Sentences with phrase «chance observations of»

However, a slight offset between the periods of the temperature and LED modulations lends to the possibility that the effect is a chance observation of the two sinusoids at an unfortunate point in their beat cycle.

Not exact matches

Least you think this observation smacks of chaos, McKinsey's most recent report finds that the presence of this cultural mindset actually doubles the chance of an organization's ability to sustain improvement after making a shift.

Any miracles or answered prayers are the result of random chance, coincidence, selective observation or fraud.

When I get a chance I'll write a couple of posts — One about the homeless and Jesus (some dislike churches and Christians, others are Jesus followers, but most like Jesus), and one about observations the homeless make to us about the people who show up on their turf to «minister» to them (whose attitudes range from condescension, which is very common, to love, which is very uncommon).

After several years of approaching Zen as a philosophy to be studied, I chanced upon a master whose observation almost induced satori.

«3 It is here that we find out why the passing applications of this notion of attention to aesthetics and concreteness that I have cited are much more than tactical chance observations.

There is always a chance that new observations will be made that require modifying the theory, perhaps radically, such as happened with Newton's theory of gravity.

Of his childhood, Halas volunteers these three things, in order: 1) the addresses where he lived, 2) the observation, «That's where I learned to work,» and 3) detailed recollections of playing games and attending them — most especially watching Tinker to Evers to Chance at the old Cub Park, which was located at the corner of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»Of his childhood, Halas volunteers these three things, in order: 1) the addresses where he lived, 2) the observation, «That's where I learned to work,» and 3) detailed recollections of playing games and attending them — most especially watching Tinker to Evers to Chance at the old Cub Park, which was located at the corner of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»of playing games and attending them — most especially watching Tinker to Evers to Chance at the old Cub Park, which was located at the corner of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»).

From my observations of the pre-season we are creating a lot of chances but waste a lot of them.

This observation confirms the reticence of clubs from the Peninsula to give young nationals their chance (see Monthly Report n ° 13).

I get quite a lot of stick for being critical of referees in Arsenal games, and I'll be the first to admit that my observations are built on bias, so of course there is a good chance that people may disagree with my viewpoints, particularly when their biases lay elsewhere.

He sees this as a chance to prove the validity of the organization's model for building an economical, self - sustaining food community around local resources, an approach sparked by Curtin's observation that the kitchen's regular purchases of hothouse tomatoes flown in from Belgium seemed out of whack.

Let's qualify this observation, though, since campaigns can certainly give their candidates a better CHANCE of finding a wave of online support than most do.

Yorzinski's observations showed that the hoot - dash attracted other females, increasing the male's chances of mating again.

During 30 years of a surgical career, it has been my not quite tongue - in - cheek observation that a patient's chance of survival is inversely proportional to the number of anesthesiologists required to get the operation under way; a figure of six or higher is a virtual guarantee of death.

At first, when observations of the comet were sparse and its orbit wasn't well defined, they suggested that the cosmic iceball even had a small chance of striking Mars.

After unsuccessfully lobbying to change those rules, Illingworth instead helped create a new «Early Release Science» (ERS) program to circumvent them — up to 500 hours of diverse observations front - loaded to Cycle 1 for immediate release to the public, giving all astronomers a chance to absorb the results and apply lessons learned to Webb proposals of their own.

Observations show that this unique object was traveling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system.

Hopefully the process will also give authors the chance to catch any minor writing errors, and think of new, clearer ways to explain observations.

The Pierre Auger Observatory offers a unique chance for the observation of photon - induced air showers and a search for photons with energies above 1018 eV has been performed using the data collected between January 2005 and December 2013.

That maneuver, NASA told USA Today will be the probe's «final opportunity for up - close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon's northern polar region, and the last chance to use its powerful radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface.»

For some tumors, especially those that are discovered by chance on MRI or CT scans taken to evaluate unrelated symptoms, a period of observation is often recommended prior to treatment recommendation.

Our mouse model data are not in conflict with the epidemiological observation that a first pregnancy before age 22 greatly reduces breast cancer risk (MacMahon et al., 1970), because at this young age, the chance of having already accumulated precancerous cells is small.

I'd be interested in hearing about your observations and what studies may say to reduce the chance of this happening.

These suggestions may be based on aesthetic observations, images you submitted during the application process or any other observations that BeautifulPeople deems helpful in order to increase your chance of being accepted to the website.

One of my most interesting observations is that when I get the chance to meet a couple who have been married 10 + years, I find that in many cases, the mate that they selected and are very happy with, would not have fit their» list».

They're probably politic enough to save the really juicy gossip and cutting observations for when there's no chance of being overhead.

The creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom, and the screenwriter of The Social Network and Steve Jobs, has a knack - or at least a propensity - for telling stories about fast - talking intellectuals whose brains are overflowing with observations and anecdotes, most of which are thematically important by the end of the conversation... a conversation that had at least a 40 % chance of being given while the characters walked somewhere.

In fact, they seem to expect an onslaught of brutal observations about their weight, physical appearance, chances of success and social status.

Robert Hendren, executive director of the MIND Institute at the University of California at Davis, praised Pepperberg and Sherman's research as innovative, saying it offers children the chance to learn through both observation and direct interaction.

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

By the way, that's another advantage, it's not just an advantage for the teacher himself or herself getting a chance to see themselves teach, it also allows the observer to do those observations during times of the week when they're not scrambling, it allows them to time shift.

Only after everyone has a chance to offer opinions and observations do the teachers whose students performed the dance — two women who run an after - school neighborhood outreach program sponsored by the Boston Ballet — reveal that the dance is a blending of hip - hop and Bhangra, an Indian dance form, assigned as a choreography project to enhance self - confidence and to give the girls a chance to work on creativity within boundaries.

Angela Lee, director of Krescent City Kids Learning Academy, said the overall feedback she got from the first year of observations of her toddler and pre-K classrooms was somewhat helpful, but a chance to review the observer's notes would be even more so.

Well structured peer feedback experiences built on observations instead of evaluations can give BOTH students involved — the giver and the recipient — chances to act like detectives by reflecting on how well individual work products align with success criteria.

When the performance of the three groups on the classroom observation test was contrasted using an ANOVA, F (2) = 2.822, p =.067, the probability that the mean differences were due other than to chance alone, with alpha of p <.05, was not considered significant.

From afar, they see their principals in action, but unless that principal is willing or able to engage them in the long discussions about school leadership, chances are they are only learning through observation and from the vantage point of their classrooms.

You're also right in your fundamental observation that this shifts more of the process onto the fans, for better — they will have a chance to collaborate on the production earlier and enjoy extras that would be impossible with a regular release — and for worse — they are paying for the product earlier than ever before.

Though I like my chance of success, there are a few observations from this prediction that make me feel it's still a tough goal to reach.

Based on clinical observations, the inheritance is thought to probably be «incomplete,» or about 50 % chance of showing the trait.

Those who choose to get a dog from a shelter can increase their chances of a successful adoption by making some observations and asking some questions.

With three observation decks on Mount Batok, Mount Kursi and Mount Bromo, you get a great chance to enjoy the highest point of Java — Semeru volcano.

Day two begins as you wake in your comfortable bungalow at the Cock of the Rock Lodge for a second chance to see the lek, which we can watch from the observation blind so to not disturb the birds.

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

«Chance Meeting» depicts one man and two women standing on a street corner, under two «One Way» signs and illustrates Segal's keen observation of everyday city life.

In setting out to automate improvisation through self - observation, he is guided by the practices of artists like André Breton, Jean Arp and John Cage, whose work relies on impulse and chance.

Since any actual model prediction depends on a collection of hypotheses together, as do the «observation» and the comparison, there are multiple chances for errors to creep in.

Some of them are optimal fingerprint detection studies (estimating the magnitude of fingerprints for different external forcing factors in observations, and determining how likely such patterns could have occurred in observations by chance, and how likely they could be confused with climate response to other influences, using a statistically optimal metric), some of them use simpler methods, such as comparisons between data and climate model simulations with and without greenhouse gas increases / anthropogenic forcing, and some are even based only on observations.

The longer the series of observations are, the lower the chance of seeing a new record - breaking event given the process is iid.

On the off chance, then, an observation: why would an escape clause be needed in the event of a volcanic eruption?