Sentences with phrase «important error source»
In remote sensing, optical cross-talk is an important error source that results when a detector responds to impinging light from out - of - channel wavelengths (e.g., due to scattering, internal reflections, or other optical leaks).
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In other words, the sources of error are important but probably not significant enough to overwhelm the conclusions, says Lauren Buckley, a University of Washington, Seattle, climate change ecologist who wasn't involved in the study.
Later studies suggested that respiration by plant leaves can be an important source of error in the calculation of insect feed intake using gravimetric methods [45] and can cause major errors in energy budget studies of plant - feeding insects [46].
Generally, the remaining uncorrected effect from urban heat islands is now believed to be less than 0.1 C, and in some parts of the world it may be more than fully compensated for by other changes in measurement methods.4 Nevertheless, this remains an important source of uncertainty.The warming trend observed over the past century is too large to be easily dismissed as a consequence of measurement errors.
Next, the team hopes to tackle another potentially important source of error in the models: irrigation.
An August 2012 study conducted by a professor at UCLA Law found that med mal lawsuits are an important source of information about medical error — and that the data uncovered during litigation is useful in patient safety efforts.