, without the community's consent.

By contrast, the National Security Strategy paper speaks not of permanent superiority but of leadership, calls for a secure presence in space but not control of it (or cyberspace), implies the possibility of regime changes without stating it explicitly, and does not mention developing smaller nuclear weapons.

When controlling the quality of the changing pad, check that it is not too small and that it can be wiped clean easily.

In this study, researchers from the UCLA School of Nursing used the Valsalva maneuver — during which participants breathe hard out through a very small tube to raise blood pressure — to measure brain activity as it controls the blood pressure change.

«In recent years, we discovered that our RNA is highly regulated and if only two or three modifications at the DNA level can control it, there may be hundreds of small changes in RNA that control its stability, its intracellular localization or its maturation in living beings.»

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells.

Until now, many scientists believed that blood flow within the brain was solely controlled by changes in the diameter of arterioles, blood vessels that branch out from arteries into smaller capillaries.

In the study, one group of birds received small implants of tiny, flexible tubes containing melatonin to change their body clocks, while another control group did not.

Some of these genes control both cardiovascular development and skeletal development, suggesting the intriguing possibility that the giraffe's stature and turbocharged cardiovascular system evolved in concert through changes in a small number of genes.

«Hybrid» solution with small barriers affordable now Assuming a «middle climate change» scenario of about a foot of sea - level rise by midcentury, the team further assessed the cost - effectiveness of each flood - control strategy by measuring whether its benefits, or avoided risk, would outweigh the investment costs.

In addition, we calculated the change from control that each experiment could detect with powers of 0.7 and 0.8 to provide a measure of the smallest changes detectable with reasonable power.

As the effects of temperature anomalies on the PDSI are small compared to precipitation anomalies (Guttman, 1991), the PDSI is largely controlled by precipitation changes.

Best: Cherries are one of the few natural foods to contain melatonin, the chemical that helps control our body's internal clock, says Keri Gans, a registered dietician in New York City and author of The Small Change Diet.

Step - ups are very similar to lunges in terms of the muscles worked, but because you have control over the height of the step and the change in forward momentum and center of gravity shift due to an overall smaller step - width, they tend to be easier on the knees.

This pattern could be interpreted as a delayed onset to allodynia, yet scores from ketogenic diet - fed and control diet - fed nerve - damaged mice never differed significantly, and a small change in ketogenic diet - fed sham - surgery mice at weeks 1 and 2 probably contributed to a loss of statistical significance when comparing sham versus treatment animal within each diet group.

Yet by following a controlled programme of small positive changes, chosen by YOU, working with a specific aim to improve YOUR lifestyle and change bad habits, YOU will improve your overall wellbeing with life long health benefits.

Changes always come along, in big or small ways.Life is full of ups and downs, but always looking up, you never get scared on the way down I see my life with all the good times ahead, I strongly believe that everyone must absolutely take control of its own existence.

A lot of small changes to the VR shooter formula add up to more than the sum of their parts, delivering an enjoyable experience somewhat let down by overly fussy controls and a lack of variety.

The Sports suspension doesn't provide hot hatch levels of body control but there's enough dynamism here to make light work of quick changes of direction, and there's a sense - not always present in Volkswagen Group small cars - that the rear axle is assisting in those direction changes.

Updated steering wheel controls mean that you needn't paw around the center console to change what's on these displays, and switchgear for the dual - zone HVAC is intuitive, though some of the buttons are surprisingly small for work - gloved hands.

Changes to the Continental GT for 2015 include a new front bumper with a smaller radiator shell, redesigned fenders with a new vent with a metallic «B» adornment, new bright chrome fender badges for the V8 S and W12 models, redesigned boot lid, reshaped and widened rear bumper with full - width brightware, a new rear diffuser design for V8 S and GT Speed, new 20 and 21 - inch wheels (new 20 - inch 6 tri-spoke wheel for GT V8 and GT W12 with painted finish for V8 and bright machined for W12, 21 - inch seven - twin - spoke wheel in Graphite grey with bright machined spokes for Mulliner Driving Specification models, addition of 21 - inch five - spoke directional sports wheel for V8 S and GT Speed), three new body colours choices (Marlin (a rich metallic blue), Camel (a soft golden tone) and Jetstream (a light, bright metallic blue), new straight - fluting pattern for 4 seats with Mulliner Driving Specification (standard on GT Speed) includes a tightened «small - diamond» pattern on seat upholstery, redesigned driver controls, optional sports - orientated steering wheel, larger gear - shift paddles incorporating tactile knurled metal embellishers, new dials and graphics at driver's instrument panel, interior illuminated by LEDs, centre console with a new black gear lever surround, a new hidden storage compartment between rear seats capable of accommodating and charging electronic devices including iPads, optional semi-aniline hide for the seat cushions and backrests in the GT W12 and GT Speed, 2 new leather colours choices (Shortbread, Camel), new Alcantara headlining option (colour matched to all 17 of the available interior hide colours) for the GT V8 S, GT W12 and Speed coupe; optional on - board WiFi, increased engine power to 590 PS (434 kW; 582 hp) and 720 N ⋅ m (531 lb ⋅ ft) for the GT W12, 6 - cylinder deactivation for the GT W12.

There are other small software changes, like more boldface text options, gradients between lighting controls and a reverse text accessibility option, but the big screen and waterproof capability are the stars of this reading show.

When you are controlling a position of $ 100,000 and the pip changes even in small amounts, that can multiple your winnings.

Whether large exotics or small housedogs and cats, young or old pets, mutt or purebred, Avila said the main mission of the City's animal control division doesn't change or waver.

Tanks now have a «reverse gear» option which lets you control direction of movement, a small change that makes a big difference when you are trying to pull a tank out of a losing battle without exposing its weaker rear armor.

Reinvigorating interest in what was presumed to be a dead franchise, 2K Marin scrabbled to appease fans, both new and old, by once again changing the mechanics to allow for greater tactical control by putting the player in charge of a small team and reintroducing the strategic elements it had previously eschewed.

It gives you control of a small ever - changing world while two opposing factions battle it out, letting...

The dead zones often found on the sticks was nowhere to be seen; even slight movements registered perfectly and the entire control scheme in general felt just sublime including touch screen weapon changing and Mantys control — a small droid unit you can take control of and fly around as recon, which serves as one of many Van - Guard systems you can unlock.

Ra2 is a physics based skill game with puzzle elements, inspired by the smallest elementary particles of our universe and the sequel of Radium.The core of the game is to navigate a ball through the different levels, controlling and influencing it by two tractor beams.The polarization change, one of the main mechanics...

Other times you'll be zooming around Grand Canyon Drift, which usually comes with a vehicle with top control and speed, when you'll suddenly leave the tarmac and go off - road, having to adjust your driving style to accommodate it; the once easily navigated courses are now a nightmare of twitch reactions where the smallest mistake can cost you the medal, simply because of a slight change in environment.

Take the Roadie Run — the awkward yet iconic sprint of the series returns, however, now you can vault over scenery with a simple tap of B. It's a small change but it gives you far more versatility when maneuvering during a firefight and makes controlling JD far more fluid than the tank that was his father.

Small changes, such as the way that submissions are pulled off, have been made (finally giving you a choice between different submission methods to suit your personal control preferences), but a lot of what's on offer is familiar.

Large changes in cosmic rays are documented in response to magnetic - field variations (the Laschamp event of about 40,000 years ago is especially prominent) with no corresponding change in climate, so any cosmic - ray influence on the climate must be very small (a weak correlation can be obscured by noise; a strong control is almost always visible «by eye,» and clearly is absent).

Second, the proposed future effects of rising temperatures on endemicity are at least one order of magnitude smaller than changes observed since about 1900 and up to two orders of magnitude smaller than those that can be achieved by the effective scale - up of key control measures.

The ability of a band to shape the temperature profile of the whole atmosphere should tend to be maximum at intermediate optical thicknesses (for a given band width), because at small optical thicknesses, the amounts of emission and absorption within any layer will be small relative to what happens in other bands, while at large optical thicknesses, the net fluxes will tend to go to zero (except near TOA and, absent convection, the surface) and will be insensitive to changes in the temperature profile (except near TOA), thus allowing other bands greater control over the temperature profile (depending on wavelength — greater influence for bands with larger bandwidths at wavelengths closer to the peak wavelength — which will depend on temperature and thus vary with height.

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.

Organisms have metabolic energy that they use to control their interior pH. It is ingenuous to assume that small changes in pH are going to be wantonly lethal — organisms have a range of pH, O2, salinity, and temperature tolerance.

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.

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

1) Indeed government policy should not be based on political pressure from a small minority; but that includes the minority of activists who have hijacked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[1] to the extent that the scientific content behind its Assessment Reports has been distorted by the small number of green activists controlling the Summaries.

Scenarios involving changes for fire control or economic development showed small increases of 2 % and 6 % respectively.

Snowtown is a small town, it is home to about 400 people, but it is doing far more than its share in the fight against out - of - control climate change.

The CRF is the first major US pension fund to join the Coalition's 28 members, who between them control over $ 3 trillion in assets and have pledged to gradually decarbonize a total of $ 600 billion by designing investment portfolios with a smaller climate change impact.

The simplest use of models I have seen is for a controlled experiment with a small change to the model (e.g. a potential improvement to how it implements some piece of the physics), against a control run (typically the previous run without the latest change), and against the observational data.

The parameters controlling the system can be transparently combined into a single control, and there exists a critical value of this control from which a small perturbation leads to a qualitative change in a crucial feature of the system, after some observation time.

The changes forced many landlords of small and large residential real estate properties to pay attention to rent control for the first time from an operational perspective.

The vast majority of small businesses are highly susceptible to environmental threats and changes that are entirely outside of their control, and the cases using Bohemier principles usually follow this pattern.

Our clients tell us that 98 % of the documents they create require no editing and, for the small proportion that do, changes are managed through the controlled edit function.

The couples that will get the most out of the advice are those you are trying to make small changes to their financial habits: controlling their spending, beginning to invest, choosing or changing careers, and so on.