Sentences with phrase «for nonlinear»

Comment on «On the joint distribution of surface elevations and slopes for a nonlinear random sea, with an application for radar altimetry» by M.A. Srokosz, J. Geophys.

Rial et al. (2004) have discussed the evidence for nonlinear behavior in the paleoclimate proxies for temperature and in the powerful ocean - atmosphere interactions of the North Atlantic Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Niño Southern Oscillation in Fig. 3.

Gasson et al. [7] plot regional (New Jersey) sea level (their fig. 14) against the deep ocean temperature inferred from the magnesium / calcium ratio (Mg / Ca) of deep ocean foraminifera [62], finding evidence for a nonlinear sea - level response to temperature roughly consistent with the modelling of de Boer et al. [46].

In addition to Dozier, the other participants in the study week from California were Michael Ghil of UCLA's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland; Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center; Elisabeth Paté - Cornell, also from Stanford; and Mikhail Rabinovich of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California at San Diego.

In this study, evidence for a nonlinear association between ENSO and precipitation extremes is reassessed by fitting stationary and linear / nonlinear GEV regression models, with the Niño3.4 index as a covariate, to 1 -, 5 -, and 10 - day extended winter precipitation maxima.

I find myself a little surprised that use of a non-informative prior is not a standard practice for nonlinear parameter relationships.

I hate idiots that compute linear trends for nonlinear phenomenon.

The above formula has been commonly used for a nonlinear observation function h -LCB- \ displaystyle h -RCB-, such as the position of a hurricane vortex.

A model for the nonlinear nutationof the Earth — ocean — atmosphere system is constructed.

In my MATLAB version of the same thing the parameters are adjusted algorithmically with the Nelder - Mead or downward simplex method, at least for the nonlinear dependencies, which makes a black box of the procedure from which it is hard to learn anything.

(a condition which tends to be satisfied for a doubling of CO2, unless the temperature variation is sufficiently compressed toward L, analogous the cases discussed in 15.3 a with c larger than 1 except for the nonlinear relationship between the intensity or flux and the BT — and preexisting non-CO2 CDS will actually make it harder for ΔBTc0 to be larger relative to BTc0i),

I guess I don't understand how a climate model could reflect a linear expectation for centuries and also contain a trigger for a nonlinear collapse within the timeframe of the organizer on Al Gore's Blackberry.

Of course I can not prove that my choice of a ten - year doubling time for nonlinear response is accurate, but I am confident that it provides a far better estimate than a linear response for the ice sheet component of sea level rise under BAU forcing.

It does that with analytical solutions for linear trends and Monte Carlo simulations for nonlinear trends.

- Cognitive flexibility and hypertext: Theory and technology for the nonlinear and multidimensional traversal of complex subject matter.

Listeners won't walk away with a clear narrative about The Inheritors, which is designed for nonlinear exploration.

We previously showed that a simple linear ensemble - coding model of the SC motor map could fully account for the nonlinear properties of saccades [33].

Fifth, we modeled physician and patient age as continuous rather than categorical variables with quadratic and cubic terms to allow for nonlinear associations.

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have shown, using a recent theory for nonlinear light scattering when light passes through nanostructures, that it is possible to predict the nonlinear optical properties of metamaterials.

If miniaturized further, the probe could easily be integrated into an endoscope for nonlinear multimodal imaging inside the body.

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

Not exact matches

While many directors start out conventional and then experiment once they have clout, Tarantino has abandoned much of the nonlinear storytelling on which he made his name (with «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction») for something more traditional.

I think this desire for complex, nonlinear lives will intensify.

But it established vital first principles still essential to the web as it exists today: the notion of hyperlinks that reimagined documents (and eventually any form of media) as nonlinear texts, and the ability for anyone, anywhere in the world, to peruse that content by way of a browser: a piece of software that cohered to universal formatting standards.

For example, Andrew Davis» model of the buyer's journey adapted from McKinsey reflects a cyclical, nonlinear buyer's journey.

Designs for highly nonlinear ablative Rayleigh - Taylor experiments on the National Ignition Facility

His formula called for summing up all the gravitational forces of the universe, whereas Einstein employed a nonlinear equation.

In cases for which reactant and product (A, B, P, Q) concentrations are not held constant but are allowed to follow the usual (nonlinear) equations which govern ordinary diffusion, development of spatial order is to be expected, if the chemical equations of the Brusselator apply.

But to lose faith in it for this specious reason (as if a high incidence of adultery casts doubt on the validity of marriage) is to lose faith not only in literature but in the mind's capacity to make those nonlinear leaps beyond present certainties that give Einstein an occupation and Hawking precedent for his dream of grand unification.

Although the CIs cross zero for incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, premenopausal ovarian cancer, and premature deaths, the associated costs are statistically significant because of the nonlinear nature of these relationships.

Nonlinear optical processes provide the basis for important functionalities in photonics, such as frequency conversion of light, generation of ultrashort light pulses, as well as optical processing and manipulation.

This relation of the Schrödinger equation to classical waves is already revealed in the way that a variant called the nonlinear Schrödinger equation is commonly used to describe other classical wave systems — for example in optics and even in ocean waves, where it provides a mathematical picture of unusually large and robust «rogue waves.»

Take a nonlinear topic, open it up in a well - labelled double - page spread, and you have a formula for capturing children's imagination.

«Nobody understands anything about «endpoints in carcinogenesis» or «nonlinear models» for disease,» said one frustrated staffer.

He even used an additional summer experience at NIST, after graduating from college, to explore an alternative area in physics so that he could make sure that nonlinear dynamics was the right field for him.

Gao's coauthors on the paper were Yujie Wei (lead author and a former postdoctoral fellow at Brown), Yongqiang Li, Lianchun Zhu, Yao Liu, and Xianqi Lei of the Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Gang Wang of Laboratory for Microstructures, Shanghai University; Yanxin Wu and Zhenli Mi of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing; and Jiabin Liu and Hongtao Wang of Zhejiang University.

In their work, the team of researchers used a graphene based nano - mechanical resonator, well suited for observing nonlinear effects in energy decay processes, and measured it with a superconducting microwave cavity.

«Playing the nanodrum: Nonlinear effects in graphene membranes can be used for next - generation ICT.»

Nonlinear elasticity that would be desirable for an ideal climbing rope because the tension on the rope plateaus over a range of strains, so there is a constant braking force on a falling climber, for at least part of the fall

For example, the classical equations used to predict the performance of such materials have indicated that the logarithm of the reaction rate should vary linearly as voltage is increased — but experiments have shown a nonlinear response, with the uptake of lithium flattening out at high voltage.

«The results demonstrate the ultra-silicon-rich nitride platform to be extremely promising for highly efficient nonlinear optics applications, particularly in the field of CMOS photonics leveraging existing electronics infrastructure,» says Dr. Doris Ng, Scientist III at the A * STAR Data Storage Institute.

When the refractive index is different for different light intensities, the material is described as being optically nonlinear.

Demetrios Christodoulou of ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Richard Hamilton of Columbia University in New York City won the mathematics prize for their work on nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology.

That difference can be accounted for by the nonlinear nature of the waves, which are not sinusoidal — but instead have rounded troughs, along with sharp peaks that result from the water being pushed upward against the pull of gravity.

This phase mismatch - free quality holds promise for quantum computing and networking, and future light sources based on nonlinear optics — the phenomena that occur when interactions with light modify a material's properties.

«The removal of phase matching in nonlinear optical metamaterials may lead to applications such as efficient multidirectional light emissions for novel light sources and the generation of entangled photons for quantum networking.»

In an important step toward endoscopic diagnosis of cancer, researchers have developed a handheld fiber optic probe that can be used to perform multiple nonlinear imaging techniques without the need for tissue staining.

These nonlinear imaging techniques have been shown to be useful for clinical diagnostics, including identifying cancerous cells, but it has been difficult to miniaturize the required instrumentation for use inside the body.

ARL created a generalized model using an energetic formulation approach, which was key in identifying two important mechanisms for enabling high bending motion in soft biological actuators: (i) tuning physical properties (mechanical and geometric) via exploiting the interplay between the materials and dynamic nonlinearities to augment the motion; and (ii) highlighting the electromechanical coupling between the electrical field and nonlinear structural stiffness through the distributive actuation circuitries.

For the past several decades, scientists have estimated the nonlinear optical properties in natural crystals using a formulation known as «Miller's rule,» for the physicist Robert Miller who authored For the past several decades, scientists have estimated the nonlinear optical properties in natural crystals using a formulation known as «Miller's rule,» for the physicist Robert Miller who authored for the physicist Robert Miller who authored it.