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  • This problem is extremely compounded in the case of models and codes that describe a multitude of inherently complex multi-scale physical phenomena and processes.

    Climate Science and Software Quality | Serendipity 2010

  • Managing the interlocking priorities of ecological and economic health requires whole-systems thinking and long-range multi-scale planning, integrating local, regional and national objectives.

    Jonathan F.P. Rose: Oval Office Speech Only a Start Jonathan F.P. Rose 2010

  • Loreau M. & Gonzalez A. (2004) The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology.

    Metacommunity ecology 2009

  • It is multi-scale, multidisciplinary, with large certainty in some areas and small certainty in others.

    Kim Cranston: Humanity's Greatest Challenge and Its Solution 2009

  • The sources of the problem are quite diffuse and often multisectoral, potential victims are often quite remote from the sources, extremely complex multi-scale ecological processes may be involved, there may be a long time between causes and impacts, and there is a need to implement measures on a very large scale (usually global or regional).

    Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 10 2008

  • The MA was conducted as a multi-scale assessment, with interlinked assessments undertaken at local, watershed, national, regional, and global scales.

    Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Preface 2008

  • Fine in principle except that as I recall biometric scans do not necessarily rely an exact match to the stored data, rather for example in the case of iris patters they are said to match if they fail a test of statistical independence on their phase structure encoded by multi-scale quadrature wavelets, which means that you wont get the same key produced each time it is tested.

    How to have a secure ID database without Big Brother? 2008

  • The environmental interpretation of sustainability focuses on the overall viability and health of living systems – defined in terms of a comprehensive, multi-scale, dynamic, hierarchical measure of resilience, vigor and organization [17].

    Sustainable development triangle 2007

  • And this really gives you the joy and the good experience of reading the real paper version of a magazine or a newspaper, which is an inherently multi-scale kind of medium.

    Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth 2007

  • And this really gives you the joy and the good experience of reading the real paper version of a magazine or a newspaper, which is an inherently multi-scale kind of medium.

    Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth 2007

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