Sentences with phrase «signal be a false alarm»

Immediately, the probability that the signal was a false alarm went way, way down, O'Reilly said.

Not exact matches

Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were false alarms because they signaled the potential occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.

«The software first checks if a signal is an earthquake, because noise can give false alarms.

A false alarm, where LIGO mistakes a signal from a non - astrophysical source like an earthquake or lightning strike as a gravitational wave, is only likely to occur once every 70,000 years,» Bose said.

We suspect that many of these new candidates at the low signal - to - noise limit may be false alarms created by instrumental noise, and discuss our efforts to identify such objects.

There is a peak at 32 days with an even higher false alarm probability value, the fit does converge to a sensible eccentricity but it is going to be difficult to make a case for its existence based on such a weak signal.

The policy sets out a distinction between what happens at the premises, the point at which the alarm signal is considered a «false alarm», if there is no fire; and at the fire brigade where the signal becomes an «unwanted fire signal».

Changes in response If no management plan is in place at a later date and a false alarm reaches the FRS as an Unwanted Fire Signal, then the FRS can instigate the changes in the response level given in the plan, but they will still work with the premises to improve the system.

Many people don't use turn signals consistently, so the result is a lot of alerts that drivers may perceive as false alarms.

I do this several times until the dog gives up responding to these signals as he learns that they are all «false alarms.»