Sentences with phrase «point measurements of»

The scientists also collected point measurements of temperature, moisture, and other properties at several locations to verify the data from the remote - sensing tools.

Given a spatially and temporally sparse set of point measurements of the behavior of a complex but well understood system, the best way to estimate the overall system behavior is arguably to build a robust model of its physics and train that over time to reproduce the measurement field.

Taking as his starting point the measurements of the standardised niche, the artist installs the canvases (which are per se two - dimensional) with such extreme precision that the painting extends into the room.

Tonometric examinations, however, are infrequent and insufficient as they are only able to provide single point measurements of the patient's IOP, which can fluctuate over time.

Auto, home and health insurers were ranked according to a weighted 5 - point measurement of the following factors: customer service, claims processing, value for price, would recommend and would renew.

Not exact matches

The combination of spending control and economic growth is going to restore some of those key financial measurements back to where they were pre-recession, and at that point give them a very strong footing to compete.

And in place of the standard fitting system, which relies on cup and bust size, the company uses 10 distinct measurements, including nape to waist, bust point to bust point and the length between the armpits.

Qualitative measurement of this type of progress is difficult, but the goal should be a lasting cultural shift, not a data point to share with the world.

Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 - point scale) for the first quarter of 2016, up from its low in October, 2014, driven by increases in auto loan and credit card delinquencies in 2015 — but far below the 60 - point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.

Points North is a firm founded by former executives with analytics experience going back to the old Jupiter Research digital ad measurement business, as well as with the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (now part of the Association of National Advertisers) and such influencer networks as CrowdTap and House Party.

Both American and Chinese elites raised the point that trust as an abstract measurement may not be that important, particularly in light of the fact that respondents are interested in building a stronger relationship.

The height of the triangle at it's widest point gives you the measurement that you will need in order to see the patterns impact on the share price.

Granted, stock prices rallied strongly in the final two weeks of our measurement period, which stretched from September 16th to October 28th, bringing most of the leading benchmarks back to within a percentage point or so of the heights reached in mid-September.

From a practical point of view, the most important change is the adoption of an «acquisitions» approach to the measurement of housing costs, which will have the effect of removing mortgage interest rates from the index.

One diplomat said the IAEA allows for a margin of error of 1 percentage point in such measurements, which means that Iran wasn't technically over the limit.

After all we take all our measurements of space, for example, of latitude and longitude and the positions of the stars, and of time from an agreed starting - point: the meridian at Greenwich.

All measurement is not measurement of lengths on a straight line; there is a second most important measurement of intervals, independent of such measurement of lengths, the estimation of angles, or, what comes to the same thing, of ratios and arcs of circles to the whole circumference, In point of fact, it is by angular measurement that we habitually estimate temporal intervals, whenever we appeal to a watch or clock, and in the prehistoric past the first rough estimates of intervals within the natural day must presumably» have been made, independently of measurement of lengths, by this same method, with the sky for clock - face.

Whitehead's account of the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy, as he explicitly states, is dependent upon a definition of straight lines in terms which make no appeal to measurement (unlike the definition, «the shortest distance between two points»): «It is to be noted that this doctrine of presentational immediacy and of the strain - locus entirely depends...

At one point Fizeau's measurement of the velocity of light in water seemed a conclusive refutation of the corpuscular theory of light; but the latter returned, in a new form, in Einstein's theory of photons.

The task approaches a useful point of measurement when the experience gained is interpreted and relayed back to the church to effect modifications in its attitude, structure, and service.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

To oversimplify a bit, and ignoring some possibly relevant contemporary developments, in quantum mechanics it is necessary to posit the intervention of an «observer» at a certain crucial point of the measurement process.

Now, if measurement can be significant only if the measuring rod is free of all deforming influences, not simply those attributed to the influence of «differential» forces, then given a space - time continuum of variable metric structure, no set of conditions can be specified to ensure that the measuring rod does not undergo deformation in its length as it is transported from point to point during the process of measurement.

This same point can be put in terms of possible spin - measurements: If the three classes of spin measurements A», C», and D' are all performed, then (a) the average of the spin - value products formed from sets of spin - values A and C will equal negative one -LRB--1.0) and (b) the average of the spin - value products formed from sets A and D will equal to zero (see the discussion near the end of part I).

I'm trying again using only 2 cups of water, but I just wanted to point out that the magazine also doesn't specify the water temperature and your gram measurements differ greatly between the online recipe and the printed one.

The point of using weight measurements instead of volume measurements is due to the lack of standardization in volume containers, and the inevitable human error that leads to discrepancies in volume measurements.

Only point I disagree with is on the measurement of success and failure.

The yards per point measurement is one of the most effective ways to beat the bookmakers.

Although you can also look at football helmet ratings, the NOCSAE cautions «against an over-reliance on any individual data point, rating or measurement which could lead to inaccurate conclusions or even a false sense of security that one helmet brand or model guarantees a measurably higher level of concussion protection than another for a particular athlete.»

Each of these four measurements is given a score of zero or two points, and the scores are added up.

I would argue that some measurements along the lines of defense spending vs. gdp, defense spending vs. deficit,..., presumably over a period of time to iron out inter-period kinks, would be a good starting point.

The New York State Index of Consumer Sentiment in March stands at 94.1, up 6.0 points from the last measurement

The team knew the temperature of the argon, which was at the triple point of water, so could convert the energy measurement into a value for the Boltzmann constant.

The authors point out that the literature has a number of methodological limitations, such as measurement and selection bias, and a restricted focus, in which the effects of a limited number of alcohol policies are considered without accounting for other alcohol policies.

The point, again, is to make meticulous measurements that show whether objects of different composition fall at different rates.

«Our measurement is essentially the same as a surveyor uses to locate points on the Earth,» says study coauthor Mark Reid of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Bouvard had pointed out, for instance, that the problem might not be with inaccurate measurements, but rather «some foreign and unperceived source of disturbance acting upon the planet.»

Some of the early measurements of the August event suggested instead that one of the jets may have been pointed slightly away from Earth.

Apart from the uncertainty of relying largely on self - reported measurements, she points out, the authors double - dip their data by testing height and weight separately and then again as body mass index, or BMI, which combines height and weight.

In 1966, also in Physical Review Letters, H. Boersch, J. Geiger and W. Stickel published a demonstration of electron energy gain spectroscopy, at a larger length scale, and pointed out that the measurement should depend upon the temperature of the sample.

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.

He points to a surprising incidental find: the researchers» measurements showed that the biomass of a substantial part of the study area in Kruger National Park is declining from year to year.

Because parallax measurements are so difficult to obtain for far - distant star - forming regions on the other side of the galaxy, astronomers widely agree they will chiefly serve as important calibration points to augment existing kinematic distance measurements.

Precise measurements of zircon's dismal durability may point the way to better radiation - proof containers

None of the volunteers reported any discomfort during the tests, the team reports in the current issue of Analytical Chemistry, although some of them did point out a tingling feeling when the tattoo was taking its measurements.

Error bars depict ± 1 SD of a sample of three measurements; the center of the error bars gives the arithmetic average of the particular data points (see also fig.

Analysis of CTC numbers at the different time points showed that the one measurement that was statistically significantly associated with progression - free survival was a change in the number of CTCs with ALK copy number gain over time.

In 2014, UCSF's Nathan Young and Ralph Marcucio, working with Schneider, carried out extensive skull measurements on a variety of embryonic vertebrates and determined the point during development at which the bird face begins to diverge from those of other vertebrates.

In the new system, a mathematical model uses the fMRI signal data to construct a 3 - D map that consists of more than 1,000 voxels (pixels in three dimensions), with each voxel representing a single point of measurement of serotonin reuptake.

The measurements give information on how «squishy» the soil is at any given point, making it possible to infer a great deal of information about the soil properties, such as its water content or texture.