Sentences with phrase «models advance our understanding»

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The WE FOR SHE conference will play an important role in growing our provincial economy and advancing gender equity by giving students a greater understanding of their career options and potential, expanding their confidence in what they can achieve, and giving them a chance to meet dynamic and successful role models.

«This model could have far - reaching implications to advance the understanding and treatment of neurological disorders,» said Svendsen, senior author of the Cell Stem Cell study.

Three - dimensional models of living tissue will advance understanding of human breast development as well as the growth of breast cancer.

«Advances in high performance computing are finally allowing us to understand the explosive death of stars, and this study shows that such models are needed to figure out new ways to measure dark energy.»

But advances in the understanding of atmospheric oxygen levels are challenging that idea, explains Sandra Schachat, a paleoentomologist at Stanford University, who led a recent study that modeled the gas's availability during the hexapod gap.

The prevention of dilated cardiomyopathy in a mouse model by feeding a high - fat diet signals an advance in the understanding of the mechanisms involved in heart disease and has implications for the future development of treatments for this condition.

This new environment requires personnel with advanced training in a new combination of knowledge and skills: a solid understanding of the behavior of the driving forces of financial markets; the quantitative skills to develop pricing models, risk management techniques, and utilize emerging technologies; and the personal skills to work and communicate effectively within their corporate structure and with clients.

In this webinar we will discuss the latest advances in mouse models for cancer research and how they are being applied to help us understand the pathways and mechanisms involved in new immune therapies.

To facilitate understanding of the immune system by showcasing innovative advances in the expanding field of immunology, drawing from studies in all organisms and model systems including humans.

Furthermore, so as to understand the chemical and physical nature of the shaping process, standard characterization techniques (spectroscopy and electron microscopy) have been employed, as well as new theoretical models and advanced computer simulation techniques.

This type of modeling of variation in genetic makeup represents an important advance in understanding how climate change may impact biodiversity.

Major recent advances in understanding GVHD's underlying biology, improved animal models, better targeting of interventions, and more systematic clinical trials are finally moving beyond «accumulated sketchy information,» Pavletic says.

The key problem, Grand says, is that the basic operating principles of the human brain — the only model for advanced intelligence that we have — are not well understood.

The results of their work, the researchers say, may advance scientific understanding of how genes linked to the risk of human bipolar disorder change neuronal circuits in the brain, and may offer an animal model for testing new treatments.

Information and Intelligent Systems: Advancing Human - Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence The concept of robust intelligence «encompasses computational understanding and modeling of the many human and animal capabilities that demonstrate intelligence and adaptability in unstructured and uncertain environments.»

«Our decision to procure these knockout mouse lines and data and make them available to the research community will yield tremendous benefits, both in the short and long terms,» said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. «This trans - NIH initiative will place important mouse models into the hands of researchers, speeding advances in the understanding of human disease and the development of new therapies.

Structure and structure - function relationships are often better understood by introducing 3 - D reconstruction and advanced visualization and modelling tools.

Research on the most tractable models, such as Drosophila, is greatly advancing our understanding of what specific genes do, including many directly relevant to human biology and medicine.

His team is using innovative cell culture models to advance our understanding of brain stem cells and their potential role in glioblastoma.

Mission The mission of PNNL's Aerosol Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aerosols.

The phenotyping department of PHENOMIN - ICS is advancing a technical platform for functional characterization of preclinical models of human diseases with respect to both genetic understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms and the assessment of drug therapies.

We employ a Model - Integrated Synthesis, Characterization and Experiment (MISCE) approach to achieve fundamental understanding and experimentally - validated conceptual and computational models of fluid - solid interfaces (FSIs) representative of those encountered in advanced energy systems and devices, including batteries, supercapacitors and photo - and electrochemical cells.

For a systems - level understanding of all crucial protein interactions during cell division, we are combining automated single molecule calibrated imaging and computational data analysis with advanced machine learning and modelling approaches to build an integrated protein atlas of the human dividing cell.

«3D Microfluidic Models of the Vascularized Tumor Microenvironment: Advancing Precision Medicine and Understanding Collective Migration»

I would say that as far as advancing our ability to really look at the issue of climate change, I think one of the things we really need to do is to make our models interact more between the physical sciences and the social economics, and to really understand the link a little more closely between climate change and the drivers and impacts of climate change.

In the last decade we have witnessed tremendous advances in our understanding of the landscape of the molecular alterations that underpin many of the most prevalent cancers, in the use of automated high - throughput platforms for high - throughput drug screens in cancer cells, in the creation of more clinically relevant cancer cell models, and lastly in the development of more useful computational approaches in the pursuit of biomarkers of drug response.

Improved animal models of Parkinsonism are essential to advance our understanding of disease pathophysiology and for eventual testing of potential therapeutics.

In competency - based learning, students make progress in their coursework as they master learning objectives, as opposed to a traditional credit - hour model in which students advance based on time regardless of how well they understand something.

«We need,» said Blair appointee Estelle Morris just before resigning in 2002 as secretary of state for education, «a shift in understanding away from the old model of teaching as transmission of facts and figures towards one which captures the teacher's role as expert practitioners in advanced pedagogy.»

This booklet covers: - Jobs (masculine / feminine)- Useful vocabulary to describe what you do - The conditional past - Summer jobs - Advantages and inconvenients of different jobs - Verbs followed by the prepositions «à» and «de» - Talking about work experience (mon stage)- Understanding when to use the imperfect and when to use the perfect tense - Understanding the different uses of past participles (advanced)- 2 listening activities (about summer jobs - B1 level)- 1 reading comprehension (true or false - my work experience)- 1 scaffolded writing comprehension (modeled on section 2 from paper 4 - my work experience) I have created this booklets for 3 of my year 10 students who are working at an advanced level.

«We look at a range of different models — project - based, no excuses, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and spaces within schools; not only core disciplinary class but also electives and extracurriculars — to identify the conditions under which powerful learning does emerge, and to understand what kinds of systems might make this kind of learning more the exception than the rule,» he says.

In sum, there is no evidence that introducing these disciplinary innovations actually advances the goals of income integration or comports with the understandings behind that model.

The first two days, you will immerse yourself in our Advanced Instructional Design course where you will gain a deeper understanding of the 4MAT model.

Primarily intended for engineers and researchers in the field of fuzzy arithmetic, the book also offers a valuable source of basic information on fuzzy models and an easy - to - understand reference guide to their applications for advanced undergraduate students, operations researchers, modelers and managers alike...

But the odds are strong that we are not going to be able to find someone qualified to advance John's work into new areas until the Valuation - Informed Indexing strategy and the Rational Investing model for understanding how stock investing works are far better known and appreciated than they are today.

I'd suggest you get a fresh refill of your favorite beverage and read this, this, and this to better understand the complexity and allegations that let to this advanced fee attorney model debt settlement company being raided and assets frozen.

Under the leadership of founder Hoor Al Qasimi, a curator and artist, the foundation advances an experimental and wide - ranging programmatic model that supports the production and presentation of contemporary art, preserves and celebrates the distinct culture of the region and encourages a shared understanding of the transformational role of art.

And since I know you will now contend that understanding is flawed, I will ask in advance that you show how by producing the model alluded to above.

DDS: OK, who do you think is more likely to be right - thousands of experts, familiar with the data, methods and models of a field, with combined experience into millennia, actively working each day to understand and advance the field and who all agree based on the evidence — or - Some random jerkwad on the Intertubes who doesn't even know the difference between a statistical and a physical model?

That understanding will be advanced by new and more extensive data collection efforts, improvements to methods used to synthesise that data, and more extensive and collaborative use of climate model simulations over this period — both to understand the forcing / response of the climate, but also to serve as testbed for the various reconstruction methodologies.

This statement; «Advanced computer modeling only recently helped understand why the steel in old nuclear plants becomes so fragile so much faster than the designers expected it would.

Advanced computer modeling only recently helped understand why the steel in old nuclear plants becomes so fragile so much faster than the designers expected it would.

When I see two groups of scientists — one developing new techniques, making new, testable hypotheses and steadily advancing their model, and the other saying, «Oh, it's too complex to understand,» I'm going to throw my weight behind the former.

The US CLIVAR Greenland Ice Sheet - Ocean Interactions Working Group was formed to foster and promote interaction between the diverse oceanographic, glaciological, atmospheric and climate communities, including modelers and field and data scientists within each community, interested in glacier / ocean interactions around Greenland, to advance understanding of the process and ultimately improve its representation in climate models.

Cohen received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from Columbia University in 1994 and has since focused on conducting numerical experiments with global climate models and advanced statistical techniques to better understand climate variability and to improve climate prediction.

Could it be because the models share common problems that prevent them from advancing our understanding, and thus we need to throw them out and start over?

And intellectual property law is often poorly suited to protecting important advances, including demonstration of the commercial viability of well understood but heretofore undeployed technologies, or innovative business models that bring down the cost of deploying fuel and energy - saving technologies.

If Mr. Rose really wants to improve his reporting and do a general service of advancing a true understanding of the issue of anthropogenic climate change, he needs to do a comprehensive article about Earth's energy budget, and state quite clearly all the different spheres (all layers of the atmosphere, hyrdosphere, crysosphere, and biosphere) in which the signal of anthropogenic warming is both modeled as impacting and then talk about what is data is actually saying in terms of Earth's energy imbalance in all these spheres.

Continued scientific advances in understanding processes and their simulation in atmospheric models are needed to understand how secondary influences will affect ozone.

Operational Weather Forecasting covers the whole process of forecast production, from understanding the nature of the forecasting problem, gathering the observational data with which to initialise and verify forecasts, designing and building a model (or models) to advance those initial conditions forwards in time and then interpreting the model output and putting it into a form which is relevant to customers of weather forecasts.