Sentences with phrase «measurement technique used»

Specifically, there have been a proliferation of buoys over the past 40 years and the survival of an antiquated measurement technique used by ships.

The measurement techniques used with adults allow us to classify the adults into attachment categories that are similar to the ones used to classify mother - baby pairs in the laboratory.

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Measurement of Hydrodynamic Growth near Peak Velocity in an Inertial Confinement Fusion Capsule Implosion using a Self - Radiography Technique

The Milkbar book, with precise measurements and descriptions of how / why certain ingredients are used really helped me gain confidence and learn technique.

To this day, we continue to study baby's skin of all types, using non-invasive measurement techniques and clinical assessments by dermatologists and pediatricians.

Using this technique, scientists have measurements for 11 Milky Way satellite galaxies, eight of which are orbiting in a tight disk perpendicular to the spiral galaxy's plane.

These predictions, made using powerful computers, were verified using highly precise measurements taken using an extremely sensitive technique called «cavity - ring down spectroscopy».

UC Santa Barbara geophysicist Zachary Eilon and his co-author Geoff Abers at Cornell University have conducted new research — using a novel measurement technique — that has revealed a strong signal of seismic attenuation or energy loss at the mid-ocean ridge where the Juan de Fuca Plate is created.

Using a new imaging measurement technique the impact of therapeutic treatments and rehabilitative interventions can be now determined more quickly and directly than before.

Use of the new measurement technique might allow for quicker flood warnings in mountain regions.

«So we could use this material and measurement technique for locally probing nanoscale activity of proteins that exists in cell membrane with high sensitivity.»

Crucially, the JILA team verified the stability of the technique by using the two lasers to make two separate, independent measurements of a single sample.

«Trying to use any one single source or sink, or single measurement technique, to define exactly what's happening is perhaps too simple.»

The research team conclude that there is positive evidence for the use of tDCS to aid stroke recovery but caution that the technique must be proved to have long term benefits not only in clinical measurements but also in the ability to carry out tasks important to daily life.

«What we've shown is that there is a measurement technique we can use to get a total water loss — water loss in places where we have no direct measurements.»

In the GRL study led by Lindsey in collaboration with Stanford graduate student Eileen Martin, the research team took measurements using the DAS technique on fiber - optic arrays in three locations — two in California and one in Alaska.

Another challenge was to adapt the analysis techniques used for the cell molecules — for measuring enzyme activity, for example — to the minute measurement volumes.

«We need to use modern measurement techniques to improve our understanding of material response,» Panerai said.

By using state - of - the - art laser measurement techniques, the research team found that the sound - producing areas on the wings of grigs are in fact the same as in bush - crickets.

This innovative solution not only reduces system implementation costs by using WiFi six dollar chipsets (used, for instance, by very famous Cisco APs) to collect and filter measurements, but also the novel filtering technique applied requires just a few samples to estimate the distance range.

The study, which was recently published in the journal Measurement Science and Technology, describes an inventive technique to mathematically estimate the extent of an object that is captured in 3 - D models, and use the information to more accurately measure the entire object.

While many different techniques have been used to observe membrane hemifusion, simultaneous measurements of membrane thickness and interaction forces present a greater challenge, according to Dong Woog Lee, lead author of a paper that appears in the journal Nature Communications.

Jantz, using several modern quantitative techniques — including Fordisc, a computer program for estimating sex, ancestry, and stature from skeletal measurements — found that Hoodless had incorrectly determined the sex of the remains.

Jun Yang and his colleagues used the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), where a network of detectors separated by thousands of kilometres are combined into a single observatory, to make extremely high - precision measurements of the jet from Swift J1644 +57.

This approach uses precision measurement techniques and devices from atomic, quantum, and condensed - matter physics to detect tiny signals due to new particles or forces.

The heightened accuracy of the technique is precisely due to the use of a solo atom as a «probe» in obtaining these measurements.

Researchers at Griffith University working with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have unveiled a stunningly accurate technique for scientific measurements which uses a single atom as the sensor, with sensitivity down to 100 zeptoNewtons.

In this study, the authors use two techniques to improve their measurement.

They used techniques, some new, some over a century old, which take measurement noise into account.

«High - sensitivity 3 - D technique using single - atom measurements.»

The group uses a variety of measurement techniques such as sonic anemometers, hot wires, snow particle counters and shadowgraphy, which involves illuminating the flow with snow particles from one side of the tunnel — the walls are made of glass — and obtaining images with a high - speed camera from the other side.

A team led by François Biraben of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris has used a very similar technique to produce a better measurement, he adds.

Although judicial and penal systems vary widely in Europe, the more objective forensic science techniques are rapidly becoming harmonized so that sometimes even the same specialized apparatus is used throughout the forensic community (e.g., refractive index measurements of glass).

«The successful implementation of the technique used in this analysis opens an exciting possibility for exploring details of the strong interaction between other abundantly produced particle species,» he said, noting that RHIC and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are ideally suited for these measurements, which are difficult to assess by other means.

Last June, physicists working with an accelerator - based neutrino experiment in Japan called T2K came close with measurements using a slightly different technique.

One innovative aspect of the study was the measurement of bone texture of the lumbar spine using trabecular bone score (TBS)- the first use of this technique in adolescent athletes.

For the new study, Brandt and his colleagues analyzed approximately 15,000 measurements from 18 prior studies of natural gas leaks from across the U.S. using a statistical technique called extreme value theory, which is useful for analyzing infrequent but highly consequential events.

These other techniques include skin-fold thickness measurement and dual - energy X-ray absorptiometry, which can be used to measure body composition and fat content.

Eric Dooryhee explains that a synchrotron is an exceptionally powerful source of light (from x-rays to infrared), which permits fast, sensitive experiments to be done without damage on minute samples of objects, using a range of analytical techniques and allowing measurements to be made below the surface.

We estimated the DV for each voxel, which corresponds to the equilibrium measurement of the ratio of the radiotracer's tissue concentration to that of its plasma concentration using a graphical analysis technique for reversible systems (38).

Meteorologists have long used a similar technique to integrate atmospheric and oceanic measurements with dynamical models, allowing them to forecast the weather.

«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.

I will extend this research using a variety of techniques, including computational recognition algorithms based on photographs of guenon faces, modeling of evolutionary scenarios, experiments to assess guenon preferences, and measurements of guenon behavior and ecology.

Mike Alexander, Alex Laskin, Yuri Desyaterik, and John Ortega, who work at DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at PNNL and Xiao - ying Yu of PNNL's Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division, collected an extensive set of measurements of aerosol mass, size distribution, composition, and particle morphology using an array of in - situ techniques and aerosol sampling approaches.

To get these measurements, they travelled to ORNL to use a specialized technique called «small - angle neutron scattering» (SANS), which is currently unavailable in Canada (although a SANS beamline is presently being built at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor and should be completed in 2019).

The researchers used the techniques, such as fluorescent correlation spectroscopy and confocal microscopy, for measurements of protein - mineral binding.

«Being able to compare measurements made using completely different techniques will provide researchers an improved understanding of how soil might gain or lose carbon as environmental conditions change,» said Bond - Lamberty.

The various techniques used (e.g., Charlier's method) are capable of high accuracy, provided that the measurements themselves are free of systematic errors.

Our barycentric radial velocities, derived from observations taken at the KPNO 2.1 meter telescope, differ from... ▽ More We demonstrate the ability to measure precise stellar barycentric radial velocities with the dispersed fixed - delay interferometer technique using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), an instrument primarily designed for precision differential Doppler velocity measurements using this technique.

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 range.