Sentences with phrase «mathematical model predicted»

More than fifty years ago, a mathematical model predicted how elementary motion detectors must be structured in the brain.
b4bigbang, you're aware that mathematical models predict all kinds of fun things like parallel dimensions, black holes, warping of space - time, and the like?
Expansion of space time faster than the speed of light is not supernatural at all, in fact, the current mathematical models predict it (i.e. it is completely natural).
Can a new mathematical model predict the endgame of empires?

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Are reasoning and imagination — the twin faculties that most of us associate with innovation — enough for Ray Kurzweil to know which of the formulas that he's dreamed up based on past technological trends will lead to the best mathematical models for predicting future trends?
The rise of «quants,» traders who use mathematical algorithms to predict market moves irrespective of fundamentals, attempts to model the markets as a complicated system.
The brilliance of this model was that it used mathematical symmetries, enabling the prediction of new particles with definite predicted properties (since verified) such as charge and spin.
When the team put both these factors into the same mathematical model, they found that differences in education closely predicted differences in life expectancy, while changes in wealth barely mattered.
Benjamin «Benjy» Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for developing a mathematical model that uses disease data to predict how weather patterns could spread spores of late blight fungus, which caused the Irish Potato Famine.
Over the years, many different mathematical models of tumor growth have been proposed, but determining which is most accurate at predicting cancer progression is a challenge.
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have created the first mathematical model that can predict how a cancer patient will benefit from certain immunotherapies, according to a study published in Nature.
«First mathematical model that predicts immunotherapy success: Researchers also helped craft similar model to predict why some pancreatic cancer patients survive longer than others.»
The researchers provide a new mathematical model that can be used by population geneticists and ecologists to better predict how social groups will influence the way species maintain genetic diversity and evolve, and ultimately help in the conservation of species.
We worked with colleagues from Imperial College London, who used our results in a mathematical model, which predicts that the addition of high dose ivermectin increases the impact on malaria reduction by potentially as much as 61 %.»
Their mathematical model also predicted how the Disneyland outbreak helped push California back from the tipping point by making parents more afraid of the disease than the vaccine.
The study, which is published today in Scientific Reports, used a mathematical model that takes into account whether people are naturally more of a morning or evening person, the impact of natural and artificial light on the body clock and the typical time of an alarm clock, to predict the effects of delaying school start times.
Co-author Prof Derk - Jan Dijk said: «Just as mathematical models are used to predict climate change, they can now be used to predict how changing our light environment will influence our biological rhythms.
Researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego today presented a mathematical model that predicts the likelihood that a police force can conquer either a new drug market or end a rash of burglaries.
To find out if global warming might skew the sex ratio of hatchlings, Rory Telemeco and his colleagues at Iowa State University in Ames developed a mathematical model to predict the sex ratio of eggs laid at different temperatures.
Scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science presented a mathematical model to predict criminal behavior and police success.
Others with a more mathematical bent are applying evolutionary game theory, a modeling approach developed for economics, to quantify cooperation and predict behavioral outcomes under different circumstances.
To try to settle the controversy, several members of Congress from New England last year asked NRC to review the adequacy of stock assessments, which use mathematical models to predict how fish populations rebound after being culled.
For instance, the possibility of negative signs in a mathematical model created by physicist Paul Dirac predicted the existence of antimatter — and the astonishing stuff turned out truly to exist.
A mathematical model can predict whether a marriage will end in divorce, report researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle.
By constructing a mathematical model of the ride, Kautz and Huggard confirmed what Tilt - a-Whirl riders already knew — that it is impossible to predict how a car will behave during the ride.
The mathematical symmetries of the resulting equations predict three families of particles, as described by the standard model of physics, though the third family would behave a bit differently.
Today, a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor Partha Mitra describes a new mathematical model that combines large data sets to predict where different types of cells are located within the brain, based on their molecular identity.
Here are «heat maps» of the brain, made using the mathematical model to predict the distribution of different neurons.
In a further step, the researchers used mathematical models to predict how an infectious disease would spread considering the changes in behaviour of the sick animals.
Another finding was that all the possible forms of the patterns directly matched to the array of patterns predicted by the famous Turing reaction - diffusion model published in 1952, what Russian scientists confirmed not by mere observation, but by mathematical modeling as well.
Next, using data from an early clinical trial in women, the researchers created a mathematical model that predicts these ratios in vaginal, cervical and rectal tissues given standard doses of medication taken 2 to 7 days per week.
A mathematical model developed by NIH grantees predicts that women must take the antiretroviral medication Truvada daily to prevent HIV infection via vaginal sex, whereas just two doses per week can protect men from HIV infection via anal sex.
Potential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately predicted thanks to a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
By merging this concept of the early universe with specific mathematical models of the effects of dark energy, scientists were able to predict a characteristic scale — a typical distance between concentrations of galaxies — that should be evident in the structure of the universe.
Forget opinion polls, mathematical models have a proven track record of predicting election results — and for 2008 they have a firm favourite
To investigate, researchers developed mathematical models to predict the dynamics of cell transitions, and compared their results with actual measurements of activity in cell populations.
Their recent study, which appears as the cover article in the May issue of Cancer Research, shows that mathematical models can be used to predict how different tumor cell populations interact with each other and respond to a changing environment.
Because the location of so many wells is not known - a common phenomenon in many regions where fracking takes place - the study uses a mathematical model to predict the likelihood that the hydraulically induced fractures of a randomly placed new well would connect to an existing wellbore.
«It's also possible to determine how many variables we should include in a mathematical model whose aim is to reproduce the observations and to predict the evolution of the system at hand.»
No one understands the transformative power of data analysis better than Democratic consultant Ken Strasma, who helped propel Barack Obama into office by devising a mathematical model that predicts the political behavior of nearly every eligible voter.
Special Online Collection: Modeling the Mind This week, Science and its online companion sites explore how scientists are using mathematical models and computer simulations to study and predict the behavior of the nervous system.
He has repeatedly expressed that Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy (about «psychohistorians» who use mathematical models to predict the future) made a deep impression on him in his youth.
Bandi and his colleagues worked from a mathematical model developed by Brown University professor, Shreyas Mandre, which predicts how a liquid like water interacts with a surfactant — a liquid like soap or detergent, which have lower surface tension, introduced at its surface.
The team fed their observations into a mathematical model that can predict defecation times for digestive system problems.
For more than 2 decades, mathematical models used by ecologists have predicted that populations in complex communities will fluctuate wildly, leading some species to go extinct.
Using both the test tube and human data, Kashuba and her team created a mathematical model that predicts the drug - to - DNA ratios in vaginal, cervical and rectal tissues and calculates the amount of drug needed to prevent HIV from infecting human tissues.
The researchers, from the Universities of Bath, Manchester and Princeton (USA), developed a mathematical model to predict the path of evolution when altruistic «cooperators» live alongside «cheats» who use up resources but do not themselves contribute.
Using a mathematical modeling approach, scientists have found that certain parameters of tumor growth in mice can predict the effectiveness of drugs that block formation of tumor - nourishing blood vessels.
A new mathematical model uses gene expression data to predict where neurons are located throughout the brain
A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models.
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