Sentences with phrase «mechanical model»

I was not so impressed by their characterization of the competing mechanical model.

The more we know about complex molecules the less they appear to resemble the strict mechanical models that textbooks tend to portray.

He then designed some possible derivatives of that compound, and used quantum and molecular mechanical models to predict their properties.

Not only is the keyboard comfortable and resilient, but it's considerably cheaper than buying an actual mechanical model.

To prove it, Pang and her colleagues developed a quantum mechanical model of how the stretching of space affects or «couples» to light waves bouncing back and forth in one of LIGO's arms.

Naumov and Hemley's study also indicates that hydrogen initially becomes a dark poorly conducting metal like graphite instead of a conventional shiny metal and a good conductor, as was originally suggested in theoretical calculations going back to the 1930's using early quantum mechanical models for solids.

GFZ scientists Alexey Petrunin and Irina Rogozhina have now coupled an ice / climate model with a thermo - mechanical model for the Greenland lithosphere.

I also think that the ecological model of Birch and Cobb is superior in explanatory power to any present mechanical model because the ecological model accepts human feelings as primary givens.

In addition, in collaboration with physicists and mathematicians, we develop mechanical models of epithelial morphogenesis.

Against this position it is useless to argue that there are data that this philosophy does not illumine, and that mechanical models capable of explaining the processes of thought have not been devised.

For example, there are persons to whom it is wholly self - evident that sense data are the ultimate givens in terms of which all thought develops and who are equally convinced that the only acceptable explanation of the way things happen follows mechanical models.

Birch and Cobb assert that «the ultimate mechanical model involves «disecting the organism down to its constituent controlling mechanisms and building it up from these building blocks» (LL 69).

The nineteenth - century predilection for picturable mechanical models has been thoroughly undermined by quantum physics which has shown that the atomic world is very unlike the world of familiar objects.

Materials researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology initially came across the nano cage as a potentially powerful approach, and Mavrikakis» group used its quantum mechanical modeling expertise to synthesize cages with a tiny amount of platinum.

«It took quantum mechanical modeling on large supercomputers to understand what the electrons were doing and how that drove the spacing of the oxygen atoms.»

With various colleagues, he created the first mechanical models of how cells and tissues form and change during development, how cells move and how nano - scale molecular motors inside cells exert forces on a pico - Newton scale.

This technology, combined with mechanical modeling methods, may help us understand how footwear interventions affect the mechanics of the knee joint.»

An extended sequence set at the huge New York City diorama built for the 1964 World's Fair not only completes the story, but its use of intricate mechanical models is playful and mesmerizing.

So designer Philippe Starck makes his mark with a matte - black futuristic mechanical model; Gerald Scarfe's Faber — Castell 9000s are as paint - splattered as his anarchic cartoons.

It's true that the quantum mechanical model converges to the Newtonian model at sufficiently high quantum number and it's possible that the agreement of a Newtonian Chaos theory with a Quantum Chaos theory will be high enough for a particular purpose but that has to be shown in a particular case, not just assumed.

«People have been using simple mechanical models to describe the ice,» McCarthy said.

Here, Whitestone is showing frenetic abstract paintings made with short stitches and stabbing brush strokes by the Gutai artist Chiyu Uemae, and Andrew Edlin has given his entire booth over to Tom Duncan's interactive, mechanical model of Coney Island.

«Our software enables QM / MM simulations with a variety of advanced quantum mechanical models, and by integrating it with the popular AMBER molecular simulation package, which is used by hundreds of academic and industrial research labs, we can reach a very large user base,» said lead author Andreas W. Goetz, a research scientist with SDSC and expert in multi-scale modeling.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

Their exposition of the philosophy of the mechanical model of explanation is correspondingly oversimplified and, for this reason, suffers unnecessarily by comparison with their ecological model.

The quarrel is not with the practical use of the mechanical model where it is adequate, but with its misuse as, for example, applied to human behavior and the assumption of its final explanatory adequacy in any worldview.

The ecological model of the universe differs in two important respects from the substance or mechanical model.

On the whole, mechanical models could be employed to understand them.

Bergson said that the mechanical models resemble a «still» seen when a movie film has been stopped at a given point.

If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it.

Most research on the inner functioning of the cell has been carried out by biologists chiefly influenced by the mechanical model, but what has been learned appears to fit the ecological model better.

Working with a team of Princeton University mathematicians, Full developed a mechanical model of the roach with its legs acting like springs.

In QM / MM simulations, an accurate but computationally complex and thus time - consuming quantum mechanical model is used to identify important features of the electronic structure of a chemically relevant region.

Their study, published in Nature Geoscience, presents a mechanical model in which the highest stresses gradually accumulate at the deeper edge of such an asperity.

It turns out, however, that the coupling of models of ice dynamics with thermo - mechanical models of the solid earth allows a more accurate view of the processes that are melting the Greenland ice.

In addition to classical electrodynamic simulations, Alexander Govorov, Professor of Physics at Ohio University, Athens, USA, was able to establish a simple quantum - mechanical model: «In this model, the classical and the quantum - mechanical pictures match very well, which makes it a potential example for the textbooks.»

«Nobody had ever seen something like this before - where the oxygen comes in and self organizes every three layers,» said Dr. Anne Chaka, a geochemist at PNNL who conducted the quantum mechanical modeling.

An international team of researchers analysed a fossil Neanderthal throat bone using 3D x-ray imaging and mechanical modelling.

The second mechanism of the stretchshortening cycle (the mechanical model) involves the use of the elastic energy of the muscle - tendon complex.

But in running a mechanical model like the Dogs of the Dow, you're running a concentrated portfolio without doing any of the research that would make it reasonable.

Oh, get this, they have a simple elasto - mechanical model, which of course is in wild discord with observed realities.