Sentences with phrase «observations made over»

The Greeks developed short - term forecasts based on observations made over hundreds of years.

This work comprises twenty - eight drawings of nightly observations made over a month's time.

A few paintings span observations made over a twenty - five year period.

The initial scientific species count was over 2,300, with over 8,600 observations made over two days, including 80 species new to the park and sightings of 15 endangered species.

This may come as a surprise, but my reasoning has to do with observations made over the past six months.

Newt Scamander, says that he collected most of the information found in the book through observations made over years of travel and across five continents.

Measurements taken by a team of astronomers from the Universities of Geneva and Bern are given in the framework of the PlanetS NCCR; the figures come from observations made over sodium spectral lines.

The report is based on previously classified observations made over 32 years.

Nevertheless, the anatomical connection between the bones was not affected, confirming the original observations made over a century ago by their discoverers, that the La Ferrassie 1 individual was deliberately buried by other members of their social group.

Someone did the statistics and it turned out to be an accurate observation made over time by many people, each thinking it was personal bad fortune.

Not exact matches

Rubin's observations were made in the 1970s, and over the years they have been pretty much confirmed; we know dark matter exists.

Over the weekend I listened to Russ Roberts» interview with Jason Zweig, who made an excellent observation of how vast the financial markets are and how little time investors spend thinking about this: I think if there's one overriding theme to the book, one of the things I've tried to get across in The Devil's...

excerpt: «My Indo - American friend made a few other observations about the coverage that we're seeing, which is that he's not actually being treated poorly over there, and it's more that certain politicians and business leaders don't want to be associated with members of the Indian Cabinet, which is controversial in large swaths of Indian society.

I believe that the observations made support a process of change over time that benefit a species.

This observation from Ethics and Politics makes clear his view that a natural morality is forged by people over time through trial and error.

The theory makes sense of general observations that church culture changes over time, whilst remaining the church.

The second observation to be made is that the stringent and costing requirements of the Kingdom do sometimes take precedence over family ties.

I left because of observations I had made over many years, both in my life and in the lives of the Christians around me.

But when players are irresponsible, I don't blame the manager, even though the manager is reluctant to apportion blames but I watch games, and have watch eniugh good football in 40 years all over different leagues and tournament to be able to make some reasonable observations and comment.

Bielik — No idea what the future holds but an observation I'd like to make is that it takes a very special kind of prospect to be kept around at this age in favor of instant first - team football over a loan move.

Over the last few months the kids have made lots of observations about the ease (or difficulty) of scooting without realising the science behind it.

An observation I made especially in parts of the three northern regions, was that a little too frequently, the roads would be leading over bridges and yet these bridges had no river flowing under them.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

A liberal friend pained over the rampant failures of liberal government makes an observation: «Barack Obama and Bill de Blasio are both learning to shave on our whiskers.»

Physicists still puzzle over what makes up dark energy, along with another unexplained cosmic constituent, dark matter, an additional kind of mass that must exist to explain observations of how galaxies and galaxy clusters rotate.

They also played around with the orbit, making it a bit more elliptical, and tried turning down the star's brightness dial — there's some uncertainty over both these factors in observations.

Jaroslav Flegr, a professor of biology at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic who was not involved in the study, said this was a confirmation of observations made by his research team over the last two decades.

Together they will allow researchers to make observations over a wider energy range, capture detailed snapshots of rapid processes, probe delicate samples that are beyond the reach of other light sources and gather more data in less time, thus greatly increasing the number of experiments that can be performed at this pioneering facility.

But however they stole, the thieving birds fledged 50 % more chicks over 10 years than birds that made an honest living fishing, the researchers discovered when they pored over their own data and previous observations.

French credited modern technology with making the detailed cloud - seeding observations possible, citing the use of ground - based radar as well as radar on UW's King Air research aircraft and multiple flights over the mountains near Boise.

We have already been able to make some interesting observations on real world chloride concentration changes over just 24 hour periods, illustrating the dangers of relying on single point, single time measurements.»

Australian astronomers have combined all observations of supernovae ever made to determine that the strength of gravity has remained unchanged over the last nine billion years.

By tracing the development of what we now call the «scientific method» — an approach, developed over centuries, that emphasizes experiments and observations rather than reasoning from first principles — he makes the argument that science, unlike other ways of interpreting the world around us, can offer true progress.

The researchers made these findings after conducting field observations over a period of six months between 2009 and 2012.

There is still some controversy over his conclusion, however, because the observations are very difficult to make.

Observations made by Peter van de Kamp of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore College over a period of 40 years suggest that Barnard's star is accompanied by at least two dark companions, each with about the mass of Jupiter.

Finnish Meteorological Institute makes observations of the atmosphere, sea and space at over 400 stations around Finland, and using remote sensing instruments such as radars and satellites.

These changes can alter the luminescence of the star by less than one percent over the course of several days, making observations challenging.

Indeed, the very first indirect observations of gravitational waves were made with pulsars: it was found that their rotational energy was decreasing (they rotated more slowly over time), at exactly the rate that we would expect if they were shedding that energy by giving off gravitational waves!

Over the last decade, I have been dedicating myself to the cellular and molecular background of the observation I made in 2004, that the cephalic neural crest (CNC), exerts an autonomous and prominent control on forebrain development.

Over the three months that followed the initial detection, the technique was able to obtain radar echoes from Chandrayaan - 1 seven more times, including during follow - up observations made by the powerful Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Recent progress has been made to address this: (1) the discovery that gamma Cas is an eccentric binary system (P = 203.59 d) with unknown secondary type, (2) the accumulation of RXTE data at 9 epochs in 1996 - 2000, and (3) the collation of robotic telescope B, V - band photometric observations over 4 seasons.

While poring over historical observations of the star, they also made another striking discovery: This star hasn't survived one supernova; it appears to have also survived a supernova that occurred over half a century before, in 1954!

GROWTH makes sure that when one telescope is blinded by daylight, another one further to the west will take over the observations, almost like an empire where the sun always sets.

The clinicians were not testing a drug, but making careful observations of participants over time to understand more about the way HD develops.

Researchers collected more than 55,000 observations of social interactions of spotted hyenas over a 20 year period in Kenya, making this one of the largest to date of social network dynamics in any non-human species.

In particular, we should make sure of our discoveries on life in various environments on Earth, our knowledge of how our planet and its life have affected each other over Earth history, and our satellite observations of Earth's climate.

These findings were consistent with observations made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which found high concentrations of some gases over whichever pole is experiencing winter on Titan.

Instead, we start with 15 antennas and gradually make a larger configuration over a week or so, and then make 3 - week observations with this arrangement.

However, ground - based observations of Pluto taken in 1988 and 2002 show that Pluto's atmosphere has doubled over that time, possibly due to the amount of ice turning into a gas as Pluto makes its closest approach to the Sun in its orbit.