Sentences with phrase «modeled the spread of»

Under Gupta's guidance, Mitacs has worked with 60 universities and more than 6,000 companies to solve real - world challenges — from building better tools to locate lung tumours to modelling the spread of forest fires.

To investigate further, Michael Otterstatter and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, Canada, modelled the spread of the parasite from commercial bumble bees to their wild relatives.

Until the current outbreak, mathematical epidemiologists had rarely modeled the spread of the virus

Ouellette uses differential equations to model the spread of zombies, and derivatives to craft the perfect diet.

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McAlpin: Because of the way we're approaching the business model, not taking commission and offering free memberships to farmers, we're connecting with people across the country who are volunteering to help us spread the word.

For example, in one activity called «Stem of the Living Dead,» students explore the exponential growth of a zombie hoard and how the spread of the infection creates limited resources using World Health Organization and CDC models and graphs.

The Concept: Move the majority, or all, of the core infrastructure and technical team to a central location and gain economy of scale by leveraging larger resources and spreading the investment of those resources across numerous clients (a jump in the MSP model).

In contrast, bond market exposure (in the form of yield curve and spread risk) has played a relatively minor role in driving convertible bond risk and return in the recent past and seems likely to play a minor role in the year ahead, based on our model.

This makes sense, since often times, high net worth individuals seek the safety and yield of munis, and the market infers a slight spread above Treasuries since a municipality is more likely to default on a loan than the US government, which can always just print more money under the US Fiat currency model.

Ever since the rise to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini in the Iranian Revolution, the Iranian regime has hoped for its model to spread.

Peter Faber, SJ, one of the great figures of the Catholic Reformation; and by doing so, gave us a key to understanding his own approach to the new evangelization, and a model for spreading the faith in modern times.

Today, the new company is spreading this model across all of its facilities and within the communities in which it operates.

i'm a savory girl in every aspect — i'll choose eggs and avocado over a sweet spread any day Beverley @ Born to Sweat recently posted... Facing the Tough Reality of the Modelling World

Finally Charlie slung himself off the top rope like a human crossbow bolt out into a crowd of drunk, flamingo - limbed models, all of them spilling their drinks and laughing with their legs spread out wide as they collapsed helplessly to the floor, not trying to catch him or even break his fall as he fell to the ground.

In yesterday's college football action, no games fit this model, but the most lopsided - bet game of the day (and one of the heaviest - bet games), a bet on UL - Lafayette — would have covered the point - spread.

I want my business to truly serve women and to help spread the peace of mindful living to the next generation - through the modeling of their mindful mamas.

They grew their own food, built their own houses, published their own books, and, as word of their social experiment spread, created a model of care for women and babies that changed a generation's approach to childbirth.

Of course, non-local contacts and «viral» spread mattered (as did virtual phone banks, MyBarackObama and those emails and texts you sent your momma), but the essence of the Obama community organizing model WAS community, and not just of the virtual kinOf course, non-local contacts and «viral» spread mattered (as did virtual phone banks, MyBarackObama and those emails and texts you sent your momma), but the essence of the Obama community organizing model WAS community, and not just of the virtual kinof the Obama community organizing model WAS community, and not just of the virtual kinof the virtual kind.

Mr. Komanoff, 70, a policy analyst and a former president of Transportation Alternatives, is the one who made congestion pricing more than just an idea by creating a spreadsheet model to calculate the real - life impacts, including how much money would be raised, how much traffic would be reduced and how the costs would be spread across the region.

It's time, the authors said, for a new model of how our species evolved and spread across the world.

In challenging the multiple migration model, the new genome data, published online today in Science, suggest that Europeans today are the descendants of a very old, interconnected population of hunter - gatherers that had already spread throughout Europe and much of central and western Asia by 36,000 years ago.

In 2015, Noebels and Dr. Isamu Aiba, a research fellow in neurology at Baylor, published a paper in Science Translational Medicine in which they described in a mouse model what would happen if spreading depolarization, the blackout of brain activity, occurred deep in the brainstem, which controls the heart beat and breathing.

Today, as a «data wrangler» (her official title), she collaborates with different labs around the country to «best capture and model the metadata of experiments, think about how the scientific community should access the data, and work to spread the utility and application of ENCODE.»

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.

This was a surprise, because the gas should have spread evenly around the planet, so Franck Lefevre and François Forget of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, created a climate model to explain how such concentrations might form.

A raft of studies in laboratory animals, molecular models and cancer patients suggest that pain drugs given during and after cancer surgery stimulate the growth and spread of certain tumors.

An earlier study using that model showed that the algorithms in the model can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

But epidemiologists are increasingly turning to agent - based models to include factors that the equations ignore, such as geography, transportation networks, family structure, and behavior change — all of which can strongly affect how disease spreads.

The model also incorporates data on how people typically move between home, work, school, and shopping; on sexual behavior (Zika can be spread through unprotected sex); and on factors that affect mosquito populations, such as seasonal temperature swings, rainfall, and breeding sites such as caches of old tires.

You may even decide you need to learn the language of computational modeling to better understand the spread of an outbreak of the H1N1 virus — and you'll need a mentor who can teach and guide you on that path.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

The team fit a mathematical contagion model for the spread of disease to the data and was able to show that the trends in the news media stories explained nearly all of the variation in the social media.

«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.

As the model gets more powerful, its reach will spread to more and more domains of neurology and psychiatry.

They also note that Aedes mosquitoes also spread dengue and chikungunya, two other notorious tropical diseases, so the model effectively measures risks of all three diseases rather than any one of them alone.

Using statistical models to home in on genetic mutations that spread quickly throughout populations, Pritchard and his colleagues have identified hundreds of regions of the genome that have recently been transformed by natural selection.

Last January, state - of - the - art computer aided modeling enabled the researchers to identify an anti-cancer agent capable of deactivating a gene known to be essential for the metastatic spread of breast cancer.

The models suggest that high levels of humidity favored the rapid spread of influenza in the tropical states that led to the early summer wave.

Modern geographers and cartographers are involved in diverse projects: tracking fleets of vehicles or products, helping customers locate a Dunkin' Donuts, modeling environmental scenarios such as oil spills, and studying the spread of disease.

By using statistical models with point spread information and Pomeroy's data, the statisticians had two sets of pretty accurate predictive probabilities.

This individualized therapy would strategically place «firebreaks» of much smaller burns around areas from which the model predicts that vascular damage will spread in that patient, greatly reducing the total amount of damage and reducing the probability that damage will spread between the burns and propagate despite treatment.

We have also worked on models for the spread of extreme ideologies and their impact on cultural norms.

These 3 - D models also can be used to assess and improve the predictive capabilities of the 2 - D models that government agencies and consulting companies use for predicting how floods will spread and the associated risks and hazards.

So, in a paper published today in Science, Atkinson, Gray and their colleagues address this using the type of geography - based computer modeling normally used by epidemiologists to track the spread of disease1.

Scientists are harvesting data from the internet, social media, blog posts, news media, Google search terms and government sites, and transforming it into predictive models to map the spread of the Zika virus, according to a presentation before a bipartisan House briefing hosted by AAAS on 6 June.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

Visualization of computer model showing HIV risk behaviors; red dots are injection drug users that engage in needle sharing or unprotected sex; courtesy of Brandon Marshall / Brown University Condom use, earlier treatment and increased education have gone a long way to reducing HIV spread in the U.S.

This is according to emergency ocean model simulations run by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and The University of Southampton to assess the potential impact of local ocean circulation on the spread of pollutants.

By modeling how the disk evolved over time, researchers at the University of Chicago hope to determine how different kinds of material spread out through the solar system.

Professor Christl Donnelly, from the Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial, said: «These findings confirm that badgers do play a large role in the spread of bovine TB.