Sentences with phrase «first such observation»

It cites a paper by Sandra Chapman that says this is the first such observation.

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Such a holistic view is justified, claims Whitehead, first because this sharp division between mentality and nature has no ground in our fundamental observation.

He cites encouraging examples of the reconciliation of those who were first scandalized, once they had actually become familiar with such new departures as the church at Assy or the chapel at Vence — familiar, that is, not by observation but by worship itself in these buildings.

Consider first Ogden's citation of Whitehead's observation that, in support of such an experiential description, «the only mode of decision can be by an appeal to the self - evidence of experience» (PP 87).

While the approach of all these authors is basically the same, a few words seem in order regarding Brahmabandhab, since he was the first to advocate such a theory, as do also some observations concerning the relation between Christianity / Christians and Hindu society in Tamilnadu.

He illustrated his words with the great examples from Catholic history of priest - scientists whose work was revolutionary in terms of a scientific understanding of the world, such as the 16th - century Pole, Copernicus, whose astronomical observations demonstrated that the earth orbited the sun, and the 20th - century Belgian, Georges Lemaître, who was the first to propose a «Big Bang» startto the universe.

Ultimately, however, Edelstein said he believes that prize fighting won't become safer until there are tougher rules, such as more stringent requirements about sending a competitor straight to a hospital for testing and observation at the first sign of a head injury.

Fritz Zwicky used it for the first time to declare the observed phenomena consistent with dark matter observations as the rotational speeds of galaxies and orbital velocities of galaxies in clusters, gravitational lensing of background objects by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet cluster, and the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Such mergers were first suggested more than 30 years ago but this marks the first firm observation of such an event Such mergers were first suggested more than 30 years ago but this marks the first firm observation of such an event such an event [4].

Computer simulations of the biosphere have predicted such responses to drought, but these are the first direct observations of this effect across tropical forests.

As the first such collision to be positively identified, the August event provided the first opportunity to compare predictions of the models to actual observations.

In a paper published online today in Science Express, Kepler researchers announce the first definitive observation of such transit time variations in planets called Kepler - 9b and 9c.

Their observations represent the first clear evidence for such efficient, «collisionless» electron heating at the reverse shock of Tycho's supernova remnant.

It is the first time that such an hourglass structure was found in observations of methanol in high - mass star forming regions.

The GPIES team found one such object in their first survey run, but GPI observations were sensitive enough to almost immediately rule it out.

The documented observation serves to confirm that snakes do predate on bats in caves, and is also the first such case known from Ecuador.

And in a preprint paper we submitted immediately after Advanced LIGO's February 2016 announcement of its first gravitational - wave discovery (https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05234)-- published this past March — we noted that it had probably detected the merging of such PBHs and estimated the rate of events expected in our scenario, which seems to agree with more recent observations.

Structures in the disk indicate that the purported protoplanet hasn't cleared its neighborhood of gas and dust, making the new observations the first of such an object so early in its formation.

The results presented in this experiment is the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

«With such improved satellite data we can for the first time combine global SIF observations with in - situ ecosystem scale data of gross carbon uptake.

«This is the first observation of a significant pyroelectric effect in peptide microtubes similar to what's seen with semiconductor materials such as zinc oxide or aluminum nitride,» Kholkin said.

My first observation is that the breadth of this field has grown immensely such that topics represented 25 years ago by individual speakers would now require individual meetings.

For the first, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) used a statistical analysis of historic rainfall observations that looked at how the frequency of such an event has changed from the past, before a warming signal clearly emerged, to the present.

Observations of the ultra-faint galaxy Segue 2 (zoomed image) have revealed that it must reside within such a tiny dark matter halo, providing possibly the first observational evidence that dark matter is as clumpy as long predicted.

It's the first time that scientists have ever seen such a thing in a jawed terrestrial animal — an observation that's filling a gap in our understanding of how these features evolved.

The results presented in this experiment are the first unambiguous observation of high - pressure diamond formation from mixtures and agree with theoretical predictions about the conditions under which such precipitation can form and will provide scientists with better information to describe and classify other worlds.

The first reliable observations of brown dwarfs were made in the mid-1990's, long after the existence of such objects was first suspected.

Although this is similar to the formation process of stars in cosmic clouds, it was the first time that the possibility of such a planet formation process was directly suggested by observations of protoplanetary disks.

In this paper, we review the performance of these modes in terms of exoplanet science capabilities and describe recent instrumental milestones such as first - light Fizeau images (with the angular resolution of an equivalent 22.8 - m telescope) and deep interferometric nulling observations.

The light - based detections in the seconds, hours, days, and weeks that followed — which included Caltech - led observations in the infrared, X-ray, ultraviolet, and radio waves — show that the collision of the neutron stars released newly synthesized heavy elements into the surrounding universe, providing the first concrete proof that such smashups are the birthplace of half of the universe's elements heavier than iron, including gold and platinum.

That is not such an original observation as when it was first made, but it describes the action of the film well enough.

Over the first four weeks of the semester, students engage in small projects in each of the four studios — painting and drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and new media — to gain familiarity with basic principles such as observation and place.

First, each student should have a writing notebook for (a) recording «seed» ideas for writing, such as memories, wishes, observations, quotations, questions, illustrations, and artifacts [e.g., a letter or recipe]; (b) performing planning activities; (c) drafting writing pieces; and (d) logging writing activities and reflections [see Fletcher, 1996].

While Kraft and Gilmour assert that «systems that place greater weight on normative measures such as value - added scores rather than... [just]... observations have fewer teachers rated proficient» (p. 19; see also Steinberg & Kraft, forthcoming; a related article about how this has occurred in New Mexico here; and New Mexico's 2014 - 2016 data below and here, as also illustrative of the desired normal curve distributions discussed above), I highly doubt this purely reflects New Mexico's «commitment to putting students first.»

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

For future research, longitudinal studies on the impacts of such kind of teacher development programs on student change in academic performance would be useful to address several questions: First, the classroom practice observation revealed nuances when knowledge and beliefs are translated into practice.

October 7th, 8 — 9 p.m. eastern: The next #ASCDL2L Twitter chat will include such discussion topics as educator observations and peer - to - peer learning, inspired by ASCD's CEM theme and first weekly sub-theme.

A new study shows that, despite the increased use of value - added data and other forms of teacher evaluation such as student or teacher surveys, first - hand principal observation of teachers remains the most trusted and used means by which decisions are made about teacher improvement.

Primary materials consist of raw data - such as original research reports, letters, writings, interviews, first hand observation, or scientific findings.

Those students who hear such a kind of essay for the first time are a little bit confused as they either do not have any idea at the subject how to write observing essay or they think that they have to write about some of the observations they have ever had, however, this thought in incorrect one and may lead to fiasco.

Those students who hear such a kind of essay for the first time are a little bit confused as they either do not have any idea at the subject how to write observing essay or they think that they have to write about some of the observations they have ever had, however, Continue reading

Scientists from the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg Institute of Geography and from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Gophysique de l'Environnement in Grenoble, France, used radar data from satellites such as ESA's Envisat and observations of ice thickness from airborne surveys in a complex model to demonstrate, for the first time, how the buttressing role of the ice shelves is being compromised as the shelves decline.

The first observation is that a decrease in external forcing such as volcanic's and solar increases SAT.

The motivation for this paper is twofold: first, we validate the model's performance in the Gulf of Mexico by comparing the model fields to past and recent observations, and second, given the good agreement with the observed Gulf of Mexico surface circulation and Loop Current variability, we expand the discussion and analysis of the model circulation to areas that have not been extensively observed / analyzed, such as the vertical structure of the Loop Current and associated eddies, especially the deep circulation below 1500 m.

There are, however, caveats: (1) multidecadal fluctuations in Arctic — subarctic climate and sea ice appear most pronounced in the Atlantic sector, such that the pan-Arctic signal may be substantially smaller [e.g., Polyakov et al., 2003; Mahajan et al., 2011]; (2) the sea - ice records synthesized here represent primarily the cold season (winter — spring), whereas the satellite record clearly shows losses primarily in summer, suggesting that other processes and feedback are important; (3) observations show that while recent sea - ice losses in winter are most pronounced in the Greenland and Barents Seas, the largest reductions in summer are remote from the Atlantic, e.g., Beaufort, Chukchi, and Siberian seas (National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2012, http://nsidc.org/Arcticseaicenews/); and (4) the recent reductions in sea ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 2009].

With 2010 over, we now have 16 observations starting in 1995, and (unsurprisingly to anyone who followed the argument thus far) the upward trend is now statistically significant at the 5 per cent level [1] That is, if climate change since 1995 (the time of the first IPCC report, and well after Lindzen announced himself as a sceptic) had been purely random, the odds against such an upward trend would be better than 20 to 1 against.

Cherry explains how observation such as noting when birds first appear or when flowers begin to bloom can help bring about climate - change strategies.

Some, however, are puzzled by the fact that satellite temperature measurements indicate little, if any, warming of the lower to mid-troposphere (the layer extending from the surface up to about 8 km) since such satellite observations first became operational in 1979.

It is the first such period for which satellite observations of key variables including sea - surface temperature and sea - ice cover are available to support globally complete meteorological reanalyses such as ERA - Interim.

Where such data is not available (and only where that data is not available) they assume that Arctic sea ice in the first half of the twentieth century behaved in the same way as it did in the last third of the twentieth century to extrapolate from known observations.