Sentences with phrase «confirm by measuring»

As you can easily confirm by measuring them with a ruler, the horizontal lines are in fact identical in length.

(Self - reported mood ratings were confirmed by measures of heart rate and skin conductance.)

Smoking in the mothers was examined through interviews that covered each day of pregnancy — with mothers» reports confirmed by measuring nicotine levels.

A dog watching another dog wagging asymmetrically to the left (anxiety) will experience anxiety confirmed by measuring increased heart rate and anxious facial expression.

This is confirmed by the measured agreement between all the different cores from around Antarctica and Greenland.

At this home visit (in advance of the well - child visit), eligibility was confirmed by measuring the child's height and weight and computing BMI percentile; consent and assent forms were then reviewed with the parent and child and signed.

Not exact matches

Among the new measures pushed by branch officials, according to the New York Times: a mandate that Air Force Office of Special Investigations personnel «confirm that reportable cases have been entered in the federal database by seeing either a printout or a screenshot from the database.»

That Chinese bankers might be doing so is confirmed by both anecdotal and official evidence indicating faster - than - expected credit growth in categories that fall outside widely watched measures like TSF.

If that were to happen, we would need S&P strength to be confirmed by other action, particularly other measures of risk - premiums.

The figures released earlier today by comScore on the US online display advertising market confirm what most of us have suspected — Facebook continues to grow in influence and presence almost in every measure imaginable.

If of course you measure success as an imaginary castle in a far away land that you can only reach by dying and no one has ever been able to confirm its existence... then I think christians give the rest of the world a run for its money.

3) PIRES FOR GODS SAKE WAKE UP TO WHAT IS HAPPENING.They LAUGH at US.They LAUGH at WENGER.They chant this at AWAY GAMES.They even chant this at THE EMIRATES.Dont Just take my word for this as you can have this confirmed by anybody on this site.The song is so popular it is likely to be the UK entry into the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST.Its embarrassing to listen to but how can we argue Wenger has NOT been successfully for 2 decades.He was successful foSEVEN SEASONS.Look at the stats.Please do not quote FA CUPS or COMMUNITY SHIELDS.The BIG Competitions are the PREMIERE LEAGUE and the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.These are what we are measured on.Nothing else.

The disease condition is diagnosed by physical examination and usually a doctor will measure the pressure within the muscle or fascia to confirm.

«These measures, if confirmed, may have a potentially chilling effect on journalists» freedom of expression as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights [ECHR],» chief executive Thorbjorn Jagland wrote.

Cuomo's aides stood by their first report, which cleared Bruno of wrongdoing, saying it was confirmed by subsequent inquiries and, for good measure, attacking the Times Union.

Genetic sequencing by IAH scientists has, however, confirmed the two outbreaks sprung from the same virus, suggesting the culls and biosecurity measures failed to contain foot and mouth.

(b) Take the necessary measures to prevent, except as decided otherwise by the UN Security Council in advance on a case - by - case basis, the supply, sale, or transfer of arms or related materiel from Iran by their nationals or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in the territory of Iran, until the date five years after the JCPOA Adoption Day or until the date on which the IAEA submits a report confirming the Broader Conclusion, whichever is earlier;

Home secretary confirmed the long - awaited review had already begun, and said it would look at six areas: the use of control orders, stop and search powers in section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and the use of terrorism legislation in relation to photography, the detention of terrorist suspects before charge, extending the use of deportations, measures to deal with organisations that promote hatred or violence, and the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa) by local authorities.

Senate must save itself by confirming Mike Pompeo Poll: Menendez has 17 - point lead over GOP challenger MORE (D - N.J.), a lead sponsor of the measure, said late last week that Democrats will «insist» on addressing the oil tax issue in broader budget talks.

Latest data obtained by DAILY POST from NCDC showed that the number of new confirmed and probable cases had been falling for five consecutive weeks, indicating that public health measures were effective, but more infections were expected until the end of the dry season.

«As part of our administration's change mantra, it has been confirmed and repeatedly reported that this empowerment programme is not only impactful but apolitical by all standard and measures.

Bladder function was also assessed by measuring bladder volume and tension, which confirmed the improved voiding ability of animals receiving transplants.

Because the planet does not cross directly in front of its star, the team can not confirm its inferences by measuring the planet's radius, says planetary theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. Still, Boss finds the logic convincing: «They seem to have found what I would call the top end of the range of terrestrial - type planets.

Once confirmed, a transit allows astronomers to confidently measure a planet's orbital period — its year — as well as to estimate its size, by comparing the depth of its shadow with the estimated dimensions and luminosity of its star.

Since the current work was done in mice, O'Leary and Zembrzycki want to confirm the link in humans by using brain scans to measure the natural variation in the neocortical areas and search for potential links to disease.

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first «self - lensing» binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star.

«Our hope is that this is a temporary measure put into place until the new government agency heads are confirmed by the Senate,» Holt said.

To be sure, spectra measured from orbit can be tricky to interpret, and the clays have yet to be confirmed by rovers on the ground.

The beefier the man — measured by total fat - free mass, or arm and leg muscle mass — the more sexual partners he had, Lassek confirmed.

* This item has been amended to confirm that DOE - sponsored aerial surveys began measuring radiation around the plant about 1 week after the reactor was hit by a tsunami, not 10 days.

The best way to confirm a candidate planet is by measuring the small, periodic wobbles it induces in its parent star.

Krill density was measured within 100 s of meters from the tagged whale (confirmed by surface observations and radio tracking).

«Our discovery was made possible by using the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the sizes of the star clusters and long exposures on the Deep Extragalactic Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph fitted to the Keck II telescope to obtain distances and confirm their status.»

Our findings first confirmed previous work with this model in demonstrating that compared to undefeated control animals, mice most susceptible to social defeat stress demonstrated a number of abnormalities in social avoidance, depression and anxiety as measured by routine test procedures.

Using this method, astronomers have confirmed that galactic clusters indeed have high masses exceeding those measured by luminous matter and, as a result, have provided additional evidence of dark matter.

Using these orthogonal measures of cellular pathway analysis, we confirmed that HPP - 4382, in contrast to bardoxolone, did not induce significant cellular stress at high doses as measured by HSPA6 expression and that the mechanism of HPP - 4382 activity does not appear dependent on NF - B as ICAM1 expression is not induced by HPP - 4382 (data not shown).

Based on the speed of the star's rotation measured by the discoverers, and confirmed by this team, the astronomers believe that the star was originally part of a binary system.

Figure 5: Total sea level rise as measured by altimeter satellites and confirmed by tidal gauges (black line).

The team has now also confirmed the presence of the black hole by measuring the speed of the gas moving around it.

The improvements in self - reported symptoms, an indication of a marked return to wellness, are supported by reduced need for medication along with other confirmed objective measures.

Additionally, nurse practitioners and women's health physical therapists can collect additional quantitative data confirming the diagnosis of PFD by using electromyographics (EMG), which measure the activation and relaxation patterns of pelvic floor muscles.

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test - scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

My results confirm that lower inspection ratings are associated with sharply declining school quality as measured by student perceptions of teacher practices.

Using data from a variety of sources, including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond study, and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, Jacobsen and his colleagues at Mathematica essentially confirm Neal and Johnson's findings, providing additional evidence that most of the remaining wage gap is due to differences in cognitive skills, as measured by test scores.

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

This study confirms the premise that districts and schools may fail to detect high levels of chronic absence because the problem is easily masked by average daily attendance, one of the most commonly calculated attendance measures.

By international standards, schools in England are relatively well - provided for in terms of science labs, but our school survey confirms that many schools in England are falling short of achieving world - class practical science measured by our benchmarkBy international standards, schools in England are relatively well - provided for in terms of science labs, but our school survey confirms that many schools in England are falling short of achieving world - class practical science measured by our benchmarkby our benchmarks.

However, newly released PARCC and Smarter Balanced scores (like NAEP scores before them) confirm that many middle and high school students — especially black and Latino students — are still struggling to attain mathematical proficiency as measured by standardized assessments.

Sadly, apart from looking at the general growth curve, there's no reliable method to confirm a puppy's final growth or size ahead of time, not even by measuring paw sizes.