Sentences with phrase «best available measurements»

Natural variations in CO2 during the past 11,000 years (Figure 3.2 c) have been small (about 20 ppm) according to the best available measurements, which are from the Taylor Dome ice core (Smith et al., 1999; Indermühle et al., 1999).

Even global surface temperatures (which is how Spencer is likely measuring «global warming», although they only account for about 2 % of the Earth's warming), have warmed about 0.2 °C over the past 15 years, according to the best available measurements.

Not exact matches

If they are realized, these spin measurements would have to satisfy the quantum mechanical theorem, else the theorem would be false — and there is good evidence available for the correctness of the theorem.

A special emphasis will be placed on quantification and measurement of food loss, since the lack of data available around this issue area is a major barrier to understanding what the best approaches for reduction are.

(For example: American recipes might say «one stick of butter» - this translates to 8 tablespoons or 100 grams) You might find it worthwhile to invest in some «cups» and «measuring spoons» as well as a small kitchen scales (all readily available in most asda, tesco, etc) to help you get to grips with correct measurements.

What data are available to suggest that manual measurement of the pelvis leads to better outcomes and what outcomes were measured?

But they do provide the best publicly available window into how Cuomo has spent his time and the only apples - to - apples measurement of whom he's lent his ear to the most.

The newly available data gives researchers a treasure trove of measurements they can use to better understand how space weather works and how best to protect critical infrastructure, such as the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, navigation systems, and electric power grid.

The Next - Generation Proteomics Measurement Platform is combining new instrumentation and data analysis capabilities for significantly higher throughput proteomics than currently available, as well as informatics capabilities for managing the massive volumes of proteomics data that will be generated.

Instrumentation and know - how is available for generating customized spotted protein microarrays as well as measurement and analysis of commercially available protein microarrays.

The direct measurement of the bulk density of an asteroid available when the moon's orbit is well constrained give indications about the composition and distribution of material in the asteroid.

It's good to see this knowledge becoming more available to replace the misconceptions of educational measurement.

Two seminal educational measurement textbooks — Best Test Design and Rating Scale Analysis — from the University of Chicago's MESA Laboratory are now available for free download.

The authors recommend four best practices in this area: (1) Get rid of the omnibus grade, which tells teachers little about the content measured or the difficulty level of the content; (2) If you can't get rid of the omnibus grade, provide scores on measurement topics in addition to the grade; (3) Expand the assessment options available to students; and (4) Allow students to continually update their scores on previous measurement topics.

As a result of the limited applicability of teacher value - added measures to the full population of teachers as well as concerns about potential mis - measurement of effectiveness associated with using value - added measures even when available, neither seniority nor measures of value - added to student achievement should be the sole criterion determining layoffs.

As there are no speed test apps in the Nook store, I couldn't get a good measurement of Wi - Fi speeds, but 2.4 GHz Wi - Fi is typically slower than 5 GHz where both are available and running against a fast home or office connection.

However, given the initial six - month grace period, the nine - months of delinquency required to default, and years of available deferments and forbearances, it is simple for such borrowers to delay default well beyond the CDR measurement period to which a borrower is assigned.

Any measurement system is only as good as the data it uses, and unfortunately, the data available to us was limited in both quantity and quality.

Is there good impact measurement available?

[He shared a performance table which comes down to this: all of the funds are top 10 % or better for the available measurement periods.]

It is only available in one size so it would be best to take the accurate measurements of your feline to make sure it fits right into the Mr. Peanut's 18 by 11 by 10.5 - inch dimensions.

This is the most accurate measurement of how well platelets adhere and form clots but this technology is not readily available to most small animal hospitals at this time.

Hansen et al.: «Are we making the measurements, collecting the data, and making it available in a way that both today's scientist, as well as tomorrow's, will be able to effectively increase our understanding of natural and human - induced climate change?

While these methods are heavily used, there are concerns regarding the distributions of available measurements, how well these sample the globe, and such issues as the degree to which the methods have spatial and seasonal biases or apparent divergence in the relationship with recent climate change.

The data utilized also included subsurface information obtained through indirect measurements including high - quality 3 - D and 4 - D seismic data, calibrated with available well control information.

Thus it «s better that very many different thermometers are used by many different people following different practices than that a few ships using one thermometer each make the measurements using procedures that vary only slowly, unless accurate data is available on the calibration of those few thermometers and the procedures used.

By carefully planning and maintaining these pristine stations and by using the best technology available, this large - scale experiment eliminates the following problems with the older weather measurement network:

The JGR paper is full of «might have», «may have», «could have» caveats along with «Its comparison with available bottom water measurements shows reasonably good agreement, indicating that deep ocean warming below 700 m might have contributed 1.1 mm / yr to the global mean SLR or one - third of the altimeter - observed rate of 3.11 ± 0.6 mm / yr over 1993 — 2008.»

Just for the record, apart from major 1998 and 2024 - 16 ocean El Niño events, satellite instruments, the best measurements available, show no statistically significant mean global warming now for nearly two decades.

«Magic with numbers» is always accomplished by either inventing your data or massaging what data you have, unreliable at best given the time spans involved the equipment available, the precision, repeatable accuracy and calibration of the equipment used to collect the data along with the number of people doing the measurements, all of which are accomplished somewhat differently.

This improved accuracy is especially clear for the sample period that starts in 1960, when direct measurements of greenhouse gas concentrations become available and temperature measures have better coverage and are more reliable.

In climate science, we could add that if we had data from well designed measurements in the past, we would also use them, but, unfortunately it is only is the past few decades that a few such measurements are available, driven in major part by improved theoretical models and advances in instrumentation.

The authors obviously wish for better measurement data, but it doesn't become clear (to someone like me) whether technically solutions are ready to improve the situation, if financial resources were available, and whether any financial investment could be expected to be spent well in technically effective ways.

After a few infrared measurements on summer nights showed that the amount of heat being radiated from the atmosphere was much less than some climate models predicted, he began an intensive study resulting in his own computer simulations based on available atmospheric data and well - known laws of infrared physics.

As well as ERBE data, they made use of the newly available Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) measurements.

Complete and comprehensive reviews of the 29 identified family assessment measures: (a) identify the key source and measurement development references; (b) describe the purpose, format, scoring, and applicable age ranges; (c) summarize available psychometric information; (d) evaluate clinical and research utility; (e) discuss applicability with linguistic minorities as well as racial and ethnic populations; and (f) classify each measure according to the criteria outlined earlier.