Sentences with phrase «year observation period»

More than half of the 23 cats living continuously on the University of Central Florida campus during an 11 - year observation period were estimated to be 6.8 years old or older.

Study participants whose genome exhibited an «unfavorable» methylation status at five or more of these sites had a risk of death within the 14 - year observation period that was seven times that of study participants whose methylation at these positions showed no abnormalities.

Not exact matches

Outperformers (winners) are funds with return observations for every month of the 15 - year period whose cumulative net return over the period exceeded that of their respective benchmark.

The Hubble Space Telescope alone has made more than a million observations since its 1990 launch; spacecraft at Mars, the moon and Saturn produced 120,000 new images during a typical 90 - day period this year.

«Trends of an increasing lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts over the 10 - year period and of a higher prevalence of suicidal ideation and plans among military personnel than among civilians in 2012/13 is a concerning and important observation with public - policy ramifications,» writes Dr. Jitender Sareen, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with coauthors.

The analysis of those observations, along with measurements of orbital periods over the next few years, could help recurrent novae beat rival candidates for the role of true type 1a progenitors.

A team led by Andreas Eckart (University of Cologne, Germany) has observed the region using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT)[1] over many years, including new observations during the critical period from February to September 2014, just before and after the peribothron event in May 2014.

Except, that is, for rules hammered out early in the telescope's development, which allow the researchers performing these «Guaranteed Time Observations» to keep their results to themselves for a one - year period.

With only a week of observations for an orbital period that spans almost four years, its future orbital path is still quite uncertain, but this asteroid could be back in Earth's neighborhood in 2032.

Sahai's team used Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to conduct observations of V Hydrae and its surrounding region over an 11 - year period, first from 2002 to 2004, and then from 2011 to 2013.

This study is based on an observation of paid service adoptions over the period 8 years on the social network of Skype that connects over 500 million people all around the world.

Observations made by Peter van de Kamp of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore College over a period of 40 years suggest that Barnard's star is accompanied by at least two dark companions, each with about the mass of Jupiter.

The work of these expeditions would be conducted «with instruments precisely alike, governed by precisely the same instructions, and for a period of one year at least, to record a series of the utmost possible synchronous observations.»

Actually finding an Earth - sized world circling as far from its star as Earth orbits the sun will take 365 days of observations to detect one pass, plus another year or two of data to verify the orbital period.

The denominator consisted of person - years, namely the average size of the young population (either athletes or nonathletes) in the Veneto region at risk × duration of the observation period.

Our new -LCB- \ em Spitzer -RCB- observations were taken two years after the original K2 discovery data and have a significantly higher cadence, allowing us to derive improved estimates for this planet's radius, semi-major axis, and orbital period, which greatly reduce the uncertainty in the prediction of near future transit times for the -LCB- \ em James Webb Space Telescope -RCB--LRB--LCB- \ em JWST -RCB--RRB- observations.

The movies, taken from observations conducted over a 13 - year period from 1995 - 2008, show a -LSB-...]

However, later observations by other astronomers using interferometric astrometry and recent radial velocity data found no evidence to support the existence of a companion greater than 0.8 Jupiter mass with an orbital period around Proxima Centauri of between one and about 2.7 years (Benedict et al, 1999).

For the earlier generation of models, results are based on the archived output from control runs (specifically, the first 30 years, in the case of temperature, and the first 20 years for the other fields), and for the recent generation models, results are based on the 20th - century simulations with climatological periods selected to correspond with observations.

Planets «b, c, and d» - On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009).

I hope maintaining these two custom - built transporters properly will make it possible to continue ALMA observations on the land of Atacama for 25 years, 35 years, or for a longer period of time.

The period where ARGO data makes up the bulk of data (2004 - 2008 in red) has a greater uncertainty only because their period of observation is much shorter (5 years), versus 11 years for the interval where XBT data predominates (1993 - 2003 in blue).

A graph showing the entire 4 - year period of observations of the star KIC 8462852 by the Kepler space telescope, between 2009 and 2013.

After 12 years of development by a large number of engineers and astronomers in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and at ESO, and following an extensive period of demanding work installing and testing this very complex instrument, initial observations have now confirmed that MATISSE is working as expected.

Researchers collected more than 55,000 observations of social interactions of spotted hyenas over a 20 year period in Kenya, making this one of the largest to date of social network dynamics in any non-human species.

Long Period Comets (Non-periodic comets) are comets that do not have confirmed observations at more than one perihelion passage and generally have orbital periods of 200 years or more.

Obtained observation data is firstly sent to a researcher who submitted the proposal, and after a proprietary period of one year, the data will be stored in the ALMA archive that is accessible from all over the world.

From 1999 to 2013, 4.5 percent of the patients over age 50 years developed dementia, of those, 5.3 percent had sustained at least one TBI during the observation period, which began in 1977.

Subsequent observations determined that the planetary body has an orbital period of 3.63 years, with a semi-major axis of around 2.36 AUs (slightly closer than Ceres's 2.77 AUs) and an eccentricity of 0.090 and an inclination of 7.14 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic (NASA factsheet).

By comparison, confirmation of an Earth - sized planet orbiting its host star at a distance of one AU like the Earth would take a full 12 months of observations, plus another year or two of repeated observation to confirm the orbital period.

Through meticulous observations over the span of 2.5 years, Martinez and collaborators were able to obtain a number of useful measurements for the system, including the pulsar's period (62 ms), the period of the binary (2.62 days), and the system's eccentricity (e = 0.17).

What's at stake in the film, after all, is the cultural observation at the end of the»90s that the beginning of the»90s was a period of moral vacuity, confusion, and listlessness following twelve years of Reagan optimism.

These families got between eight and 10 visits over a period of two years, with a combination of ethnographic participant observation and semistructured interviews.

Researchers examined pre-service teacher perceptions of their reflective practice, classroom teacher observations of the service - learning arrangement, and how the service - learning program contributed to arts activities at the elementary school over the project's five - year period.

For clinically oriented preparation programs to receive grants, they should differentiate themselves from more standard student teaching or shadowing and observation experiences by demonstrating how their students gain experience working alongside and leading a classroom for an extended period of time — at least one year.

Each data point represents a monthly observation of overlapping five - year periods, creating a visual illusion of more observations than we actually have.

A long - term study (published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association in 2003) of a Trap - Neuter - Return program noted that 83 % of the cats present at the end of the observation period had been there for more than six years — meaning that the cats» lifespans were comparable to the mean lifespan of 7.1 years for pet cats.

After a period of observation and tests, authorities may also opt to put the 3 - year - old dog on an exemption list.

A few paintings span observations made over a twenty - five year period.

Created over a three - year period, Philip Emde's trilogy of artist books — Misanthrop Ich, Schwarze Galle, and Arztbesuch — is a chronicle of drawings, quotes, and conversations collected from the artist's personal experiences and observations.

This brief period of action precedes an extended period of observation, one that can last anywhere from days to years, during which the paint dries and the next move is considered.

Satellite observations of the Greenland ice sheet, which are made daily, have shown that the period when snow melted during 2006 was 10 days longer than the average for the previous 18 years.

What observations do you offer that would encourage this other than claiming the last 3 years (2005 hottest) or last twelve (’98 hottest) equal global cooling when they are all among the hottest years in the last 2 million (a fundamentally flawed assertion that shows 100 % ignorance, or willful disregard, of basic scientific principles, namely that a three — twelve year period is not a long - term trend, but is variability until proven otherwise.)

These observations are being collected in our project over a period of several years as we build up a statistical data base of calving events.

The hydrologic cycle can change because of changes in plant cover — it's a common observation that after a forest fire or logging, streams and springs will flow higher and longer for a period of years.

This was in response to a graph by Roger Pielke Jr. presented in the New York Times Tierney Lab Blog that compared observations to IPCC projections over an 8 - year period.

If the cycle has a period of 60 - 70 years, that means we have one or two cycles of observations.

As a general observation my claim is, however, that every scenario that leads through scientifically justifiable arguments to very severe consequences over very long periods does that also over a period of about 100 years.

The GRACE observations over Antarctica suggest a near - zero change due to combined ice and solid earth mass redistribution; the magnitude of our GIA correction is substantially smaller than previous models have suggested and hence we produce a systematically lower estimate of ice mass change from GRACE data: we estimate that Antarctica has lost 69 ± 18 Gigatonnes per year (Gt / yr) into the oceans over 2002 - 2010 — equivalent to +0.19 mm / yr globally - averaged sea level change, or about 6 % of the sea - level change during that period.

Regular variation in the solid runoff of Antarctic glaciers with the period of 18.6 years is revealed as a result of long - term observations.