The new figure, then, is a dramatic increase, even within the new extended five year timescale, and one that means many more disabled people will now start having to get used to less freedom and independence, with profound implications for them and their families.
We find that exhumation rates have remained steady over the last glacial cycle and match rates observed at a million year timescale.
Our analysis uses a fifty year timescale and a geographic resolution of approx 25 × 25 km squares, so we employ a model permitting dispersal only within cells immediately adjacent to the current distribution.
Moore is referring to equilibrium steady states that represent a balanced and stable world on million year timescales.
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Indeed, it is well known that tropical rain forests have fluctuated over time and cannot be regarded as stable over 100 million year timescales.
The behavior of explosive volcanoes relates mostly to other factors, he said, and the climate effects of such eruptions tend to last months to years, rather than the 40,000-to-100,000 year timescale of glacial-interglacial cycles.
The home secretary previously stated that she expected the inquiry to be finished within three years, a timescale that Pitchford said he intends to stick to.
Even now, the co-chief executive, John Cryan, talks about a restructuring that will take five years, a timescale that looks far too relaxed if he finds himself pleading with his shareholders to give him more capital at short notice.
As with the Exxon Valdez disaster, litigation is being discussed in terms of a 20 year timescale.
As building these types of 'biorepositories' for future research is likely to take many years to accumulate numbers that allow meaningful data analysis, this requires a collaborative, long-term approach for which funding may be difficult to obtain (most funding bodies operate on a three- to five-year timescale before results are expected).
