Sentences with phrase «doing direct observation»

This system could provide an automated approach to monitoring bird species, instead of having a field researcher doing direct observation.

LG: Memory and invention seem to play a large role in many of your outdoor paintings, How much does direct observation of the motif join this process or does it vary in each painting?

(Not until 2004 did direct observations on the surface of Mars prove that the planet had indeed once carried standing water, although only much farther in the past than Sagan guessed.)

Not exact matches

Any woman gunning for a job today has learned — through conditioning, direct experience, observation or a combination of the three — that behaviour that resembles bragging doesn't pay off.

Scientific investigation does not require complete recapitulation or direct observation of an event to be applicable, e.g. a genetic paternity test is reliable despite not having observed or directly recapitulated the act of conception under investigation.

This was done through a combination of direct observation and recording evidence such as footprints and feces, as well as in - depth interviews with landowners and residents, who were quizzed about species presence through photographs, animal noises and local knowledge.

They used a high - resolution ocean model that has been shown to do a good job of matching direct satellite observations of the global ocean system.

And we understand that on the basis of direct observations, which have become very much better over the past five or 10 years and also as a result of theoretical investigations, particularly those involving sophisticated numerical computations; and here we are able to do the sort of experiments, with the computer if you like, that were not possible 10 or 15 years ago.

It is very difficult to extract direct information about these types of movements from indirect observations,» such as those that don't use imaging technology, he says.

Measurements of surface chemical composition, either by direct sampling (as has been done on Earth, the moon, and Mars) or through spectroscopic observations, can be used to estimate elemental abundances and the degree of chemical differentiation that occurred as the planets condensed from the solar nebula.

SkS has looked at another study (Kaufmann [2011]-RRB- which suggested an increase in aerosol forcing (greater cooling) due to the rapid industrialization in China in the last decade, however we don't have any direct and accurate global observations yet to support this.

So we don't really know the temperature lag or how the temperature is supposed to behave until equilibrium, and the sensitivity will be difficult to confirm by direct observation (say, in our lifetime)?

This formulation highlights a couple of important issues — that the observational data doesn't need to be direct (and the more complex the model, the wider range of possible constraints there are) and that the relationship between the observations and the sensitivity needs to be demonstrated (rather than simply assumed).

«They not only provide unprecedented insights into molecular and materials behavior — they do so in an especially satisfying fashion by allowing direct observation of complex structural changes in real space and real time.

Although I am still learning about the science of this approach, I do have clinical experience and direct observation of people of all different shapes and sizes eating the same amount of food with different results in weight regulation and health outcomes.

Electric has an infographic comparing The Great Gatsby to the wealth of the stars of the movie Pajiba on Netflix's current strengths and weaknesses as it attempts to become both a distribution platform and a content creator Observations on Film Art Kristin wonders whether or not studios understand the power of fanbases and direct access to filmmakers they can get via Twitter and set visits and the like In Contention Ben Affleck's follow up to Argo doesn't betray any steroided auteurly confidence.

Mira Nair («Monsoon Wedding,» «Mississippi Masala») directed the movie, and she did so lovingly, with close observations of telling moments.

In giving pedagogical practices, the teacher directs the students to content using structured learning experience similar to the teachers» use of the IWB to show videos, play review games, or to do the reveal activities (e.g., the Martin Luther King activity seen in the seventh observation in Ms. Adams» class).

These direct observations allowed for multiple levels of analysis, from the objective (Did the candidate notice important characteristics of instruction and classroom environment?)

The Department is changing the effective date for mandatory direct observation (DO) for follow - up and return - to - duty testing.

Provided, however, that if the MRO directs you to conduct a recollection under direct observation under paragraph (b)(1) of this section, you must immediately do so.

You must also, as soon as possible, inform the DER and collection site supervisor that a collection took place under direct observation and the reason for doing so.

(5) If the recollection was not directly observed as required, do not report a result but again explain to the DER that there must be an immediate recollection under direct observation.

(4) If the CCF documentation indicates that the recollection was not directly observed as required, do not report a result but again explain to the DER that there must be an immediate recollection under direct observation.

(3) If CCF documentation indicates that the recollection was not directly observed as required, do not report a result but again explain to the DER that there must be an immediate recollection under direct observation.

Did you work from direct observation, as you typically had?

Most work is done from either direct observation or from sketches that were done on location.

For a year or two I, as it were, cloned Al's paintings When I changed, and started painting from direct observation, one of the things I really liked about it was I didn't have to be so damn self - conscious about my painting.

Bailey does not use photographs or direct observation in his compositions.

You do echo several points I have been saying both in glogs like these and to people I personally know mis interpreting the models, data and even the lack of direct data for some attribution, yet the agreements among several sources consistent with modeling and observations of AGW and its effects are remarkable.

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.

Although some earlier work along similar lines had been done by other paleoclimate researchers (Ed Cook, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Ray Bradley, Malcolm Hughes, and Henry Diaz being just a few examples), before Mike, no one had seriously attempted to use all the available paleoclimate data together, to try to reconstruct the global patterns of climate back in time before the start of direct instrumental observations of climate, or to estimate the underlying statistical uncertainties in reconstructing past temperature changes.

The trends are not robust in the other reanalysis products (ERA or JMA) and do not accord with direct observations.

This formulation highlights a couple of important issues — that the observational data doesn't need to be direct (and the more complex the model, the wider range of possible constraints there are) and that the relationship between the observations and the sensitivity needs to be demonstrated (rather than simply assumed).

But as with CO2, those lags are related to the climate effect on sources and don't have anything to do with the GHG effect on climate which is known from lab measurements and direct observations.

Perhaps she too has noticed that, judging by the fact that the observations appear to be tracking Scenario C rather well (which can also mean that increasing CO2 does not have a large, direct impact on global temperatures), there IS no need to panic.

When reliable direct observations are not available, but theories produce plausible predictions, the most prudent approach is to take advantage of the theories doing it objectively and taking great effort to avoid biases that could seriously affect the outcome.

I am very skeptical of the indirect feedback amplification effects put down to CO2 (and water vapor), which supposedly double or triple the direct effects, don't see any observation evidence for this and the last 7 years have only firmed my skepticism.

This is particularly exciting because lately I've been doing some very fine grained analysis of a model with a 30 minute timestep, so this allows a very direct comparison between the «real - time» weather in observations and a model.

But this information is not easily translated into aerosol radiative forcing, partly because we do not know what the pre-industrial concentrations were though direct observations, and because of the complexity of cloud - aerosol interactions (see Ch.

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.

None of this is to say that many original observations were not done with great diligence and skill, just that there are so many variable parameters affecting the accuracy of the reading that a direct comparison to today's values is impossible.

So why don't you tell me what specific direct observations you think are so valuable?

If the experiment based upon our best guess of the pertinent input parameters does not reproduce the directly - observed characteristics of the excursion, we do not discard the direct observations in favor of the experiment results.

Not to diminish the work of those advocating truth in science observations and exposing any kind of industry distortion / misinformation about cigarette smoking, but the elemental goal in attempts to create any sort of parallel here is that it must be established that skeptic climate scientists knowingly lie about the issue as a direct result of being paid to do so.

But we have direct observation that tree rings don't always respond as we might think to temperature thus shouldn't be splicing the two together without a very large sign writ large which says «Caveat Emptor».

That's only an empirical observation, but I do believe there are fewer lawyer - produced (or directed) ads getting published lately.

Yet unresolved women did not report more individual or relationship difficulties, suggesting that direct observations are needed to assess the implications of unresolved loss for family functioning.