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From solstice observations, Hipparchus found that the tropical year is about 1 / 300 of a day shorter than the 365 + 1 / 4 days that Calippus used ( see Almagest III. 1 ).
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From the astronomical perspective, days continue to lengthen from equinox to solstice and summer days progressively shorten after the solstice, so meteorological summer encompasses the build-up to the longest day and a diminishing thereafter, with summer having many more hours of daylight than spring.
From a point on the ground at this latitude, the sun is above the horizon for 16 hours, 12 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 14 minutes during the winter solstice.
From satellites, PMCs are most frequently observed above 70 °- 75 ° in latitude and have a season of 60 to 80 days duration centered about a peak which occurs about 20 days after the summer solstice.
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From his observations, readings and conversations with professional officers, he learned the basics of battlefield tactics, as well as a good understanding of problems of organization and logistics.
From these observations, there is no reason to assume at any point that a change of luck is warranted based on prior trials ( flips ), because every outcome observed will always have been as likely as the other outcomes that were not observed for that particular trial, given a fair coin.
From a historical perspective the three-tier architecture concept emerged in the 1990s from observations of distributed systems ( e. g., web applications ) where the client, middle ware and data tiers ran on physically separate platforms.
From 1995 through March 2004, Phoenix conducted observations at the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia, the radio telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, and the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
From this point of view, the hypothesis that " All ravens are black " is not accepted gradually, as its probability increases towards one when more and more observations are made, but is accepted in a single action as the result of evaluating the data which has already been collected.
From Maskelyne ’ s observations Charles Hutton deduced a density for the earth 4. 5 times that of water ( the modern value is 5. 515 ).
From July 17 to July 27, 1956, the Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) shipboard launched eight Deacon rockoons for solar ultraviolet and X-ray observations at ~ 30 ° N ~ 121. 6 ° W, southwest of San Clemente Island, apogee: 120 km.
From past observations and studies, it is hypothesised that these three components model a negative feedback loop in which over-expressed CCA1 and LHY repress TOC1 and over-expressed TOC1 is a positive regulator CCA1 and LHY.
From this Bacon suggests that the underlying cause of the phenomenon, what he calls the " form ," can be approximated by interpreting the results of one's observations.
From mid-August to 1 October 1819, Southey accompanied Telford on an extensive tour of his engineering projects in the Scottish Highlands, keeping a diary of his observations.
From 1938, Fukuoka began to practise and experiment with new techniques on organic citrus orchards and used the observations gained to develop the idea of " Natural Farming ".
From the beginning of the 1880s, fictions – some more, some less scientific – involving travels to and from Mars began to be produced in great quantities, even though the observations of Percival Lowell required reassessment of Mars as a more marginal desert planet.
From George Perkins Marsh a very different book, Man and Nature, later subtitled " The Earth as Modified by Human Action ", catalogued his observations of man exhausting and altering the land from which his sustenance derives.
From the 1970s to the 90s, more nonsensical styles of comedy began to emerge, led by the madcap stylings of Robin Williams, the odd observations of Jerry Seinfeld and Ellen DeGeneres, and the ironic musings of Steven Wright.
From these observations, a parallax of was calculated.
From 1980 to 2000, a team of astronomers led by American Artie P. Hatzes made radial velocity observations of Epsilon Eridani, measuring changes in motion of the star along the line of sight to the Earth, which provided evidence of the gravitational effect of a planet orbiting the star with a period of about seven years.
From 1967 to 1972 the Scott Polar Research Institute reported extensive observations using radio echo sounding.
From his observations he concluded that the earthquake must have been the result of the elastic rebound of previously stored elastic strain energy in the rocks on either side of the fault.
From these observations, MBBK created an alternative hypothesis to explain the " puzzle " of how the codes were discovered.
From the beginning, Montessori based her work on her observations of children and experimentation with the environment, materials, and lessons available to them.
From his observations he made recommendations about bridge construction and erosion.
From these observations, he concluded that the heat applied must have combined with the ice particles and boiling water and become latent.
From these early observations, it has been confirmed that in G2 and early mitosis, Emi1 binds and inhibits Cdc20 by preventing its association with APC substrates.
From these observations, they suggested the following model of the surface: 24 % Triton-type tholins, 7 % amorphous carbon, 10 % nitrogen, 26 % methanol and 33 % methane.
From 1752 until his death, Macclesfield was president of the Royal Society, and he made some observations on the great 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
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From this difference, Hipparchus discovered that the longitudes of the stars had changed over time, which led him to determine the first value of the precession of the equinoxes as no less than 1 / 100 ° per year.
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The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.
From knowledge of books held in the library at Malmesbury Abbey and available as source works, and from the identification of certain words particular to the local dialect found in the text, the transcription may have been made there.
From the documentation compiled by the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation, a possible key to the plane's disappearance was found, but barely touched upon by the Triangle writers: the plane's batteries were inspected and found to be low on charge, but ordered back into the plane without a recharge by the pilot while in San Juan.
From the various experiments they conducted, the researchers found a correlation between the passage of V. cholerae through the human digestive system and an increased infectivity state.
From 1973 more material has been found including almost complete skulls.
A study published in 2011 by the U. S. Department of Education found that " From 2000 to 2008, the percentage of undergraduates enrolled in at least one distance education class expanded from 8 percent to 20 percent, and the percentage enrolled in a distance education degree program increased from 2 percent to 4 percent.
This description " eastman " ( from Norway ) has to be seen together with the description " westman " ( From Ireland / Scotland ) which is to be found in local place-names such as " Vestmanna-havn " i. e. " Irish-mens harbour " in the Faroe Isles, and " Vestmannaeyjar " i. e. " Irish-mens islands " in Iceland.
From the radian frequency, the natural frequency, f < sub > n </ sub >, can be found by simply dividing ω < sub > n </ sub > by 2π.
From there, many went to European countries, such as Yugoslavia, where they found refuge.
From St. Augustine of Hippo's City of God through St. Thomas More's Utopia major Christian writers defended ideas that socialists found agreeable.
From 1871 to 1881, about 8, 000 workers found jobs in the Malta docks and a number of banks opened in Malta.
From that period originates the horn of a reindeer found in the vicinity of Giżycko.
From the three fragments that have been found, the inscription seems to be a list of the twenty-four priestly courses ( cf.
From the 7th century it became common for European monarchies and nobility to found churches and perform investiture or deposition of clergy in their states and fiefdoms, their personal interests causing corruption among the clergy.
From 1909 to 1912, rewards were offered for a living specimen no specimens were found.
From this latter perspective, the many distinctions to be found in the universe are a result of the divided perspective of the human soul, which needs to make distinctions in its own thought in order to understand unified realities.
From 1916 to 1918, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring.
From 1906 to 1914, the two schools played rugby as their major sport, but they soon found that the objectionable practices they saw in football were introduced into rugby.
From the late 18th century until the present time the tarot has also found use by mystics and occultists in efforts at divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways.
From France, the grape spread across Europe and to the New World where it found new homes in places like California's Napa Valley, Australia's Coonawarra region and Chile's Maipo Valley.
From Ancient Egypt seals in the form of signet-rings of kings have been found.
From the angle read from the compass's scale, the current could be found from a table.
From these basic equations the necessary loading coil inductance and coil spacing can be found ;
From then on, however, the Order found it harder to sustain the cause of a crusade and faced the growing threat to its existence posed by the Kingdom of Poland and a genuinely Christian Lithuania alliance.
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