Sentences with phrase «sized scale model»

The museum itself was founded in 1972, and has among its permanent exhibitions, the Panorama of the City of New York, a room - sized scale model of the five boroughs originally built for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and repeatedly updated since then.

As part of its inaugural exhibition B.OPEN, American artist Chris Burden created a one - twentieth - size scale model of the Tyne Bridge in meccano.

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They seem pretty adamant about the level of Lego experience required: «Must have LEGO building experience and be able to design and build sturdy, accurate, complicated, safe and installable LEGO models for a wide variety of LEGOLAND attractions including miniature scale models and / or life sized organic models from prototypes.»

In an hour the tests were substantially over; and, scaling the results from model size to boat size, allowing 28 % power loss for propeller inefficiency, 20 % more for drag from things like rudders and rough paint and 2 % more to make up for the slight downward slant of the propeller shaft, everyone agreed that Mr. Metcalf would indeed have to buy two diesels of 275 hp if he wanted to cruise at 12 knots.

Take in a special planetarium show, explore sun - moon - earth relationships, manipulate models of scale, size, and movement, and build tools to safely view the eclipse.

The Nutritional State - structured Model (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resouModel (NSM) by ecologist Justin Yeakel (UC Merced), biologist Chris Kempes (Santa Fe Institute), and physicist Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) incorporates body size and metabolic scaling into an extinction model where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resoumodel where «hungry» or «full» animals, great and small, interact and procreate on a landscape with limited resources.

«Unlike many previous forager models, this one accounts for body size and metabolic scaling,» Kempes explains.

Since none of the participants in the [Manhattan Project] had ever experienced an explosion of the anticipated size of Trinity (radically underestimated in advance as the equivalent of four thousand to five thousand tons of TNT), Kenneth Bainbridge, to whom [J. Robert] Oppenheimer had delegated the testing procedure, opted to conduct a scale model of the forthcoming atomic test by detonating one hundred tons of TNT off a thirty - eight - foot - high tower....

This strategy, also known as «procedural modeling,» enables data from different size scales and formats to be integrated into one multi-scale model, building it from the bottom - up and top - down simultaneously, rather than starting with discrete data sets that each describe only one aspect of the model and trying to reconcile them.

A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented.

Scale models are built and collected for many reasons including, in engineering, for testing the likely performance of a design object at an early stage without the expense of building a full - sized prototype; in remote control vehicles; and on TV and in the movie industry, for constructing objects or sets that can not be built in full size.

The new computer models and the vast amount of data enabled the team to study the correlation between how quickly new species form and how rapidly they evolve new body sizes on a scale that had not previously been possible.

In the Coast Guard's spring tests, small - scale models navigated an ice sheet as long as one - and - a-half Olympic - sized swimming pools at the National Research Council's ice - tank test facility in Newfoundland to measure various designs» resistance, power and maneuverability (shown below).

The new model, which is a scaled - down version of an earlier numerical model by Shaqfeh and colleagues that provided the first large - scale, quantitative explanation of the formation of the layer, can predict how blood cells with varying shapes, sizes, and properties — including the crescent - shaped cells that are the hallmark of sickle cell anemia — will influence blood flow.

Though they found a few elements of the fossilized skull, the researchers chose to model the skull after a few well - preserved skulls of smaller animals related to titanosaurs, and «scaled it up to the size that this animal would be,» Norell said.

Instead of starting with a full sized model of the turbine, the team built smaller scale versions of the turbines, of which Larry Page stressed that they needed to crash «at least five» to speed up the learning curve.

We use the zebrafish model to study β - cell development due to the small size and optical transparency of its embryos / larvae, as well as the ease of the genetic and chemical - genetic manipulations, including the ability to conduct large - scale small molecule screens.

In this 50 - minute videoconference program, students are given a brief introduction to the UT McDonald Observatory, build a scale model of the Milky Way galaxy, complete a student sheet that explores the relative size and distribution of bright stars in our galaxy and between galaxies themselves.

Students create scale models of microorganisms, compare their relative sizes, and find that microbes come in many different sizes and shapes.

i know it's not easy, but if more brands would hire multiple fit models, they could scale their sizing up or down to fit a broader range of people, so that everyone can enjoy the same garments instead of being relegated to only one section of a shop.

Their attempt to 3D design and print a 100 - percent - scale working model proved too difficult to size properly, so they moved on to cardboard.

In this lesson, students will learn to make and interpret scale models and practice using the metric system for measurement by discovering the relative sizes of various large plants and animals.

We conducted a regression of the Principal Instructional Leadership measure on the principals «responses to items in the District Focus on Instruction scale, including building characteristics (size and level), student characteristics (% minority and % FRP) as control variables in the model.

The plan received significant backlash and has since been modified to include all kinds of successful models, including traditional district schools, but the early draft raised an interesting question: Could charter schools be scaled to size to overtake district schools?

Once the design is chosen, a 1 / 3rd scale model is created, with a full - sized clay model following right after.

Despite the size increase, Audi claims that the new car has maintained its weight (although the company is not yet publishing final figures for the U.S. - spec model); if so, then the A8, tipping the scales at some 4400 pounds, will keep its position as the trimmest entry in the all - wheel - drive, ultra-luxe sedan class.

A full - sized wooden styling buck, made by coachbuilder Scaglietti for low production racing variants of the Dino, also features - as do two modern wind - tunnel scale models from Ferrari's more recent past.

The initial C2 design study reaches full - size 1:1 scale with a clay model in 1956 under the direction of GM design chief Harley Earl and is developed into a production version under subsequent GM design chief Bill Mitchell.

The Tamiya Bruiser is a 1:10 scale model based on an earlier design of the Hilux and weighs just 7 pounds, but its 4 × 4 capability proved size is no obstacle for tough tasks.

For the eighth generation of the Accord released for the North America market in 2007, Honda had again chosen to move the model further up - scale and increase its size.

Pricing is scaled to reflect the different sizes, with the 10.1 - inch model being most expensive at $ 349 while the 8 - inch and 7 - inch models will set you back $ 269 and $ 199 respectively.

When asked to imagine themselves roaming the model rooms as if sized to fit the different scales, the subjects of the experiment experienced time much faster as the size grew smaller, until at 1 / 24th scale the subjects believed 30 minutes had passed after only 2.5 minutes.

Purpura goes on to talk about a psychological experiment done with scale - model rooms, from full size scale to models 1/6 or 1/12 or 1 / 24th that size.

We will also be lucky enough to have 9 full - scale Vision GT Cars and 2 1/4 size models present at the event, which is a world first!

Players can experience their dream vehicles in AR in life - size or model scale, and place their car virtually in real - world environments.

I made the models to scale before they were cast in bronze — it was very important for me to see them actual size, rather than making them smaller and then having them enlarged.

Painted so the models appear in life - sized scale instead of magazine scale, Fersini's work comes to subtly reflect its viewer.»

Gough intends to create a room filled with architectural models, after encouraging architects to enter three - dimensional works of all sizes and scales into the annual open call.

Disassembling the model, it was scanned and scaled to actual room size.

Since then, Ms. Lou has beaded structures including a full - scale model of a flower - filled suburban backyard, a 1949 Spartan Mobile Mansion trailer, a chain - link enclosure topped with barbed wire, a life - size reproduction of a cinder block prison cell and two versions of a mile - long coiled rope.

With drawings, paintings, photographs, scale models and a full - size camper sculpture towed by a three - speed bicycle, Cyr explores what it means to be autonomous or an adventurer.

It moves from a set of Symbolist graphite drawings from the 1940's, to some Abstract Expressionistic paintings from the 1950's, to four of the giant - scale Minimalist works for which Bladen is best known, to a selection of pedestal - size geometric models from the 1970's and 80's.

Passage spans the last 10 years of Suh's career and will bring together a number of his most iconic installations for the first time, from his signature fabric architectures, room - sized rubbings and appliance - sized lightboxes to thread drawings, works on paper, scale models, video installations and multimedia documents of his public works.

This exhibition spans the entirety of the artist's career and features more than fifty large - scale paintings — many of them mural size — in addition to architectural models, and video interviews.

The length scales that are resolved in these models is typically on the order of 100s of kilometers (i.e. features that size or smaller are not directly resolved).

Or perhaps the theory only really applies at scales much smaller than the model grid size.

However, some processes occur at scales too small to be captured at the grid - size available in these (necessarily global) models.

«There is some indication from modeling studies that the size of the dangerous inner core scales with the potential intensity divided by the Coriolis parameter».

When GCMs are used to model atmospheric conditions and spatial grid size is reduced is there a scale at which chaotic conditions prevail and make modeling difficult in the same way that weather is harder to model than climate?

Are there «typical» control volume sizes and / or time step scales used in the climate models?