Sentence examples for scale of the transition from inspiring English sources

The Keep it in the ground campaign is the first action of its kind from such a newspaper, and has – like the broader fossil fuel divestment movement – focused the mind very considerably as to the scale of the transition before us.

Given the scale of the transition going on, you might have expected the market to react with even greater concern - but then stock markets have never been the best barometer for the fortunes of a football club, given most investors don't treat them in the same way as other businesses.

Note that the scale of the transition parameter ϵ is the scale of t and its interpretation is not affected by the choice of the link function.

These structural dynamics span a wide range of times, from the femtosecond time scale of crossing the transition state to the millisecond time scale of overall enzyme turnover, or slower.

"The scale and the scope of the transition is enormous," said Matt Baker, a former commissioner with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission who is now a program officer for energy and climate at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

It is found that the interfacial mechanics of a thin-film bonded to a graded layer is significantly affected by varying gradient law, stiffness of the film, ratio of shear modulus and length scale of the graded transition layer.

We urge you to promise the timely delivery of a global climate action plan by 2015 - a shared and agreed strategy for rapidly growing the scope and scale of the ongoing transition, so that a safe climate with all its benefits for people and planet is possible.

The importance of developing robust responses to the growing burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) has been highlighted by two recent events, the 2010 update of the Global Burden of Disease demonstrating the scale of the epidemiological transition to NCDs [ 1] and the 2011 United Nations High-Level Meeting calling for urgent action to tackle NCDs [ 2].

On the time-scales of evolution, the transition from unicellular to multicellular life in Volvox is thus a quite recent occurrence when compared to other shifts to multicellularity.

We find the substantial disparity in the scaling of the anchoring/dissociation transition for polymers/monolayer complex and polyelectrolyte/surface system, which demonstrates that the mobile anionic monolayer exerts stronger attraction on cationic polymers than uniformly charged surface, thereby illustrating the significant predominance of PIP2 lipids in the anchoring procedure.

In addition, we present here a comparison with experimental results on the dynamics of melting and forming of nematic domains from Ref. [ 11], with an emphasis on the critical divergence of the corresponding time scales on approach of the transition line.