Sentences with phrase «early measurements of»

Ernst Beck has complied tens of thousands of analyses of early measurements of atmospheric CO2, and concludes that CO2 levels were much higher during the 1930's warm period than the generally - accepted levels; CO2 dropped sharply during the cooling from ~ 1946 to ~ 1977; and CO2 increased since 1977 due to the recent warming, and is now at similar levels to the early 1940's.

Early measurements of cosmic density indicated there is so little matter out there that the expansion could continue to infinity.

Some of the early measurements of the August event suggested instead that one of the jets may have been pointed slightly away from Earth.

Experts urged caution, especially because an earlier measurement of neutrino velocity had indicated, to high precision and accuracy, that neutrinos do respect the cosmic speed limit.

When the astronomers compared their new VLA measurements of the motion of SiO molecules close to the young star with earlier measurements of other molecules farther away from the protostar, they realized the two were orbiting the star in opposite directions.

If the new report Rose is talking about says the increase since 1951 is 0.12 °C per decade, then it's off by only 8 percent from the earlier measurement of 0.13 °.

Not exact matches

But there are some other financial and performance measurements that can provide earlier signs of trouble — or early indications of longer - term success.

It's too early to determine the ultimate accuracy of these measurements, but the eye test says the results are promising.

Amazon has developed a camera and scanning software designed to automatically determine customers» measurements and upload them to their accounts, according to the person familiar with Amazon's apparel talks, who saw an early prototype of the device.

The fact is that our experience gives us all this together, as being profoundly one in impact upon us; we can not cut up the world of experience, after the fashion of an earlier philosophy, and speak as if that which in its aesthetic quality has subjective appeal must lack any genuine reality in the world itself, simply because it does not lend itself to a particular kind of analysis by measurement or testing.

This measurement is more difficult earlier in pregnancy than later on, when an ultrasound may have already detected the presence of twins.

The new charts will not only provide more accurate measurements for infant growth of breastfed babies, but will also help healthcare professionals and parents to identify early signs of overweight or obesity and provide support.

And, of course, the early 2005 descent of the Huygens probe through Titan's atmosphere for two and a half hours captured panoramic images and measurements of atmospheric composition, transparency, winds and temperature before the probe came to rest on the moon's surface.

Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.

Beginning as early as this spring, the companies will offer telomere - measurement tests to research centers and companies studying the role of telomeres in aging and disease; the general public may have access by the fall through doctors and laboratories, perhaps even directly.

This additional contribution can be determined by comparing the X-ray measurements taken early on during the growth of the wire, with the electron microscope measurement after growth has ended.

Now Zachary Sharp at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and colleagues, say measurements of chlorine in a dozen Apollo samples suggest the earlier view was correct.

The First Temperatures The earliest temperature measurements by Derham and others amounted to a sort of religious inquiry: They documented not only the weather, but also the body sizes of gnats and wasps and the dates on which snowdrop flowers bloomed and thrushes began to sing each spring.

«Moving to non-invasive and repeatable methods of nerve fiber measurements such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy would enhance study of peripheral neuropathy by enabling early detection of damage, progression of nerve fiber deterioration, and enable assessment of therapeutic strategies in the SIV / macaque model,» explains Dr. Mankowski.

Measurements of heavy - versus - light variants of elements in the Martian atmosphere indicate that much of Mars» early atmosphere disappeared by processes favoring loss of lighter atoms, such as from the top of the atmosphere.

«The wet season has typically 85 to over 95 percent cloudiness from late morning to early afternoon, when NASA satellites make measurements,» said co-author and remote sensing specialist Alexei Lyapustin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

According to Paris, «The early universe is becoming such a tightly constrained environment with increasingly good measurements that we can test our descriptions of microscopic quantum physics, such as nuclear cross sections, to high accuracy.»

Much more solid evidence for dark matter came from Vera Rubin, an observational astronomer, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s made detailed quantitative measurements of stars rotating in galaxies.

This research has become possible only recently with the advent of astronomers» precision measurements of the amounts of nuclei present in the early universe.

The recent claim of a much higher neutrino speed just doesn't fit with this earlier measurement.

The higher EPA estimates of 1329 gigagrams are based largely on previous measurements from a national study in the early 1990s in which Lamb and his colleagues also participated.

Specifically, skull measurements reveal information about body size, physiology and the conditions of a moose's early life.

Earlier radiocarbon measurements of a wooden shaft, originally found attached to the copper blade by leather straps and birch tar, date the tool to roughly 5,300 years ago.

That approach holds promise for the future of cosmology: More advanced measurements may eventually reveal details of the early universe throughout its most difficult - to - observe eras.

Called AmazonFACE (Free - Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment), it's based on a simple idea: For 12 years, researchers will spray pure CO2 into instrumented plots in the rainforest northwest of Manaus, Brazil, raising ambient concentrations to 600 parts per million — a level the world could reach as early as 2050 — all the while taking meticulous measurements to determine how the gas affects the growth of plants.

For the major nutrient phosphorus, measurements from this study confirmed earlier calculations: inputs from wastewater treatment plants account for 50 per cent of phosphorus loads in large Swiss rivers.

They employed a broad spectrum of methods and other measurement data, including Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, which are density waves from the early universe, local measurements of the Hubble constant, which specifies the universe's rate of expansion at the present day, as well as a certain group of supernovae or exploding stars.

Then Juan de Pablo and Chi - Cheng Chiu from the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering interpreted Zanni's measurements with data from molecular simulations to arrive at a complete picture of the early events leading to amyloid formation.

The early quantum physicists dealt with this unreality by saying that the «is» — the fundamental objects handled by the equations of quantum theory — were not actually particles that had an extrinsic reality but «probability waves» that merely had the capability of becoming «real» when an observer makes a measurement.

The distance measurement of GN - z11 provides additional strong evidence that other unusually bright galaxies found in earlier Hubble images are really at extraordinary distances, showing that we are closing in on the first galaxies that formed in the Universe.

There were even some hints of such «anisotropy» in the early 2000s, when measurements from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) spacecraft suggested that some subtle undulations in the motley CMB appeared to line up along a so - called «axis of evil» — which most researchers discount as a statistical fluke.

Measurements of the shape of this feature tell scientists that Charon's water ice layer may have been at least partially liquid in its early history, and has since refrozen.

Earlier work linked genes to simple measurements of brain structures, such as overall volume or length.

Actually, the scientists have already observed a redistribution of reactive nitrogen and signs of chlorine activation during measurement flights earlier this winter.

«This treatment has now been studied in our centre using the most sensitive measure of lung structure — a radiologic measurement of lung density — allowing us to detect changes far earlier than can be seen with standard breathing tests,» said Dr. Kenneth Chapman, Director of the Asthma and Airways Centre at Toronto Western Hospital and the Canadian research lead for the multicentre trial.

Combining Herschel measurements with earlier results from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Thomas Müller concludes that the surface of Makemake must consist of «hot» and «cold» zones right next to each other.

On the contrary, men who were underweight in childhood had a higher risk of asthma admission in early adulthood compared to men with normal BMI, with the strongest link seen with the BMI measurements taken at the age of 12.

Two surveys conducted in June and early July, one of which was led by a NOAA - supported Texas A&M University team, suggested a large hypoxic zone was forming in the Gulf, though the LUMCON July measurement will be the official one as required of NOAA by the Task Force.

Earlier this spring, Marcelino's group published the first global index to standardize measurements of different coral species» vulnerability to thermal stress.

This apparent contradiction, known as the measurement problem, has a long history going back to the early days of quantum mechanics.

Researchers took blood and urine measurements throughout the trial to scout for any early signs of toxicity, such as excess calcium in the urine.

The findings suggest that these satellite - based measurements could be useful in future early warning systems of natural hazards.

Although low values at an altitude of around 15 kilometres were known from earlier measurements in the peripheral area of the tropical West Pacific, the complete absence of ozone at all heights was surprising.

And Laporte concludes: «Further measurements of this kind offer the exciting prospect of tracing early star formation and the creation of the heavier chemical elements even further back into the early Universe.»

Fermilab's Holometer is currently the only machine with the ability to take these very precise measurements of space and time, and recently collected data has improved the limits on theories about exotic objects from the early universe.