Sentences with phrase «improve predictions by»

Her research aims to improve predictions by using remote sensing to monitor how ice sheets and glaciers are changing on Earth.

These results leave open the possibility that we might be able to improve our predictions by adding an earnings growth term.

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Although such a calculator may provide more specific information about the chance of VBAC, which can be used by health care providers and their patients to further the process of shared decision making, no prediction model for VBAC has been shown to result in improved patient outcomes.

Regardless of what climate models find, investigating these long - distance links in weather could also pay off by improving risk prediction and forecasts.

One group will use the data to improve a climate prediction model by incorporating extreme ice events.

By improving the understanding of how much radiation CO2 absorbs, uncertainties in modelling climate change will be reduced and more accurate predictions can be made about how much Earth is likely to warm over the next few decades.

Model simulations can always be improved by testing predictions against field data collected from different ecosystems, and Sulman and Phillips are doing just that: investigating how roots influence soil decomposition and protected forms of carbon in forests that vary in the composition of tree and microbial communities.

«This study takes an integrated approach that addresses the need to advance Arctic environmental research at the system level, a challenge that has been recognized by the broad scientific community as necessary to improve predictions of future change,» said Cox.

By looking at the climate changes that took place thousands of years ago, we can improve predictions for future climate.

The HOPE intervention, led by psychologist Sean Young, Ph.D., associate professor of family medicine and executive director of the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, aims to harness the immense power of social media to improve public health.

In future work, the researchers would like to improve the accuracy of their predictions to enhance the rogue wave prediction algorithms used by NOAA.

Researchers have discovered that the deluge can weaken the tempest by up to 30 % — a finding that may improve future storm predictions.

The research, reported September 11 in the journal Scientific Reports, may help improve the prediction of rogue waves to help shipping companies and others understand the risks posed by these unusual wave patterns.

Brain scans improved prediction accuracy by 60 percent better at predicting reading difficulties than the compared to traditional assessments alone.

«Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent: Engineers find strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation that explain up to 30 % of precipitation and surface radiation variance; study reveals large potential for improving seasonal weather predictions.»

These predictions, he says, are essential to manufacturing in global chemical, cosmetic and personal care industries impacted by REACH, a European regulatory guideline that aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the properties of chemical substances.

This research has the potential to rapidly reduce breast cancer mortality by mimicking these mechanisms with new drugs and improving prediction of when cancerous cells will grow or metastasize.

The improved predictions are largely due to one particular instrument aboard ERS - 1, the microwave scatterometer, which deduces the speed of the wind at sea level by measuring the roughness of the sea's surface.

From the work, he created an «artificial neural network» tool, now used by the National Weather Service, that significantly improves snowfall prediction.

A recent joint statement issued by the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association concluded that further research into racial and ethnic differences and improved cardiovascular risk - prediction methods in people with type 1 diabetes is needed.

This work has been supported by the NOPP project «Advanced coupled atmosphere - wave - ocean modeling for improving tropical cyclone prediction models» (PIs: Isaac Ginis, URI and Shuyi Chen, UM) and by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) Consortium for Advanced Research on the Transport of Hydrocarbons in the Environment — CARTHE (PI: Tamay Özgökmen, UM).

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

We've known that they couldn't all be perfectly round, but this study demonstrates you can use these derived values and improve predictions for more accurate models by accounting for differences in properties at different sizes and types of particulate matter.»

Our NMR - based metabolomics platform has been used by academic researchers to improve risk prediction and for biomarker discovery of cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and other disease targets.

Wan's Pauling postdoctoral research proposal targets decreasing the uncertainty in climate predictions by improving the way that model components are coupled in global climate models.

One key success came from IBM, whose machine - learning technology enabled prediction accuracy to be improved by 30 %.

Indeed, here is a widely discussed 1967 prediction from former teacher Robert Doherty and labor leader Walter Oberer (from their book Teachers, Schools Boards, and Collective Bargaining: A Changing of the Guard): If the «movement to improve the status of teachers by collective action is successful, if... teachers... come close to realizing what they seem to be striving toward, the concern over purely employment matters will decline.

In this report Harris makes «Recommendations to Improve the Louisiana System of Accountability for Teachers, Leaders, Schools, and Districts,» the main one being that the state focus «more on student learning or growth --[by] specifically, calculating the predicted test scores and rewarding schools based on how well students do compared with those predictions.»

Some investment managers and individual investors attempt to improve their performance by timing the market and adjusting their portfolio according to predictions about the market or specific sectors.

If I have to be forced into a prediction then I'd look at agriculture and associated by - products: populations are increasing, wealth is slowly equalizing and diets are improving across the planet.

It could be improved (IMHO)(a) by assembling the yearly predictions in a pdf file that can be easily accessed here and (b) including similar graphs for the measured variables that Barton Paul Levenson has included in his list of correct predictions.

... «by taking these trends (i.e. extra information) into account, we improve our ability to make predictions seasons ahead».

Predictions to keep the interest rates down, the pound up, housing affordable, healthcare services improving by X, inflation down, and social harmony up and the trains running on time... to fulfill their own «predictions and promises» then they might actually earn THEIR wages for a change and gain a lift in cPredictions to keep the interest rates down, the pound up, housing affordable, healthcare services improving by X, inflation down, and social harmony up and the trains running on time... to fulfill their own «predictions and promises» then they might actually earn THEIR wages for a change and gain a lift in cpredictions and promises» then they might actually earn THEIR wages for a change and gain a lift in credibility.

These findings also open for more practical use of our knowlegde about climate change: by taking these trends (i.e. extra information) into account, we improve our ability to make predictions seasons ahead.

Just as a hypothetical example: If climate scientist will tell me that recent pause in global warming is due to the effect of an inactive sun (which is the reality as reported by following) http://www.spaceweather.com and that they will go back and improve their models to account for this, then I would be more inclined to believe their other claims... Instead the IPCC doubles down on their predictions and claim the future effects will be worst than they originally thought?

On subseasonal timescales, probabilistic predictions of wind, solar and hydropower generation can help stabilize energy costs and supply by improving scheduling and trading, maintenance scheduling, reducing curtailments and imbalance penalties, improving decisions about reserve energy sources, maximizing grid integration, and planning capacity commitments.

On the other hand, along with improved agricultural efficiency, this more favorable growing climate has allowed us to feed a rapidly growing global population despite Stanford scientist Paul Ehrlich's dire predictions we would experience mass starvation by the 1970s.

By comparison, the US 2014 budget for weather research (things like improved hurricane track / intensity prediction) was $ 82 million.

There are some source of predictability that are still not fully resolved (including those dealing with improving climate models, but also related to unexplored initial conditions or driving conditions), and a great benefit of these predictability studies is that they mimic the practice of weather prediction by confronting models with observations at the relevant time and spatial scales, leading to the necessary inspiration for this model improvement.

Traditionally numerical weather prediction has advanced progressively by improving single, «deterministic» forecasts with an increasing model accuracy and decreasing initial condition errors.

The SHA model for hmF2 improves the fit to the observed data with respect to IRI prediction, especially at high and low latitudes and they may reduce the deviations by 23 % and 40 %, respectively, compared to the deviations of the IRI prediction (Magdaleno et al. 2011).

Then, EGO balances between finding the minimum of the surface and improving the approximation by sampling where the prediction error may be high.

Yet most research in the field has focused on improving predictions of regional ocean warming driven by long - term climate change and short - term climate patterns like the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle.

Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low - power...

The case was then presented for advanced geostationary sounding capabilities as a contribution to GEOSS societal benefit areas, atmospheric ECVs, Numerical Weather Prediction capabilities improved by four - dimensional data assimilation, nowcasting capability, and sensor intercalibration.29 The value of nonclimate applications of such measurements was emphasized.

As we learn more about how the climate works, today and in the geological past, our understanding improves and the computer models are modified in different ways by different research teams to seek better predictions.

Long - range, seasonal to decadal forecasting: Several studies led by George Mason University, the University of Miami, and NCAR aim to improve prediction of weather patterns months to years in advance.

However, new research incorporating additional information, such as the fraction of ice covered by melt ponds in the spring, shows promise for improved future predictions (Schroder et al. 2014).

By mid-December, the predictions were already coming in from law firms about the improved business environment.

Over the course of the pilot period, the efficacy of the platform's predictions improved by approximately 38 percent, and Kanetix.ca experienced a conversion increase in auto insurance transactions of 13 percent.