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Time passes in a linear trajectory, utilize your path along it wisely. – James Anthony Kenny	added by PolarPaddy 10 months ago
Supply chains have evolved into value webs. The emphasis is no longer only on supply and the perspective is no longer linear. Instead, emphasis is spread out among various interconnected parts and the perspective is holistic. In order to adapt, we have to ask ourselves more meaningful questions about everything. – Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr	added by Susanreyes83sc 11 months ago
Investigations are not linear so we are following the leads in front of us. That’s what we’re doing, the investigation is very much ongoing. – district attorney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Agave is a desert plant, so of course, anything that is moving towards that desert-like weather is going to help this crop thrive, but unfortunately, climate effects are not linear. It doesn’t mean that as temperatures warm that will remain consistent. – Omanjana Goswami	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's a premium service like HBO Max on top of free ad-supported platforms like Pluto TV, on top of licensing shows to other players in the streaming and linear space, and it's in conjunction with theatrical releases -- not a total replacement of it. – Julia Alexander	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Newer and more advanced techniques in ‘non-linear Mendelian randomization’ now permit the use of human genetic data to evaluate the direction and magnitude of disease risk associated with different levels of an exposure. – Krishna Aragam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The interesting piece here is that the effect of daily summer temperatures on fire appears to be non-linear, meaning that each additional degree of warming has a greater influence than the last, this is in line with other work suggesting that wildfire size and severity is increasing in a non-linear fashion in response to the increasing' vapor pressure deficit' — a measure of atmospheric' thirstiness' that is directly related to both humidity and temperature. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was not a straight line to that and it was not a linear process at all, it happened in stages. – Monica Lewinsky	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If one were to draw a graph of vaccine coverage versus danger, it would be a linear progression, the greater the vaccine coverage, the less the dangers and the other way around, of course, we want to get to 90 % coverage, it is a tall order globally. If we get to 70 % and stay there, there will be many sporadic outbreaks which may overwhelm health services. Worse, it will create more chances for the virus to mutate and variants of concern to emerge. – Bharat Pankhania	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Grief is not a linear process. – Joe Primo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The long-term trajectory of connected TV is very strong, if anything, all of this time at home streaming is only going to accelerate that trend, and to be a place where advertisers can reach those audiences that are leaving linear television and becoming streaming only, or streaming dominant, is a great opportunity long term. – Rob Holmes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Simply put, we know unscripted programming is hugely popular on linear TV, and has been that way for a long time, i think in our efforts to provide that sort of proper breadth and depth of options to the members, it makes sense to have unscripted programming be a part of that. – Brandon Riegg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're not producing this for linear broadcast, we're building this thing for digital distribution, for interactivity, and for moments in show which are built like little clips that will channel through social media. – Justin Hochberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Traditionally, we've thought of our evolution in a linear manner, but they must have overlapped for at least 100,000 years. This changes their relationship. How did a new species appear when parent species was there ? – Yohannes Haile-Selassie	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're seeing an evolution in the ancient lake environment recorded in these rocks, it wasn't just a static lake. It's helping us move from a simplistic view of Mars going from wet to dry. Instead of a linear process, the history of water was more complicated. – Valerie Fox	Found on CNN 4 years ago
My dad invited Rudy Kalman to give a lecture at Ames, and when he did, Dad had an epiphany, rudy Kalman had written a paper about a theoretical' linear' solution to estimating a vehicle's location and speed. The problem was that this was a fundamentally' nonlinear' problem ; that's like the difference in complexity between floating down a lazy river and going over a waterfall, where your motion becomes chaotic and unpredictable. My dad then developed the equations for how to solve this nonlinear problem -- a major extension of Kalman's work. – Greg Schmidt	Found on CNN 4 years ago
At the time we thought it would be impossible to combine the two oxygen atoms of a CO2 molecule together because CO2is a linear molecule, and you would have to bend the molecule severely for it to work, youre doing something really drastic to the molecule. – Konstantinos Giapis	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
While there have been experiments with linear drives, ones with a straight-line pedal path, no linear drive has equaled the performance of traditional bicycle cranks. – Alan Krause	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The quarter is a reminder that Netflix's cadence of net adds is not linear, but lumpy in nature, the company had lots of new content during the quarter; what it did not have was a major new breakout series. – Justin Patterson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It also reinforces the linear relationship between drinking alcohol and cancer risk : The more you drink, the higher the risk, alcohol is estimated to be the third-largest modifiable risk factor for cancer, responsible for 5.6 % of cancers. – Otis Brawley	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Smoking and stress can certainly impact hair, but the extent with which it causes graying is not exactly linear. – Angela Lamb	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It’s a totally different show than I’ve done before, it’s a linear look at my career. I start in 1954 when I was with a group called the Scholars back when I was in high school. We then go to the Bobby Doyle Trio, the New Christy Minstrels, the First Edition and then my solo career. It’s been really good for me. – Kenny Rogers	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Since the beginning of the month we've seen the yen slide back against the dollar but the return is far from linear and the intra-day appreciation we're seeing is enough to keep investors on their toes, at present the focus is on Japan's role as host of the G7 summit and pending any egregious missteps there we expect to see a lull in volatility as the market awaits further catalysts. – Martin King	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Our progress will not always be linear, and we should expect setbacks and surprises. – Brett McGurk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Time passes in a linear trajectory, utilize your path along it wisely.

– James Anthony Kenny

added by PolarPaddy
10 months ago

Supply chains have evolved into value webs. The emphasis is no longer only on supply and the perspective is no longer linear. Instead, emphasis is spread out among various interconnected parts and the perspective is holistic. In order to adapt, we have to ask ourselves more meaningful questions about everything.

– Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

added by Susanreyes83sc
11 months ago

Investigations are not linear so we are following the leads in front of us. That’s what we’re doing, the investigation is very much ongoing.

– district attorney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Agave is a desert plant, so of course, anything that is moving towards that desert-like weather is going to help this crop thrive, but unfortunately, climate effects are not linear. It doesn’t mean that as temperatures warm that will remain consistent.

– Omanjana Goswami

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a premium service like HBO Max on top of free ad-supported platforms like Pluto TV, on top of licensing shows to other players in the streaming and linear space, and it's in conjunction with theatrical releases -- not a total replacement of it.

– Julia Alexander

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Newer and more advanced techniques in ‘non-linear Mendelian randomization’ now permit the use of human genetic data to evaluate the direction and magnitude of disease risk associated with different levels of an exposure.

– Krishna Aragam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The interesting piece here is that the effect of daily summer temperatures on fire appears to be non-linear, meaning that each additional degree of warming has a greater influence than the last, this is in line with other work suggesting that wildfire size and severity is increasing in a non-linear fashion in response to the increasing' vapor pressure deficit' — a measure of atmospheric' thirstiness' that is directly related to both humidity and temperature.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was not a straight line to that and it was not a linear process at all, it happened in stages.

– Monica Lewinsky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If one were to draw a graph of vaccine coverage versus danger, it would be a linear progression, the greater the vaccine coverage, the less the dangers and the other way around, of course, we want to get to 90 % coverage, it is a tall order globally. If we get to 70 % and stay there, there will be many sporadic outbreaks which may overwhelm health services. Worse, it will create more chances for the virus to mutate and variants of concern to emerge.

– Bharat Pankhania

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Grief is not a linear process.

– Joe Primo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The long-term trajectory of connected TV is very strong, if anything, all of this time at home streaming is only going to accelerate that trend, and to be a place where advertisers can reach those audiences that are leaving linear television and becoming streaming only, or streaming dominant, is a great opportunity long term.

– Rob Holmes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Simply put, we know unscripted programming is hugely popular on linear TV, and has been that way for a long time, i think in our efforts to provide that sort of proper breadth and depth of options to the members, it makes sense to have unscripted programming be a part of that.

– Brandon Riegg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're not producing this for linear broadcast, we're building this thing for digital distribution, for interactivity, and for moments in show which are built like little clips that will channel through social media.

– Justin Hochberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Traditionally, we've thought of our evolution in a linear manner, but they must have overlapped for at least 100,000 years. This changes their relationship. How did a new species appear when parent species was there ?

– Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're seeing an evolution in the ancient lake environment recorded in these rocks, it wasn't just a static lake. It's helping us move from a simplistic view of Mars going from wet to dry. Instead of a linear process, the history of water was more complicated.

– Valerie Fox

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My dad invited Rudy Kalman to give a lecture at Ames, and when he did, Dad had an epiphany, rudy Kalman had written a paper about a theoretical' linear' solution to estimating a vehicle's location and speed. The problem was that this was a fundamentally' nonlinear' problem ; that's like the difference in complexity between floating down a lazy river and going over a waterfall, where your motion becomes chaotic and unpredictable. My dad then developed the equations for how to solve this nonlinear problem -- a major extension of Kalman's work.

– Greg Schmidt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At the time we thought it would be impossible to combine the two oxygen atoms of a CO2 molecule together because CO2is a linear molecule, and you would have to bend the molecule severely for it to work, youre doing something really drastic to the molecule.

– Konstantinos Giapis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

While there have been experiments with linear drives, ones with a straight-line pedal path, no linear drive has equaled the performance of traditional bicycle cranks.

– Alan Krause

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The quarter is a reminder that Netflix's cadence of net adds is not linear, but lumpy in nature, the company had lots of new content during the quarter; what it did not have was a major new breakout series.

– Justin Patterson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It also reinforces the linear relationship between drinking alcohol and cancer risk : The more you drink, the higher the risk, alcohol is estimated to be the third-largest modifiable risk factor for cancer, responsible for 5.6 % of cancers.

– Otis Brawley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Smoking and stress can certainly impact hair, but the extent with which it causes graying is not exactly linear.

– Angela Lamb

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s a totally different show than I’ve done before, it’s a linear look at my career. I start in 1954 when I was with a group called the Scholars back when I was in high school. We then go to the Bobby Doyle Trio, the New Christy Minstrels, the First Edition and then my solo career. It’s been really good for me.

– Kenny Rogers

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Since the beginning of the month we've seen the yen slide back against the dollar but the return is far from linear and the intra-day appreciation we're seeing is enough to keep investors on their toes, at present the focus is on Japan's role as host of the G7 summit and pending any egregious missteps there we expect to see a lull in volatility as the market awaits further catalysts.

– Martin King

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Our progress will not always be linear, and we should expect setbacks and surprises.

– Brett McGurk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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