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.
Not exact matches
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 kin
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 kin
of the Obama community organizing
model WAS community, and not just
of the virtual kin
of 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.