Sentences with phrase «human system models»

Since the Human System has become dominant, it is essential to couple the Earth and Human Systems models bidirectionally in order to simulate their positive and negative feedbacks, better reflecting interactions in the real world.24

The global Human — Earth System framework we propose, and represent schematically in Fig. 6, combines not only data collection, analysis techniques, and Dynamic Modeling, but also Data Assimilation, to bidirectionally couple an ESM containing subsystems for Global Atmosphere, Land (including both Land — Vegetation and Land - Use models) and Ocean and Ice, to a Human System Model with subsystems for Population Demographics, Water, Energy, Agriculture, Industry, Construction, and Transportation.

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At Thunderhill, teams tested two technological approaches: Systems based on so - called neural networks modeled after the human brain and those based on computer vision.

Engineering students from the University of Illinois have come up with a miniature model of Elon Musk's hyperloop concept proving that the high speed human transport system is feasible albeit on a scale of 1:24.

This glowingly successful model can be expanded further to establish predictions about the future evolution of humans and human social systems.

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in humans.

We recognize that HUMAN Healthy Markets are a different model than healthy vending, and have created the support systems and resources to get any locations up and running with their own HUMAN Healthy Market operation.

She works directly with stakeholders to build models that foster adaptive learning about the dynamics of coupled human - natural systems and to integrate stakeholder knowledge with academic knowledge.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

publishes basic, translational and clinical research specifically about immunology across all organisms and model systems, including humans.

This is why it is important to study a very well established host - virus system like myxoma virus in the European rabbit as a model for human viruses and why understanding this mutation is important.»

Impact models attempt to translate changes in natural systems into effects on agriculture, weather and human health

Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modelling of many natural systems in physics, chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of those systems.

Pig brains are remarkably similar to human brains, so they are often used as model systems by neuroscientists.

After the human error that kicked off the 2011 Southwest blackout, myriad elements of the system did not behave according to the grid operators» models.

One of Dozier's evolutionary computation projects uses the human immune system to model a network security system.

Even the new studies clashed somewhat: Unlike the UCSF study, the German research found no major differences between the overall microbiomes of twins with and without MS. Finally, mouse models of MS are not perfect mimics of the human disease, and mouse immune systems aren't identical to people's.

Now, in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Thomas Albright and Ricardo Gil - da - Costa of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies describe a model system that completes the bridge between cellular and human studies of schizophrenia, an advance that should help speed the development of therapeutics for schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.

Bolton combined these human hearing models with model checking (an automated, computational approach for finding problems in complex systems) to assess masking in a common patient - monitoring device with six different alarms.

The UT Southwestern group had previously used CRISPR - Cas9, the original gene - editing system, to correct the Duchenne defect in a mouse model of the disease and in human cells.

In this study, the Hiroshima University researchers developed an animal model using severely immunodeficient mice whose livers were partially populated with human cells, in order to reconstruct elements of the human immune system.

The piglet models the anatomy and development of the nervous system of human infants well and provides a practical platform to perform these clinically relevant studies.

In the current work, they used a new variation of the gene - editing system to repair the defect in both a mouse model and in human cells.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

«Our approach does not rely on model systems but on DNA samples and clinical data from human patients.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

According to global models, the Protocol will have prevented 2 million cases of skin cancer annually by 2030, averted damage to human eyes and immune systems, and protected wildlife and agriculture, according to UNEP.

«In our human airway epithelial model system, one of the drugs destabilizes and deactivates the protein that the other drug tries to correct,» said Martina Gentzsch, PhD, an assistant professor of cell biology and physiology and senior author of the UNC Science Translational Medicine paper.

More recently, researchers have induced stem cells from diseased human somatic cells, which may serve as new model systems for various illnesses.

The researchers, who present their findings at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, suggested that social media developers may want to explore new ways to make content ownership more effective and transparent, as well as consider current collaborative privacy management models and tools.

«New gene editing technique turns human pluripotent stem cells into a model system for polycystic kidney disease.»

These observations and others have convinced the researchers that their CRISPR / Cas9 and hPSC system produces a stable, biologically accurate human model for a common genetic disease where new understanding and new therapies are desperately needed.

The system mimics the «homunculus model of mind» — the idea that there's a small human inside our brains controlling our actions, viewing the images we see and understanding them for us.

His team hopes to build a predictive model of the human microbiome as a tool to study how medical conditions can change this massive biological system, to identify settings that promote beneficial microbiomes, and to design clinical interventions to treat currently hard - to - manage problems.

Researchers modeled kidney development and injury in kidney organoids (shown here), demonstrating that the organoid culture system can be used to study mechanisms of human kidney development and toxicity.

The multinational research group utilized a model system where human retinal pigment epithelial cells were infected with Zika virus strain they isolated earlier from fetal brain [T1].

In 2010, Radovitzky's group, working in concert with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, a part of the U.S. military health system, developed a highly sophisticated, image - based computational model of the human head that illustrates the ways in which pressurized air moves through its soft tissues.

«This is particularly significant because drugs that work on the serotonin system are the mainstay treatment for OCD in humans, which demonstrates further correlation between the human and animal models,» says Dodman.

This study suggests that plants are emerging as model objects to study general questions related to anesthetics, as well as to serve as a suitable alternative test system for human anesthesia.

The sequencing of the first genome involving a cockroach species may one day serve as a model system comparable to how research on mice can apply to humans.

Enormous projects such as ENCODE (for humans and mice) or modENCODE (for other lab model systems, such as the fly Drosophila or the worm C. elegans) have been devoted to collecting these data in order to analyse and interpret them in the framework of genomic data and to form hypotheses about functions and relations.

When observing the colorful Turquoise killifish swimming in its aquarium, it is difficult to believe that it can serve as a model system for human aging; but it does.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

... Accessing systems... cataloging human genomic data... compiling... analyzing... detecting essential genes... learning... modeling... accessing literature... tracking pathogens... outbreaks... viral interactions... RNAi... CRISPR... learning... modeling... analyzing social networks... crypto mining... ordering synthetic biopolymers... sending... waiting...

«The new model enables studies of the complex interactions between host cells, mucus production, and gut microbes in a system that closely mimics the situation in human patients,» Dawson said.

«Studying these effects in model systems such as rats and flies allows us to address these questions by manipulating the likely mechanisms involved, which we can't do in humans.»

Dr Sottile added: «This new system gave us an advantage over previous rodent models as we could study more accurately how specifically human cells would be affected by a decrease in temperature.

Insects are an important model for the study of emotion; although mice are closer to humans on the evolutionary family tree, the fruit fly has a much simpler neurological system that is easier to study.

To facilitate understanding of the immune system by showcasing innovative advances in the expanding field of immunology, drawing from studies in all organisms and model systems including humans.

Through use of these features and examples of Twitter bots provided by Texas A&M University professor James Caverlee's infolab, the researchers are able to train statistical models to discriminate between social bots and humans; according to Flammini, the system is quite accurate.