Sentences with phrase «indirect observations»

So in recent years researchers have learned to use indirect observations.

He said that while the process has been demonstrated in only one location, indirect observations suggest that it may be widespread.

It is very difficult to extract direct information about these types of movements from indirect observations,» such as those that don't use imaging technology, he says.

In fact, the most important discoveries of science have only be inferred via indirect observation.

Creel's paper was seen as damning evidence against wolves, but his results were based on indirect observations.

Indeed, the very first indirect observations of gravitational waves were made with pulsars: it was found that their rotational energy was decreasing (they rotated more slowly over time), at exactly the rate that we would expect if they were shedding that energy by giving off gravitational waves!

Its weakness is that it is comprised of parents» and teachers» surveys, which as indirect observations, have the weakness of being susceptible to subjective judgments.

This hypothesis appears to be supported by direct and indirect observations of the destruction of dwarf galaxies in distant (and therefore ancient) reaches of the universe.

«There have been some idealized studies using models, and even some indirect observations off the ice shelves, suggesting that El Niño might significantly affect some of these shelves, but we had no actual ice - shelf observations.

Models of the big bang predicted the cosmic neutrino background decades ago, but this indirect observation is the most robust yet.

Despite the fact that astronomers can not peer at what goes on inside the event horizon, a black hole's gravitational effects on its neighborhood allow for a number of indirect observations.

However, this is an indirect observation of gravitational waves.

Theories, computer models, and indirect observations have indicated that there is a cosmic web of dark matter that connects galaxies and constitutes the large - scale structure of the cosmos.

Designed as an instrument for assessing students specifically for Applied Behavioral Analysis and discrete trial training, it is an observational instrument that can be completed through interview, indirect observation, or direct observation.

The motifs for each Atelier may include or lean towards: working from the perception; direct or indirect observation, abstraction or imagination.

We have no direct observations of equilibrium climate sensitivity so we have to rely on some form of theory or indirect observations from paleo, at least in part.