Sentences with phrase «models used»

Furthermore, for reasons still unknown, of the 10 or so models used, different ones make accurate predictions at different latitudes; no single model works over all latitudes, and the mean of all of them is closest to observed data.

Yes, albeit on a much smaller scale than the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, according to computer models used by a team of researchers, led by seismologists at the University of California, Riverside.

The models used in this research come from the Wallace Initiative, a near decade long partnership between the Tyndall Centre at UEA, eResearch at James Cook University, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and WWF.

Eran Andrechek, a physiology professor in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, has discovered that many of the various models used in breast cancer research can replicate several characteristics of the human disease, especially at the gene level.

Only two of the 11 models used to project future warming in the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considered the effects of limited nitrogen on plant growth; none considered phosphorus, although one paper from 2014 subsequently pointed out this omission.

In a long piece, Princeton University economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says economic forecasting models used to analyze proposed energy policies are insufficient for the task:

But the other models used by the BICEP2 team are also highly uncertain and based on older estimates of dust that are not likely to be correct, notes cosmologist Uroš Seljak of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of another paper critical of the BICEP2 analysis.

Further, current models used to predict the release of climate - active CO2 from soils fail to account for these microscopic, oxygen - free zones present in many upland soils, they say.

There could be a problem with the models used to estimate the proton size from the measurements, but so far, none has been identified.

The 28 models used by the team showed agreement in many parts of the world on the change in the number of dry days those regions will receive.

This information is extremely useful to validate the surge models used for forecasts.

«We found that PAI - 039 decreased blockage formation by about 50 percent, which is a powerful effect in the models we used,» said Fay, who also serves as a research scientist at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans» Hospital in Columbia, Missouri.

Although computer models used to project climate changes from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations consistently simulate an increasing upward airflow in the tropics with global warming, this flow can not be directly observed.

Includes a «Skin Lab» where visitors can experiment with skin - flap models used in plastic surgery, and try on latex skin - suits.

Conventional risk models used by NASA and others assume DNA damage and mutation are the cause of radiation cancers.

In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15 - year period after 1998, during which globally averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards, but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.

Jowsey is researching methods to simplify current mathematical models used to understand the effects of temperature change — fire in his case — on building structures.

With this new data, it seemed obvious that the models used by most scientists beforehand must be incomplete.

The data will also play a role in the development of the next generation of standards and models used by the satellite community for building and shielding their spacecraft.

This indicates that the relatively simple models used to describe neutron stars need an overhaul.

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.

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

But models used by scientists to predict the tipping points at which drought stress leads to ecosystem collapse have proven unreliable and too optimistic.

Models used to project conditions on an Earth warmed by climate change especially need to consider how the ocean will move excess heat around, Legg said.

NARWHALS packing temperature and depth gauges connected to satellite transmitters have revealed that climatology models used for the Baffin bay region — which links the Atlantic and Arctic oceans — underestimate winter ocean temperatures there by as much as 1 °C.

Prior to the new research published in Nature Climate Change, computer models used to simulate future climate change generally had not been able to simulate interactions between plant growth and microbial decomposition rates.

ETH researchers have now shown that the high estimated mutation rates at the start of the epidemic were due to the limited number of virus samples at the time in combination with the computer models used, which calculate the estimates using genetic data from virus samples and from underlying assumptions.

The underlying recolonization patterns revealed in Mutz's study — and the research models used to identify them — could prove instrumental for scientists and fire management officials working toward a better understanding of fire and its effects on the environment.

The models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, called Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - 5 (CMIP - 5), are the best physical models of climate change available.

* Correction, 20 February, 9:45 a.m.: This article has been updated to correct amount of temperature drop and rainfall increase, the years of the simulations, the number of WRCP models used, and results of the control simulations.

The finding suggests models used to predict populations of stars in any given direction may need to be revised.

Analysis shows an unexpected preference in the direction of movement, which suggests that the standard theoretical models used to describe the motion of stars and dark matter halos in other galaxies might be invalid.

The computer models used to generate the maps also estimate where, how often and how strongly ground shaking from an earthquake could occur, so that residents, engineers and city planners can see the likelihood that their community will experience a damaging earthquake over the next year.

A whistleblower — a former Cambridge Analytica employee named Christopher Wylie — revealed evidence that the firm had extracted the information of 50 million Facebook users, which it then employed in the data models it used to help elect Donald Trump.

We used the same kind of political preference models used by the Obama and Clinton campaigns; however we started five months out from Election Day and did it with far fewer resources and data.

These models used basic, stylised assumptions about individual behaviour.

The McTempo (Models of Care: The Effects on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes) collaboration is a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research grouping that has been formed to explore and evaluate different care models used in maternity care.

In addition is still possible to contribute to a discussion which compares the different business models used worldwide to disseminate solutions for food loss reduction.

Even if California production declines, continuing development of organic dairy production in the traditional milk - shed states, lower feed grain prices, and diversity in the business models used for organic dairy production could support expansion of the U.S. organic dairy sector.

Barring this one logically inappropriate means of testing the reliability of models, the metaphors of religion lie open to evaluation along very similar lines to the models used in the sciences to represent a subject matter that lies beyond our powers of direct inspection.

Consider first the proposal that there have been complementary models used in interpreting the person of Christ.

Process philosophers complain that the dominant philosophical models used in Christian theology employ static metaphysical categories like «being,» «substance» and «attribute» rather than a more dynamic conceptual structure that captures the dynamic character of the Bible's revelation of God.

If this model of self - interested behavior oriented to material gain were used only in one academic discipline and successfully countered by models used in other disciplines, the consequences might not be culturally serious.

After describing in some detail the principle of complementarity in physics, Austin suggests that images of God as Father and as Judge are complementary models used to interpret individual and corporate experience.24 The prophet Amos, he points out, interpreted events in Israel's history primarily in terms of God's judgment, while Hosea understood events in terms of God's forgiveness.

The models used to point to God have often been in horrible apostasy from the vision of pure unbounded love given in the event of Jesus Christ as it has been received and found significant.

Beyond an understanding of intellectual property matters and the science and technology underlying them, our attorneys understand the business models used by our clients to maximize the value of these technologies, and we seek to create or add value to their intellectual property and technology portfolios.

This is not to say that the deep learning models used for English language can not be applied to Chinese.

The basic credit models used by FICO and VantageScore are similar, but not comparable.

It is incorporated into the Federal Reserve's FRB / US model, one of several macro-economic models used by staff economists at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in monetary policy analysis.

As Paul Krugman has written, the common models used to forecast potential GDP take it for granted that if an economy doesn't bounce back quickly from a recession, it's because something has been fundamentally damaged, rather than because the government offered up an insufficient policy response.