Sentences with phrase «improve predictions of»

Understanding the climate distribution and forcing for the Pliocene period may help improve predictions of the likely response to increased CO2 in the future, including the ultimate role of the ocean circulation in a globally warmer world.
Their findings might help improve predictions of a hurricane's power in certain regions.
FMI implements method that improves current understanding of air chemistry in boreal forests, which will help to improve predictions of global climate models in the future.
Identify new sources of predictive skill and improve predictions of weather, water, and climate through observations, understanding, and modeling of physical processes and phenomena of the coupled Earth system.
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In collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Leung has been developing and applying advanced regional climate models that will help improve the predictions of climate change and its impacts.
«Now we need to improve predictions of how methane - producing microbial communities will respond to climate change.
«Intensity of hurricanes: New study helps improve predictions of storm intensity.»
In September, the DVD rental company Netflix paid out a $ 1 million purse to a seven - member team that developed an algorithm to improve its predictions of customers» movie preferences.
«Hot rock and ice: Volcanic chain underlies Antarctica: Seismic maps of the mantle will improve predictions of giant ice sheet's fate.»
University of Utah chemists Matt Sigman and Anat Milo conducted a study in the journal Nature showing how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to improve predictions of how chemicals will react — a method that can be used to design better catalysts used to hasten reactions used to make new materials, medicines and industrial products.
We can harness this principle to improve our predictions of protein structure and function.»
«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.
But more data from this crucial region is needed to improve predictions of just how strong a hurricane might get.
The model significantly improved prediction of response to radiation therapy over the use of Gleason score and lymph - node status alone;
«Updated computer code improves prediction of particle motion in plasma experiments.»
«These experiments will enable us to further test and refine the underlying processes in the CORPSE model and should lead to improved predictions of the role of plant - soil interactions in global climate change,» Sulman said.
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.
But even, in some cases, short of that sort of thing, there are fascinating questions about whether or not we can use this knowledge to improve our prediction of things like earthquakes and whether or not we can find ways to be able to sometimes use some of these phenomena to our advantage, so things about like with volcanoes being able to use those for geothermal energy, that sort of thing.
The methanotrophs identified in this study «open new opportunities to explore how nature detoxifies methylmercury and could improve our prediction of mercury toxicity levels and support better risk assessments and remediation efforts at mercury contamination sites,» Gu added.
«The optical telescopes play an important role, as their observations can be used to improve our prediction of the orbital path, as well as provide data that helps us establish the rotation rate of an asteroid,» said Chodas.
The UI study showed that adding thermometer data, which captures clinically relevant symptoms (temperature) likely even before a person goes to the doctor, to simple forecasting models, improved predictions of flu activity.
«This model is a major step forward in our effort to improve the prediction of regional climate change, particularly involving water resources.»
«Our results provide a foundation for improving our predictions of drought - induced tree mortality across Earth's diverse forests.»
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.
«Environmental science actually shares a common goal with drug makers: to improve the prediction of chemical toxicity,» says Dr. Allan Peter Davis, lead author of a paper on the work and the biocuration project manager of the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) in NC State's Department of Biological Sciences.
A project off Greenland will tag whales with sensors to measure sea temperatures and ice melt in hard - to - reach places, improving predictions of sea - level rise
Better modeling of Arctic sea - ice changes could improve prediction of changes in rainfall, the researchers said.
In the past 25 years or so, experts have gradually been improving prediction of the course a storm may take.
Taken together, the results from this study suggest that this technology has the potential to improve prediction of psychosis and other disorders.
«Speech analysis software predicted psychosis in at - risk patients with up to 83 percent accuracy: Big - data approach has potential to improve prediction of psychiatric and other medical disorders.»
A better understanding of how snow melts can help scientists recognize the signature in radar signals of heavier, wetter snow — the kind that breaks power lines and tree limbs — and could be a step toward improving predictions of this hazard.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether adding other SVD markers to WMH improves prediction of post-stroke cognitive performances.
However, these tumors may display intrinsic or acquired resistance to treatment, and classifiers of HER2 - positive tumors are required to improve the prediction of prognosis and to develop novel therapeutic interventions.
Im is now working to improve the prediction of PrediXcan and applying it to mental health disorders.
Our blood analysis service is widely used in research to advance the molecular understanding of chronic disease development and improve prediction of disease onset.
The research results were published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) on April 16, 2018, which is entitled «Deep learning improves prediction of drug - drug and drug - food interactions.»
We plan to develop new methods and tools for (1) improving the prediction of TFBSs; (2) predicting TF gene targets; (3) prioritizing cis - regulatory variants dysregulating microRNA transcriptional regulation with downstream impact on the gene regulatory programs in cancer.
A major goal of the study is to improve prediction of individual clinical responses in future treatment trials in which brain imaging may be unavailable, and to study the mechanisms of antidepressant response in Major Depression.
We plan to develop new methods and tools for (1) improving the prediction of TFBSs; (2) predicting TF gene targets; (3) prioritizing
The purpose of NASA's Earth science program is to develop a scientific understanding of Earth's system and its response to natural or human - induced changes and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards.
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.
Contrary to some reporting, that projection has been unchanged for years, though Maslowski is in the process of creating a more sophisticated model that he expects «will improve prediction of sea ice melt,» as he explained to me recently.
Three - dimensional upper - air wind, temperature, and moisture profiles with high vertical and temporal resolution are key to improved prediction of hurricane track and intensity.
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.
The scientists reckoned that improved predictions of storm surge would also be helpful, but they said that there are simply too many variables to develop good models with our currently available data and understanding of the dynamics of surge.
NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth System Science to improve prediction of climate, weather and natural hazards using the unique vantage point of space.

Not exact matches

It has been relegated to many narrow use cases involving pattern recognition and prediction (some of which are very valuable and useful, such as improving cancer detection, identifying financial risk and fraud, and other high performance computing applications), but it has not developed a general «understanding» of human interactions, human emotions, speech patterns and human responses to information.
[24] «Furthermore, combining CFMs (customer feedback metrics), along with simultaneously investigating multiple dimensions of the customer relationship, improves predictions even further.»
Disney's first - quarter revenue improved 9 % from the same period last year, to $ 13.4 billion, blowing past analysts» prediction of $ 12.9 billion.
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