Sentences with phrase «of background source»

Pictured in the centre of the image is the strong lens galaxy, whose mass is responsible for the deflection of the background source's light.

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Additionally, as this story was publishing, the AP reported, citing unnamed sources, that the Office of Personnel Management suffered a second, separate data breach of security clearance data that has exposed the sensitive background information of as many as 2.9 million military and intelligence personnel, including members of the National Security Agency, CIA, military special operations.

In background conversations, multiple sources identified the second company — the provider of social media services — as Facebook.

A Conservative party source speaking on background said Harper was in contact with his chief of staff, Guy Giorno, and communications director Kory Teneycke, the officials behind the idea, while he was in Europe last week.

We make use of unnamed sources and conversations on background because they can be more informative.

«It is part of the background for what many of us think now, for it has entered into the background rather than being a source of new ideas today.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

What's so wrong with picking and choosing certain ideas from multiple different backgrounds and sources to create a set of principles and doctrines that works for you individually or your small community of spiritual colleagues?

One source that really provided some background details for my study was a series of blog posts by Ron Goetz on gays and lesbians in Luke.

His book suggests a background of foreboding about our present political culture, turning to the South Dakota struggle for statehood in order to identify sources for renewal.

It would be well to conclude this brief survey of some of the most significant recent theories in source analysis with the judgment of Aage Bentzen.6 It is of first importance, he states, that we understand the «import of tile «old school,» so that continuity in science can be seen and the new points of view get their true background.

In the background of Niebuhr's analysis there is Kierkegaard's view of anxiety as the source of man's temptation to pride and the flight from the self.

Briefly put, my argument is (1) the condition of religious pluralism prevents any one religion from being used by all people as a source of generalized meaning, but (2) people nevertheless need to invest their activity with meaning, especially when that activity brings together persons of diverse religious background.

A third group, becoming ever more visible, thanks to historians like Timothy Smith and Donald Dayton, reminds us that much of the social, experiential and even theological background of today's evangelicalism never was Reformed scholastic, as in the Princeton school, but derives from Arminian, Wesleyan, holiness and Keswickian sources.

It is easy, of course, once a conceptual dualism of this kind has been established, to argue that culture can not be understood sociologically unless it is «explained» in terms of social structure — unless the «sources» or «causes» of religious beliefs are located within such obdurate features of the social world as class interests, power relations, social networks, family backgrounds, and the like.

Carly's nutritional and fitness knowledge, combined with a professional background in journalism, lends her a unique skill set of reporting unbiased, science - backed information from credible sources.

4) Bring along a source of soothing background noise for baby's room: baby's nighttime cd's, a sleep sounds app for your mobile device, or sound machine.

Bring along a source of soothing background noise for baby's room: baby's night - time cd's, a sleep sounds app for your mobile device, or sound machine.

According to several sources who spoke only on background, citing the private nature of Monday's conference, all nine senators from Long Island voted for Flanagan, as did three senators who represent parts of New York City.

A source in the borough president's office who would speak only on background said Katz's office did not learn of the plans until Wednesday when the union released its response.

One Senate - coalition source, talking on background, said, «The governor has 30 million reasons to make sure no one takes a close look at any of his dealings, and he's gonna fight any legitimate attempt to do so.»

I do a lot of interviews, most on background, because many of my sources fear retaliation for talking to me.

In that situation, the process would be very similar to that of the minority state Senate Democrats, said a source close to the IDC, who spoke on background in order to discuss a hypothetical situation in which the conference meets and selects its new leader.

DEVELOPING: SENATOR STILL TRYING TO FIND VOTES FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS... Behind - the - scenes dealing over reviving stalled gun control legislation will get a push next week when Sen. Joe Manchin, a strong proponent of expanding background checks, plans to meet individually with lawmakers, a Senate source BACKGROUND CHECKS... Behind - the - scenes dealing over reviving stalled gun control legislation will get a push next week when Sen. Joe Manchin, a strong proponent of expanding background checks, plans to meet individually with lawmakers, a Senate source background checks, plans to meet individually with lawmakers, a Senate source tells CNN.

«Goodwin's book is both a good example of how detailed investigation of a minor party can reveal much new about the sources of its support and motivations of its members, and also an extremely useful background guide for anyone wanting to fight elections successfully against the BNP.»

By use of Wikipedia, personal websites and the Party website as sources, I was able to ascertain all of their academic backgrounds.

Finkbeiner speculates the source may be electrons given off by dark matter in our galaxy or extraneous emission that accompanied the release of the microwave background in the primordial universe.

«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.

They're called virtual particles, and the energy associated with the background hum of their constant appearance and disappearance became the way in which we understand the source of repulsive vacuum energy.

Low background atmospheric concentrations, together with well - known and often distinct isotopic characteristics (variants of lead with different atomic weights) of industrial sources make lead an ideal tracer of industrial pollution.

«So against the background of the rapidly growing use of leisure boats and other sources of noise in the marine environment, it is important to understand how fish are affected by noise.»

To put these numbers in perspective, the average person encounters 360 millirems of annual «background radiation» from natural and man - made sources, including substances in Earth's crust, cosmic rays, residue from nuclear tests and smoke detectors.

Background Architects and engineers must design buildings to withstand a variety of forces, some stronger than others, from many sources: gravity, people inside, weight of building materials, weather and environmental impacts.

Since our radiometer employed an absolute reference, it was possible to obtain absolute background data from the reference region observed around each of the 29 sources investigated that day.

In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs particle, and possible new particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy density.

Besides identifying the source of the background, observers want to measure the glow at shorter wavelengths, determine how it has varied with the age of the universe and look for fluctuations.

Taking into account natural background radiation, medical procedures and other sources, people in the U.S. encounter an average of about 6.5 millisieverts per year.

Without a background check, felons, those convicted of domestic violence crimes, and others who are prohibited from purchasing a firearm can avoid screening measures by purchasing firearms from sources other than licensed retailers.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

Computer scientists aiming to improve computer speech recognition need to enhance the ability of machines to achieve «source separation,» the ability to distinguish and make sense of several voices talking at the same time even in the presence of background noise (although a phenomenon Maye has not researched herself).

The Abstract is distinct from the main body of the text, and thus should not be the only source of background information critical to understanding the manuscript.

«We need to be much more aware of the impact that this noise might have on children,» Newman said, «and make a point of trying to turn off background television, background radio, background noise sources for at least some of the time when we're interacting with our children, to give them the best opportunity to learn from that input.»

This background consists of gravitational waves from a large number of sources that overlap with one another, together yielding a broad spectrum of frequencies.

In this study, the researchers gave 10 developers of varying backgrounds a specific security tool and a substantial chunk of open - source code to examine.

By comparing this fingerprint to the geochemical and isotopic profiles of 29 background surface water samples collected across the region, the team was able to determine where and to what extent contamination associated with brine spills had occurred, and rule out the possibility that it had been caused by other sources.

The extragalactic infrared background represents all of the infrared light from all of the sources in the universe, «and there were some hints we didn't know where it was all coming from.»

«Before we had this capability, we could not detect the numerous faint sources that produce much of the background emission,» he added.

These cosmic lenses are massive objects that can bend the path of light passing by them, making sources of light in the background look distorted from the point of view of telescopes on Earth.

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.