3) The Relationship Quality Scale [ 14] asks service users and relatives to rate their perception of their relationship with one another on scales of supportiveness and criticism.
After their play on the computer, the participants completed questionnaires (on scales of one to five or one to seven) about the environment they grew up in, including socioeconomic status and whether they were exposed to family neglect, violence, and conflict, or to neighborhood violence and crime.
Placed on the driver's side rear window in most cases, they will display two scores, one for smog-forming pollutants and one for heat-trapping gases, on scales of 1 (the worst rating) to 10. Daniel Kalb, a policy coordinator for California at the Union of Concerned Scientists, helped draft the original pollution-label law.
The observed changes can be very rapid: sometimes less than one day, but certainly exhibiting changes on scales of days to weeks.
These attempts invoke departures from general relativity on scales of the entire observable universe.
People who scored high on scales of self-esteem were in general no more likely to take advantage of the opportunity than those with low self-esteem.
At the same time, folding of layers may occur, leading to folds with amplitudes on scales of kilometres or millimetres.
Any "scientist" who predicts climate on scales of decades with any meaningful level of certainty based on their laughably simplistic models is a charlatan.
Much hype has surrounded the idea of nanotechnology the thought that manipulating objects on scales of a billionth of a metre will produce useful products.
This profusion led to a hiring frenzy for science journalists, who, for a golden while anyway, had a blast producing magazines on scales of time and money that seem unworldly today.
Dyson also takes his own direct look at the future, on scales of ten, a hundred, a thousand years when population, resources and living space will have grown by a factor of 500 million ("when life and industrial activities are spread out over the solar system, there is no compelling reason for growth to stop") and 10,000 years, and so on.
