Sentences with phrase «computer modeling experiments»

The new finding of the importance of multiple ocean surface temperature changes to the multi-decadal global warming accelerations and slowdowns is supported by a set of computer modeling experiments, in which observed sea surface temperature changes are specified in individual ocean basins, separately.
The new findings of successful multi-year drought / fire predictions are based on a series of computer modeling experiments, using the state - of - the - art earth system model, the most detailed data on current ocean temperature and salinity conditions, and the climate responses to natural and human - linked radiative forcing.
«Through our computer model experiments, we wanted to see if we could predict under what conditions these bubbles can form,» Falk said.
Brandon, what does not make a computer model an experiment is that even the best computer model is an inaccurate representation of the real physical system.

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Where were the preliminary animal testing and computer models establishing some parameters of safety and efficacy for these experiments?
Kauffman provides results of «experiments» — done with computer - models of various types — dealing with biological structure — generation on many diverse levels — to support this conclusion.
Their report notes that the risks from other toxic chemicals including formaldehyde, styrene, tricholorethylene, the pesticide chlorpyrifos and many others have been downplayed and regulations have been delayed or denied due to similar industry - backed computer modeling tests — in many cases, even when the industry tests are contradicted by actual biologically - based experiments.
It is illegal to use an animal for an experiment if there is an alternative, such as a computer model.
Seismic wave measurements, computer models and lab experiments that mimic the core's extreme conditions all provide a reasonable picture of how...
Working with Burdick and Chen, who have experience in creating custom three - dimensional hydrogels and fibrous networks with varied crosslinking, the research team ran physical experiments to validate their computer model.
Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.
«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.
Robert Watson, a government official and co-chair of the scientific panel that advises the Montreal Protocol, said that laboratory experiments, computer models, and field measurements all support the conclusion that CFCs are destroying stratospheric ozone.
The pollution and its impact was described by 200 scientists working on the Indian Ocean Experiment, supplemented by new satellite data and computer modeling.
Plentiful online scientific databases offer terabytes of data for scientists to mine with their desktop computers, while model genera like Drosophila (fruit flies) are available for experiments in increasingly powerful laboratory spaces.
And finally, after decades of work developing theoretical models and computer simulation techniques, along with laboratory experiments to reproduce new molecules, astrochemists are putting names to many of those unidentified lines.
To validate their computer modeling predictions, researchers performed experiments in human cancer cell lines, mouse liver samples and primary human hepatocytes.
Finally, the team conducted extensive cell experiments to confirm the computer - generated signaling pathway model.
The experiment could be explained by a mathematical model developed by the researchers over the past few years, which enabled them to produce a computer - generated movie of the motions of the atoms involved in the bond - breaking at the copper surface.
He says the relatively simple computer model provided an excellent basis for planning the experiments by enabling the researchers to change the components rapidly and thereby identify important aspects.
«We then compare the results obtained from the computer model with results of our collaborators doing more laborious experiments in rabbits, mice, or NHPs.
And thanks to these experiments and a set of computer models, the researchers believe they've figured out how these complex dynamics emerge in colonies of rather unsophisticated creatures.
However in parallel to their practical experiments, the researchers have been running calculations modelling the process on their computers and have thus been able to simulate the «capturing of light» in the tiny spheres.
«The advantage of a computer model is that you can experiment on it as often as you like.
But recent developments, including computer modeling and the ability to experiment on isolated cells, have equipped scientists with viable alternatives to primate research.
But while most research on impending environmental disaster relied on computer models, Biosphere 2 represented a fascinating alternative mode in which large - scale analog experiments employed real organisms, soil, seawater, and air.
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.
Using both computer modeling and laboratory experiments, they discovered that it was possible to enhance the production of individual components of the cell wall under certain stress conditions by regulating different transcription factors.
Via a combination of computer modeling, laboratory experiments, and field studies, the researchers looked at how many oVOCs were taken up by a poplar tree leaf sample.
Using the sophisticated UK Met Office climate model, Dr Screen conducted computer experiments to study the effects of Arctic sea - ice loss on the NAO and on Northern European winter temperatures.
Nicole Sharp, an aerospace engineer who runs a Tumblr blog on fluid dynamics, and Jordan Kennedy at Harvard University gathered data from historical records and ran experiments on how molasses flows under various conditions, then fed it all into computer models.
The warheads and the explosions are modelled using sophisticated computer codes and experiments.
The researchers used computer models and simulations in tandem with physical experiments and microscopic imaging to reveal how and why the material effectively controls lithium deposition.
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.
For the purposes of this Prize, research based solely on computer models will not be accepted as a substitute for ocean experiments or effective, small - scale laboratory models and experiments.
Using a combination of experiments and computer modeling, we aim to describe the choices made by the brain's movement - generating system, and to decipher the principles behind those choices.
Researchers addressed this through a density optimization process involving experiments and computer modeling, and by manipulating the materials» underlying microstructure.
Lab experiments to confirm the activity of multiple neoantigens are time consuming, and current computer models to predict antigenicity can be inaccurate due to low validation.
Martinez - Trujillo, a member of Western's renowned Brain and Mind Institute, notes that most spatial memory experiments include animal models being tested in actual, real - world mazes while humans are assessed virtually, using computer screens, more often than not in a two - dimensional setting.
Experiments with simulated Martian conditions and computer modeling are helping researchers refine earlier assessments of whether the long - ago conditions in the Meridiani area studied by Opportunity would have been hospitable to microbes.
My work combines fieldwork, often through expeditions to remote and challenging environments, with laboratory - based behaviour experiments, data - mining and computer modelling.
This time, the computer modeling showed us something the experiments weren't telling us.»
The researchers then used computer chemical modeling and laboratory experiments to refine their understanding of the molecule's origin.
We use the full range of tools available to modern biology, from ecological field surveys and experiments to population genomics, mathematical modeling, and computer simulations.
You should come to work with me if you're interested in the evolution and coevolution of interacting species, and if you're excited to do fieldwork in the desert, execute experiments in the greenhouse, collect and crunch population genomic data, model evolutionary processes with differential equations and computer simulations — or maybe to do several of those things.
In our lab we use a combination of quantitative single cell experiments and computer / in silico models to better understand miRNA regulation.
According to the authors of the study, who used geological observations made using the THEMIS instrument on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling of impact processes, large crater - forming impacts would have created tornado - like wind vortices that reached speeds of up to 500 miles per hour.
Exemplifying the useful symbiosis of animal experiments and computer modeling, the paper describes the quest to understand the interplay between genetic patterns and physiological traits that contribute to weight in mice.
But NNSA labs like LLNL and LANL have been able to meet this responsibility by partnering on focused experiments to validate complex computer models that inform the judgment of researchers and ultimately the laboratory directors, playing a key role in developing the annual letter to the president regarding the current state of the stockpile.
Estimates from regressions with detailed controls, nearest - neighbor models, and propensity score models all indicate large, positive, and statistically significant relationships between computer ownership and earnings and employment, in sharp contrast to the null effects of our experiment.
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