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Science and Precision Measurement

IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, 2017
Eighty-five years ago, the journal Science published "The Romance of the Next Decimal Place" by F.K. Richtmyer. The essay cites specific historical examples to show how improved measurement accuracy (the next decimal place) has driven scientific discovery in many areas, and predicts that this will continue at an increasing pace.
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The concept of measurement-precision

Synthese, 2012
The science of metrology characterizes the concept of precision in exceptionally loose and open terms. That is because the details of the concept must be filled in—what I call narrowing of the concept—in ways that are sensitive to the details of a particular measurement or measurement system and its use.
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The Precision of Measurements

Applied Measurement in Education, 1996
Measurements are said to be precise to the extent that they are free of random error, or equivalently, to the extent that they are consistent across different observations for an object of measurement. Standard errors of measurement provide convenient indexes of consistency, but their magnitude depends on the score scale and, therefore, it is difficult
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A precision measurement of muon decay

Nuclear Physics A, 2000
The (V-A) structure of the weak interaction was put into the standard model by hand in order to obtain agreement with experiments. These experiments, however, do not rule out relatively large deviations from this structure. Muon decay provides an ideal laboratory to test this structure, being a purely leptonic process.
M. A. Quraan, A. Gaponenko, P. Green, P. Kitching, R. MacDonald, G. Price, N. L. Rodning, J. Schaapman, F. Sobratee, J. Soukup, G. Stinson, A. Khruchinsky, V. Selivanov, V. Torokhov, C. A. Gagliardi, J. C. Hardy, J. R. Musser, R. E. Tribble, M. A. Vasiliev, W. Andersson, M. Comyn, Yu. Davydov, J. Doornbos, W. Faszer, D. R. Gill, P. Gumplinger, R. Henderson, J. A. Macdonald, G. M. Marshall, A. Olin, D. Ottewell, R. Openshaw, J-M. Poutissou, R. Poutissou, G. Sheffer, H. K. Walter, D. Wright, M. Hasinoff, D. Mass, P. Depommier, E. Korkmaz, T. A. Porcelli, T. Mathie, R. Tacik, Y. Shin, D. D. Koetke, R. Manweiler, P. Nord, T. D. S. Stanislaus   +48 more
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Automatic precision measurement of spectrograms

Applied Optics, 1978
A fully automatic comparator has been designed and implemented to determine precision wavelengths from high-resolution spectrograms. The accuracy attained is superior to that of an experienced operator using a semiautomatic comparator with a photoelectric setting device.
B A, Palmer, C J, Sansonetti, K L, Andrew   +2 more
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Measuring the Precision of Abstract Interpretations

2001
We develop a methodology for constructing semantics-based analyses of programs by approximating their probabilistic semantics. The framework we introduce resembles the one based on Galois connections used in abstract interpretation, the main difference being the choice of linear space structures instead of order-theoretic ones as semantical (concrete ...
DI PIERRO, ALESSANDRA, H. Wiklicky
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Information measure of location precision

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 1998
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Precision measurement of the

Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”
Borexino is a low background liquid-scintillator detector acquiring solar neutrino data at the LNGS underground laboratory in Italy. Borexino is the only experiment capable to perform spectrally resolved measurements of the low-energy7Be solar neutrinos.
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Precision passive range measurement

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2007
Image feature analysis to determine object distance can provide precision performance if the optical point-spread function is highly sensitive to range. In the method presented here, a specially designed mask imparts a quarter-wave phase shift over part of the input aperture, thereby inducing an interference effect with maximum sensitivity.
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The Precise Measurement of Current Ratios

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 1964
The development of the current comparator, a three-winding current ratio transformer, is reviewed and its characteristics as an alternating current ratio standard are analyzed. Particular attention is given to the use of magnetic shielding and its effect on the accuracy and usefulness of the device.
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