Sentences with phrase «observations and modeling with»

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Trend Hunter, he explains, is more than a website: It's a market research firm for the digital age, with a data - driven model that contrasts with more traditional «cool gurus,» who identify trends and dispense insightful pronouncements based solely on observation and «gut instinct.»

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

We create Models from those observations and iterate towards the truth about the PHYSICAL universe Philosophy, like metaphysics and including religion, deals with the greater reality beyond the PHYSICAL universe.

In quantum physics, then, models are only remotely and inconsistently related to theories; and theories in turn have extremely indirect and in general only probabilistic connections with observations.

A theoretical model, then, is an imagined mechanism or process, postulated by analogy with familiar mechanisms or processes and used to construct a theory to correlate a set of observations.

This dataset contains millions of genomic sequences from a diverse set of rice varieties that, when combined with phenotyping observations, gene expression, and other information, provides an important step in establishing gene - trait associations, building predictive models, and applying these models to breeding.

Six models showed favourable effects on primary outcome measures (e.g., standardized measures of child development outcomes and reduction in behaviour problems).13 Only studies with outcomes using direct observation, direct assessment, or administrative records were included.

With babies and toddlers, modeling observation making is as simple as talking to them about what you see, hear, smell, touch, and taste.

The programs that were identified as having promise for implementation were kangaroo care, infant message, guided observation of child behaviour with modelling and parent - child interaction time along with parent group discussion / support.

The key challenge was to figure out what the right question was, and then to formulate a model that could both answer it theoretically and lead to predictions that would be testable through observations and experiments with real animals.

Combining observations from satellites and ground stations with climate models, they evaluated different factors that affect telescope vision, such as the amount of water vapour, wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence.

A detailed ozone model budget analysis was performed with simultaneous observations of O3, HCl, H2O, CH4, NO, and NO2 from the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) under conditions with the strongest photochemical control of ozone.

Nevertheless, the measurement was exceptional, because it was the first observation of its kind in light nuclei,» concludes Prof. Fornal and stresses that the measured delay times of return to the basic state correspond to an acceptable extent with the values provided by the new theoretical model, which further enhances the attainment of the achievement.

Combining computer models constructed largely by Princeton University researchers with on - ship observations, the researchers determined the movement and energy of the waves from their origin on a double - ridge between Taiwan and the Philippines to when they fade off the coast of China.

Under the assumptions of their model, the team quantified the dynamics all over the exposed ocular surface, and the results agreed well with in vivo observations of the tear film gained from fluorescence imaging.

Instead of building a model describing the microscale movement of individuals and confronting it with experimental data, the authors built a model of swarm behaviour that is consistent with experimental observations, in terms of swarm density, of individual midges» speed and acceleration.

Working with the University of New South Wales, scientists have developed a computer model which uses past wave observations and beach assessments to forecast the erosion and / or accretion of beach sediments over the coming year.

Two years out of graduate school and keen on becoming a professor, Kaltenbacher was passionate about her work on inverse problems, which she describes as «mathematical modeling in a reverse way,» starting with observation rather than first principles.

The problem is there are dark matter, dark energy, inflation, and there are so many sets of different observations pointing to the same new stuff, so it's very difficult, I mean, people try to come up with alternative models, but there is always observations which constrain them.

These dust particles have surprisingly diverse mineral content and structure as compared with models of interstellar dust based on previous astronomical observations.

«Our results are based on a realistic modelling of the accretion of gas onto the black holes, and of the radiation they emit, which is compatible with current astronomical observations.

With the new model, the simulations at last matched observations from IRIS and the Swedish Solar Telescope; spicules occurred naturally and frequently.

«We gradually increased the physical complexity of numerical models based on high - resolution observations, and it is really a success story for the approach we've taken with IRIS.»

EWeLiNE combines these data with other atmospheric observations — from ground - based weather stations, radar and satellites — and sophisticated computer models predict power generation over the next 48 hours or so.

Rutgers University scientist Georgiy Stenchikov worked with Lioy and others to create the most up - to - date air contaminant model, using data about the region's wind, temperature, and humidity to supplement surface and space - based observations.

Now, scientists have studied Vega with the CHARA interferometer, an array of telescopes in California yielding crisp views of stars, and modeled the observations by using new computations of how fast - spinning stars age.

Nesvorný and his colleagues followed particles released in their model from various types of comets or from asteroids and compared the particles» fates with observations of the zodiacal dust cloud.

The method is based on Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), which is a machine learning method that has been developed to infer very complex models from observations, with uses in climate sciences and epidemiology among others.

Based on the observations, Sahai and his colleagues Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Samantha Scibelli of the State University of New York at Stony Brook developed a model of a companion star with an accretion disk to explain the ejection process.

The researchers developed a new model with this robot, one that is based on the meticulous observation and faithful reproduction of the feline leg.

The study, which combined experimental observations with mathematical modeling, showed that the flow of liquid can have two significant effects on microbes: «It quenches the ability of microbes to chase food,» Stocker says, «and it helps microbes find surfaces.»

Wiedinmyer also wants to put her estimates into models of climate and air movement and see if they match up with current air observations.

The study compared Simmons» and other scientists» models with field observations and laboratory experiments.

The observations fit well with computer simulations, and can be used to refine models of how large - scale patterns, such as the distributions of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, came to be.

The ability to accurately determine the rate of this H - 17O fusion reaction provides nuclear physicists with another key puzzle piece, alongside direct observations of oxygen elemental and isotopic abundances in stellar atmospheres and in primitive meteorites, to zero in on complete and accurate models of stars.

«There are models that predict that [nickel - 48] has such a short lifetime that we should not have been able to see it, and other models agree with our observations because they predict that it lives at least a few microseconds.»

To check their model forecast, as the dry season has gotten underway, the researchers have compared their initial forecast with observations coming in from NASA's precipitation satellite missions» multisatellite datasets, as well as groundwater data from the joint NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission.

In this technique, scientists initiate a computer model with data collected before a past event, and then test the model's accuracy by comparing its output with observations recorded as the event unfolded.

The results of existing experiments have varied widely, and they don't align with predictions of olivine strength from geophysical models and observations.

In February, Australian and American researchers who compared ocean and climate modeling results with weather observations published findings in Nature Climate Change advancing earlier studies that explored the oscillation's global influence.

The team combined a computer model with 100 years of observations to tease out the fact that global sea - level rise is increasing the tidal range, or the distance between the high and low tides, in many areas throughout each bay.

Combining satellite observations with ocean numerical modeling, Khazendar and his colleagues developed a hypothesis that reductions in the volume of brine would increase Totten's thinning and melting.

With so much disagreement between the experiments, and with revisions in solar models bringing theory closer to the broad range of experimental observations, Morrison says «there is no compelling evidence for a solar neutrino problem nor for a need for new physics.&raWith so much disagreement between the experiments, and with revisions in solar models bringing theory closer to the broad range of experimental observations, Morrison says «there is no compelling evidence for a solar neutrino problem nor for a need for new physics.&rawith revisions in solar models bringing theory closer to the broad range of experimental observations, Morrison says «there is no compelling evidence for a solar neutrino problem nor for a need for new physics.»

Using NASA satellite observations in tandem with supercomputer processing power for modeling systems, scientists have a comprehensive suite of tools to analyze El Niño events and their global impacts as never before.

«It integrates all processes responsible for organism success and requires a systems science approach to understand it, complete with observations and coordinated models.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

Starting with data taken from observations of the cosmic background radiation — a flash of light that occurred 380,000 years after the big bang that presents the earliest view of cosmic structure — the researchers applied the basic laws that govern the interaction of matter and allowed their model of the early universe to evolve.

FMI has been involved in research project, which evaluated the simulations of long - range transport of BB aerosol by the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS - 5) and four other global aerosol models over the complete South African - Atlantic region using Cloud - Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) observations to find any distinguishing or common model biases.

Faced with such ignorance of the nature of dark matter, astronomers try inputting different models of the dark matter into the simulations and see if the results match the observations.

The successful applicant will work with world leading experts in advanced analytical / numerical modelling, analysis of high - resolution observations obtained by cutting - edge ground and space based instruments.