Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
These emerging solutions will have to prove to the industry their ability to scale over time.
Third, comparisons among patients can scale across time and locations.
As a recent study confirms, on a much longer time scale, genes are even at the mercy of culture.
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If you compress and expand the time scale just as you like, you can make any event look inevitable.
Individual preparedness, and the realisation that large scale efforts take time to execute, must be the order of the day.
But here we have another thing, pure and simple population pressure, that might do us all in over this same time scale.
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Global warming is projected to occur over a time scale of centuries.
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At the nearer end of the time scale, genetic tests are allowing people to choose suitable therapies and lifestyles to beat disease.
Mr Brown offered no time scale for moving from pilot projects to full-scale implementation of pet passports, but promised it would occur quickly.
Companies have the budget and time scale necessary to research charities and narrow it down to ones that are highly effective and measure results.
The outcome from the workshop should help ensure consistently comparable quality control of selected chemical data collected on a global scale and over time.
"If one is concerned about the future of life on a biological time scale, it's relevant to have communities away from the Earth, " Rees notes.
The underlying changes in the climatic system could not be reversed over any time scale relevant for decision-makers, limiting the efficacy of traditional recovery measures.
Mr Greenspan has expressed anxiety in the past about the risks of cutting taxes on such a large scale at a time of budgetary pressure.
Of course, if you stretch out the time scale enough, and are sufficiently casual about causes, you can give the printing press credit for anything you like.
"The Executive remains committed to the project and we also note that the Irish government has committed itself to delivering it on a longer time scale, " they said.
On a geologic time scale, the two events occurred at virtually the same moment, according to new and more precise dating results that they reported in the journal Science.
He said nurses wanted "a sensible pay offer and a sensible commitment to see nurses pay on a level with their allied health professions within a reasonable time scale".
Projects are expected to pay back the money allocated through the fund in full and the estimated time scale for repaying the interest free loan is a requirement in the application process.
Angus Campbell said questions needed to be asked about the costs and time scale of the link, which would allow electricity generated by island wind and marine renewables to be transmitted to the mainland.
But the authors of the new study focus on the significantly larger and delayed events in Prague, which they wrote "necessitate reconsideration of the maximum possible size of injection-induced earthquakes, and of the time scale considered diagnostic of induced seismicity".
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The first minister hit back saying his government would provide a Scottish solution to the "extraordinary" situation that would be implemented on exactly the same time scale as the implementation of the hike in tuition fees south of the border.
Sure, the comparable sales growth has declined in the past couple of months, but it is only fair that for a fast food chain with more than 33, 000 restaurants worldwide, we look at data points over a time scale more than 1 or 2 months.
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Second, women are more likely to start small scale, part-time businesses to balance work and family.
The electricity distributor said problems had not been on this scale for a long time.
When Greek and Italian debt yields started to spike we witnessed the rare event of a human-time-scale criticality.
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Over the New Year the optimists had a good run, but the time-scale for growth returning is forever being pushed back.
But the government's response came too late for some places, cut off by the time the scale of the disaster had become clear.
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