Sentences with phrase «precision of measurement»

The belief that the high precision of FNI allows to overcome this limitation is an illusion, because the limitation is of logical nature and not caused by insufficient precision of a measurement technique.

I guess the error is related to significant digits in units of conversion and not precision of measurement.

I have problems giving any credence to the land temperature anomalies, seems to be an incredible precision of measurement & calculation claimed, compared to the data, the shifting mean global temperature, the fogging around this value.

Yes, we all understand, there is always a finite limitation on the precision of a measurement, which results in uncertainty, and this may be increased by finite limitations on the accuracy of the measurement.

The precision of a measurement can be misleading especially when the range of natural variability is as large or larger than the «forcing».

As such, finding ways to reduce quantum noise can enhance the precision of measurement in the examples given above.

The precision of the measurement is such that «a snail crawling on Mars would appear to be moving across the surface more than 100 times faster than the motion we measured for this galaxy,» says Reid.

The precision of the measurements enabled the aerodynamic interactions of the birds to be studied at a level and complexity for the first time.

He says the precision of the measurements obtained so far in krypton gas has encouraged the team to move on to tritium — a goal Formaggio says may be attainable in the next year or two — and pave a path toward measuring the mass of the neutrino.

«One main goal of RHIC's energetic polarized - proton collisions is to increase the precision of our measurements so we can better tease out the contribution from the gluons» spin,» said Jamie Dunlop, Associate Chair for Nuclear Physics in Brookhaven's Physics Department.

Nobody did, until Gauss systematized this (although Kepler was aware that the precision of measurements was proportional to the inverse square root of the number of measurements)

From the GAO link above and the accompanying docs it is clear the USHCN network has not been managed at a consistent level of quality (even for the «old» site standards) and precision of measurements:

Modifications have been deployed in source selection, entity recognition, and other features to provide higher precision of measurements compared to prior versions.

Not exact matches

As you know, baking is about precision and accuracy and that's why I've always been an advocate of weight measurements.

The precision of previous measurements based on hydrogen atoms was limited by uncertainties related to the internal structure of the proton inside its nucleus.

Those first experiments will provide higher precision measurements of the structure of the proton (Precision Measurement of the Proton Elastic Cross Section at High Q2 and Measurements of the Electron - Helicity Dependent Cross Sections of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with CEBAF at 12 GeV) Both experiments will be run in Experimemeasurements of the structure of the proton (Precision Measurement of the Proton Elastic Cross Section at High Q2 and Measurements of the Electron - Helicity Dependent Cross Sections of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with CEBAF at 12 GeV) Both experiments will be run in ExperimeMeasurements of the Electron - Helicity Dependent Cross Sections of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with CEBAF at 12 GeV) Both experiments will be run in Experimental Hall A.

By going into space like Gravity Probe B, STEP could dramatically improve the precision of equivalence principle measurements.

Once observations of the moment of inertia will be possible through the measurement of binary pulsars, the new method will allow us to measure the stellar radius with a precision of 10 % or less.

«We've been waiting for this for 30 years,» says Thomas Udem, an experimental physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, who works on precision measurements of hydrogen.

This research has become possible only recently with the advent of astronomers» precision measurements of the amounts of nuclei present in the early universe.

The team made the refinements by developing innovative techniques that improved the precision of distance measurements to faraway galaxies.

The ability to make simultaneous comparisons improves precision and speed in measurements of a group of atoms.

Those measurements — and the next era of precision cosmology — are on the way.

The speed and pace of those measurements promise to add an increment of precision to GPS navigation, and ROMY may even be able to detect a subtle effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity: the drag of the rotating planet on nearby spacetime, like a spoon turned in a pot of honey.

The ability to control quantum noise could one day be used to improve the precision of very sensitive measurements, such as those obtained by LIGO, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational - wave Observatory, a Caltech - and - MIT - led project searching for signs of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.

Maxwell knew that even an era of precision measurements is not a sign of science's end but preparation for the opening of new frontiers.

«We have demonstrated a reconfigurable array of traps for single atoms, where we can prepare up to 50 individual atoms in separate traps deterministically, for future use in quantum information processing, quantum simulations, or precision measurements,» says Vuletic, who is also a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.

However, these so - called «standard candles» do vary slightly from one another, limiting the precision of such measurements.

«This Juno system is so technically advanced that measurement capabilities have been improved by orders of magnitude in precision,» Bolton said.

Despite its technical difficulty, lunar laser ranging is capable of exquisite precision, and Murphy thinks it's possible that his measurements — the most accurate measurements ever of the moon's path around Earth, if all goes well — may be precise enough to reveal a violation of the equivalence principle.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

This narrow spectral band characteristic is one of the main requirements for the laser module needed for spectroscopy of the rubidium atoms and the associated precision measurements.

The new measurement is a high - precision count of two forms of argon gas — Argon - 36 and Argon -38-accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity.

«The wave nature of light in super-slow motion: Physicists achieve high - precision measurement of the wave characteristics of focused, ultra-short light pulses.»

«We can use it to verify the suitability of any experimental quantum state for precision measurements beyond what can be done with a classical state,» continues Prof. Oberthaler.

Experts urged caution, especially because an earlier measurement of neutrino velocity had indicated, to high precision and accuracy, that neutrinos do respect the cosmic speed limit.

The ingenious device he employed for measuring G, called a torsion balance, had been built by the clergyman and amateur naturalist John Michell and was invented simultaneously by the French electrical pioneer Charles Coulomb, but in Cavendish's skillful hands it revolutionized the science of precision measurements.

Most importantly, astronomers have high - precision measurements of the SMC's rotation curve, which shows how its rotational speed changes with distance from its center and indicates how much dark matter is present.

Measurements of such precision, stretching over so many light - years, can be thrown off by the smallest errors, Cowie points out.

Measurements at CERN, most recently by the BASE experiment (link is external), have already compared the same properties of protons and antiprotons to high precision.

Earth - based observations in 2003 indicated plumes of methane on Mars (red), but higher - precision measurements on the planet's surface find no such gas.

«The precision of this method is so high that it is very suitable for precision measurement of certain natural thermodynamic constants.»

Gravity Probe B fell well short of the precision developers had hoped to achieve in making the key measurement.

New precision satellite measurements will enable scientists to probe insides of distant stars

Probing the muonic hydrogen with a laser yielded a high - precision measurement of the proton's size.

Although the technique still needs refinements, physicists believe that in the future it will beat the precision of conventional methods — and hopefully solve apparent discrepancies between measurements that have long puzzled physicists.

That precision measurement of stellar positions is known as astrometry.

Jun Yang and his colleagues used the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), where a network of detectors separated by thousands of kilometres are combined into a single observatory, to make extremely high - precision measurements of the jet from Swift J1644 +57.

As a result, they were able to obtain an angle - amplitude measurement of unprecedented precision, unbothered by quantum uncertainty.

OCO - 2's spectrometers can detect changes of one or two carbon dioxide molecules out of the 400 — an unprecedented level of precision, and one that scientists think will be adequate to detect changes in natural sources and sinks, once enough measurements have been collected.