Sentences with phrase «by measuring how»

To hang it, we started by measuring how far we wanted it to stick out from the wall.

Often, recruiters use such information to track the effectiveness of their job postings by measuring how many users who view their postings later became job applicants.

Presented on March 2, a new paper, titled «Egalitarian Society or Benevolent Dictatorship: The State of Cryptocurrency Governance» by University College London researchers, delved into the topic further by measuring how many developers are contributing to and commenting on cryptocurrency codebases.

Toxicologists rank the degree of irritation by measuring how long contact is required to induce swelling, judging the severity of effects (for example how much corneal opacity or iritis or redness occurs), and watching how long it takes before the situation returns to normal.

The research was conducted in the UK; The scientists started by measuring how much air pollution go into a certain number of houses in Lancaster using dust monitoring devices and by swiping surfaces and then analyzing what was collected with magnetic remanence, a technique that provides information on concentrations of iron - bearing particles.

But I also know we detect exoplanets by measuring how much their stars wiggle, and every object I've wiggled has inertia, but I can't counter your statements with more than this.

By measuring how much of this C - 14 has penetrated into the oceans over the years since the tests, and determining the relationship between the absorption rate of C - 14 and that of CO2, scientists can estimate the rate at which oceans absorb CO2.but direct measurements of how much CO2 the oceans absorb are very uncertain.

I advise measuring water intake periodically by measuring how much water is put down in the morning and measuring it again at night.

Tip: Improve your traffic metrics by measuring how much traffic comes from each source.

To thoroughly test each vehicle, the competition began at our facility, where empirical data collection began by measuring how far each vehicle could drive up a 20 - degree ramp before a tire lifted off the ground.

By measuring how much a particular teacher's students learn and coupling these measurements with professional observation of teaching practice and other measures — such as surveys of students» perceptions of the classroom experience — education leaders can pinpoint which teachers are helping students learn the most, and which are struggling.

Uranium has a very long half - life and so by measuring how much uranium is left in a rock its approximate age can be Dating rocks.

Uranium dating is one of the ways of determining the age of ancient objects, even one million years old, by measuring how much of the following are present in them: the amount of radioactive isotopes of uranium, and the amount of other materials into which the radioactive isotopes would decompose.

The glycemic index was developed in the 1980's as a way to distinguish «good» carbs from «bad carbs» by measuring how fast they enter the bloodstream.

First, participants sit in a small machine, like this â $ BOD Pod.â $ Then, by measuring how much air is displaced by the individual, technicians can determine body density.

The temperature of the Sun is determined by measuring how much energy (both heat and light) it emits.

Scientists can estimate the newfound planet's size by measuring how much light it blocks as it passes in front of its star.

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

In a separate experiment, the researchers also determined the stiffness of erythrocytes by measuring how deeply the AFM tip was able to penetrate into these cells.

Joye says her team accounted for that possibility by measuring how fast methane - munchers» populations grow: not very.

Royer and colleagues tackled these quandaries by measuring how colloids with different concentrations of bacterium - sized spheres responded to stresses ranging from slight to large.

The evidence of its existence would be revealed by measuring how the axis of nuclei of the radioactive elements radon and radium line up with the spin.

About 30 years ago, entomologist Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., came up with an equation to estimate the number of insects in the tropics by measuring how much beetles specialize on tree species.

Radiocarbon dating works by measuring how much the fraction of carbon - 14 versus non-radioactive carbon in an object has changed and therefore how long the object has been around.

The OCO would have helped scientists monitor global warming by measuring how much carbon dioxide was in a given part of the atmosphere and where it was being absorbed.

After six weeks, researchers assessed how well the lining of blood vessels, or the endothelium, functioned, by measuring how much subjects» arteries dilated with increased blood flow.

By analyzing this time difference and by measuring how fast the material is moving around the center of the galaxy, they were able to determine the mass of this central black hole.

A certain class of supernovae always explodes with the same brightness (giving them the nickname «standard candles»), so by measuring how bright they appear in the images, astronomers can tell how much their light has been magnified.

A map of the dust in M82, 11.4 million light years away, was created by measuring how long it took for these light echoes to reach Earth.

A gps receiver determines the distance from a satellite by measuring how long it takes a radio signal to reach it.

By measuring how the position of this pattern is displaced, the strength — and direction — of the gravitational force on antimatter can be measured.

Growth was assessed in two ways: by measuring the circumference of each tree's trunk, and by measuring how much specific branches grew on each tree.

By measuring how much of the original element remains, scientists can determine the age of a sample.

The classifier algorithm was then tested by giving it new brain data and by measuring how successfully the algorithm recognised the correct emotion solely on the basis of the brain data.

* Astronomers detect a distant planet by measuring how its gravity bends light.

For the first time, scientists are now able to measure how much surface and groundwater is lost during droughts by measuring how much the land rises as it dries.

Traditionally, researchers study how a mineral grows and dissolves by measuring how much and how fast it dissolves under a flowing solution.

Rohling's team dated the stalactites by measuring how much of the rock's uranium has decayed into thorium.

Instead, we determine its mass by measuring how its gravitational pull influences the motion of objects around it.

Physicists can find the yield of the device by measuring how fast and how high the mushroom cloud rises, Spriggs says.

Researchers have monitored changes in the distribution of Earth's mass since the 1970s by measuring how its gravity affects satellites» orbits.

Now, Arnold and his team at NYU Tandon's MicroParticle PhotoPhysics Laboratory for BioPhotonics (MP3L) are the first to find a way to determine the density of charges on an area of a WGM micro-bead's surface, as well as the charge of an ensnared nanoparticle or virus, by measuring how light frequency fluctuates as the tiny particle follows its wobbly course around the sphere.

In 1949, the National Institute of Standards and Technology created the first atomic clock, which determined time by measuring how long certain atomic processes last.

By measuring how the light bent, astronomers can measure the galaxy's mass.

By measuring how far the turfs invaded, the researchers determined each plot's recovery length.

By measuring how long rocks at different heights on the mountain have seen sunlight, Balco could calculate how quickly the glacier thinned and reexposed the mountain.

By measuring how those neutrons scattered off the aqueous calcium chloride, the researchers deduced its structure and compared the data with the simulations.

She excavates the hidden beliefs people hold by measuring how fast they make value judgments when shown a rapid - fire succession of stimuli, such as photographs of faces.

By measuring how far the laser light was deflected by the glass bead, the team made multiple measurements of the particle's position.

«By measuring how closely in time the two different - frequency photons arrive, we can test how closely they obey Einstein's Equivalence Principle.»