Sentences with phrase «underlying physical basis»

«But if we don't understand the underlying physical basis for that behavior, it's difficult to say that willpower alone can solve it.»

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Mobipocket Two years before launching its first hardware device — the Kindle — Amazon started making investments in the e-reader's underlying technology, which included buying this Paris - based software company that developed an e-file format for physical books.

As one can classify the shapes of objects based on the mathematical concept called topology, an exotic phase of quantum matter can be understood with underlying topology and symmetry in physical materials.

Underlying the universe is a variety of physical constants, values not based on anything — they just are.

They have developed methods to counter the spontaneous loss of magnetisation, based on their understanding of the underlying physical phenomenon.

They also argue that their estimate, which is based on statistical models only, has a major advantage over physically based considerations (theoretical models), because the latter would require a perfect knowledge about the underlying physical and chemical mechanisms.

Although the friendship between hom and Constance is primarily based on their respect for one another, I think they genuinely enjoy one another's company and I detect an underlying physical attraction between the two of them.

Investing in commodities indices that are constructed using long or short positions in futures on physical commodities whose value is determined based on the price of the underlying physical commodity plus yield and that trade on public markets that provide adequate liquidity and transparency, with negligible costs and no storage deterioration risk, offer a practical method to gaining commodities exposure and can provide a means for market participants to access the five components of the returns of the asset class.

The Strategy Simulator is designed to allow market participants an environment to learn how an option contract, futures contract, or physical position will perform based on different hypothetical underlying price scenarios.

Gavin says in # 463: [Response: You confuse statistical forecasting which knows nothing about the underlying physics (and in your case is simple linear extrapolation) with physical modelling based on first principles.

[Response: You confuse statistical forecasting which knows nothing about the underlying physics (and in your case is simple linear extrapolation) with physical modelling based on first principles.

In general, physics (upon which climate science is very largely based) has done as good, or better, of a job at tying underlying physical drivers to observed phenomena, as has any other branch of science, right up there with chemists and molecular biologists.

[Response: Extrapolation into the future, based on past trends, is in fact highly reliable if you have strong reason to believe that the underlying physical drivers of the system under study are not going to change.

I have a hard time understanding how students in climatology could not wonder about the physical and statistical basis underlying these claims.

I would be interested to see a range of results based on a plausible range of the free parameters, constrained where possible by physical models of the underlying phenomena.

As to your response on chemistry and spectroscopy over at WUWT (no idea what happened to your comment here, it must have been a browser problem, it's not in the comments database here at all)- you cite «valence bond theory, -LSB-...] molecular orbital theory, -LSB-...] crystal field theory, ligand field theory, self - consistent field and X-alpha method» - none of those are based on fundamental physics, they are all phenomenological theories that work quite well for chemists, but they are not directly derived from underlying physical theory except through very rough approximations and analogies.

This would mean that the attribution studies based on the GCMs and their underlying physical models are now the only method we have for determining if AGW is taking place.

The underlying document, i.e., that being summarized, is the document named «The Physical Science Basis.»

And you claim that the models are based on fundamental physical laws, implying that there is an underlying core theory common to the models.

Eminent scientists who queried the IPCC line — which is based on models rather than clear understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms — and eminent economists and statisticians who argued that the case for net costs from any warming had never been demonstrated — were vilified.

Instead of incurring the cost of buying and selling physical property, the investor or fund manager may simply purchase a customised product with returns based on an underlying index of real estate values.

One of the unique and underlying security features of the GDPR compliant diskAshur 2 is the dedicated hardware based secure microprocessor (Common Criteria EAL4 + ready), which employs built - in physical protection mechanisms designed to defend against external tamper, bypass attacks and more.

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.