Sentences with phrase «quantitative understanding»

Thus improved quantitative understanding of their influence on carbon budgets may create opportunity for management and policy to identify and implement new options for mitigating CO2 release at regional scales.

«We're interested in getting a good quantitative understanding of the extreme water levels we can expect from coastal flooding.»

Molecular cell bioengineering is the application of engineering approaches to develop quantitative understanding of cell function in terms of fundamental molecular properties, and to apply this understanding for improved design of molecular - and cell - based technologies.

Major progress in quantitative understanding of climate change has occurred recently by use of the combination of data from high resolution ice cores covering time scales of order several hundred thousand years [48]--[49] and ocean cores for time scales of order one hundred million years [50].

Experimentalists have developed sophisticated tools to overcome the challenge, but translating experimental observations into precise quantitative understanding of the quark - gluon plasma has been difficult to achieve until now, he says.

The state of the science at the time (say, the mid 1970's), based on reading the papers is, in summary: ``... we do not have a good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what determines its course.

Major progress in quantitative understanding of climate change has occurred recently by use of the combination of data from high resolution ice cores covering time scales of order several hundred thousand years [48]--[49] and ocean cores for time scales of order one hundred million years [50].

One major impediment to resolving such debates is a poor quantitative understanding of the magnitude of the global inequity in emissions and impacts.

Close collaboration between the Pasteur Institute and Inria, taking the form of the InBio join research group, whose aim is to develop a methodological framework for achieving a quantitative understanding of the functioning of cellular processes, is the perfect illustration of the value of interdisciplinary research combining experimental approaches with methodological developments.

«This study really deepens our quantitative understanding of human behavior,» said Dashun Wang, assistant professor of information sciences and technology, Penn State.

Good statistical practice is an essential component of good scientific practice, the statement observes, and such practice «emphasizes principles of good study design and conduct, a variety of numerical and graphical summaries of data, understanding of the phenomenon under study, interpretation of results in context, complete reporting and proper logical and quantitative understanding of what data summaries mean.»

«It would be nice to have a mechanistic and quantitative understanding of how bear populations respond to the variation in salmon population,» explains Chris Darimont, chief scientist with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation (RCF) and conservation ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

While coating the electrode surface with a thin layer of carbon or graphene had been shown to improve performance, there was no microscopic and quantitative understanding of why this made a difference, Bazant says.

«The data allowed us to get a quantitative understanding of size classes and when these big sharks are using the channel.»

According to Lu, this work advances the quantitative understanding of gene circuit behaviors, and facilitates the transformation of gene network design from trial - and - error construction to rational forward engineering.

«Before our study, we didn't have a deep, quantitative understanding of how far fish larvae do and do not disperse from their parents,» says study co-author Peter Buston of Boston University.

Morgridge Fellow Jing Fan's laboratory works towards a quantitative understanding of mammalian cellular metabolism, with a particular focus in cancer metabolism.

Tal Danino specializes in engineering biological organisms for novel health and environmental applications, beginning from a quantitative understanding of how networks of genes interact to establishing design principles for engineering biological behaviors though genetic programming.

What that research lacked then was a quantitative understanding of the mechanisms involved that would enable even more precise control over these structures.

«This paper is an important reminder that we can not neglect interannual sea level variability and we need a quantitative understanding of its impact,» John Church, an oceanographer with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) said in an email.

«Translating these signals can lead to a quantitative understanding of how forest ecosystems respond to climate stress and climate change.»

There have been indications of widespread retreat of Himalayan glaciers, including Dasuopu in the subtropics, but a quantitative understanding of this region must await peer - reviewed analysis of the recently completed 46000 - glacier Chinese Glacier Inventory.

Quite simply, our quantitative understanding of social systems falls far behind that of physical systems.

But although the principle of the albedo feedback is simple, a quantitative understanding of the effect is still far from complete.

He calls it «the principal barrier to quantitative understanding of ongoing climate change.

Such a rational approach has not been applied to enclosure design because of a lack of quantitative understanding (of building physics and material properties) and no professional and research framework to create the approach for analysis, loadings, and performance thresholds.

Their basic conclusion was»... we do not have a good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what determines its course.

However, we still lack a quantitative understanding of the physical mechanisms leading to the suggested changes in ocean circulation, which inevitably challenges our interpretation of past and present climates and shakes our confidence in future projections.

Despite extensive research, we still lack a quantitative understanding of the nucleation mechanism and the possible role of cosmic rays, creating one of the largest uncertainties in atmospheric models and climate predictions.

There are certainly disputes about more detailed or specific issues (as there is in any scientific field), and lots of research continues to improve our quantitative understanding of the system, but the basic issues (as outlined above) are very widely (though not universally) accepted.