Sentences with phrase «at areas predicting»

This has been targeted at areas predicting the greatest increases.

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Some models of the Big Bang theory predict that the inflation that stretched space at the beginning of time also produced an infinite number of «pocket universes,» separated by impassable inflated areas of space.

These maps were better at predicting the area Sandy flooded than the New York City maps.

Existing forecasting models are good at predicting roughly when an area might experience the right mix of conditions to create a flash flood, but they can't say precisely when or where a flood will strike.

THE speed at which a hurricane progresses across the ocean may help forecasters predict which areas are at risk from flooding by storm surges.

Asa - Awuku, an associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the CE - CERT, said agencies that oversee prescribed burns should consider these findings when they predict the likely impact of prescribed burning of forest fuels in areas subjected to chronic air pollution.

The team's 3 - D simulations showed that commonly used 2 - D models may inaccurately predict some aspects of flooding, such as the time over which dangerous flood levels last at certain locations and the amount of surface area flooded.

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

In a study published in the Chinese journal Tropical Geography in 2003, scholars at Guangzhou's South China Normal University predicted that such tinkering with the water level could trigger activity in 283 landslide - prone areas.

As seas rise, it won't be pretty, said Sam Purkis and Gregor Eberli, marine geologists at the University of Miami who offered to explain the area's geologic history and how it could help predict the effects of sea - level rise in the coming decades.

Angela Strecker, an environmental science professor at Portland State University and the study's co-lead author, said that species distribution models can help predict all the places where a given species could live based on their environmental preferences, and using these models can help target conservation efforts to areas where they would have the most impact.

«The space - time model developed for this study could provide the basis for the next generation of wave forecast models to predict wave extremes and provide early warnings to shipping companies and others to help them avoid dangerous areas at risk of rogue waves,» Fedele said.

Rounding out the package are four «areas to watch» that we predict will be in the news in 2017, a «scorecard» of how well last year's predictions held up, and a look back at three «breakdowns of the year» that set back or threatened the scientific enterprise.

Last year, scientists predicted that some of the material spewed out into space by the icy geysers at Enceladus's south pole would slowly fall down to certain areas on the surface.

Compared with the nighttime images, the daytime images were 81 % more accurate at predicting poverty in places under the absolute poverty line and 99 % more accurate in areas where incomes are less than half that.

No studies have looked at whether collective narcissism is going up or down, but further research in this area could help to predict societal flare - ups, says Golec de Zavala.

Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who two years ago predicted the collapse of seafood as a food source by 2048, says Costello's work is noteworthy but adds that catch shares will work better when combined with other tools, such as banning fishing in sensitive areas.

«Our findings should help to predict the areas at the greatest risk of dengue, chikungunya and Zika outbreaks,» said Rohr.

By applying systems engineering to challenges such as maintaining social stability, the Chinese government aims to «not just understand reality or predict reality, but to control reality,» says Rogier Creemers, a scholar of Chinese law at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

You don't see many jobs advertised at the moment he says, though he predicts there will be many more, so making a direct approach to people already working in the area and setting out the skills you have to offer is your best bet.

Speaking at the British Pharmacological Society's Winter Meeting in Brighton on 18 December, Christine Mummery, Professor of Developmental Biology at Leiden University Medical Centre in The Netherlands, predicts that what is currently a small and sparsely funded research area will boom in coming years.

In the area of personalized medicine, it is highly pertinent to not only predict the drug response at early time points during the therapy, but also to be able to identify the optimal drug combination for an individual patient.

In these areas, dark matter does a great job at predicting what astrophysicists observe.

«So far, we are finding that they do predict area - level health outcomes at various levels: zip code, census tract, county and state,» she says.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Hernandez, who leads next generation learning investments at the Charter School Growth Fund, predicts that the best new apps will push the boundaries of early childhood development and learning science in at least four areas: executive function, creativity, number sense, and phonemic awareness.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

A new study by REL Northwest has found that high school GPA was better than college entrance exam scores at predicting college course grades for recent Alaska high school graduates from both urban and rural areas.

I felt the same way at RealMoney, because I was one of the few writers that you could not predict what area I would write about next.

You will know it is time to advance your cue work when your dog a) eliminates almost immediately upon entering the potty area and b) you have learned your pup's body language well enough to be able to predict with at least 80 % certainty that he / she is about to go.

At the same time, current forecasts predict that the latest storm will largely spare areas impacted by those hurricanes.

It may have been that you have more abilities at your disposal by the time you reach the third area, but the patterns and moves seemed much easier to predict or avoid in that third area than with some of the guys in the previous areas.

You've got areas and bosses like the first few which are too easy to the point they probably weren't tested well, you've got parts of levels where traps you can't see or predict in advance get sprung on you at random and a general zero acceptance for minor mishaps (no items here, if you run out of points or eggs, you're literally incapable of getting a good score or sometimes beating the level).

It appears that the models are reasnable good at predicting ice in the open watre areas, but have much difficulty in the semi-enclosed areas.

Ice Loss 10 Times What Was Predicted Here's another reason to believe we must redouble our efforts to reduce global carbon emissions to slow global warming: Derek Mueller, an Arctic idea shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario has told Reuters that 83 square miles of ice shelf, an area more than three times the size of the island of Manhattan, has been lost from Ellesmere Island this summer.

Randles, 4.3 + / -1.1, Statistical This method attempts to predict the residual from a Gompertz fit of NSIDC average September Extent by linear regression using the residual from a Gompertz fit of Cryosphere Today area at 31May.

This skill comes from the ability of the models to predict and match seasonal changes well, which they do at single sites as well as across large areas.

There is a nonexistence theorem about prediction in this area, in the sense that if we could predict what we are going to know at some time in the future, we would not have to wait, for we would know it now.

The graph below from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (4AR) shows the predicted tropical troposphere hot - spot at 8 to 12 km altitude as a distinctive red area.

Brussels, 22 October - Friends of the Earth Europe hit out today at EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, for blazing ahead with a free trade area in the Mediterranean, even though the European Commission's own research predicts that this will make people in Med countries poorer.

«We know that some vegetation zones are moving northward, towards what were previously colder areas, but our ability to predict like down at the state level is not here yet,» Cicerone said.

Indeed, in an intermediate complexity model, increasing atmospheric CO2 has been predicted to cause future expansion of grasslands into up to 45 % of the Sahara, at a rate of up to 10 % of Saharan area per decade (11).

A new study looks at predicted climatic changes in protected areas of California and attempts to identify the future of species and ecosystems with these variations in foresight.

This provides a tool to predict an average temperature decrease of at least 1.0 ◦ C from solar cycle 23 to 24 for the stations and areas analyzed.

At 600ppm, global average temperature rise could be in the range of 3 - 4Â °C — which means greater sea level rise than predicted, glaciers melting and constraining water supply throughout large areas of Asia, agriculture being severely stressed in many places, greater storm intensity, reduced biodiversity, the end of coral reefs.

When respondents were asked for their perspectives on AI and its effect on the legal industry, 71 % predicted it would have the biggest impact on electronic discovery in the areas of case assessment and predictive coding (TAR), coming in next at 41 % was document automation, followed by legal research (40 %), contract analysis / automation (34 %), and case / outcome prediction (24 %).

Interviewing patrons at eight bars in the San Diego area, the authors accurately predicted that as people become more intoxicated, they use fewer verbal fillers.48 This observation ran counter to the notion that uh and um are markers of careless or lax speech.

However, he predicts that the active touchscreen of the area will be smaller at around 5.1 - 5.2 ″.

• Timely took and served a range of beverage and food items • Monitored guests at all times, predicted their needs and quickly responded to their requests • Prepared and presented the bill • Completed end of shift income and cash deposit reports • Up - sold beverage and food items to guests • Cleaned dirty glassware and plates to proper dish wash area and sorted same for washing • Recorded all aspects of guests order correctly and entered guest orders into the computer