Sentences with phrase «precise measures of»

However, statewide averages are not precise measures of premium rates on personal car insurance.

Indeed, one often sees skeptics clutching at «proxies» that are far, far more shaky than precise measures of tree growth, such as medieval vineyards.

Using a carefully balanced combination of PVA glue and acrylic paints — the precise measures of which only he knows — Jonathan Gabb is a painter with a difference.

Some of the most accurate and precise measures of an excellent teacher result from data, collected and analyzed by trained appraisers, based on observations of the teacher's instructional practices and engagement with students.

Precise measures of CDV - induced mortality in tigers do not exist.

Sound waves propagating through the Universe only 400,000 years after the Big Bang now offer some of our most - precise measures of the composition and history of the Universe.

The authors caution that more precise measures of when, why and how e-cigarette use was initiated and how it is continuing are needed, and that such questions as well as longitudinal cohort studies may help researchers and policymakers better understand issues such as dual use, exclusive e-cigarette use and e-cigarette use as a potential cessation aid.

Now, with more than 150,000 quasars, we've made extremely precise measures of BAO.»

«But in the last five or ten years we've really had an amazing ability to start looking at biochemistry and much more precise measures of brain function.»

The reflected sample beam is recombined with the locally circulated light, and the difference in phase between the two beams — the relative alignment of the troughs and crests of their electromagnetic waves — yields a very precise measure of the distance the sample beam has traveled.

Donald Plewes, a physicist who works on medical imaging at the University of Toronto in Canada, says the technique gives a precise measure of stiffness that does not depend on the surgeon's subjective opinion.

With a normal distribution of performance (the classic bell curve), a standard deviation is simply a more precise measure of how spread out the distribution is.

As with years of data, the more teachers there are, the more precise the measure of the average effect is.

The culmination of these changes have had a significant impact on Florida's accountability system and today many Floridians lack confidence in the assessments and school grades as a precise measure of a school's performance,» the superintendents» association notes in a legislative briefing.

While not being a precise measure of future spending, the SEMA Performance Parts and Accessories Demand Index (PADI) provides marketing planners with a useful tool that estimates future specialty - equipment demand.

My point is that for periods as short as a decade, air temperatures are not a precise measure of the heat in the climate system.

There is no known precise measure of how much groundwater California has.

Its a useful paper, but disappointing in that it does not point out the need for the scientific community to focus on getting a precise measure of the glacial - interglacial global temperature change.

The precise measure of 1 - day correlation over a 30 - day period?

Not exact matches

The «instruments» in the AdWords interface let you measure every last bit of prospect and buyer activity in precise detail.

His council's self - defined benchmark for success is unusually precise and an undeniable stretch: devise measures big enough to lift the median household's income to $ 105,000 in 2030, way up from about $ 80,000 today, and well above the mere $ 90,000 expected if Canada fails to adopt new ways of generating wealth.

Legal experts, speaking on a not - for - attribution basis because precise measures have not been announced, said one possibility is the government might change the Competition Act to say that «abuse of a dominant position» would include «exploitative pricing» or, in effect, charging too much.

For they are composed of matter that has been taken in most precise measure from truly numerous and truly various substances.

Just that our means of measuring have gotten better and we can be even more precise than he was.

I apologize that the quantity of ingredients is not more precise, this is definitely one of those recipes that is easier to eyeball than to measure.

I use basil, dill and chives, sometimes rosemary or cilantro (whatever is fresh in the garden or I have on hand), and I use a generous portion of herbs — not precise on measuring, but otherwise make it exactly as written.

The San Francisco Cooking School prefers to measure quantities in grams, because it is a precise system of measurement for bakers.

They actually turned out really well even though he's not precise at measuring lol it was easy and not a lot of mess.

If you ask the staff nicely they'll even lend you some measuring cups so that you can measure out the precise amount you need of each ingredient:

I know it doesn't seem like a huge change to make if you're used to it, but it can be hard to switch over to measuring in a whole new way and it can be tough to make sure the measurements are exact in grams / ounces (at least in my experience — for instance I keep having to spoon out extra flour out of the bowl if I added too much... it definitely takes a learning curve to be precise).

And because NASCAR used tempates to measure the cars, which were not as precise and allowed crew chiefs to play within the margins of the rulebook and take advantage of the gray areas.

The «quilting» in the first step allows the use of various sized pieces of fabrics, so there's no precise measuring (love that).

Mothers can not know the precise amounts of breast milk that their children consume, nor will they be able accurately to measure the energy content of complementary foods.

It has precise measurements on its side hence giving you the freedom to measure the amount of fluid your child deserves without necessarily guessing

The state Legislature had debated anti-BDS measures but members of the Senate and Assembly couldn't agree on the precise approach.

Sacks says the techniques his team used to measure the levels of the two HDL subclasses, which Harvard is patenting, could lead to more precise tests to evaluate heart disease risk and treatment response.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

This project will take advantage of Webb's high - resolution spectrographs to get the most sensitive and precise observations at wavelengths that specifically measure ices.

It could also be used to detect trace amounts of gas, or be adapted to make precise atom interferometers, which measure small variations in gravity, she says.

The next decade, studies of the cosmic microwave background (the relic radiation from the Big Bang) by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, provided a new way to measure the total amount of dark matter; this is the same technique that the Planck spacecraft built upon to come up with its more precise cosmic breakdown.

It was a brilliant idea, but it was a case of theory outpacing technology; existing detectors were not precise enough to measure such small variations in starlight consistently.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

Dr Joseph Hodges, from the National Institute of Science and Technology in Gaithersberg, USA who led the team measuring the spectrum of CO2 in the laboratory, said: «These measurements are very challenging so we could only make precise lab measurements at a few wavelengths.

TAKING MEASURE New units based on fundamental properties of the universe will make measurements more precise.

Moon rocks contain a tiny bit more of the rare isotope oxygen - 17 than do the rocks on Earth, say geochemists who measured oxygen using very precise methods.

For the new study, the researchers used an extremely precise laser - based method to measure oxygen isotopes in a range of Earth rocks, meteorites and three lunar samples gathered by the Apollo astronauts.

«This diagnostic advancement provides us with a more precise ruler for measuring the effectiveness of diagnosis, treatment and progression of TBI,» says Mony J. de Leon, EdD, director of the Center for Brain Health at NYU Langone, professor of psychiatry and an investigator with NYU's Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center.

Nevertheless, nature allows a barter trade: If the particle has been appropriately prepared, then one of the quantities can be measured a little more exactly if one is willing to accept a less precise knowledge of the other quantity.

CUNY graduate student Elaine Kozma filmed chimps, bonobos, gorillas, gibbons, and other primates in zoos so she could measure the precise angles of their legs and hips when they walked upright.

Measuring slight wobbles of the planet's spin axis could reveal details of the world's internal structure, but the rover needs to be stationary to get precise measurements.