Sentences with phrase «than computer simulations»

At least we can see in the Hansard, in the 1870s and 1960s, that debate about our relationship with the natural environment, based on the actual experience of actual people (rather than computer simulations) was allowed, was a response to people's actual needs, and was acted on.

This was 12 percent higher than the computer simulation results.

Not exact matches

We don't know much about the author other than he appears to have no professional financial background or qualifications, is well - qualified in computer science and claims experience in data science and simulation.

General Fusion's team of more than 50 scientists and engineers are world leaders in fusion technology, with expertise across plasma physics, computer simulation and engineering.

Computer simulations suggest that breaking waves of the size that occasionally strike this part of the world could pluck boulders weighing up to 100 tons out of fractured bedrock and carry them more than 100 meters inland, researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Getting that perfect windswept look takes more hours of computer simulation than you might expect.

Bob Wisnieff, the principal investigator of the IBM study, says their current simulation runs about «a billion times slower» than the theoretical estimates for an actual 56 - qubit quantum computer.

Still an active researcher focused on computer simulations of solar system dynamics, Grazier told Discover Associate Editor Gemma Tarlach that Hollywood is less a shark tank than a sandbox full of smart kids.

For years, computer simulations of cosmic evolution have predicted that the universe should contain far more small galaxies than are actually seen.

«Previously, there wasn't enough computer power to do these kinds of time - accurate simulations in large computational domains, but with the power of high - performance computing [HPC] and Titan, we are achieving more than was previously thought possible.»

That's one of the conclusions of a recent computer simulation effort that investigated the fatality risks of more than a million possible asteroid impacts.

In a way, it is like answering questions about airplane design by studying a model airplane in a wind tunnel — solving problems with a physical simulation rather than a digital computer.

However, these computer simulations produced the same pattern of data that is usually interpreted as showing optimism bias, due to the fact that belief scores changed more in response to good than bad news.

Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.

The pairing of code and computer gave Robertson and Schneider the tools needed to produce high - fidelity simulations of gas clouds measuring more than 15 light years in diameter.

«First, computer simulation will be available as a research tool for a much larger community of researchers than is currently possible.

Simulations show that placing one honeypot among every 250 computers in a network produces such a quick reaction that no virus can infect more than 1 percent of them.

The new computer simulations show that the frictional heat is transferred very efficiently to the water circulating through the core, heating it to more than 90 degrees Celsius.

«My collaborator, Steffan Glaser, has been in this field of NMR spectroscopy for more than 20 years, and he is confident that if the quantum pulses perform well in computer simulations, they may perform the same in experimental systems.»

Mission scientists used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show that the surface of Sputnik Planum is covered with icy, churning, convective «cells» 10 - 30 miles across, and less than a million years old.

They tested over 100 polystyrene films of different structure, thickness and at different temperatures, which took over six months, and the computer simulation cooling rate was many orders faster than in experiments.

These computer simulations of a spiral galaxy show that the proposed High Definition Space Telescope would provide sharper images of distant objects than the existing Hubble telescope (left).

Now, they have shown via computer simulation that, given more than a billion years, Martian winds were capable of digging up tens of thousands of cubic kilometers of sediment from the crater — largely thanks to turbulence, the swirling motion within the wind stream.

Given the rapid technological advances we've witnessed over past decades — your cell phone has more processing power than NASA's computers had during the moon landings — it's not a huge leap to imagine that such simulations will eventually encompass intelligent life.

The team's computer simulation of the glacierlike flow within each mass suggests that the surface ice moves horizontally at no more than a few centimeters each year, which nevertheless is quick enough to totally resurface each polygonal cell every 500,000 years or so.

In a computer simulation of human behaviour in the layouts exited most swiftly by ants — those with exits in corners rather than in the middle of walls, for example — evacuation times were reduced by up to 160 per cent (Transportation Research C, doi.org/mk8).

But in an age where many films owe more to CGI wizardry than sharp camera work, requests for realistic simulations of melting, freezing, crystal growth and so on come up «more often than you might at first expect», says Christopher Batty, who researches computer graphics at Columbia University in New York City.

To find out what makes imprisonment more transmissible among blacks than whites, Lum and her colleagues turned to the world of infectious disease, repurposing a computer simulation used in epidemiology to predict how an epidemic of imprisonment might develop.

Now that the weapon design teams will be restricted to computer simulation and to above - ground experimentation, it will be harder than ever to convince bright young engineers, chemists and physicists to enter the nuclear weapons business.

In a computer simulation that includes detailed interactions between wind and sea, thick ice — more than 6 feet deep — increased by about 1 percent per year from 1979 to 2010, while the amount of thin ice stayed fairly constant.

Good computer simulations recognize that the losing side may choose to break off battle rather than be annihilated.

Now a team led by Takashi Hosokawa at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has used computer simulations to show the gas clouds from which the stars formed would have been much hotter than thought.

Computer simulations show that planets similar to or larger in mass than the Earth that are born with thick envelopes of hydrogen and helium are likely to retain their stifling atmospheres.

Using computer simulations called molecular docking, team members screened more than 3 million molecules to find some 2,500 that fit the mu receptor like a perfectly cut key in a lock.

The computer simulation showed that the dead galaxies remained stable because they had 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, providing more evidence of dark matter's importance in the universe.

By enabling researchers to test these ideas through statistical analysis, computer modeling and simulation — which are faster and more cost - effective than experimental testing — the institute will accelerate the development of biomedical knowledge and, in the long run, transform the practice of medicine.

To test the idea of delaying resistance with sterile insect releases, the researchers conducted computer simulations and analyzed more than a decade of field data from before and after deployment of this strategy statewide in Arizona.

Why It Matters: The ability to examine strokes and other biological processes, through the use of computer simulations rather than after the fact on actual organisms, may significantly accelerate how quickly discoveries can be made in fighting diseases.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than any known substance.

«The computers have gotten ever more powerful, so we can do more simulations faster than ever,» Brown explained in his email.

The computer simulations revealed that supermassive black holes can form much faster than previously believed if their growth is fed by cold and dense accretion streams.

That fact, combined with computer simulations, led the scientists to conclude that the dust particles in the disk are kept within the disk by the gravitational effect of two planets — one closer to the star than the disk and one more distant.

U.S. Students Know What, But Not Why Science Insider, June 19, 2012 «The computer simulations offer NAEP a much better way to measure skills used by real scientists than do multiple - choice questions, says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Rather than having to run through a training simulation on paper or a computer, these simulations can be run in a Virtual Reality space.

In another study 2, it was found that computer based simulations elicit better learner performance and knowledge retention than non-simulation instruction.

But, climate simulation with these models requires much more computer resources than currently available.

The time average makes sense only if you are sure to have caught all variability time - scale in the average (i.e., that they are all smaller than 30 years, say)-- I've never seen clearly where this assumption comes from, apart from computer simulations, which are NOT reliable for this kind of physics.

Simply put, the computer simulations programmed by CAGW alarmists produced virtual global warming 8 times greater than climate reality.

It might be very useful to run a computer model simulation in which the ENSO is constrained to follow its known historical behavior, so we can see how it might have affected actual history rather than a gereric «earth system.»

The process of evaporation, one of the most widespread on our planet, takes place differently than we once thought — this has been shown by new computer simulations carried out at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.