Sentences with phrase «measurement technique which»

Unfortunately, there is no well - established, non-destructive measurement technique which accurately quantifies the moisture content through the depth of a masonry wall, and in the full range of moisture contents that are linked with freeze - thaw damage.

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Milk suppliers in Kerry and Limerick facilitated on farm visits which provided the students with an excellent overview of grassland management techniques and training on grass measurement.

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.

He adds that the technique will improve measurements of astronomical distances, which build on the distances of nearby objects such as M33 to estimate the distances to other «standard candles» farther away, such as supernovae.

A second technique called asteroseismology — the measurement of tiny oscillations in the star's brightness — revealed Kepler 444's size, mass and impressive age, which researchers say provides billions of more years for ancient extraterrestrial life to have taken hold somewhere out there.

Cuffey developed a technique to combine these temperature measurements, which are smoothed as a result of heat diffusion in the ice, with isotopic measurements of old ice to come up with an estimated temperature of 11.3 degrees, plus or minus 1.8 degrees Celsius, warming since the depths of the ice age.

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.

Deming's team employed a new technique with longer exposure times, which increased the sensitivity of their measurements.

The brain activity was measured by a near infrared specrtoscopy technique, which realizes comfortable measurement of brain activity in infants.

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.

Its existence in galaxies was robustly established in the 1970s with a variety of techniques, including the measurement of the rotation speed of gas and stars, which provides a way to effectively «weigh» the host galaxy and determine its total mass.

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

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.

«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.

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).

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).

Researchers hope to extend their measurements to other active galaxies; the technique could eventually help astronomers better understand the rate at which the universe is expanding, study team members said.

We aim to push its limits on all fronts to establish a technique which combines nanometre 3D resolution with maximum labelling efficiencies, absolute measurements of protein copy numbers, precise multi-colour measurements, high - throughput for large scale statistics and novel data analysis approaches, to address the vast array of exciting biological questions at the nanoscale, which are becoming accessible only now.

The most relevant and important information on focus can be found in the following documents, which detail focus measurement techniques: Focus Measurements, and Instrument Science Reports (ISR -98-004), NICMOS Focus Monitoring and (ISR2007 - 003), NICMOS Focus Update.To learn more about the focus and breathing history of the entire telescope, visit the HST Observatory Focus Monitoring Website.

Additionally, as this research uses proton nuclei within the probes, instead of heteronuceli such as carbon or nitrogen, any currently installed hospital MRI scanner can record these measurements which may ensure a rapid uptake of this technique.

Bridge's Measurement and Evaluation team work closely with government bodies to understand which teacher training and support techniques are most effective, and which teacher demographics may indicate a stronger or weaker efficacy in the classroom.

To obtain measurements of calving we therefore use remote sensing techniques, which include both radar and seismic instrumentation.

While stereophotogrammetry, which uses photos to make 3D measurements of cloud boundaries, has been used before to study cloud behavior, Romps» innovation was a technique that does not require a reference point, such as a mountain or other land - based feature.

Ocean heat flux is a turbulent and complex system [7] which utilizes atmospheric measurement techniques such as eddy covariance to measure the rate of heat transfer expressed in the unit of joules or watts per second.

Meteorologists, physicists, atmospheric scientists and astronomers are all going to give you a different answer which depends on their method and technique of measurement.

This does not reflect the important assertion of the study, which is that US warming has been significantly overestimated due to inappropriate measurement techniques and adjustments.

The remaining clathrates decompose under vacuum at measurement time, or surely decompose with the sublimation technique, which is used in case of isotope measurements.

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.

All experimental samples are indexed and stored (where possible), so if someone wants to repeat the measurements they can, if they have a new measurement technique in the fiture they can compare to the techniques which was used.

The decision both confirmed a new standard for indefiniteness, and demonstrated the new standard's effect on patents that do not indicate which measurement technique should define the scope of the invention claimed.

In a recent case involving the Chesapeake Police Department, fault was established through a new «Total Station» system which employs computers, surveying techniques, GPS, and sophisticated measurements.

To illustrate our technique again, we can now turn to our estimates of OLS regressions, and the four countries» level curves of life satisfaction over time as well as their level numbers and unit of measurement of life satisfaction over time, which are depicted in Table 4 and Table 5, respectively.