Sentences with phrase «measurement method from»

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Alongside field work the team, which included scientists from the WHRC and Boston University, used 12 years of satellite imagery, field measurements and laser remote sensing technology as part of its method.

Flour is an ingredient that packs together quite easily so some method is usually used to «un-pack» the flour and get more consistent results from measurement to measurement.

Here is where linguistic methods inevitably rely on interpretation of human readers of texts, rather than statistical measurement, so I would be foolish to draw any strong conclusions from such a basic analysis of two speeches.

Using a statistical method, Marotzke and Forster analysed the contributions of the individual factors and found that none of the physical reasons explains the distribution of predictions and the deviation from the measurements.

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important ocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Baker's work focuses on comparing the results from this method to those from the gold standard procedure, in which all of an athlete's sweat is collected, not just a sample, and developing protocols for getting the most accurate results from these absorbent pad - based measurements.

With Loveless, the team created earthquake scenarios based on GPS estimates of present - day frictional locking along the Nankai Trough and for the first time rigorously tested methods for creating potential future earthquake scenarios from the GPS measurements.

LiDAR is a method of mapping from the sky: An airplane - mounted device sends a constant pulse of laser light across a swath of terrain; precise measurements of how long it takes the emitted breams to bounce off surfaces are taken and translated into topographic data.

Now researchers from the University of Belgrade, the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have developed a novel verification method which requires significantly fewer resources and, in many cases, even only a single measurement run to prove large - scale entanglement with a high confidence.

«Tomography is the most powerful method to get this information, but in the future it will be combined with very sensitive gravity measurements from satellites and maybe electromagnetic sounding, where people do conductivity measurements of the interior,» she said.

Using statistical methods, they were able to draw conclusions about individual emission sources from the measurement data.

They employed a broad spectrum of methods and other measurement data, including Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, which are density waves from the early universe, local measurements of the Hubble constant, which specifies the universe's rate of expansion at the present day, as well as a certain group of supernovae or exploding stars.

The new approach also seeks to transform firearm identification from a subjective method that depends on an examiner's experience and judgement to one that is based on objective measurements.

Apart from the number of participants, the strengths of this study include the use of three different methods to achieve acurate measurement results: cerebrospinal fluid samples, the use of a so - called PET scanner, and genetic analysis.

These can arise from many technical issues, including data selection, substandard temperature station quality, urban vs rural effects, station moves, and changes in the methods and times of measurement

The problem is that the measurement differed from those obtained by two other methods by 4 %, or 0.03 femtometers (fm).

In an article published in Nature Communications Uppsala physicists make a big step towards this goal — they propose and demonstrate a new measurement method capable to detect magnetism from areas as small as 0.5 nm2.

In contrast, the method used by Miller and his colleagues, called a top - down method, uses measurements of methane in the atmosphere, taken from a national network of greenhouse gas monitoring stations and aircraft measurements conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Energy.

With this method, they were able to take measurements from a very large number of individual synapses (more than 13,000), and from all types of bipolar cells.

Joiner, who helped to develop the space - based method for monitoring plant fluorescence, is eager to take measurements using OCO - 2, the small footprint of which should allow researchers to detect fluorescence signals from plants in more fragmented landscapes such as Europe's.

Matching those redshifts to distance measurements calculated from gravitational waves should give estimates of the current rate of cosmic expansion, known as the Hubble constant, that are independent — and potentially more precise — than calculations using current methods.

The availability of solar disk - resolved and disk - integrated spectra offers an opportunity to devise methods to derive information about spatial distribution of solar features from sun - as - a-star measurements.

Methods: Stable isotope measurements are a valuable tool for unraveling physical, biological, and chemical processes, interactions, and mechanisms at scales ranging from the atmosphere to individual microorganism cells.

Methods: Calculating exactly how much uranium is present and how fast uranium migrates requires scientists to scale measurements from the lab to the field.

From those measurements, the team made catalytic activity maps and used them along with the microscopy method to selectively deposit tiny quantities of a cobalt borate OEC on the nanorod hot spots.

The related research and applications are similarly diverse, fluctuating from extensions of conventional device physics to totally new methods based upon molecular self - assembly, from emerging new materials with measurements on the Nano scale to straight regulator of matter on the atomic scale.

His work focuses on the application of computational methods to the analysis of proteomics data, ranging from proteogenomics and biomarker discovery to the targeted measurement and quantification of specific proteins.

Gould's claim that Morton had mismeasured crania based on race derived from his comparison of Morton's seed - based and lead shot — based measurements, with different races experiencing different changes in their average cranial capacity between the two methods [1].

Kepler 10b was detected using the transit method from more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft between May 2009 and early January 2010 and confirmed by radial velocity measurements, and there evidence for another planet (KOI 72.02) in an outer orbit with a period around 45.3 days (Kepler news release; images, animations, and discovery page; and Batalha et al, 2011).

Part of the problem with routine claims of ridiculously low body fat levels comes from the fact that most body fat measurement methods use estimation equations calibrated based on the normal population (i.e. not contest - ready bodybuiders).

Another problem with using food mineral acidity figures is that they do vary significantly for some foods from one source to another, probably due to varying mineral contents and / or methods of measurements.

«The amperometric method [29] is based on measurement of electric current resulting from oxidation of the substance (or the mixture) being studied»

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

Michael C. Rodriguez received his Ph.D. in 1999 from Michigan State University in Measurement and Quantitative Methods.

Joseph received a Ph.D. from Michigan State University with a concentration in Measurement and Quantitative Methods in Education.

To make this ordinary expense cash flow measurement method work, you would need to pay other mortgage / debt payments and investments from a different account.

So if I look at a trend from say just after WWII (largely bucket) to around 2000 (largely intake), there will be.3 degrees (assuming that is the difference) of warming attributable not to an actual temperature change, but to the switch in measurement method?

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

The microbes convert 44 - 49 % of the organic mass (depending on measurement method) but the recovery of the energy from the solid silver state drops the overall efficiency of the process.

At the same time, the GRACE gravitational - anomaly satellites, the most accurate method of measurement we have, showed sea level actually falling from 2003 — 2009.

Here, an alternative method of deriving global temperature from surface measurements is proposed, which addresses some of those problems.

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.

«In regards to sea surface temperature, scientists have shown that across the board, data collected from buoys are cooler than ship - based data,» one of the study's co-authors wrote, adding, «Scientists have developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements, and we are using this in our trend analysis.»

Modern methods are far from being able to accurately measure the planet «s global temperature even today, so measurements made 50 or 100 years ago are even less reliable.

«The study also showed us how important it is to maintain a comprehensive measurement network and to develop and use scientific methods that help us distinguish the changes from the natural variation in climate in a reliable way», Laine explains.

(Sec. 144) Requires: (1) each load - serving entity or state to determine and publish peak demand reduction goals for any load - serving entity that has an applicable baseline in excess of 250 megawatts; (2) the Secretary to develop a system and rules for measurement and verification of demand reductions; (3) such goals to provide that such entities will reduce or mitigate peak demand by a minimum percentage amount from the applicable baseline to a lower peak demand during 2012 and 2015; (4) such goals to provide that the minimum percentage reductions established as peak demand reduction goals shall be the maximum reductions that are realistically achievable with an aggressive effort to deploy Smart Grid and peak demand reduction technologies and methods; and (5) each load - serving entity to prepare a peak demand reduction plan that demonstrates its ability to meet applicable goals.

... Modern methods are far from being able to accurately measure the planet's overall temperature even today, so measurements made 50 or 100 years ago are even less reliable.»

Measurements by weather balloons, the main method used to measure temperatures at the time, only test a small sliver of the atmosphere and are far from comprehensive.

The only comprehensive study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass was a 10 + year study based on continuous 24/365 satellite measurements over the period 1993 to 2003, covering 80 % of the AIS with estimates from other methods for the remaining 20 %, which can not be measured by satellites (coastal areas and polar regions).