Sentences with phrase «detect small changes»

Furthermore, although not in direct relation to the solar - cloud studies, Brest et al. (1997) state that the ISCCP data are not sensitive enough to detect small changes in cloud cover over long timescales.

It may be possible for your vet to detect small changes in your dog's eyes during the exam.

Another theory is that a dog's detail - oriented vision can detect small changes in the person's movements, changes that humans — even the person about to have the seizure — does not notice.

«It's very difficult to measure because it requires a very high - speed sensor that can precisely detect small changes and (differentiate) a signal from noise.»

Hydrologist J.T. Reager and colleagues from the University of California, Irvine looked at data from GRACE, a duo of NASA satellites that detect small changes in Earth's gravity.

Each device will have an onboard computer (similar to the kind used by a Predator drone) that will detect small changes in the wind and automatically adjust to them.

Notes Toyota's Gunaratne: «A challenge for vehicle applications is having a system that can detect small changes in heart rhythms but can also separate out the noise and motion that happens inside the vehicle.

«Accurate monitoring can detect small changes in animal numbers.

Researchers used MEG to compare the brains of musicians and nonmusicians while the subjects tried to detect small changes in pitch during short clips of classical piano music by composers like Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.

The team was studying the warm gas in this disk using a technique called spectro - astrometry, which allows astronomers to detect small changes in the position of moving gas.

«Detecting small motions from the victim's heartbeat and breathing from a distance uses the same kind of signal processing as detecting the small changes in motion of spacecraft like Cassini as it orbits Saturn,» said James Lux, task manager for FINDER at JPL.

«The bats also need to use the slow timing of the right hemisphere to use sonar — which relies on detecting small changes in frequency — to track the velocity of the fast - moving insects they fly after and eat,» Washington says.

The sensor detects small changes in his breathing pattern — early signs that Pierce's airway is beginning to collapse on itself.

Not exact matches

Stuart Harvey, master blender, Inver House Distillers, adds, «Any possible change would be so small that you wouldn't detect it.

«Since these touchscreens can detect very small capacitance changes we thought they could serve as highly sensitive detection platforms for disease biomarkers,» says Park.

If separated by millions of kilometers and linked by lasers, such a system could then detect the exquisitely small distance changes caused by passing gravitational waves.

Such changes — whether caused by global warming or earthquakes — remain too small to be reliably detected at present, Gross says.

ADVANCES: Meteorologists can now detect precipitation changes at a smaller scale, making it much easier to forecast flash floods, says Jonathan Gourley, a research hydrologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla..

While the rift is only visible in radar images when it is more than 50m wide, by combining pairs of images, SRI allows the impact of very small changes in ice shelf geometry to be detected, and the rift tip to be monitored precisely.

They rapidly detect and continuously respond to extremely small changes in the concentrations of gases including ammonia, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide.

The sensors, called altimeters, detect very small changes in ocean surface height.

But it was Bookstein who realized that these composite images are a perfect way to represent changes in what morphometricians call «shape space» — and to detect shape differences both large and small.

The observatories are designed to detect changes as small as a hundred millionth the size of a hydrogen atom.

The satellites are designed to detect a change in their spacing as small as one - tenth the diameter of a single atom.

The smaller the squares, the higher the model's resolution and the better it will be at detecting small - scale atmospheric changes that could spawn storms.

Detecting and locating these small seismic events can help researchers understand how strain on the megathrust fault may be changing, and to help predict how the megathrust might behave during a large rupture.

The moral of this story is that it is very difficult to detect underlying trends that are small compared with short - term changes.

This effect allows researchers to detect changes in humidity as small as 0.1 percent.

These assays make it possible to detect even small changes in DNA methylation, making them useful in the hunt for new drugs to reverse the effects of repeat expansion.

Mass spectrometry is an extremely powerful and sensitive technology that can detect very small changes in expression levels.

The sensors detected changes in oxygen pressure as small as 15 millimeters of mercury, and it took less than 10 minutes to see the effects of a change in inhaled gas.

A change in the lengths of the arms smaller than one - ten - thousandth the diameter of a proton (10 - 19 meter) can be detected.

Although the measured speed of light has decreased only about 1 % during the past three centuries, the decrease is statistically significant, because measurement techniques can detect changes thousands of times smaller.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE White - matter hyperintensities (WMHs) detected by magnetic resonance imaging are thought to represent the effects of cerebral small - vessel disease and neurodegenerative changes.

«Exomoons are hard to detect because moons are typically much smaller than their host planets and thus typically don't affect the transit eclipse light changes, except if the moon is large as in the case of this system,» Edward Guinan, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Villanova University, told Gizmodo.

Lundblad's group also developed a high - resolution assay that detects very small changes at each telomere as a cell divides.

These techniques allow scientists to detect changes in the motion of stars as small as one metre per second.

Main sequence stars in this region experience only small changes in magnitude and so this variation is difficult to detect.

The software, called DECoN, accurately and quickly detects changes in copy number of blocks of DNA called exons, by analysing sequencing data already generated to identify smaller gene changes.

These small changes are readily detected by DNA sequencing tests.

It uses algorithms to detect changes to the forest in areas as small as 10 square meters, about 100 square feet, allowing scientists to find small - scale disturbances that can not be detected by traditional satellite methods.

«They have a device that looks like a small tool box that contains neural cells and can detect changes in their electrical activity,» Stice said.

The technological challenge is to detect minute changes in the length of the arms as small as 10 - 18 meters (many times smaller than a proton!)

In addition, we calculated the change from control that each experiment could detect with powers of 0.7 and 0.8 to provide a measure of the smallest changes detectable with reasonable power.

These studies were sufficiently powered to detect even small changes in progranulin levels (see Table 1).

We therefore added more animals to this study to increase the power to detect such changes (n = 5 per group) and found that exercise does produce a small increase in hippocampal progranulin in young adult mice.

After a passage through a sand fly, smaller yet consistent karyotype changes were detected.

Investigations in developmental and cognitive psychology have found that infants can detect changes in small numbers of up to about five (Wynn, 1995).

The system goes beyond the traditional Lane Departure Prevention system, taking it a step further by not only evaluating the road ahead (the camera is located above the rearview mirror) for unintended lane drift but also by making small steering input angle adjustments if the Q50 undergoes minor direction changes due to road surface changes or crosswinds (as detected by the lane marker detection system).

The system has a range of up to 150 yards and can detect changes in speed as small as a one - fourth of a mph.