non-linearity

The difficulty of trying to discover such optimum global solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations is compounded by the non-linearity of those equations.

Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

Super Bowl commercials can unfold more languidly, can use more complex story-telling techniques, can inject jarring elements of non-linearity and can be more subtle and filmic.

Adam Hanft: Capitalist Porn - Behind the Fetishization of Super Bowl Commercials Adam Hanft 2012

MM: Well, the thing about R.E.M. songs, and Michael's writing because of its general non-linearity, you pick the parts that mean something to you, and that's what the song means to you.

Mike Ragogna: Collapse Into Now: A Conversation with R.E.M.'s Mike Mills Mike Ragogna 2011

Alone with ideas of non-linearity, research into what happens to people at night on the other frequencies, alone with the sense of what it means to be a woman.

Octopus Tantra Bensko 2011

First, when you have very long odds on significant money, the non-linearity of utility often leads * both* sides to want a better bet than linearity would suggest they need.

Beating the Odds: Why Do People Insist on Even Bets?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Super Bowl commercials can unfold more languidly, can use more complex story-telling techniques, can inject jarring elements of non-linearity and can be more subtle and filmic.

Adam Hanft: Capitalist Porn - Behind the Fetishization of Super Bowl Commercials Adam Hanft 2012

Unlike Einstein's equations, there is no clear measure of how much non-linearity is associated with tax rate changes.

Economics vs. Populism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

MM: Well, the thing about R.E.M. songs, and Michael's writing because of its general non-linearity, you pick the parts that mean something to you, and that's what the song means to you.

Mike Ragogna: Collapse Into Now: A Conversation with R.E.M.'s Mike Mills Mike Ragogna 2011

Since there seems to be a rather large gap between well and poorly governed countries, I strongly suspect that the kind of non-linearity thrown out above is in play.

Interview with Trent McBride, Including the Political Consequences of Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

However, given the complexity and possible non-linearity of these influences, their precise character (e.g., kind, magnitude, and sequence) is commonly specific to the place-based system.

A framework for analyzing vulnerability of the Arctic to climate change 2010