Sentences with phrase «time observations over»

Not exact matches

Over the weekend I listened to Russ Roberts» interview with Jason Zweig, who made an excellent observation of how vast the financial markets are and how little time investors spend thinking about this: I think if there's one overriding theme to the book, one of the things I've tried to get across in The Devil's...

I believe that the observations made support a process of change over time that benefit a species.

This observation from Ethics and Politics makes clear his view that a natural morality is forged by people over time through trial and error.

The theory makes sense of general observations that church culture changes over time, whilst remaining the church.

That said, I don't consider an observation of Yule (fact: this was a Germanic pagan tradition LONG before the birth of Christ) or Eostre / Ishtar / Easter (all sorts of convoluted Roman and pagan traditions regarding celebration of spring and death / resurrection were happening around this time of year prior to Christ's existence) to be favoring one religion over another, since so many different religions are involved in those mixes.

«Based on declining whistleblower activity over time, and other observations to date, we expect we will see this non-compliance rate decline further as we complete the final tranche of audits during 2018 - 19.»

«By the time we entered tranche two of our program, a much larger group, it was around 60 per cent... Based on declining whistle - blower activity over time, and other observations to date, we expect we will see this non-compliance rate decline further as we complete the final tranche of audits during 2018 - 19.»

«The goal here is to drive those numbers down through rules changes, culture changes, protocol changes, through greater observation and treatment over a longer term period of time.»

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

The BICEP2 experiment used 512 detectors, which sped up observations of the cosmic microwave background by 10 times over the team's previous measurements.

From 1950 to the present, however, birdwatchers have reported almost 500 new observations of flamingos in Florida, with both flock size and the frequency of observations increasing over time.

Detailed observations of lake chemistry over long periods of time are rare.

As compelling as the technique is, it has yet to deliver any detections, although the likelihood of success grows over time as astronomers incorporate more pulsars into their observations.

«This dust - formation process can occur continuously for years, with the dust slowly building up over time, which aligns with astronomer's observations of varying amounts of dust surrounding the sites of stellar explosions,» added lead author Liu.

Together they will allow researchers to make observations over a wider energy range, capture detailed snapshots of rapid processes, probe delicate samples that are beyond the reach of other light sources and gather more data in less time, thus greatly increasing the number of experiments that can be performed at this pioneering facility.

Given widespread observation of habitat change and individual species declines — and knowing that extinction rates are many times higher than normal — the scientists predicted a drop, over time, in the number of species observed in most of these studies.

«The fact that most of the countries that did not show an increase in individualist values were among the lowest in socioeconomic development over the time period examined is consistent with the observation that socioeconomic development drove the rise in individualism,» the researchers explain in their paper.

Using their satellite - based observations — recorded in 2007, 2010, and 2014 — they were able to estimate pore pressure changes at these wells over time, including during the 2012 magnitude 4.8 Timpson earthquake, the region's largest temblor.

The observation could explain how a gene that specifies a particular behavior can adapt to accommodate changes in brain circuitry that happen over evolutionary time.

The New York Times, back when it knew how to write great headlines, was even more effusive: «Lights All Askew in the Heavens / Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations / Einstein's Theory Triumphs.»

In a press conference Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, three researchers discussed how detailed satellite observations have facilitated ecological studies of change over time.

To track how glaciers grew and shrank over time, the scientists extracted sediment cores from a glacier - fed lake that provided the first continuous observation of glacier change in southeastern Greenland.

«Various observations of one particular star over the years and with different telescopes have revealed vastly different things — at one time a pulsar and the other an X-ray binary,» said Alessandro Papitto of the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas — Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature.

«The observations show the blobs moving over time,» Sahai said.

Over time, the rings spread out, and the icy bits that drifted farthest from Saturn eventually reached distances where their gravitational attraction for each other could overcome the planet's tidal forces that tended to rip them apart — a process that is still happening today, according to observations by the Cassini spacecraft now touring the Saturn system.

We have already been able to make some interesting observations on real world chloride concentration changes over just 24 hour periods, illustrating the dangers of relying on single point, single time measurements.»

Using satellite observations, they found higher levels of impurities in the snow and atmosphere between 2009 and 2013 — a time in which impurity levels over Antarctica stayed constant.

Observations long ago revealed that the perihelion shifts over time, called precession.

Newborns» cortisol levels were measured during and after neurobehavioral exams (involving behavioral responses to different stimuli, reflex testing, and observation) conducted seven times over the first month of life.

Until now, the SETI project has relied on time borrowed from instruments like the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, and has had little control over the extent and nature of the observations.

QRIO, a robot programmed with a slew of social functions, was placed in U.C. San Diego's Early Childhood Education Center 45 times over the five - month observation period.

While the study does not prove that hydraulic fracturing actually causes these health problems, the authors say, the hospitalization increases observed over the relatively short time span of observation suggests that healthcare costs of hydraulic fracturing must be factored into the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil drilling.

The authors report the observation of a bulk nuclear spin polarization of six - percent, which is an NMR signal enhancement of approximately 170,000 times over thermal equilibrium.

Satellite observations from NASA's ICESat - 1, which measures how much ice surfaces are rising or falling over time, revealed that Totten Glacier was thinning rapidly.

This observation over time meant that the single flare may account for what appeared to be rings of dust, she said — It's kind of like getting three zeroes and a hundred on three tests.

Science Interests Formation of galaxies and black holes in the early universe and their growth over cosmic time; large surveys with Hubble and other telescopes to discover new populations of distant galaxies and black holes; physical properties of active galactic nuclei using observations from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet through to X-ray energies.

Only 14 of the reports record a series of observations of the animals over time — most reports are single observations.

While this leads to an elevation in the level of scientific understanding from very low in the TAR to low in this assessment, uncertainties remain large because of the lack of direct observations and incomplete understanding of solar variability mechanisms over long time scales.»

But in a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers have described a TDE that is over 10 times longer in duration than previous observations.

Indeed, the very first indirect observations of gravitational waves were made with pulsars: it was found that their rotational energy was decreasing (they rotated more slowly over time), at exactly the rate that we would expect if they were shedding that energy by giving off gravitational waves!

Rathbun uses ground - based observations of Io to understand how the intensity of Io's volcanoes changes over time.

Over the three months that followed the initial detection, the technique was able to obtain radar echoes from Chandrayaan - 1 seven more times, including during follow - up observations made by the powerful Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Such observations are able to see change over time and help with interpretation of satellite cloud data.

It requires that the Sun's brightness increased more in the past century than at any time in the past millennium, including over the past 30 years, contrary to the direct space - based observations.

Rather than use a model - based estimate, as did Hansen (2005) and Trenberth (2009), the authors achieve this by calculating it from observations of ocean heat content (down to 1800 metres) from the PMEL / JPL / JIMAR data sets over the period July 2005 to June 2010 - a time period dominated by the superior ARGO - based system.

«And though the HARPS team was able to hit the star with much higher cadence over the past 6 years, our early observations more than doubled the overall time base of the data set, enabling much stronger constraints to be placed on the planet solutions.»

Jen talks Mike through the close linkage between observations and theory: it's hard to conceive of an Antarctic Circumpolar Current composed of a horde of eddies if you can only look over the side of one ship at a time.

Because Pluto has 56 days for every Earth year, it takes almost week for it to complete a single rotation giving us an interesting data set By spreading out those observations over 14 days, there's enough information to see how the surface changes over a time.

However, recent observations have found that over 80 % of the deep water over the ESAS is supersaturated, with methane levels more than eight times that of normal seawater (Shakhova 2010).

One of the key science drivers for the extension was the study of proper motions of stars in dwarf galaxies, which requires observations taken over as long a time baseline as possible.