Sentences with phrase «of background signals»

After painstakingly removing multiple sources of background signals, the team was left with a neutrino flux of 66 billion per square centimeter per second, close to the standard solar model prediction of 60 billion, they report online today in Nature.

Slides stained only with the secondary antibody (to determine the threshold of background signal).

Bryan Gaensler, an astrophysicist at the University of Toronto, said that as this debris expands, the properties of this background signal should change.

If all five of these things hold up, we'd need a heck of a background signal to just hold T steady.

This may be right — but it is by no way obviously right, since there is no real validation of the background signal by the models.

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«Given (new CEO Christian Sewing's) background in credit risk and commercial banking it could be seen as a signal of a move from investment banking,» Colin McLean, managing director at SVM Asset Management, told CNBC in an email.

«Read through Zhang's apology and it is quickly apparent that this is a mea culpa made under extreme political pressure, in which Zhang, an engineer by background, ticks the necessary ideological boxes to signal his intention to fall into line,» David Bandurski, co-director of the China Media Project, wrote on the site.

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It is possible, against a background of increasing inflation and a strengthening labour market, that the survey is signalling some pick - up in underlying wage pressures, but at this stage the extent of any such pick - up is difficult to assess.

But C.D. Howe Institute research vice president Finn Poschmann said Poloz's background as head of Export Development Canada could signal a shift in the central bank's focus from monetary policy alone to encompass broader issues.

I. Background of the Dialogue between Process Thinkers and Evangelicals The publication of Pinnock's Theological Crossfire (1990) signaled a significant change in the tenor of evangelical responses to process thought.

Both quarterbacks come from the same football - rich territory around Pittsburgh that laps into Ohio and has produced a number of outstanding signal - callers, including Namath (Beaver Falls, Pa.) and Kelly (East Brady, Pa.), and from solid Catholic family backgrounds with strong father figures.

Trump signaled a willingness to expand background checks and raise the age to buy certain firearms in the wake of the Parkland shooting, but he walked back some of those positions after meeting with NRA leaders.

Signal - To - Noise Ratio (SNR): Sounds complicated but it is actually pretty simple: SNR measures the level of your audio to the level of unwanted background noise that any speaker makes.

While the latter has a reputation for being hard to isolate, she explains that even degraded RNA generally contains enough intact sequence to analyze — provided investigators can detect the scarce tumor signals against the immense background of other RNA molecules in a sample.

«Measurements of the extragalactic background radiation are always hard to get, because this signal is very faint and, as a result, its detection is strongly dependent on how well one can remove the sources of contamination,» says Angelica De Oliveira - Costa, an expert on cosmic background observations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

These are physiological measuring systems, but they still involve a lot of signal processing and computing that I felt comfortable with given my engineering background.

Other astronomers say the method of pulling faint planetary signals out of background noise needs to be verified.

A particular combination that appears more often than expected from other, «background» processes may signal the presence of the Higgs.

To claim a Higgs discovery, physicists need to extract from this mess the gold standard signal — one with a statistical significance of 5 sigma, meaning the chance of producing it from background events alone is less than one in a million.

The strength of the signal, direction, name and security level on these are translated into an audio stream made up of a foreground and background layer: distant signals click and pop like hits on a Geiger counter, while the strongest bleat their network ID in a looped melody.

In its importance for our understanding of — well, everything — measuring such a signal would be even more revolutionary than mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the relic light from when the early universe first cooled to transparency some 380,000 years after the big bang.

There are some disadvantages, he says, to a system that uses a cap instead of a device implanted directly in the brain, such as the background signals that the cap might pick up.

These gravitational waves we will to detect will almost be the size of visible universe, but we mean, they'll produce signatures, temperature — well, in this case, the polarization of the microwave background — signatures which are at the level, well, the next generation, the best we can imagine doing is getting a 1 [percent] admixture of a signal from gravitational waves compared to the signal of the temperature fluctuations that we, kind of, measure in the universe.

The faraway galaxies» infrared signal gets lost in the much brighter infrared glow of Earth's atmosphere, says Glazebrook, who helped develop a novel technique to subtract the background and to study the faint galaxies spectroscopically.

One of their keys to success depends on avoiding background that could mimic the signal of neutrinoless double - beta decay.

The result is a mixture of background sequences that record time and signal sequences that change depending on the cell's environment.

«A very careful re-check of data from that station showed a signal, almost buried in the background noise but consistent with what was recorded on the IMOS recorder off Rottnest,» Dr Duncan said.

Finding the Higgs boson is a question of seeing a signal against a background.

The detectors are struck regularly by cosmic rays, which can mimic the annihilation signal, so narrowing the window of time in which matter — antimatter annihilations should be taking place significantly reduces the background noise the physicists must sift through to identify genuine annihilation events.

The 38 annihilation signals detected by ALPHA were well above the expected background of 1.4 occurrences, strongly indicating that antihydrogen atoms were indeed slamming into the trap walls after being released from confinement.

Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were false alarms because they signaled the potential occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.

Detectors buried deep within a mine registered two potential signals of dark matter, but either or both could have been background noise

But it turns out we can actually indirectly measure gravity waves by looking out at the cosmic microwave background that's come to us from the big bang and imprinted in there, it turns out for reasons I think I won't talk about here, [is] a signal maybe of the big bang and I've just, in fact, written a bit about how you might be able to entangle that signal.

The researchers found that when the animals were paying attention to an area within their field of view, the signal strength through corresponding synapses leading into the cortex became more effective, and the signal was boosted relative to background noise.

With this novel new detector, PHENIX will be able to separate direct photons from sources of background that would otherwise overwhelm the signal.»

Simon reckons the predictable echo signal of the disc - shaped leaf might help bats find Marcgravia flowers against the random and variable echo background of the rainforest.

«The only source of noise is the cosmic microwave background,» says Tarter, referring to remnant radiation from the big bang, whose signal has been well studied.

The nearly 6 - minute video, complete with background music, presents a series of still shots of over 60 allegedly duplicated and manipulated images in 24 papers, including 19 instances in a single publication, by a group led by molecular signaling specialist Shigeaki Kato of the University of Tokyo's Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.

The ATA can observe a wide range of wavelengths, so it can check stars in the foreground for ETI signals while it watches background galaxies for clouds of atomic hydrogen.

This background signal makes it harder for surgeons to see signal being emitted from the structure of interest.

The researchers noted in today's (Mar. 27) issue of Scientific Reports that «Both the models and observations suggest this signal has only recently emerged from the background noise of natural variability.»

«Only after we performed multiple cross-checks did we start to believe that the signal we saw could not be explained by backgrounds or known processes, but was evidence of a new particle.»

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has always looked for an anomaly in the persistent cosmic background chatter — a change perhaps in the intensity of a signal that can be taken as a sign that a transmission might be a message to us earthlings from other intelligent beings.Each year, medical researchers who gather at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference search for something similar as they weigh reports of the complex biology of the human brain for some sign that a drug might actually change the relentless course of the disease.

«One of the hurdles in doing this with light is that materials that are able to mix optical signals also tend to have very strong background signals as well.

«There's about a one - in - 12 chance that what we're seeing in the dwarf galaxies is not even a signal at all, just a fluctuation in the gamma - ray background,» explained Elliott Bloom, a member of the LAT Collaboration at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.

An understanding of how these noise features differentially affect signal encodings along the auditory pathway would require further experiments utilizing a broader set of background noises.

The brain does not have direct access to; instead, when the sound is produced at a particular amplitude -LRB--RRB- and is heard against a background of other sounds -LRB--RRB-, the signal that the ear actually receives is the sound mixture.

To provide records for the global background signal of greenhouse gases and climate change, we will investigate areas largely unaffected by methane and use them as control areas.

But LIGO saw only just over one cycle of the Event's ringdown waves before the signal became buried once more in the background noise — not yet enough data to provide a rigorous test of Vishveshwara's predictions.