Sentences with phrase «stable configuration»

The future is likely subject to a huge addition in greenhouse forcing, whereas the past was in a relatively stable configuration.

It, like Greenland, is in a far more stable configuration now than it was then.

To do this, the cells are driven to a region of instability — like climbers on a mountain ridge line — and they are then left to evolve freely towards one of the two possible stable configurations.

The overall effect is the moon's pull is evened out, and it's a very stable configuration over many years.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

Unlike Windows 95 and 98, it lacked real - mode DOS support, but did include the useful System Restore feature, which allowed users to take the system back to a previous stable configuration.

Motivated by evidence that electrons in groups of aluminum atoms might form closed «shells,» physicists A. Welford Castleman Jr. at Pennsylvania State University and Shiv N. Khanna at Virginia Commonwealth University began searching for stable configurations of these atoms.

That may not seem surprising, but the team did note one shocker: Craters left by high - speed drops started out with relatively steep sides but within seconds they avalanched to form slopes with a more stable configuration — a previously unstudied process that widened the crater and made it shallower (image above, where depth is exaggerated by a factor of three).

The four positions» first base consists of an individual's mind and body which, when their «give and take» are centered on God, produce as the fourth component a perfect individual and thus a stable configuration.

According to this view, the universe can sit forever in a stable configuration, with a fixed size and radius, until it suddenly starts to expand — like an egg hatching after an exceptionally long incubation phase.

Atoms of most elements, such as hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, form tight chemical bonds by sharing electrons with their neighbours in order to give each atom a stable configuration of electrons.

A helium atom can not do this because its electrons already have a stable configuration.

A solid, frozen state is a stable configuration for the beads, Behringer says.

Another configuration, «the friend of my friend is my friend,» is considered to also be a stable configuration in the social network.

The study also found that contrary to classical structural balance theory, the «enemy of my enemy is my enemy» configuration was actually a stable configuration.

In reality, bismuth vanadate exhibits complex chemical instabilities that originate from kinetic limitations, which are related to the inability to structurally reorganize the surface phase such that it could reach a stable configuration under the operating conditions.

Trans fats are generated by a high - heat process that hydrolyzes polyunsaturated fats into a more stable configuration, which increases their shelf life but makes them so unnatural they almost can no longer be called a food.

Although in each of these pieces the shafts of yarn are all of identical height (stretching from floor to ceiling) and evenly spaced in relation to each other, they appeared to differ wildly thanks to the vagaries of perspective, steadfastly refusing to cohere into a stable configuration, let alone the outline of an implied plane or object.