Sentences with phrase «shaped by their observations»

However, prior belief about the climate system tends to be shaped by observations of that system, and thus it is difficult, maybe even impossible, to develop truly independent prior distributions.

Not exact matches

By observation, analysis, judgment and reform, worship can become a force for shaping a community based on justice.

McLuhan's thinking on the subject began with the observation that societies are shaped more by the nature of the media through which they communicate than by the content of their communication.

Nor is this requirement altered by the observation, which Cobb seems to me to make rather more of than he should, that the philosopher, too, always stands in a special tradition which shapes his vision.

Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) observations revealed an irregularly shaped body characterized by significant brightness variations over the surface.

«Guided by observations that show that the membrane thickness varies from pole to pole, we constructed a mathematical model that considers the egg to be a pressurized elastic shell that grows and showed that we can capture the entire range of egg shapes observed in nature,» said Mahadevan.

But Spencer and his colleagues think they may be able to dispel those doubts by determining the 3D shape of the hot spot from earlier observations of Io on the same day, when the telescope had a more direct view.

In an effort to understand how black holes shape the evolution of galaxies, astronomers spent eight months creating a series of time - lapse movies from 400 observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Based on these observations, sex - specific body shape and lipid accumulation could already be determined in utero, especially in insulin sensitive locations varying by fetal sex.

One of the key areas of congruence throughout the state data from Florida, Tennessee, and Georgia is the generally high scores given to teachers during classroom observations, a finding that comes right as new research is revealing clues about the properties of such observations and how they are shaped by the norms within schools.

Young Milanese artist Fugazza is the latest to take on London's Zabludowicz Collection, where her abstract and figurative works inspired by daily observations — in motherhood, artmaking, or on her mobile device — consider how circumstances shape our destiny.

«Kelly's visual vocabulary is drawn from observation of the world around him — shapes and colors found in plants, architecture, shadows on a wall or a lake — and has been shaped by his interest in the spaces between places and objects and between his work and its viewers.

Vibrant hues of Smoke are placed in sublime landscapes in a series of work titled Silence Shapes, which are influenced by the artists observation of the medium used in volatile public protests.

His visual vocabulary was drawn from observation of the world around him — shapes and colors found in plants, architecture, shadows — and has been shaped by his interest in the spaces between places and objects, and between his work and its viewers: «In my work I don't want you to look at the surface; I want you to look at the form, the relationships.»

Whatever term you use, it's clear that the world is quickly being knitted by new ways to share observations and shape ideas that are bound to have profound impacts on the quality of the human journey.

The December gathering, just across the Hudson from the mountain, in Garrison, centered on a lecture by the University of Oklahoma historian Robert D. Lifset, laying out the observations in «Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism,» his rich new history of that event and how it shaped environmental activism and law ever since.

However, a «50 - year Gaussian filter» as was used by Briffa and Jones the 99 Science and RG articles is a clever bell - shaped filter that has a 50 - year characteristic period (in terms of its half - amplitude, I believe), yet uses well under 50 observations, and hence can get even closer to the end without endpadding issues arising.

The remaining lines in the top panel of the figure describe the shape of this distribution by plotting its median (i.e. the point that divides the distribution into an equal number of observations, such that 500 are above and another 500 below that point), its 25th percentile or quartile (labelled Q25, referring to the point that has 250 budgets below it and the remaining 750 above), and finally its minimum.

However, by the time of his revised Nature reply, he'd realized that the problem was deeper and conceded that the bristlecone shape had been demoted to the PC4 (an observation noted in MM 2005 (GRL, EE)-RRB-.

Using meteorological and air traffic data scaled to regional observations of contrail cover, Sausen et al. (1998) estimated the present day global mean cover by line - shaped contrails to be about 0.1 %.

While it's debatable whether or not leaders are born, we think they are shaped by their environment and by their observation of others.