Not exact matches
Thurston: Nate Silver just came out
with The
Signal and the
Noise.
Such advice comes as no surprise to readers of Fried's 15 years of posts on his company's popular and influential blog,
Signal vs.
Noise or who have read any of his books, like Rework, the New York Times best - seller he co-wrote
with his Basecamp partner, David Heinemeier Hansson.
Again, that's a little simplistic, but it conveys the idea - you separate
signals from
noise by looking to the uniformity of action between one variable and other variables that are correlated
with it.
Lineshape spectroscopy
with a very high resolution, very high
signal - to -
noise crystal spectrometer
With a few dozen of these a day, they're all
noise, no
signal.
Suffice it to say that the improvement in new unemployment claims strikes me as a legitimately hopeful development, but there is too much short - term
noise, and inconsistency
with other economic evidence (reliable leading indicators, falling tax withholdings) to draw a convincing
signal.
Digital acoustical cry analyses captures qualities like frequency, energy, and
signal - to -
noise ratio and show that a pain cry has a different pattern from other cries (it's high - pitched, loud, and sudden,
with some breath - holding).
The
noise was measured in decibels
with a
signal - to -
noise ratio and not surprisingly, the lower the ratio, the easier it was for toddlers to learn.
Sometimes, if the outcome is common (for example heart disease in known diabetics who are taking medication for diabetes, as
with Avandia) the
signal from the drug gets lost in the background
noise from the disease.
Some ideas are to come up
with hand
signals or words that remain your little secret codes to indicate when it's time to leave the park or to do homework or to dial the activity level or
noise volume down a few notches.
A single, small, retrospective case - control study examined the use of newborn transient evoked otoacoustic emission hearing screening tests as a tool for identifying infants at subsequent risk of SIDS.343 Infants who subsequently died from SIDS did not fail their hearing tests but, compared
with controls, showed a decreased
signal - to -
noise ratio score in the right ear only (at frequencies of 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz).
This panel combines new generations of FISH technologies, pairing oligonucleotide - based SureFISH technology
with a ready - to - use formulation of formamide - free IQ Hybridization Buffer, resulting in high
signal - to -
noise ratios
with less than 4 hours of turnaround time.
Now, the «smart» bandage developed by the team provides direct, noninvasive measurement of tissue oxygenation by combining three simple, compact and inexpensive components: a bright sensor molecule
with a long phosphorescence lifetime and appropriate dynamic range; a bandage material compatible
with the sensor molecule that conforms to the skin's surface to form an airtight seal; and an imaging device capable of capturing the oxygen - dependent
signals from the bandage
with high
signal - to -
noise ratio.
These
signals can then act as a scaffold that, after interaction
with a second copy of the data
signal in a second fibre, removes the
noise and generates a pristine version.
«It allowed us to go from imaging at one frame per minute to 30 frames per second
with a good
signal to
noise ratio,» says Saar.
The team came up
with a relatively simple algorithm to find the
signal within the
noise.
Using a
signal generator to produce precisely measured sounds similar to ambient
noise they saw a 50 per cent increase in efficiency, rising from 1.2 per cent without sound to 1.8 per cent
with sound (Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002 / adma.201303304).
With our technique, high contrast wide field imaging with high signal to noise ratio is now possible, which leads to high sensitivity wide field imaging.&ra
With our technique, high contrast wide field imaging
with high signal to noise ratio is now possible, which leads to high sensitivity wide field imaging.&ra
with high
signal to
noise ratio is now possible, which leads to high sensitivity wide field imaging.»
«The high detection efficiency and low dark count rate of the SNSPD means that the weak
signal from the backscattered light can be detected
with a high
signal - to -
noise ratio,» said Xia.
Moreover, it suggests that we seem to use specific strategies for making sense of confusing information — the «
noise» interfering
with the
signal conveyed in language, as researchers think of it.
The scientists hereby investigated numerous scenarios
with diverse line spread functions and
signal - to -
noise ratios.
The filter Nakata developed and then refined
with help from his Stanford colleagues represents a new way of processing the ambient
noise by comparing each observation to every other observation, which boosts the body - wave
signal while reducing the
noise.
That detection was riddled
with problems, drawn out from spurious data, and ignored a low
signal - to -
noise ratio in search of a sensational new planet, the kind science fiction has long dreamed of.
This antisound is then fed into the speaker along
with the voice
signal so that the background
noise is cancelled as it enters the ear.
But those loggers record only 5 minutes of sound every 15 minutes, and any
signals are likely to be contaminated
with noise from seismic surveys, says Duncan.
«A very careful re-check of data from that station showed a
signal, almost buried in the background
noise but consistent
with what was recorded on the IMOS recorder off Rottnest,» Dr Duncan said.
In predictive analysis, Lu hopes to use the system to take in
signals with noise, like static from far - off radio stations, and produce a cleaner stream of data.
NICT developed the technology to perform the time synchronization and polarization reference frame matching between the satellite and the ground station directly from the QKD
signals, as well as a quantum receiver capable of detecting such a weak
signal with low
noise.
To help
with this, the team uses reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT - PCR), converting RNA into complementary DNA and replicating it over and over until the viral genetic
signal rises above the bacterial and eukaryotic
noise.
That's because there are insufficient data to determine how the ill effects of
noise created by ships, sonar
signals, and other activities interact
with other threats, including pollution, climate change, and the loss of prey due to fishing.
The focus of the RET experience was digital
signal processing, and
with the assistance of WVU engineering faculty, each teacher built their own 21 cm horn antenna, including the low
noise amplifier!
This
noise performance is achieved without sacrificing
signal fidelity; test sinusoids injected into the data are attenuated by less than 10 % for
signals with periods up 15 days.
The researchers tested out their device on a mouse model and found that the electrodes can record action and local field potentials of neurons
with high
signal - to -
noise ratio.
Approaches successful in other systems, such as modeling
signal transduction and synthetic biology methodologies [32] could improve future generations of detector plants by enhancing
signal transmission and providing means to deal
with biological «
noise».
Together, they found that the human gene PTCHD1, which is missing in around 1 % of patients
with autism, plays a crucial role in suppressing
noise and allowing the brain to perceive
signals unimpeded.
The disk around T Cha is detected in all observing modes and its outer disk is resolved in scattered light
with unprecedented angular resolution and
signal - to -
noise.
Instead, they weed out all the data that doesn't meet a certain
signal - to -
noise ratio automatically, leaving them
with only the best candidates.
With a
signal - to -
noise ratio of 411, that event was the brightest fast radio burst detected so far by quite a wide margin.
We describe how we measure the completeness and reliability and how they vary
with period,
signal - to -
noise, number of transits, and stellar type.
This allows us to build imaging systems that detect specific application relevant information in the huge amount of accessible optical data
with the best possible
signal to
noise ratio.
This system is also biotin - free, which eliminates background staining found
with traditional biotin - based detection methods and improves
signal - to -
noise ratios.
The isotopologue, 13CCH2, is clearly detected
with high
signal - to -
noise.
Abstract: Modal
noise in optical fibers imposes limits on the
signal to
noise and velocity precision achievable
with the next generation of astronomical spectrographs.
Thus Scheller, Südhof and Rothman have together revealed not only the identity of the molecules that initiate vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release, but also how they act in a coordinated and precisely controlled manner that ensures neuronal
signalling occurs
with maximum efficiency and minimum background «
noise.»
In addition, a photonic integrated circuit can remove background
noise from an RF
signal with unprecedented precision, which will increase the
signal to
noise performance and make possible new benchmarks in low power performance.
In comparisons, these preprocessing methods are often assessed
with only a single metric of rs - fMRI data quality, such as reliability, without considering other aspects in tandem, such as
signal - to -
noise ratio and group discriminability.
That was all necessary because Earth's surface is filled
with noise that makes it tough to spot the waves»
signals — it would be a lot easier to study gravitational waves from the relative quiet of space.
After we have calculated the S indices for the 5,648 main - sequence stars based on the LAMOST spectra
with signal - to -
noise ratios higher than 10 in the blue part of the spectrum, including the subset of 48 superflare stars, it is possible to calculate the flare rates.
Many of these spectrogra... ▽ More Modal
noise in optical fibers imposes limits on the
signal to
noise and velocity precision achievable
with the next generation of astronomical spectrographs.
We are delighted
with the performance of the ultraFAIMS device from Owlstone: The improved
signal - to -
noise shows great promise for our protein analysis work.