Sentences with phrase «background signals from»

Comparing this with background signals from non-hearing parts of the squids» bodies, Mooney can determine whether the statocysts are reacting to noises in the squids» environment.

This story is still just hypothetical, but astrophysicists point to a piece of supporting evidence: The FRBs are coming from the same vicinity as a steady source of radio emission — possibly the background signal from the expanding debris cloud that surrounds the young magnetar.

Not exact matches

«Given (new CEO Christian Sewing's) background in credit risk and commercial banking it could be seen as a signal of a move from investment banking,» Colin McLean, managing director at SVM Asset Management, told CNBC in an email.

But C.D. Howe Institute research vice president Finn Poschmann said Poloz's background as head of Export Development Canada could signal a shift in the central bank's focus from monetary policy alone to encompass broader issues.

Both quarterbacks come from the same football - rich territory around Pittsburgh that laps into Ohio and has produced a number of outstanding signal - callers, including Namath (Beaver Falls, Pa.) and Kelly (East Brady, Pa.), and from solid Catholic family backgrounds with strong father figures.

Sometimes, if the outcome is common (for example heart disease in known diabetics who are taking medication for diabetes, as with Avandia) the signal from the drug gets lost in the background noise from the disease.

In state Legislature, some Republicans have signaled a willingness to take up legislation that would bolster background checks and prevent the mentally ill from obtaining guns or banning bump stock accessories.

Tuomi's team ran statistical analyses to tease out possible planetary signals from background noise.

«We can extract a useful signal from the ambient background ground vibration.»

A particular combination that appears more often than expected from other, «background» processes may signal the presence of the Higgs.

To claim a Higgs discovery, physicists need to extract from this mess the gold standard signal — one with a statistical significance of 5 sigma, meaning the chance of producing it from background events alone is less than one in a million.

In its importance for our understanding of — well, everything — measuring such a signal would be even more revolutionary than mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the relic light from when the early universe first cooled to transparency some 380,000 years after the big bang.

Remarkably, however, it was only within the final second that the signal reached high enough frequencies and high enough amplitudes for LIGO to detect it, above the general background noise from other non-cosmic sources.

Most WIMP detectors are placed deep underground to shield them from background radiation that can cloud that signal.

These gravitational waves we will to detect will almost be the size of visible universe, but we mean, they'll produce signatures, temperature — well, in this case, the polarization of the microwave background — signatures which are at the level, well, the next generation, the best we can imagine doing is getting a 1 [percent] admixture of a signal from gravitational waves compared to the signal of the temperature fluctuations that we, kind of, measure in the universe.

«There is very little room left for signals from exotic sources in the extragalactic gamma - ray background, which in turn means that any contribution from these sources must be quite small,» Ajello said.

The purported swirls in the cosmic microwave background could in fact be a spurious signal from within our galaxy, a rumor suggests.

«A very careful re-check of data from that station showed a signal, almost buried in the background noise but consistent with what was recorded on the IMOS recorder off Rottnest,» Dr Duncan said.

The 38 annihilation signals detected by ALPHA were well above the expected background of 1.4 occurrences, strongly indicating that antihydrogen atoms were indeed slamming into the trap walls after being released from confinement.

Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were false alarms because they signaled the potential occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.

But it turns out we can actually indirectly measure gravity waves by looking out at the cosmic microwave background that's come to us from the big bang and imprinted in there, it turns out for reasons I think I won't talk about here, [is] a signal maybe of the big bang and I've just, in fact, written a bit about how you might be able to entangle that signal.

So the researchers looked for a common genetic signal in blood samples from 175 people with different genetic backgrounds, from different locations in the United States, and who received the flu vaccine in different seasons.

With this novel new detector, PHENIX will be able to separate direct photons from sources of background that would otherwise overwhelm the signal.»

«The only source of noise is the cosmic microwave background,» says Tarter, referring to remnant radiation from the big bang, whose signal has been well studied.

This background signal makes it harder for surgeons to see signal being emitted from the structure of interest.

The researchers noted in today's (Mar. 27) issue of Scientific Reports that «Both the models and observations suggest this signal has only recently emerged from the background noise of natural variability.»

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has always looked for an anomaly in the persistent cosmic background chatter — a change perhaps in the intensity of a signal that can be taken as a sign that a transmission might be a message to us earthlings from other intelligent beings.Each year, medical researchers who gather at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference search for something similar as they weigh reports of the complex biology of the human brain for some sign that a drug might actually change the relentless course of the disease.

The signal from the cosmic background microwave has weakened over time, making it exceedingly difficult to find the signature of this ancient inflation behind all the cosmic «noise.»

The problem facing dendroclimatologists is to extract whatever climatic signal is available in the tree ring data and to distinguish this signal from the background noise.

The resulting negative signal means that parts of the disk are colder than the background,» study lead author Stephane Guilloteau from France's Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, said, in a statement.

The signal, which lasted for 72 seconds, was 30 times stronger than background emissions, and was later determined to have come from the direction of the Sagittarius constellation.

«There is very little room left for signals from exotic sources in the extragalactic gamma - ray background, which in turn means that any contribution from these sources must be quite small,» Marco Ajello from the Clemson University in South Carolina — the co-author of the second study — said in the statement.

Researchers also relied on precise, space - based measurements of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, which is the nearly uniform remnant signal from the first light of the universe.

Therefore, we subjected confocal images to quantitative co-localization analysis only when the MOAB - 2 signal was strong enough to be clearly distinguished from background, non-specific staining.

a) To measure the overlap coefficient of different antibody binding sites, the signals were separated from background using a brightness criterion and made binary.

The punctate staining in B and C that is absent from D and E is the CCHa2 signal; the dimmer uniform signal is non-specific background staining, since it also appears in the tissue from CCHa2 - null animals (E).

A blend may consist of a background or foreground eclips... ▽ More Light curves from the Kepler Mission contain valuable information on the nature of the phenomena producing the transit - like signals.

At the moment, concentrations of plutonium in waters off Fukushima are so low that background radiation from nuclear weapons testing more than 50 years ago makes the signal undetectable with our instruments.

In addition, a photonic integrated circuit can remove background noise from an RF signal with unprecedented precision, which will increase the signal to noise performance and make possible new benchmarks in low power performance.

By masking sources and then co-adding many deep frames, the F606W and F814W filters have enough combined background signal that errors from Poisson statistics are < 1 % per pixel.

According to Space.com, the telescope detected about 34,000 signals while studying the Cygnus constellation, indicating a combination of transiting planets and background noise that may have come from either the star being studied or the instrument itself.

These are elements from the «sweet country» itself, primed to boil over, as signaled by sounds of shouting and fighting in the background.

«Although the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds entering higher education has reached record levels again this year, there are early signals that the good progress made in recent years may be slowing down.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Consider things like names, accents, career and educational experience which can signal that candidates are from certain backgrounds.

At the time, however, distant radio signals could seldom be heard above the ever - present crackle of background static from naturally occurring electromagnetic waves.

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The backgrounds adjust to the theme as well, signaling a reprieve from the faster combat and adding some visual variety.

The places where the new protagonist Shao Jun can traverse from foreground to background and around the sides of buildings are also clearly indicated with red paint, giving you a clear signal of where to go and how to get there.