Sentences with phrase «spread by diffusion»

Researchers disagree, though, whether the research shows that farming spread by diffusion of ideas in this part of Asia rather than being introduced by a major wave of farmers, as in Europe.

Other linguists argue that the computational models, built for genes that can only be inherited, deal poorly with languages that spread by diffusion.

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In the present day human education is spreading its net over the earth on an unprecedented scale and by means of unprecedented methods of expression and diffusion.

Social democrats in Europe are the heirs of a pluralist tradition encapsulated by Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Thomas Paine and Pierre - Joseph Proudhon which champions the diffusion of property rights and economic control, spreading power as widely as possible.

As such, the rate of diffusion of misinformation can be very rapid as evidenced by recent events driven by panic spreading online regarding so - called «swine» flu in 2009 and a mass exodus from an Asian nation also driven by unnecessary online panic.

Waters with longer τ are spread across the deep oceans by the «diffusive conveyor» and, by τ ∼ 3000 years, organized into a characteristic deep - North - Pacific pattern that is dominated by eddy diffusion.

Best Answer — Chosen by Voters diffusion of gases is basically when a gas spreads itself around its container.

If you (generic) can't see how ludicrous it is to think that a real gas which has weight and volume behaves in the atmosphere as if an ideal gas which has neither, and think that because the ideal imaginary gas spreads to fill the container according to its given properties means that a real gas CO2 behaves this way in the atmosphere, you'll be easily convinced that CO2 can diffuse and spreads as this imaginary gas and take it as perfectly logical then that because it is well mixed by this imaginary diffusion it stays that way and can stay in the atmosphere for hundreds and even thousands of years accumulating.

Much of the discussion on Legal Evolution will be based in diffusion theory, a concept developed by sociologist Everett Rogers that examines how, why and how quickly new ideas and technology spread and are adopted.