Sentences with phrase «measuring deep time»

That's why he and hundreds of other scientists around the world have joined Earthtime, a 10 - year endeavor to nail down the sequence of past events on Earth by refining scientists» techniques for measuring deep time.

Whichever timeline wins out — Olsen's or Lucas» — one thing is clear: Finding a way to measure deep time will shed light on all manner of questions from evolution to astronomy to eschatology, many of them not yet asked.

Not exact matches

«The best way to measure cultural fit is for the assessor to have a deep understanding of the culture and then to spend time with the person being assessed,» Bonnie Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, tells me by email.

Non-standard measures fall out of the scope of traditional ways that central banks and other monetary authorities use during times of deep economic distress.

At that time, Nathel explains, the company occupied approximately two and two - thirds units at the market, each unit measuring about 25 feet wide and 100 feet deep.

Our cool dinosaur lunch box measures 10 x 7.5 x 3 inches and even has an outer green and blue zipper pocket deep enough to hold his dinosaur figures until it's recess time.

They have since U-turned on both the timing and the scale of the austerity measures; Cable claims he was persuaded of the case for deep and early cuts, «not by other politicians, but by talking to the most senior officials in the government and the central bank [who said] that we had to act».

With many of our online colleagues taking the holiday week off, it's time for e.politics — temporarily ensconced deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas while measuring the Pulse Of The Heartland — to take up the slack.

The researchers found that children whose mothers have insomnia symptoms fall asleep later, get less sleep, and spend less time in deep sleep, as measured by EEG.

Researchers reconstructed Arctic circulation through deep time by measuring radioactive trace elements buried in sediments on the Arctic seafloor.

In the absence of HIV infection, the cxcr4 disruption frequency remained stable over time in four independent experiments testing four different ccr5 wild type donors as measured by deep sequencing.

Hubble observations made while it passed behind its primary star last December, reveal the hot Jupiter - like planet known as HD 189733b is a deep cobalt blue in color, marking the first time that the color of an exoplanet has been measured.

Goes to deep depression can happen many per times and this happens time time measure with every individual.

Specifically the kinds of movies that seek to elevate our sporting heroes (both real and fictional) to superhuman status by perpetuating the popular belief that true greatness is not measured by one's physical attributes but by the presence of a deeper - lying, infinitely more powerful strength that is less easy to quantify yet at the same time undeniable.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

«Water is a rarity in Pope Valley, the well is 200 feet deep and in the driest time of the year, the well was measured at 13 gallons a minute.

«It was a very exciting time,» she recalls in her deep, measured voice, «because it seemed like there were all these new things beginning.

How do we begin to know ourselves through short duration (everyday moments) and within deep time measured by geological events beyond our immediate comprehension?

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

The correct measure is actually one of considering adjustment time, which is defined as the excess CO2 which has not diffused into deep sequestering sites.

... The evidence comes from a close correlation between inferred changes in production rates of the cosmogenic nuclides carbon - 14 and beryllium - 10 and centennial to millennial time scale changes in proxies of drift ice measured in deep - sea sediment cores.

Decisions around mitigation measures will have long - ranging effects: A recently published study in Nature Climate Change looks into the «deep time» implications of carbon dioxide impacts and found that government policies today that are being set to mitigate (or not) carbon dioxide impacts will have implications spanning at least the next 10,000 years.

While that still is sparse for the full oceans (especially the South Pacific) surface, all repeated measurements of the same places over time show an increase in DIC, and as far as measured, a decrease in pH. That includes the main upwelling areas where the deep ocean volcano releases should be measurable first.

While such models lack adequate observational datasets of subsurface soil properties and / or geology, it is clear that the time scale for deep permafrost thaw is measured in centuries, not years.

Though many modeling studies have demonstrated the impact of deep water formation changes on the overturning circulation, the observational evidence for such a linkage has been hard to come by for two reasons: (1) Deep water formation is difficult to quantify because the time and locale of production are highly variable from winter to winter, and (2) overturning circulation measures require observations that span the basin, which have been limited in space and tdeep water formation changes on the overturning circulation, the observational evidence for such a linkage has been hard to come by for two reasons: (1) Deep water formation is difficult to quantify because the time and locale of production are highly variable from winter to winter, and (2) overturning circulation measures require observations that span the basin, which have been limited in space and tDeep water formation is difficult to quantify because the time and locale of production are highly variable from winter to winter, and (2) overturning circulation measures require observations that span the basin, which have been limited in space and time.

They report larger variations in measured CO2 with per - cm vertical distance in younger ice earlier in an ice core clathrate zone, and smaller variations in older ice at deeper core, consistent with increasing homogeneity with time.

You see, scientists use many methods of measuring and that is why when someone throws out meaningless factoids such as «the world is cooling» based on a very short time period, you need to look deeper.

More expensive ones allow adjustment of the emissivity, or rough & ready calibration by measuring the temperature of masking tape (emissivity ~ 0.95) on the object to be measured, or by drilling a hole at least 6 times as deep as its diameter which approximates a blackbody (emissivity 0.98 +).

Coupled with paleontological analyses of marine microfossils in deep - sea sediments, these stable - isotope and trace - element microanalyses provide quantitative measures of global climate and ocean behavior over diverse time scales.

The Beddit Sleep Tracker uses a sensor about the same size and thickness as... duct tape to measure total sleep time, resting heart rate, respiration rate, how long it took you to fall asleep, how many times you got up, and the amount of deep sleep achieved.