To defeat the Islamic State and contain ISIS fighters, the ground campaign would need to be led by first-tier Western armies, would need to be of a scale equivalent to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and would need the cooperation of Iraq's neighbors, so that Iraq's borders can be closed, otherwise ISIS fighters would escape to other failed states.
Do we genuinely believe that the military capacity of this nation will be irreparably damaged if the cuts made to the Pentagon budget are of a scale equivalent to/bigger than the cuts now being advocated on things like food stamps?
Since the 1970's, NASA has not been charged with carrying out a similar high-priority mission that would justify the expenditure of resources on a scale equivalent to those allocated for Project Apollo.
Big data transforms how we see and solve problems on a scale equivalent to the introduction of the microscope 500 years ago.
"Formally defining the Anthropocene would state that humans are a force of nature at a geological scale, equivalent to plate tectonics or a meteorite strike, or sustained volcanic eruptions," said Simon Lewis, an ecologist at University College in London who made the case for the name change in the journal Nature.
The downward trend in probability of a random selection exceeding a given value of a design parameter is similar with each parameter (Fig. 12) and indicates that at the midpoint of the bound scale, equivalent to the mean, the probability of a random sample being greater than the mean value is 0.5.
Because the rate of decline is modeled on a log scale, equivalent parameters indicate that declines in serum PFOA are proportionate to baseline serum PFOA concentrations, with larger absolute declines in the public water groups that started with higher PFOA concentrations.
However in the 'on-off' cell experiments [21], separated pulses (5°) revealed antagonism on a larger spatial scale, equivalent to several facets of the compound eye.
However, because α underestimates reliability when the items of a scale are not tau-equivalent (ie, have unequal factor loadings) and because the assumption of tau-equivalence was not met by most of the new OAV scales, ρSEM was slightly higher than α in these scales.
If it was part of the war on terror then history might notice that the invasion has arguably acted as the best recruiting sergeant for al-Qaeda ever: a sort of large-scale equivalent of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry in 1972, which in its day filled the ranks of the IRA.
Samples were compared based on the number of observed fluorescent events (those with FL values greater than 1 the logarithmic scale equivalent of 0) and the distribution of their SSC and FL values.
