The system as a whole changes, as if a paradigm shift took place, resulting in 'a corrective change in the system of sets of alternatives from which choice is made' (Tosey et al. 2011).1 From time to time, erratic events such as serendipity, charismatic behaviours, reckless risk-taking, and foolishness can occur, which set into motion systemic changes.
Global climate change manifests itself through gradual changes, such as increasing air and ocean temperatures and shifting mean annual precipitation or altered seasonality, and through erratic events, such as heavy rainfall and other extreme weather events.
Rising temperatures and erratic climate events effect the price of food.
As more extreme and erratic weather events occur, these once-rich natural resources are degraded, making the world's poorest people poorer still.
Global climate models predict an increase in the mean surface air temperature, frequency and severity of erratic temperature events during this century.
Extreme and erratic rain events can flush parasites that resist chlorination into water treatment and distribution systems, resulting in waterborne outbreaks (Kistemann et al., 2002; Lake et al., 2005; Semenza and Nichols, 2007).
Jones writes with a sense of narrative foreboding undercut by the erratic nature of events, and the result is a portrait of a society that is seemingly immutable but as tentative and fragile as the map of the Americas for which the novel is titled, hung on the local sheriff's wall.
It's a bit of a reductio ad absurdum, he admits, but nonetheless "a reference to random causality that makes a lot of sense when we think about the erratic sequence of events that we call history".
The frenetic, erratic nature of events is further buoyed by the introduction of "specialists".
Wide year on year variation in the results would suggest erratic coding of events in the hospital episode statistics and their unsuitability for deriving AHRQ safety indicators; whereas consistency across years (either unchanging or showing a trend) would satisfy the initial screen for potential fitness for purpose of the data.
