Sentence examples for sticks to determine from inspiring English sources

The herders test the soil by poking the surface with sharp sticks to determine the depth of the gray-white soils.

Because certain types of supernovae are thought to be the result of a star of the same size exploding in the same way and giving off the same amount of light, astronomers use these supernovae as measuring sticks to determine how far away they are, how fast they are moving away from us, how old they are and, by extension, how old the universe is.

A capillary blood sample was obtained by a finger stick to determine hematocrit.

Interestingly, no matter the type of intervention or targeted process, there is often a unifying "measuring stick" to determine the success of these adherence-promoting interventions: glycemic control.

In the observation chamber, powdered paper ash 10 20 μm in diameter, made in our laboratory, was placed on the caudal section of the tracheal mucosa of the quail with a fine plastic stick to determine the pathway for optimal MTV.

We used a broken-stick distribution to determine the number of informative principal components (PCs) (Legendre and Legendre 1998).

Q: What measuring stick is used to determine how complex this sort of sim should be?

Where a brand was not listed, price per stick was used to determine the most appropriate classification, based on the thresholds used in Retail World.

For the urine test, a dip stick is used to determine glucose (diabetes out of control), blood in urine (possible urinary track infection), other possible diseases, and elevated pH or the presence of nitrates (indicative of urinary tract infection).

He turned toward Macalister, pointed a bladelike hand at his chest, and asked, "Do you like Bush?" Macalister looked at me — the same fucking bemused smile stuck on his face — to determine whether this was a joke.

But Campbell said the hockey operations department and referees had requested video review for high-sticking calls where blood was drawn to determine whose stick cut a player.