Sentences with phrase «of numerical systems»

All roles require precision work and an excellent grasp of numerical systems and formulas.

Although indebted to 1970s Serial art of the 1970s and to the use of numerical systems by other artists, Miyajima claims that his work addresses humanist ideas within Buddhist philosophy.

Hence Mario Merz's attachment to Fibonacci's invention of a numerical system that behaves like self - generating patterns in nature (the breeding of rabbits and the structure of shells, for example) and his fondness for the brilliant gaseous light neon gives off once excited by electrons.

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The U.S. federal sentencing process is a point - based system, where the nature of the offences, mitigating factors and other elements are plugged into a sort of mathematical equation to arrive at a numerical «offence level» score.

My hope is that this numerical system will be of growing use of as the number of book reviews piles up in the future.

Since relative rankings do have a permanent and necessary place in every social system, some numerical measures of school accomplishment may still be desirable.

The pyramidal form of the system reflects this numerical progression from apex to base.

The glycemic index is a numerical system of measuring how quickly a carbohydrate - containing food turns to glucose (blood sugar).

Ideal for the vast majority of sectors and applications, not only can this system detect the smallest contaminants, it also collects a huge amount of other vital visual and numerical information, from missing components to defects, incorrect fill levels and product - in - seals.

Of course, while Kanté and Matic are flourishing despite a numerical disadvantage, they've also been aided by Conte's system.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

«It's impressive, considering that current state - of - the - art numerical weather models, such as NOA's Global Forecast System, or the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts» operational model, are only skillful up to one to two weeks in advance,» says paper co-author Cory Baggett, a postdoctoral researcher in the Barnes and Maloney labs.

The researchers are now working with other collaborators to benchmark their experimental results against numerical simulations of the plating process in simple model systems.

The researchers are now exploring whether their theoretical findings can be applied in practice to improve numerical simulations of many - body systems.

Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that «verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible.»

Using a pair of governing equations that assume swarmalators are free to move about, along with numerical simulations, the group found that a swarmalator system settles into one of five states:

The foundation's system purports to categorize a food with space - age precision and assign to it a single numerical value that denotes its ultimate healthfulness.The model may not be the perfect tool the nutrition community dreams of, but now that the U.K.is pushing ahead with its plan, this purportedly definitive health index is now affecting the messages about food — and, presumably, the food itself — that kids consume.

Finally, the feedback system provides users with textual and numerical evaluations of buyers and sellers that further establish rapport.

Mathematicians developed the familiar 10 - digit numerical system, known as the Hindu - Arabic numerals, over the course of centuries.

Though many species appear to have trivial niches (in terms of total biomass, numerical abundance or relative role in ecosystem metabolism), we should remember that the relative effects of various organisms in biological systems are seldom static, and minor species can sometimes become very important as systems fluctuate.

But recent observations and numerical simulations suggest that eventually — in a few millennia, maybe — the solar system may plow into a cloud of gas and dust a thousand times denser than the space we travel through now.

To test their algorithm, Nemenman and Daniels created an artificial, model solar system by generating numerical trajectories of planets and comets that move around a sun.

To test whether this systems limits how the Pirahã perceive larger amounts, Gordon gave tribe members numerical tasks in which they were asked to match small groups of items based on how many objects were present.

Another difference between the Mayan system of counting and our system is that, whereas we have a unique symbol for each numerical value (0 - 9), the Maya used only three symbols to form all their numbers (which were only positive integers): a dot representing one, a bar representing five, and a shell representing 20 or zero, depending on its placement.

When the geometry of such a system is specified, the simulator allows the user to vary primary and secondary scattering foil material and thickness and to see results in approximately 100 milliseconds, about 10 million times faster than Monte Carlo simulations, which are simulations and computational algorithms that rely on random sampling to obtain results for extremely complex problems that have only numerical solutions.

Scientists at those institutions in particular work on realistic simulations of bulk material and the numerical design of sorting systems.

Previously he has written numerical simulations to represent a wide variety of systems ranging from the microscopic deformation in the cogs and gears of machinery to the evolution of jellyfish.

Ultimately, we'd like to be able to reproduce the global signatures of these abrupt climate events with numerical models of the climate system, and investigate the physics that drive such events.»

By incorporating the complexities of channel geometry, fluid flow rates, diffusion coefficients and possible chemical interactions into a numerical model, the behavior of a particular system can be accurately predicted when an intuitive prediction may be extremely difficult.

Today, he develops numerical simulations for the formation of planetary systems.

Dr. Canup utilizes analytical and numerical methods to describe the dynamical evolution of systems of circumplanetary or circumsolar material.

About the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay and nCounter ® Dx Analysis System The Prosigna Assay provides a risk category and numerical score for assessment of the risk of distant recurrence of disease at 10 years in postmenopausal women with node - negative (Stage I or II) or node - positive (Stage II), hormone receptor - positive (HR +) breast cancer.

This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models.

Bdzil's detonation shock dynamics method has become the recognized standard for highly accurate numerical modeling of detonation in high - explosive systems.

I study the statistical properties of extrasolar planetary systems around stars of different masses, and combine these results with numerical simulations to better understand their origins and habitability.

The principle of the first method lies on the numerical solution of Newton's equations of motion to propagate the system, whereas the second stochastically generates states of a system according to a predetermined statistical mechanical probability distribution.

In 1988, however, numerical calculations of the outer planets showed Pluto's orbit to be «chaotic» and the idea of a chaotic solar system was proposed in 1989 by astronomer Jacques Laskar, now at the Paris Observatory.

Carleo's main focus is the development of advanced numerical algorithms to study challenging problems involving strongly interacting quantum systems.

The team performed numerical simulations of planetary migration that generated the Kepler - 223 system's current architecture, which is similar to the migration suspected for planets of our outer solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

In addition, tidal forces affecting the Oort Cloud come from the differential gravitational forces exerted by stars in the Milky Way's galactic disk and by the galactic core on the Sun and comets as a result of their relative location in the Solar System, which have been modelled with numerical simulations (Duncan et al, 1987).

``... we lack compelling scenarios leading to the origin of iron meteorites... Early solar system collisions have been called upon to excavate this iron [from the cores of the largest asteroids], although numerical impact models have found this task difficult to achieve, particularly when it is required to occur many dozens of times, yet not a single time for asteroid Vesta.»

Previous studies have reported remarkable similarities in the performance of non-verbal numerical tasks among humans, apes and monkeys, suggesting the existence of the same basic numerical systems among primates [3], [29], [46], [47], [48].

Although Brown values the use of quantitative data in neural engineering research, he believes that the impact of DBS systems on users can not be fully captured by a machine's output or numerical score.

Indeed, stable orbits may extend as far as one third of the closest separation between any two stars in a binary system, but according to NASA's Kepler Mission team, numerical integration models have shown that there is a range of orbital radii between about 1/3 and 3.5 times the stellar separation for which stable orbits around two stars are not possible (Holman and Wiegert, 1999; Wiegert and Holman, 1997; and Donnison and Mikulskis, 1992).

Rather than relying only on a numerical index or an A-F grading system that would obscure the critical information needed for improvement, the measures above should be part of a dashboard that informs educators and the community about progress in each area and allows for analysis of what's working and where attention is needed.

A new grading system will also be introduced, using a numerical system from 1 - 9 instead of the traditional A-C system.

Over a third of businesses do not know that the new numerical grading system for GCSEs in English and maths is being implemented next month.

Around 70 per cent of parents and pupils surveyed by the exams regulator Ofqual did not understand the new numerical GCSE grading system.

Chris Keates, the general secretary of the NASUWT, said the results mark the last year in England in which all GCSE results are graded using the letter - based system, with the introduction from September of numerical grades.

A fifth of parents and carers are unaware of the new numerical 9 - 1 grading system which is replacing the original A * to G scheme.