Sentences with phrase «old observations of»

Digging through old observations of galaxies, astronomers have discovered X-ray flares from objects they can't yet identify

A team led by Alfred Vidal - Madjar and Roger Ferlet of the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris has reanalysed old observations of the star β Pictoris and uncovered a mysterious fluctuation in the star's brightness that could be caused by a planet passing across its surface.

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But, even at the end of the period of observation, the median after - tax adjusted income of the older population was still 80 per cent of that of the prime age population.

One U.S. elite felt that older Americans» observation of the political incident of 1989 in Beijing could also influence how they viewed China.

Few of the top ten participants in the new horizontal computer industry rose from the ranks of the old vertical computer industry, bearing testimony to the observation that it is truly difficult for a successful industry participant to adapt to a completely different industry structure.

Regardless of whether this was just an old Hebrew method of deciding what to eat dependent on observation; the test of scientific fact does not pass.

So Luke loses the point altogether, thinking it has something to do with the incompatibility of new and old, and Thomas simply summarizes the simile without concern for the original point of departure in observation of life.

He then writes a book to inform others of his groundbreaking observations of the most significant kind, knowing that many will persecute him and reject his findings for hundreds of years based on their older religious beliefs.

Even these two observations are thousands of years old.

Given Barr's own observation elsewhere in the volume under review that «the theology of the Old Testament is not the same as the theology of the New,» one would have anticipated a more sympathetic and less emotional response to my posing the problem and suggesting a way forward.

We need to be very careful in our observations of the way the New Testament writers see the story of Jesus in Old Testament patterns and terms.

As even casual observation reveals, those who live to be ninety or older have, typically, not spent much time in the company of doctors and high - technology medicine.

You know, understanding the world through observation and rational conclusion, rather than through believing everything that an old book of myths tells us.

Now, compare her children or grandchildren, who are standing in the doorway watching, with my children, who think that chicken comes from a kindly old Kentuckian with a white goatee, and one arrives at an observation and then a question of wider than cultural significance.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

In addition to preparing the essays on the Gospels of Matthew and John, both of them rich with perceptive and unexpected observations, Kermode offers an extremely good introduction to the New Testament, balancing Alter's equally adroit introduction to the Old — though why, with scholars of the stature of Robert M. Grant and Harry Gamble available, Kermode took upon himself the task of supplying the chapter on the making of the canon is anybody's guess.

To defend this somewhat surprising claim, Mahoney looks to Solzhenitsyn's personal observations of Switzerland's Appenzell region, whose citizens impressed him with their old «fashioned character and devotion to local liberty.

I do not find his work to honest in its desire to find out historical truth or gather and examine evidence and question everything, but hastily seeks to tout his opinions and theories as a new (old) gospel, rather then add his observations, theories, and hypotheses to the growing pool of knowledge and speculation, and allow the evidence and theories to speak for themselves.

Heidi — I may be the only dissenting voice here so far, but one observation which truly is not meant to be unkind is that the food in the cover you have chosen looks a bit old and dark, especially towards the top of the plate where it's almost entirely in shadow.

Of his childhood, Halas volunteers these three things, in order: 1) the addresses where he lived, 2) the observation, «That's where I learned to work,» and 3) detailed recollections of playing games and attending them — most especially watching Tinker to Evers to Chance at the old Cub Park, which was located at the corner of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»Of his childhood, Halas volunteers these three things, in order: 1) the addresses where he lived, 2) the observation, «That's where I learned to work,» and 3) detailed recollections of playing games and attending them — most especially watching Tinker to Evers to Chance at the old Cub Park, which was located at the corner of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»of playing games and attending them — most especially watching Tinker to Evers to Chance at the old Cub Park, which was located at the corner of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»of Polk and Wood («Very few people remember that»).

Those of us who are older Americans remember when «hmmm» just meant that something was an interesting observation that deserved more thinking on it.

Minus some flashes from both Sead and Iwobi, and a workingman - like effort from Elneny, we learned very little... so here are a few of my observations from today's game, which highlight my concerns about this team moving forward... the fact that Mertz started this game, regardless of our injuries or those being «rested», should be a serious red flag for any true Arsenal fan... if Wenger is preparing to use Mertz with any regularity then the whole thing is a moot point because we are in deep shit... the fact is no quality team would ever have this tin soldier anywhere near there starting eleven except to groom their youthful players, who in turn should be playing in this type of game instead... I can only hope he was simply throwing him a bone for the FA appearance and for agreeing to stay on following the season, but I think the most likely answer is that Wenger's fragile relationship with the fan - base can't be ignored so he felt his experience was a safer bet... unfortunately not a positive choice for a team trying to move forward (same old, same old)

Of course I know that Wenger is getting older, I still have my power of observationOf course I know that Wenger is getting older, I still have my power of observationof observations.

The latest ear infection treatment guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics does offer an «observation option» for older children so that they can be observed without antibiotics for up to 48 hours to see if they get better on their own, but they state that children under six months of age should always be treated with antibiotics when they have an ear infection.

Such observations are consistent with studies of older children.

Dec 28, 2017 Dr Haiman, I was struck by the truth of your observations; I am married to a 62 year old man who was taken away from his «parents» when he was between the ages of 2 - 21/2.

All of these observations have to do with the newborn to 1 - month - old infant.

The election observation mission is led by a 32 - year old, inexperienced member of the European Parliament (MEP).

Nana Nketsia made the observation when he chaired the Annual Public Lectures of the Western Regional branch of Old Vandals Association of the University of Ghana, in Takoradi Polytechnic.

The oldest - known map of the moon from naked eye observations, drawn by English physician and physicist William Gilbert and not published until 1651 in his De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova (New Sublunary Philosophy of the World).

New observations show that older bipolar patients often have decreased activity in the hormone system responsible for the secretion of the stress hormone cortisol.

«More observations will be needed to determine whether the star is really as old as we suspect, and if it turns out to be, it will certainly become a benchmark system to understand the lifetime of disks.»

Observations of the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, by Curiosity and by the older, still - active Mars rover Opportunity are helping researchers get more precise knowledge of the moons» orbits.

Some research has been done to deduce the chemical makeup of very early galaxies, based on observations of very bright, distant galaxies, or of very old stars that formed in the early universe and are still around today, Hewitt said.

In his observations of 113 Au mother - child pairs, Tracer found that babies up to 12 months old were carried upright in a sling 86 percent of the time.

Using a combination of old - fashioned clinical observation and modern biochemical analysis, he has shown that a person's appetite and their eating behavior can be linked to specific genes — and that even a tiny defect such as the absence of a single nucleic acid in a sequence of DNA can lead to runaway weight gain.

That would make it the oldest recorded observation of a nova.

The new study is a follow - on to previous Hubble observations that placed the age of the bubbles at 2 million years old.

The first observation of Robert Brown and the subsequent explanation by Albert Einstein are already more than a hundred years old: Robert Brown observed the random, irregular dithering movement of pollen in a liquid.

This is significantly older than previous estimates based on mtDNA, confirming recent observations from autosomal markers that brown and polar bears from a genetic point of view represent highly distinct species.

All of his observations and musings eventually coalesced into the tour de force that was On the Origin of Species, published in 1859 when Darwin was 50 years old.

Because it has been expected that they can get very old, and that's based on some observations of very, very slow growth... so the longevity could be exceptional and extreme, but it has just never been possible to investigate.»

They go on to suggest that «lowering levels of TNF may be an effective strategy in improving host defense against S. pneumoniae in older adults,» and that, «although it may be counterintuitive to limit inflammatory responses during a bacterial infection, [some existing] clinical observations and our animal model indicate that anti-bacterial strategies need to be tailored to the age of the host.»

That glimpse into the past was provided by 66 tree - ring data sets scientists used to stitch together an annual record of snowpack far older than modern observations, which began in the early 20th century.

Observations of the galaxies» spectra suggest they are very distant, appearing as they were when the universe was just 2 to 4 billion years old, less than a third its present age.

Image: A mussel shell engraved by Homo erectus between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago Credit: Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam Source: Kate Wong's World's Oldest Engraving Upends Theory of Homo sapiens Uniqueness on Observations These scratches may not look like much but they predate the existence of our species, Homo sapiens, and upend any claim -LSB-...]

Furthermore, the team tested the theory against observations of NASA's 34 - year - old Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which appears about 400,000 kilometres away from its expected location in the outer solar system.

The observations supported a 25 - year - old conjecture that neutron star mergers produce short gamma - ray bursts, and confirmed that gravitational waves travel at the same speed of light, ruling out some speculative alternatives to Einstein's theory of gravity and general relativity.