Sentences with phrase «authors used modeling»

The authors used modeling approaches to predict how removing invasive mammals on different islands could reduce extinction risk for threatened species.

We will likely see more authors using this model for publishing.

The authors use the model to simulate six storm surge events from the 2006 - 2012 period at four locations and find that the model does well at reproducing the magnitude of storm surges.

Not exact matches

The author uses a theatrical metaphor, backstage, to describe the configuration phase, its steps being more distant to the customer, such as the profit model, structure, and process.

President and chief illumination officer at Performance Technology Group and author of Illuminate: Harnessing the Positive Power of Negative Thinking, David Corbin, teaches us to examine issues using his «face it, follow it and fix it» model.

Your children will model their behavior based upon yours — if you're not educated enough to explain to your kids why taking drugs is dangerous, don't give them tacit license to use because you did,» says Dennis Poncher, author and founder of the support group network Because I Love You.

One wonders whether the authors» use of language derived from a medical model is the wrong approach to the sort of narcissism they describe.

It becomes apparent that many of the details in the synoptic accounts are paralleled in the Hellenistic literature; that Christian writers did use Hellenistic models can be seen quite clearly in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, where the author improves on a version of a story similar to that told by Philostratus.

A number of authors have made use of process categories in the expression of Christian theology.23 The process model leads to an emphasis on certain biblical themes which were minimized in later Christian thought, such as God's participation in temporal process and the vulnerability of suffering love.

«Twenty years after the publication of Limits to Growth three of the original four authors (Meadows, Meadows & Randers 1992) reworked all the models with the latest data, taking into account technological advances in efficiency in the use of resources and pollution control.

The author presents a process model for revelation, an approach that is in keeping with Whitehead's extensive use of physical analogies in the formulation of his metaphysics.

To illustrate the importance of the substitution effect, the author uses a mathematical model designed to examine the effect of total calorie consumption of a selective tax, rather than simply the consumption of SSBs.

The author sets out to challenge conventional views of British government and governance, and paints a portrait of a storytelling political - administrative elite, with beliefs and practices rooted in the «Westminster Model», which uses protocols to deal with rude surprises and recurrent dilemmas.

By using one - and three - dimensional models, the authors were also able to trace the movements of the different chemicals through Titan's atmosphere.

As a postdoc at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Rogers used the pig model to better understand the genetic underpinnings of cystic fibrosis — research that earned him a first - author publication in Science in the 26 September 2008 issue (p. 1837).

Pacella, who was lead author on the study, used the detailed data he collected to create a model to estimate the daily carbonate chemistry weather during the summer dry season back to the year 1765, and also projected conditions ahead to 2100 altering the amount of anthropogenic carbon in the system.

The authors speak of new, higher - resolution weather models that use horizontal grids.

To find out, the study's authors used a wave model to predict how a tsunami would flood the Kauai coastline.

«In this study, we used the small roundworm C. elegans as a model to show that autophagy in the intestine is critical for lifespan extension,» said Malene Hansen, Ph.D., associate professor in SBP's Development, Aging, and Regeneration Program and senior author of the study.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

The authors developed race - specific models using preoperative risk factors to predict 30 - day surgical mortality for black children versus white children.

This proof - of - principle study shows «for the first time... that human iPS cells can be used to model a diverse range of inherited diseases in adult cells,» the authors wrote in their paper, published online in The Journal of Clinical Investigation August 25.

For this study, Guttridge, first author David J. Wang, who developed many of the study's concepts, and their colleagues monitored NF - kB activity during tumor development using mouse embryonic fibroblasts and two mouse models.

The authors tracked the stock market performance of 17 CHAA applicants or recipients with proven health and / or safety programs using six investment modeling scenarios.

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.

In this study, the authors describe a computer model that can be used to calculate the probability that the presence of two Zika cases in a given area will lead to an epidemic, based on real - time simulations of all the counties in the state of Texas.

«We used state - of - the - art models to show that a Vesta - to - Ceres - sized impactor can produce a disk consistent with the formation of Mars» small moons,» said the paper's second author, Dr. Julien Salmon, an SwRI research scientist.

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.

As it matures, the authors wrote, it is moving «from laboratory - based experimental studies in model systems to a mature discipline that is yielding products that are being evaluated and used in the clinical domain.

To investigate the impacts, Yale's Jodi Sherman, M.D. and first author Matthew Eckelman of Northeastern University first used an economic model based on federal data to calculate total emissions of different pollutants produced by the healthcare sector over a 10 - year period, drawing on national health expenditure data.

Using data from earth - observing satellites and high - resolution climate models, the authors found a consistent decrease in summer cloud cover since 1995.

The journal cover shows a calcium ion coordinating to aspartate, a model for proteins in aqueous solution used by the authors to demonstrate features of the software.

But the behavior of these reservoirs is not solely determined by physical laws of the water cycle, but also by demands and what these reservoirs are being used for,» says Caltech graduate student Armeen Taeb, lead author of a paper about the model that will be published online on November 22 in the journal Water Resources Research.

Using a hierarchical model, the authors combine information from these various sources to obtain an ensemble estimate of current and future climate along with an associated measure of uncertainty.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

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.

«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis, associate professor in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

The authors reached these conclusions by reviewing relevant published studies and then using a model to estimate the HIV incidence rate and the association between pregnancy and postpartum status, HIV incidence and the risk and rates of mother to child transmission (MTCT).

The models were built and simulated using an open - source software package, EpiModel, that allowed the study authors to test different potential scenarios with varying levels of adherence to PrEP's recommended daily regimen and PrEP coverage among MSM.

The authors also pointed out the importance of using accurate modelling of the extent of floods to achieve reliable impact estimates.

To test their theory, Xiaoli Guo, a post-doctoral researcher in Mitchum's lab and first author of the study, synthesized the CLE - B nematode peptide and applied it to the vascular cells of Arabidopsis, a model plant system used in plant research.

«Using a genetic mouse model of DIPG, we found that the histone mutation turns off p16, which is a gene that acts like a break on dividing cells,» says senior author Oren J. Becher, MD, from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Using this model, Diamond, along with co-senior authors Pei - Yong Shi, PhD, of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and Ted Pierson, PhD, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), evaluated the ability of two vaccines to protect fetuses whose mothers were infected during pregnancy.

«Most models of the heart used today do not mimic its 3D motion,» said lead author Ellen Roche, an M.D. / Ph.D. candidate at SEAS who is also affiliated with the Wyss Institute.

In a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, author Jonathan A. Sherratt uses a mathematical model to determine the levels of precipitation within which such pattern formation occurs.

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

The authors used observed nest counts between 1989 and 2012 to model the importance of first - time nesters (age 31) to to future nesting numbers.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.