Sentences with phrase «other complex systems in»

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

Not exact matches

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).

Complex accounting rules, in other words, are what allow our system to work.

«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

Standing beside each other, these bottles would stretch for over six miles — each full to the brim with sand, each grain a solar system (probably) on average as big and complex as ours, resplendent with planets, moons, asteroids and, in some cases, perhaps life.

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.

They are an opportunity for HMRC, the Government — and other stakeholders such as professional bodies — to take stock and renew their efforts to work towards a more efficient and less complex tax system in which the public can have greater understanding and confidence.»

But it is a safe bet to predict that nothing will be said about how, given that the tax systems in other jurisdictions are similarly complex and address similar issues, the UK happens to be the sole outlier, and by a massive margin — or how jurisdictions where unit costs are significantly higher nevertheless manage to sustain higher relative fiscal takes.

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.

It seemed that any small fluctuation in an ecological system was always balanced out by some other change, maintaining equilibrium even in complex situations.

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.»

According to dynamical systems theory, transport barriers exist in complex flows as objects that can not be crossed by other fluid trajectories.

In 2012, she and postdoctoral fellow Prashant Mali teamed up on CRISPR - Cas9, a molecular complex that bacteria use as a primitive immune system; other scientists had recently gotten it to cut specific locations on DNA floating in test tubeIn 2012, she and postdoctoral fellow Prashant Mali teamed up on CRISPR - Cas9, a molecular complex that bacteria use as a primitive immune system; other scientists had recently gotten it to cut specific locations on DNA floating in test tubein test tubes.

«Spin models are not only used in physics, but also to model other complex systems, such as neural networks, proteins or social networks.

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.

Other traits, including those that might seem more dramatic, had surprisingly little impact on diversification and species numbers: evolutionary accomplishments such as having a head, limbs, and complex organ systems for circulation and digestion don't seem to be primary accessories in the evolutionary «dress for success.»

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.

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

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.

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.

Other IU contributors to the research were Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research and an assistant research scientist at the IU Network Science Institute, and Jaehyuk Park, a doctoral student in informatics.

«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 imitatIn 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 imitatin 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 imitatin 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.

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.

These pathways, which rely on the neurotransmitter dopamine, are often referred to simplistically as the «reward system» but are also involved in motivation, attention, decision making, and other complex functions.

«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.

Hobson, a postdoctoral fellow with the ASU - SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, anticipates exploring several other research questions around this unique monk parakeet invasion in the future.

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.

Although some approved cancer drugs and others in development interfere with the same protein cleanup process, known as the ubiquitin - proteasome system, disulfiram targets only a specific molecular complex within this machinery.

«These indicators were first predicted mathematically and subsequently demonstrated experimentally in real complex systems in ecology and other life 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.

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The CCP is engaged in numerous multidisciplinary projects in other model systems (e.g. fly, zebrafish, yeast) that aim to determine how complex molecular circuits function and evolve in response to genetic and environmental changes, cellular differentiation, evolution and disease.

Protein systems, such as Ras, make up the complex signaling pathways that control whether a cell divides or, in some cases, becomes cancerous and metastasizes into other regions of the body.

Finally, in a collaboration with Frank Jülicher's group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, we are using these data to develop physical models that will help us understand how local cellular adhesive, elastic and contractile properties are influenced by PCP proteins and other molecules, and how they combine to produce specific packing geometries at a global level.