Sentences with phrase «national laboratory modeled»

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Testing that has been completed on components of the system, dubbed KRUSTY, has been «greatly successful — the models have predicted very well what has happened, and operations have gone smoothly,» said Dave Poston, chief reactor designer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Put simply, the funding model «did not work out as planned,» Rush Holt, who is the CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), a former member of Congress, and a physicist who served as assistant director of a national laboratory, told the gathering.

The model requires so many calculations that it could only be run once — even with more than a year of computer time at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee.

«Where this model really shines is explaining the late emission,» says Chris Fryer of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico — one of the physicists who first proposed the burrowing black hole theory in the 1990s.

The common name for this problem is a «combinatorial explosion,» and the solution to it, called «rule - based modeling,» was developed 12 years ago by VCell team member Michael Blinov and colleagues James Faeder and William Hlavacek, who all worked during that time at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

It's for this reason that it's important to understand the differences in responses between geoengineering experiments, said Ben Kravitz, a climate modeler at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who helps run the international Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project.

But Chris Fryer, a theoretical astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, says it is more likely that the standard afterglow model needs revision.

We were very surprised based on the fact that previous models people used for planet formation suggested a much higher critical shock pressure,» says Richard Kraus, now a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and lead author on the paper published in March in Nature Geoscience.

The model has already been integrated into the next generation of the global land model used for climate simulations by the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a major national climate modeling center.

Michael Thoennessen, a professor and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NCSL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing believes that mentors can help young scientists by modeling the costs and rewards of persistence.

«Astronomers observe exploding stars and astrophysicists model them on supercomputers,» said Wrede, assistant professor of physics at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.

In fact, air concentrations of carbon dioxide have to build up to more than 10 percent to be hazardous, which is difficult to achieve, according to modeling at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The researchers also plan to continue collaborating with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to continue vetting their atmospheric model using cloud chamber simulations and controls.

In fact, air concentrations of carbon dioxide have to build up to more than 10 percent to be hazardous, which is difficult to achieve, according to modeling from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

Initial research of the acoustic data and development of the migration model was conducted at Princeton with K. Allison Smith (published as K.A.S. Mislan), a postdoctoral research associate in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Charles Stock, a researcher with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Working at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the scientists then used a newly designed injection system, engineered by a team from Arizona State University, to stream the gel into the path of the X-ray pulses, which hit the crystals and produced patterns used to reconstruct a high - resolution, 3 - D model of the receptor.

Now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have extended cryo - EM's impact further by developing a new computational algorithm that was instrumental in constructing a 3 - D atomic - scale model of bacteriophage P22 for the first time.

A team led by Charles R. Carrigan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used field experiments to build a new, complex model that predicts isotopic ratios of noble gases that would be released from such explosions (Sci.

One type of efflux pump, which until recently had only been studied in parts, was recently modeled in its entirety and simulated using supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

For assessing the global ocean - carbon sink, McKinley and her co-authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NCAR and the University of Colorado Boulder used the model to establish a long - running climate scenario from historical data.

For her study on geologic storage, Lord and her colleagues analyzed and reworked the geologic storage module of Argonne National Laboratory's Hydrogen Delivery Scenario Analysis Model.

This arrangement, which was modeled using Argonne National Laboratory's Mira supercomputer, gives rise to spirals that twist in opposite directions, a structure not seen in any natural protein.

Dan Hooper, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, tweeted on 26 March: «I'm a very creative dark matter model builder (if I do say so myself) and I can not come up with a viable model that can produce this signal.»

Models were developed by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), the University of Michigan, LimnoTech, the University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

The participants were M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, the developer of the inflationary model of the universe, Lawrence Krauss, a frequent contributor to Scientific American magazine and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, who studies the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang and Scott Dodelson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who studies the origin and structure of the universe.

LUX improvements, coupled to advanced computer simulations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Brown University's Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV), have allowed scientists to test additional particle models of dark matter that now can be excluded from the search.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory developed this model of an exploding star's core to help elucidate what happens inside core - collapse supernovae.

«Support for the development of the ACME model supports the development of CESM and vice versa,» explains David Bader, a modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California who runs the ACME project.

A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

During the past year the team was awarded an National Science Foundation and two NIH grants to design nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery through a combination of computer modeling and laboratory experiments.

Greenblatt and co-author Samveg Saxena at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a model that is essentially a «best - case scenario,» where the cars are not just driverless but also run on electricity.

The three papers remove a major stumbling block to a scientific consensus, says Benjamin Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, lead author of the climate model study.

«It sure does look like the standard model Higgs boson, you bet,» says Sally Dawson, a theorist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, who was not involved with the measurements.

«This creates a model for the behavior of other organic getters, allowing us to predict their optimal operating temperatures and environments,» said Long Dinh, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Along with scientists and engineers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, the Berkeley Lab crew made up the so - called «Lab Team,» called in by state officials for their expertise in well integrity and well - flow modeling.

The study, released yesterday by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, assessed nearly 7,500 single - family houses and applied statistical methods and 10 different pricing models to draw its conclusions.

The study is part of a three - year, $ 515,000 National Science Foundation - funded project between Kansas State University and Karen Johannesson at Tulane University that is titled «Collaborative Research: Chemical Hydrogeologic Investigations of Tungsten: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of an Emerging Environmental Contaminant.»

«The one thing that I think that is useful is maybe when people write knockout papers they might describe the housing conditions in more detail,» says Chris Paszty, scientific director at the biotech company Amgen, Inc., headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Calif., who as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a mouse model for the study of sickle cell anemia.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a two - dimensional tabletop simulator that models the buildup and release of stress along an artificial fault.

«There is no certainty at all in any of this, and whoever tells you the opposite is not telling you the truth,» said Stefan Finsterle, a leading hydrogeologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who specializes in understanding the properties of rock layers and modeling how fluid flows through them.

To improve models for drilling, hydraulic fracturing and underground storage of carbon dioxide, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists used neutrons to understand how water flows through fractured rock.

«To move beyond cataloging microbes, we will need new tools to rapidly determine microbial gene function and monitor the chemicals microbes use to communicate and interact with their environment, and new ways to visualize and model those interactions,» said Eoin Brodie, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Earth Sciences Division and an author of the proposal.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers Priyadip Ray (left) and Brenden Petersen and their teams, using machine learning algorithms, have developed computer models that can more accurately characterize a patient's progression through stages of sepsis and better predict mortality risk by integrating past medical history, real - time vital signs and other diagnostics.

The Microbiology Services Division at Porton Down, part of the National Infection Service directorate, has extensive high - containment laboratory facilities and rare capabilities to handle infectious organisms under the highest levels of containment, and the ability to work with in vivo models to evaluate new therapeutic interventions against these organisms.

Results: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers and collaborators have shown for the first time that human noroviruses can infect and replicate in a three - dimensional model of human small intestinal tissue.

Results: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — in collaboration with NERSC, Argonne National Laboratory, and Cray — recently achieved an effective aggregate IO bandwidth of 5 Gigabytes / sec for writing output from a global atmospheric model to shared files on DOE's «Franklin,» a 39,000 - processor Cray XT4 supercomputer located at NERSC.

Previous recipients of the prize include the godfather of climate modelling, Syukuro Manabe, from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Norway's former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, and Charles Keeling from the University of California at San Diego who gave his name to the famous Keeling curve of atmospheric CO2 concentration measurements.

Led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a research team for the first time developed a simplified and computationally efficient way to represent these carbon - based bits in a climate model.

In a defining document about the future of aerosol research, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist Steve Ghan teamed with Brookhaven National Laboratory's Steve Schwartz, Chief Scientist for the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Science Program, to describe a disciplined process for successfully moving aerosol research from the observational stage to model simulations.

To replicate this roundabout route in climate models, a team of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers found a way to compute the complex fluxes using statistical distributions of the vertical velocity and the kinds of precipitating particles within the convective clouds.