The model parameters quantify meaningful characteristics of the time intensity curves: up and down slopes, times at which the curves reach and begin descent from the peak height, and the peak height itself.
A physical descent, from the peak of our oil supplies and our squandering of resources, but also a psychological descent from the peak of our comfortable illusions.
Hopkins insists that if an entire community faces this stark challenge together, it might be able to design an "elegant descent" from that peak.
Immense crowds, especially on the last climb, on the 11-kilometer (6.8-mile) descent from that peak to the finish line and on a morsel of the stage in Spain, watched the festivities.
Mr. Duff traces his descent from the peaks of Wall Street in "The Buy Side," a raw and rollicking memoir about the sordid underbelly of big-money, fast-paced hedge funds.
On his descent from the summit of Ajax Peak, he slipped through snow and fell almost 500 feet.
Temperatures have begun a very slow descent from their Friday peaks, with coastal areas seeing a more significant drop.
Against the backdrop of Japanese occupation and civil war, the story of this aristocratic young man's spiritual apprenticeship unfolds, culminating in his descent from the lofty peaks of monastic asceticism to experience the world in all its excitement and depravity.
Few runs in the Alps, or anywhere else, can match the glorious, seemingly endless descent from the top of the Rütikopf cable car to Zürs — a swooping, serpentine piste set against a 360-degree vista of jagged, snow-capped peaks.
The descent from the top will last around 40 seconds.
Some of the 78km of reds are fantastic, offering descents of almost 1km from peak to valley floor.
