Sentences with phrase «models predict about»

So what does the 0 - dimensional energy - balance model predict about heat - waves in Australia, the decay of Arctic sea ice and Amazonian precipitation?

Not exact matches

Other practitioners of the pop - expert model include Canadian academic Thomas Homer - Dixon, who predicted the world was about to be wracked by cross-border wars fought over basic resources such as water.

We use this data and combine it with other information we have about you to help us predict your preferences, to direct marketing offers that might be more relevant to you, and to help us better analyze customer information for business modeling purposes.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

Suffice it to say that the two new models both explain most of the missing exports we have been talking about — amounting to some $ 30 billion to $ 40 billion — and predict slower export growth in the future than our previous model.

These models allowed us to predict the way individuals would vote - even if we didn't know about their political beliefs.

«Three beliefs about God were tested separately in ordinary least squares regression models to predict five classes of psychiatric symptoms: general anxiety, social anxiety, paranoia, obsession, and compulsion,» reads the abstract for this paper.

Evolution is not about challenging beliefs, it is about creating models to predict natural phenomena.

are at odds with what the underlying numbers would predict (hint: there ARE skill differences among these teams), and 2) that maybe these models are not quite at the level of sophistication at which we can say with any certainty that, hey, forget the standings (they lie) and that whole 82 games over six months thing... it's all about the successor to Corsi.

Before I move to what my model actually predicts there are several important caveats about why the Eastleigh by - election might be particularly difficult to predict.

My model predicts that the Conservatives are likely to come out on top, though there is perhaps more uncertainty about the outcome than at any previous election.

But inventories of the stars and gas in the nearby universe have revealed only about half the matter that is predicted by cosmological models.

Nunn and Samson estimated that people now spend an average of 1.56 hours of snooze time in REM, about as much as the models predict should be spent in that sleep phase.

«Even with generous assumptions about the properties of the radicals, we predict tiny effects of these radiofrequency fields, and the main conclusion that we come to is that the current understanding of the radical - pair model can't explain any of the reported behavioral results,» says Hore.

Similar conclusions were reached about impacts of climate change on wheat in the UK, where climate change models are predicting warmer, wetter winters for the country.

E.g., Agent X may not like Agent A, but the original CIF model didn't predict what Agent X would do about it.

To begin to answer that question, the researchers modeled different combinations of promoters and ribosome - binding sites, finding that they could predict about 70 percent of the variance in the combinations.

Over the past 34 years, rainfall in Uganda has decreased by about 12 percent even though many of the global climate models predict an increase in rainfall for the area, according to an international team of researchers.

About 80 percent of the 23 climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict some degree of drought in the Amazon if greenhouse gas emissions keep climbing, he said.

Almost 80 percent of the communities the team examined showed substantial changes in species composition, averaging about 10 percent change per decade — significantly higher than the rate of change predicted by models.

NCAR's research is paid for by the National Science Foundation, and Busalacchi predicted that future research will shift toward more precise computer modeling and include more interdisciplinary research about the risks and the adaptation that is, or is not, happening along coastlines.

It will never be possible to substantiate such a claim about an individual climatic event, but most climate models predict that the frequency and intensity of such events will increase as the world warms.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a vociferous advocate for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions, was chosen for his work modeling Earth's climate, predicting global warming, and warning the world about the consequences.

To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

Through iterative testing and tweaking of their computational tools, the investigators built a statistical model that predicts the postmortem interval of unknown samples to within 55 accumulated degree - days, or about two days in summertime.

Because Ph.D. - granting departments are considerably larger on average — the median number of faculty in such departments is 22 — the proportion of those that have faculties consisting of a single sex is expected to be smaller; the model predicts that about 12 % of Ph.D. - granting departments will have same - sex faculties.

Less was heard about another set of models that had attempted to predict how high the storm surge would be, a rough guide to how much coastal land might be flooded.

It was interesting to read about the outcomes predicted by climate models for the year 2100 based on crucial decisions...

If only modest action is taken to reign in greenhouse gas emissions, the model predicts that pikas will disappear from about 75 percent of sites by 2070 (51 to 88 percent, depending on the global climate model used).

The newly recovered descriptions could provide valuable perspective about past conditions and possibly help scientists hone computer models that predict changes in the region's climate.

With aggressive action to reduce greenhouse gases, the model predicts that only about 51 percent of sites will suffer local extinction (39 to 79 percent, depending on the global climate model).

Zank has developed one of the first models that incorporate discoveries about the interstellar medium to predict what will happen when the solar system runs into a big, bad cloud.

He did not expect to find any massive galaxies earlier than about 9 billion years ago because theoretical models predict that such large objects form last.

The more data scientists can gather about Antarctic sea ice, the more they can unpick why climate models struggle to accurately predict its extent.

«We see a lot of species» distributions really start to wink out after about 50 years, but it is tricky to look at future predictions because we will have a lot of habitat loss predicted using our models,» McGuire said.

«Our goal is to learn enough about these convoluted processes to represent them (for the first time) in the models that scientists use to predict how our climate will evolve over the 21st century and beyond.»

The thing about the Higgs was that you could predict either: One, the LHC would show it was there; two, it would show it was not there; or three, that it would show it was there but not in the way the standard model predicted.

Because the models predict little average precipitation increase nationwide over this period, the product of CAPE and precipitation gives about a 12 percent rise in cloud - to - ground lightning strikes per degree in the contiguous U.S., or a roughly 50 percent increase by 2100 if Earth sees the expected 4 - degree Celsius increase (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature.

He has repeatedly expressed that Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy (about «psychohistorians» who use mathematical models to predict the future) made a deep impression on him in his youth.

The other model about hurricanes, recently published in Icarus, predicts that the warming of the northern hemisphere could also bring hurricanes, also known as tropical cyclones.

Still, the increase is about what's predicted by computer models of global climate.

If the standard model of particle physics has correctly predicted its characteristics, gathering enough data to find the Higgs should take about two more years, says Albert de Roeck, deputy spokesman for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC.

The researchers hope their study leads to better measures for modeling and predicting infectious disease transmission, but there are still open questions about the human - wildlife interface of disease.

Whereas David Weinberger's speculations about predictive abilities of big data — crunching models in «The Machine That Would Predict the Future» are intriguing, planners and social scientists aren't about to step aside just yet.

Models predict that in the absence of improved testing and treatment, over the next 40 to 50 years, nearly 2 million Americans will develop cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma will afflict 400,000 others, and HCV - related complications will kill about 1 million people.

The range predicted by the coin hoard model is about half that of the high estimate, indicating that civil wars culled about 100,000 people from the Roman populace, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Based on the densities of trash the researchers found, the models predicted some 5.25 trillion particles of plastic may be floating out there... adding up to about 269,000 tons.

Using their new model, the researchers found that certain parameters about the way a tumor grows could successfully and accurately predict its response to anti-angiogenic treatment that targets VEGF activity.

Kröpelin says that the new findings will help climatologists fine - tune their computer models — which he says were wrong about what happened to the Sahara — to more accurately predict the effect of global warming.

So little was known about the atmosphere at the time that you could get a computer model to predict just about anything.