Sentences with phrase «first measurements of»

it looks like the first measurements of the neutron lifetime were way off!

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

A team of astronomers has now made the first measurements of small - scale ripples in the hydrogen gas that makes up these intergalactic connections.

Highlights include the first measurements of the polarimetric colour of the local interstellar medium and discovery of a southern sky region with a polarization per distance thrice the previous maximum.

In this new article in EPJ D, Franke et al. review the present understanding of Lamb shift, fine - and hyperfine structure of the 2S and 2P states in muonic helium - 3 ions in anticipation of the results of the first measurements of several 2S - > 2P transition frequencies in the muonic helium - 3 ion, 3He +.

Antarctic sea ice is growing, while Arctic ice shrank by 10 percent since the first measurements of polar ice from satellites in 1979.

She could've opened with the earth rumbling, but instead, she starts with characters: the seismologists making their first measurements of a tremendous temblor in Asia.

A team of astronomers using a pair of National Science Foundation radio telescopes has made the first measurements of the size and expansion of a mysterious, intense fireball resulting from a cosmic gamma ray burst last May.

In an experiment using the Titan laser at the Lab's Jupiter Laser Facility, LLNL researchers and collaborators achieved the first measurements of thermal conductivity of warm dense aluminum — a prototype material commonly used in model development — by heating a dual - layer target of gold and aluminum with laser - generated protons.

The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions.

These represented the first measurements of the dynamic shape factors of the agglomerates in a vacuum.

In the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of an extra-Solar planet, infrared observations revealed that the Jupiter - class gas giant circling very close to Upsilon Andromedae A stays as hot as fire on one side while potentially remaining as cold as ice on the other.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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

First Measurements of Fuel - Ablator Interface Instability Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions on the National Ignition Facility

First Measurements of Hydrodynamic Instability Growth in Indirectly Driven Implosions at Ignition - Relevant Conditions on the National Ignition Facility

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.»

Mix the crushed candy with the first measurement of sugar.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

«This study is significant in that it reports the first measurement of beta - amyloid production and clearance in Alzheimer's,» says Dr. Marcelle Morrison - Bogorad, director of the Division of Neuroscience at NIH's National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Taking advantage of a rare cosmic alignment, scientists have made the first measurement of the speed at which the force of gravity propagates, giving a numerical value to one of the last unmeasured fundamental constants of physics.

«This breakthrough observation gives us the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a GRB,» said Swift lead scientist Neil Gehrels, Swift lead scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB).

So I sharpened my focus slightly, to the first measurement of a glacier, but still on the glacier.

Not exact matches

MAD also dispatches its own staff to go to work sites and do all the measurements themselves, instead of relying on the contractor's staff; that way, the order is more likely to be done correctly the first time.

To guide and inspire you, Inc. has produced a roster of the 50 Best Workplaces, the first such measurement of American companies with up to 500 employees.

Also during the first quarter of 2018, 3M recorded a tax expense of $ 217 million related to a measurement period adjustment to the provisional amounts recorded in December 2017 from the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

As discussed in note (c), results of operations for the first quarter of 2018 were impacted by an $ 897 million pre-tax charge related to settlement of a previously disclosed lawsuit with the State of Minnesota and a $ 217 million measurement period adjustment relative to the accounting for the 2017 enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

With the growth of mobile from a consumer perspective, and an advertising platform, we are very excited to see the first ongoing syndicated measurement of the mobile market established,» said Michael Becker, Managing Director of North America for the Mobile Marketing Association.

Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 - point scale) for the first quarter of 2016, up from its low in October, 2014, driven by increases in auto loan and credit card delinquencies in 2015 — but far below the 60 - point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.

Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments would be recorded to the Company's consolidated statements of operations.

Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded in our consolidated statements of operations.

For the first time in years, advertisers may have at least one proper way of measuring the audiences of the future, but Gorman believes that measurement's future has two potential outcomes.

On the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to our consolidated statements of operations.

Flywheel TaxiOS receives Type Certification California Division of Measurement Standard, becoming world's first government approved software meter

Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to the consolidated statements of operations.

With the first close of the $ 30 - million goal already secured solely from private investors, the Fund is pleased to announce its first two investments: GreenMantra, which has developed a proprietary technology platform to convert plastics into chemicals and other fuels; and Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), which is on track to create low - cost energy sensors that form the backbone of a smarter grid by providing real - time, highly granular data measurements.

All measurement is not measurement of lengths on a straight line; there is a second most important measurement of intervals, independent of such measurement of lengths, the estimation of angles, or, what comes to the same thing, of ratios and arcs of circles to the whole circumference, In point of fact, it is by angular measurement that we habitually estimate temporal intervals, whenever we appeal to a watch or clock, and in the prehistoric past the first rough estimates of intervals within the natural day must presumably» have been made, independently of measurement of lengths, by this same method, with the sky for clock - face.

The difference between durée réelle and «mathematical» time must therefore be due to some other cause than the alleged artificial establishment of a correlation between temporal intervals and intervals on a straight line, It must come in already in the first attempt to apply angular measurement to temporal lapses, if it comes at all.70