Sentences with phrase «scientific measurement would»

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If you set about measuring a complicated structure like the pyramid of Cheops, he says, you will soon have dozens of measurements to play with; and if you have the patience to juggle them about in various ways, you are bound to come out with many figures that coincide with important historical dates or with scientific calculations.

Whitehead considers this uniformity a requirement for measurement in the space - time continuum; 22 and thus, as a presupposition of any physical analysis that would be considered scientific.

'' That tells people that I am at least intelligent enough to require proof of existence» = > It does no such thing as you can not claim nor do you have evidence as to what is beyond measurement or accountability by accepted scientific method.

The company has been designing, manufacturing and distributing measurement and control systems for the past 60 years and has established a worldwide reputation for high quality, reliable and robust systems designed to satisfy the most demanding requirements across industrial, scientific, R&D and environmental applications.

The workbook has a built - in scientific measurement system which will help track the industry's progress in adopting the guidelines.

«We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1.2 million galaxies over one quarter of the sky to map out the structure of the Universe over a volume of 650 cubic billion light years,» says Jeremy Tinker of New York University, a co-leader of the scientific team carrying out this effort.

We have a three - step process: LightSail - 1 will prove solar sailing, LightSail - 2 should be able to use the sail to increase orbital energy, getting away from Earth into higher orbit to do scientific measurements.

The No. 1 scientific paper: Protein measurement with the folin phenol reagent, which has 305,148 citations.

In every branch of science, Maxwell declared, «the labor of careful measurement has been rewarded by the discovery of new fields of research and by the development of new scientific ideas.»

«St. Laurent Institute has adapted true single - molecule sequencing technology to global transcriptome analysis, providing state - of - the - art technology for the measurement of the output of the human genome,» said Georges St. Laurent III, Scientific Director of the St. Laurent Institute.

Dark lightning has remained a perplexing phenomenon due to scientific limitations and a dearth of measurements, Østgaard explained.

She says, «To improve the data, a close collaboration between the scientific measurement community and the oil and gas industry would be needed to make more direct measurements available from different parts of the world.»

Researchers at Griffith University working with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have unveiled a stunningly accurate technique for scientific measurements which uses a single atom as the sensor, with sensitivity down to 100 zepScientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have unveiled a stunningly accurate technique for scientific measurements which uses a single atom as the sensor, with sensitivity down to 100 zepscientific measurements which uses a single atom as the sensor, with sensitivity down to 100 zeptoNewtons.

So by having a variety of scientific measurements that are made alongside the ascent, it's actually probably going to make it a safer expedition in many ways.

In new neutron experiments conducted at the Institut Laue - Langevin (ILL) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), researchers have provided a direct quantitative measurement of phonon lifetimes in a clathrate, offering a novel picture of thermal conductivity in...

With this study, Severinghaus and colleagues have shown that measurements of noble gases in the atmosphere provide the historical record long sought by the scientific community, and can be further optimized to gain insights into modern ocean temperature changes as well.

There has been a monumental shift in scientific understanding of the role of cholesterol measurement in coronary artery disease.

While the focus is on life sciences to prepare students for high school biology, to ensure they have the skills for projects and labs, students spend time reviewing general principles of science, the scientific method, measurement, and measuring using the metric system.

The tests are based on the MetaMetrics ® Lexile Framework for Reading, a scientific approach to reading and text measurement that has become the most widely adopted reading measure in use today.

Educational measurement has been the perfect tool for accomplishing all three: cheap and scientific looking.

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.

The» top ten» arguments employed by the relatively few deniers with credentials in any aspect of climate - change science (which arguments include «the sun is doing it», «Earth's climate was changing before there were people here», «climate is changing on Mars but there are no SUVs there», «the Earth hasn't been warming since 1998», «thermometer records showing heating are contaminated by the urban - heat - island effect», «satellite measurements show cooling rather than warming») have all been shown in the serious scientific literature to be wrong or irrelevant, but explaining their defects requires at least a paragraph or two for each one.

«Over the years I have had many colleagues and higher level management having issues with for example my scientific dabbling in temperature measurements — which is not what I am paid for to work on — and more general having issues with my critical attitude...... there is tremendous pressure inside climate science to stick to the consensus.»

Over the years I have had many colleagues and higher level management having issues with for example my scientific dabbling in temperature measurements — which is not what I am paid for to work on — and more general having issues with my critical attitude.

Science historians would point out that Professor Revelle did not prompt the first CO2 measurement in the atmosphere; what he prompted was the first sampling of air from locations around the world, and it was actually Harry Wexler, the head of the Weather Service at the time, who prompted and actually funded the start of the long - term monitoring program by David Keeling on Mauna Loa — so Revelle did play a very important role in stimulating observations (and in 1965 he chaired the panel on this issue that prepared a quite insightful appendix for the report of the President's Scientific Advisory Council), but Revelle was not the very first to urge CO2 be measured in the atmosphere.

@SebastianH» It combines the data from two different temperate time series which happen to deviate somewhere around the 1960s» If proxies ans measurements are combined in a scientific paper, it has at least to be declared.

Is «roughly» the flexible Warmist term for «I haven't got the faintest idea what I'm talking about», or is it a scientific measurement?

My textbook Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet has a chapter on the scientific method in which I state that «a measurement without a statement about its degree of uncertainty is meaningless.»

In the scientific domain, A-weighting sound measurements would be unacceptable when many elements of the ear exhibit a higher sensitivity than hearing.

Or rather, the message should be in three parts: basic physics leads us to have a strong expectation that the carbon dioxide we've pumped into the atmosphere should cause global warming; the measurements that have been made bear this out; the scientific consensus about the previous two statements is overwhelming.

Because you don't understand the processes, proxies and measurements displayed, does not mean it is wrong or that your games with big and small numbers have any scientific validity.

[2] The Oxford English Dictionary says that scientific method is: «a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.»

Any careful reading of the 2013 IPCC report and other recent scientific literature about on the subject reveals that droughts have been worsening in some regions in recent decades while lessening in other regions, and that the IPCC's «low confidence» about a global trend relates mainly to the question of total area prone to drought and a lack of sufficient measurements to settle it.

If we expect the climate extremists to be truthful, we ought to do our best to be truthful ourselves, and not to push the scientific argument beyond what measurement and experiment and the application of established theory to the results has plainly and sufficiently demonstrated.

Thus all measurements have to be verified by other means making repetition of results central to scientific method!!

I have been a student of the history of physics for some time, and I can think of no other instance in the whole history of physics where it was never possible to make a measurement of the value of something, yet all the appropiate scientific organizations have declared that we can attribute a value of this number that is beyond dispute.

I don't have much patience for people who rewrite history and ignore scientific procedure and measurement.

Scientists were far more aware than the general public of how the scientific findings of the past decade, the supercomputer calculations and ice core measurements and data on rising global temperatures, had raised the plausibility of greenhouse warming forecasts.

RussiaGate — Even when global warming alarmists base claims on scientific measurements, they've often had their finger on the scale.

Normal, non-ideology-based scientists question the veracity of the CRU — IPCC flavoured results just because the JBM camaraderie - based group did refuse to honour such requests and people ask the following question: why, if both the empirical results — the raw data (including the nitty - gritty details of the temperature measurements) AND the theoretical model - based machinery are above board and the overall climatological picture of a man (n)- made warming is pretty much a safe bet, why then would some AGW researchers like the JBM gang refuse to accept that they, too, have got to conform to normal scientific procedure and release the raw data and the details of the theoretical machinery used to understand those data?

It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human - induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases -LSB-...] Since long - term measurements began in the 1950s, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been increasing at a rate much faster than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

According to scientific measurements, both the thickness and extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic have shown a dramatic decline over the past thirty years.

I had a minor concern in how, in scientific circles like RC, the level of confidence is drawn, like (exaggerating a bit): «Bad measurements that show warming?

But one would be hard - pressed to claim a unique location (or several) represents the result of CO2 - induced global climate change when scientific measurement - reality obviously indicates accelerating, doomsday sea level rise is not a global phenomenon.

Never mind that we have no real - world observations or physical measurements or controlled scientific experiments verifying «how it is supposed to work».

So, there has to be a combined approach where the lab experiments like CLOUD improve the scientific understanding, but at the same time the observational measurements sharpen the knowledge of what's in the atmosphere.

A January study in a scientific journal used another set of measurements to confirm the readings and prove again that the earth's temperature is rising quickly and that the warming has not paused.

The high level of interest in scientific circles in upper tropospheric (and stratospheric) water vapor is because it is easy to demonstrate by theory and measurement that small amounts of water vapor at high altitudes have disproportionate effects.

I'm sure witch doctors had the same attitude toward the scientific method, which is based on testable measurements and observations.

Harding's claims in argument that Toor had «falsified» measurements and «misquoted» scientific literature were «inappropriate and unfair» according to Voith, who said they were «intended to and would have the effect of unfairly prejudicing the jury against Dr. Toor.»