Sentences with phrase «least by measurements»

Depending upon your location, it may be the best of times or the worst of times — at least by measurements of seniors housing occupancy rates.

Not exact matches

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

'' That tells people that I am at least intelligent enough to require proof of existence» = > It does no such thing as you can not claim nor do you have evidence as to what is beyond measurement or accountability by accepted scientific method.

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

Other interpretations of quantum theory — of which there are at least half a dozen — deal with the measurement problem by suggesting even more far - fetched concepts than a universe dependent on measurement.

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.

He claims that preliminary measurements of how muscle groups work in people using his shovel instead of a conventional one show that his design saves a lot of energy: it can, he says, reduce the effort of shifting a truckload of mulch by at least 30 per cent.

But Black says that the data are corroborated by measurements from the Allegheny telescope, and in at least one case are supported by independent work by Tsevi Mazeh and his colleagues at the Wise Observatory in Israel.

They can improve the sensitivity of their measurements at least 10-fold by pumping the carbon dioxide out of their samples to concentrate the other substances in them, says Paul Mahaffy, a planetary scientist at Goddard and a member of the TLS team: «My one - liner would be, the hunt for the elusive methane continues.»

«The radiation dose rates from measurements obtained over the last four years exceeded trends from previous solar cycles by at least 30 percent, showing that the radiation environment is getting far more intense,» said Nathan Schwadron, professor of physics and lead author of the study.

«Our study has shown that consumption patterns provide at least as accurate a picture of wastewater pollution by individual substances as wastewater measurements themselves» said Manuel Herrmann, principal author of the study.

The team estimates that the ice sheets, confirmed by radar measurements, are at least 130 metres thick.

«We hope to take enough data to measure the neutrino or at least produce the world's most accurate measurement using calorimeter techniques by the end of 2017,» Tully said of the prototype.

By directly comparing the gene expression estimates by these two techniques, using a correlation with TaqMan qRT - PCR as a benchmark, we find RNAseq provides measurements over at least two orders of magnitude greater than the microarray, and thus correlates better with TaqMan values across a large dynamic rangBy directly comparing the gene expression estimates by these two techniques, using a correlation with TaqMan qRT - PCR as a benchmark, we find RNAseq provides measurements over at least two orders of magnitude greater than the microarray, and thus correlates better with TaqMan values across a large dynamic rangby these two techniques, using a correlation with TaqMan qRT - PCR as a benchmark, we find RNAseq provides measurements over at least two orders of magnitude greater than the microarray, and thus correlates better with TaqMan values across a large dynamic range.

Quite often I find with baking recipes you need to weigh the ingredients (well, at least the main ones / ones in big quantities) to get a good result, as it's more accurate to go by weight and cup measurements can vary greatly when you're packing flour in.

They used two measurements to gauge a drug's effectiveness and tolerability: the percentage of patients who showed at least a 50 % improvement in their symptoms as measured by one of two scales, or who scored «much improved or very much improved» after eight weeks of treatment (or from 6 to 12 weeks if eight - week data wasn't available) and the percentage of patients who dropped out of the study before eight weeks for any reason.

Usually I have to go up at least one hook size for most patterns, so rather than give you a chain count I'm going to do this by measurements.

This signature Translational Science Model (TSM) is characterized by precision in definition and measurement, a rapid - cycle iterative approach to improving programs, and a relentless focus on identifying what works best (and least or not at all) for whom and why.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Exact measurements aren't yet available for the plug - in (non-hybrid models have 38.2 cu ft of trunk space), but figure you'll be able to fit at least one fewer suitcase with the space occupied by the battery.

Ford hopes the diesel will return at least 30 mpg highway by EPA measurements, but we'll have to wait for official confirmation on that.

To at least alleviate the ethical dilemma that would be created by using one type of water testing product but selling another, I spent the money to buy a low - end spectrophotometer that could check water samples for all types of things — measurements as simple as pH and ammonia, and as detailed as levels of iodine, strontium and molybdenum.

The» top ten» arguments employed by the relatively few deniers with credentials in any aspect of climate - change science (which arguments include «the sun is doing it», «Earth's climate was changing before there were people here», «climate is changing on Mars but there are no SUVs there», «the Earth hasn't been warming since 1998», «thermometer records showing heating are contaminated by the urban - heat - island effect», «satellite measurements show cooling rather than warming») have all been shown in the serious scientific literature to be wrong or irrelevant, but explaining their defects requires at least a paragraph or two for each one.

It should be noted simple linear regression using ordinary least squares is not really the best method for assessing these data as it depends on assumptions which are violated by global temperature measurements.

Through painstaking measurement, these scientists hope to construct a year - by - year record of the Earth's climate going back at least 40,000 years and maybe further.

An ingenious theory, but the model set out in that paper seems to make predictions about what would happend to surface temperature if CO ₂ concentration were to vary which are out of kilter with empirical measurements by several orders of magitude in timescale and at least one order of magnitude and possibly the wrong sign in temperature.

If this global warming is the greatest threat to humanity (outside of rap music — sorry got to get some levity in here...) then why isn't a greater priority by thw UN or US or EU or name your bloc set on at least getting a decent, consistent measurement?

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

Many of the mechanisms are like that — the tides, the direct inductive heating, the heating caused by the days influx of falling meteorites — which incidentally is far greater than the rate of heat loss through outgassing, as meteoric dust and matter infalls at an average rate of at least millimeters per decade, from my own direct measurements — they have «impressively» large amounts of annual energy associated with them, right up to where you divide by the surface area of the earth and the number of seconds in a year.

A simple Google search using words like canvas bucked insulated reveals immediately a few articles that discuss such measurements that have been done by numerous groups since 1966 at least.

He also presented evidence that much of the discrepancy was due to observational uncertainty, resulting from stratospheric cooling contaminating satellite measurements of tropospheric temperature (a point that's been noted by the NOAA satellite analysis team since at least 2004; see: «Contribution of stratospheric cooling to satellite - inferred tropospheric temperature trends»).

In fact, there are now well over 150 individual assessments of ice sheet mass balance based on measurements acquired by at least 15 different satellite missions.

The study's authors, led by researchers from Harvard University, used atmospheric measurements of methane — a greenhouse gas at least 25 times as powerful at trapping heat as CO2 — from aircraft and stationary towers.

Maintaining a high - precision Jason - type altimeter in non-Sun-synchronous orbit (to mitigate the impact of tidal aliasing on sea level measurements) complemented by at least two other altimeter missions (Sentinel - 3 will be one) in a Sun - synchronous orbit.

There has been no reduction in the surface area of grounded ice in the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets, although the mass appears to have declined recently, at least in Greenland, if we can believe the GRACE results, which show more mass loss than earlier satellite altimetry measurements by Johannessen / Zwally (GRL) and Davis / Wingham (Antarctica), which showed net growth over the period 1993 - 2003.

If every rectangle has the same aspect ratio — the relationship between its height and width — then knowing its diagonal measurement gives us a rough way to compare or at least rank those rectangles by size.

The heart rate measurements were always always off by at least 25 beats per minute (bpm).

By that measurement, an LED bulb will be as good as new for at least a decade, manufacturers say.

Results of investigations regarding the influence of religiosity on relationship and marital satisfaction vary considerably, however the discrepancies may be at least partially accounted for by differences in measurement.