Sentences with phrase «bigger scale study»

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Two organizations that know megachurches well have released a new study they describe as «by far the biggest - scale, cross-denominational response anyone has ever collected about church finances.»

These large - scale studies may disguise bigger effects on particular sectors.

Co-researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani said the ANU team's achievement was a big milestone in the field of nanophotonics, which involves the study of behaviour of light and interaction of objects with light at the nano - scale.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

«Our study highlights the scale and impacts of feral cats and the urgent need to develop effective control methods, and to target our efforts in areas where that control will produce the biggest gains» says Dr Legge.

The new information is «a big piece of the puzzle that was missing» and it neatly confirms scientists» predictions about how lunge feeding scales with baleen whale body size, says Robert Shadwick, a comparative physiologist who studies whales» feeding mechanisms at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, and was not involved in the research.

The large - scale studies, most of which are made possible by the vast data generated and collected by new technologies like sensors and cellphones, are very good at describing the big picture, but don't provide much detail at the individual level.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

But because of variations in method, sample, and context from study to study, the previous body of literature has not provided a decisive answer regarding which strategy, at scale, has the biggest impact per dollar.

«Conclusive evidence has shown the benefits of class sizes of 1:15, especially in the primary grades,» says Charles M. Achilles, a professor of educational administration at Eastern Michigan University, in Small Classes, Big Possibilities, an article he penned for The School Administrator: «Since the early, 1980s, a large - scale project in Indiana, a major experiment in Tennessee, numerous smaller studies and evaluations of projects that use low adult - to - student ratios have found that youngsters in small classes (1:15 or so) as compared to youngsters in larger classes

Big Data analysis should be publisher's day - to - day work, as it allows for multiple small - scale case studies leading to constant improvement.

Here is the big thing we've learned by letting the students choose what they'll study: They are naturally curious and fascinated by history on the grandest scale.

Forget about big ideas and large - scale studies.

«Our study highlights the scale and impacts of feral cats and the urgent need to develop effective control methods, and to target our efforts in areas where that control will produce the biggest gains,» the study's author, Dr. Sarah Legge from The University of Queensland, said in a statement.

As E. F Schumacher wrote in his book «Small is Beautiful: A Study in Economics as if People Mattered», bigger is not better, there is such a thing as the perfect scale in a work of art and this can translate in works that are smaller in scale and therefore calling for intimacy and individual attention from the viewer.

However, Svensmark and colleagues, not wanting to wait for the credible quantitative results to come in, instead short circuited all of that tedious follow - up work, scaling up to realistic conditions, theoretical and modelling studies demonstrating that their effect was indeed viable, and simply declared in their press materials that the team had «discovered that cosmic rays play a big part in the everyday weather» and «brings to a climax a scientific quest that has lasted two centuries».

The paper he wrote together with Friis - Christensen in which he found a correlation between solar activity and clouds had a «slight» flaw: it ignored that the period of the study coincided with a big El Nino, and that large scale changes in ocean surface temperature are going to have an effect on cloud formation.

«Studies so far assume that what we do will cost $ 600 per tonne — this is a study by the American Physical Society, and one study by MIT, Stanford and Berkeley even assumed $ 1,000 per tonne — for plants which are a) industrialised and b) have a much bigger scale, so not one thousand tonnes per year, but a factor one thousand more, so a million tonnes per year.

Brattle's study, entitled «Comparative Generation Costs of UtilityScale and Residential - Scale PV in Xcel Energy Colorado's Service Area» was commissioned by First Solar, the world's biggest utility - scale solar developer, with support from the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for American investor owned utiliScale PV in Xcel Energy Colorado's Service Area» was commissioned by First Solar, the world's biggest utility - scale solar developer, with support from the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for American investor owned utiliscale solar developer, with support from the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for American investor owned utilities.

«The big surprise is that this study demonstrates that a small - scale, regional nuclear conflict is capable of triggering ozone losses even larger than losses that were predicted following a full - scale nuclear war.»

Study 2 examined correlation between the PNS - J and other related variables (big - five personality traits and need for cognition) to show convergent and discriminant evidence of validity of the PNS - J, and evaluated test - retest reliability of the scale.