Sentences with phrase «of observational methods»

We now have an array of observational methods to evaluate the quality of the infant - parent attachment relationship by the age of 18 months, before the onset of more serious behaviour problems.16 Service providers in contact with young families need more training in using and interpreting these early observational tools.

You can stop by to see her and all the other great presenters in a poster panel about different types of observational methods in informal learning spaces — organized by Aaron Price — from 10:35 a - 12:05 on Saturday, April 29th in room 221 D (meeting room level).

The display pits works Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Euan Uglow — champions of the observational method — against inventive masterminds such as Francis Bacon, Peter Blake and Hew Locke.

Not exact matches

7 What I have just said is what I take to be the broad, intuitive idea behind Whitehead's highly technical effort to expose the observational import of «point» via the method of extensive abstraction.

The performance of different propensity - score methods for estimating differences in proportions (risk differences or absolute risk reductions) in observational studies.

Although their study employs statistically rigorous methods of analysis, the researchers caution that their results are based on observational data.

Because the researchers conducted an observational study at a single site, their findings suggest but do not prove a cause - and - effect relationship between the Early Test program's methods and decreased incidence of HIV.

The $ 1.6 - billion IDECS design has two types of detectors and would use all three observational methods on a 1.5 - metre telescope.

When the study began in the 1970s family therapists favored observational methods rather than self reporting of family behaviors.

Methods: Researchers Drs. Samson M. Hagos and L. Ruby Leung, atmospheric scientists at PNNL, surveyed tropical divergence in three global climate models, three global reanalyses (models corrected with observational data), and four sets of field campaign soundings.

The main body of contents is composed of scientific papers on the various aspects of seismology, including: investigation of specific earthquakes, theoretical and observational studies of seismic waves; inverse methods for determining the structure of the earth or the dynamics of the earthquake source; seismometry; earthquake hazard and risk estimation; seismotectonics; earthquake engineering; paleoseismology; tsunami studies.

From the analyses of this newly derived relation and observational data of NGC 6791 and NGC 6819 we devise a method in which all stars in a cluster are regarded as one entity to determine the cluster distance modulus.

Her dissertation, New frontiers for diagnosing the turbulent nature of the multiphase magnetized medium, described innovative methods for measuring turbulence in a magnetized interstellar medium by connecting theoretical, computational, and observational results.

We make use of measurements of dEBs in the c... ▽ More The open clusters in the Kepler and CoRoT fields potentially provide tight constraints for tests of stellar models and observational methods because they allow a combination of complementary methods.

Methods: WGS of MRSA isolates sent to a regional microbiological laboratory was performed as part of a 12 - month prospective observational study.

Abstract: The open clusters in the Kepler and CoRoT fields potentially provide tight constraints for tests of stellar models and observational methods because they allow a combination of complementary methods.

Evaluations should not be based exclusively on test scores but should — as a new agreement in New York State affirms — use a combination of evaluation methods that include test scores and other observational methods.

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

Schools can assess school climate in a variety of ways — for example, using focus groups; observational methods; interviews; town hall discussions; study circles; participatory action research; and student, staff, and family surveys.

In Research Use In District Decision - Making; A Methodological Approach, Coburn presented an analytic approach, rooted in observational work and new methods of analysis, to understand how the role of framing, specifically diagnostic and prognostic framing, influences the way research is incorporated in district decision making.

The teacher also conducts an observational assessment with David using intuitive icons to record observations of the student's problem - solving methods.

His current research centers on the development of methods that support rigorous and efficient observational, quasi-experimental and experimental designs in education and social sciences with a specific focus on multilevel structures such as those commonly seen in schooling (e.g., students nested within schools).

As teacher educators and teachers, we are well aware of the importance of accountability for our students» literacy learning, and while we were convinced of our students» success based on observational and descriptive data from our pilot studies, we knew that a systematic study evaluating students» progress in reading, writing, discussion, and content learning — using experimental methods — would be potentially more convincing to others.

I spent about five years living in China (on and off) between 2007 and 2014, and this observational method of research was ongoing throughout that time.

Infectious disease epidemiologist specializing in the intersection between mathematical models of disease transmission and observational methods.

In order to confirm such findings, future cross-cultural studies on dogs should combine the use of surveys with observational methods.

I still find it hard to comprehend how anyone can justify teaching a dog through pain, force and fear, when decades of research and a mountain of scientific and observational evidence continues to prove how destructive these methods can be.

Not strictly representative, yet not fully abstracted either, her work is a combination of expressive and observational methods.

This course introduces the materials, methods, and tools of oil painting while students develop observational painting skills.

Using the grid method is a nice compromise between the speed of tracing, and the observational muscle building you get drawing by eye.

Now, there's nothing wrong with making mistakes when pursuing an innovative observational method, but Spencer and Christy sat by for most of a decade allowing — indeed encouraging — the use of their data set as an icon for global warming skeptics.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Applying the same logic, any of the 20th Century History runs which exhibited similar abrupt shifts (Southern Ocean sea - ice, Tibetan plateau snow melt and N Atlantic convection) which were not observed in the real - world, should have also been excluded from the ensemble mean for Marvel et al to have any hope of credibly extending inferences to real - world observational data — even if we suspend disbelief with respect to other problems associated with data, methods and relevance.

I discuss observational campaigns to discover rocky exoplanets, theoretical methods to predict their potential habitability, and prospects for the remote detection of life.

Whether you are gullible enough to accept the figures as accurate depends on how much credibility you put in the multitude of observational measurements taken by different methods over many decades by diverse groups of researchers that form a strong consilience of mutually supporting evidence for the validity of the estimates and the possible errors.

Progress in the longer term depends on identifying and correcting model biases, accumulating as complete a set of historic observations as possible, and developing improved methods of detection and correction of observational biases.»

A series of sensitivity tests show that our detection results are robust to observational data coverage change, interpolation methods, influence of natural climate variability on observations, and different model sampling (see Supplementary Information).

The raw MIT model, observational and AOGCM control run data was processed to match the specifications of the three diagnostics before the statistical inference methods were applied.

The program will include all aspects and methods of model development from deterministic numerics to stochastic forcing; process modelling to parametrization; observational constraints to diagnostic techniques; idealized modelling to operational forecasting and climate predictions.

You are saying in the same range there are instances of climate inappropriate to conventional observational methods.

Carbon budgets have been estimated by a number of different methods, including complex ESMs (shown in yellow), simple climate models employed by Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs, shown in red), and by using observational data on emissions and warming through present to «constrain» the ESM results (shown in blue).

In one method, a statistical analysis of observational records was performed (using the KNMI Climate Explorer) to compare this summer's heat with summers during the early part of the century, before global warming played a significant role in our climate.

Anybody with an education in the sciences can tell when a credentialed charlatan is violating scientific method, «cherry - picking» data, manipulating computer simulations (climate models) to «draw the curve, then plot the points,» concealing his raw observational data sets from properly skeptical examiners, corrupting academic peer review (both to suppress the publication of colleagues» studies casting doubt upon the reviewing officers» pet hypotheses and to ensure that the submissions of «The Team» do not suffer impediments to publication), and concerting all these violations of professional ethical standards by way of back - room confabs and some of the most incredibly stupid e-mails this side of Enron's «Smartest Guys in the Room.»

Improvements were made to the statistical method, including the use of high resolution AMSR - E sea ice concentration data, a time - domain filter of five days that reduces observational noise, and a space - domain selection that neglects the outer seasonal ice zones.

We applied the same method used in the observational analysis on general circulation model data to decrease the statistical uncertainty at the expense of an increased systematic uncertainty.

This will facilitate the creation of targeted observational networks, provide test beds for reconstruction methods, and enable comparisons with paleoclimate model simulations.

In the long term, the PAGES 2k community recommends the continued development of methods that incorporate network, observational, and chronological uncertainty into quantitative estimates of past climate variability, including approaches that allow for quantitative calibration and validation of low - frequency variability.

The skill of the downscaling methods generally depended on reanalysis and gridded observational dataset.

«In conclusion, the detection of the global temperature response to greenhouse gas increases is robust to 22 model and observational uncertainty, and methods applied to detect it.

It is doubtful that any method of global infilling of temperatures based on the limited observational coverage available in the second half of the 19th century or (to a decreasing extent) during the first half of the 20th century is very reliable.