Sentences with phrase «modeling analysis led»

A controversial decision in 2011 to blow up Mississippi River levees reduced the risk of flooding in a city upstream, lowering the height of the rain - swollen river just before it reached its peak, according to a newly published computer modeling analysis led by UC Irvine scientists.

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CALGARY, October 10, 2017 — Solium Capital Inc. («Solium»)(TSX: SUM), the leading provider of software - as - a-service for global equity - based incentive plans, administration, financial reporting and compliance, today announced the acquisition of Capshare, a high - growth cloud platform for cap table management, electronic - share tracking, modeling and waterfall analysis, and compliance for private companies.

The Whiteheadian model thus leads to a metaphysical analysis which allows for the actions of a multiplicity of agents.

In addition to confirmation by leading evolutionary biologists and anthropologists, the behavioral goal assumptions underpinning George's model are also surprisingly consistent with feminist social analysis.

Given that (i) the 95 % CI just reaches 0.99 and (ii) the absence of measurable heterogeneity in this outcome analysis, the probability is that midwife - led continuity models of care are associated with a reduction in fetal loss and neonatal death by approximately 16 %.

women allocated to midwife - led continuity models of care were more likely to be attended at birth by a known midwife (RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven); however, the effect estimates for individual studies are highly variable, as reflected in substantial statistical heterogeneity (Tau ² = 0.31; I ² = 94 %; Analysis 1.15).

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio chose opposite strategies in the weeks leading up to the early primaries, with Cruz basing his campaign on data analysis and voter modeling.

Combining these statistical analyses leads to a comprehensive generative model of the rates at which seismic events of various sizes occur in various locations and the ways that energy from these events propagates to seismic sensors.

«The Dam Impact Analysis Model enables us to see what happens when you change one factor, like marine or freshwater survival,» said Julie Nieland, a researcher at NEFSC's laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. and lead author of the study.

Lead author Leena Järvi of the University of Helsinki coupled those with an urban hydrological model — the Surface Urban Energy and Water balance Scheme (SUEWS)-- to perform a multiyear analysis.

«Prior analyses have found that climate models underestimate the observed rate of tropical widening, leading to questions on possible model deficiencies, possible errors in the observations, and lack of confidence in future projections,» said Robert J. Allen, an assistant professor of climatology in UC Riverside's Department of Earth Sciences, who led the study.

According now to two separate modeling analyses published in Science, this error would lead to the loss of most of the world's natural forest because clearing those forests for bioenergy becomes one of the cost - effective means of complying with laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

To determine if ILS affected the concatenated tree analyses, we explored whether a multispecies coalescent model leads to a different tree topology.

The correlation is very strong, says lead author Francois Balloux of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling in London, and the pattern matches human migration out of Africa, which scientists believe started some 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.

The statistical model used (network meta - analysis) is not suitable, as it can lead to an incorrect evaluation of treatment effects: Non-significant differences can incorrectly appear to be significant.

An important model in studying human disease, the non-coding RNA of the canine genome is an essential starting point for evolutionary and biomedical studies, according to a new study led by The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC).

The successful applicant will work with world leading experts in advanced analytical / numerical modelling, analysis of high - resolution observations obtained by cutting - edge ground and space based instruments.

While the study conducts a sensitivity analysis that includes one scenario with higher levels of production subsidies, the fact that the model's outputs seem to barely register a tripling of production subsidies raises some questions, especially in light of the findings of the other recent U.S. study led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and EarthTrack described above.

T.G.B. and G.Z. led the Doppler tomographic analysis, and also contributed to the final modelling and interpretation.

An international reputation for expertise in regional climate modeling and analysis led to the Laboratory's participation in the project directed by the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group.

In my talk I will discuss my group's efforts to address these analysis challenges through modeling the electric current signal, leading to software for improved consensus calling, SNP calling and detecting base modifications like 5 - methylcytosine.

September 14, 2016 New analysis explores the geographical origins of the flu A computer model developed by UChicago's Sarah Cobey and her team shows that small increases in transmission rates may lead to the spread of new seasonal strains from east, south and southeast Asia.

Advances in sensitivity and resolution as well as developments in modelling and analysis led to milestones in the experimental studies of chemical bonds using AFM.

Our present analysis leads us to propose a model that these gap junctions are heterotypic for UNC - 7S and UNC - 9.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Asked by Education Week to comment on our findings, the lead author of the NCES report freely acknowledged the problems with some of the variables used in the NCES analysis, but asserted that our alternative models may be «underadjusting for the disadvantage in the public sector» because we do not control separately for mothers» and fathers» education.

Excellent English Language — Written and Oral; Strong Content Analysis and Grasping Capability; Creativity; Meticulousness; Project and Process Planning and Monitoring; Reviewing; Very good working knowledge of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel; At least 3 - 4 years of experience in instructional designing; Ability to implement instructional design theories and models; Ability to interact with clients and SMEs; Ability to lead a team of instructional designers on a project.

Dr. Geoffrey Borman's recent meta - analysis of student achievement outcomes in 29 leading CSR models found that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations.»

The PSMG is a collaborative network of leading prevention science methodologists in the United States that has bi-weekly virtual presentations and discussions of emerging issues and methods, encompassing topics such as meditational analysis, longitudinal trajectory analytic techniques, system science developments in agent based modeling, system dynamics and social network analysis.

She also leads special education data collection and analysis efforts to help strengthen the position of charter schools as well as identify and replicate successful special education models for improving academic outcomes of students with special needs in charter schools throughout the state.

● Oversee the implementation of the educational vision across all campuses, and ensure schools are producing amazing outcomes for students ● Ensure all schools meet their academic and cultural goals ● Build a strong, collaborative team of principals ● Ensure schools are operationally strong, aesthetically beautiful and clean, within budget, and well - organized ● Oversee performance management systems and the hiring process across the schools ● Manage the college teams in supporting students as they prepare for college ● Provide individual development and management to school principals through one - on - one meetings, coaching, modeling, planning, and feedback ● Lead regular professional learning for school leaders (topics such as instructional leadership, personnel management, school operations, data analysis, school culture, and family investment) ● Study and analyze data on an ongoing basis ● Work with school principals to develop and implement action plans based on academic results

Value - added analysis built around the model of a single teacher leading a class of 25 students might make it impossible for schools to pursue more personalized instructional models, or models in which a team of professionals is responsible for raising achievement.

For example, a 2002 systematic analysis by Dr. Geoffrey Borman and his colleagues of the student achievement outcomes of 29 leading K - 12 CSR models — most of which operated in Title 1 schools — reported that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations» (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2002, p. 33).

MCLs at Ranson write the lesson plans for their teams, co-teach and model lessons, pull out small student groups, observe and coach their team teachers, and lead data analysis for instructional and grouping adjustments.

Bill Sterrett's analysis of the work of model administrators leads his reader straight to that conclusion: The stars it examines collectively serve as a de-facto register for best practice in school leadership and vision.

In our analysis of the ebook buying methods in academic libraries, we've examined thus far the unexpected effects of Demand - Driven Acquisitions (DDA), a model that showed promise at its inception but eventually led librarians and publishers to question its long - term sustainability, and we've cleared up some confusion surrounding the Approval Plan and explained why it remains as effective for purchasing digital books as for print.

Behavioral finance has been the leading challenger to the efficient markets hypothesis, but the academics reply that behavioral anomalies are not an integrated theory that can explain everything, like the EMH, and its offspring like mean variance analysis, the capital asset pricing model, and their cousins.

My analysis is based on a simple model where investments are assumed to be more productive in flood - prone areas, because there are close to coast and rivers, lowering transportation costs, or because of urbanisation, which leads to concentration and development in river flood plains.

An analysis of the US refining sector, based on linear programming (LP) modeling, finds that refining plausibly high volumes of Canadian oil sands crudes in US refineries in 2025 would lead to a modest increase in refinery CO2 emissions (ranging between 5.4 % to 9.3 %) from a 2010 baseline, depending upon... Read more →

«The regional weather@home model serves as a nice way to do an independent check on the observational analysis,» said Oxford's team lead Friederike Otto.

I participated in a writing team lead by Prof Frans Berkhout that analyses the extent to which one can use plausible (model - derived) storylines for decision making processes in society.

The new research finds that limiting warming to 1.5 C rather than 2C could «substantially» reduce the risk of ice - free conditions in the coming decades, says Prof Michael Sigmond, a research scientist at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at Environment Canada and lead author of one of the new studies.

Desmogblog continued: «Dr. Andrew Weaver, the Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis and a lead IPCC author, called the Independent Summary «highly ideological.»

Spectral analysis, unless properly understood may lead to very misleading conclusions, here are shown four essential things one needs to be aware of all the time: On the other hand there are again unnoticeable data curiosities, this graph shows an unusual configuration within one of the top five temperature data sets used by the climate scientists in their calculations, predictions and computer models.

That the model recreated many of the weather patterns that have been observed in actual heat waves in various parts of the country lends additional credibility to the projections, says Gabriel Lau of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, the lead scientist on the analysis of this experiment.

So a process - oriented analysis of low - cloud variations in the present climate has the potential to lead to improvements in the representation of the low - cloud response to climate changes in models.

This stock / (yearly absorption) analysis avoids all the pitfalls of the assumed equilibrium between absorption and out - gassing that is postulated by all the compartment models with constant inputs and outputs that lead to a set of linear equation and by Laplace transform to expressions like the Bern or Hamburg formulas; there is no equilibrium because as said more CO2 implies more green plants eating more and so on; the references in note 19 show even James Hansen and Francey (figure 17 F) admits (now) that their carbon cycle is wrong!

He is Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, mastermind of one of the most sophisticated climate modelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reportModelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, mastermind of one of the most sophisticated climate modelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reportmodelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reports.»

«There is this mismatch between what the climate models are producing and what the observations are showing,» says lead author John Fyfe, a climate modeller at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis in Victoria, British Columbia.

H.V.M. and B.M. collated and evaluated the reconstructions, and managed the data with assistance from J.A.A.; M.N.E. led the analysis with important contributions from H.G., J.A.A., B.M., G.L., S.J.P., H.V.M., D.W.O., P.G.M., M. - S.S. and M. - A.S.; H.G. and S.J.P. collated, managed and analysed the model simulations with input from M.N.E., G.L. and H.V.M.; H.V.M. led the writing with the assistance of M.N.E., H.G., G.L., B.M., J.A.A., P.G.M., D.W.O., M. - S.S., M. - A.S., S.J.P., K.S., K.T., H.L.F and V.E.; all authors reviewed the manuscript.