Sentences with phrase «produced by observation»

The theory still holds sway because all the evidence since produced by observation and study in the field confirms it.

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Nolan, a CIA Graduate Fellow in sociology, produced the ethnography by making observations and interviewing 20 analysts in NCTC's Directorate of Intelligence (DI) while also working full time as a counterterrorism analyst at Nation Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) from January 2010 to January 2011.

If this index grows in linear fashion, the sum of the observation points is 80,000; divided by 5, that produces an average appreciation of 16,000.

We can not prove that all current diversity of life was produced by evolution by natural selection because that would require a time machine for direct observation.

A fair - size rhubarb was produced by the admiral's observations.

-LSB-...] The 2010 - 2011 Season: Five tactical observations Edwin van der Sar «Despite being prefaced by a World Cup that was characterised by stodgy, unadventurous football and which produced the lowest goals - per - game ratio (2.27) since the notoriously defensive 1990 tournament (2.21), the 2010 - 11 European football season was generally a positive one for teams that sought to keep the ball on the deck and play an expansive game.

Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

The observations have allowed physicists to estimate the quantity of dark energy by deducing the force needed to produce the accelerating effect.

But Kusenko says the observation will be difficult to interpret: «The problem is to distinguish this [spectral] line from all sorts of ordinary lines produced by gas in the cluster.»

The existence of black holes tens of times more massive than our Sun was confirmed recently by the observation of gravitational waves, produced by the merger of pairs of massive black holes, with the LIGO interferometer.

And in the future, a technique called optical interferometry, which links together the observations of more than one telescope, might make it possible to see the multiple lensed images produced by the planets of another star system.

These observations of spatial variation in relation to the terrain features are likely driven in part by changes in ocean bottom current speeds produced by the hilly terrain; this causes changes in the settling and drifting of marine snow.

Kilpatrick et al. show how these observations can be explained by an explosion known as a kilonova, which produces large quantities of heavy elements in nuclear reactions.

Observations show when water vapour is taken up by the atmosphere through evaporation, the updraughts can either rise to 15 km to form clouds that produce heavy rains or rise just a few kilometres before returning to the surface without forming rain clouds.

By applying an innovative theoretical analysis to observations from a first - of - its - kind experimental setup, LANP graduate student Bob Zheng and postdoctoral research associate Alejandro Manjavacas created a methodology that solar engineers can use to determine the electricity - producing potential for any arrangement of metallic nanoparticles.

Also in the environmental field, Ubik researchers have participated in the design of a software tool that integrates all the information on forest cover, drought and biodiversity produced by different European systems of Earth observation.

The results may help to explain discrepancies between observations and theories about how volatile organic compounds produced by vegetation are converted into atmospheric aerosol — especially over forested regions.

This suggests that the instantaneous peak power delivered to the specimen may be an even more important metric of cell health than the total photon dose and should enable extended 3D observation of endogenous levels of even sparsely expressed proteins produced by genome editing.

The effects of disrupting the «silent» genes revealed in these studies may be masked by the activity of related genes, or because their mutations produce defects that are not readily apparent in casual observation under normal laboratory conditions.

By exploiting both ground - and space - based telescopes, therefore, astronomers today can combine observations from across the spectrum, which has produced a previously hidden and extremely captivating picture of the Universe (Figure 3 and Figure 4).

The goal of the Compact Objects group is to produce a physical picture for a variety of extreme compact - object phenomena and to develop detailed mathematical models for these phenomena that can be tested by new observations.

If the observations are confirmed, then it shows that Einstein's theory of general relativity holds even under extreme conditions — in gravity fields produced by objects like the galactic center's black hole, which contains the mass of 4 million suns.

These observations were supported by heterologous expression and biochemical characterization of the abundant cellulases produced by the community.

The MESSENGER observations and data from the two earlier Mariner 10 flybys are consistent enough to describe a dipolar field with an active electrical dynamo in which the magnetic field is produced by electrical currents flowing in an outer core of molten metal (more discussion and images from MESSENGER's January 2008 flyby).

The premise behind SETI, an acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is that technologically advanced civilizations want to make their existence known to their less - capable kin (i.e. us) and go about it by producing signals that might be detected in the course of our routine scientific observations.

Observations taken with the DAS backend from a variety of different instruments, in the original GSD format produced by DAS.

Image of the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, produced from the observations made by IRAS.

Together with the observations showing robust expression of ATX in FRCs, these findings indicate that the cortical LPA signals not associated with HEVs are mainly produced by FRCs in an ATX - dependent manner.

This image combines observations from the Very Large Telescope, tuned to detect the fluorescent emissions produced by the quasar illuminating the dark galaxies, with colour data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

The idea is to see if combining information from the tests, survey, and classroom observations could produce more stable measures of teacher contributions to learning than is possible by just using the state test.

By contrast, now, in Washington alone, the NatureMapping program has produced more than 110,000 observations of 420 species.

MET could have allayed those concerns by telling teachers that test score gains produce information that is generally similar to what is learned from well - conducted classroom observations, so there is no reason to oppose one and support the other.

It should be combined with other factors to produce a well - rounded assessment, including more rigorous and more frequent classroom observations by principals, announced and unannounced, as well as reviews of teachers» lesson plans and homework assignments by principals or peers.

A study by the Brookings Institution found that classroom observations in particular have the potential to provide formative feedback in real time to teachers that helps them improve their practice, whereas feedback from state achievement tests is often too delayed and vague to produce improvement in teaching.76

Ratings should be based on multiple observations ideally by multiple persons within the same year to produce a more accurate rating than is possible with a single observation.

In paintings and works on paper, Doig converges observation, photographic references and memory, producing woozy impressions of an idyll seemingly untouched by strife.

Inspired by direct experiences and observations of her surroundings as well as the films, plays, and novels of such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Jack Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Tennessee Williams, and Samuel Beckett and mainstays of popular culture like soap operas and science fiction, her work is carefully scripted and produced while maintaining an immediate sense of spontaneity and unpredictability.

Using the astutely reductive observation as grounds for their 2013 commission from the Deste Foundation — for which an artist is selected annually to curate and interpret a capsule collection of five to 10 international fashion designs produced that year — the firm conceived and art directed a narrative of 18 images, photographed by artist Matthew Monteith.

That observation by Bruguera was echoed, with some caution, in the other morning session which began with a collaborative study of cultural piracy by Weinmayr and London, UK — based artist Andrea Francke, from illegally produced and sometimes amended pirated books in Peru to the Chinese trade in knock - off smartphones (which, as Francke explained, have ironically become a research and development resource for companies like Nokia).

In paintings and works on paper, Doig converges observation, photographic reference and memory, producing woozy impressions of an idyll seemingly untouched by strife.

Spencer Finch (born 1962, New Haven, CT), commissioned to produce an installation for New York's High Line in 2009 and selected by Crossrail to create a permanent monumental work for Paddington Station, is known for his poetic artworks that distill his observations and experience of the world into glowing installations of light and colour.

Data from satellite observations «suggest that greenhouse models ignore negative feedback produced by clouds and by water vapor, that diminish the warming effects» of human carbon dioxide emissions.

In particular, Annan and Hargreaves (2006) used a Bayesian statistical approach that combines information from both 20th century observations and from last glacial maximum data to produce an estimate of climate sensitivity that is much better constrained than by either set of observations alone (see our post on this, here).

In some cases, reviewers and / or editors supportive of mainstream views totally block important papers from being published; McKitrick, McIntyre and Herman had to completely rewrite their recent paper — showing that high tropical tropospheric temperature trends for the last three decades produced by climate models are inconsistent with observations — as a study of applying statistical methods developed in econometrics, and submit it to a journal with a more open - minded editor, in order to get it published at all.

Gridding sparse ocean observations onto a very high (in this case, 1 - by - 1 degree latitude x longitude) resolution is prone to producing some apparent structures that are simply artifacts of mathematical interpolation, even when isopycnal methods are utilised (this is common for gridding of data).

Out of all the possible patterns of atmospheric behaviour that the model can produce, we need to find the one that most nearly matches the changes seen by the observations.

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.

Confidence in premises 1 - 6 is enhanced by the agreement between the simulations and observations of the 20th century surface temperature and the distinct signals produced by the various forcing mechanisms.

Putting these two observations together the conclusion would be that the ultimate modification occurs in one direction but the great volatility of those data series has by accident produced the opposite effect over the latest 30 years.