Sentences with phrase «scientists build models»

This finding may alter the way scientists build models of memory.

Scientists built the model to investigate how variations in light, day length, temperature and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere influence the biological pathways that control growth and flowering in plants.

Not exact matches

(As Werth explains, the analogy most commonly used is that of a lock and key, in which scientists first model the interior of the cylinder in order to know what kind of key to build.)

Data scientists can build predictive models to make content marketing more effective.

Numerai incentivizes data scientists to analyze stock market prediction models built with artificial intelligence.

I have shunned human advisers all my life but the Robo firms have professional data scientists and mathematicians focused full - time on building computer models maximizing the efficiency of your investment allocations.

Sir Arthur Eddington, the distinguished scientist who championed relativity and whose career spanned the intellectually fecund turn of the century, claimed that no scientific theory was comprehensible if you could not build a model of it.

In the new study, scientists built and tested a mathematical model that simulated the complex chemical and physical interactions among water, oil, gas, and dispersant that occurred during Deepwater Horizon.

But should scientists ditch their furry model altogether, or can they simply build a better mouse?

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

The scientists, in collaboration with IBM, are launching the effort by building a computer model of the neocortical column of a rat, a single circuit of about 10,000 cells, each of which is capable of thousands of connections.

Working in collaboration with William Kemp, a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist and UI alumnus, Dennis has built a mathematical model that demonstrates the vulnerability of hives with too few bees.

File - save, file - open At Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany, scientists have been building a model of how memory may store time.

Scientists at The Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver will describe the potential of shale formations; challenges of deep borehole disposal; and their progress in building a computer model to help improve understanding of the geologic processes that are important for safe disposal of high - level waste.

First, lessons should engage students in the kinds of practices that scientists and engineers use to investigate the world, develop theories, build models and design systems.

Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and alumnus Navid Sakhavand first built atom - level computer models of pillared graphene — sheets of graphene connected by covalently bonded carbon nanotubes — to discover their strength and electrical properties as well as their thermal conductivity.

This research into real - time, micro - and nanoscale mechanisms of corrosion provides valuable information that the scientists can build upon, which may lead to models and predictions of how and when materials in confined spaces are likely to corrode.

This new insight into how the Southern Ocean behaves will allow scientists to build computer models that can better predict how our climate is going to change in the future.

When the scientists compared the output of climate models with a decade of satellite measurements of relative humidity, they found that the models that best reproduced observed conditions were built on the premise that climate sensitivity is relatively high — 7 degrees F or more.

One student visited a lab where scientists who were building a new submarine steering mechanism let her practice steering a model sub around a little tank.

That model, managed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, is built on science and code continually developed by U.S. academics and DOE scientists and is partially funded by DOE.

Scientists, led by Ottar Rolfssonat the University of Iceland, have built a mathematical model to examine the metabolism of breast epithelium — as the majority of breast cancers originate from these cells.

«The main advance here was not just the diagnosis and recovery, but how the robot does that, which is to build a model of itself,» explains Josh Bongard, a computer scientist now at the University of Vermont.

But in 2006, four scientists tried to build Janzen's theory into a mathematical model and ran into trouble.

This model will allow scientists to better understand how the nerve responds to touch, and can be used to build realistic sensations into bionic hands for amputees.

But for several years scientists at Stanford University's School of Medicine have been working to mimic in a petri dish critical features of development of a human cerebral cortex — essentially working to build models for watching a brain grow.

Scientists have found that the charged particles in graphene behave like a relativistic fluid, meaning graphene - based chips could now be used to model black holes and supernovas or build highly efficient devices that turn heat into electricity.

Now, when scientists build climate models, they test them by running them for the past and seeing if the models replicate what actually happened.

Mission is to help data scientists of all levels build and deploy better predictive models, faster.

In the housing bubble, rocket scientists crunched decades of housing data to build complex models.

Technology can be used to advance learning by bringing exciting curricula based on real - world problems into the classroom, providing scaffolds and tools to enhance learning, such as modeling programs and visualization tools, giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision, and building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expanding opportunities for teacher learning.

Practices that describe behaviors that scientists engage in as they investigate and build models and theories about the natural world and the key set of engineering practices that engineers use as they design and build models and systems.

Then, based on the historical data and past trends, scientists build a bottom - up forecasting model.

MXNet will enable machine learning scientists to build scalable deep learning models that can significantly reduce the training time for their applications.

Although he spent winters in Arctic conditions to gather evidence to prove his theory, created complicated mathematical models to support his field work and even built a machine in which to recreate the lights in his laboratory, few scientists of his day believed Birkeland.

It is possible to build a computer model which reproduces chaos, but since the climate has been stable, the climate scientists have not needed to incorporate that sort of code.

I'm happy to see this point made (again), one obvious to scientists who use statistics as a tool to discover cause and effect relationships and build their theories (models) of bio-physical reality.

Any model - building scientist should know about overfitting and understand the relationship of the number of parameters to the useability of a model.

It wasn't that the models the scientists had built were crap.

While finishing up her dissertation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Parkinson and climate scientist William Kellogg decided to take the theory about carbon dioxide emissions increasing global temperatures and apply it to a sea ice model that Parkinson had built.

This mess can be cleaned up only by assigning to the scientists the task of building logically constructed, value - free models and by assigning to non-scientists the task of setting policy.

Flying in this orbit, Aqua will take readings of every part of the globe every 16 days, building a comprehensive database that allows scientists to assess changes and drastically improving computer models for long - term forecasting.

Any number of models can be built by any number of scientists that show a better correlation with past data than their models do.

A scientist from another discipline may show complete confidence in a model without fulling understanding the uncertainty that is built into it.

He also makes a statement that is surprising in how obviously mistaken it is: «It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air - conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds.

The climate scientists that worry about these issues don't post here (much - Jeff made a single post) so you aren't really going to see a meaningful discussion on the role of chaos or stochastic processes on climates, how that is handled in model building, and what that means in terms of model verification.

At best, climate scientists can look at how the Earth changes over time and build simplified computer models to be tested in the lab.

Many climate scientists are indeed concentrating on building models.

And for sure we are driven to keep modeling like crazy (on some else's dime) like hysterical people building Towers of Babel despite the fact if there is any true substance to general circulation models (GCMs)-- i.e., the mathematical models Western government scientists use only to indict humanity for living — it is well disguised.

What I find amazing is that as soon as some scientist come out with a calculation, a model is built around it and it is used instead of our real planets parameters.