Sentences with phrase «decades of data collected»

Michael Jerrett of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and his colleagues analyzed two decades of data collected from nearly 23,000 residents of 260 Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Decades of data collected as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program have turned up some puzzles, such as surprising chemical gradients in lake waters that didn't quite make sense.

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Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

In the last two decades, it has been used to describe all kinds of devices, most of which connect to the Internet to collect data for interested users.

RGA has been in this business for over three decades and has collected a vast amount of mortality data, which has led to consistently good underwriting results.

Eberstadt hopes that the data collected through decades of social science research will lead to a change in behavior, but I'm not so sure that is the case.

ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap into key issues facing contemporary Europe.

Because of the possible lessons it could provide here on Earth, NASA has been studying Saturn and its moons for more than a decade with data collected from the Cassini spacecraft.

Scientists are used to persisting for decades, if necessary, to collect the data needed to make sense of these solo acts.

In the last decade, we have collected data on agronomic performance, including yield, but also data on the resistance of the lines as well as on SCN pressure in the field.

«The wealth of data we've collected over decades makes our models of coastal variability increasingly more reliable — but only for a 500 km stretch of southeastern Australia,» Turner added.

The authors took advantage of a two decade long data series of fish abundance from the Maria Island Marine Reserve, collected by Dr Neville Barrett and Professor Graham Edgar since 1992 with support from the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.

But no one can say whether malaria rates have increased or declined in Africa as a whole in recent decades because of difficulties in collecting data, says Valentina Buj, public - health officer for the WHO's Global Malaria Programme in Geneva.

For the study, the team has been using data collected over more than two decades from a small village on the east coast of Dominica.

After reanalyzing data collected between 1979 and 2001, the team found that the tropospheres temperature has risen by about two tenths of a degree Celsius (almost one third of a degree Fahrenheit) each decade, bringing it in line with the surface trend.

Over several decades, thousands of sets of phenotype data from BXD mice have been collected into databases, ranging from coat color to lifespan.

Greenpeace has collected data on Exxon's campaign of climate denial for decades.

Cassini, which began its journey over two decades ago, facilitated the publication of more than 3,000 scientific papers with the data it collected and is responsible for several major discoveries, including liquid methane seas on Titan and evidence of hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

A decade of observational data was collected at the ARM Climate Research Facility Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma.

«Over the past decade, we've partnered with NOAA scientists on projects ranging from ocean acidification, to measuring Arctic waves to collecting storm intensity data from the surface of the hurricane,» said Gary Gysin, President and CEO of Liquid Robotics.

According to data collected since the program's inception a decade ago, the number of STEM degrees earned by underrepresented minority students at VA - NC Alliance partner schools has increased by more than 150 percent.

For example, contrary to expectations that Louisiana would use the definitive data it has been collecting from its value - added examination of teacher - preparation programs for over a decade, it has yet to withhold approval from any program, believing instead that programs will choose to improve on their own without the state's interference.

Therefore in this paper, after the presentation of the data of the MDGs and highlights events during this decade, lessons learned are collected and enriched by the experience of ONGAWA.

This task invites students to find a way of collecting and representing data to argue that any given decade produced the «best» Christmas music.

-LSB-...] and scientists have collected a lot of data over the last decade on how students learn and how teachers can teach more effectively and address the sense of helpless students can feel -LSB-...]

This Yearbook presents data on state - funded preschool during the 2015 - 2016 school year and documents more than a decade of change in state preschool since the first Yearbook collected data on the 2001 - 2002 school year.

Educators and scientists have collected a lot of data over the last decade on how students learn and how teachers can teach more effectively and address the sense of helplessness students can feel when they struggle with learning.

Michael Benson's otherworldly photographs — rendered from Nasa data collected over six decades of space exploration — are a January highlight, and on display at the Natural History Museum.

The less data you collect on global warming, the more room there is for a handful of denialists to claim that it isn't really happening — that's been the story on ocean warming for the past decade, hasn't it?

As a comparison it took analysis of millions of data points collected over decades before climatologists were able to show that the atmosphere was warming.

(PDF) It notes that, based on data collected from study plots over a 13 - year period and survey data covering 27 years on the tundra of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, an area where both temperatures and the length of the growing season has increased in recent decades:

I should tell you that my own evidence collected over the past two years clearly proves that the warming of the past 4 decades was natural or largely natural and I challenge you to prove to me (considering at least as many data as went past my eyes) that the warming over the past 4 decades was largely not natural.

Seawater data collected by a Hydrolab DataSonde (Hach Company, Loveland, CO) since 2000 show that the ocean at this site has undergone a sustained decline in pH over the past decade [2] at a rate that is an order of magnitude greater than expected based on model predictions [13] and the equilibrium response to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Why is it important that multi-century old data, collected by hand using data handling procedures that in general would earn a sophomore physics student a D -, at best, using instruments wholly unsuited to the task, be massaged, corrected, infilled, kriged, zombied, and otherwise tortured beyond recognition in order to tease out «anomalies» of small fractions of a degree / decade, if NOT for the `........

As part of the program, scientists have been collecting data on snow cover, wind, rain, temperatures, fjord water chemistry, glaciers, and populations of musk oxen, spiders, insects, birds, and more from around Greenland for decades.

«The IPCC claims that data collected by satellitemounted microwave sounding units (MSU) and advanced MSU measurements since 1979 reveal a warming trend of 0.12 º C to 0.19 º C per decade, which it says «is broadly consistent with surface temperature trends» (IPCC, 2007 - I, p. 237).

If people want to know the answer then they must invest more time and money in studying and collecting data and it may take decades to get sufficient amount of data to accurately state the relative contribution or even the majority cause.

The staggering growth of Big Data over the last decade has created important privacy concerns as personally identifying information is collected, stored, used, and sold.

According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data collected over more than a decade, around 65 percent of people killed in school - transportation related accidents die after being hit by a school bus.

The project is only midway through its course, but the data collected so far have important implications for law and policy in the coming decades, as the meaning of family continues to evolve.

But technical systems are today being built with a minimal concern for compliance and a total disregard for the downstream consequences of decades of identifiable data being collected on the babies being born into the most complicated information ecology that has ever existed.

In 2016, the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers celebrated its 35th anniversary, collecting data since 1981 and providing a historical perspective on how the share of buyer types have fluctuated over three - and - a-half decades.

Since 1981, the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers has collected data on the types of homes purchased throughout the three - and - a-half decades.

I understand why competing online marketing businesses are struggling to find innovative ways to attract consumers to their portals without having spent decades and millions of dollars collecting data and protecting it's privacy, when they are seeking any quick advantage that can drive traffic to their sites.