Sentences with phrase «modeling techniques on»

Cambridge Analytica has denied it used psychographic modeling techniques on the Trump campaign.

My readers know that I frequently call for more research and better modeling techniques on the issue of global climate change and global warming.

«Most reputable data firms are using proven predictive modeling techniques on an individual level, whereas Cambridge was guilty of using fancy fake science terms on unwitting politicians who do not understand how data analytics work.

Not exact matches

The best way to find out whether your business idea is the next big thing is to start small, use a proven approach, and design a business model base on the above mentioned techniques.

It's modeled on a popular computer programming technique called rapid application development, or RAD, which relies on prototyping and iterative improvements to complete a project.

Coins employing obfuscation techniques or advanced cryptography, like Monero and ZCash, have more recently attempted to improve on Bitcoin's privacy model.

It speaks of operations research, systems analysis, technological forecasting, information theory, game theory, simulation techniques, decision theory, Delphi method, cross-impact matrix analysis, statistical time - series, stochastic models, linear programming, input - output economics, computer based command and control systems, and so on.

Kenichi Ito of Japan, who says he spent nine years developing his technique, modeled on the gait of the African patas monkey, set a world record (17.47 seconds) for running 100 meters on all fours.

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

Since Kim believed in a coaching model to help her parents learn and apply language development techniques at home, she often provided specific praise on how well a parent started to use a new technique.

While we loved the lean - to - steer mechanism on other models, we found it too complicated for the 2 year - olds who are this scooter's intended users: they just couldn't get the hand of shifting their bodies in order to turn the scooter, even though their older siblings could master the technique easily, demonstrating that the difficulty was not caused by a flaw in the scooter but by the motor skills of young toddlers.

This same technique can be used safely on infants during inconsolable crying, to see if the activity occurs where the model predicts.

She demonstrates the Lymphatic Drainage Therapy technique (the Chikly method) either on a model or volunteer from the audience and gives pointers on how to determine if lymphatic congestion is playing a role in a breastfeeding problem.

We differentiated between computational approaches (either based on volume data, such as the number of mentions related to a party or candidate or the occurrence of particular hashtags; or endorsement data, such as the number of Twitter followers, Facebook friends or the number of «likes» received on Facebook walls), sentiment analysis approaches, that pay attention to the language and try to attach a qualitative meaning to the comments (posts, tweets) published by social media users employing automated tools for sentiment analysis (i.e., via natural language processing models or the employment of pre-defined ontological dictionaries), and finally what we call supervised and aggregated sentiment analysis (SASA), that is, techniques that exploit the human codification in their process and focus on the estimation of the aggregated distribution of the opinions, rather than on individual classification of each single text (Ceron et al. 2016).

The Obama new media team tried many techniques in the process, but motivated by the need to achieve measurable political results, they focused on replicable models, practical tools and incremental improvements.

The new technique could provide a much - needed experimental validation of frequently used computational models, as well as a means of investigating the effect of new battery materials and additives on lithium metal plating.

Although meteorologists now rely heavily on computer models (numerical weather prediction), it is still relatively common to use techniques and conceptual models that were developed before computers were powerful enough to make predictions accurately or efficiently.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

In the last year, a team of engineers in Hamburg has used techniques developed to model stresses on aircraft parts to understand the kinds of blows the soldiers suffered.

«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.

In this open challenge to the status quo, he promotes an alternative strategy he calls «natural security»: the idea that we can model our own strategies on the survival techniques of highly successful organisms.

By modelling predator (bird) vision with image analysis techniques, they showed that the sand fleas are extremely well camouflaged to the respective beaches on which they are found.

In her 4 years at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, Laura Glish, a 2006 graduate, worked on collaborative projects in two different laboratories and explored a variety of experimental techniques, from atomic force microscopy to synthetic chemistry and molecular modeling.

By using new techniques based on computerised X-ray micro-tomography (CT scan) and digital three - dimensional modelling, Benoit found that the maxillary canal of therapsids, a bony tube in the snout of the animal that houses the trigeminal nerve, is shorter in therapsids than in reptiles.

The model is based on measurements of odorants by means of the analytical technique PTR - MS.

«I was extremely happy to use the convection modeling techniques I developed during my recent PhD work at Washington University, and to apply them to this amazing place on Pluto,» said Teresa Wong, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University and a co-author on the study.

Historical linguists have been borrowing techniques from biological taxonomy, including models based on genetics, for years (7 September, p 32).

The new technique — called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) and reported in the journal Nature Methods on August 31, 2015 — allows researchers to create arrays of thousands of custom - designed organoids, such as models of human mammary glands containing several hundred cells each, which can be built in a matter of hours.

As the researcher explains, when a player is assessed using the DEA technique, a mathematical model on the computer assigns each feature of play the significance most relevant to this player, bearing in mind the particular features of his play.

But the mean speed theorem now seems to be a reinvention of a lost model; about 1,400 years earlier, it seems the Babylonians had their own technique to make calculations based on this principle.

Using advanced 3 - D modeling techniques, the team, led by Benjamin Black of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was able to predict the impacts of gas released from the Siberian Traps on the end - Permian atmosphere.

In the March issue of Scientific American Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, describes a new computer - modeling technique that allows researchers to zoom in on the smallest components of the active brain in 3 - D.

«The information collected using this technique can be used to better understand the behavior of concrete when it fails, as well as providing key data for «constitutive» models that are used for designing and determining the safety of large - scale civil engineering structures,» says Rahnuma Shahrin, a civil engineering Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

This visualization is the first global tomographic model constructed based on adjoint tomography, an iterative full - waveform inversion technique.

Drawing on models, techniques, and findings from sociology, physics, mathematics, and computer science, Jackson provides a foundation for analyzing and understanding social and economic networks.

The researchers used a mathematical method based on statistical modeling, known as a polynomial transformation technique - based recursive least - squares algorithm, to first generate a mixed - rate model using fast sample rate inputs and slow - sample rate outputs that identifies the mechanical resonances beyond the Nyquist frequency, and then to derive a fast - rate model involving fast sample - rate inputs and fast sample - rate outputs from which the unwanted frequencies can be extracted.

«Applying the same technique to other subglacial volcanos will provide new constraints on paleoclimate models that consider the extents and timing of planetary glaciations.»

They calculated the impact of bridge retrofit actions on possible failure modes in terms of probability of failure, risk, and benefit - cost ratio using a logic modeling technique called an event tree.

«If organizations want to investigate the possibility of tying in external data into their operations, they can use our technique, run it on their current data alongside their in - house data, and get the value of the new model,» Nagrecha said.

Models based on this technique are used to show how the surface of our planet may have looked like up to 200 million years ago.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

Additionally, the project is focused on direct replications (same methodology / system) compared to conceptual replications (similar experiment, but different techniques / models).

It provides a wealth of information on good practices in the use of mouse model (standardized techniques, ethics, regulations, analysis, data and resources...) to support attendees in their research.

It is also intended for post-docs and scientists already working in certain of these fields and who are interested in expanding their knowledge on the potential applications of these new techniques to their models or in neighbouring pathophysiological models of analysis of genes or diseases using genetically modified animals.

Although further refinement and testing is needed, Dr. Burgess said the new techniques have the potential to speed the production of many different types of transgenic animal models that will shed new light on human development and disease.

In the last few years, powerful experimental techniques that can monitor the activity of many neurons at once have generated a new field of neuroscience — «neural dynamics» — which uses sophisticated mathematical models to describe how brain activity evolves on a moment - to - moment basis.

Using specialized software techniques developed specifically for this project, the researchers then «stacked» the outlines on top of one another to create a complete three - dimensional model of the creature.

The meeting will give the opportunity to update information on techniques and models in transgenesis and genetic engineering.

We will test our hypothesis by applying different mathematical techniques, including dimensionality reduction, state space analyses, and neural network modeling, on our behavioral and neural datasets.

I will extend this research using a variety of techniques, including computational recognition algorithms based on photographs of guenon faces, modeling of evolutionary scenarios, experiments to assess guenon preferences, and measurements of guenon behavior and ecology.