Then
a computer ran his model 500,000 times, picking a different value for each of the variables every time, producing a range of results.
It does not matter how powerful
the computer running the models is if the models are wrong.
Not exact matches
The report, co-written with risk -
modeling firm Cyence, examined potential economic losses from the hypothetical hacking of a cloud service provider and cyber attacks on
computer operating systems
run by businesses worldwide.
It was February 2013, and Rose was waiting for Catherine McGeogh, an Amherst University professor in
computer science, to
run the third of a series of trials to prove that his company's latest
computer model, the D - Wave Two, could solve some of the world's most fiendish computational problems.
All of the proposed controls that would have such a significant impact on the world's economic future are based on
computer models that are so complex and chaotic that many
runs are needed before we can get an «average» answer.
Votes were cast via phones, tablets and
computers from April 28 through May 9 and tabulated using the instant
running voting
model — in which voters chose their top 3 favorites and designs that finish last during each round of counting get eliminated.
Using this detailed
computer model, the LROC team
ran simulations to see if they could reproduce the distortions seen on the Oct. 13 image and determine the size of the meteoroid that hit the camera.
The
model requires so many calculations that it could only be
run once — even with more than a year of
computer time at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee.
Those equation - based
models were
run first on paper and then on
computers, and they are still used widely.
Using SMU's ManeFrame high performance
computer, Wise
ran the compounds through a
computer - generated
model of P - gp.
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.
Roboticist Hod Lipson of Cornell University and his colleagues have developed a
computer model that simulates an intact structure and
runs algorithms that evolve this
model until it matches data that sensors provide, which can reveal a broader scope of damage.
Web - based distributed computing, by which
models are
run remotely on borrowed downtime on volunteers» personal
computers — is one way around the problem.
It was only possible through the participation of thousands of members of the public in the work's biggest ever climate
modelling exercise: they offered up spare processing capacity on their home
computers to
run the calculations via the Climate Prediction citizen science climate
modelling programme.
The scientists also
ran a
computer model to simulate the future of Greenland's surface temperature, grain size, exposed ice area and albedo.
To find out why, Huber
ran a
computer model to examine the effect of global darkness on the deep ocean.
So he used
computer modeling to parse the clues,
running through 40 million settlement simulations.
February
computer model runs forecast a return to normal sea surface temperatures by June.
He built a
computer model that could calculate the forces acting on the joints of a
running bipedal creature in midstride and tell him how much muscle the animal would need in order not to collapse.
To determine the extent of carbon dioxide's contribution, researchers
ran the data for carbon dioxide and each of the other variables in isolation through several
computer models that mimic the plant growth observed in the satellite data.
New radar technology will allow forecasters to better «see» extreme weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as
computer models that
run on more powerful supercomputers.
Running these data through a
computer model, they found that they could get the experimental results and
model output to agree only when they included two charmonium pentaquarks in the lambda - b decay process — one having a mass of 4.45 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) and the other a mass of 4.38 GeV.
Lapenta foresees a day in the next decade when the increasing capabilities of new radars and satellites will be coupled with an evolving generation of finely detailed weather - prediction
models running in real time on
computers at speeds exceeding a quintillion computations a second.
They used a
computer model to
run simulations of the universe expanding and accelerating at many different speeds.
His forte, though, is
running the
computer models that hydrogeologists use to integrate their knowledge of a groundwater system and plan its future.
They were dismayed by the way HBP was
run and by its stated ambition to create a
computer model of the entire human brain by 2023.
Bigelow and colleagues
ran a
computer model of the island's topography through a wind simulation program and found that near Broo, wind speeds drop off dramatically.
Together with the expectations of the bookmakers, the pairwise winning probabilities are added to the
computer model, which then
runs a simulation of every possible course of the tournament.
Kirschner explains that they
run computer simulations of infection and granuloma formation to see what happens when some factors are removed or a drug intervention is added to the
model.
«You first have to [
run your
computer model] outside of the vacuum of your
model,» Thibault says.
The measurements are then
run through a
computer model that uses the data to estimate the potential worst case scenario regarding «transuranic» activity in the area.
They test their hypotheses about the universe by developing mathematical
models that describe the underlying complex physical processes and
run them on high - performance
computers trying to reproduce the evolution of the Universe over billions of years.
Computers could
run his learning algorithms on small neural networks, but scaling the
models up quickly overwhelmed the processors.
An early
model of the movements of the indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea), a songbird that winters in the tropics, took five days to
run on the lab's own
computers.
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.
Brian Ryan, Ian Watterson and Jenni Evans of the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
ran a
computer model of climate in a world where the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content has doubled.
His study assesses the implications of regional changes in climate predicted by
computer models run by Britain's Meteorological Office and NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in the US.
To attribute any specific extreme weather event — such as the downpours that caused flooding in Pakistan or Australia, for example — requires
running such
computer models thousands of times to detect any possible human impact amidst all the natural influences on a given day's weather.
They scanned seven minke whale heads in CT and MRI machines, created
computer models of the ears and surrounding soft tissue, and dissected the whale noggins to reveal ear fat
running from blubber just under the skin to the ear bones.
By MICHAEL CROSS Earlier this month contractors arrived at a large hospital in south London to replace its main
computers with newer
models capable of
running more up - to - date software.
To further test the generalizability of this
model, Parise and Ernst
ran additional
computer simulations, where they used the Multisensory Correlation Detector
model to replicate several previous findings on the temporal and the spatial aspects of multisensory perception.
To study how and why DEB changes in volatility, the researchers measured properties such as vapor pressures and melting points, probed molecular structure, and
ran quantum mechanical
computer simulations to
model the hydrogenation process.
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.
It
runs potential storm tracks through sophisticated
computer models to determine the way water might flow over the landscape when a hurricane hits and produces maps that are color - coded for various danger levels.
In
computer models, the researchers
ran through dozens of simulations of each zone, both before and after the divisions took place.
«If they know the concentrations and they know the exposure pathways it should be straightforward to calculate that,» said Charley Yu, who
runs the national
computer dose
modeling program at http://www.talisman-energy.com/ for the U.S. Department of Energy.
So Mishurov and astronomer Irina Acharova, also of the Southern Federal University,
ran computer simulations that
modeled a cluster of stars orbiting the galaxy's center.
By devising and
running a new
computer model, Quillen, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester, has now shown that the tidal pull exerted by another, similar object could be strong enough to crack the surface of such icy moons.
«
Computer models have not been able to explain the large inundation and
run - up on the Sanriku Coast using the earthquake alone,» Grilli said.
After
running both
models on
computers provided by the Department of Energy and the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, the scientists found the hydroxide ion prefers to congregate at the water's surface.