Sentences with phrase «systems science models»
«Systems science models can be used to develop new ways of classifying TBI, which is critical for designing better studies.»
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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.
If the fundamental requirement of noncontradiction also defines mathematical systems, then one would expect to find mathematical constructions serving as models of the empirical world, as they do in every quantified science.
It is the nature of science by building on established models (i.e. the solar system is heliocentric) to seek to affirm, extend, and make new discoveries.
The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.
The Austrian Federal Institute for Education Research, Innovation and Development of the Austrian School System (BIFIE) recommends Steiner Waldorf schools as models for teaching in the sciences.
If you're not particularly into astrology, you probably haven't given the planet Jupiter much thought since you made a model of the solar system out of styrofoam balls for your elementary school science fair.
Social science has a long tradition of using computational and agent - based modelling approaches (e.g. Schelling's Model of Segregation), but the new challenge is to feed real - life, and sometimes even real - time information into those systems to get gain rapid insights into the validity of research hypotheses.
Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.
In «From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review,» the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high - risk research and chance discovery.
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.
These activities are now organized into six clusters representing chemical, opto, and electronics systems, molecular and biomaterials, materials science and characterization, materials theory and modeling, and micro - and nanosystems.
The model system developed by researchers from the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science is made up of water and block copolymers — thread - like molecules with both a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic component.
«We found that the syncytiotrophoblasts formed in our system recapitulated the barrier properties of the naturally occurring cells and they resisted infection by a model virus and three genetically different strains of Toxoplasma,» said co-investigator Jon P. Boyle, Ph.D., associate professor of biological sciences at Pitt.
Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.
Cubicworld specialises in the fields of environmental information processing and modelling, with an emphasis on geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, these being core fields in the environmental sciences.
Before the country opened up in the late 1970s, China's science and technology system employed a Soviet model: specialized institutions conducted research, and narrowly focused universities delivered education and training.
While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.
Their model, which employs concepts from the physics of complex atomic systems, was developed by Didier Sornette of the Financial Crisis Observatory in Zurich, Switzerland, and Wei - Xing Zhou of the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai.
The proposed National Center for Science (NCN), to be located in Krakow, is meant to be free from political pressures and would use an international peer - review system modeled on those of the European Research Council and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»
The computer science carried out at the centre will focus on mimicking the behaviour of biological systems to develop new concepts and programming languages adapted to the modelling of complex systems, says Corrado Priami, president of the centre, in an e-mail.
The BER program contains two main components, biological systems sciences, which fund research such as genomics and advanced biofuel, and earth and environmental systems sciences (EESE), which funds research such as atmospheric monitoring and modeling.
Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that «verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible.science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that «verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible.Science that «verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible.»
Along with my weekly issue of Science, I read books on management, social network analysis, and system - science moScience, I read books on management, social network analysis, and system - science moscience modeling.
«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.
In a model emulated by open - science practitioners, open - source development has facilitated huge collaborative projects, yielding products such as the operating system Linux.
«A classical framework doesn't apply to this complex system,» said Sankaranarayanan, who helped to create complex models of the perovskite's behavior at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.
We need to rely on conceptual models of the system we're studying and it's no different in any other field of science.
«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).
In particular, Barr says, the work «fits nicely with the Nice model,» which shows how Jupiter and Saturn could have stirred up an LHB while migrating outward through the solar system (Science, 17 July 2009, p. 262).
Under the Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction Using Earth System Models (EaSM) program, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy will kick in a total of $ 50 million a year for 5 years.
Professor Park Je - Geun, Associate Director of the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and colleagues have observed, quantified and created a new theoretical model of the coupling of two forms of collective atomic excitation, known as magnons and phonons in crystals of the antiferromagnet manganite (Y, Lu) MnO3, a mineral made of manganese oxide and rare - earth elements called yttrium (Y) and lutetium (Lu).
Special Online Collection: Modeling the Mind This week, Science and its online companion sites explore how scientists are using mathematical models and computer simulations to study and predict the behavior of the nervous system.
The team headed by Thierry Soldati, Professor at the Biochemistry department in UNIGE's Science faculty, has been working on a model system that acts like the macrophages in our immune system: the social amoeba Dictyostelium, a unicellular microorganism.
«This lack of two - way coupling makes current models likely to miss critical feedbacks in the combined Earth - Human system,» said National Academy of Engineering member and co-author Eugenia Kalnay, a Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland.
Investigators Di Liang, PhD candidate, and Victor E. Cabrera, PhD, from the Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison, used the Integrated Farm System Model (IFSM), available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to simulate the performance of a representative Wisconsin dairy farm and predict both financial and environmental outputs over a 25 - year period.
«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.
In fact, Salmon doesn't think that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be funding her research on tea as a model system for understanding how a warming climate is putting stress on specialty crops and the impact of those changes on farmers.
In 1981, Peter Checkland of Lancaster University in the United Kingdom called for a «soft» systems science that valued input from stakeholders over mathematical modeling.
CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science developed the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) model used in this study in partnership.
Findings from the study «Enhancing the Fatty Acid Profile of Milk through Forage - Based Rations, with Nutrition Modeling of Dietary Outcomes,» published in Food Science and Nutrition, compared the fatty acid profile of milk from cows managed under three systems in the United States:
«These world - first results will have significant impact on the development of climate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science at UNSW.
TOKYO — One of science's favorite lab animals, the mouse, is about to become an even more useful model system.
«It integrates all processes responsible for organism success and requires a systems science approach to understand it, complete with observations and coordinated models.
The article, which is authored by an interdisciplinary group of scientists from the fields of economics and banking, ecology, epidemiology, physics, computer science and sociology argues that applications of complex networks, agent - based models and laboratory experiments offer great potential to better grasp complex financial economic systems.
With about 50 bird genomes sequenced and «The birth of birds» selected as one of the breakthroughs of the year in 2014 by Science, the avian model systems field is moving faster toward a new cross-discipline integration.
Minimally this team should include investigators with expertise in the behavioral or social sciences as well as in computational and systems modeling (computer science, mathematics, engineering, or other systems sciences).
We acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Coupled Modeling, the US Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, and the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals.
The Radar Science and Operations Groups provide enhanced coordination with the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) science team to ensure ARM radar instruments and data products are producing the information necessary for improving climate model pScience and Operations Groups provide enhanced coordination with the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) science team to ensure ARM radar instruments and data products are producing the information necessary for improving climate model pscience team to ensure ARM radar instruments and data products are producing the information necessary for improving climate model physics.