Sentences with phrase «of measurement instruments»

Original measure development, which occurred at the University of Michigan during the period 2002 - 2010, had several goals: to identify the knowledge useful to teachers» work with students and to explore the possibility that this knowledge is unique to teaching; to provide a set of measurement instruments that could be used in research on teachers» knowledge; and to provide evaluators with an easy - to - use online administration and scoring system.

This may be an actual increase in lightning or an increase in the magnitude of lightning, lifting it above the detection threshold of measurement instruments.

Reconstructing temperature or another climate variable from a proxy such as a tree ring parameter has a formal resemblance to the statistical calibration of a measurement instrument.

Therefore, we argue that our findings are not merely an artifact of the measurement instrument, but also need to be explained in terms of infant, parental and environmental variables influencing parental stress.

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Using average daily yields for these instruments by calendar month (a smoothed measurement) and contemporaneous monthly closes of the S&P 500 Index for April 1953 through March 2016 (756 months), we find that: Keep Reading

This is a necessary consequence of this theory, since the measurement of time is only possible if there is some change of state taking place, whether this change is in the process being measured or in the instrument of measurement itself.

The ISEW is a very crude instrument for the measurement of economic welfare.

When scientists frame human beings as neural machines, recall the hyper - rational rulers of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels, whose instruments of measurement fail utterly to capture the whole person and turn the rationalists themselves into twisted souls.

But I do realize that the atheist rant is pointless, especially where it tries to argue from an empirical / scientific standpoint because spirituality isn't about trying to figure things out from the outside in through research and data collection — it's when we see things from the inside out and the only valid instrument of measurement is our own being.

The BICEP2 instrument can not distinguish the cosmic contribution from other sources directly, so, measurements of galactic dust collected by other sources, such as the Planck satellites were used.

Kalle recently purchased an instrument to test the measurement of ATP.

Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»

The LIGO and Virgo Observatories have just be-gun taking measurements, and the sensitivity of the instruments will continue to increase over the next few years and provide even better observational data.

But so overwhelming was the flood of data and so unprepared were the Americans for unusually low measurements that, fearing an instrument glitch, it was initially overlooked.

Fisher and her colleagues found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature readings from LRO's Diviner instrument with brightness measurements from the spacecraft's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA.

Titled «Measurements of Galactic Cosmic Ray Shielding with the CRaTER Instrument,» the work is based on observations made by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) on board the LRO spacecraft.

The instrument conducted systematic measurements of these gases for seven months, which allowed the team to understand how these gases are supplied to the exosphere, and how they are ultimately lost.

NASA began taking passive - microwave measurements of sea ice in 1972, using an instrument aboard its Nimbus - 5 satellite.

Farmer helped craft the original measurement requirements that would drive instrument development and, with his students and post docs, carried out terrestrial analog studies to help reveal what could be learned in support of exopaleontology.

The Subaru Measurements of Images and Redshifts (SuMIRe) project, which involves collaborations with Princeton University, the California Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institutes, and other research organizations from Japan, Taiwan, and Brazil, has already completed its first instrument — a three - ton imaging camera — that will allow for a «cosmic census» of each galaxy.

«The various groups took a lot of different measurements using state - of - the - art instruments we each had developed.»

But Ames astronomer Audrey Summers and I started with Rosenblatt's paper, made some corrections to it, and then asked ourselves what kind of instrument would be required to take the measurements.

A heavily instrumented ground site downwind of Manaus captured measurements of aerosols, clouds, and solar and thermal energy during GoAmazon.

«We find the conditions for brines to be produced, but if you want to measure them directly you need some other kind of measurement,» he says, such as an instrument that can look for changes in electrical conductivity.

«Our result is that there is no fundamental problem,» said Steve Ertel of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, instrument scientist for the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer and lead author on the paper, «The HOSTS Survey — Exo - Zodiacal Dust Measurements for 30 Stars,» which is published in the in the Astronomical Journal.

These include instruments that make measurements of temperatures, magnetic fields, and electrical conductivity of the comet surface.

From in situ measurements made over a 20 - month period by the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on Curiosity at Gale Crater, we report detection of background levels of atmospheric methane of mean value 0.69 ± 0.25 ppbv at the 95 % confidence interval (CI).

Called AmazonFACE (Free - Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment), it's based on a simple idea: For 12 years, researchers will spray pure CO2 into instrumented plots in the rainforest northwest of Manaus, Brazil, raising ambient concentrations to 600 parts per million — a level the world could reach as early as 2050 — all the while taking meticulous measurements to determine how the gas affects the growth of plants.

Two commercial in - situ instruments and an infrared instrument of the worldwide measurement network NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change) were applied for this purpose.

The new instrument, developed by NIST chemists Adam Fleisher and David Long and based on a technology called cavity ringdown spectroscopy (CRDS), promises to dramatically reduce the cost of those measurements.

As superb as these maps are, they are only the beginning — these contain less than 10 percent of the measurements that MOLA can potentially collect during the Global Surveyor mapping mission, and the MOLA instrument is collecting about 900,000 measurements of elevation every day.

Climate researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) gather the data required by in - situ measurements as well as by using remote sounding instruments, e.g. on board of satellites.

From the leading scientists at Bologna, Cassini learned the importance of using high - quality instruments to make the most precise measurements possible.

This version of FOXSI will use new hardware to eliminate much of the background noise that the instrument sees, allowing for even more precise measurements.

«You want a complete set of instruments to make measurements simultaneously so you can correlate all the results,» says Robert Mitchell, the Cassini program manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

One instrument, the Relativistic Proton Spectrometer (RPS), has been providing previously unavailable particle measurements of high accuracy within the heart of the inner radiation belts.

In addition to the observations with the SINFONI instrument the team has also made a long series of measurements of the polarisation of the light coming from the supermassive black hole region using the NACO instrument on the VLT.

Outfitted with specialised instruments, the buoy functions as an unmanned research platform for continuous measurements of solar radiation absorption and other critical properties of Arctic snow and ice.

Using all the measurements from Cassini's dust - counting instrument since the spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, Kempf and colleagues showed that the still - bright rings collect too much dust pollution to have maintained their youthful shine for billions of years.

Researchers from Norway and China have collaborated on developing an autonomous buoy with instruments that can more precisely measure the optical properties of Arctic sea ice while also taking measurements of ice thickness and temperature.

The Hectospec instrument on the MMT enables measurements of redshifts for 250 galaxies at a time.

The new measurement is a high - precision count of two forms of argon gas — Argon - 36 and Argon -38-accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity.

Combined with measurements from an instrument aboard NASA's Calipso satellite — another member of the A-Train — the data from Glory's APS will allow scientists to understand how different types of aerosols are distributed throughout the layers of the atmosphere.

And already, 11 science instruments on the Rosetta orbiter have been taking measurements of 67P's coal - black, organic - rich crust.

Redefining the atomic second to conform to current day length «would alter the value of every physical measurement and render obsolete every instrument related to time,» write Beard and his coauthors in their review.

Similar measurements are currently provided by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS); however, this instrument is on a satellite that is in low - earth orbit, which means it is unable to track changes in lightning activity over the lifetime of a storm.

The extremely small size of the spectrometer, 30 x 1.5 x 1.5 millimeters, means that measurements can be taken using an instrument the size of a matchbox.

Researchers from The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have developed and demonstrated a process for continuous electron density measurement of the previously under - explored D region of the ionosphere — a part of the atmosphere that previously could only be sensitively probed by short - lived rocket - borne instruments.

The motor — still working today after 6.5 million pivots — helped Voyager 1 scientists improvise measurements of the solar wind when a dedicated instrument failed.