Sentences with phrase «on computer models in»

«Imagine basing a country's energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory — a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable (CO2) is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system.»

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COMPACT: The original 3 - D models of the F - 35 were gigantic in computer terms, far too large to fit on a portable tablet.
Oracle is banking more on what techies call a «scale - up» model in which fewer, but very powerful computersin Exadata's case each with its own integrated networking and storage — take on big workloads.
Initially, he thought he'd build the company with a business - to - business model, partnering with jewelry retailers who would offer their customers the opportunity to customize jewelry using Lauzon's proprietary software loaded on an in - store computer.
Intel shares dropped sharply Monday after a report Apple would ditch Intel chips for an in - house model on Mac computers.
One possibility is broader legislation dealing with bots, perhaps modeled on the Better Online Ticket Sales Act (better known as the BOTS Act), a 2016 law meant to clamp down on ticket scalping and computer programs that sweep up large numbers of tickets in online sales.
Dr. Pineau's research focuses on developing new models and algorithms that allow computers to learn to make good decisions in complex real - world domains, even in circumstances where there is incomplete or incorrect information.
In 2016, he became responsible for the quantitative strategies team, which focuses on how to apply computer models to financial markets.
It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.
Jay W. Forrester, professor of management at MIT whose sophisticated computer modeling of social and environmental issues led to the Club of Rome report on «The Limits of Growth,» sees the political and economic stresses in the world as caused by the necessary transition from worldwide growth to equilibrium.
In Chicago, the Park District will use a new high - tech system that uses computer software to give real - time predictions of bacteria counts based on such factors as water temperature, modeling of the lake bottom and wave action monitored by buoys.
RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
He delivered a riveting talk on how the Republicans took over in 2010 by using computer modeling to gerrymander and steal elections.
Despite these differences, 3D computer graphics rely on many of the same algorithms as 2D computer vector graphics in the wire frame model and 2D computer raster graphics in the final rendered display.
In the mid-1990s, one team came up with a computer model that reproduced far - flowing slides by simulating the interactions between individual particles in the flow, but computers at the time didn't have the computing power to investigate what was going on in the flow as a wholIn the mid-1990s, one team came up with a computer model that reproduced far - flowing slides by simulating the interactions between individual particles in the flow, but computers at the time didn't have the computing power to investigate what was going on in the flow as a wholin the flow, but computers at the time didn't have the computing power to investigate what was going on in the flow as a wholin the flow as a whole.
Meanwhile, the new study suggests the effect will intensify in the future with continued climate change, based on computer models that attempt to project how rising temperatures would affect the Arctic's chemical reservoirs.
Computer simulations build on, and are a useful adjunct to purely mathematical models in science, technology and entertainment.
The Blue Brain Project Scientists rely on computer models to understand the toughest concepts in science: the origin of the universe, the behavior of atoms, and the future climate of the planet.
Much as what unfolded during the crisis in Japan, the computer modeling suggested that fuel in one of the two reactors on the Peach Bottom site would begin to melt as soon as nine hours after a loss of cooling water flow.
The surface of a mountain can be modeled on a computer by using a fractal: Start with a triangle in 3D space and connect the central points of each side by line segments, resulting in 4 triangles.
The reliability and the trust people put in computer simulations depends on the validity of the simulation model.
Because their goal was to simulate social phenomena on ordinary desktop computers, they pared agent - based modeling down to its essence: a set of simple agents that moved around a grid in search of «sugar» — a foodlike resource that was abundant in some places and scarce in others.
Using a computer model based on direct brain recordings from epilepsy patients, they are the first to show the existence of a network of neural regions that can push or pull on the synchronization of the regions directly involved in a seizure.
Mausumi Dikpati and her colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used new observations of the sun's interior and new computer simulations to model the flow of plasma, or electrically charged gas, that carry the sunspots like a conveyor belt until they become powerful enough to burst free and erupt on the sun's surface.
Prior to CRaTER and recent measurements by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars rover Curiosity, the effects of thick shielding on cosmic rays had only been simulated in computer models and in particle accelerators, with little observational data from deep space.
The computer science carried out at the centre will focus on mimicking the behaviour of biological systems to develop new concepts and programming languages adapted to the modelling of complex systems, says Corrado Priami, president of the centre, in an e-mail.
Previous estimates, Schultz said, were based solely on computer models and yielded a size estimate of only about 50 miles in diameter.
He put together an independent research proposal that was based on research he was already working on in his PI's lab: the development of computer models for gamma - ray bursts.
Jacobson's research, detailed in a paper published July 30 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, is based on a three - dimensional computer model simulation of the impacts of biomass burning.
To see whether this increase in crops has influenced the region's unusual weather, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge used computers to model five different 30 - year climate simulations, based on data from 1982 to 2011.
These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.
They said the real strength of the Jacobson study — now in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres — is that it relies on a new computer model of climate, air pollution and weather that accounts for several different ways black carbon influences the environment.
In the study, the researchers used a 3D computer model of the atmosphere to determine the impact of VSLS on ozone and climate.
In a paper published in the journal Icarus, the researchers use state - of - the - art computer models to simulate the dynamics of comet impacts on the lunar soiIn a paper published in the journal Icarus, the researchers use state - of - the - art computer models to simulate the dynamics of comet impacts on the lunar soiin the journal Icarus, the researchers use state - of - the - art computer models to simulate the dynamics of comet impacts on the lunar soil.
In this study, the authors describe a computer model that can be used to calculate the probability that the presence of two Zika cases in a given area will lead to an epidemic, based on real - time simulations of all the counties in the state of TexaIn this study, the authors describe a computer model that can be used to calculate the probability that the presence of two Zika cases in a given area will lead to an epidemic, based on real - time simulations of all the counties in the state of Texain a given area will lead to an epidemic, based on real - time simulations of all the counties in the state of Texain the state of Texas.
Research reported earlier this year hinted that events in the stratosphere might directly affect the oceans, but those findings were based on a single climate model and a computer simulation that modeled the stratosphere for a relatively short 260 years.
Materials scientists hope their computer model results will spark further research into the effects of carbon dioxide on fracturing in glaciers and ice sheets
It was only possible through the participation of thousands of members of the public in the work's biggest ever climate modelling exercise: they offered up spare processing capacity on their home computers to run the calculations via the Climate Prediction citizen science climate modelling programme.
Taking sides In 2003, Russell Gray and his then doctoral student, Quentin Atkinson, at the University of Auckland in New Zealand generated a maelstrom of controversy by claiming to have solved, by computer modeling, what has been described as «the most intensively studied, yet still the most recalcitrant, problem of historical linguistics», coming down on the side of Anatolia4 (see «Language tree rooted in Turkey»In 2003, Russell Gray and his then doctoral student, Quentin Atkinson, at the University of Auckland in New Zealand generated a maelstrom of controversy by claiming to have solved, by computer modeling, what has been described as «the most intensively studied, yet still the most recalcitrant, problem of historical linguistics», coming down on the side of Anatolia4 (see «Language tree rooted in Turkey»in New Zealand generated a maelstrom of controversy by claiming to have solved, by computer modeling, what has been described as «the most intensively studied, yet still the most recalcitrant, problem of historical linguistics», coming down on the side of Anatolia4 (see «Language tree rooted in Turkey»in Turkey»).
To predict which creatures are in danger of extinction, the teams used computer modeling and information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate change.
Morris's computer models do not consider that HIV - positive people are more likely to pass the virus on to others in the first few weeks or months following infection.
Matthew Huber, who uses computer models to examine climate dynamics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has his new students work on test projects to prove their skills before they move on to more advanced problems.
Next to the mathematical modeling as in the recent study Markus Diesmann and his team therefore work in parallel on the creation of simulation software for the new generation of computers.
They relied on the same sort of high - tech computer models that aerospace engineers use to analyze stresses induced in aircraft parts during flight.
Cynthia Rosenzweig, a researcher based at Goddard, has been using crop - growth computer models to predict effects of carbon dioxide buildup and climate change on wheat, the most widely cultivated crop in the world.
«To model the combustion process in a single cycle in one cylinder takes a day on a computer.
In the next five to 10 years, we'll eliminate much of animal toxicology and move on to smarter systems using computer algorithms and modeling,» he says.
Previously, most work on that question has been done in greenhouses or computer models.
In a statement issued Wednesday, he noted: «This marks the first instance of a species being listed based upon a computer model of future climate from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The new findings, based on detailed computer simulations using the best available global circulation models, are described this week in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of environmental engineering Elfatih Eltahir, MIT Research Scientist Eun Soon Im, and Professor Jeremy Pal at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
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