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The slope which is coming, which we call a Red Edge, is a detection of vegetated area.
And there's something I worry about especially, which is that this dynamic will lead to a kind of a feedback cycle that puts us on a slippery slope.
But I'm always very interested to think about what might the stories be that the generations further down the slope from us are going to tell about us.
You can notice the small holes the water will fall on this catchment, and there is a slope.
And just for fun, we put a bunch of technologies on it, to show whether they were kind of rising for the first high peak, or whether they were about to crash into the trough of disillusionment, or rise back in the slope of enlightenment, etc.
It's about defining steepness and slope using a ski lift.
And at that point, I'll put it to you that nine out of 10 classes are good to go on the whole slope, steepness thing.
The slope of the epidemic curve is approaching now, in November.
And they said, "You know, we could actually look at the slope of the Doppler effect to figure out the points at which the satellite is closest to our antenna and the points at which it's furthest away.
Now, this is a root apex growing against a slope.
What happens is that the wind blows the sand up the shallow slope on the other side, and then, as each sand grain hits the top of the ridge, it cascades down on the inside of the crescent, and so the whole horn-shaped dune moves.
Lots of climbing footage later there is a description of the parachute device intended to slow Miuras' speed on the steep slope.
It's a slow uphill set-up, kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster.
She falls down a slope, where she is disturbed by insects.
As far as I am concerned Big Brother is the decline of western society, showing how us as a society are on a steep slope to becoming brain-dead morons.
If I wanted to see better tricks I could head off to the beginners slope at the local ski hill.
Unfortunately this was made on the downhill slope that Candy's career became, after 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles'.
The second lesson is that the two slope coefficients in the algebraic equation that is the Phillips curve – the link between expected inflation and current inflation, and the responsiveness of future inflation to current unemployment – are both much smaller than they were back in the 1970s or even in the 1980s.
Friedrich Hayek was wrong to argue that Keynesian social democracy is a slippery slope to serfdom.
The situation in Libya, we are told, is too dangerous;Germany’s government doesn’t want to get caught on a slippery slope and eventually have to commit ground troops in a civil war.
Indeed, transplant ethics has been on a slippery slope almost since transplants began.
An immediate need is to counter the perception that any condemnatory response to an unfolding RtoP situation means stepping onto a slippery slope to military confrontation – a perception that Russia and China heavily milked in seeking to justify their vote against an early-stage Security Council resolution on Syria.
Indeed, this is not the first time that Pakistan’s relations with the US have been on a slippery slope.
Publish or PerishOXFORD – A few years ago, two Norwegian researchers presented their version of a scientific-research slippery slope, with honest errors (mistaken observations and analyses) at the top and intentional fraud (plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication) at the bottom.
That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.
The slippery slope is exposed in a memo – recently disclosed as part of the UK’s Chilcot Inquiry – written by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to former US President George W. Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The Canadian panel therefore concluded that there is strong evidence to rebut one of the greatest fears that opponents of voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted dying often voice – that it is the first step down a slippery slope towards more widespread medical killing.
Since the 1970s, economists have maintained a near-consensus belief that the Phillips curve has a substantial slope, meaning that prices react strongly to changes in demand.
And economists Olivier Blanchard, Eugenio Cerutti, and Lawrence H. Summers have toppled the belief that the Phillips curve has a substantial slope.
In fact, to say that it had a substantial slope even in the 1970s requires one to avert one’s eyes from the supply shocks of that decade, and attribute to demand outcomes that are more plausibly attributed to supply.
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