Sentences with phrase «of measurement techniques»

The review includes an up to date review of measurement techniques for assessing noise from wind turbines in accordance with international standards.
Here, we know that older records are relatively unreliable (obtained often as convenience samples from ships using a variety of measurement techniques).
These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.
The group uses a variety of measurement techniques such as sonic anemometers, hot wires, snow particle counters and shadowgraphy, which involves illuminating the flow with snow particles from one side of the tunnel — the walls are made of glass — and obtaining images with a high - speed camera from the other side.
Instead, Guth suggests the paradox could just be an artefact of the measurement technique, since the exponential nature of eternal inflation means that newer universes will always be more common than older ones.
The belief that the high precision of FNI allows to overcome this limitation is an illusion, because the limitation is of logical nature and not caused by insufficient precision of a measurement technique.

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The technique can be applied in service and retail settings as readily as in manufacturing, although measurement of quality will be achieved differently.
Measurement of Hydrodynamic Growth near Peak Velocity in an Inertial Confinement Fusion Capsule Implosion using a Self - Radiography Technique
The Milkbar book, with precise measurements and descriptions of how / why certain ingredients are used really helped me gain confidence and learn technique.
So, although I made some pretty significant changes to my version of the cookies (mainly in relation to technique, measurements, ingredients I had on hand), they were certainly inspired by Patricia and Carolyn's version.
Milk suppliers in Kerry and Limerick facilitated on farm visits which provided the students with an excellent overview of grassland management techniques and training on grass measurement.
I love the idea of a cookbook being about ideas instead of hard - and - fast measurements and techniques; cooking should be about letting the food inspire you.
To this day, we continue to study baby's skin of all types, using non-invasive measurement techniques and clinical assessments by dermatologists and pediatricians.
This includes an oral assessment, weight and length measurements of the infant and an observation of a complete feeding both to evaluate technique and effectiveness of feeding.
Using this technique, scientists have measurements for 11 Milky Way satellite galaxies, eight of which are orbiting in a tight disk perpendicular to the spiral galaxy's plane.
But at the SuperSTEM facility, we are fortunate in being right at the cutting edge of our area, so almost everything we do is new both for the measurement technique and the science around the sample - protecting us from encountering that slightly snooty attitude.
Important questions yet to be resolved include the details of obtaining and confirming a target warhead during the zero - knowledge measurement; specifics of establishing and maintaining the pre-loaded detectors in a way that ensures inspecting party confidence without revealing any data considered sensitive by the inspected party; and feasibility questions associated with safely deploying active interrogation measurement techniques on actual nuclear warheads in sensitive physical environments, in a way that provides confidence to both the inspected and inspecting parties.
At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), scientists have assembled a large database of detailed measurements of the two dimensional (2 - D) structure of edge plasma turbulence made visible by a diagnostic technique known as gas puff imaging.
As astronomers presented new planetary measurements and observing techniques at the conference, Kepler engineers in California were strategizing about how to remotely repair one of two broken reaction wheels that precisely point the telescope.
The team made the refinements by developing innovative techniques that improved the precision of distance measurements to faraway galaxies.
Meanwhile the light - subtracting techniques may improve measurements of other phenomena, such as large - scale galaxy motions and the expansion of the universe.
He adds that the technique will improve measurements of astronomical distances, which build on the distances of nearby objects such as M33 to estimate the distances to other «standard candles» farther away, such as supernovae.
A second technique called asteroseismology — the measurement of tiny oscillations in the star's brightness — revealed Kepler 444's size, mass and impressive age, which researchers say provides billions of more years for ancient extraterrestrial life to have taken hold somewhere out there.
UC Santa Barbara geophysicist Zachary Eilon and his co-author Geoff Abers at Cornell University have conducted new research — using a novel measurement technique — that has revealed a strong signal of seismic attenuation or energy loss at the mid-ocean ridge where the Juan de Fuca Plate is created.
Cuffey developed a technique to combine these temperature measurements, which are smoothed as a result of heat diffusion in the ice, with isotopic measurements of old ice to come up with an estimated temperature of 11.3 degrees, plus or minus 1.8 degrees Celsius, warming since the depths of the ice age.
JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of near - instant visual art.
«Notably, this progression has been largely invisible to previous work because its primary antecedents occur behind closed doors, out of view of many measurement techniques
Using a new imaging measurement technique the impact of therapeutic treatments and rehabilitative interventions can be now determined more quickly and directly than before.
«Studying these fingerprints in detail requires very precise measurements of the wavelength, or colour, of the light emerging from the atmospheres of these stars» says Dr Matthew Bainbridge, who has been working on the detailed analysis techniques needed to detect the tiny changes expected.
Use of the new measurement technique might allow for quicker flood warnings in mountain regions.
«So we could use this material and measurement technique for locally probing nanoscale activity of proteins that exists in cell membrane with high sensitivity.»
Crucially, the JILA team verified the stability of the technique by using the two lasers to make two separate, independent measurements of a single sample.
Typically, stability measurements can only be carried out on a single, purified protein, but Fitzgerald's group has spent the last decade perfecting a technique that can determine the stabilities of complex mixtures of proteins — up to hundreds or even thousands of proteins at once.
In a paper published in Nature Methods, postdoctoral fellows Naomi Habib, Inbal Avraham - Davidi, and Anindita Basu; core institute members Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev; and their colleagues reveal DroNc - Seq, a single - cell expression profiling technique that merges sNuc - Seq with microfluidics, allowing massively parallel measurement of gene expression in structurally - complicated tissues.
Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute, one of Kirshner's disciples, devised a statistical technique to extract that measurement.
The research team conclude that there is positive evidence for the use of tDCS to aid stroke recovery but caution that the technique must be proved to have long term benefits not only in clinical measurements but also in the ability to carry out tasks important to daily life.
Hours before the stories appeared on 13 and 14 May, White House science adviser John Holdren told an audience in Washington, D.C., that «you can't make direct flow measurements» of the gusher but failed to mention the satellite or video techniques.
In addition, my collaborators from France performed measurements of stable mercury isotopes — a novel and powerful technique that allowed us to fingerprint various sources of mercury in the environment.
According to Nyssa Silbiger, lead author of the study and doctoral candidate at HIMB, this novel technique provides a more accurate measurement of accretion and erosion rates.
And several veteran seismologists and earth scientists who spoke with ScienceInsider said they were not familiar with the now - famous researcher or his work, and they expressed skepticism that his much - publicized measurements of radon gas offered a reliable predictive technique for earthquakes.
The model is based on measurements of odorants by means of the analytical technique PTR - MS.
Aalto University researchers have developed a measurement technique called Scanning Droplet Adhesion Microscopy (SDAM) to understand and characterize the wetting properties of superhydrophobic materials.
«We need to use modern measurement techniques to improve our understanding of material response,» Panerai said.
By using state - of - the - art laser measurement techniques, the research team found that the sound - producing areas on the wings of grigs are in fact the same as in bush - crickets.
These techniques minimize the effects of environmental noise and allow us to make much more sensitive temperature measurements
By means of the new technique the highly variable sensory response from the human nose may be predicted based on the more precise chemical measurement of odorants.
The measured uncertainty in location capability was 16 meters, much higher than the target of 3 meters, but this metric can be improved through future noise suppression techniques, increased sensor bandwidth, and improved digital algorithms that can accurately extract distance measurements, Howe explained.
Although other volatiles were previously detected in the lunar volcanic glasses and melt inclusions, the measurement of carbon remained elusive due to the high detection limits of the available analytical techniques.
It is great that we can combine the results of different techniques, chemical analytics, electrophysiological measurements, imaging methods and last but not least behavioral assays.
Verification was a result of the combination of state - of - the - art chemical analytic techniques, physiological measurements in the fly brain, and behavioral assays.
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