Sentences with phrase «observations program in»

But then, with the advent of NASA's NEO Observations program in 1998, we've been racking them up ever since.

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«The purpose of acquiring observations under ultraviolet illumination was to look for fluorescent minerals,» Ken Edgett, who runs the MAHLI program, said in a NASA press release.
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One interesting observation to be gained from these figures is that the paid - time religious programs had reached the peak of their influence, numerically at least, almost three years before most public attention was given to them in the election year of 1980.
This funding gap is why, at least in my observation, districts doing the best job of feeding kids healthfully almost invariably rely on outside funding, including Chef Ann Cooper «s district in Boulder, Colorado and the Orfalea Foundation - funded school meal program in Santa Barbara, California.
Back to those who would restrict sex education with the express purpose of preventing sexual activity, Bioethicist Arthur Caplan made the following observations in regard «abstinence only» programs:
Do you similarly discount the observations of Lisa Scarpinato, who saw childhood hunger in her own city and created a program to supply needy children on Fridays with backpacks food to get them through the weekend?
«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Pprogram director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology ProgramProgram.
This explains observations made, for instance, in the USA: according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, cyclical changes in the frequency of criminal offences can be found in several American states.
Graduates of MD / PhD programs should be ideally trained to pursue patient - oriented research, i.e., to take observations made in the clinic to the laboratory to understand the molecular basis of diseases and to take discoveries in the laboratory to the clinic to improve patient care.
The group does not yet have formal data on the success of the program, but from his observations, Klinkhammer says, «individuals are doing better when they are able to dovetail back into society in a way that they're supported.»
«These surprising observations show us how a deep - sea animal reproduces,» says Barbara Ransom, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.
In contrast, the Scripps team opted to directly correlate albedo measurements made by NASA's CERES instrument data with observations of sea ice extent made by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM / I) radiometers aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites.
Of course, since the optimization is based on Jigsaw's observations of the chip's activity, «it's the optimal thing to do assuming that the programs will behave in the next 20 milliseconds the way they did in the last 20 milliseconds,» Sanchez says.
«These observations unmask the relevance of primitive brain regions previously linked to eating to other complex behaviors,» said lead author Marcelo Dietrich, M.D., assistant professor of comparative medicine and neurobiology and a member of the Yale Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism at Yale School of Medicine.
Volker Liebig, the director of ESA's Earth observation programs, notified the FLEX team of the decision on 18 September, along with team members from CarbonSat, the other mission up for consideration in the Earth Explorer 8 competition.
In a letter to the chairman of the investigation, Feynman explained his findings: «The large number of negative observations are a result of the appalling condition the NASA shuttle program has gotten into.»
These observations further demonstrate Geminis ability to probe the most distant objects in the Universe under the most challenging conditions, notes Chris Davis, Program Officer at NSF which is one of five international agencies that own and operate Gemini.
QRIO, a robot programmed with a slew of social functions, was placed in U.C. San Diego's Early Childhood Education Center 45 times over the five - month observation period.
Earth - observation programs will fail to provide the data continuity required for climate science unless they are more adequately managed and supported, Kevin Trenberth, a senior researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Sciences in Boulder, Colo., told the World Climate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., last week.
The high - amplitude region of depths over 5 % is not covered by candidates in the follow - up program, because the eclipse depth as such identifies these cases as false positives in planet finding, excluding them automatically from follow - up observations.
Number of candidates found by the detection program, candidates in the observational follow - up program and candidates with solved follow - up observations.
Researchers carry out innovative basic and applied research programs in coral reef biology, ecology, and geology; fish biology, ecology, and conservation; shark and billfish ecology; fisheries science; deep - sea organismal biology and ecology; invertebrate and vertebrate genomics, genetics, molecular ecology, and evolution; microbiology; biodiversity; observation and modeling of large - scale ocean circulation, coastal dynamics, and ocean atmosphere coupling; benthic habitat mapping; biodiversity; histology; and calcification.
Many of the observers who are participating in this exercise are funded by NASA's NEO Observations Program, but observers supported by other countries» space agencies and space institutions around the world are now involved in the campaign.
In the Keck II remote observing room, Dr. Carey Lisse, head of NASA's Comet ISON observation programs, is joined by astronomers Neil Dello Russo, Anita Cochran, Ron Vervack and Hideyo Kawakita.
We find good agreement in the regions of ove... ▽ More We derive an accurate mass distribution of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2 - 0847 (z = 0.439) from a combined weak - lensing distortion, magnification, and strong - lensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) program.
The asteroid, referred to as 2014 JO25, was found in May 2014 by scientists at the Catalina Sky Survey, a part of NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program.
We have also implemented a hospital - at - home program and mobile observation unit, in which physicians, nurse practitioners and others deliver inpatient - level care to certain patients in their homes.
These observations suggest that BMs programmed to form bristles in the wild type took on the fate of SMs in the bsl1 - 1 mutant.
Our observation that SvBd1 is expressed in all terminal meristems suggests that SM identity is the default state and that this program is suppressed in a BR - dependent manner during acquisition of bristle fate.
This event, detected by the two NSF - supported LIGO detectors at 02:01:16 UTC on June 8, 2017 (or 10:01:16 pm on June 7 in US Eastern Daylight time), was actually the second binary black hole merger observed during LIGO's second observation run since being upgraded in a program called Advanced LIGO.
In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory, make live telescope observations of our star the Sun with telescopes equipped with special video cameras and solar filters, complete their student sheet, and learn about the solar features they've seen by watching unique science demonstrations.
During the «Live From McDonald Observatory» videoconference program, students connect with the UT McDonald Observatory and participate in activities, virtual tours, live telescope observations, and more.
«New observations from many different sources confirm that ice - sheet loss is accelerating,» the United States Global Change Research Program said in its comprehensive special report on climate science.
In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory, make live telescope observations of Venus with telescopes equipped with special video cameras, and complete their student sheet.
Over five days, the conference will offer a fruitful meeting of observers involved in various ground - and space - based programs with modelers and theoreticians, in order to raise new observations and new models to improve our comprehension and knowledges of exoplanets.
Berkeley Lab received these competitive awards from ARPA - E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program, which seeks to develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in soil — enabling a 50 percent increase in carbon deposition depth and accumulation while also reducing nitrous oxide emissions by 50 percent and increasing water productivity by 25 percent.
Abstract: As astronomical observations from space benefit from improved sensitivity, the effectiveness of scientific programs is becoming limited by systematics that often originate in poorly understood image sensor behavior.
The clubs will be run in partnership with Alaska 4 - H, the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment program and faculty from UAF's School of Education and Department of English.
I like watching a Hubble program develop from the initial science outline in the Phase 1, to a workable Phase 2, to a successfully executed set of observations.
This remarkable object was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA's Near - Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighborhood.
However, it is also noted that observations of greater hypertrophy in type II muscle fibers could potentially be more a function of the type of strength training programs that are conventionally used to study increases in muscle cross-sectional area than of the responsiveness of this particular muscle fiber type (Ogborn & Schoenfeld, 2014).
A deep - sea submersible — part of an international undersea observation program — has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific... with its crew trapped inside.
The latest episode of Observations on Film Art, an exclusive Criterion Channel program that explores elements of cinema as used by great auteurs, features professor Kristin Thompson highlighting one device that has earned the film its permanent spot in the cinematic canon: Renoir's characteristically subtle yet elaborate staging.
Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Cliff Curtis, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Robert Taylor, Jessica McNamee, Masi Oka and Winston Chao co-star in the film in which an expert deep sea rescue diver (Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer to save the crew of an international undersea observation program from a 75 - foot - long shark known as a Megalodon.
Yet other than compulsory observation required in teacher - training programs, many educators rarely see any classroom besides their own.
Mentoring programs at sites allow for opportunities for professional dialogue and observation of teaching within the site or district in a search for best practices.
During the past year, Bonnie Mackintosh has been conducting classroom - level observations and child assessments in community - based preschool programs throughout Boston's Circle of Promise and East Boston neighborhoods as part of an initiative to improve access to high - quality early childhood care and educational programs.
So long as the staff was willing, he would also implement a peer observation program and provide professional development in peer observation.
But we do have an existence proof in the form of a recent paper by Stanford's Eric Taylor and Brown's John Tyler, which shows that veteran teachers in Cincinnati improved after undergoing an intensive observation - based evaluation program.
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