Sentences with phrase «standard explanation»

That's a pretty standard explanation for a game delay.
According to standard explanations for galaxy formation, this should not be, because black holes are so small compared to the volume of galaxies today.
The standard explanation for the relationship between the dollar and oil price is that global oil transactions are carried out in U.S. dollars.
The standard explanations in the legal community emphasize the fierce competition for business among law firms that began when clients started to shop around for the best deal, rather than maintaining their traditional ties with a single firm.
Our conclusion is that neither of the standard explanations for the difficulty of clearly specifying the deity will bear examination.
High unemployment, social isolation, anti-Muslim prejudice ¯ the standard explanations are canvassed.
The standard explanation recounts the existence of a material object, its reflection of light waves of a certain length, the transference of these light waves from the object to the perceptual organs of the observer (in this case, the eyes), the interaction of the light waves with the rods and cones of the retina, the transference of nerve impulses along the relevant nerves to the brain, and, finally, the production of the sensation of sight.
The standard explanation of such moral evils is that they are the unfortunate consequence of human freedom.
Is it possible that all the standard explanations for this decline — more channels, more entertainment options, more ways of «accessing» sports through new media — disguise a larger truth: That big - time pro sports, a phenomenon scarcely more than 100 years old, will prove to have the life cycle of the gall midge, which achieves adulthood in morning and is dead by midday?
Researchers have long shown links between father involvement and daughters» sexual behavior, with the standard explanation attributing that influence to shared genes that impact both a father's behavior and relationships and his child's problem behavior, including engaging in risky sex and affiliating with delinquent peers.
The standard explanation among physical anthropologists has long been that early hominids left life in the trees to forage on the open savanna and that walking upright was the key to surviving in that new environment.
The standard explanation is that the evolution of the modern groups of mammals and birds didn't get under way until after that.
Nonplussed, I prepare to launch into my standard explanation: short, vague, and well rehearsed.
The standard explanation, developed in the 1930s, is that every cell in the body is tagged with a self - identifier, the molecular equivalent of a Do Not Disturb sign on a hotel doorknob.
The standard explanation for this is that the atoms in the atmosphere of the star absorb some of the light which is emitted, and each element absorbs only some distinct, characteristic wavelengths of light.
The Standard Explanation and Its Recognized Problems.
After finding no empirical support for standard explanations, such as selection or income effects, we offer a new explanation.
It is striking, however, that wage compression seems to have a stronger effect than the standard explanation — increase in job opportunities for women.
The standard explanation of this work as an indictment of the authority of the museum and its classification of objects into arbitrary cultural hierarchies has always felt somewhat canned and unsatisfying.
The standard explanation is that even though he marched to the edge of abstraction, it seems never to have occurred to him to turn his back on the visible world.
NOAA has issued its annual forecast for the hurricane season, along with its now - standard explanation that there is a natural cycle of multidecadal (40 - 60 year) length in the North Atlantic circulation (often referred to as the «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» — see Figure), that is varying the frequency of Atlantic tropical cyclones, and that the present high level of activity is due to a concurrent positive peak in this oscillation.
The standard explanation for such a spike — rotting vegetation — seemed insufficient.
The standard explanation for inverse sunspot correlations (also observed, for example, in the flow of some South American rivers) is that other effects of the solar cycle alter upper atmosphere chemistry and physics, leading to the production of ultra fine particles that settle into the troposphere, where they function as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).
This was already known for the standard explanation for how tropical cyclones are formed, e.g., see here.
If you re-read Section 3.2 of our Paper 2, you'll see that we acknowledge this is the standard explanation... if you assume that the atmosphere is only in local thermodynamic equilibrium!
What is the standard explanation?
What about the standard explanation for the glacial - interglacial cycles he mentioned?
According to Spencer's account of the standard explanation (see above,) the changes in CO2 during the glacial - interglacial cycles are regarded as a feedback, rather than the primary forcing, so it's difficult to fathom with whom he thinks he's arguing.
Summary of Part 2: Roy Spencer repeatedly claims that most of the rest of the climate science community deliberately ignores natural sources of climate variation, but then contradicts himself by launching an inept attack on the standard explanation for climate change during the glacial - interglacial cycles of the last million years (i.e., they are initiated by Milankovitch cycles).
Check out his discussion of the standard explanation of what caused the glacial - interglacial cycles (i.e., intermittent ice ages) of the last million years or so, which involved huge swings in the global average temperature of about 4 - 7 °C.
Now let's move on to Spencer's second objection to the standard explanation for the glacial - interglacial cycles.
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