Sentences with phrase «sense of how»

Basically, you get either a flood of general links without a clear sense of how they relate back to your original query or a short list that does not provide you with the specific information you need.

An operator would monitor how the system is changing, as well as how the weather is affecting it, and have a solid sense of how to best maintain a second - by - second balance between load (demand) and generation.

When males belt out solos from safe inside their burrows, their calls tend to be deeper and longer, giving females a good sense of how deep the holes are and how wide their entrances may be.

«I don't think many of us have a sense of how dangerous this is,» he says.

The nature of the challenge provides some sense of how far the Internet has come, considering the resources that would have been required to compete in the same event in 1969.

This will help us get a better sense of how and when these concussions happen.

Many artists agree we'll never know whether a particular drawing accurately represents a creature that's been dead for 80 million years, but they also say it is possible to get a sense of how far off dinosaur art could be by exposing the process of layered guesswork.

«We have to recognize all the complicated issues that iPS research is engaging and get a sense of how existing laws and policies play out,» Caulfield said.

It just gives you some sense of how hard it is to trap them, to nail them down.

«When you come here, people in cities don't have a sense of how small we are in the big evolutional picture.

Researchers have started using detailed interviews with prisoners to get a better sense of how many have suffered from a brain injury.

You can control time in a way that you can never do in real life and get some sense of how chaotic a system can be.

To get a sense of how these large brains evolved, Michael McGowen, an evolutionary biologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and his colleagues compared the dolphin's genome with two of its closest land - loving, small - brained relatives, the cow and the horse, as well as the dog.

To get a better sense of how liquefaction works, the team built a model that more accurately replicated what happens in the real world.

By looking at variations in genes for hair and skin color and in the «speech» gene, we have also gained a better sense of how we are similar to and different from Neandertals.

She wanted to get a sense of how dogs may have aided early humans in taking down game, so she did her best to approximate the activity: In 2011, she joined a group of Japanese businessmen on a wild boar hunt in a dense forest near Hiroshima.

We do, however, have a good sense of how effective these changes would be.

A college professor I met thought he could use PACO to get a sense of how students are handling their workload.

We may not think about these little cues, but they give a sense of how things evolved, so that you could come to this planet and believe that it had a long history without knowing any of it.

People have a sense of how trustworthy they look.

Seeing these sophisticated textiles gives us a rich sense of how developed their aesthetic style was, says Good.

Read a few lines of Chaucer or Shakespeare and you'll get a sense of how the English language has changed during the past millennium.

From only two events, we don't have a firm sense of how often they happen — perhaps one to a few dozen such events a year would occur in a cube 3 billion light years to a side, according to a follow - up paper from the LIGO team.

I remember that fantastic sense of how surreal Haiti was, a place of such poverty, where people adorn their lives with their imaginations.

We are now getting a real sense of how cholera is moving across the globe, and with that information we can inform improved control strategies as well as basic science to better understand how a simple bacterium continues to pose such a threat to human health.»

Once they had a sense of how many sharks were in the densest communities and combined that with previous data on the sharks» movements, they modeled an estimate for the population as a whole.

Sometimes you just get a sense of how you should do it.

They send them out across the Atlantic Ocean to fly above imminent storms forming out around like the Canary Islands, so that they can really start to get a sense of how do hurricanes form and how do they get launched into the trajectories that they follow.

Although he never fully articulated it, this instinct for beauty would surface again and again in his very particular sense of how a proper law of physics worked, what proper math looked like, and the way nature should operate.

Primed for paralysis The Guillain — Barré complication is just another wrinkle in an already formidable health problem: We do not have a true sense of how common Zika has become.

Together the images give a sense of how the nervous system allocates space among glial cells, axons, and dendrites.

Vitae analyzed the career progression of the 2006 — 07 Ph.D. cohort, comparing it to its previous analysis of the 2004 — 05 Ph.D. cohort to get a sense of how the economic crisis has affected the employment of recent Ph.D. graduates.

In fact, this goes to sort of the sense of how it is that the origins of the domestication of the cat seems to be started over in the Fertile Crescent and basically right around [the] time that we had the origins of agriculture.

Ecologist Ron Thresher got a sense of how the public might react to gene drives when he described his plan to use genetic engineering to rid the Australian waterways of invasive European carp, a voracious fish that can turn a crystal - clear stream into «a disgusting mudhole.»

If you're pitching a longer story, such as a feature, make sure your pitch also gives a sense of how you will tell it.

So when we're surveying with something like Kepler, we should allow ourselves to think of habitability as broadly as possible, to think of life as being as capable as possible, and get some overall sense of how much habitable real estate might be out there.

No one had any sense of how it might have vanished.

Curious about the brain's «instruction manual» during development, Donato sought to make sense of how the brain's components work together to form a highly functional organ.

«We have a lot to figure out about how to use this therapy, and we need to treat a few hundred patients in order to get a better sense of how to refine the synergy of these two classes of drugs.

Patients also have to factor in their own sense of how much they fear a heart attack or stroke — all the while knowing there are other means of prevention with almost no risk that can get lost in the statin debate, including weight loss, exercise and a better diet.

And, with their help, we get a sense of how much work is going on to develop the new tools and technologies that underpin scientific progress and allow research scientists and engineers to tackle some of the biggest scientific questions ever.

We get a sense of how these threads have sometimes become tangled and torn; for example, of how the simultaneously mounting pressures of his disability and fame contributed to the failure of his first marriage.

This gave her a sense of how long it would take to complete each task and empowered her to say «no» to additional requests that arose.

To get a sense of how truly dark the Coalsack is, back in 1970, the Finnish astronomer Kalevi Mattila published a study estimating that the Coalsack has only about 10 percent of the brightness of the encompassing Milky Way.

Scientists now have much more information about faults both major and minor; just as significant, they have developed a much keener sense of how to proceed when data are lacking.

How can today's education prepare them to make sense of how the world works; to think critically and independently; and to lead interesting, responsible, and productive lives in a culture increasingly shaped by science and technology?

Knowing how the cosmic clumpiness changed since then will help researchers get a sense of how, or if, dark energy changed as well.

To get a sense of how people would feel about finding intelligent aliens, Varnum analyzed reports that the interstellar asteroid «Oumuamua could be an alien spaceship (SN Online: 12/18/17).

The visit became necessary after the ITLOS ruling to give the Defence Ministry and the Ghana Armed Forces a sense of how best to support companies like Tullow in the area of security and asset protection and ward off potential dangers like terrorism.

You can always get a sense of how fearful of a breaking story a politician is by his public schedule immediately afterward.