Sentences with phrase «higher than measurements»

The weather balloon released on Friday morning from the New Orleans office of the NWS measured near all - time record levels of atmospheric moisture, higher than some measurements taken during past hurricanes.

Not exact matches

The average Mattermark Growth Score — a measurement of how quickly a company is gaining traction — for studio companies was about 26 percent higher than the average score for accelerator companies.

A High Nutritional Yield: A study performed by the National Measurement Institute with the Australian Government suggests that a juice extractor may retain more potassium, vitamin C and vitamin A than a blender.

While other feed grade rice protein manufacturers resorted to adding Melamine in 2005 to achieve a false positive protein measurement and falsely convince the animal feed arena to meet the Axiom specification, Axiom Foods remained dedicated to proprietary, chemical - free processes and certified organic product development while maintaining protein levels consistently higher than any other competitor.

His ratings are always higher than 6.5 (though KJ ratings don't mean sh*t, i agree, yet that is a yard stick for measurement).

Although you can also look at football helmet ratings, the NOCSAE cautions «against an over-reliance on any individual data point, rating or measurement which could lead to inaccurate conclusions or even a false sense of security that one helmet brand or model guarantees a measurably higher level of concussion protection than another for a particular athlete.»

It should also not be thicker than 3 inches, unless your little one is already big enough to require something with a higher loft measurement.

The Amla berry tests higher on the ORAC test (antioxidant measurement) than acai and blueberries and 20x more vitamin C than oranges.

Testing of the Paint Preparation Pad has demonstrated high standards of performance and more than comparable surface measurement statistics against other similar products on the market.

When we compared the blood glucose measurements according to the two diets, their blood glucose levels after diet B averaged 7.9 percent higher than after diet A, in which the participants consumed a high - fat meal in the evening.

We got a value higher than the CMB measurement, but we need more systems to be really sure that something is amiss with the standard model of cosmology,» says Thomas Collett, an astrophysicist at the University of Portsmouth and a co-author on the new Astrophysical Journal paper.

EEG measurements taken while people were thinking about nothing in particular revealed naturally higher levels of right hemisphere activity in the temporal lobes of people who solved problems using insight rather than logic (Neuropsychologia, vol 46, p 281).

The new NIST crack - detection method relies on acoustic measurements at frequencies much higher than humans can hear.

The levels of dioxin measured in the air near the smoldering pile «were the highest ambient measurements of dioxin ever recorded anywhere in the world,» levels at least 100 times higher than those found downwind of a garbage incinerator, according to an analysis published by EPA scientists [pdf] in 2007.

«Buoy measurements are generally considered higher quality than ship - based measurements.

By extending their method to include Raman imaging, the RUB team achieved a higher spatial resolution than they could with infrared imaging, however, at the cost of prolonged measurement time.

Pielke, who said one issue ignored in the paper is that land surface temperature measurements over time show bigger warming trends than measurements from higher up in a part of the atmosphere called the lower troposphere, and that still needs more explanation.

«Our measurements of the bright spot suggest there are powerful shock waves in the star's atmosphere that reach higher temperatures than are predicted by current theoretical models for AGB stars,» says Theo Khouri, astronomer at Chalmers and member of the team.

The measured uncertainty in location capability was 16 meters, much higher than the target of 3 meters, but this metric can be improved through future noise suppression techniques, increased sensor bandwidth, and improved digital algorithms that can accurately extract distance measurements, Howe explained.

For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere was much higher than actual measurements taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

This allows researchers to record brain signals at higher frequencies and with less interference than measurements from the scalp.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

Because of the uniform and extremely high brightness (about 5 billion times brighter than the Sun) of type Ia supernovae, they are often used for distance measurements in astronomy.

To investigate whether levels are higher in fish than they used to be, Princeton geochemist François Morel and colleagues took measurements from 66 yellowfin tuna caught off Hawaii in 1998 and compared these to measurements taken from 71 yellowfins caught in 1971.

The ozone measurements, taken between 2 and 6 miles in altitude (3 - 10 kilometers) over a large part of the eastern Indian Ocean, were as high as 80 parts per billion - levels similar to a polluted day in a U.S. city and several times more than normal.

While this number is higher than the previous estimate made in the late 1990s based on ground measurements, the new research includes data on more volcanoes, including some that scientists have never visited, and it is still lower than human emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution levels.

The Next - Generation Proteomics Measurement Platform is combining new instrumentation and data analysis capabilities for significantly higher throughput proteomics than currently available, as well as informatics capabilities for managing the massive volumes of proteomics data that will be generated.

Based on accumulating measurements of microbes in the subglacial environment, he calculates that the concentration of cell and organic carbon in the Earth's ice sheets, or «cryosphere», may be hundreds of times higher than what is found in all the planet's freshwater systems.

In the latter area, more than 50 % of drug discovery screens use cell ‑ based assays, predominantly targeting receptors and ion channels using fluorescence ‑ based measurements, in either or both high throughput and high ‑ content formats (1).

Radial velocity measurements of Alpha Centauri B with High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher spectrograph ruled out planets of more than 4 M ⊕ to the distance of the habitable zone of the star (orbital period P = 200 days).

High - precision measurement of the g - factor eleven times more precise than before / Results indicate a strong similarity between protons and antiprotons...

Putting the measurements together, the team determined the star is moving at about 1,200 kilometers per second — much higher than the velocities of previously known stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Adding FluidFM ® enables measurements up to 50nN and even higher, giving us a broader range of force control than with any other instrument - scanning probe microscopy (SPM) combination.

A higher - than - predicted measurement of iron opacity at solar interior temperatures.

And when they looked at all of the women in the survey from age 30 years on, those with the highest blood and urine measurements were six times more likely to be menopausal than women with lower readings.

When the researchers compared those numbers, they found that ambulatory blood pressure — an average of all measurements taking while they were awake — tended to be higher than their in - office averages, not lower.

A new study recently measured the gut microbiota in 728 female twins with varying degrees of frailty and discovered that people with a high Frailty Index (a measurement of frailty) possess gut microbiota with significantly lower diversity than those with low Frailty Index scores.

These values are derived from twenty - four - hour urinary sodium excretion measurements in studies involving over one hundred thousand participants.4 Cordain implies that sodium intake in «non-westernized people» is far lower than in the US, but in fact the average daily sodium intake in Asia, Africa and the Middle East is about 50 percent higher than the 3.4 grams per day in the U.S. and Canada.24, 25

«Low fat, high muscle bodies may actually weigh MORE than the low fat low muscle ones...» This is why BMI is an invalid measurement.

For the record, Voigt told LiveScience his blood sugar level is in the mid-90s, slightly high but within normal range and actually lower than his pre-diet measurement.

Similar fructose increases have been reported in healthy volunteers who consumed fructose loads between 0.5 and 0.75 g / kg34 and in individuals who consumed fructose - sweetened beverages with mixed meals.35 Leptin and ghrelin levels were indistinguishable following acute ingestion of glucose or fructose, a finding possibly attributable to the short time interval of observation; leptin levels typically change 4 to 6 hours after glucose administration.36 Although fructose was previously reported to be less effective than glucose in suppressing ghrelin, such differences may be attributable to the different conditions and timing of ghrelin measurements.10 Little is known about the acute PYY response to fructose ingestion compared with glucose ingestion, although 1 study in rats found higher rather than lower PYY levels after 24 hours of glucose but not fructose feeding.11 Whether such disparities are related to study design or species differences remains uncertain.

Highly trained athletes often have a high BMI due to higher levels of muscle mass which increases their body weight measurement, rather than higher body fat causing a higher weight measurement.

My friend Isabella is even shorter than you (4» 11» in American measurements) and she is very fond of high heeled boots, she's basically tiptoeing in them.

The area just under the bust is a woman's smallest torso measurement, so emphasizing it with a structured waistband that hits higher than your natural waist will make you look a size smaller.

They can also search for dropout rates and measurements of how many students are taking more than four years to finish high school.

November 3, 2015 — Richard Freeland, former state commissioner of higher education from 2008 to 2015 and president of Northeastern University 1996 - 2006, and John Davis, chairman and CEO of the American Saw and Manufacturing Company, cite high remediation rates, and an increasingly globalized business environment in support of assessments aligned to higher standards, rather than a measurement system designed nearly 20 years ago.

Two conditions would enable us to achieve value - added estimates with high reliability: first, if teachers» value - added measurements were more precise, and second, if teachers» true value - added scores varied more dramatically than they do.

More than 25 years ago, many low - income students weren't even given a chance to take algebra in high school, and instead took applied math classes on how to read schedules, take measurements and balance a checkbook.

The highest plausible value of Teacher A's value - added measurement is lower than the lowest plausible value of Teacher B's.

One must also look to other traditional notions of educational measurement: reliability / consistency (which is not at high - enough levels, especially across teacher types), validity (which is not at high - enough levels, especially for high - stakes purposes), etc. in that «replicability» alone is more common than Flowers (and perhaps others) might assume.