Sentences with phrase «on numerical scales»

One reason is that the tool used by nearly all studies in this field — surveys asking people to self - report their happiness on numerical scales — is cheap and easy to implement.

A research team in Israel reported evidence of hyperalgesia in 17 of 30 patients with radiating spinal nerve pain by asking them to rate the intensity of heat pain on a numerical scale before and after a 4 - week course of hydromorphone.

For the first study, the «local», the team recruited 857 people in the United States and asked them to self - report their perceived social status (from working to upper class on a numerical scale), as well as an objective indicator in the form of annual household income.

When Michelle Rhee, then chancellor of the D.C. public schools, announced a radical plan to rate teachers» effectiveness on a numerical scale, then fire the worst and give the best huge pay hikes, even her staff wondered whether it could possibly work.

Given the extensive reporting requirements, many principals have found that they only have time to conduct brief classroom observations and rate teachers on a numerical scale, but this gives teachers little information about how they're teaching and what to do to improve, so they become frustrated and resentful.

BCS is a way to visually evaluate your dog's body composition and rate it on a numerical scale.

BCS is a way to visually evaluate your cat's body composition and rate it on a numerical scale.

The PIR - GAS allows for a global rating of the quality of a parent - infant (or parent — child) relationship on a numerical scale, with higher scores indicating higher relationship quality.

Not exact matches

That's a small numerical shift on a five - point scale, and yet that shift actually puts a woman back into a normal range of her peers.

Prior to the last election YouGov asked people to rate the political leaders on a left - right scale, and converted the answers into a numerical scale with -100 being far - left, 0 being the centre and +100 being far - right.

Armed with their model, the researchers want to identify and understand deficiencies in state - of - the - art numerical weather models that prevent them from predicting weather on these subseasonal time scales.

The distress of the children was measured on an amended observation scale of behavioral distress and pain was recorded on the Wong - Baker FACES pain rating scale, a visual - numerical scale.

During the study, average daily pain was measured using a patient's numerical rating of pain on a validated scale from 0 — 10.

The scale is based on comparing radius, density, escape velocity, and surface temperature to Earth and assigning it a numerical value.

Previous studies of dark matter are based largely on numerical simulations of the expected evolution of large - scale structure.

Upon completing the wall map, a math activity comparing the area of one block on the small map with that of one block on the wall map is a great reinforcement lesson in the numerical meaning of map scales.

Moody's rating scale ranges from Aaa to C with numerical modifiers 1,2, and 3 to indicate whether ranking is on the higher or lower end of that rating category.

The first category (general information) included dog - specific factors such as age at time of GDV; history of GDV in relatives; body condition score (numerical rating scale of 1 to 9); history of surgery, anesthesia, diarrhea, or other illness; speed of eating (numerical rating scale of 1 to 5); and tendency to sleep on its back.

Many numerical weather prediction centers now use coupled ocean - atmosphere models to produce ensemble forecasts on the subseasonal time scale.

The meeting will mainly cover the following themes, but can include other topics related to understanding and modelling the atmosphere: ● Surface drag and momentum transport: orographic drag, convective momentum transport ● Processes relevant for polar prediction: stable boundary layers, mixed - phase clouds ● Shallow and deep convection: stochasticity, scale - awareness, organization, grey zone issues ● Clouds and circulation feedbacks: boundary - layer clouds, CFMIP, cirrus ● Microphysics and aerosol - cloud interactions: microphysical observations, parameterization, process studies on aerosol - cloud interactions ● Radiation: circulation coupling; interaction between radiation and clouds ● Land - atmosphere interactions: Role of land processes (snow, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation) in sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction ● Physics - dynamics coupling: numerical methods, scale - separation and grey - zone, thermodynamic consistency ● Next generation model development: the challenge of exascale, dynamical core developments, regional refinement, super-parametrization ● High Impact and Extreme Weather: role of convective scale models; ensembles; relevant challenges for model development

She develops and applies numerical models for small - scale atmospheric processes and study these processes effect on the general circulation.

Initial letters indicate the question, values can be numerical (indicated by NUM) or on a scale of -2 to +2 from strong disapprove / believe to strong approve / believe (indicated by D / A), as appropriate and indicated in the question.

The main difference between H2O and CO2 (apart from the numerical differences of their specific physical properites such as degree of freedom, thermal capacity, physical mass, etc) in terms of their effects on the atmosphere is that water is capable of condensing into liquid to form clouds and readily and rapidly moves between surface and atmosphere, daily, seasonally, annually and on even greater time scales, but CO2 does not liquify in the biosphere and transfers over mostly long time periods between surface (primarily oceans, seas, etc) and the atmosphere.

Still no answer, same as you haven't explained why 500 = 1500 or how numerical models of closed physical systems like a jet engine or a contained high energy plasma = numerical model of an natural system on the scale of our planet.

Now it is known how much havoc can wreak this assumption both in numerical models and in the results on meso - scales.

In this model the standard set of equations plus some additional numerical schemes are combined to find the dependence of some variable of interest (in this case, hurricane velocity V) on other variables and parameters, of which one is the turbulence length scale hl.

Specific research topics include carbon dioxide, methane and water fluxes and their reservoirs in vegetation and soil, transport in atmosphere, and model - data fusion using advanced numerical methods.The research is based on numerical modelling, from local to global scale with focus on northern regions.

The regional outlook contributions help shed light on the uncertainties associated with the Pan-Arctic estimates by providing more detail at the regional scale, and were based on numerical models, statistical methods, and heuristic estimates.

My interests, more specifically, are related to: * The consequence of scaling behaviour in non-linear coupled systems (both chaotic and non-chaotic) * The consequence of external forcings on such systems * The limitations of numerical methods used to analyse these systems, particularly with regard to initial conditions

article by Heinz and me (reference available on request), once the minimal scale (smallest scale feature of vorticity) is properly resolved by a numerical model, the correct Navier - Stokes dissipation form (second order derivatives) can be used and produces the correct spatial spectrum, i.e. the numerical solutions converge.

The success of numerical weather prediction at predicting say the 500 hpa height field on the time scale of the lifetime of a baroclinic wave (nominally 4 - 7 days) is a testimony to the credibility of these solutions

The effects of mesoscale eddies on the main subtropical thermocline are explored using a simply configured wind - and buoyancy - driven primitive equation numerical model in conjunction with transformed Eulerian mean diagnostics and simple scaling ideas and closure schemes.

Moody's rating scale ranges from Aaa to C with numerical modifiers 1,2, and 3 to indicate whether ranking is on the higher or lower end of that rating category.

It is a brief self - report 14 - item scale designed to measure the two most common aspects of mood disorder (anxiety and depression) on a 0 - 3 verbal numerical scale (0: No distress - 3: maximum distress).

Also, we would be more persuaded if the «low» and «moderate» attractiveness targets were selected using percentiles (e.g., men and women between the 5th and 10th percentile on attractiveness) rather than numerical matching (e.g., men and women both scoring ~ 2.5 on a 7 - point scale).

Pain distress: the distress caused by patients» pain over the past week was assessed on a zero to 10 numerical rating scale, with higher scores indicating greater pain distress.19