Sentences with phrase «year time scale because»

E.C.: When engineers talk about reconstruction and about buildings, they think about the 50 - year time scale because that's the average lifetime of a building.

Not exact matches

Oct 30 (Reuters)- Hurricane Sandy appears to have easily caused more losses than last year's Hurricane Irene, but final totals will be hard to come by for some time because of the scale of the disaster, catastrophe forecasting companies said on Tuesday.

The time scale can be billions of years we are not told because it does not matter to the story of the Bible.

The prevailing view among astronomers is that the orbit of Halley's comet can not be calculated exactly because the orbit would be chaotic on a time scale of only seventy years.

He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.

You have to keep current, because practices and priorities change — on time scales much shorter than 40 years, especially with the donor sources that are in the private sector.

But it is quite difficult because of the long time scales that you have to do deal with so you can't use the models that are used to simulate a hundred years or two hundred years.

Partly because it marks the return of the great Taiwanese helmer Hou Hsiao - Hsien for the first time in seven years, and partly because it sees him working on a bigger scope and scale than ever before: the film's a big - budget (relatively speaking) wuxia picture.

Because the performances of all students would continue to be reported on the current NAPLAN score scale, it would still be possible to calculate year level averages, to show how students perform in relation to their year group, and to identify levels of proficiency that, ideally, all students should reach by particular times in their schooling.

Over the years, many publishing houses have been scaling back on traditional book tours — not the least because bookstores themselves are disappearing — because travel can be expensive (and time - consuming) and sometimes there can be cheaper and just as effective ways to sell books.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

The paper is candid about this issue, and explains that this is partly because the time scale, on which their analysis rests, is 22 years.

There is no single climate associated with high CO2 because in the 500 million year time scale there is no correlation between CO2 and climate.

5th pp: «because the time scale, on which their analysis rests, is 22 years» > «because the time scale, on which their analysis rests, is 22 years»

Arctic sea ice is varying there because of dynamics AND thermodynamics on many time scales and driven by all manner of influences — with much of the recent drop due to a big flush of thick old ice many years ago.

It gets tricky now because the equilibrium climate sensitivity requires a timescale to be defined — barring large hysteresis, it isn't so large going out many millions of years (weathering feedback); there will be a time scale of maximum sensitivity.

Because these changes exhibit a multi-decadel time scale, the present high level of hurricane activity is likely to persist for an additional 10 to 40 years.

The stadium wave effect seems most plausible to me because on the surface of the globe this effect will be felt at the regional level and rippling to neighboring regions (spatial networking) over oscillation time scales of around 60 years.

When people are told to stop watering their lawns because of a water shortage, they escalate (in the manner of sports hyperbole) to use the same word, drought, as is used for far more serious conditions, on a far vaster scale and lasting many years — such as the 1930s Dust Bowl or those three Little Ice Age droughts amidst good times in East Africa, lasting 30, 65, and 80 years.

It is a recent discovery that the oceans can act for decades at a time as net absorbers OR net emitters of previously accumulated solar energy on a vast and highly variable scale yet AGW proponents still ignore the overwhelming evidence because to acknowledge it would destroy years of fond memories of a publicly funded gold rush encouraged by their fanciful claims to understand climate and be in a position to influence it.

-- then what explanation (scientific if possible) can be given for the fact that, last year alone, parts of the USA had the highest surface temperatures on record, Australia had to rewrite their own temperature gauge because it was recording temperatures which went, for the first time in recorded history, off the scale they were so high and in the UK and Europe we experienced one of the longest heatwaves in decades?

If you are focused on 15 - year periods, you need to consider natural variability more seriously because that time scale does not cancel them out as much.

By scaling up loss from past disasters, normalization adjusts for the fact that a hazard event of equal strength will typically cause more damage nowadays than in past years because of wealth accumulation over time.

The most probable outcome (at least on the 100 year time scale) has risks that are probably manageable, but as Marty Weitzman at Harvard has pointed out, we need to pay attention to the tail of the risk distribution, because the economic and societal risks can be very large there.

Large increases in methane emissions would be a grave concern, because methane is 25 times moreeffective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide (over a 100 year time scale).

[We didn't do so] because on time scales longer than 2 - 3 years, these do not seem to matter very much.

Austlii may have to scale back its operations because it has failed to secure a grant from the Australian Research Council for the first time in seven years.

We've been — many of us looking at those same templates with the scales of justice, the waves in the background for many years and there are thousands of beautifully designed PowerPoint templates out there that are professionally designed including the fonts that get used and the colors that get mixed into the templates, so you don't have to spend a lot of time working on design and colors because it's been done for you.