Sentences with phrase «greater than the background»

The seismicity rate is now about 600 times greater than the background seismicity rate, and is very unlikely the result of a natural process.

Concentrations of methane near the emitting sources can be hundreds of times greater than background levels.

Not exact matches

It's also a great way to gain hard intel on how other cultures do business, what's different about overseas markets, and how to sell to those from a different background than your own.

It's a transfer of cultural beliefs, and of backgrounds, something far greater than merely the sum of its parts.

Private groups can often deliver assistance to the needy more quickly, cheaply and humanely than can government bureaucracies, with greater sensitivity to the diverse interests, backgrounds and beliefs of the client population.

Yet we in the West should strive for humane borders in which travelers and immigrants of all backgrounds are treated with respect by state authorities, and valued as human beings with great potential, rather than dismissed as faceless hordes — or, in Hitchens's words, «countless persons from who - knows - where.»

When this error is recognized, it immediately becomes clear that circumstance and background conditions inform moral development to a much greater degree than previously appreciated.

She added that her management skills, legal background, and self - employment, along with those years running Woodstock, give her a greater flexibility and ability to meet with residents, attend State and County meetings, than Bellows.

At radio frequencies greater than 10 gigahertz the radio emission matched that of the microwave background, but at lower frequencies it was several times stronger.

Deep blue regions, such as Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, have background noise levels lower than 20 decibels — a silence likely as deep as before European colonization, researchers say.

According to standard physics, cosmic rays created outside our galaxy with energies greater than about 1020 electronvolts (eV) should not reach Earth at those energies: as they travel over such vast regions of space they should lose energy because of collisions with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the big bang.

Zemcov et al. sent up a rocket to measure the fluctuations in this faint background and found largescale fluctuations greater than known galaxies alone should produce (see the Perspective by Moseley).

Gamma rays form the background of normal radiation in which we all live; it is substantially greater than the exposure we get from imaging scans or should get from exposures in the workplace.

In dystrophic RCS rats, threshold levels at P100 are greater than 3.0 log units above the background level of 0.02 log candela / m2.

This, Livermore notes, is a primary reason why astronomers are interested in these galaxy clusters — the chance to see the distant background galaxies in so much greater detail than Hubble would be able to produce on its own.

Large background colonies were classified as colonies with no hESC - like characteristics and a diameter equal or greater than 2.5 mm.

Dr J is awesome and goes into more areas of help than most health professionals could ever do and that is from his great training and background in genetics.

It is a great dating app for all you singles out there.Though the app is open for both men and women — especially from a wealthy background, there are more men on the dating app than women.

It goes for the retro look that everything else does these days but the backgrounds have a lot of parallax scrolling that looks great though some look better than others.

His background would not make him the most obvious candidate to handle a property like «Deadpool,» but while «The Witch» was more well - known for its atmosphere than its gore, it did a great job in setting a tone and capturing an educated audience: two very important things for the next Deadpool movie.

Director: LAMAR+NIK Release date: August 8 Why it's great: Zach Braff's favorite band printed out a shitload of photos from a video shot on a white background, printed them out, turned them into more than 5,000 stickers, and created a stop - motion effect on live backgrounds, which sounds super time - consuming and very hard.

He's become one of history's «great men,» a figure who looms larger than life and whose many flaws are often shuffled to the background to preserve a more inspiring image.

Anyone familiar with Malick's filmography knows to expect little more of Knight of Cups than Christian Bale wandering the corridors of celebrity mansions, beautiful beach fronts and abandoned, dilapidated buildings while whispered trite reveries titter on in the background, theoretically contributing to a greater sense of purpose (that is just not there).

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

The Coleman Report, released in the summer of 1966, found that the family backgrounds of the student body had a greater influence on student achievement than did school resources, and that «a pupil's achievement is strongly related to the educational backgrounds and aspirations of other students in the school.»

One superintendent of a large, urban school district said that low - income high - school students in his district were beginning to take MOOCs in greater numbers than students from more privileged backgrounds.

Research from the RAND Corporation, among others, shows that, after adjusting for student background, Texas and North Carolina made greater leaps on the National Assessment of Educational Progress from 1990 to 1997 than any other states.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Databases with student test scores and background characteristics provide similar information, but they require greater expertise to analyze than do already - adjusted value - added scores.

We need to hear more about the nobility of teaching, the impact that it has and the particular rewards derived from improving the chances of children from poorer and more difficult backgrounds — far greater, I'd argue, than teaching the gilded off - spring of the Chinese or Qatari ruling classes.

For example, NFER's 2001 - 2010 Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study (CELS) showed that where young people receive a great deal of citizenship education, this can positively impact on their citizenship outcomes, more so than the impact of other factors such as age, life stage, and background.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

For these students — primarily African American and Latino, but also poor students of all backgrounds — the teachers who believe in and push them, who refuse to accept anything less than the best from them, often make the single greatest difference between a life of hope and one of despair.

«We chose to give to the Greater Good fund because we have been so happy with the Great Hearts approach for our daughter, and the idea that the same high - level academic environment and classical education is offered in communities that are less fortunate than ours is very important... I see the Great Hearts schools as a larger community, and it's important to us that this community be diverse and support young people from all socio - economic backgrounds.»

[18] Many studies [19] have calculated high correlations (mostly greater than 0.9) between estimates from models that control only for prior student test scores (such as SAS EVAAS), [20] control for student background (such as DC's IMPACT), and control for average classroom characteristics (such as Pittsburgh's system).

Its limits are so great that approaching them requires pretty antisocial levels of speed and commitment, and at a more relaxed pace there's little (background five - cylinder noises aside) to suggest you're in anything more extreme than a basic A3.

Acura is still riding the wave of enthusiasm it created by introducing the 2016 Acura NSX, but while this sports car looks great on wallpaper backgrounds, video games and magazine covers, the automaker will need a lot more than a limited - production, halo performance car to keep up with its luxury rivals in other segments.

The screen looks great, despite not being HD, and the background color is slightly lighter than the PRS - T1.

Coming from a background analysing non-equity funds with much lower volatility, someone who can outperform an equity index with significantly less vol appeals much more than the same outperformance but with greater than index volatility.

Remember that many of Bernie Madoff's victims thought they were getting a great money manager, and they took the word of others rather than doing any background checks or questioning on their own.

These dogs may well be of unknown background, and bring you a few more problems than those with a more favorable history, but the rewards can be great.

I would include a 32 - bit RPG example as well, but in the 32 - bit era (Saturn, PS1), there was much greater variety in visual styles with some games using 2D but with more detail, animation, and effects than in 16 - bit RPGs (Breath of Fire 3 - 4), some games using a mixture of 2D & 3D (Grandia, Xenogears), and some games using 3D characters on top of prerendered or FMV backgrounds (FF7 - 9, Parasite Eve 1 - 2).

And quietly sneaking around as the great beast walks in the background had me holding my breath more than I'd like to admit.

It's like watching a Blu - ray quality cartoon series thanks to all the high definition textures, great animations and cartoon inspired backgrounds that are oozing with more colours than a rainbow.

The sound design is great as well: other than the vocal song that plays in New Donk City (and one that plays at a climactic moment near the end), you also have some nostalgic throwbacks in some kingdoms, with 8 - bit versions of the main songs playing in the background.

For a start, how about teaching art history in art lessons from the point of view of the artist, tell them Francis Bacon hung about with the Krays, or that Caravaggio murdered someone, let them know that the stuff about the vanishing point and composition are tools for conveying aspects of life, death, fear, sex - god forbid, humour - and those po faced dullards with posh voices that stand in front of great works pointing at background views of Tuscany are no more to do with painting pictures than I am an art historian.

So in the case of the earth / moon, if the moon's radiational temp is greater than the outer - space background (it is, even if it's cooler than earth), then that reduces the radiational cooling of the earth by some amount in the direction of the moon, and earth's temp rises (very slightly).

but other than that, he's been a great contributor ranking only slightly higher than Dano in the requisite background??? If there was technical admiration of Mr. Bloom's participation on CA, I'm confident one would have to mine his posts to find it.

«This study concludes that the level of infrasound at houses near the wind turbines assessed is no greater than that experienced in other urban and rural environments, and that the contribution of wind turbines to the measured infrasound levels is insignificant in comparison with the background level of infrasound in the environment.»

Dyson is generally a liberal Democrat (and liberal rather than fundamentalist Christian) but was of course born in the UK, one of our greatest scientists of the last hundred years, so I find his spin on this important cultural background of particular non-partisan interest.