Sentences with phrase «from observational»

The Five Minute Speech Sample as a Measure of Parent — Child Dynamics: Evidence from Observational Research.

Findings from the observational measure indicated that parents in the Incredible Years group used less harsh / negative parenting practices and more positive parenting practices following the intervention compared to parents in the telephone support and medication groups.

Results from an observational pilot study from Italy21 indicate mild to moderate ID during fetal life affects cognitive development, especially verbal abilities, even in absence of maternal thyroid insufficiency.

On the basis of his clinical history, as well as from observational data and questionnaires (his standard score at KADI [27] was 114, indicating a high probability of Asperger Syndrome), and the results of the cognitive and social cognition (see below) assessment, SC received a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome, according to the DSM IV - TR criteria [3](N.B..

To create these time series from observational data, I summed SPAFF codes in 6 - second blocks using weights in terms of the ability of the codes to predict divorce (for example, because they were such good predictors of stability or divorce, contempt got a weight of -4, and humor a weight of +4, while anger and sadness were weighted only -1).

They are consistent with results from an observational study, 19 suggesting that the parents of children most in need are more likely to accept an invitation to a group than parents of other children, and that these two groups can derive benefit from attending the same group together.

More research is needed to improve integration of data from observational systems, clinical interviews, child - report assessments and measures of child and family impairment.

The paper draws from observational data and model ouput from the models used in the third and fifth phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.

This conference will focus on climate change and variability from observational and modeling perspectives.

It seems from the observational evidence that the potentially cooling effect of a more disturbed solar surface is greater then the warming effect of the very small TSI increase at such times and the oceanic effect is far greater than either.

the data in such a way as to remove the so - called «pause» from the observational record (8).

Stevens et al. has + / -0.4 TOA and + -17 «surface» which is more believable than + / -0.15 based on models that are currently diverging from observational reality.

From an observational perspective then, key issues are the tropical storm formation regions, the frequency, intensity, duration and tracks of tropical storms, and associated precipitation.

The Potential Intensity (PI) of tropical cyclones (Emanuel, 2003) can be computed from observational data based primarily on vertical profiles of temperature and humidity (see Box 3.5) and on SSTs.

Reliable assessments of these contributing factors depend critically on reliable estimations of natural climate variability, either from the observational record or from coupled climate model simulations without anthropogenic forcings.

The first set of simulations, referred to as Global Atmosphere - Global Ocean (GOGA) experiments, are forced with prescribed SST and sea ice concentrations from the observational datasets of Hurrell et al. (2008) for 1979 — 2008, with different initial conditions for each ensemble member.

In the Working Group 1: The Physical Science Basis Report of AR4 («AR4: WG1»), various studies deriving estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity from observational data are cited, and a comparison of the results of many of these studies is shown in Figure 9.20, reproduced below.

Under frequentism, scientists can not take the crucial step of generalizing from their observational data.

Though the use of this fact plus the entropy minimax formalism, it is possible to extract a model from observational data and natural laws without arbitrariness.

Figure 10.20: a) Examples of distributions of the transient climate response (TCR) estimated from observational constraints.

The models, in response to CO2, predict a distinctive temperature profile in the atmosphere, which is totally absent from the observational record.

That these problems have solutions provides a portion of the basis for the entirely logical solution to the problem of extracting a model from observational data that I describe in «The Principles of Reasoning.»

Over land, values of the relative humidity of surface air are determined quite directly from observational records for regions where plentiful observations of surface air humidity were made.

The predicted hot - spot is entirely absent from the observational record.

Judith, is the distinction Nic makes above between evidence for climate sensitivity «from simulations by AOCGMs... and from observational evidence that is either direct or intermediated through simple Energy Balance Models» relevant to this «structural uncertainty»?

Fred, I completely disagree about the relative strength of evidence as to climate sensitivity from simulations by AOCGMs (Chapter 8 of WG1 «Climate Models and Their Evaluation») and from observational evidence that is either direct or intermediated through simple Energy Balance Models.

Others have investigated this from an observational viewpoint7, 8 as well as through direct evaluation of model results at different scales9, 10,11.

Second, for millennia, our climate has been relatively close to equilibrium, as discerned from the tendency of fluctuations to return to a steadier baseline, from energy balance studies, and from observational data on feedbacks.

This comes from observational data, and is not compatible with any model which forecasts heating based solely on CO2, such as those discussed here.

As the relatively new science of climate dynamics evolved through the 1980s and 1990s, it became quite clear from observational data, both instrumental and paleoclimatic, as well as model studies that Earth's climate never was and is unlikely to ever be in equilibrium.

Figure 3: TCR directly simulated by CanESM2 (black), constrained by observations using the 1851 — 2010 and 1901 — 2000 regressions (dark gray), and derived from observational constraints by Stott et al. [2006](Stott), Knutti and Tomassini [2008](Knutti), and Hegerl et al. [2007](IPCC)(light gray).

Nic Lewis continues: «Since AR4 a series of papers have derived estimates of ECS and TCR from observational data....

Dynamical and thermodynamical structure of geophysical vortices from observational, experimental, and theoretical viewpoints.

These estimates are generally model - based because of difficulties in obtaining reliable internal variability estimates from the observational record on the spatial and temporal scales considered in detection studies.

The attribution calculation in the IPCC AR5 is based on fingerprint studies, where the spatial patterns of the temperature response of the climate models to various agents are scaled to best reconstruct the temperature record from observational constraints.

In this work, we use a standard linear definition of climate sensitivity, which we state here, and go on to show how it can be derived from observational data.»

The story concerns a recent paper by Andrew Dessler that discusses the issue of extracting values for climate feedbacks from observational data, and which reflects apparently an ongoing argument between Dessler and Roy Spencer over this issue.

Andy (or anyone else with full access)-- The abstract states that «Inferences from the observational record... indicate that models underestimate some of the changes in the hydrological cycle.»

Although I've not been able to find enough to get a broad view of the Arctic, and some data such as Buoys suffers from an observational bias — more substantial floes of ice are chose for the placement of buoys.

Chan and Liu (2004), Global Warming and Western North Pacific Typhoon Activity from an Observational Perspective, J.Clim., 17, 4590 - 4602

Chan & Liu (2004) Global Warming and Western North Pacific Typhoon Activity from an Observational Perspective, J. Clim.

Two climate sensitivity stories this week — both related to how careful you need to be before you can infer constraints from observational data.

So they can't quite grasp that the error term when you model something from observational data is a different thing entirely.

I've already clearly explained above that one can not diagnose the «AMO» signal directly from the observational record because any attempt to do from actual surface observations suffers from the trend contamination problem.

The paintings» forms are produced from observational drawings, works on paper, and collages.

Kelly was a Prototype, working from observational standpoints.

Mr. Kelly was a true original, forging his art equally from the observational exactitude he gained as a youthful bird - watching enthusiast; from skills he developed as a designer of camouflage patterns while in the Army; and from exercises in automatic drawing he picked up from European surrealism.

He's coming at it from an observational perspective.

BB: «The work of the eyes is done» is certainly an interesting quote to hear from an observational painter, as is the notion that images are «imprisoned within...» Applied to your paintings though, these notions speak to the kinds of interior spaces you paint, the rooms of your house at different times of day, for instance, or your color, which can be muted, but also evokes a rich vision of everyday experience.

We believe that the most interesting findings in this study come from the observational data on classroom reading instruction, irrespective of school.