Sentences with phrase «simple mathematical models of»

During the next decade a few scientists worked up simple mathematical models of the planet's climate system and turned up feedbacks that could make the system surprisingly sensitive.

A view like mine would make it very difficult for economists to create simple mathematical models of reality.

Over the next decade a few scientists devised simple mathematical models of the climate, and turned up feedbacks that could make the system surprisingly variable.

A very simple mathematical model of epidemics appears to account for the evolution of Myspace and Facebook, argue John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, graduate students in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University in a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server.

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Mathematicians have developed many mathematical models with very simple rules (analogous to laws of physics).

Nature is in fact always much richer and more complex than our imaginative and mathematical models, and we unduly shrivel our understanding of the cosmos if we equate it in a simple way with our scientific schemes.

Working with the Wilson - Cowan model, a widely - used model in computational neuroscience that describes the average activity of populations of interconnected neurons, Alonso has designed a new mathematical tool to help other neuroscientists explore the broad spectrum of responses possible from a simple neural circuit.

It was especially satisfying to find that relatively simple mathematical models and analyses could explain puzzling changes in the epidemic patterns of measles in large cities in the 20th century.

By studying liquid plugs in simple glass tubes, he developed a mathematical model describing liquid transport process in each generation of the airway tree.

People who are open - minded are beginning to realise that the results of our paper are beautiful: simple mathematical models based on standard natural selection are sufficient to explain the evolution of eusociality or other phenomena in social evolution.

Physicists have been searching for decades for a simple, mathematical solution to a model of phase transitions.

At Middlesex University, we have developed a simple mathematical model which includes the basic parameters of a possible attack, such as the behaviour of the politician, the assailant or assailants and the available defences.

«The existence of a motif means our predictive model can be based on a relatively simple mathematical formula rather than on more complex econometrics that try to account for all the different types of human behavior,» says González, the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).

He hopes his work will pave the way for improved mathematical models of «consumption and savings and borrowing decisions that incorporate, in a simple yet rigorous way, these differences in behavior.»

A simple but realistic mathematical model was created and then used to explore the design principles of signal transduction and transport receptors.

Researchers developed a surprisingly simple mathematical model that accurately predicts synchronization as a function of the parameters and the topology of the underlying network.

A simple mathematical model, in which cells are described as persistent random walkers that adapt their motion to that of their neighbours, captures the essential characteristics of these breathing oscillations.

The simple gravity pendulum is an idealized mathematical model of a pendulum.

They trusted simple mathematical models, and did not spend enough time on the quality of underwriting.

The combined elements create a mesmerizing effect, through which Kentridge offers an informal lesson on changing notions of time — from the celestial model in antiquity and Newton's mathematical view to Einstein's theories of relativity — and suggests the idea of time being «refused,» whether to resist the impact of colonial forces or to deny the simple truth of human mortality.

It used a simple mathematical model, and IPCC data, to suggest that even if CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere doubled, which might take the rest of the century, average global temperature would not rise by much more than 1 degree Celsius.

So it seems to me that the simple way of communicating a complex problem has led to several fallacies becoming fixed in the discussions of the real problem; (1) the Earth is a black body, (2) with no materials either surrounding the systems or in the systems, (3) in radiative energy transport equilibrium, (4) response is chaotic solely based on extremely rough appeal to temporal - based chaotic response, (5) but at the same time exhibits trends, (6) but at the same time averages of chaotic response are not chaotic, (7) the mathematical model is a boundary value problem yet it is solved in the time domain, (8) absolutely all that matters is the incoming radiative energy at the TOA and the outgoing radiative energy at the Earth's surface, (9) all the physical phenomena and processes that are occurring between the TOA and the surface along with all the materials within the subsystems can be ignored, (10) including all other activities of human kind save for our contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere, (11) neglecting to mention that if these were true there would be no problem yet we continue to expend time and money working on the problem.

Another strategy is to use a climate model — not a climate simulation like most computer models are, but a simple mathematical model — which includes the affect of ENSO.

In the 1960s, atmospheric scientists developed the first mathematical models to understand the dynamics of the Earth's climate, starting with atmospheric models coupled to simple surface models (e.g., [171]-RRB-.

I explore ideas using hierarchies of idealized atmosphere - ocean models, ranging from simple mathematical descriptions to complex coupled numerical calculations.

A useful way of demonstrating that simplicity is to use a stripped down mathematical model that is complex enough to include some interesting physics, but simple enough so that you can just write down the answer.