Sentences with phrase «few scale models»

However, both concepts did not go beyond a few scale models.

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Oracle is banking more on what techies call a «scale - up» model in which fewer, but very powerful computers — in Exadata's case each with its own integrated networking and storage — take on big workloads.

Pishevar says he believed so much that the company's original model could scale globally that he helped enlist other investors, and a few celebrities, including Olivia Munn and Ashton Kutcher, to his round.

They operate at scale and have achieved a level of performance few others can claim — a proven business model that is generating heady revenue growth and is yielding profitability today or at any such time of their choosing.

«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.

That time scale of a few minutes fits well with models of the circuit's behavior, says plasma physicist Goran Marklund of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

And because the comb measurements can be averaged over the entire path length rather than relying on a few spot measurements, the comb method is better matched to the scale of atmospheric transport models.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

«We began to create large - scale models; I literally ordered a few hundred toy compasses and started building structures out of them.»

The problem is that there are very few data to work into models, as it's extremely difficult to observe trophic strategies at the microscopic plankton scale.

But there, challenges also arise, as models that simulate changing climate at a global scale do so at relatively coarse resolution, of around hundreds of kilometers, while hurricanes require resolutions of a few kilometers.

Though they found a few elements of the fossilized skull, the researchers chose to model the skull after a few well - preserved skulls of smaller animals related to titanosaurs, and «scaled it up to the size that this animal would be,» Norell said.

«We don't have a microscope that can visualize what's happening at this small scale,» Shenoy said, «but there are few enough atoms that we can model how they behave with a high degree of accuracy.»

A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus: A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome - scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).

A few climate models have been tested for (and shown) capability in initial value predictions, on time scales from weather forecasting (a few days) to seasonal forecasting (annual).

In plasma boundary physics, models require integration of multiple physical processes that cover a wide range of overlapping spatial and temporal scales, from the hot, confined pedestal zone with sharp gradients, to the cooler unconfined edge and divertor plasma, and finally to the first few microns of the wall itself.

The terrestrial processes that might significantly affect large - scale climate over the next few decades are included in current climate models.

Inside, through a small lobby, past a few large - scale creature models and around a series of corners that feel like entering some secret world is just that — the set for the top - secret military installation that is one of the main locations for «The Shape of Water.»

Although we have a few models that have been able to personalize learning and do a better job of instituting mastery - based learning for students, no one has figured out how to do it at scale per se yet, and there is still plenty of room for growth in student outcomes.

Some standardization around a select few models — and a branding of those models — will likely be necessary ultimately to scale the practice nationwide.

While Tesla struggles to scale its operations to meet the demands of developing a mere three vehicle lines and still build the Model S, resulting in constant delays, Audi builds and sells no fewer than 13 core models across 29 total variants in the U.S. alone.

This particular Inscription model with the above mentioned options and a few more, tipped the pricing scales at R1 117 685 — up from a base price of R930 200.

These were reinforced during a whirlwind studio visit just a few weeks ago when Kessler showed me the scale model for his upcoming one - person exhibition at PS 1 in New York (A Palace at 4 am, Oct. 2005 — Feb. 2006).

Sévellec is one of a few miniaturists (another was Charles Matton) whose ingenious reductions transcend even small - scale models executed, like his own, without prefabricated components (tiny bottles, sinks, or armchairs).

''... To round out the show, Schreiber exhibits a few small sculptures, scale models for much larger works.

A scaled, cardboard model of a few neighborhoods in Bucharest (Romania) is installed as an obstacle for the visitor.

«Never Built New York» Through 2/18 at the Queens Museum For the next few months, when you visit the Queens Museum's magnificent scale model of the city as it was in the 1960s, you'll be able to see this exhibition of the city that might have been: a catalogue of 150 years of the bizarre, misguided, and too - good - to - be-true architectural projects that never quite got done.

It is these uppermost few percent of events that are important, and models and theory are nearly unanimous now that they are and will continue to increase, notwithstanding natural climate variability on shorter time scales (as much as 20 years).»

I have analysed several climate model results and find that under a GW regime we would expect to see more record - breaking events at mid - to high latitudes and actually fewer new records than one would expect for the sub-tropics and where there is large - scale subsidence.

«Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).

Future disruptions to fire activity will threaten ecosystems and human well - being throughout the world, yet there are few fire projections at global scales and almost none from a broad range of global climate models (GCMs).

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

«They are relatively small - scale features, only a few hundreds of kilometres wide, and therefore can only start to be realistically resolved in models with a horizontal grid spacing of around 12 km,» said Martinez - Alvarado.

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

Imo local and regional models that can accurately forecast what matters to humans for policy (rainfall, temperature, storms, etc.) over time scales of a few days to one or two decades is critical.

Climate model simulations indicate that changes in solar radiation a few times larger than those confirmed in the eleven - year cycle, and persisting over multi-decadal time scales, would directly affect the surface temperature.

Previous theoretical and model - based studies of the relationship between ocean bottom pressure (pb) and sea level (ζ) suggest primarily barotropic variability at mid to high latitudes for scales greater than a few hundred kilometers and periods less than a few months.

However, my model may work for a few decads because on longer scales other longer cycles, not included in the model, will be important.

Further, a large ensemble of climate model realizations reveals that additional global warming over the next few decades is very likely to create ∼ 100 % probability that any annual - scale dry period is also extremely warm.

Further, following your google hint, a few models popped up, e.g. this one that says in abstract: «A box model of the ocean - atmosphere - sea ice - land ice climate system is used to study a novel mechanism for self - sustained oscillations of the climate system on a time scale of 100,000 years, without external forcing.»

This is just a brief note to point out that a few graphs that I have put together showing Ocean Heat Content changes in recent decades had an incorrect scaling for the GISS model data.

Despite a few small acquisitions, Oracle is still fundamentally an on - premise, scale - up technology company in a world that is rapidly moving to a scale - out, cloud / as - a-service model.