Sentences with phrase «time scales based»

Using data, with long time scales based on two data points a day... lacks.

Not exact matches

I make working out a priority or else I turn into a grumpy monster, but even if that weren't the case, some of Lopez's methods are accessible enough to be scaled back and done by someone who's pressed for time or unfamiliar with the more core - based styles.

The digital platform we're experimenting with, designed by Waterloo - based Plasticity Labs, asks us to make daily estimates of our happiness on a scale of 1 - 100 and to occasionally answer questions like, How often do you make time for things that make you happy?

An account - based everything platform like Engagio, is essential to both orchestrating and scaling account - based marketing during this time.

So we tried harder, optimised first response times, average response times, our knowledge base, canned responses and built better dashboards for monitoring all of these (all the while scaling the backend for the chat volume),» he said.

Although these innovations are operating on different time scales — MPLs are an immediate consideration, and blockchain - based supply chains could take a few years to mature — wholesale bankers need to get up to speed on each, at an equal degree of urgency.

Following the Anglo - Irish agreement of 1985 and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, American investment flooded into Ireland and protectionist legislation on a broader scale within the European Union at around that time also encouraged this, since American companies now needed a base within Europe if they were not to be at a serious disadvantage trading here.

At the time of its acquisition of Tanumbirini Station, Reza Vishkai, head of Global Farmland at Insight Investment, said: «The Northern Territory has a comparative advantage for beef production due to its geographical proximity to export markets, the low intensity pasture based production system and the economies of scale.»

I wouldn't expect the AHA to soften its recommendation given that it is evidence - based (though one wonders why they didn't at least create a sliding age scale, differentiating the toddler from a strapping teen boy, e.g.) but at the same time, it's such a stringent bar that it feels almost theoretical!

With states and counties showing increased interest in adopting evidence - based methods for preventing or reducing child maltreatment and for parent training of families involved with child welfare services, it is now time to test this array of science - informed and promising parent training programs and program components on a national scale.

A base booster seat is a pretty standard seat and often times are on the lower end of the price scale which makes them perfection options for families on a budget.

Policymakers and funders should use the available research on implementation and encourage future work to guide decisions about how to scale up evidence - based programs effectively and support them over time.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Besides scaling the ask, savvy fundraisers also tailor the ask over time, for instance soliciting different amounts based on a person's donation history — a $ 10 donor might be asked to donate $ 20 the next time around, but someone who'd donated $ 150 might be safe to hit up for $ 200.

This special issue addresses modern developments in controlling and manipulating light: how light - based technologies are shrinking and becoming faster (Koenderink et al., p. 516); how recent theoretical developments in the manipulation of light are being implemented to provide materials with properties not available in nature (Pendry et al., p. 521); how the quantum properties of light are being exploited in new technologies (Walmsley, p. 525); and how new light sources are coming online that can probe the structure of matter on spatial and time scales that provide an exquisitely detailed picture of our microscopic world (Miao et al., p. 530).

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

«The carbon nanotube transistor carries over four times the electrical current density of the best similarly scaled silicon - based transistor,» Franklin says.

«Based on what we've found, it is possible that sea - level rise over decadal time scales will be a key storyline in future climate predictions,» he said.

Lead author Dr. Joseph Ripberger said: «We matched high - resolution data on climate conditions from the Oklahoma Mesonet to the Meso - Scale Integrated Socio - geographic Network (M - SISNet), an address - based panel survey that continuously measures public perceptions of climatic conditions over time.»

«Though humpback whales are found in all oceans of the world, the North Pacific humpback whales should probably be considered a sub-species at an ocean - basin level — based on genetic isolation of these populations on an evolutionary time scale,» said Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center and lead author on the paper.

Yeakel created a timeline based on existing records from paleontology, archaeology, and art, which picks up about where the fossils leave off and zooms in on a much shorter time scale.

Scientists designed synthetic scales based on this model and applied them to LEDs to make them emit one and a half times their normal light.

Many types of fish undertake migrations on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and with distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers.

Based on analyses of scales from highly relevant species for aquaculture such as common carp (Cyprinus carpio), gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata), sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) as well as from fish commonly used in experimental studies such as zebrafish (Danio rerio), it was found that glucocorticoids, especially cortisol, incorporate in fish scales over time.

Given the complexity and scale of the interfaces required, Shepard and his team believe that the degree of noninvasiveness required for human use within this aggressive time frame can only be achieved with electrode architectures based on stimulation and recording at the brain surface.

«Other researchers use x-rays to capture atomic motions, so no one thought we could ever develop a bright enough source based on electrons as they undergo electron - electron repulsion and would blow up without being able to capture an image on the incredibly short time scale required,» says Miller.

«Importantly, in this study, the thermoplastic properties appear to be retained over a time - scale of several months which has been an issue with other starch - based plastics.»

The team investigated patterns of magnetic reversals — another method to determine age based on knowledge about an era's magnetic orientation — and calibrated the sediments containing the fossils using Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale (GPTS).

These include two flagship papers: one exploiting genomic - scale data to generate a highly supported avian order phylogeny that resolves many debates on the timing and topology of their radiation; the other a comparative genomic analysis exploring avian genome evolution and the genetic basis of complex traits.

Professor Colin Waters, who led the study, said: «Of the 65 «golden spikes» of the Geological Time Scale currently ratified, all but one are located in strata that accumulated on the sea floor, the one exception being the ice core used to define the base of the Holocene Epoch.

If clock time gets more than about 0.4 seconds out of step with astronomical time then the Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) based in the Paris Observatory announce a leap second needs to be inserted so that the two time scales always agree to better than one second.

They wrote that their comparisons of sea - level pressures, sea - surface temperatures and land - based air temperatures provided «consistent evidence for strong» regulation of temperatures by changes in ocean cycles «from monthly to century time scales.»

For significant periods of time, the reconstructed large - scale changes in the North Pacific SLP field described here and by construction the long - term decline in Hawaiian winter rainfall are broadly consistent with long - term changes in tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) based on ENSO reconstructions documented in several other studies, particularly over the last two centuries.

«Ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation are essentially irreversible on centennial time scales,» found the Royal Society, a London - based group specializing in scientific research, in a 2011 paper, «[O] nce these changes have occurred, it will take centuries for the ocean to recover.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian / American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half - mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal.

The generally much shorter time scale of ground - based projects also is better suited to the training of students.

Up to two controls without pneumonia were matched based on time since AD... diagnoses, age, and gender for each case; AC use was measured using Anticholinergic Drug Scale.

[D] espite the strong mechanistic or physiological basis for a role of warming in coral bleaching and coral growth, a robust demonstration of a direct causal link between global warming and global coral bleaching over decadal time scales has not yet been produced.»

In addition to the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised that is mainly based on participants» behaviour during their childhood, we also obtained the maternal - reported Social Responsiveness Scale to measure participants» behaviour at the time of experiments (Constantino, 2002).

Dating - The isochron method: Many radioactive dating methods are based on minute additions of daughter products to a rock or mineral in which a Interweaving the relative time scale with the atomic time scale poses certain problems because only certain types of rocks, chiefly the igneous variety

Yesterday we brought you a look at some promotional images for Hot Toys» upcoming Tactical Batsuit Batman from Justice League [see here], and now we're going back in time to 2005 for the latest collectible, a 1/4 scale Dark Knight figure based upon the likeness of Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan's acclaimed franchise reboot Batman Begins; -LSB-...]

During the many time - based battles, you'll still hack away at enemy creatures, and although you don't see your hunter carve up the monsters your defeat, items such as hides, scales, and bones still manage to find their way into your inventory.

In most educational programs, traditional time - based assessments provide a single quantitative grade, more often than not on some kind of «pass - fail» scale.

My 4th grade students and I were working on our own small - scale project - based learning units at the time centered around questions of school citizenship and character values.

What if we could scale up evidence - based practices, shift the reform conversation in a more positive direction, and boost student outcomes, all at the same time?

I have then tried to explain pros and cons for each of them on the basis of following - Technical Skill vs. Features vs. Scale vs. Customization vs. Cost vs. Time vs. Inhouse / Outsource.

Personalize learning experiences: Capitalize on technology's efficiencies and functionality to meet students» individual learning needs, for example, scaled tests and quizzes; adaptability tools and features; software data that can capture where students are struggling or spending the bulk of their time; competency - based learning resources; tools that facilitate student reflection; project planning, organization and time management; communication; collaborative work; individual research and curation; and design and creativity.

And if we hope to instill grit in every student, a requirement for doing it at scale is competency - based learning — in which students only progress once they have truly mastered a concept, not based on time — most likely powered by digital learning through which students come to take ownership over their learning.

The initial set of waivers required states to link personnel decisions to test - based student growth by the 2015 - 2016 school year, but given that the tests that the Department of Education encouraged states to adopt won't be released at scale until 2014 - 2015, not even the Department of Education thought that a year would be enough time to work out the kinks.

The first findings from a large - scale, population - based study that promises to reshape our understanding of how today's preschool children are spending their time — and how to deliver high - quality early learning experiences across all settings.