Sentences with phrase «other measurement instruments»

Credit counseling services should also provide financial management tools such as calculators for mortgages, college, auto and other loans, retirement planning, net worth and other measurement instruments, either on their websites or included within credit education modules.

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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.

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.

«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.

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.

This allows it to compile parallax measurements that are four times more precise than any other instrument currently available.

To study the plume, scientists have been lowering instruments from research ships to take fluorescence measurements of the water at different depths and to measure the amount of dissolved oxygen, among other things.

During the flyby, instruments onboard Cassini will make gravity measurements that will help scientists better understand the moon's internal structure, which they can then compare to the inner structures of Saturn's other moons.

On Antarctica's Ross Island, a short drive from the US McMurdo research station, high - tech radar antennas and other atmospheric instruments gaze skyward, gathering detailed measurements of West Antarctic clouds.

Since the development of new nanoscale measurement methods is also a high priority, we are developing multi-probe scanning probe microscopes and other cutting - edge instruments.

If correct, the new report raises questions about the validity of countless other measurements taken by the same instrument since 2003.

However, if the measurements of the ancient ratios from SAM don't match up, this suggests that we may have to look at other ways the atmosphere could have been lost, such as giant impacts from asteroids,» says Mahaffy, who is Principal Investigator for SAM and Instrument Lead for the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrumentInstrument Lead for the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrumentinstrument on MAVEN.

Adding FluidFM ® enables measurements up to 50nN and even higher, giving us a broader range of force control than with any other instrument - scanning probe microscopy (SPM) combination.

HARPS measurements provided information on the planet's mass, while the planet's radius was determined by other instruments that measure how much light it blocks from its parent star.

Then, instead of throwing out the data as hopelessly compromised and starting the experiment over with these factors corrected, you (a) do a study estimating how miscalibrated, how defective and how improperly located your instruments were and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» the improper reading, (b) you do a study to estimate the effect of the external factors at the time you discover the problem and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» the effects of the external factors even though you have no idea what the effect of the external factor actually was for a given instrument at the time the data was recorded, because you only measured the effect years later and then at only some locations, (c) you «fill in» any missing data using data from other instruments and / or from other measurements by the same instrument, (d) you do another study to determine how best to deal with measurements from different instruments over different time periods and at different locations and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» for differences between readings from different instruments over different time periods at different locations.

3.3.2 In practice, there are many possible sources of uncertainty in a measurement, including: a) incomplete definition of the measurand; b) imperfect reaIization of the definition of the measurand; c) nonrepresentative sampling — the sample measured may not represent the defined measurand; d) inadequate knowledge of the effects of environmental conditions on the measurement or imperfect measurement of environmental conditions; e) personal bias in reading analogue instruments; f) finite instrument resolution or discrimination threshold; g) inexact values of measurement standards and reference materials; h) inexact values of constants and other parameters obtained from external

• Combine wind data with measurements from scientific instruments in other disciplines to help us better understand the mechanisms of global climate change and weather patterns.

Yes, I understand and agree that the local environment is a part of the issue, but having seen other measurements made by dissimilar and differently maintained systems of instruments — yes, even within federally - funded agencies — it's easy to suspect that the number of errors can begin to accumulate.

«[S] atellite - based retrievals will never be able to be as accurate or precise as ground - based in - situ instruments, as the measurements are always affected by other confounding factors such as aerosols, which can never be fully eliminated with passive remote sensing (see Chapter 4).

Most economists consider a carbon tax a more effective instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions than the other major policy alternative, a cap - and - trade system that would require plant - by - plant emission measurements and could prompt companies to cheat.

Guys; don't get me wrong about laser physics cause its not what I'm on about other than seems it's a big area of instrument and measurement systems research these days and you should too should wonder why.

An inspection is technically exhaustive when it is done by a specialist who may make extensive use of measurements, instruments, testing, calculations, and other means to develop scientific or engineering findings, conclusions, and recommendations.