Sentences with phrase «modeling groups developed»

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Moderate Growth and Income Four Asset Group model portfolio without private capital: 3 % Bloomberg Barclays 1 — 3 Month Treasury Bill Index, 11 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (5 — 7Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (10 + Y), 6 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond Index, 3 % JPM GBI Global ex. - U.S. Index, 5 % JPM EMBI Global Index, 20 % S&P 500 Index, 8 % Russell Midcap ® Index, 6 % Russell 2000 ® Index, 5 % MSCI EAFE Index (USD), 5 % MSCI EM Index (USD), 5 % FTSE EPRA / NAREIT Developed Index, 2 % Bloomberg Commodity Index, 3 % HFRI Relative Value Index, 6 % HFRI Macro Index, 4 % HFRI Event - Driven Index, 2 % HFRI Equity Hedge Index.

In late July 2013, the industry group Committee for the Establishment of the Digital Asset Transfer Authority began to form to set best practices and standards, to work with regulators and policymakers to adapt existing currency requirements to digital currency technology and business models and develop risk management standards.

The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

But churches that are using a growth model of ministry do devote major leadership energies to developing a variety of time - limited groups, retreats, and training seminars to meet major concentrations of needs.

Narula Group President Arvind Narula, added, «I have spent the last 30 years developing a for - profit business model based on organic products that gives back to the economically disadvantaged and culturally indigenous groups who work with us to grow our crops.

Arvind Narula, President of the Narula Group, commented: «I have spent the last 30 years developing a for - profit business model based on organic products that gives back to the economically disadvantaged and culturally indigenous groups who work with us to grow our crops.

We participated in the steering group of the Family Rights Group Fathers Matter 2 project — which aimed to gather evidence on how social care agencies engage with dads, and develop models of good practice (for more details click hgroup of the Family Rights Group Fathers Matter 2 project — which aimed to gather evidence on how social care agencies engage with dads, and develop models of good practice (for more details click hGroup Fathers Matter 2 project — which aimed to gather evidence on how social care agencies engage with dads, and develop models of good practice (for more details click here).

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

Models were developed using the following possible predictors of breastfeeding duration: maternal race, maternal education, paternal education, maternal age, socioeconomic status, 22 marital status, parity, mode of delivery, previous breastfeeding experience, timing of feeding method selection, problems with pregnancy / labor / delivery, breastfeeding goal (weeks), family preference for breastfeeding, paternal preference for breastfeeding, having friends who breastfed, randomization group, 16 plans to return to work, infant's 5 - minute Apgar score, and infant's age in minutes when first breastfed (first successful latch and feeding).

A key element in the Democratic win in Virginia this week was the ability to adapt Obama campaign capabilities to integrate historic voter file data and recent data from field organizers and partner groups with analytics capabilities to develop targeting models, representatives from NGP VAN, Blue Labs and the Virginia Democratic Party said in a press call Friday.

H. contortus has become resistant to all major treatments against parasitic worms, so its genome is a good model to understand how drug resistance develops in this complex group of closely related parasites and will also reveal further potential drug and vaccine targets.

Because the lack of role models in the professoriate can be a barrier to participation, the BPC program also aims to develop effective strategies for identifying and supporting members of the targeted groups who want to pursue academic careers in computing.

Kaminsky's team then developed a blood test that measured SKA2 activity and levels of methyl groups, then fed its results, plus data on demographics and stress level, into a statistical model.

While a Ph.D. student in Jensen's research group, he developed a model that does just that and that was later used in Disney's «Tangled,» a retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rapunzel.

Fussenegger's group developed the genetic network; Professor of Biosystems Engineering Andreas Hierlemann and his team tested the acidity sensor with the aid of microfluidic platforms; and Jörg Stelling, a professor of computational systems biology, modelled it in order to estimate the dynamics of the insulin production.

Her group has been developing mathematical models of how different ears filter different sounds coming from different directions.

A group of researchers from the University of Sassari (Italy) and the University of Plymouth (UK) has developed a cognitive model, made up of two million interconnected artificial neurons, able to learn to communicate using human language starting from a state of «tabula rasa,» only through communication with a human interlocutor.

The group developed a model to determine the best route to Mars, assuming the availability of resources and fuel - generating infrastructure on the moon.

A group of LMU physicists led by Professor Erwin Frey, in collaboration with Professor Stefan Diez (Technical University of Dresden and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden), has now developed a model in which the motor proteins that are responsible for the transport of cargo along protofilaments also serve to regulate microtubule lengths.

Another group, a Kenyan start - up called Access: energy, developed a model to teach Kenyans to make parts of wind turbines out of scrap metal and car parts, reducing the need for outside help should a part of the system break.

The study took advantage of an important large animal model of SMA, the SMA piglet developed by the research group.

While the new models — some of which are being developed in the Stadler group — are more complex and require a lot more computation, they provide more accurate results even at the start of an epidemic, when very little genetic data is available.

For this purpose, they use the projective simulation model for artificial intelligence, developed by the group, to enable a machine to learn and act creatively.

To develop the model, the team began with an estimate of hypothetical food intake by food group.

Her research group focuses on developing dynamic models for effective infectious disease management for HIV, hepatitis, and genomics.

Schauer and a team of researchers developed a decision analytic model to compare life expectancy in a group of severely obese diabetic individuals who had bariatric surgery to a group that did not have bariatric surgery.

According to this researcher, the models developed by his group are more reliable than other ones already existing for predictions for the next three to sixteen hours.

The EOLO group (UPV / EHU) has developed various models for predicting the amount of wave energy for the Bay of Biscay, by using a technique called random forests.

Herr, who directs the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab, spent the last eight years studying and refining computer models of the human leg to develop the PowerFoot.

In 2010, Radovitzky's group, working in concert with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, a part of the U.S. military health system, developed a highly sophisticated, image - based computational model of the human head that illustrates the ways in which pressurized air moves through its soft tissues.

The group reached the conclusion after having succeeded in the mathematical reproduction of the planet's current atmospheric conditions, through computer modeling that used a numerical model of the atmosphere developed by the Met Office, the UK's national meteorological service.

«The technique developed by both research groups could be used for 3D scanning mechanical original parts, archaeological findings or the generation of virtual models respecting real dimensions (topographies)» the specialist explained.

Reported today in Disease Models & Mechanisms, Karim Si - Tayeb and colleagues in the research group of Bertrand Cariou from l'Institut du Thorax, Nantes used an innovative approach to develop unique patient cell - based models of PCSK9 - driven hypercholesteroModels & Mechanisms, Karim Si - Tayeb and colleagues in the research group of Bertrand Cariou from l'Institut du Thorax, Nantes used an innovative approach to develop unique patient cell - based models of PCSK9 - driven hypercholesteromodels of PCSK9 - driven hypercholesterolemia.

To test whether fatty acid levels in the bloodstream was a cause or a consequence of disease, the researchers turned to a zebrafish model of Crohn's disease that had been developed by Stefan Oehlers, a post-doctoral fellow in David Tobin's group at Duke.

Building upon previous work on fluid and viscous sheet simulation also done at Columbia Computer Graphics Group, Zheng has developed a new viscous sheet simulation method to model the color film stretch during the hydrographic printing process.

To automate species identification, the group developed a web application which provides users with tools to train the software to automate species identification, along with other tools for measuring the accuracy and precision of the model.

The model developed by the three researchers Prof Markus Werning, Prof Sen Cheng (both Mercator Research Group «Structure of Memory» at RUB) and Prof Thomas Suddendorf (University of Queensland) differs from other approaches with regard to one major aspect: it suggests a new relationship between mental time travel and episodic memory.

The group has already begun a follow - up study, looking at sediment from Indonesia's Lake Towuti to develop data that can be used to further improve models of climate and water cycling for the region.

The mathematical model developed for the latest work determines how termite mounds affect plant growth by applying various tools from physics and mathematical and numerical analysis to understand a biological phenomenon, said first author Juan Bonachela, a former postdoctoral researcher in the research group of co-author Simon Levin, Princeton's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology.

Her research group is developing the problem of domestication as an evolutionary event with the use of experimental models, including the silver fox, the American mink, the river otter and the wild gray rat.

That FtsZ polymers self - organize has been known for some time, but Frey's group has also developed a mathematical model which takes the intrinsic curvature of the polymers and their swirling, tread - milling behavior into account.

Kanta Subbarao of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, said her group has had to stop its efforts to adapt the MERS virus to mice to develop an animal model for the disease.

In the 1990s, several independent groups developed a theoretical model of how the visual system efficiently encodes the flood of information striking the retina.

The discovery was made by developing a mouse model of the disease that enabled researchers to track which of 15 genetic groups — or subclones — of myeloma cells spread beyond their initial site in the animals» hind legs.

Tropsha and Min Shen, a recent Ph.D. graduate from his research group, developed predictive quantitative structure - activity relationship (QSAR) models using experimental data obtained by Kohn's group.

Now, the team of Frédéric Guillaume of the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences of the University of Zurich, in cooperation with research groups from Grenoble and Vienna, has developed a new model that takes eco-evolutionary mechanisms into consideration, therefore permitting more reliable predictions.

Prof Nathan Cherny, former chair of the ESMO Palliative Care Working Group and initiator of the Designated Centres programme, said: «The ESMO Designated Centres programme is the premier initiative worldwide for providing incentives and a structured model to enable centres to develop integrated programmes in oncology and palliative care.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

Professor Claude - André Faucher - Giguère and his research group, along with collaborators from the FIRE («Feedback In Realistic Environments») project, which he co-leads, had developed sophisticated numerical simulations that produced realistic 3 - D models of galaxies, following a galaxy's formation from just after the Big Bang to the present day.

The overall model is the same — request proposals for working groups that synthesize data — but the focus is on the role of nature in supplying food, energy, and water, especially in developing countries.