Sentences with phrase «computational models are used»

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In fact, there is a dynamic interplay between experimental and observational data and theoretical work, the latter involving mathematical modelling using advanced algebraic and computational techniques.

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.

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

He adds that once researchers identify the first light of a strongly lensed supernova event, computational modeling could also be used to precisely predict when the next of the light will appear.

Whether you are studying the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously using DNA microarrays, or the interaction of multiple molecules to understand intercellular signalling, the skills that will help you understand your findings are statistics, computational techniques, and modelling — so all you really need is a mathematician.

«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.

«Our goal with this paper is to make people aware of this approach, which makes good use of experimental data and advances in computational modeling,» Rand says.

Survey data gathered voluntarily from homeless youth in Los Angeles, as well as behavioral theories and observations of previous interventions, were used to build a computational model of the interventions.

«This computational model might be used to predict other life - threatening episodes of diseases,» Chen said.

«The most intriguing aspect of this work is that it demonstrates the capability to use computational modeling in conjunction with biological design to optimize performance, or design entirely different types of swimming bio-bots,» said center director Roger Kamm, a professor of biological and mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They then used these computational models to test which combinations of properties are crucial to phase - locking.

The resulting diffraction pattern was then converted using computational methods into a model of the toxin.

A new study using complex computational models finds that smart solid - state transformers (SSTs) could be used to make a stable, reliable «smart grid» — allowing the power distribution system to route renewable energy from homes and businesses into the power grid.

Alán Aspuru - Guzik, a theoretical chemist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues, used computational models to screen a family of organic molecules and identify those likely to be the best semiconductors.

Bradshaw used a sophisticated computational model to demonstrate why spotting signatures of the nanoflares has been so difficult and how the new evidence will help researchers go forward to improve theories on the details of coronal heating - one day allowing heliophysics researchers to at last solve the coronal heating mystery.

To tackle the challenge of identifying valid biomarkers the group created a multi-organ, computational model that tracks infection dynamics in lungs, blood, and lymph nodes using the extensive non-human primate datasets that were available.

Using these structures as templates, computational biologists should be able to model the structures of thousands of related family members.

By using the diverse computational models obtained from the collected data during the experiment, researchers were able to successfully recognize the dog's gender the 85.13 % of the time while the age of the dog (recoded as young, adult and old) was classified without mistakes the 80.25 % of the time.

The researchers used computational modeling and behavioral and genetic experiments to discover evidence that choice bias is essentially a byproduct of credit assignment.

Task area two is the computational models that will be used across these scales and across these data sets.

The researchers used computational modeling to investigate different surface features of palladium nanoparticles that may be responsible for hydrogen peroxide decomposition.

A similar combination of computational modeling based on quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, and direct observation using electron microscopy «can probably be applied to many systems,» Buehler says.

Finite element modelling, the same technique used to design hip joints and bridges, was used to perform a computational analysis of the strength of the jaws.

Cosmic ray ionization in the Martian atmosphere has been studied extensively using computational models (Whitten et al. 1971; Molina - Cuberos 2001; Molina - Cuberos et al. 2001; Norman et al. 2014; Gronoff et al. 2015), with the general result that the atmospheric ionization profile due to GCR is relatively flat, with monotonically increasing ionization rates with decreasing altitude and increasing atmospheric density.

Using theoretical and computational tools to model the complexity of such systems as a whole has been and will continue to be out of the question for the foreseeable future: simplifying assumptions must be introduced to render such systems computationally tractable.

Computational models that simulate the climate such as CAM5, which is the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate changes, such as the Arctic sea ice loss.

Only protein coding genes with a correlation > = 0.4 with the tissue ischemic time were used in order to reduce the computational burden of model fitting.

She is broadly interested in using computational techniques to model the in - host population dynamics of viral infections, and is particularly interested in modeling the interactions between Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the immune system.

Computational modeling was carried out using EMSL's supercomputers.

Scientists working in computational psychiatry at Brown are thinking about how they can use their work modeling the brain to address psychiatric disease, such as depression.

By developing a computational shortcut to rapidly estimate genome size using statistical modeling, Dr. Pollard's team has been able to improve the accuracy of microbiome studies.

Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»

I am using computational analysis and modeling to visualize how plant genomes have evolved over time, particularly those of staple crops.

EcoMOD's learning goals in habitats and food webs are taught using a systems perspective, shifting the instructional focus from comprehension of static representations to consequential student interaction with dynamic computational models.

Computational thinking: A problem - solving process that includes, but is not limited to, the following characteristics: formulating problems in a way that enables us to use a computer and other tools to solve them; logically organizing and analyzing data; representing data through abstractions such as models and simulations; automating solutions through algorithmic thinking (a series of ordered steps); identifying, analyzing and implementing possible solutions with the goal of achieving the most efficient and effective combination of steps and resources; and generalizing and transferring this problem - solving process to a wide variety of problems.

In addition to embodying Chrysler grand tourer spirit in the exterior design, Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling was used to shape the body with aerodynamics in mind.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to measure the car's efficiency during the design phase, followed by scale - model wind tunnel testing and finally by full - scale wind - tunnel testing.

It was designed from the outset to prioritise aerodynamic performance and spent many hours in a wind tunnel and using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) aerodynamic modelling — just like a Formula One car.

Primarily known as a glass artist and related to the Fluxus milieu, Ludwig Gosewitz (1936 — 2007) dealt all his life with geometric themes in connection with objects that are normally not accessible to them, particularly life stories and music, generally using astrological computational models.

The public think that computational modelling which underlies projections is only a technical tool thought up for the occasion; they do not understand the universal use of modelling to project likely consequences.

Abstract: There are procedures and methods for verification of coding algebra and for validations of models and calculations that are in use in the aerospace computational fluid dynamics (CFD) community.

Yes, but observation was critical in developing the computational models in the first place and the models only have predictive power in the range of the data used to derive them.

One obvious weakness of Schmittner et al's paper is that due to computational limitations, they only used a fairly simple climate model, which didn't seem to fit the data all that well.

These require much less computational time and so the band models are almost always used.

You might as well use a ouija board as the basis of claims about the future climate history as the ensemble average of different computational physical models that do not differ by truly random variations and are subject to all sorts of omitted variable, selected variable, implementation, and initialization bias.

I'm currently studying how climatologists use computational models.

The computational models have an interesting status in this endeavour: they seem to be used primarily for hypothesis testing, rather than for forecasting.

Owing to computational resource limitations, it seems that relatively low resolution models could be used for this (without flux corrections).

Fellow co-founder Jacob Rosen is a data analyst who previously used predictive computational models to help detect Medicare and tax fraud.

Mediation analysis was conducted using the computational and modelling tool PROCESS v. 2.15 (Hayes 2013).