Sentences with phrase «time scales point»

The somewhat contradictory results for the similarity of radionuclide - based dipole reconstructions and geomagnetic field models on these time scales point out that geomagnetic field models have to be improved further before they can provide a truly robust means to eliminate the influence of geomagnetic variability in cosmogenic radionuclide production studies.

In March 2005, Jan Veizer, one of Canada's top Earth scientists, published a comprehensive review of recent findings and concluded that «empirical observations on all time scales point to celestial phenomena as the principal driver of climate, with greenhouse gases acting only as potential amplifiers.»

Not exact matches

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

Ayyadurai also claimed that GMO foods are not regulated enough to be considered safe, pointing to the FDA's policy of «substantial equivalence,» which says that GMOs are equivalent to non-GMO foods that have been conventionally bred over longer time scales.

He pointed out that now become the time for Dropbox to listing because «the enterprise had reached a level of scale and also money circulation that warranted a public debut.»

My recollection is by this point in the book he'd had to substitute a proxy scaled market, and argue for the applicability of the measures over short time scales, so this suggests to me a major re-jig of my portfolio would be premature.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

People are asked to rate themselves on a seven - point scale from «completely agree» to «completely disagree» with such statements as, «When shopping, I have a hard time finding clothing that I really love» or «Whenever I watch TV, I channel surf.»

Still further, Hartshorne points out that our loveless physics and biology have produced in our time loveless politics and economics, with the results that we have seen the revival of human cruelty on an unprecedented scale and the adoption of callous economic policies which leave the alleviation of human miseries to the automatic functioning of the «market.

In a Festschrift for Einstein's seventieth birthday in 1949, Gödel demonstrated the possibility of a special case in which, as Palle Yourgrau described the result, «the large - scale geometry of the world is so warped that there exist space - time curves that bend back on themselves so far that they close; that is, they return to their starting point.»

They then examined the data for past use of hot peppers, one of the 34 unusual foods, on a 4 - point scale with 1 equal to «I have never eaten this» to 4 for «Eaten it many times.»

Ok, you've convinced me — will buy a scale this weekend (had been considering for some time; your blog wast the tipping point)!

This time, Tony appears to be healthy and insane as ever, whereas the uncertainty at the point guard spot tips the scales to Curry.

In short, a rider's time is measured against the world record for the distance and category and the rider is awarded points on a sliding scale: the closer they get to their corresponding world best, the more points they get.

When figuring weight gain, remember to always figure from the lowest point, usually at some point in the first few days of life and try to weigh baby on the same scales each time in the same weight of clothing or with no clothing at all.

The point is, the holocaust was neither the first nor the last time that Jews have faced large scale persecution, and it could happen again.

On the subject of the perceived inability of the government to deliver large - scale IT projects, he pointed to the DWP's payment programme with 22.5 million accounts now paid directly, which he said was «delivered on time, under budget».

The two basic movements in the sitting - rising test — lowering to the floor and standing back up — are each scored on a 1 - to - 5 scale, with one point subtracted each time a hand or knee is used for support and 0.5 points subtracted for loss of balance; this yields a single 10 - point scale.

He points out that every time astronomers have extended their observations of the heavens to a larger scale, they have found yet more structures (Astrophysics and Space Science, vol 189, p 163).

At the human scale, we experience just three dimensions of space and one of time, but string theorists argue that six extra dimensions are tightly knotted at every point in the fabric of our 4 - D reality.

Unexpectedly, for van der Waals fluids, they found identical dynamics across this massive time scale at different state points in the phase diagram.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

What we are developing now are a really unique set of tools that are going to allow us to monitor the changes in the retina at the cellular scale over time in the same person; and we think that this is really going to have a transformative effect because it's not only very powerful from the statistical point of view but it really is going to allow us to do experiments that were not possible before.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

A few more things I'd like to point out since you asked: Can you give yourself some time away from the scale?

If your tracking has been on point and you're still not seeing any changes on the scale or in the mirror, then it may be time to either increase your activity levels or decrease your overall caloric intake.

Also, pointing out that this food or that food is «relatively new» to humans on the larger scale of evolutionary time is a little silly.

With Athlean Inferno Max / Shred you'll be doing the same exact workouts as elite athletes, only at any point you can pull our exclusive Max / Shred fire escape and scale the workout to your abilities allowing you to spend more time in the burn zone.

I would like to point out a couple of targets I reached since starting Vivica's program... and of course thank her for her dedication to help us and the passion she puts in her job My blood pressure is getting back to normal and now my sleep is good again (I began not to sleep well because of high blood pressure... I think)-- I had some pain in my knees and hips (nothing serious, but it bugged me from time to time) and I realized today that they do not hurt anymore — I also find that I'm less «bloated» (or, at least, I find that some garments are less tight, although I don't know if I lost weight or not... I had such a bad relationship with the scale throughout my life that now I tend to stay away from it So Vivica, thanks so much for what you did up to now... and for all you will do in the next weeks.

Having reached for the first time a point in human existence where more humans are overweight than are hungry, where our children's life expectancy is less than ours, and where food resources and indigenous knowledge are vanishing faster than we can preserve them, increasing nutritional knowledge on both local and global scales is of vital importance.

Despite all of the time Capcom spends hyping up this mountain - sized elder dragon, the battles simply have players scaling the beast's body to attack static weak points, and then standing on a wall firing cannons and ballistae.

Tarantino's devotion to the cause never wavers though, and while some may quibble about its small scale, or about the point of it all by the time the credits roll, the experience of it, the cinematography, the acting, the dialogue, the score, so effortlessly washes over that it often feels impossible to resist its charms.

The estimated impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a gain of 5.3 scale points in reading.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary, and will return to the familiar 1600 - point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out.

The first item asked teachers to rate students in terms of their attentiveness on a four - point scale ranging from never attentive to attentive all of the time.

For example, AltSchool is a micro-school network in San Francisco with tuition that is 10 to 15 percent cheaper than the average for other private schools in the city --- and it hopes to scale its model such that the price falls over time to the point that it is only marginally more than the cost of educating a public school student.

Three additional items asked students to rate the electronic portfolio assignment on a 10 - point scale, and the final item asked whether students thought the electronic portfolio assignment had been worth the time spent.

What's really sad is that we're spending billions of dollars and countless hours of principals» time collecting data with these multiple measures, simply to rank 90 % of all teachers somewhere between a 2 and a 3 on a 4 point scale, while offering those same teachers little or no actionable information as to how they might improve their practice.

«While the state average rose from 88.5 in 2013 (on a 150 - point scale) to 89.2 in 2014, the RSD New Orleans average dropped from 71.9 to 71.2 during this same time period.

The authors found that national NAEP math scale scores for eighth - grade students would go up as much as 8 points if every school had a one - hour later start time.

Also, while states are required to measure academic proficiency indicators — which are static, point - in - time indicators within their school classification systems — there may be an opportunity to measure specific aspects of proficiency data, such as growth or scale scores, which are further described below.24 That is, ESSA may provide states an opportunity to use differentiation within an indicator, as well as differentiation between schools.

School leaders want MPs to fight the government's «grossly unfair and discriminatory» Progress 8 measure that will award three times more points to pupils moving between top grades than those at the bottom of the scale.

Most of the time, I left it at roughly half brightness — a setting of 12 or 13 on the device's 24 - point scale.

These files contain information such as the account number, the outstanding balance, and a nine - point rating scale, for example: R1 indicating that payment was made on time; R2 that payment was made 30 days late, but not more than 60 days; and R9 indicating a bad debt or one that has been placed for collection and it < a href =» / personal - bankruptcy / bankruptcy - and - credit - rating /» > also applies to bankruptcy .

Everybody focuses on the post Mar - 2009 rally, but at this point I think the rallies from the Feb - 2011 and Sep / Oct -2011 highs & lows are more instructive: On either time - scale, the S&P's clearly ahead by leaps & bounds.

The FIR team points out that Gilligan's story exemplifies their experience: Even though some dogs might be returned after large - scale events, they're placed with the right fit the second time around.

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The hotelier also said it is adding four new features to Hilton Honors, namely Points Pooling with family and friends; Points and Money, a fully variable redemption of points and cash on a sliding scale; the ability to use points to make purchases at Amazon; and one - time extensions of Diamond elite status for members who have held that level for a minimum of three years, accumulated 250 nights or more or 500,000 base points, and didn't requPoints Pooling with family and friends; Points and Money, a fully variable redemption of points and cash on a sliding scale; the ability to use points to make purchases at Amazon; and one - time extensions of Diamond elite status for members who have held that level for a minimum of three years, accumulated 250 nights or more or 500,000 base points, and didn't requPoints and Money, a fully variable redemption of points and cash on a sliding scale; the ability to use points to make purchases at Amazon; and one - time extensions of Diamond elite status for members who have held that level for a minimum of three years, accumulated 250 nights or more or 500,000 base points, and didn't requpoints and cash on a sliding scale; the ability to use points to make purchases at Amazon; and one - time extensions of Diamond elite status for members who have held that level for a minimum of three years, accumulated 250 nights or more or 500,000 base points, and didn't requpoints to make purchases at Amazon; and one - time extensions of Diamond elite status for members who have held that level for a minimum of three years, accumulated 250 nights or more or 500,000 base points, and didn't requpoints, and didn't requalify.

At this point in time, Planetside 2 is the only shooter that offers warfare on this kind of scale.