The NWS estimates that weather forecasts save America's airlines around $500m a year: avoiding a cancellation saves $40,000, and avoiding a diversion costs $150,000, for example.Energy companies, which must forecast how much capacity their customers will use, are particularly sensitive to changes in the weather.
One early warning sign is a sharp recent drop in sales of trucks which, reflecting the need to move things about the country, are particularly sensitive to changes in demand.America's banks are playing a part in the slowdown, because the Fed is at last getting across its message that they need to tighten up their credit standards.
These are companies that are particularly sensitive to changes in the overall U.S. or global economies.
Fetuses are particularly sensitive to changes in thyroxine, which is important for neural development.
Mountains are particularly sensitive to changes in climate because of their slope, aspect, verticality, mass, and altitude.
Important developmental processes, such as root-hair formation, primary root growth and lateral root formation, are particularly sensitive to changes in the internal and external concentration of nutrients.
"People are particularly sensitive to change, and it's easier to note that change over a relatively short term than it is over a longer horizon".
Post hoc analysis revealed that scales are particularly sensitive to change if they include disorder-relevant aspects beyond the main dimension of a scale.
The new study has found a tumor suppressor gene called VTRNA20-1 that is particularly sensitive to changes to a mother's diet within the first few days of conception - so can affect the disease risk of the developing baby.
SEEOR can scan a beam horizontally over an angle of 60°, and vertically over 20°, thanks to the use of a special liquid crystal, whose refractive index is particularly sensitive to changes in voltage, and also by the perfection of the evanescent-wave approach (previous prototypes sent the whole beam through the liquid crystal, which is less efficient).Dr Davis thinks that is just the start.
It is particularly sensitive to changes in temperature and rainfall.
