Sentences with phrase «which kinds of scales»

Entomologists look at these scales in detail and know which kinds of species have which kinds of scales.

Not exact matches

«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.

Facebook, however, has arguably made achieving and reinforcing this kind of bubble easier than it has ever been, and it has increased the speed and scale with which bubbles can be created.

We are now approaching a point at which transistors are near atomic - scale, chips can't fit many more processors, and we're unhappy with having the same kinds of batteries in our devices.

So, it's not really empowering the drivers to grow and scale their business, it's kind of controlling them, which in the extreme case even leads to exploiting the drivers.

It's important — at scale — to know which kinds of opportunities require engaged attention (from the PR department for example) and which require a templated email from an intern.

Jon Sobrino has written that as long as there is suffering, poverty, exclusion and premature death on an immense scale — which is ever more the case in Latin America — there will be need for a theology (whatever its name) that poses the kinds of questions posed by liberation theology.

They are not even greatly stirred by the prospect that we shall export our wars with our machines to other planets and re-enact on a larger scale the kind of history with which we have become too familiar.

But that kind of intimacy between different societies of actual occasions, one of which is scaled up to the divine level, seem counter-intuitive.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

However, there really is not enough information here (either in the original Chicago Tribune article, or in your interview) to be able to say whether this kind of program, which certainly is unique, could be replicated elsewhere, or even (as Chef Paul claims) scaled up to 8,000 students in an NSLP setting.

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said at the time: «It's fair to say that in the Bank's 300 year history we have not seen measures of this kind enacted on this scale, but remember we haven't either seen the scale of the problems to which we've had to respond.»

Will the tremor be of mild magnitude — say, a magnitude 4 on the Richter scale, the kind that occur all over the world every day — or a 9, which happens no more than once a decade on average?

And I get people to, kind of, come up with recollections, and now I have them rating things on scale [s] and almost always, that's what they're telling me is, there was a situation in which he was vulnerable or I was vulnerable, and love grew.

The only way we're going to get the scale of abundant, cheap, clean, reliable electrons — which is what we need: abundant, cheap, clean reliable electrons — is through innovation breakthroughs that we just do not have right now; to pretty give us those kinds of electrons at a scale we do not have right now.

«Our shake table enables researchers to test structural specimens at full - scale for severe earthquake ground motions, which is crucial for making the kinds of structural engineering advances that save lives and enhance the resilience of communities after natural disasters.»

Gravity, which varies hugely with a scale of with a scale of energy that you probe it out, just kind of swoops in from afar like a falcon and lands exactly where this [these] other three forces are.

But it is not only the smaller scale of the lattice which provides the possibility to do new kinds of physics.

A second way would be to find a new kind of force, unrelated to either the electromagnetic or nuclear forces known to science, which would provide repulsion on human scales.

McKibben: Which means in energy terms, you know, lots and lot [s] of village - scale [solar]; and this is the kind of place where money, you know, and resources should be flowing very, very quickly and freely north to south.

The folded DNA then acts as a scaffold onto which researchers can attach and organize all kinds of nanometer - scale components, from fluorescent molecules to electrically conductive carbon nanotubes to drugs.

With the recent development of transgenic mouse models, which allow labelling and manipulation of specific cell types, more and more emphasis has been placed on the tissue scale: How does the collective behavior of many cells gives rise to the architecture that is characteristic for given kind of tissue?

Ben Stiller is the kind of actor whose default expression is around 5 on the face pain scale, and that tenuous middle ground between hurt and happiness is the bittersweet spot in which writer - director Mike White's masterfully handled seriocomic character study «Brad's Status» operates.

That, however, is the last scene of its kind in «Les Misérables,» which steadily diminishes in scale as it goes along.

To study the extent to which these kinds of scenarios might unfold on a larger scale, we use rich survey data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS), which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.

«A large - scale map provides a «clean slate» on which students can do all kinds of activities,» says Bonne.

The kind of cross-media storytelling and promotion which Pottermore represents is certainly not new, but we've seen nothing on this scale before.

The magazine «Country Life», in the 29 April 1899 takes up the story: «Some five - and - thirty years ago in fact, [i.e. about 1865], the small - sized or light - weight Bulldog was common in this country; so much so that dogs of the breed that scaled over 28 lbs were not encouraged at such shows as Birmingham, which was at that period the most important exhibition of its kind in England.

It's a full - scale Kingdom Hearts game squeezed onto a handheld system, which is seen by some as a kind of miracle.

Check out the original BioShock cinematic trailer - which gives an indication of the kind of scale and drama we could see in an r - rated, big budget, BioShock film (viewer discretion is advised):

Movement is stepwise like in the old Wizardry games, and even though it's possible to turn on a «step - scale» option in the menu, it merely uses a kind of movement blur filter to weakly simulate actual movement, which really is more irritating than helpful.

Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) was a prodigy in the «Bay Area Figurative style,» and «Portrait of a Chair» (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition, color and hell - for - leather brushwork at the tender age of 19.

Throughout her long career, Butterfield has been assembling large and small - scale horses from found objects — specifically different kinds of wood, which are then cast in bronze to create freestanding sculptures, each with a unique structure and personality.

Ed Ruscha was commissioned to create two large - scale paintings that flank his A Particular Kind of Heaven, 1983, which is in the museum's collection, to form a spectacular, monumental triptych.

Since then he's continued to broaden his practice, which now includes music, installation, and a kind of amalgam of community activism and real estate development that has been called large - scale urban intervention.

Robert Storr: What was your relationship to the kind of painting that was being done when you entered the scene in the 1950s — to use Greenberg's term, «American - type painting,» by which he meant a certain kind of reach, a certain scale?

The artist was later asked by the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum to create two large - scale paintings that flank his A Particular Kind of Heaven (1983), which is in the museum's collection, to form a spectacular, monumental triptych.

The kind of paint (and the way the paint ought to be treated, which is really the same thing, for a given painting) depends on the particular spatial or object quality of the canvas, which depends on the scale of the stretcher.

The show, which is the first full - scale museum exhibition of its kind, focuses solely on female artists working in the Abstract - Expressionist movement in mid-20th-century America.

Tuttle's diminutive solids proposed a kind of presence wholly unlike that of Minimalism's comparatively towering objects, which were assertive and obdurate and scaled to the full height of the body rather than to its grasp.

On the first floor, the studio space contains three great, large scale paintings by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye — there is a fourth in the space next door — with her characteristically enigmatic cast of characters conjuring all kinds of narrative imaginings, while hidden away up a roped - off staircase is a work by perennial provocatrice Klara Lidén; Untitled (Trash Can), from the group of works with which she won the German blauorange Art Prize in 2010.

Lehmann Maupin recently unveiled his second solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring the large - scale video installation Reason's Oxymorons, which is set up like some kind of cross between a soulless cubicle office and a human - sized maze where one can encounter Attia's collection of interviews with philosophers, ethnologists, historians, psychiatrists, musicologists, and healers on topics as wide ranging as exile and magical science.

In addition I would point out that small scale distributed wind and PV are ideal solutions for rural electrification in the developing world, in countries which don't have the resources to build giant power plants of any kind, or to build the grids to distribute electricity from large centralized power plants.

The time average makes sense only if you are sure to have caught all variability time - scale in the average (i.e., that they are all smaller than 30 years, say)-- I've never seen clearly where this assumption comes from, apart from computer simulations, which are NOT reliable for this kind of physics.

An alternative approach could be to take the shape of the CCSM4 ensemble curve, which is kind - of - sigmoid, and then scale that to fit the real data.

Here are articles describing the kinds of efforts I'm thinking about — all of which are very different than simply catching and compressing CO2 from smokestacks and pumping it into the ground (a process that remains a pipe dream at anything approaching the necessary scale):

MM directly note the link between bristlecone / foxtail pines and precipitation (p. 85, MM05b), which is exactly the kind of large - scale pattern registration that the MBH CFR method takes as axiomatic because large portions of this region are known to have important ENSO / precipitation teleconnections (cf. Rajagopalan et al., 2000; Cole and Cook, 1998).

What kind of catastrophe can not be predicted, but numerous candidates have been discussed in this book: ecological collapses of various kinds, large - scale crop failures due to ecological stress or changes in climate and leading to mass famine; severe resource shortages, which could lead either to crop failures or to social problems or both; epidemic diseases; wars over diminishing resources; perhaps even thermonuclear war.»

The fact that people have such discussions with a straight face at the same time as they can not actually say which regions will be warmer, cooler, wetter, drier, more extreme, less extreme (i.e. provide people with some kind of advice on what to plan for at a scale relevant to investment decisions) it quite incredible to me.

That's because even if the Democrats acquire a majority in Congress, which is highly unlikely, they'd likely need support from at least a few Republicans to pass the kind of large - scale adjustments to the country's energy that Sanders proposes.