Sentences with phrase «models of reality used»

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Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

The virtual - reality headset Oculus Rift could be used in the manufacturing industry to examine virtual models, while Google Glass could give surgeons hands - free access to information and allow them to create video records of their actions in case of malpractice suits.

Last year Beane told of his plans to recreate a simulated reality using mathematical models known as the lattice QCD approach.

Our task is not (as it is for positivism) to discover the covering laws that explain and predict observable associations of conditions and events, but to use all available empirical evidence and powers of reason to develop conceptual models that as accurately as possible describe the real capacities and causal processes operating at the deeper, unobservable level of reality.

Using human experience as a model to depict the nature of reality, Whitehead argues that every actuality (i.e., every actual event) has both a present subjective immediacy and a past objectivity.

Strange, isn't it, that there is no record that Jesus ever modeled or advocated methods such as those, methods which in reality better serve the causes of those who use them, rather than the cause of Christ?

Rather, it is a model, which does not derive from images and reality.107 As part of language, metaphor is not only used in a textual context, but also in an oral context, providing a social context for both.

What is proper to change of place (no matter what physical reality lies behind it, it can be used simply as a model for the sake of metaphysical argument), is that to leave one place is to occupy another of the same ontological rank and vice versa.

Can one use both personal and impersonal models of Ultimate Reality?

The revised model of reality I am proposing for scientific use resembles the one that modern science rejected at an early date.

Unlike in May 2015 though I've a good idea of what went wrong (the turnout model we used for the poll weighted down people who didn't vote at the last general election, when in reality turnout ended up being higher than the last general election), which is something that can be worked on.

Here they used the UK - developed EPOCH «particle - in - cell» code, where particles are modeled as «chunks» that describe the bigger reality of the dynamics of the plasma system.

Those looking for more up - to - date information on the evolution of the Plan B model and progress toward its goals should tune into the website of the Earth Policy Institute, the think tank started by Brown in 2001 and currently used as a central node in the growing network of thousands of entities and individuals around the globe supportive of making Plan B into reality.

While sophisticated technologies like this might let us see nature, observe the stars, and even watch the news more clearly, we mustn't let them deprive us of the icons and metaphors we use to describe the things in our lives that are less tangible and more allegorical, less a reality and more a model.

In the words of Marcus du Sautoy, a University of Oxford mathematician writing in the Telegraph in late January: «Unfortunately, the consensus, after investigation, is that it is impossible to use E8 in the way Lisi was hoping and produce a consistent model that reflects reality.»

In addition, past data can be used to provide independent estimates of climate sensitivity, which provide a reality check on the models.

It's believed that this new scanner will be used primarily for augmented reality (ar) applications: building a 3d model of the surrounding environment, and then delivering information and functionality related to this model.

This is also a considered response to the SAMR [Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition] model in that students» tasks are moving out of substitution and augmentation to modification and, in one or two of the more advanced apps, tipping into the redefinition classification where digital learning allows for the creation of new tasks previously inconceivable (e.g. augmented reality using Aurasma).

Through the use of Augmented Reality, technology students can look at virtual 3D models on a 2D space to help enhance their learning capabilities.

This report reviews evidence on K - 12 classroom technology use and is organized according to media platforms: interactive whiteboards, classroom response systems (clickers), video games, simulations, modeling, augmented reality, virtual worlds, mobile devices, data analysis tools, calculators, 1:1 ratio of computers to students, computer - assisted instruction (where a computer presents instruction or remediation), virtual learning, and educational television.

To facilitate adoption, SBL's sequenced, hands - on activities use traditional «core» content and their personal experience to help learners of middle - school age and older construct comprehensive, integrated, permanently useful mental models of reality to guide thought and action.

According to Sharon Watkins, an education research specialist at The Ohio State University, «The reality is, with the exception of early adopters, most technology integration takes time, ongoing coaching, and professional modeling in order for regular use to become the norm.»

By implementing culturally responsive teaching using the MALP ® instructional model, we can more effectively transition struggling ELs to a new and different reality, one in which they see themselves as successful learners in a learning paradigm centered on literacy, school - based ways of thinking, academic discourse, and decontextualized tasks.

Kia also pledges it will use the public's reaction to the Niro in order to gauge reaction for future production models — standard boilerplate, of course, but of Kia's string of B - segment concepts, we can't imagine a small, Nissan Juke-esque crossover that fits in with the automaker's present design language isn't likely to become reality, if even only for the European market.

It used to be that Subaru would show a nicely designed concept predicting a future model, and then the realities of production would result in something less than handsome.

All these achievements became reality thanks to the use of the second generation modular longitudinal platform, developed by Audi for all models of the VW Group, with longitudinally mounted engines.

Sister company Land Rover is also jumping on the virtual reality bandwagon, but in a different way: it's using iPhone - powered headsets to show new car shoppers around a full - scale virtual model of a 2015 that's yet to actually hit the dealer floor.

Jaguar - Land Rover plans to use virtual reality - type technology to help drivers see through their car's roof pillars; navigate through cities by following «ghost cars»; and to show new car buyers examples of models not on the showroom floor.

For instance, when you use high school physics to calculate the speed of a falling bowling ball from a tower, you're modeling reality: your model neglects electromagnetic effects, quantum effects, relativistic effects.

This can be very frustrating with cheaper Android devices that may have very limited internal storage, such as the RCA tablet model RCT6077W2 that is advertised as having 4 GB of internal storage but in reality, one might have just a little over 700 MB is really available to use.

My name is James B. Cloonan and I have developed a new approach, called Investing at Level3, which can significantly increase the ultimate wealth and retirement income of investors using reality - based rather than theoretical models.

Therefore, the reality in the investment management ecosystem is that the discount rate used in the valuation model (in contrast to the marginal utility of end investors) drives prices and determines the cross-section of average returns.

That's always what interested me, even when I was a very young painter... I decided if I was going to talk about paintings in which you were seeing reality... talk about the act of observation, I had to get closer to how I observed rather than just use as a model how everyone else observed.

Manipulation of another sort is found in the images of Casebere and Demand, both of whom use 3D models of homes and institutional interiors to «bridge fantasy and reality,» says Lichtenstein.

The collapsing of time and distance in this collection of models is echoed by the vehicles - also used in terrorism, but referencing as well Öğüt's ongoing interest in distance, time, and speed, measures by which our relationship to reality is shaped and through which disparate lands are connected.

«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»

I look after three parts of the business — Interactive Spaces, designing immersive spaces using cutting edge technology and the latest models of interaction; a specialist prototyping team called Gobi, which looks at the fastest way to make ideas real; and a new offer called New Design Realities (NDR), which is exploring how we help our clients use emerging technology platforms such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR, AR, MR) to connect with people in new ways.

I'm happy to see this point made (again), one obvious to scientists who use statistics as a tool to discover cause and effect relationships and build their theories (models) of bio-physical reality.

In addition, past data can be used to provide independent estimates of climate sensitivity, which provide a reality check on the models.

As mentioned above, the AGW model of global warming < / b is only the latest in a long stream of deceptive models of reality < / b used to promote a 1945 decision to

The retrospective investigation consists of a model hindcast for more than a half century using «reality - based» atmospheric forcing to drive the model.

Some models can be made to agree with reality if they use zero positive feedback and non-declining natural variation but we must avoid using any projections of declining fossil fuel use since it seems impossible for the near future.

For instance Judith Curry et al. have halved the IPCC climate sensitivity, as they have replaced the climate model results by using results of observations in reality.

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

So the practical use of models is for models to make short term predictions which can within a reasonable period of time, be checked against reality.

There are good reasons to use what's called a Jeffreys prior, which can be justified by minimizing a certain measure of the probable «discrepancy» between the model and reality.

That's why the serious evaluation of the model uses the atmospheric composition; or (as Steve McIntyre's graph does and as the journal figures do) looks at the forcings for the three scenarios and the forcing in reality.

Then you have clearly not reality - checked your assertions - see the CMIP5 Model Intercomparison Project for the forcing data used, and A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design for details on the various runs of the comparison project.

Previously reported discrepancies between the amount of warming near the surface and higher in the atmosphere have been used to challenge the reliability of climate models and the reality of human - induced global warming... This significant discrepancy no longer exists because errors in the satellite and radiosonde data have been identified and corrected.

It's not useful as an upper bound — which it's been used as — and it radically distorts the «CI's» of the model ensemble, so that reality barely falls into the CI.