Sentences with phrase «of instrumental»

The most commonly used measure of instrumental support is the Diabetes Family Responsibility Questionnaire (Anderson et al., 1990), designed to measure the degree of parent and shared responsibility for diabetes management tasks.

These factors impact on parents» engagement of instrumental services, social support and family coping strategies.

The provider's level of instrumental support provision was associated with his / her own level of situational perspective - taking.

When the support seeker used negative strategies (i.e., complaining, criticizing the partner) to seek support, the support provider provided lower levels of emotional support and higher levels of instrumental and negative support.

When male providers scored higher on situational personal distress, they provided higher levels of instrumental support to their partner.

For male providers, this kind of support provision also showed a link with affective empathy: higher scores on affective empathy (i.e., situational personal distress) were related to the men's provision of higher levels of instrumental support to their female partner.

The provision of instrumental support also showed an association with both cognitive and affective empathy.

In laboratory - based couple interaction studies, providers» level of empathic accuracy (i.e., situational perspective taking) proved to be positively correlated with greater levels of instrumental support [11][12].

Male providers scoring higher on affective empathy (i.e., situational personal distress) provided higher levels of instrumental support.

In their sample CU traits were more strongly predictive of violent delinquency in low - income neighborhoods and of instrumental delinquency in high - income neighborhoods.

Daughters reported that they were satisfied with the amount of instrumental involvement, but that they desired their fathers to be slightly more involved in the developmental and expressive domains.

As predicted, attachment patterns are unrelated to the amount of instrumental care daughters provide.

The author performed hierarchical linear regressions to examine the relationships between attachment dimensions (Security and Anxiety) and the provision of instrumental and emotional care.

Securely and insecurely attached daughters provide comparable amounts of instrumental care to their older mothers.

The release of Bringing Them Home accelerated this process by vividly confronting many church members with the details of the instrumental role played by the churches in the separation of Indigenous children from their families.

♫ Conducted a series of instrumental music education workshops for the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, NY ♫ Received an award for improvising on Beethovan's Symphonies as a tribute to the great musician in a concert marking Beethovan's anniversary ♫ Secured an on - call position with Eastman School of Music for all classical musical projects following excellence in providing classical music educational information ♫ Awarded the Marcia Brown Memorial Scholarship to study music in Berkley Music College

The tacit delicacy of the upper register rendered the electric guitars with a wiry crunch, and the bass was wonky as the speaker seemed to be working overtime in the crinkly realm of the instrumental timbres.

As we've come to expect from a refined pair of planar magnetic headphones, Blue's Ella offer a vivid expression of clean and clear sound wrought with detailed reproduction of instrumental textures, a wide and well - balanced soundstage, and the kind of fluidity and presence in the upper register that traditional dynamic drivers struggle to achieve.

There are exceptions to the broad general scope of the the rights associated with a copyright, such as fair use, but a performance of instrumental music is not itself, in general, fair use.

So are short or ultra short trends «noisy» by virtue of instrumental limitations; or are they noisy because of actual components of the output signal to be measured.

Figure 4 illustrates the situation for the period of the instrumental record starting in 1880.

If you look at a graph of our instrumental temperature records (like this one) you'll see that temperatures seem to bounce around idly until after 1900, at which point a sustained rise becomes apparent.

Tom S (11)-- I urge you to consider the simplified physics in http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/03/unforced-variations-3/comment-page-12/#comment-168530 which explains the last 13 decades of the instrumental record as primarily due to increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Three different sets of monthly climate data was used in this study: Abisko Scientific Research Station (Ab), located in the Torneträsk area; Bottenviken (Bv), which is a regional record of instrumental data from six stations in northern Sweden; and Tornedalen (To), which is a composite record of instrumental and historical climate data.

Hegerl et al. (2006) used a mixture of 14 regional series, of which only 3 were not made up from tree ring data (a Greenland ice O isotope record and two composite series, from China and Europe, including a mixture of instrumental, documentary and other data).

The robustness of the reconstruction equation is verified by independent temperature data and shows that 63 — 64 % of the instrumental inter-annual variation is captured by the tree - ring data.

In addition to the problems that you list in testing the climate models against climate data of the instrumental period they affect certainly also most paleoclimatic studies.

The first step is typically to separate the period of instrumental measurements into two segments: a calibration period and a validation period.

Both the linearity and stationarity assumptions may be checked using the training and validation periods of the instrumental record.

And for estimating the sensitivity of the climate system to GHG and other forcings, using the full length of the instrumental record (from 1850 or 1860) seems best to me; many other scientists have also made this choice.

Recent analyses of instrumental, documentary and proxy climate records, focussing on European temperatures, have also pointed to the unprecedented warmth of the 20th century and shown that the extreme summer of 2003 was very likely warmer than any that has occurred in at least 500 years (Luterbacher et al., 2004; Guiot et al., 2005; see Box 3.6).

Simply using the earliest part of the instrumental series may not be the best choice for validation.

The global temperature increase through the 1990s is certainly rather unusual in terms of the instrumental record ofthe last 150 years or so.

Most of the instrumental - observation constrained studies featured in IPCC reports that give PDFs for ECS peaking at significantly over 2 °C have some identifiable deficiency.

You reference «Climate-gate,» but what specifically impugns the utility of the instrumental records?

However, temperature estimates derived from tetraethers in modern soils from Svalbard, Norway (MAT ≈ — 4 °C) were within 2 °C of instrumental temperature records (MAT ≈ — 6 °C), suggesting that tetraethers are an effective proxy for reconstructing temperatures from paleosols at high latitudes (Peterse et al., 2009).

The point for such a simple model is that it should be accessible to most as a starting point, readily duplicatable on one's own, to provide an approximate understanding of the instrumental record.

CET is not a single continuous set of instrumental temperature readings to 1659 but was the result of a project that sorted a mass of thermometer based temperature readings into a single coherent record covering a specific area of England, many years after the event.

As much of this paper is concerned with instrumental records deriving from thermometers it should be noted that in Chapter 5 of his book» Climate History and the Modern World», Lamb makes many good points about the relatively limited accuracy of instrumental records.

The history of instrumental weather observations in Australia stretches back to European settlement.

Anyway, our paper concluded by suggesting that, in view of the extreme significance of upper - level humidity to the climate change story, the international radiosonde data on upper - level humidity should not be «written off» without a serious attempt at abstracting the best possible humidity signal from within the noise of instrumental and operational changes at each of the relevant radiosonde stations.

If the failure of inter-calibration of instrumental and tree growth records over last two to three decades suggests evidence for anthropogenic influences..., then no reliable quantitative inter-calibration can connect the past to the future (Idso 1989).

The margin of error at the beginning of those instrumental records is about + / - 0.25 C degrees improving to about + / - 0.125 C degrees at present.

That chart includes most of the instrumental records with the + / - 2 sigma range based on GISS NH which is the most variable.

I think the most interesting part of the paper is the failure of the proxies to do a good job predicting short intervals of instrumental temperature.

The global temperature increase through the 1990s is cer - tainly rather unusual in terms of the instrumental record of the last 150 years or so.

So it seems that filtering or not of the instrumental data in this way interacts with «something» that produces a linear long - term trend over the millenium.

«A strong warming trend between 1965 and 1980 raised the global mean temperature in 1980 and 1981 to the highest level in the period of instrumental records.

«The Earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements,» he said.

In the climate wars, many of these claims are wrong (e.g. I've weighed in on the (lack of) merit of ChiefIO's critique of the instrumental temp.