Sentences with phrase «direct observations of»

We then compared their DISC outcomes on Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) against changes in independent direct observations of diagnostically relevant behavior obtained over the course of that year.

Measures of the mentor - child relationship, including direct observations of mentor - child problem solving interactions, will be taken each year.

In Study 2, we coded parents» emotion coaching and dismissing behavior from direct observations of family interactions involving the discussion of past emotional experiences, in a clinic sample of conduct - problem children.

Future research should consider longitudinal, multi-informant, and multi-method designs that include direct observations of parent — child relationship quality, peer relationship and Facebook use.

Finally, as a test of the predictive validity of the BIQ - SF, parent and teacher reports of behavioral inhibition were related to direct observations of specific behaviors that have been shown to be indicative of an inhibited temperament (e.g., [1, 23, 49].

In Study 2, parents» emotion socialization practices — that is, their use of emotion coaching and dismissing behavior — were coded from direct observations of family interactions involving the discussion of past emotional experiences.

-- «Practice» means knowledge, skill, or experience derived from direct observations of, and participation in, the practice of counseling, psychotherapy, and marriage and family therapy.

Teacher assessments can include behavioral checklists and rating scales and direct observations of specific social behaviors.

The Fourth Assessment report of the IPCC concluded from direct observations of changes in temperature, sea level, and snow cover in the northern hemisphere during 1850 to the present that the warming of the earth's climate system is unequivocal.

Each representation is based on direct observations of the processes in question and is tested against many different constraints.

Direct observations of the sunspots since 1610 reveal an irregular activity cycle with an average period of about 11 years, which is modulated on longer timescales.

We have no direct observations of equilibrium climate sensitivity so we have to rely on some form of theory or indirect observations from paleo, at least in part.

2) You need to provide real experiments involving direct observations of the actual atmosphere that prove it.

and «all the direct observations of the physical world confirming climate change never happened — disregard those thousands and thousands of studies, I decree that all the evidence comes from computer models!»

Wrong again — all the direct observations of the physical world confirming climate change never happened What direct observations?

This brochure briefly discusses the human and natural drivers of climate change, direct observations of recent climate change, projections of future changes in climate, and climate change and desertification.

Nearly 200 years of scientific research — including direct observations of the greenhouse effect in action — back up this reality.

These observed changes aren't direct observations of thermocline depth, but IMHO, if there's less cold dense water on the bottom, there's more warm water on top.

When it comes to representing the dynamics of permafrost carbon, these models don't use data from direct observations of the amount of carbon that is currently frozen in Arctic permafrost.

In our study, we used a seven - year record of direct observations of PM2.5 at the US embassy in Beijing, covering the 2009 - 2015 period.

Direct observations of soil moisture are not assimilated; analyses are constrained instead by the mismatches between synoptic temperature and humidity observations and corresponding background forecasts, in snow - free regions when meteorological conditions are appropriate.

These data, together with direct observations of an aggressive interaction between an adult bottlenose dolphin and a dead bottlenose dolphin calf, provide strong evidence for infanticide in this population.

When «Climategate» first broke, I noted the skeptic preoccupation with one tiny piece of climate science while neglecting the full weight of direct observations of current global warming.

Given the level of denialism in the face of glacial mass loss, plummeting Arctic summer ice cover, progressive collapse of ice shelves that have been stable for 6000 to 10000 years, northward, upward, and seasonally earlier movements of ecosystems and other phenological changes, increasing Greenland ice melt, and all the other direct observations of global warming, I think denialists will go to their graves believing it can't be happening.

It's significant that the current permafrost melting involves areas that were not affected substantially by the prior positive PDO phase earlier in the century (and presumably ones before that, although probably there would begin to be problems with direct observations of those).

# 52 Gavin, «People have taken cores in the ESAS (even Shakhova and colleagues) and yet there are no direct observations of these hydrates, let alone 50 GtC of them.»

Alternatively, more direct observations of that radiative imbalance would be nice, or better theoretical and observational understanding of the water vapor and cloud feedbacks, or more paleoclimate data which can give us constraints on historical feedbacks, but my guess is that ocean heat content measurements would be the best near term bet for improving our understanding of this issue.

Only those that can't be constrained using direct observations of the phenomena are available for tuning to get better large scale climate features.

Unfortunately, direct observations of the Sun just before the Maunder Minimum were not frequent and precise enough to understand how the Sun entered into this prolonged minimum (in particular how the 11 - yr sunspot cycle collapsed).

We only have direct observations of total solar irradiance (TSI) since the beginning of the satellite era and substantial evidence for variations in the level of solar activity (from cosmogenic isotopes or sunspot records) in the past.

People have taken cores in the ESAS (even Shakhova and colleagues) and yet there are no direct observations of these hydrates, let alone 50 GtC of them.

For the 20th and 21st century we have many more direct observations of the Sun, the clouds, and so forth, and are on much firmer ground with regard to saying what the Sun is or isn't doing to climate.

Constable's direct observations of nature and his free use of broken color were extraordinary in his day.

[1] He exhaustively documented the details about every new acquisition, recording his direct observations of the creators, interactions with their doctors, and descriptions of the institutions.

Gorky's innovative, explosive landscapes used an abstract vocabulary to convey memories of his Armenian childhood alongside direct observations of nature.

My paintings hover on the edge of abstraction and are more remembered sensations than direct observations of nature.

Montessori's own work focused around research through direct observations of young children.

Our data sources primarily included direct observations of 105 hours of PPLC meetings, supplemented with 46 semi-structured interviews and reviews of more than 150 documents.

Based on direct observations of conditions in local schools, for instance, some portions of the public may decide that whatever is being spent is not enough.

However, scientists at the European Space Agency have now made the first direct observations of the object.

Our vigorous genetic approach combined with direct observations of Dilp production in IPCs provides the first evidence, to our knowledge, that Bombesin - related receptor signaling activated by its endogenous ligand promotes insulin production.

«The proxy records used in this study appear to contradict other studies that have used direct observations of precipitation from rain gauges... All else being equal, I would trust direct rainfall measurements over proxy records.»

«These direct observations of shock ripples in a space plasma allow us to characterize the physical properties of the ripples.

Once a number of these potentially inhabited planets have been identified, the next logical step in exploration is to send remote exploratory probes to make direct observations of these planets.

The spacecraft made the only direct observations of the impact.

I can cite my direct observations of the hundreds of victims of my occasional efforts over the years as a teacher of physics and writing.

Direct observations of the fault were scarce, so Eric Dunham, an assistant professor of geophysics in the School of Earth Sciences, and Jeremy Kozdon, a postdoctoral researcher working with Dunham, began using the cluster of supercomputers at Stanford's Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) to simulate how the tremors moved through the crust and ocean.

The ability to accurately determine the rate of this H - 17O fusion reaction provides nuclear physicists with another key puzzle piece, alongside direct observations of oxygen elemental and isotopic abundances in stellar atmospheres and in primitive meteorites, to zero in on complete and accurate models of stars.

On the basis of its intended flight route, the Perlan glider might be able to provide the first direct observations of polar stratospheric clouds, a unique type of ice cloud that forms in the polar stratosphere and helps to deplete ozone, Gong adds.

«Scientists achieve first direct observations of excitons in motion.»