Sentences with phrase «small number of interactions»

The present study shows that Gächter's previous conclusion that punishment was detrimental «was an experimental artifact generated by a relatively small number of interactions,» says anthropologist Rob Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the mechanisms that shape human culture.

«However, with a peptide, we're considering a smaller number of interactions and an error might throw our design off quite a bit, so our energy function has to be more precise.»

Not exact matches

With the consent of a small number of study participants, some video snippets of mother — infant interaction were shown to board members at that meeting.

«The number of protein functions that are currently targeted by drugs is incredibly small compared to the total number of protein interactions that could be targeted for therapeutic benefit,» says Geoffrey Wahl, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory.

A «Day of Discovery», small numbers ensuring personalised service and plenty of interaction with the natural environment and attractions of the Island.

There are an ever increasing number of these «indirect effects», but the two most discussed are the aerosol / cloud opacity interaction (more aerosols provide more sites for water to condense in clouds, thus cloud droplets are smaller and clouds become more opaque), and the cloud lifetime effect (smaller droplets make it more difficult to make drops big enough to rain, and so clouds live longer).

Each of these numbers is an»em ergent» property of the climate system — i.e. something that is affected by many different processes and interactions, and isn't simply derived just based on knowledge of a small - scale process.

Recently, modelers have undertaken a small number of studies involving coupled atmosphere - ocean GCMs that attempted to quantify the importance of atmosphere - ocean interactions for climate change.

So to argue for the insignificance of the thermosphere to radiative balance it is not sufficient to point to its small mass and number of molecules — one must accompany this with physics showing for instance the mean free path of photons between interactions with air molecules to be sufficiently long that the thermosphere will not significantly affect outgoing flux.

Presumably the lack of interaction between the academic and commercial worlds, and the small number of commercial developers has led to a situation where it is a lesson learned in isolation by each newcomer to the development of knowledge - based applications.

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