Sentence examples for burden equilibrium from inspiring English sources

Use of lipid weight (PCB per unit of serum lipids) as opposed to wet weight (PCB per unit of serum) has been advocated for the measurement of persistent lipophilic chemicals (Brown and Lawton 1984), especially if one assumes body burden equilibrium.

Although comparative methods are central to many endeavors in evolutionary biology, they are often burdened by assumptions regarding the equilibrium status and/or evolutionary independence of current-day taxa.

Since equity effects are often a concern to policy makers, the effect of such personal carbon permits on the distribution of burden is quantified in a partial equilibrium framework for the US population.

The half-life of blood cadmium is 3 4 months for a component reflecting ongoing exposure, with a longer component of approximately 10 years reflecting equilibrium with internal body burden (Järup and Åkesson 2009; Nordberg et al. 2007).

Defenders of reflective equilibrium may nevertheless reject this burden, arguing that critics, especially utilitarian critics, actually face the same problem.

The parameters of the (negative-binomial) distribution of worms at equilibrium are the mean worm burden W = 20 and the clumping parameter k = 0.34 [27].

Dissociation of the probe target duplex during the washing process has been considered as a non-equilibrium process that decrease signals (Burden et al., 2006; Held et al., 2006; Wick et al., 2006).

The burden of disease A was also restored to equilibrium through this negative feedback loop.

It might seem that the burden of argument has shifted to advocates of reflective equilibrium to show why "initial credibility" should be ascribed to moral judgments or intuitions.

This approach enables the model to handle fast and near-equilibrium reactions without a significant increase in computational burden.

This includes discussions of the determinants of the computational burden of these techniques, and the mechanism implicitly used to select an equilibrium when multiple equilibria are possible.