Sentences with phrase «niche model»

Correction — I should say «continue to sell niche models at a slight premium,» which has worked well enough for the last 40 years.

The goal of this project is to relate DNA based measurements of microbial communities from the human gut and other body sites to patient health status through niche modeling.

Several properties of ecological niche modelling in its usual application (i.e., predicting species» geographical ranges) are critically assessed, and some of these problems also apply here.

IMO this becomes really problematic when you see different approaches to the trees: ecological niche modeling such as Miller et al 2006, which show very warm MWP, missed by the «site chronologies».

«With such a stylish wagon in the new Focus range, we had the ideal basis on which to create a unique niche model for these customers — and it will be just as exciting to drive as the five - door.»

Marchionne may postpone the launch of niche models such as the large sedan, Fletcher said.

This strategy has worked well for Mercedes with niche models like the CLA and CLA Shooting Brake, which unfortunately is not sold in the US.

While plug - in hybrids were once seen as niche models, the Mercedes C350e and BMW 330e iPerformance prove they've truly entered the mainstream and offer a real alternative to diesel or petrol models.

I've tried searching at Niche Modeling with no luck.

After Buick unveiled the RWD, Sigma - based Avista platform at the 2015 North American International Auto Show, I suggested to an executive for the brand that if such sedans are becoming niche models as the vast majority of consumers choose SUVs, anyway, why not make the new models RWD / AWD?

This is the Mercedes CLA, a new niche model from Stuttgart that aims to offer the style of the CLS «four - door coupe» at a price that slots in below the C - class.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

Ecological niche models supported inference of drastic changes in the extent of its breeding range over the last glacial — interglacial cycle.

As such it's either a worthy pinnacle for the BMW range — or proof that the company's niche - within - niche model strategy has finally jumped the shark, depending on your point of view.

Mercedes - Benz and BMW can afford to build niche models off existing platforms because each new model becomes profitable quickly.

The logic is simple - sales of three - door family - sized hatchbacks have been falling for years as the aspirational buyers who used to go for them migrate into niche models.

VW Group's ongoing financial trauma could also mean that funds currently allocated toward brand - shaping niche models might have to be diverted to produce more low - emission, bread - and - butter cars.

I believe most new sedans of a certain size should be longitudinal - engine / RWD, especially as SUVs take over the market and make sedans niche models, anyway.

When talking about such a low - volume niche model, we'd argue it doesn't really matter whether it returns 11, 22, or 33 mpg, or if it runs on a Jägermeister - like elixir made once every leap year by German alchemists.

A5 sales have been too strong for BMW to ignore, even if it means risking to angry some of the hardcore BMW fans who are seeing more and more BMW niche models.

And if it doesn't float your boat BMW has plenty of other luxury mid-size niche models to choose from, including the 3 Series Gran Turismo and 4 Series Gran Coupe.

It's right up on the sidebar under Niche Modelling in the Skeptical Views section.

The wagons — even tallish, crossover - y ones like this — are niche models for drivers like us.

Though speculatively a potential product for the new U.S. factory, its bodystyle is similar to niche models like the BMW X4 and Mercedes - Benz GLC Coupe.

Integration of niche models and phylogenetic estimates suggests that climatic cooling may have promoted range contact and gene flow between currently highly disjunct species.

Just like its premium German rivals — Audi and Mercedes — BMW has made a point of filling every possible gap in its range with niche models in the past few years.

Volkswagen sales won't recover from Dieselgate for several years, anyway, so you might work on selling niche models at a slight premium over Toyota and Honda and use the brand as a consumer springboard to Audi, where all the money is.

Audi is expected to show electric and convertible versions of its R8 supercar alongside a new niche model, the A5 Sportback.

Ecological niche modelling of king penguins in the Southern Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia under climate change.

«But it's a niche model.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

Species distribution or crop - niche modeling is another sophisticated technology that archeologists use to predict where plants and other organisms grew well in the past and where they might be useful today.

WSU researchers also used crop - niche modeling to identify a viable alternative food source on the Tibetan Plateau.

The latest technique for making these predictions is so - called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species» range.

The researchers also compared the niche model for Sasquatch to one they developed for black bear.

«The point of the paper is really well taken,» says Dan Warren, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California at Davis who is an expert in ecological niche models.

So Lozier and his colleagues decided to apply ecological niche modelling to an obviously false data set — Sasquatch sightings.

He collaborated on the article «Maximum Entropy - Based Ecological Niche Model and Bio-Climatic Determinants of Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Niche» with faculty from Kansas State University's entomology and geography departments as well as other experts in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Our study demonstrates that high - throughput — based ancient DNA analyses combined with ecological niche modeling can provide evidence allowing us to assess factors that led to the surprisingly rapid demise of the passenger pigeon.

This led me to work on a diversity of topics, from life - history theory and optimal resource allocation to the evolution of mate choice and mating systems, population genetics and phylogeography, habitat and niche modeling, and the evolution of dispersal, kin structures and social systems.

Yet all of them are intended to be more than niche models; global target volumes are in the tens of thousands, and projected prices range from just below that of the Tesla Model S to more than $ 125,000.

However, Lee Soon - nam's comments appear to imply the opposite — that Kia will continue to build its momentum with mainstream cars rather than niche models.