Sentences with phrase «as observation techniques»

As observation techniques have improved, more dwarf galaxies have been spotted orbiting the Milky Way.

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Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds with the evidence and «inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented.»

Lest this observation be dismissed as just a superficial matter of techniques, let me immediately say that such ignorance applies most emphatically on the level of sacramental theology and liturgical theology in general.

Those observations, using the ginormous Gemini 8 - meter telescope, were among the first exoplanets directly imaged (as opposed to inferred using indirect techniques), and they made up the first exoplanet solar system ever directly seen.

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Many of the techniques now used to detect exoplanets — such as observations of their gravitational effect on the movements of their parent stars, or mini-eclipses that occur regularly as they pass in front of the stars as seen from Earth — aren't sensitive enough to detect the presence of an exomoon.

As instrumentation and observation techniques have become more sophisticated over the past few years, exoplanet researchers have begun probing the nature of these bodies more deeply, even identifying specific molecules in their atmospheres.

In this technique, scientists initiate a computer model with data collected before a past event, and then test the model's accuracy by comparing its output with observations recorded as the event unfolded.

To do this, the team obtained extremely high spatial resolution observations from the eight - meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai`i using a technique called speckle imaging, as well as adaptive optics (AO) observations from the ten - meter Keck II telescope, Gemini's neighbor on Mauna Kea.

Kevin then used another technique to better constrain the plane of the disk itself: as you can't quite trust scattered light images to determine where the structures (mass) is hidden, he used longer wavelength observations from the ALMA radio interferometer array to figure out how inclined is the disk.

The researchers hope that their technique may prove especially useful when upcoming space missions such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Ariel Space Mission start providing more detailed atmospheric observations of potentially habitable exoplanets.

While this technique is widely used, it usually provides only anatomical snapshots of tissues or physiological functions such as blood flow rather than observations of the activity of specific cells.

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

The objective of this course is to familiarize the student with the various techniques for observations as used in Astronomy.

This week Catalystathletics shared Ask Greg: Slow Learning & Slow Lifting a great article with some really valuable points, that align with my observations over the last years, such as «Not everyone will be a good lifter, whatever you do...» or ««People tend to invest not enough time in technique training, because it's boring, but on the flipside don't make the necessary improvements.»

The problem with this approach is that not one of the film's observations is new, and its technique — in which artificial suspense is created by cross-cutting multiple story arcs in an attempt to disguise that each one is predictable as a metronome — undermines the quality of its performances.

Students will: • Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences • Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques • Use a range of techniques to record their observations in sketchbooks, journals and other media as a basis for exploring their ideas • Use a range of techniques and media, including painting • Increase their proficiency in the handling of different materials For more Champions of Change lesson plans and materials for BBC Children in Need, visit and our Tools and Resources pages to download directly: https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/championsofchange/resources Thank you.

Similarly, it seems tempting to use observations of teachers as a key data - gathering technique to inform professional development plans.

This kind of observation can yield its greatest benefits when used as a means of sharing instructional techniques and ideologies between and among teachers.

Glazer et al. (2006) reported that teacher leaders employed demonstration lessons to introduce pedagogical techniques and then transitioned to other forms of instructional support (such as classroom observations) as teachers implemented these techniques in their classrooms.

Evaluating student performance through techniques such as observation and anecdotal records.

We seek articles on such topics as expanding our view of data beyond test scores, setting up a school culture in which teachers collaborate to examine student data and translate it into meaningful action, using qualitative data - collection techniques like peer observation and home visits, harnessing technology to organize data and make it more useful, and sharing data with school stakeholders to help them understand its implications and to mobilize support.

The team uses peer observation and feedback as a key component of professional development, and staff members are encouraged to visit their fellow teachers» classrooms to observe instructional mastery techniques.

The program emphasizes creative and critical thinking, problem solving, visual thinking, perception and observation, as well as presenting traditional vocabulary, theory, media, and techniques of artistic practice.

10/11/2017 -11 / 2/2018 Peter Bremers: Looking Beyond the Mirror From a master of the kiln - casting technique in glass sculpture comes two distinct bodies of work in Peter Bremers» abstract style that express his exploration of human existence, from the perspective of the individual's perception of the world as well as an observation of our collective power as a group of individuals.

I'm reminded of an article written in the 1990s by Jonathan Seabrook in the New Yorker, where he makes an observation that the merchants in SoHo were so rapidly embracing or using the techniques of museum display to sell design, to sell clothing, that it became very hard as you went in and out of the galleries, the stores, the museums, to know what the difference was.

«Rossi's fastidious approaches to composition and technique emerged from her practice of intense visual observation, her interest in vernacular devotional images, and her appreciation of art as a conduit of complex mental states.»

Both practitioners of «deep observation» of their surroundings, these artists employ similar artistic techniques as they explore the formal and abstract elements of color, shape, and light of still life objects and landscapes.

This data - treatment technique revealed that, as you go back farther in time, the daytime observations become progressively warmer compared to nighttime observations.

If I understood your text correctly, you propose that machine learning techniques can help tune parameterization parameters using observations and LES as a proxy.

The skeptics tend to pick out one aspect where there is perhaps not full agreement and fail to recognize that observations as well as models have shortcomings (witness the recent MSU [Microwave Sounding Unit] report's findings of shortcomings in the observational techniques, etc.)-- and that our best understanding must be based on a coherent integration of the many, many studies into a comprehensive synthesis — and this is what the IPCC assessments (and others) do.

The measurements for the Earth's motions come from a variety of space - based measurements including satellites, like those in the Global Positioning System (GPS), the geodetic satellites that included records from NASA's older LAGEOS satellite, and observations of distant astronomical objects using a technique known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry.

Bob Tisdale says that NMAT must be good, because, as said here «Further, NMAT data is relied upon to correct / adjust inhomogeneity in SST series arising from changes in observation techniques» But they don't use a NMAT global average to correct a SST average.

We blended surface meteorological observations, remotely sensed (TRMM and NDVI) data, physiographic indices, and regression techniques to produce gridded maps of annual mean precipitation and temperature, as well as parameters for site - specific, daily weather generation for any location in Yemen.

As there are numerous techniques for determining sea level pressures from atmospheric observations, all having limitations, we also compared the SLP fields generated in the above way for general consistency with those generated using an independent method.

5 That observation, as applied to what students learn about persuasion, reflects the undeniable fact that many persuasive techniques stem in some way or another from the teaching of classical rhetoricians.

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Studies must use techniques such as direct observation of parental behavior with standardized data collection tools, since self - report data can be unreliable.

Advanced course focusing on; theoretical considerations and practical applications of observation as an important technique for studying and assessing children; and the history, research findings, and techniques of developmental screening and assessment.

Information is gathered through a combination of formal and semi-formal techniques such as interviews, questionnaires, observations, projective tests, etc..

The assessment is manualised, standardised and uses structured interviews, self - report measures and observations.10 An intervention will then be tailored for every family, drawing on a small range of relationship - based therapeutic techniques all of which comply with the recommendations of a meta - analysis that examined ways of improving parental sensitivity.50 Parents will also be referred as required to other agencies for help with substance misuse, mental health issues or intrafamilial violence.

The most appropriate statistical technique for nested data is multilevel modeling, which is useful in analyzing longitudinal data, as it effectively handles missing data, serial dependence among observations, and varying time periods between observations (Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002; Singer & Willett, 2003).