Sentences with phrase «by the measurement around»

Most afflicted have extra fat around the middle (check your waist to hip ratio — a measurement around your belly button divided by the measurement around the hips — if it is greater than 0.8 you likely have insulin resistance).

Not exact matches

Sorrell then referenced a speech given by WPP's third biggest client — and the biggest ad spender in the world — P&G's marketing boss Marc Pritchard, who said Google and Facebook were not doing enough to meet advertiser demands around measurement, brand safety, and viewability (the measure of whether an online ad had the ability to be seen by a human).
The earth's motion around the sun distorts the measurement of a day by almost four minutes, it turns out.
I tested it again and those measurements yield the correct amount by weight (around 160g).
With the publication of this manual on the Anker Methodology of Living Wage measurement, there is an unprecedented opportunity to measure living wages that are accepted by the variety of players involved in living wage issues, and to lead cooperation and shape discussions about worker needs and wage levels around the world, to achieve progressive improvement in wages towards a living wage globally.
«They're already taking measurements, they're moving things around, by next week, even the name won't be there,» Castro said.
Around 1918 Weyl attempted to modify general relativity so that it would not require absolute measurements of scale or distance — so that it would abide by an entirely relative system, again akin to that of Mach.
The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.
«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» said Paul Ray, a SEXTANT co-investigator with the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.
But by 1989, after ground - based measurements and flybys from Voyagers 1 and 2, we had discovered rings around the other three gas giants — Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.
«We're hoping that by using these types of measurements over the next few years, we'll probe precisely how this gas is getting moved around by these very dramatic processes,» says Hill.
Provided their spacecraft stays healthy and funded, the Juno team is contemplating additional measurements that could further probe Jupiter's interior, such as monitoring tidal bulges raised by large moons whipping around the planet.
This quest for «new physics» could explain the disappearance of antimatter after the Big Bang and the nature of the dark matter that, although it represents around 30 % of the universe, can only be detected by astronomical measurements at this point.
The project has already merged 1.6 billion land surface temperature measurements from 16 sources, most of them publicly available, and is putting them in a simple format to allow easy use by scientists around the world.
Robinson and Researcher G. Jeffrey Taylor, both at the UHM Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, compiled water measurements from lunar samples performed by colleagues from around the world, as well as their own.
The work included data from a variety of sources, including national emissions inventories kept by the United Nations, global estimates of energy use and direct measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and involved dozens of authors from institutes around the world.
After 4 years gathering live footage and visiting specimens in museums, the researchers classified birds around the planet by assigning scores across five characteristics: measurements, songs, plumage, behaviors, and geographical relationships with one another.
This mission is fulfilled by operating atmospheric observatories around the world that collect massive amounts of atmospheric measurements to provide data products that help scientists study the effects and interactions of clouds and aerosols and their impact on the earth's energy balance.
As a subgiant star subject to pulsations which affect careful measurements of variations in radial velocity caused by the gravitational pull of substellar companions, astronomers would find it very difficult to detect any Earth - type planet around Beta Hydri using present methods.
There are 49 planet candidates around these stars, including 42 detected through transits and 7 revealed by precise Doppler measurements of the host stars.
The team led by three principal investigators, Heino Falcke, Radboud University Nijmegen, Michael Kramer, Max - Planck - Institut für Radioastronomie, and Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University in Frankfurt and Max - Planck - Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, hopes to measure the shadow cast by the event horizon of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, find new radiopulsars near this black hole, and combine these measurements with advanced computer simulations of the behaviour of light and matter around black holes as predicted by theories of gravity.
«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» says Paul Ray, co-investigator on the SEXTANT project.
Many of the planets discovered by EDEN around nearby stars will be suitable for in - depth atmospheric characterization, mass, radius, and bulk density measurements through follow - up observations with large ground - and space - based telescopes, such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
By contrast, Hubble's measurements are based on the velocities of stars whirling around in the dense cores of globular clusters, which yield a direct measurement of the black hole masses.
Kepler 10b was detected using the transit method from more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft between May 2009 and early January 2010 and confirmed by radial velocity measurements, and there evidence for another planet (KOI 72.02) in an outer orbit with a period around 45.3 days (Kepler news release; images, animations, and discovery page; and Batalha et al, 2011).
Adding the measurements and then Dividing all the ingredients by 4 gives around 3 TBSP.
While an element of the unexplained variability will likely have arisen though measurement error, it is more likely that the variation occurred primarily through variation between performances within individuals, as snatch, clean and jerk, and total 1RM varies by around 2.3 — 2.7 % in elite Olympic weightlifters (McGuigan & Kane, 2004), although test - re-test reliability of the 1RM power clean is nearly perfect in adolescent male athletes, with ICC = 0.98, a standard error of measurement (SEM) of 2.9 kg and a smallest worthwhile change (SWC) of 8.0 kg (Faigenbaum et al. 2012).
Engage students in learning about measurement by measuring objects around the classroom and creating word problems for peers to solve.
Recommended for pets 18 to 90 lbs, sizing is determined by chest measurement around a dog's rib cage, just behind the front legs.
Albers's drawings were made around the same time as Mary Martin's «climbing form», and parts of the drawings have been enlarged by Antunes, who kept their exact measurements and volumes.
In the most destructive of the Black Saturday fires in 2009, our post-event measurements show for the towns of Marysville and Kinglake that the likelihood of home destruction [for structures separated from brush by less than 10 meters] was around 90 percent and that 60 percent of all homes destroyed on that day were within this distance of bushland.
Mercury levels in the upper layers of the ocean are up 3.4 x since the beginning of the industrial revolution, according to the first study to have done truly global measurements of marine mercury levels by taking thousands of samples around the world over half a decade.
This product primarily exploits high - quality measurements of air samples collected at tens of sites around the world by various laboratories (119 sites for CO2, 30 sites for CH4 and 127 sites for N2O), in combination with a numerical model of atmospheric tracer transport (Chevallier et al. 2010, Bergamaschi et al. 2013, Thompson et al. 2014).
Uncertainties around the Challenger's measurements were caused by the limited areas measured during the voyage; the actual depths the thermometers descended to; and the likely natural variation in temperature that could occur in each region during the voyage.
Science historians would point out that Professor Revelle did not prompt the first CO2 measurement in the atmosphere; what he prompted was the first sampling of air from locations around the world, and it was actually Harry Wexler, the head of the Weather Service at the time, who prompted and actually funded the start of the long - term monitoring program by David Keeling on Mauna Loa — so Revelle did play a very important role in stimulating observations (and in 1965 he chaired the panel on this issue that prepared a quite insightful appendix for the report of the President's Scientific Advisory Council), but Revelle was not the very first to urge CO2 be measured in the atmosphere.
That's a good question and I don't pretend to have a definitive answer — but have done a bit of work on localized temperature measurements on my own (utterly unscientific just me playing around with transducers) and you would be amazed at how much of a delta t you can get by placing temperature transducers closer / further from buildings; in parking lots vs green belts, close to AC units, UHI etc..
Tebbutt died in 1916, so it's not clear what instrument the 122 F was recorded on in 1939, but a Stevenson Screen had been installed around 40 years earlier, and the measurement was made by Mr Keith Tebbutt, presumably his son.
In major scientific trials that attempt to reproduce the results of scientific observations and measurements, it seems that around 50 percent of recently published science is wrong, because the results can't be replicated by others.
The Greenhouse Effect is an impossible world with its Sun a cold Star of 6000 °C, around the temp of Earth's innards, but they have a good reason for this science fraud — to eliminate the direct radiant heat from our real millions of degrees hot real Star our Sun, so they can then pretend all real world measurements downwelling are from «the atmosphere backradiating by greenhouse gases», and not from the Sun.
Global average sea levels have risen by around 3.2 mm per year since satellite measurements began in 1993, the report says, with sea levels around 67 mm higher in 2014 than they were in 1993.
There are serious problems with all the current measurements from surface stations to satellites, but a major one is the contamination of the surface readings by changes in the physical conditions around the weather station.
On average, the ozone measurement bias achieved by NDACC lidars is around 5 - 10 % below 20 km for instruments without Raman channels and 5 % for instruments with Raman channels, around 2 % at altitudes within 20 - 35 km, and around 5 - 10 % at altitudes above 40 km [Keckhut et al., 2004].
The ozone measurement precision achieved by NDACC lidars is around 1 % up to 30 km, 2 — 5 % at 40 km and 5 — 25 % at 50 km.
The measurement program includes around the clock measurements at 4 baseline observatories and 8 tall towers, air samples collected by volunteers at more than 50 sites, and air samples collected regularly from small aircraft mostly in North America.
That makes no assumptions at all about the age of the sample, merely the result of the C14 reading and a spread of values around that caused by measurement (and other) errors.
Insert noise by using reanalysis of daily winds instead of actual wind measurements around the time temperature minima are reached.
In reality we've known for nearly 190 years that rising CO2 causes global warming, and we know for certain it's well - mixed throughout the atmosphere, as illustrated by measurements from around the world.
Among the problems with the temperature measurements are that they are not taken by the same instrument, and the data points are widely scattered around the globe, so that variations in one location may have a much greater effect than variations in another location.
The answer is there are serious problems with all the current measurements from surface stations to satellites, but a major one is the contamination of the surface readings by changes in the physical conditions around the weather station.
It's true that a single thermometer has some measuring capability for a decent area around the measurement point, but you can't measure the temperature of the entire globe from 6 or 8 thermometers, all of which are in Europe or North America (ie they're all influenced by similar regional factors that are NOT global in nature).
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