Sentences with phrase «test predictions»

Studies of atomic quantum states in free - fall conditions may provide ways to test predictions of general relativity.

How are you going to test that prediction about dinosaur reproduction?

There are a number of ways you can test a prediction against data.

Students make a prediction about how 100 pennies will sort by decade or year and then test their predictions.

But up until now it has been difficult to determine the positions of active star forming galaxies with enough precision to actually test this prediction.

The researchers are using these areas of extremely strong fields as it enables them to better test their predictions.

Why test predictions, if Scientists ™ are 100 % accurate?

As new information is incorporated, such simulations should become more accurate and could be used to run virtual experiments and test predictions about brain function.

Larzelere's team tested this prediction by re-analyzing data from an older study that reported correlations between spanking and antisocial behavior.

Predictions can be made based on the Law of Gravity and then testing the prediction with actual data.

After developing the computational algorithms that predicted the historical order in which the senses of a word have emerged, the team tested these predictions against records of English over the past millennium using the Historical Thesaurus of English, a large database in which each of a word's many senses is marked for its date of emergence into the language.

(80 is chosen because we have about 100 years of temperature record, and we have to at least test a prediction on 1966 - 1988 in order to test a model which will be used to predict 1988 to 2010).

The researchers also tested their prediction models on the validation set, and this resulted in ROC (receiver operating characteristic) plot points with an AUC (area under the curve) of 91.6 percent for general responsiveness, 89.7 percent for TNFi response and 85.7 percent for rituximab response.

In this scheme, the experimental data provide a neutral and impartial court of appeal for testing predictions deduced from alternative theories.

It doesn't care what people think, what a priori bias existed, it just tests predictions and determines which are valid.

This study by Andy Roark and colleagues tested predictions that the supercontinent Pangea underwent strong monsoons, or massive seasonal changes in wind direction, during times of high sea level (i.e., interglacial) by analyzing the chemistry of fossil brachiopod shells.

Dr Higginson tested this prediction by collecting data on the declines of birds and bees over the 20th Century, their body size, and when and where they nest.

With such a powerful dataset and toolkit, we anticipate testing the predictions of biodiversity hotspots from stochastic modelling [28]--[31], as well as mapping functional gene ecology and activities throughout the world's oceans.

Finally, they present the results of a carefully designed experiment to rigorously test their predictions.

As a first step towards testing these predictions, we analyze existing activity data from selectively bred lines of mice that differ in both daily activity and aerobic scope.

Causal attributions (i.e., locus, stability, globality) and responsibility attributions (i.e., bad intent, selfish motivation, blame) were assessed in the spouses of 27 depressed psychiatric inpatients and 30 nondepressed dyads to test predictions derived from Hooley's (1987) «symptom - controllability» model of marital distress.

Coin Count & Classification On Lincoln's birthday, make, test a prediction about how 100 pennies will sort by decade or year.

«Beginning with Drosophila allows us to test our predictions in live animals, the only way to experimentally validate our computational methods,» he added.

Granted, such a prediction would be entirely pinned on the assumptions of mean reversion (to 6 % growth p / a, and to a CAPE of 15), but it might provide an alternative (or at least discussion worthy) means of testing the predictions of the model.

Model simulations can always be improved by testing predictions against field data collected from different ecosystems, and Sulman and Phillips are doing just that: investigating how roots influence soil decomposition and protected forms of carbon in forests that vary in the composition of tree and microbial communities.

«We have found an implementation of the system that allows us to go in the lab and actually test the predictions of the Dicke model, and some extensions of it as well, in a system that is not nearly as complicated as people always thought it has to be for the Dicke physics,» Engels said.

Nevertheless, studies have been published that conducted multivariate analysis to test a prediction model for delinquent behavior.

The researchers are looking forward to testing their predictions with real data from Jupiter, and they won't have to wait long: NASA's Juno space probe is orbiting Jupiter right now, collecting data about its atmosphere, magnetic field and interior.

Larzelere's team tested this prediction by re-analyzing data from an older study that reported correlations between spanking and antisocial behavior.

The artistic record offers an unusual chance to test these predictions on extant species at shorter timescales.

introduce your child to basic elements of scientific reasoning (seeking evidence; testing predictions)

To test this prediction, Youngsteadt went to 20 sites where historical specimens were collected from 1970 to 1997 and sampled their modern scale insect populations.

To test their prediction, the team studied how two different memories with overlapping associative features are coded by neuron groups in the mPFC of rat brains, and how these codes change over time.

Although these data are limited to a single campus, Panger believes that some of the findings would be replicated if the survey were conducted elsewhere — and he hopes others will test that prediction by implementing the survey at their own campuses.

To test predictions about resistance, Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carriere in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences analyzed the global data on Bt crop use and pest responses.

Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carrière in the department of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Brévault from the Center for Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) in France scrutinized the available field and laboratory data to test predictions about resistance.