Sentences with phrase «on computer simulations of»

Since the 1970s he has worked on computer simulations of the Earth's climate in a effort to understand humanity's impact upon it.
They are based on computer simulations of the Antarctic ice flow using improved data of the ground profile beneath the ice sheet.
The forecasts are based on computer simulations of scenarios that nobody would wish to see repeated as real life experiments.
Richard is a theoretical meteorologist and an expert on computer simulations of the atmosphere.
They are based on computer simulations of the Antarctic ice flow using improved data of the ground profile beneath the ice sheet.
Before joining the Discovery team, he was a solar physics Ph.D. researcher at the University of Wales, Abserystwyth (UK), where he worked on computer simulations of coronal loops.
This winter, Kusenko and his colleagues will collaborate with scientists at Princeton University on computer simulations of the heavy elements produced by a neutron star — black hole interaction.
The new model is based on computer simulations of separate collisions between the asteroid Vesta and a pair of 20 - mile - long (32 kilometers) rocks within the last billion years.
His Ph.D. research at Stanford focused on computer simulations of how mechanical stresses affect bone growth and adaptive changes around implants.
He expects, based on computer simulations of how galaxies form, that the outer halo is older.
Still an active researcher focused on computer simulations of solar system dynamics, Grazier told Discover Associate Editor Gemma Tarlach that Hollywood is less a shark tank than a sandbox full of smart kids.
Increasingly, automakers are relying on computer simulations of accidents to develop safer cars more quickly and efficiently
I spent most of my time in the resources industry where I worked on computer simulations of environmental processes, particularly hydrology.
In one room sit rows of young men working on computer simulations of crashing and accelerating cars.
Their new analysis is based on a computer simulation of the changes in temperature of the atmosphere associated with greenhouse warming.
As a member of the Club of Rome (COR) Strong took their neo-Malthusian view set out in their report Limits to Growth that Wikipedia defines as, «a 1972 report on the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources,» and translated it into organization and bureaucracy.

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Surgeons say no mannequin or computer simulation can replicate the tactile response and emotional experience of practicing on human body parts.
In December, Tehrani signed a deal with GlaxoSmithKline that will allow the pharmaceutical giant to test at least four of its drug candidates on a Zymeworks - designed platform, which combines a computer simulation with a way of engineering protein molecules and allows products to be refined before they move to expensive clinical trials.
Matt Damon The Good Will Hunting actor spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 3, mentioning the idea that reality could actually be a computer - generated simulation.
There is an on going computer simulation of biological evolution called «Avida» at Michigan State University that shows how complexity can arise from simplicity at an exponential rate.
It speaks of operations research, systems analysis, technological forecasting, information theory, game theory, simulation techniques, decision theory, Delphi method, cross-impact matrix analysis, statistical time - series, stochastic models, linear programming, input - output economics, computer based command and control systems, and so on.
«Through presentations, hands - on experience, guest speakers, computer simulations, and more, the program introduces participants to the scope of the hospitality industry, senior level executives and the market forces at play in this competitive field.»
Now, he and university colleague Dénes Száz have built on those studies by incorporating the data into computer simulations of voyages between Bergen, Norway, and the Viking settlement of Hvarf, on Greenland's southeastern coast.
Now, one group of researchers has an answer, based on computer simulations — and legendary crystals.
«I don't think they're claiming that this is going to give them an efficient simulation of quantum systems on a classical computer,» he says.
Using this detailed computer model, the LROC team ran simulations to see if they could reproduce the distortions seen on the Oct. 13 image and determine the size of the meteoroid that hit the camera.
Computer simulations and hands - on displays allow visitors to Marvelous Molecules — The Secret of Life at the New York Hall of Science to peek inside the molecular structure of living things to see how chemicals affect the brain and how DNA passes on genetic traits.
For instance, Buckley notes, on one computer simulation for 4th graders of plants growing in a greenhouse, kids could move the plants around and identify, based on growth patterns, which were sun - versus shade - loving plants, and which fertilizer application rate proved most effective.
The reliability and the trust people put in computer simulations depends on the validity of the simulation model.
Computer simulations suggest that when two black holes spiral towards each other on a collision course, much of the gas and dust in the spinning accretion disc surrounding each of them is ripped away by the gravity of the other.
Computer simulations show that a collection of stars as densely packed as those at the heart of M32 should collapse in on itself within only a few hundred million years.
Based on these observational data, an international team of scientists from Germany, Greece, and Japan including HITS astrophysicist Dr. Andreas Bauswein has man - aged to narrow down the size of neutron stars with the aid of computer simulations.
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.
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.
When Ebola developed into an epidemic in 2014, an international team of scientists estimated that the pathogen's genome would change on average every 9.5 days, based on virus samples and computer simulations.
Proving the idea will require a better understanding of what's going on deep in the interior of the sun, which computer simulations are not up to yet, Guhathakurta says.
Water's behavior was tested with three different approaches: ultrafast optical measurements, which revealed the arrangement of molecules on the nanometric scale; a computer simulation on the atomic scale; and measurement of the water's surface structure and tension, which was done at the macroscopic level.
Combing through computer simulations of various configurations, Khalegh Mamakani and Frank Ruskey at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, hit on the simple, symmetric 11 - set Venn diagram above (arxiv.org/abs/1207.6452).
Based on samples from 16 sites from Hawaii to Alaska and on computer simulations, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and other institutions conclude that bacterial decomposition of algae that have sunk from the surface to mid-depth plays a crucial role.
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 Texas.
To see how well their math predicts the shape of a jump rope, they plugged a range of realistic rope - jumping values into the equations and ran a simulation on a computer.
Until now, computer simulations of habitable climates on Earth - like planets have focused on their atmospheres.
VTT conducted a case study by means of computer simulation on for which purposes the indoor swimming pools and indoor ice rinks use their energy and in what ways their energy consumption could be reduced.
Schaefer used computer simulations to see if this recycling process would take place on super-Earths, which are planets up to five times the mass, or 1.5 times the size, of Earth.
Researchers from Uppsala University, together with colleagues at University College Dublin, have studied the dynamics of active swarms using computer simulations and experiments on unicellular algae.
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.
To gain a better sense of the phenomenon, Vilenkin teamed up in 1986 with a Tufts graduate student, Mukunda Aryal, on a computer simulation that showed what an eternally inflating universe might look like.
In a paper published in the 2 November edition of Nature Communications, corresponding author Zhang and his colleagues describe how they used a computer simulation of two types of methane hydrates, monocrystalline hydrates and polycrystalline hydrates, to see what would happen if they were compressed or if pressures on the hydrates were suddenly released.
In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal on June 23, Schnittman describes the results of a computer simulation he developed to follow the orbits of hundreds of millions of dark matter particles, as well as the gamma rays produced when they collide, in the vicinity of a black hole.
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