Sentences with phrase «first measurement»

The very first measurements of deep ocean temperatures were performed with instruments lowered from a ship down into the ocean.

LISA Pathfinder's first measurements in space validate plan for $ 1 billion mission to detect colliding black holes

The researchers found that even among participants whose thyroid function was in the normal range at first measurement, progression from prediabetes to diabetes was reportedly 1.4 times higher for those in the lowest third of thyroid function levels compared with the highest third.

The rough first measurement already tests special relativity, Kostelecky says.

First measurements show that the typical 2D properties and band gap are present, further low temperature measurements are needed to confirm germanene operates in the desired way: the inner part would work as an insulator, while conducting channels are formed at the edges.

I actually deleted my very first measurements and re-checked everything because they were so good, I thought I'd made an error.

Recognize the phenomenon that if a variable is extreme on its first measurement, it will tend to be closer to the average on its second measurement.

This year's Physics Nobel Prize goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their efforts that helped lead to the first measurement of gravitational waves in 2015 by the LIGO team.

«The first measurement of this crucial factor is productivity, that is, the degree to which resources are utilized and their yield.»

I assume I'll go for cups since that's the first measurement you gave?

The mean age of infants at both the first and second postnatal weight measurements did not differ significantly between the groups (6.2 ± 4.7 weeks in the fluoxetine group and 6.1 ± 2.4 weeks in the no medication group at the first measurement; P = 1.0; 15.0 ± 8.0 weeks in the fluoxetine group and 13.9 ± 5.9 weeks in the no medication group at the second measurement; P =.69).

Mix the crushed candy with the first measurement of sugar.

The first measurement is to determine that the planet has an atmosphere.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, Manley built a temperature record for Central England reaching back to Derham's first measurements.

He concluded that he messed up the first measurement and so only the second position was included in his uncle's catalog.

The study is the second phase of the team's 2013 study, which included some of the first measurements for methane emissions taken directly at hydraulically fractured well sites.

IES provided the first measurements of negatively charged, submicron - sized dust or ice grains in a cometary environment and discovered previously unobserved negative hydrogen ions produced through the solar wind / coma interaction.

«Then we got the first measurements of ice thickness in Antarctica.

The first measurement of an ultra-diffuse galaxy's mass finds that dark matter makes up more than 99.96 per cent of its weight - a startling figure

Similar 3 - D images were used by researchers to obtain the first measurements larval fish otoliths while still inside the skull.

In fact, if the measurements are made at nearly the same time, there might be no objective way to say who made the first measurement.

Rabalais is currently aboard the research vessel Pelican, conducting the first measurements of the dead zone since the spill.

The result is «the first measurement of its kind,» says theoretical physicist Yuval Grossman of Cornell University.

Last March, Esposito reported further support for his theory: the Hubble Space Telescope, making the first measurements of sulfur dioxide levels since the Pioneer mission ended in 1992, found they were the lowest ever recorded.

«It's the first measurement in our galaxy to give us such a hard limit.»

«First measurements taken of South Africa's Iron Age magnetic field history: Ancient ritualistic village burnings opened the door to data collection.»

«We're the first measurement from the martian surface,» says Christopher Webster, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author of the new study.

He starts drawing an alternative configuration of the apparatus, in which he could produce the first measurement of the elasticity of helium - 4.

This was the first measurement of a phase transition — defying supercritical fluid.

A few minutes before sunset, the Galileo probe will take the first measurements of conditions beneath the thick clouds that cover Jupiter.

A new study presents the first measurements of the changing strengths of oxygen emission lines from the present day and back to 12.5 billion years ago.

The study presents the first measurements of the changing strengths of oxygen emission lines from the present day and back to 12.5 billion years ago.

«Our results show that CHEOPS scientists need to be cautious about their first measurements,» says Fossati.

Developing and testing technology for the portable trap will take around four years, with the first measurements scheduled for 2022.

«Clarifying the behaviors of negative hydrogen ions: First measurement of the flow reversal of negative ions.»

The results of this effort gave them a branching ratio measurement more than twice as accurate as the previous value, and the first measurement of the energy spectrum.

The work provides the first measurement of the energy spectrum of photons, or particles of light, that are released in the otherwise extensively measured process known as neutron beta decay.

In the October 2nd issue of Physical Review Letters, Karl - Heinz Rieder of the Free University of Berlin and his colleagues report the first measurements of this strange, long - range interaction.

«It will be the first measurement of its kind,» said co-author Tuan Do, deputy director of the Galactic Center Group.

Atmospheric CO2 has risen by nearly 100 ppm since Keeling's father, Charles David Keeling (pdf), took the first measurements at Mauna Loa in March 1958 — and concentrations have jumped by nearly 30 ppm in the past decade alone, propelled by a historic increase in the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

«In principle, you can see very early times in the universe [with GRBs], when everything else was too faint,» says Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in the UK, a member of a team that used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to make one of the first measurements of the distance of the burst.

Using low - frequency laser pulses, a team of researchers has carried out the first measurements that reveal the detailed characteristics of a unique kind of magnetism found in a mineral called herbertsmithite.

«By monitoring these disturbances, we managed to obtain the first measurement of Saturn's Love number and distinguish it from the planet's dissipation factor,» Tajeddine said.

The first measurement was taken at 25 days; the researchers then followed the birds over their natural life span, ranging from less than a year to nearly 9 years, and measured telomeres again at various time points.

Prior observations of extrasolar planets had detected elements by analyzing light passing through their atmospheres, but Richardson says this is the first measurement of the energy coming directly from the planets at many different wavelengths.