Sentences with phrase «number of observations from»

Hence, a relatively small number of observations from Australia can contribute to the construction of a meaningful hemispheric or global average.

Not exact matches

Another observation from such workshops: the number of laypeople in attendance slowly but surely is overtaking the number of clergy.

A Guardian editorial in May described the decline in numbers and influence of Christianity and affirms that Christianity gave us «the idea that people have some rights just because they are human, and entirely irrespective of merit, [it] certainly isn't derived from observation of the world.»

The argument against neo-Darwinism begins from the undoubted observation that many features of living beings, like the bacterial flagellum or the human eye, are the result of not one genetic mutation but of a large number of such mutations.

The number of phone interviews needed was based on a «best guess» estimation from previous observation and chart review looking for desired behaviors performed by residents.

ClickZ's Kate Kaye provides the latest installment, beginning with her own observations about what mattered in digital politics in the past year and moving on to extended quotes from a number of online politics observers (including e.politics and plenty of friends in the field).

A large number of additional observations are broadly consistent with the observed warming and reflect a flow of heat from the atmosphere into other components of the climate system.

From observations of marked individuals, Hoogland recorded the number of sexual partners and reproductive success for females of all four species.

«Our synthesis of data from a large number of observation points across the globe is unique and serves an important need.»

The observations do fit with evidence from a number of studies that have shown that parents» body weight has long - lasting effects on offspring.

The transmission of high quantities of data by radio over large distances serves a high number of important application areas: the next generation of satellite communication requires an ever - increasing data offload from earth observation satellites down to earth.

Although impressive, the number of galaxies found at this early epoch is not the team's only remarkable breakthrough, as Johan Richard from the Observatoire de Lyon, France, points out, «The faintest galaxies detected in these Hubble observations are fainter than any other yet uncovered in the deepest Hubble observations.»

Others simply attributed the surprising results to sweeping statistical extrapolations being made from very small numbers of events, or to systematic weaknesses in the MOA survey's observations and analyses that the 2011 paper's authors had failed to account for.

My favorite tidbit of this paper was the observation that 75 % of de novo mutations come from the father, whose age was correlated not just with the number of de novo mutations, but also their location relative to late - replicating regions of the genome.

The estimates of ice loss also helped them calculate the amount of sea level rise contributed by the ice sheet prior to 1990 — a number missing from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report because of the lack of direct observations.

The new RSS v4 TLT record makes a number of changes to the time of observation correction, as well as corrections for the change in instruments that measure temperature from microwave sounding units (MSU) to advanced microwave sounding units (AMSU) sensors, which occurred around the year 2000.

The data returned from Kepler are unique in terms of the number of stars observed, precision of photometry for time series observations, and the temporal extent of high duty cycle observations.

While we track CMEs with a number of instruments, the sheer size of the solar system means that our observations are limited, and usually taken from a distance.

Based on Kepler observations conducted from May 2009 to September 2010, the planet findings show a dramatic increase in the numbers of smaller - size planet candidates, where Earth - size and super-Earth-size candidates have increased in number by more than 204 and 136 percent, respectively, since the last Kepler announcement in February 2011.

Our conclusion that LFA1 and ICAM1 function during innate - like lymphocyte movement from the SCS into the LN parenchyma is based on four sets of observations in mice treated with αL blocking antibody: (1) innate - like lymphocytes transiently accumulate in the SCS; (2) the accumulated cells exhibit an unusual elongated morphology (suggesting a less adhesive state); (3) tracking analysis shows reduced numbers of cells migrating from the SCS into the parenchyma; (4) the cells are more sensitive to dislodgement by CD169 blocking antibody.

Number one is that observations about our ancestors in hunter - gatherer diets show that approximate ratio in most folks: the 20 % carbs, 65 % fat, 15 % proteins granted there are some populations like the Katabans and the Pacific islanders and people like that who gets 60, 70, 80 % carbohydrate but most of them are handling that diet quite well because of their genetic propensity, increased activity of a lot of the enzymes responsible for digesting and assimilating carbohydrates probably better insulin sensitivity and pancreatic production of insulin as well but in most folks we see that this type of diet from just an observational standpoint and an ancestral standpoint works well.

A large amount of the gain in critical - thinking skills stems from an increase in the number of observations that students made in their essays.

For them, the number of test - score observations included in the analysis ranges from almost 7,800 in grade 5 to 3,000 in grade 8.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

And I'm sure it would be no great trick to surface similar observations from any number of other acerbic, but reform - friendly observers — folks like Andy Smarick, Andy Rotherham, Robin Lake, Derrell Braford, Mike McShane, and plenty more.

Tough gathers scientific results and personal observations from a number of estimable sources among researchers and practitioners, all supporting the idea that what really determines success is character and perseverance rather than raw intelligence and book learning.

Observations and number of researches confirm significant a long - term impact traumatic experiences from past have on individual and collective life, influencing all levels and aspects of economic, political and social life of the war - thorn countries and their development.

The advantages come at the price of concerns about the limited number of country observations, the mostly cross-sectional character of available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors such as culture.

The MET project will enroll 3,700 teachers from a number of school districts around the country and will gather a variety of data, including videotaped teacher observations, student surveys, teacher surveys, and supplemental student assessments.

Given Project STAR's limited number of Hispanic, Asian, and Native American participants, I edited these data to include only those observations from black and white non-Hispanic students with black and white non-Hispanic teachers.

The regression analyses used to generate fitted values are weighted by the inverse of each observation's estimated variance to account for differences in the number of respondents from each state; unweighted regressions yield substantively similar results.

One is Kai - ming Cheng's observation in his chapter on the Shanghai system in which he describes how a certain number of slots in key schools in Shanghai are set aside for students from outside that schools» enrollment area who can choose that school if they wish.

As explained by a teacher in the article: «She said she's actually benefited from changes to the teacher evaluation system, such as more constructive feedback because of the increased number of observations.»

The state also simplified the rubric for classroom observations, reducing the number of points principals track in observations and cutting one rating level for teachers, creating four options from «ineffective,» to «highly effective.»

Tools (and Data): A number of research - backed tools are used to quantify quality in childhood programs, ranging from provider self - assessments to objective external observations and reporting.

Numbers from the largest available database of classroom observations, and the striking conclusions experts draw from more than 2 million data points

Our first example is drawn from our observations of two successful teacher leaders, Robin and Beth, who worked in the urban Horizon School District, which enrolled high numbers of ELLs, representing more than 100 native languages.

The association's Michele Cobb delivered at BookExpo some of the most compelling observations of the day in terms of consumer response to audiobooks, as well as the kind of upbeat numbers we've come to expect from audiobook publishing.

The number 0.03 derives from the empirical observation that trading 10 % of average daily volume has 30 basis points of market impact.

This is more than an idle observation, it is the principle that ensures the survival of wild canines, who suffer far greater exposure to heart - worm - carrying mosquitoes but succumb from the parasites in far lesser numbers than domestic dogs.

This incredible cruiseliner boasts a number of once - in - a-lifetime activities, from bumper cars, a 2 RipCord by iFLY: the first sky - diving simulator at sea, and North Star aerial observation pod granting 360 - degree views from high above the vessel.

I believe that it is true, however I would look at it from a different standpoint from Canaday and as a matter of fact that had been noted, the observation that 10th Street lacked a vitality had been noted several years before, you know, by a great number of people, including Clem Greenberg, I think in print he even coined the term Tenth Street Painting as a deneogatory term which would be that it was kind of old hat, because Clem Greenberg's stand of course is that abstract expressionism really lost it's pertinence after the early fifties.

Although a useful process to see which models should have more weight, and which ones should be discarded all together, the average that the ensemble produces will automatically have a higher correlation with observation data simply because of how far a set of numbers are spread out from each other.

With the observation of six other major feedbacks» ongoing acceleration mostly from currently small outputs, along with that of a burgeoning number of direct interactive couplings between them, I'm unable to share your view that the fossil fuel industry poses the dominant threat to climate, but would entirely agree that it is the earliest and most controllable threat.

There is a shared mechanism at work that has emerged from the detailed observations of a number of researchers, that is the key to the onset and progression of the ice retreat.

But, as I've pointed out a number of times now, those glacier mass balance estimates are produced entirely independently of other factors and global sea level rise observations — they aren't derived from inverse modelling.

The likelihoods are computed from the excess, delta.r2, of r2 over its minimum value, minr2 (occurring where the model run parameters provide the best fit to observations), divided by m, the number of free model parameters, here 3.

A number of different studies have tried to improve carbon budget estimates from ESMs by matching them more closely to observations of emissions and warming that have actually occurred up to the present day.

If we have inadequate sampling, and short time intervals, the statistical uncertainties from random fluctuations and random measurement errors can be large, but would tend to cancel out as the number of observations and length of time increases.

«Our synthesis of data from a large number of observation points across the globe is unique and serves an important need.»