The group has also done the same with the phone's mics (which they say samples data at a whopping 44, 000 times per second vs. the accelerometer's 100), but note that it's a less likely option given the usual need for some form of user permission.
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Graham has overcome this problem by using only large samples of data collected by managed-care organizations.
Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
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The company later admitted in response to an audit request by German authorities that it had inadvertently been collecting samples of such data.
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For each sensor at the station site, 1-minute data samples shall be transmitted in CREX format via the public geostationary meteorological satellites (METEOSAT or GOES) every 5 minutes and every five minutes via the redundant transmission option.
Prior to the FY 1997 Budget, the subsidy estimates for these programs were based on samples of loan data prepared shortly after the enactment of the FCRA. Administrator Alvarez' statement details the major undertaking completed by SBA in late 1995 to compile and analyze the available historical data for the 7(a) and 504 programs.
Unmanned probes and landers like the Mars Rovers have been able to explore terrain, take measurements, analyze samples and send reams of data back.
Data retrieved from HICO have been validated with data collected from samples collected on the ground and used to develop algorithms to map indicators of water quality.
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When Mr. Armstrong returned to cycling in 2008, antidoping officials began collecting data from the testing samples of all cyclists and looking for abnormalities.
Using data collected from soil samples, the research team ran an extreme scenario - where kudzu covered all non-urban and non-agricultural soils in the species' range by 2050 - through a "chemical transport" model.
In India many more sampling points have been established, and in all countries better survey methods, relying on surveyors knocking on doors rather than asking questions at clinics, have gathered data from more representative samples.
Another way of getting at the trends is census micro-data (ie, from detailed samples collected as part of the census).
"In order to pool data across many studies to obtain large samples, BMI is conveniently available for these studies, " said Barry I.
What data was available came from a very small number of samples, and these showed very little radioactivity.
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RFLP-based databases, it will probably be true manyfold for medical databases that hold data on particular genes, and may well be linked to samples that could, in the fullness of time, yield the complete genome of an individual.
Typically several days pass between sample collection and data release because of the time required to collect, transport and analyze the samples.
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When they get back, the space vehicle will hopefully have provided enough data to pinpoint a potential drilling area so it can drill, collect and analyze rock samples using onboard tools -- a feat never-before attempted on Mars.
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