Sentences with phrase «of other complex systems»

Shifting climates under external forcing, if they follow the general behaviors of other complex systems with Chaos, don't generally form stable states during the perturbation, and especially if the perturbation itself is irregular.

«Our work has broader implications, because similar mechanisms may account for rather high fragility of other complex systems in soft condensed matter,» Sokolov said.

Drawing insights from the behavior of other complex systems, the trio has created a novel simulator that can mimic the largest blackouts that a power grid is likely to experience.

Not exact matches

WLES underpins other, more complex skills, so if you organize formal or informal higher levels of training — such as quality - assurance systems or computer use — you could be missing out on the full value of those programs if your employees don't have foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

The book, the result of a year of research with the help of four other reporters, reveals a complex system of big money and shaky ethics — an enormous industry awkwardly grafted onto the body of post-secondary education.

This work yielded a number of different «clusters» of jobs, such as those that work intimately with other people (psychologists, social workers) and those that handle bugs in complex systems (epidemiologists).

«We use high - performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques,» founder and CEO Jeff Bezos famously noted in a 2010 letter to shareholders.

Each biochemical system requires a stupefyingly complex set of components which affect each other in intricate ways.

It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.

Thus the system evolved in complex ways, as converts kept one foot anchored on the (seemingly) stable rock of the Bible and the other immersed in the rushing, turbulent river of current events.

Systems and principles of justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5

I read a lot of stuff on other religions and spirituality, but my own belief system is very complex and personal, challenging and ever - developing.

The fact is that hackers, phishers, and other people after your computer's information are going to continually come up with new and complex ways of gaining access to your system.

The Virginia Tech Helmet RatingsTM system approaches the very broad and complex issue of concussion protection from a narrow vantage point of linear accelerations only and does not address other biomechanical variables such as rotational accelerations, particularly where rotational accelerations precede the linear acceleration in a hit.

What child can escape unharmed when caught in the middle of highly conflicted charges and counter-charges of parental unfitness or abuse; being forced to choose sides and hide their love for the other parent; or understand the complex legal nature of the court system.

Colin Ben Nathan, Chair of the CIOT's Employment Taxes Sub-committee, said: «Whatever it brings in fairness for the worker, unless the tax status of «dependent contractors» is addressed at the same time as their employment and other rights are established, the tax system will remain complex and distorted.

In genetically susceptible hosts, the inability to develop the immune system properly can have negative consequences like inflammatory bowel disease or any other kinds of complex immune disorders.»

For four billion years, the rate of change of the Earth system (E) has been a complex function of astronomical (A) and geophysical (G) forces plus internal dynamics (I): Earth's orbit around the sun, gravitational interactions with other planets, the sun's heat output, colliding continents, volcanoes and evolution, among others.

Oddly, the lesson of Sandy is the same as the lesson of the Eurozone crisis and other recent events such as the Egyptian revolution: complex systems play by their own rules.

For example, he says, although the new study found no overall change in the rate of melting at Totten Glacier over the last couple of decades, the large variability in melting rate within those decades warrants a much closer look at the region's complex topography, among other factors, in order to anticipate how the system could actually change in the future.

The intestinal community of bacteria is a complex system that is not only affected by genetics, but also by age, gender, medication and other factors.

«Other research from our group has observed that over the past several decades, the US has developed a complex system of farming, storage, transportation, processing, manufacturing and marketing that favours a lower cost of highly processed foods,» she says.

Fedder, whose complex engineered systems institute is an outgrowth of an NSF engineering research center that closed 15 years ago, acknowledges that CMU and other universities are taking a calculated risk that their faculty members will find sufficient intellectual challenges in tackling problems to advance the technologies that underpin additive manufacturing.

Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions.

It is a form of computing that taps into the power of atoms and subatomic phenomena to perform calculations significantly faster than current computers and could potentially lead to advances in drug development and other complex systems.

The NIST synapse's combination of small size, superfast spiking signals, low energy needs and 3 - D stacking capability could provide the means for a far more complex neuromorphic system than has been demonstrated with other technologies, according to the paper.

Humans have thousands of immune system genes, and they interact with one another in complex ways; some, for instance, control others.

«They have a complex system made of components — for one, it's called neurons and for the other, it's called units — and we are doing experiments to try to determine what those components calculate.»

It then utilizes contemporary tools in complex networks to assess several dynamics on the system, particularly, the flow of goods and other relief efforts, and quantify the reachability of critical loci within a geographic area where a disaster has struck.

The secret is in the baleen, a complex filter - feeding system that allows the enormous whales to strain huge volumes of saltwater, leaving only krill and other small organisms behind.

Complex - systems analysts Brian Uzzi and Stefan Wuchty of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have now pitted these methods against each other.

Though other mathematical models are capable of simulating complex phenomena, only Darwin's approach shows how certain complex systems not only arise but also adapt over time to the constraints imposed by their environment, as living systems do.

Others were more complex, such as borrowing concepts from biological circulatory systems to make the layout of pipes and wires in a semiconductor assembly room more energy - efficient.

The team demonstrated that this hybrid device enhances the collection efficiency of single photons by more than a factor of 10 compared to a single nanocrystal without the antenna, without the need for complex and bulky optical collection systems used in many other experiments.

The findings are consistent with some other studies about the impact of fat and sugar on cognitive function and behavior, and suggest that some of these problems may be linked to alteration of the microbiome — a complex mixture in the digestive system of about 100 trillion microorganisms.

«This cooling reduced precipitation over Africa, and in combination with a range of other complex climate feedback mechanisms tipped the humid system towards aridification,» explains the first author of the study, James Collins from Helmholtz Centre Potsdam — GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and Alfred Wegener Institute — Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

But whether all the signaling is part of a complex mating system or some other form of behavior entirely remains to be seen, he added.

«Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are well known for aggressive temperaments and complex visual systems, but until now we've known very little about whether and how they use color to communicate with other mantis shrimp,» said Amanda Franklin, a Ph.D. student in the biology department of Tufts University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the first and corresponding author on the paper.

«There are patterns at every stage of life that are different from the patterns at other stages, and with the system we created we can see that really clearly in ways that are surprisingly complex and robust,» says Bargmann, who is the Torsten I. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior.

In the basal ganglia — a complex system of neurons in the brain responsible for, among other things, procedural learning — Bottjer and Achiro were able to isolate two different types of neurons in young songbirds: ones that were activated only when the birds heard themselves singing, and others that were activated only when the birds heard the songs of adult birds that they were trying to imitate.

Quantum computers are naturally well - suited to simulating other quantum systems, which may help, for example, our understanding of complex molecules relevant to chemistry and biology.»

Many different cells are involved in the complex processes: skin cells (keratinocytes) and cells of the immune system, among others T lymphocytes, macrophages, mast cells and others.

On the other hand, Cleland adds, the potential advantage of a mechanical system over an electronic system is that its qubits might intrinsically lose energy more slowly and thus remain in superposition longer, enabling them to perform more useful, complex calculations.

«In other words, we need treatments that address a very complex signaling system instead of one signal.»

In one issue of the McKinsey Quarterly titled «Biology and Business,» evolutionary theory is applied to other complex systems such as business markets.

Similarly to other large - brained members of the crow family with complex social systems, magpies are capable of sophisticated mental feats, such as mirror self - recognition, retrieval of hidden objects and remembering where and when they have hoarded what food item.

Many bacteria take DNA from other live microbes using a complex system of around 40 genes.

Initiated in 2002, QuakeSim uses NASA remote sensing and other earthquake - related data to simulate and model the behavior of faults in 3 - D both individually and as part of complex, interacting systems.

Then Robert May, now at the University of Oxford, and others showed that such complex systems have critical points at which a change in one species can have dramatic and non-linear effects on others.

The major theme of Bio-X is to unlock the secrets of the human body by treating body and brain as a whole assembly of complex organ systems that interact with each other dynamically.