Sentences with phrase «long scale model»

Fish and engineer colleagues tested 57 - centimeter - long scale models of humpback flippers in a wind tunnel and found that they outperformed conventional straight - edged wings.

Not exact matches

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

«As the number continues to climb to something approaching 4,000 - 5,000, we think Model 3 gross margins should turn profitable, which doesn't indicate it will meet long - term targets, but should prove to be better than the more bearish expectations of the car being EBIT - negative, even at scale,» Arnson and Erickson said.

There are many different business models and combinations that you can pick for your marketplace, but choosing the right model and making sure it scales in the long run is the tricky part.

«How invaluable a MASSIVE cutting mat is (as long as you don't turn it into a scale model of the Clwydian Range by applying heat!).

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

The seismo - thermo - mechanical (STM) modelling approach utilises long - time scale processes to explain short time scale problems namely replicate the results observed from the historical earthquake catalogues.

Scaling their model up to a shark 21 feet long and weighing 7,300 pounds — akin to the largest of living white sharks — they found that such an animal opening its jaws to a 35 degree angle could squeeze its prey with almost 4,000 pounds of force.

It is possible that large - scale structure forms in the wakes produced behind long strings, though so far this model has not proved too promising.

The most detailed images yet made of the chemical bonds in a molecule show what large - scale models had long assumed: the more electrons that two atoms share, the shorter the bond between them.

In the Coast Guard's spring tests, small - scale models navigated an ice sheet as long as one - and - a-half Olympic - sized swimming pools at the National Research Council's ice - tank test facility in Newfoundland to measure various designs» resistance, power and maneuverability (shown below).

But it remains to be seen whether the models can be scaled up from such short phrases to deal with longer, more complex texts.

As a result, Joughin says, the model's time scale for the collapse is probably too long.

But Barnett used models to estimate numbers before large - scale fishing began — revealing the stark long - term decline.

There has long been reason to expect that forests could take many years to recover from drought, «but it was previously impossible to estimate so even our most sophisticated large - scale models have essentially ignored it,» Ayres said.

Examples include capacity planning tools (long - term energy system planning), production cost simulations (large - scale operational impacts on the energy system (e.g., PLEXOS, GridView)-RRB- and fixed price optimization models (near - term business case analysis).

But it is quite difficult because of the long time scales that you have to do deal with so you can't use the models that are used to simulate a hundred years or two hundred years.

FET Flagships represent a new model for research and innovation in Europe: they are large scale, long term, science - driven and roadmap - based initiatives that are supposed to have the potential to bring transformational impact on science and technology, as well on economy and society at large.

Thus, CLS removes a long - standing bottleneck in transcriptome annotation and generates manual - quality full - length transcript models at high - throughput scales.

Long term, some say true success will be achieved only if these largely successful models and practices can be taken to scale across the country.

The study will address key questions facing today's policymakers and practitioners, particularly those about scale, the long - term impacts of early education, and the essential ingredients for successful models.

Our current ELT emphasis on English as an international language, combined with our long history of partnership with educational ministries, provides an effective model for national - scale ELT improvement.

There already exist model catch - up programs and policies that systems and institutions can learn from: California State University at Long Beach has pioneered a partnership to deliver bridge courses to close student - readiness gaps; Illinois has passed legislation requiring the development of transitional math courses across the state; and Tennessee has increased the scale of its Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, or Sails, program from a single district in 2012 to over 17,000 students statewide in the 2016 - 17 school year.

As spy photos, leaked scale models, and teaser photos indicated, the 2017 Volvo S90 has the long - hood proportions of traditional luxury sedans.

Things stay close on the scale as well, with the Model 3 Long Range weighing in at 3,814 pounds while the smaller battery reduces weight by nearly 300 pounds to 3,549; slightly more than half of that bulk sits in the rear half of the car, with distribution checking in at 47/53 percent f / r for regular Model 3s and 48/52 for Long Range ones.

As both these images and our earlier spy photos and leaked scale - models show, the Volvo S90 will have a traditional long - hood luxury - sedan silhouette, with proportions bringing to mind rivals like the Audi A6, BMW 5 Series, and Mercedes - Benz E-Class.

Following the launch of the S90, Volvo will launch the V90, a wagon version of the luxury sedan that leaked photos of scale models indicate will adopt many of the S90's design cues, but with a long and tall roofline that leads into a sloped rear window.

Honda has long been a leader in hydrogen fuel cell models, but real large scale production of these zero emission vehicles has been delayed due to the high cost of manufacturing...

Here's the not so - good: With the exception of the Denali models, all of these SUVs are powered by GM's 5.3 L EcoTec3 V - 8, even the long wheel base versions, which tip the scales at close to 3 tons.

The one - eighth scale model is over 22 - inches long and nine inches wide.

Publishers have long - entrenched ideas, facilities, processes, and business models that can't turn on a dime, and they're seeing increased competition from online retailers (like Amazon and B&N) and smaller publishers, who don't need the huge economies of scale and financial capital that the print book business requires.

The scale model of my studio space partly signifies an inadequacy of me being able to reach a concrete state; perhaps because I spend too long in the actual space, which is wrapped up in the unfolding of ideas and practicing them.

The exhibit will be divided into three parts: the museum's Rubin Gallery will be organized into a layout that mimics Manhattan with scale models of projects like Steven Holl's Parallax Towers (alluded to above) and an alternate design for Central Park inspired by the gardens of Versailles; the museum's long - standing Panorama of the City of New York display will get 70 new additions to show viewers what the city would have looked like if all of the exhibit's projects had been completed; and a third display will focus on projects that were specifically intended for Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Hell Gate (1998), is a 28 - foot - long (8.5 m) scale model, in Erector and Meccano pieces and wood, of the dramatic steel - and - concrete railroad bridge that crosses the Hell Gate segment of the East River, between Queens and Wards Island.

Since then, Ms. Lou has beaded structures including a full - scale model of a flower - filled suburban backyard, a 1949 Spartan Mobile Mansion trailer, a chain - link enclosure topped with barbed wire, a life - size reproduction of a cinder block prison cell and two versions of a mile - long coiled rope.

For Kiefer, Khlebnikov's 317 - year cycle is useful in that it allows him to depict these broken 20th - century vessels in the light of naval engagements, long sea journeys, shipping losses and the battles of the past - in short, to acknowledge both the human and the historical scale of past events, and their place in our larger models of the world.

And the good agreement for the past 700 years was quite a surprise to me — I did not expect these simple models to hold up for such a long time scale.

We can also compare with model - generated data (re-analyses), keeping in mind that one must be very careful with these data since they are not appropriate for studying long - term climate change (they give a misrepresentation of trends — at least on a local scale).

What I notice is that consistent corrections to the model, and attention to the behavior of the individual ensemble members brings model projections and the long extrapolation into agreement (# 44) while short extrapolations probably should not be attacked based on possible low frequency variability owing to a scale mismatch.

The longer the time scale, the more complex the subgrid models must be because I think everyone acknowledges that eventually the small scales influence the resolved scales.

For the 20th Century, models show skill for the long - term changes in global and continental - scale temperatures — but only if natural and anthropogenic forcings are used — compared to an expectation of no change.

This is mostly caused by the fact that climate models are constructed to make projections on much longer time scales and can not predict the precise timing of individual events.

At longer (decadal) time scales, the models still show very similar results (which makes sense since we anticipate that the tropical atmospheric physics involved in the trend should be similar to the physics involved at the monthly and interannual timescales).

And I'm not aware of any climate model that shows chaotic behaviour on long time scales.

But since the adjusted RSS measurements fit the models and S&C's 0.12 figure (with the «anomalous behavior» of UAH over long time scales) doesn't, I think you're supposed to accept RSS over S&C.

In the case of climate models, this is complicated by the fact that the time scales involved need to be long enough to average out the short - term noise, i.e. the chaotic sequences of «weather» events.

Given that the answer to this for atmospheric models is a resounding «NO» (particularly because of sub-grid scale processes which need to be effectively pre-ordained through parameterizations), and given that oceanic circulations have much longer adjustment time scales, yet also have much more intense small scale (gyre) circulations than the atmosphere, my instinct is that we are not even close to being able to trust ocean models without long term validation data.

Long - term natural variability has implications for the modeling of future climate changes, on the scale of decades to centuries.

Comparing model predictions of GHG - induced warming with recent natural temperature fluctuations also indicates the potential scale of man - made climate change.Early modelling experiments focused on the total long - term change resulting from a doubling of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.

«The novel aspect of our work is the use of a high - resolution ice - sheet model over a larger area and longer time - scale than previously attempted.