Sentences with phrase «predicted by measurement»

Parameter estimates and t - values for multilevel models of treatment outcome predicted by measurement occasion

Not exact matches

Actual measurements found no variations in G with such a 12 hour period, not even in amounts as small as 1/200 the amount predicted by Whitehead's theory.

By the way, over the next several years, I predict we'll learn these lessons about dysfunctional measurement all over again from the craze over testing in our public schools.

They then compared the oxygen isotope ratio in Yonderup dripwater with that predicted by a model (which simulated the dripwater δ18O based on measurements of rainwater δ18O), as well as that measured at a different cave in the region.

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.

«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» said Paul Ray, a SEXTANT co-investigator with the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

Detailed measurements by NASA's planetary probe Cassini, presented at the meeting, have now revealed the predicted snow fields, which measure up to 100 meters thick.

«Our measurements of the bright spot suggest there are powerful shock waves in the star's atmosphere that reach higher temperatures than are predicted by current theoretical models for AGB stars,» says Theo Khouri, astronomer at Chalmers and member of the team.

Mr Hassan said the simulations were guided by surface observations — similar to meteorologists applying past measurements to predict the weather.

By means of the new technique the highly variable sensory response from the human nose may be predicted based on the more precise chemical measurement of odorants.

The quantum state of the physical system is encoded in a so - called neural network, and learning is achieved in small steps by translating the current state of the network into predicted measurement probabilities.

For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere was much higher than actual measurements taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

If, after multiple measurements with this experimental setup, scientists found that the measurements of the particles were correlated more than predicted by the laws of classical physics, Kaiser says, then the universe as we see it must be based instead on quantum mechanics.

«So there's a lot riding on precision measurements to see if their properties are what is predicted by supersymmetry or not.»

stories,» says Musselman, who used historical snowpack measurements and computer models to predict how the melting rate will change by the end of the century (Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038 / NCLIMATE3225).

Chromatin states sometimes predicted differences in RNA expression that weren't captured by DNA methylation or accessibility measurements.

The team led by three principal investigators, Heino Falcke, Radboud University Nijmegen, Michael Kramer, Max - Planck - Institut für Radioastronomie, and Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University in Frankfurt and Max - Planck - Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, hopes to measure the shadow cast by the event horizon of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, find new radiopulsars near this black hole, and combine these measurements with advanced computer simulations of the behaviour of light and matter around black holes as predicted by theories of gravity.

«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» says Paul Ray, co-investigator on the SEXTANT project.

High - precision radial - velocity measurements confirm a sinusoidal variation with the period and phase predicted by the photometry, and rule out the presence of line - bisector variations that would indicate that the spectroscopic orbit is spurious.

Microlensing relies upon measurements of the gravitational bending of light (predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity) from a more distant source by an intervening star and its planets.

Kidney failure later in life can be predicted based on measurements taken in adolescence, according to a study by Swedish researchers at Örebro University published in the November issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

In reality, any trainee who reaches the measurements predicted by these equations will be an impressive physical specimen... he would have the size and proportions of the bodybuilding legends listed above and of the current drug - free bodybuilding champions.

As long as no measurement exists there is no is duration, which means that really we live in Eternal NOW, whose existence has been predicted by Albert Einstein: ``... there is something essential about the NOW which is just outside the realm of science.

Raines also commented on the difficulty of predicting just how large and profitable the VR market will be, saying that he's seen multiple measurements compiled by multiple research firms, predicting revenue from virtual reality to be in the billions.

Original post On Tuesday, a simple but sobering note predicting an imminent end to measurements of carbon dioxide in air lower than 400 parts per million was posted by the group at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that has been carefully measuring the rising concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere since 1958.

While RealClimate has called into question the soundness of the paper's quite narrow conclusions of discrepancy between model predictions and measurements of the relative rate of warming of different levels of the atmosphere over the tropics, this paper is being touted by the deniers as showing that the models are wrong to predict any warming at all, and that predictions of future warming and climate change can be entirely discounted.

All of that information is based on scientific measurements, and the general trends and trajectories have been determined, although the precise details are by definition almost impossible to predict.

Direct comparison of the radiances predicted by the model to those observed by AIRS in the thermal spectral regions dominated by water vapor absorption provides a means of assessing the simulation of water vapor in the climate model at the high level of detail provided by spectral measurements.

'' The specific trend pattern we found in measurements looks exactly like what is predicted by the computer simulations as a result of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream system»

The estimates of the magnitude for aerosol are pegged by these sorts of measurements They aren't just picked to make GCM's predict better values.

I understood that one of the features of GCMs was that they predicted an incease in tropospheric temperature in the equatorial regions that has not been confirmed by direct measurement.

Yet, when scientists examine the empirical temperature measurement datasets, it becomes readily apparent that changes in CO2 levels are not generating the expected changes in global temperatures, as predicted by the immensely powerful and sophisticated (and incredibly costly) climate models.

In all of the world's ocean basins, the warming predicted by the models for the upper 700 meters (2,300 feet) of the ocean corresponded to actual measurements obtained at sea, with confidence exceeding 95 percent... The immediate conclusion is that human influences are largely responsible for the warming signal,» the authors write.

«The specific trend pattern we found in measurements looks exactly like what is predicted by computer simulations as a result of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream system,» Rahmstorf said.

Daily measurements of the solar spectrum between 0.2 µm and 2.4 µm, made by the Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) instrument on the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite3 since April 2004, have revealed4 that over this declining phase of the solar cycle there was a four to six times larger decline in ultraviolet than would have been predicted on the basis of our previous understanding.

Nic Lewis presents a graph of error in cloud cover predicted by GCM's and satellite measurements of same.

Corrections: Del Genio et al. (1991); Raval and Ramanathan (1989) found that satellite infrared measurements gave «compelling evidence for the positive feedback between surface temperature, water vapour and the greenhouse effect; the magnitude of the feedback is consistent with that predicted by climate models;» similarly, Rind et al. (1991), p. 500; Sun and Held (1996); and the final nail in the coffin, Soden et.

The model outputs are generally presented as an average of an ensemble of individual runs (and even ensembles of individual runs from multiple models), in order to remove this variability from the overall picture, because among grownups it is understood that 1) the long term trends are what we're interested and 2) the coarseness of our measurements of initial conditions combined with a finite modeled grid size means that models can not predict precisely when and how temps will vary around a trend in the real world (they can, however, by being run many times, give us a good idea of the * magnitude * of that variance, including how many years of flat or declining temperatures we might expect to see pop up from time to time).

The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the use of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a simple measure of the breadth of violent acts used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes of partner violence victimization... [and] both of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect of husbands» control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these victims of coercive control are an unrecognized category of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics of coercive control in intimate abuse whether or not this control occurs in the context of physical violence.