Sentences with phrase «computer modeling tools»

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MS&T utilizes high tech tools for training combat soldiers, assessing medical practitioners, and simulating computer programs and models for how they would perform in real world scenarios.

Perhaps our models of some of the most popular theories will be modified as new data becomes available and our analytical tools become more sensitive, but that hasn't stopped us from building computers, vehicles, and machinery of such diversity, spanning the realms of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc..

DNDC Greenhouse Gas Modeling for California Vineyards - A short description of a new online tool to help calculate GHG emissions from your vineyard soil through a computer model based on DNDC (DeNitrification - DeComposition).

They designed the puzzles through sketches, made models out of clay on computer and then created the octopus enrichment tools using a 3 - D printer.

Computer models are a great tool to study these extreme places, and we are now building on this study to get an even more complete picture of what goes on there.»

Armed with these tools, I set out to create computer models of magnetic ferroelectrics.

Sandia National Laboratories researchers Michael Chandross, left, and Nicolas Argibay show a computer simulation and an ultrahigh vacuum tribometer used in friction and wear testing, which are among the tools they use in a collaborative effort that developed a model to predict the friction behavior of metals.

Armed with this tool box, I was able to create computer models of virtual magnetic ferroelectrics and study their properties.

Although computer models of archaeological sites are ideal software tools for managing spatially referenced data and commonly used to yield insights which contribute to the protection of heritage materials, some scientists question their credibility, calling for these long - term trends be «ground truthed» in order to ensure that calculated rates of change reflect observed phenomena «in the field».

These tools will include a computer model and other interactive instruments that allow stakeholders to evaluate agricultural activities.

They have developed a set of tools that can be used to make accurate, rapid assessments of proposed materials, using a series of relatively simple lab tests combined with computer modeling of the physical properties of the material itself, as well as additional modeling based on a statistical method known as Bayesian inference.

«When we started this research program there was a clear lack of tools and mathematical models to help the software engineers to program in an energy efficient way, and also to reason abstractly about the power and energy behavior of her software» says Philippas Tsigas, professor in Computer Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, and project leader of Excess.

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response Grant (RAPID) to develop an innovative model of Ebola spread by using big data analytics techniques and tools.

Using the tools of theoretical computer science, the researchers prove that, within the context of their model, a certain configuration of inhibitory neurons provides the most efficient means of enacting a winner - take - all operation.

Weisberg, along with study co-authors John Walsh, Distinguished University Professor of Biological Oceanography, and their research associates and colleagues at USF and at neighboring Florida Water Research Institute, have developed tools for observing, tracking and forecasting red tides using a combination of moored instrumentation, robotic gliders, satellite imagery and computer models.

Now, scientists from EPFL's Blue Brain Project in Switzerland, at the core of the European Human Brain Project, and the Allen Institute for Brain Science in the United States, show in the July 24th edition of the journal Neuron how a complex computer model is providing a new tool to solve the mystery.

Computer models of climate are one tool for specialists but what we currently lack is not a better model but expertise on how to use them most appropriately.

PNNL researchers use a host of cutting - edge tools — including weather radars, research aircraft, computer models and satellite measurements — to explore these complex interactions.

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.

Computer modeling of the Sun is also used as a theoretical tool to investigate its deeper layers.

With a magnification tool powerful enough to complete one continuous zoom from an altitude of 38,000 miles to as low as 25 feet, and an ever - expanding network of related resources, it's a practically limitless teaching tool — that is, for schools with the high - speed Internet access and late - model computers they'll need to run the program.

Grades: 9 - 12 Activity - Based Physics is a multi-university collaborative effort that uses current research and computer tools to promote activity - based models of physics instruction.

Indeed, if you're a regular Edutopia reader, you're already aware of how personal technologies (computers or cell phones running web 2.0 software) can enable an entirely different model of learning by offering unprecedented access to information and personalization tools.

When the $ 62 million facility opened in 2006 with a relatively small student population, a computer - based curriculum delivered with the latest technology tools, and a unique partnership with corporate giant Microsoft, it set out to upend a secondary school model that had changed little since the industrial era and had spelled failure for too many students here and in cities...

This report reviews evidence on K - 12 classroom technology use and is organized according to media platforms: interactive whiteboards, classroom response systems (clickers), video games, simulations, modeling, augmented reality, virtual worlds, mobile devices, data analysis tools, calculators, 1:1 ratio of computers to students, computer - assisted instruction (where a computer presents instruction or remediation), virtual learning, and educational television.

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.

Work tables replace desk rows; display and presentation areas are sport examples of student work; students have ready access to open Internet with strong bandwidth, varied computer models from media - ready notebooks to high end media work stations accompanied with a variety of technology tools replace printed text books.

As the instructor / researcher, I modeled all of the technologies, including presentation, graphic organizer, desktop publishing and spreadsheet software, Web tools (webquests, webpages, weblogs), digital still and video cameras, and computer / video projection devices.

Delivered in English or Spanish, our cloud - based, cross-platform tool is effective in the computer lab, with small groups, or in a flipped classroom model with scaffolded support that closes gaps and gets students to math mastery.

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which preservice elementary teachers were able to construct viable scientific models with a computer - modeling tool, namely Model - It, and design a science lesson with models.

In view of adequately preparing preservice teachers to teach science through models, the authors of this paper (a) discuss how a cohort of preservice elementary teachers was introduced to model - based reasoning, and (b) examine the extent to which a classroom modeling experience with a computer tool enabled students to design learning activities in science with computer models.

Those were the essential pre requisites; now the general ones are referring to: a Windows running computer which must be near you; your Nexus 4 and its USB cable should also be near you as you will have to use them; on the computer and smartphone the antivirus tools must be deactivated; the USB debugging option from your device must be enabled; the Nexus 4 battery should be charged (if there is less than 50 % power left) and you shouldn't apply this step by step guide unless you own the LG Google Nexus 4 model number E960 phone.

Fast forward to the present where sophisticated computer forecasting models such as the Monte Carlo simulation have become the preferred tools for dealing with the uncertainty surrounding retirement planning.

The paint brush was replaced by tools and in recent years he has started refining his handmade models with the help of computer programs.

Someone who hates CGI probably hates 3D modeling tools or computers in general.

Her introduction to digital media, 1979 through the mid 1980's, she was working as an artist in the research labs, including Magi SynthaVision and NYIT, that were developing the first computer graphics software tools: paint systems, 3D modeling, 2D and 3D computer animation.

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According to Richard Lindzen, computer models used in predicting climate change are «generally recognized as experimental tools whose relation to the real world is questionable.»

Abstract: Computer Modelling is a powerful tool in climate sciences.

These models, whether forecasting tools or global temperature models like Hansen's, take poorly understood descriptors of a complex system in the front end and wash them through a computer model to create apparent certainty and precision.

But now the three - dimensional computer models are being used with sophisticated analytical tools.

Included was technical support to convert several hundred thousand lines of computer code, comprising numerical models and analyses (the tools of my research), to enable those computer programs to operate in Australia.

Computer models are the essential tool for prediction of future climate.

Nobody would be so foolish as to assume that such a computer model could ever be built to represent the real economy with anything nearing accuracy — at least not with our current tools and knowledge.

Thanks to advances in statistical tools, climate models and computer power, «attribution of extremes is hard — but it is not impossible»

These tools range from a turbocharged, higher - resolution computer model to the type of unmanned drone aircraft that more typically prowl the skies above war - torn Afghanistan.

A computer - based knowledge management system under development at PNNL will help scientists collaborate more effectively while using their preferred modeling tools to conduct more comprehensive planning for safe, long - term, underground storage of greenhouse gases.

I do not feel that you should be reluctant to state, «I will confess here that I don't believe computer models really prove anything» It should be a stated principle for scientific research that computer models, like statistics, are valuable tools to guide the researcher.

Computer models are an essential tool in understanding how the climate will respond to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations, and other external effects, such as solar output and volcanoes.

Until now, computer models have been the primary tool for estimating photosynthetic productivity on a global scale.