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Editor — What a treat to find that painting of Frank Stella's blazing out at the top of Datebook, heralding that article of amplitude by Kenneth Baker («With Frank Stella, what you see is what you see...,» June 17).

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Milton Friedman, may he rest in peace, used to argue that the pursuit of discretionary policy actions by the Fed actually increases the amplitude of a business cycle.

By skillfully managing demand, policymakers could aspire to reduce the amplitude of the fluctuations — and although they could determine the average rate of inflation, they could not raise the average level of output.

By analogy, we may look at the surface of the ocean on a calm day and see waves, and even, if we so choose, assess their amplitude and frequency.

The Collect for the Day, by the very amplitude of the gift prayed for, makes clear that the deed of God's power in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is in a continuum of grace whose endless field of operation is nothing less than the restoration of human life to its Godly intention.

By thus extending the commandment to all the domains of life of the community and the individual, whether moral, juridic, or cultic, we only express the amplitude of this phenomenon without thereby really illuminating its specific nature.

Resonance is a physical phenomenon shown by a vibrating system which responds with maximum amplitude under the action of a force applied with a frequency that is a natural frequency of the vibrating body.

Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian autodidact, invented a way to transmit voice and music by altering the intensity of waves — called amplitude modulation — thus creating AM radio.

Interestingly, the periodicity, amplitude and sign of the induced potentials can be pre-programmed and adjusted by careful molecular design.

By processing all of the photoacoustic imaging data with computer programs, scientists obtain a 2 - D en - face photoacoustic image called a depth maximum amplitude projection (DMAP) image, which shows the optical absorption distribution or photoacoustic contrast of the sample.

By comparing the amplitudes of the P, S and Rayleigh waves, and calculating how long each would have taken to travel through the ground, researchers can plot the likely sites of the five blasts.

The researchers effectively tune the focal point of the lens by changing how hard they strike the lens (affecting the waves» amplitude) and the size of the spheres (affecting wavelength).

For all these animals» fins, the team found that the length of one undulation during swimming divided by the mean amplitude of the sideways movement is always a ratio of around 20.

«Also, the magnetic field of the Earth is generated by flow in the liquid core, so the findings of Rowley and co-authors are likely to have implications for our understanding of the existence, character and amplitude of the Earth's magnetic field and its evolution through geological time,» Braun added.

The solar balloon was able to detect one of the explosions, and the researchers noted that the amplitude of the infrasound signal was about five times stronger than that detected by the high - altitude balloon.

Binaural stereo mimics this by setting a pair of microphones in the ears of a dummy human head to capture the phase and amplitude differences.

Instead, we can ask whether the amplitudes of the temperature differ - ences measured by COBE can distinguish between these models.

«This information will enable us to identify a distinct pattern of seizure onset, which we can break down by frequency, amplitude and a number of other factors,» said Owen's neurologist, Brien Smith, MD, co-chair, department of clinical neurosciences, chief, division of neurology, Spectrum Health Medical Group.

The study, performed by researchers in Europe and involving detailed computer simulations, shows that large - scale metamaterials can attenuate the energy and amplitude of harmful low - frequency vibrations associated with seismic shocks.

Large fluctuations in lower density parts of the Universe have an effect similar to that of smaller amplitude fluctuations in denser regions and the two can not be distinguished by observations of weak lensing.

The movement is directly related to the amplitude of the sound wave produced by the moving particles.

This term expresses the fact that the initial sphericity of the supernova shock wave is spontaneously broken, because the shock develops large - amplitude, pulsating asymmetries by the oscillatory growth of initially small, random seed perturbations.

If the algorithm decides that the shaking it from a quake, it immediately sends basic information to UC Berkeley: the time and amplitude of the shaking, and the phone's position as measured by GPS.

As a result, they were able to obtain an angle - amplitude measurement of unprecedented precision, unbothered by quantum uncertainty.

In their report, Laurent and his colleagues describe the existence of REM and slow - wave sleep in the Australian dragon, with many common features with mammalian sleep: a phase characterized by low frequency / high amplitude average brain activity and rare and bursty neuronal firing (slow - wave sleep); another characterized by awake - like brain activity and rapid eye movements.

One can think of the pulse as being like the earlier continuous wave (the «carrier wave»), with that wave's amplitude multiplied by the changing height of the envelope.

Molecular dynamics was used to refine macromolecular structures by incorporating the difference between the observed crystallographic structure factor amplitude and that calculated from an assumed atomic model into the total energy of the system.

When the coupling laser came back on, the incoming jolt of energy caused the altered sodium atoms to shift energy levels, in the process releasing a light pulse of the exact phase and amplitude as the one originally sent in by the probe laser.

The relative amplitudes of the frequencies present in the sound are found by performing a calculation called a Fourier transform on it.

Discounting false positive sources based on observational or instrumental artifacts or produced by statistically possible coincidences of noise - features in low - amplitude detections, such sources are all related to eclipsing systems.

Additionally, in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), which produce a wide range of broad - band note types, expansion of the OEC has also been found to affect frequency patterns by shifting energy to relatively lower frequencies while amplitude generally increases (Ohms et al., 2010b).

Regarding the overall distribution, the CoRoT candidates with amplitudes of 0.5 % or larger closely follow that of Brown, except for being lower by a scale factor of about 5.5.

Probability of occurrence of the classes of false positives (diluted and undiluted binaries) and of confirmed planets detected by CoRoT, per unit log of transit depth, based on the amplitude found in the original CoRoT light - curve.

The high - amplitude region of depths over 5 % is not covered by candidates in the follow - up program, because the eclipse depth as such identifies these cases as false positives in planet finding, excluding them automatically from follow - up observations.

By comparing that figure with the waves» amplitude at the source, which the researchers can derive from the shape of the signal, and by knowing how the amplitude decreases with distance, which they get from Einstein's theory, they can then calculate the distance of the source to a much higher precisioBy comparing that figure with the waves» amplitude at the source, which the researchers can derive from the shape of the signal, and by knowing how the amplitude decreases with distance, which they get from Einstein's theory, they can then calculate the distance of the source to a much higher precisioby knowing how the amplitude decreases with distance, which they get from Einstein's theory, they can then calculate the distance of the source to a much higher precision.

Having signals of different frequencies in the 7 - 15 years band, the amplitude of the signal in the higher band may correspond roughly to the 11 - year signal by accident, but that doesn't mean that there are no other influences.

Furthermore, it's easy to show that band - pass filtering of two unrelated series of random values can produce a range of different values for the ratio of their amplitudes just by chance (Fig. 2).

Specifically, we change the speed of the robotic fish by varying the tail - beat frequency of the robotic fish, while keeping the tail beat amplitude constant.

They are described by way of so - called scattering amplitudes in the framework of quantum field theory.

Multidecadal variability of the continental precipitation annual amplitude driven by AMO and ENSO

By intracellular and whole cell recording in rat brain slices, it was found that bath - applied serotonin (5 - HT) produces an increase in the frequency and amplitude of spontaneous excitatory

I would also include the recent work by Camp and Tung diagnosing the amplitude of the solar cycle in temperature in the «Good» category; that it is an easy paper for greenhouse skeptics to misquote takes away nothing from the quality of the science.

By means of material - dependent measurements over a wide temperature range and with a varied thickness of the employed magnetic material, a direct correlation between the amplitude of the voltage signal and the intrinsic properties of magnons was identified.

This analysis shows that the peak firing rate occurs at about the same instant relative to saccade onset (see Table 1, for further quantification) while the burst duration increases systematically with the preferred amplitude of the cells (indexed by the gray - scaling).

Due to the availability of data from three observing runs separated by ~ 10 and 1 month timescales, we are able to demonstrate clear evidence for evolution of the photometric amplitudes, and hence spot patterns, over the 10 month gap, although we are not able to constrain the timescales for these effects in detail due to limitations imposed by the large gaps in our sampling, preventing use of the phase information.

As in previous figures, we indexed the rostral - to - caudal location of each cell by the amplitude of its preferred vector.

The mean amplitude of the radial modes is 38.1 + / - 1.3 cm / s (2.0 times solar), which is consistent with previous detections from the ground and by the WIRE spacecraft, and also with the upper limit set by the MOST spacecraft.

By combining the small antennas together with adjustable phase and amplitude, the properties of the composite antenna beam can be changed (beamwidth and beam direction).

We indexed the rostral - to - caudal location of each cell in the motor map by the amplitude of its preferred vector.

Confocal fluorescent, confocal scattering images of prostate cancer C4 - 2B (A, B) and stromal HS - 5 (D, E) cells: (A, D)- confocal fluorescent images of AlexaFluor488 conjugated to PSMA antibody, (B, E)- confocal scattering images of gold NPs clusters (shown in red on the green fluorescent background that shows cell tracker dye) and (C, F) the corresponding profiles of scattering signal amplitudes by gold NPs clusters in cells.