feed-back

The exploitative factor: the flexibility of living things by which they are able to occupy new niches in the changing environment; i. e., a feed-back mechanism which guides the selective process toward a new type which can exploit new environmental possibilities

April 20th, 2009 m_francis 2009

In the case of glycolysis and alcohol fermentation in yeast, theoretical models and research clearly formed a positive feed-back loop.

Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010

We won't be terraforming our local planet group any time soon, and using AI, bio feed-back, robots and rovers really is the way to explore – Humans are the way to colonise.

Will NASA Send Robots to the Moon with "Project M?" | Universe Today 2010

It is the classic "snowball effect" or "positive feed-back loop," to borrow from engineering jargon.

Open Letter to the First Lady and the 'Let's Move' Taskforce Chevese Turner 2010

It will be no great surprise if climate models suffer from the same defect, this time because of an understandable conservatism in assumptions about the operation of positive feed-back loops where knowledge is not yet firm.

Stress-Testing the Planet Howard Covington 2010

Pelosi is a virtuous feed-back loop for us: every point at which the Dems could have walked away she keeps pushing the cram-down!

538 Election Model Predicts Brown Win - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2010

It is the classic "snowball effect" or "positive feed-back loop," to borrow from engineering jargon.

Chevese Turner: Open Letter to the First Lady and the 'Let's Move' Taskforce 2010

Acid rain is still with us and is a serious positive feed-back for CO2.

Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010

To reiterate, the growing gravitation of authoritarians to the Republican Party over the past generation is an important determinant in understanding the closed feed-back loop of the current right-wing information environment.

Jonathan Weiler: The Closing of the American (Right's) Mind, Part II 2010

This is what the European Central Bank means when it talks obscurely of government indebtedness as having “opened up a number of hazardous contagion channels and adverse feed-back loops between financial systems and public finances.”

Beyond the Crash Gordon Brown 2010