Sentences with phrase «modeling social complexity»
Dr. Sabloff, an anthropologist, is a participant in the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Modeling Social Complexity.
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With increasing complexity in Israel's social life, however, came corresponding developments in ritual and priesthood, especially after royal families began copying, in temple architecture, modes of worship, and priestly prerogatives, the models of Phoenicia.
«There's a fundamental trade - off between the complexity of individual agents and the size of the simulation,» says Jonathan Pfautz, who funds agent - based modeling of social behavior as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia.
The researchers believe this model better reflects the complexities of social species — in comparison to other models that do not consider the social organization of populations — and thus allows field biologist to test specific predictions about the effects of sociality.
«It is an opportune time for academic economists, complexity scientists, social scientists, ecologists, epidemiologists, and researchers at financial institutions to join forces and develop tools from complexity theory, as a complement to existing economic modeling approaches», says Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England.
It will require a deep investment in the development, testing, continuous improvement, and broad replication of innovative models of cross-disciplinary policy and programmatic interventions that are guided by scientific knowledge and led by practitioners in the medical, educational, and social services worlds who are truly ready to work together (and to train the next generation of practitioners) in new ways.88, 89 The sheer number and complexity of underaddressed threats to child health that are associated with toxic stress demands bold, creative leadership and the selection of strategic priorities for focused attention.