Sentences with phrase «ecological modeling»

There are already some pointers in the movement away from exclusive mechanism to a more ecological model of nature.

A new study attempts to describe it using ecological modeling.

They created a simple ecological model inside 60 open tanks.

It involved data manipulation, creating realistic ecological models, and Web site critiques.

His current research interest centres on spatial ecological modeling and impacts of climate change.

We believe ecological models could be more fruitful hypothesis generators than a picture of a market as a simple physical mechanism, about which we already know all there is to know.

The socio - ecological model recognises that there are multiple influences on children's mental health and wellbeing.

She's worked to promote local and ecological models of food production, and has often highlighted the climate chaos that threatens global systems of food and infrastructure.

The average R2 should be increasing, he says, because more variables are being included in ecological models, which ought to make them more accurate.

This answer from genetics matches up well with ecological modeling of the abundance of passenger pigeon food — acorns, beechnuts and other forest mast — in North America over the last few thousand years.

A recent study published in the online journal Ecological Modelling reported that in 10 megacities they studied, tree - based ecosystem benefits had a median annual value of $ 505 million.

«Using the socio - ecological model as a guiding framework, this study explores the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy factors that impede and facilitate the transition from residential substance abuse treatment from the perspectives of individuals with SUDs who are anticipating discharge from treatment.»

While it's one thing, he says, to employ ecological models to generate hypothesis for further testing, it's another matter entirely to present the results of these modeling exercises as predictions that policy makers and the public then interpret as forecasts.

This study assesses the relative fit of risk / protective and social ecological models of youth violence among predominantly Asian and Pacific Islander students.

But modern physics has moved away from this mechanistic model of the ultimate particles to a much more ecological model (see Chapter 3).

At this juncture, man has three basic choices with regard to population: (1) to let it increase to the limits of physical survival — possibly a total of 145 billion, (2) to keep it stable at some manageable level — the current ecological model, or (3) to let it decline gradually.

Part of an Australian Research Council funded study titled Being and becoming musical: towards a cultural ecological model of early musical development, the study aims to provide a comprehensive account of how Australian families use music in their parenting practices and make recommendations for policy and practice in childcare and early learning and development.

But big data from genetic fingerprinting of animal DNA in a landscape combined with fine - resolution satellite data and sophisticated ecological models can.

«Scientists have developed indicators for biodiversity, such as land cover type, and modern ecological models that can digest satellite data and information on species occurrence are now offering near - real time monitoring of the land management impacts on biodiversity.

The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing an accounting for human activity in even the most basic ecological models

She worked as a research fellow for the Blue whale study and the Centre for Whale Research (Australia) conducting ecological modelling, passive acoustic monitoring and habitat assessment for top predators (i.e. mainly marine mammals), and investigating biological responses to changes in habitat caused by natural and anthropogenic environmental variability.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

His article «A Complementary Ecological Model of the Coordinated School Health Program,» initially published in Public Health Reports (2010) and subsequently in the Journal of School Health (2010), provided the first reconceptualization of this approach in more than 20 years.

Arguing that far more attention should be paid to validating ecological models before ecologists use them to predict the future, Dormann says his own paper «is intended to call on the scientist employing species distribution models... to reflect more thoroughly on their merits and limitations.»

Imagined as a hybrid between boats and bits of land mass broken off and headed out to sea, the vessels are ecological models powered by biofuels.

Supported by a new NSF grant, Goulden and his colleagues in Mongolia will spend the next few years mapping Lake Hovsgol's permafrost, stream hydrology and plant species distribution; they also hope to construct more rigorous ecological models of global warming - using data from experiments examining the effects of temperature and plant cover on soil moisture and respiration.

In Feinberg's (2003, p. 111) ecological model about the structure and context of coparenting, coparenting is considered a mediator and moderator linking contextual factors, and parent and child characteristics and outcomes, and, as such, is «the centre about which family process evolves» (Weissman and Cohen 1985, p. 24).

Devereux in Rutland, Mass. follows Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS), a «trauma - informed ecological model,» according to Kerry Ann Goldsmith, LMHC, assistant executive director, Devereux Massachusetts.

The study, published in Ecological Modelling, was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

The latest research used ecological modeling to determine what percentage of lionfish would have to be removed at a given location to allow for native fish recovery.

In a recent study published in the online journal Ecological Modelling, an international team of researchers reported that in the 10 megacities they studied, tree - based ecosystem benefits had a median annual value of $ 505 million, which is equivalent to $ 1.2 million per square kilometer of trees.

Dyadic models emerging from the longitudinal structural equation modeling tradition: Parallels with ecological models of interspecifc interactions

Principles of Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Offers a free online training on prevention that addresses different types of violence; primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention; the social ecological model; and the public health approach to violence prevention.

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

We want to show that philosophy can help biologists to develop an ecological model of living things that will both be more fruitful scientifically and give more appropriate guidance to ethics and social policy.

In a special way, then, I am calling for an ecological model for politics and theology, which begins with human beings living in relationship not only to each other but to a natural environment.

This ecological model requires an organic understanding of reality.

I also think that the ecological model of Birch and Cobb is superior in explanatory power to any present mechanical model because the ecological model accepts human feelings as primary givens.

This means that any model, including the natural selection model of evolution or the ecological model of Birch and Cobb, if it is well defined and includes only effective procedures, can be translated into a machine — and hence deserves to be called mechanical.