Sentences with phrase «theoretical models work»

That data will help the team determine if its theoretical models work in real life.

New theoretical modeling work from Andrew Wetzel, who holds a joint fellowship between Carnegie and Caltech, offers the most accurate predictions to date about the dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's neighborhood.

Not exact matches

Past experiments at CERN and elsewhere (but using lower energies) together with theoretical work linking the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces led to the «Standard Model» of particle physics, formulated in the 1970s.

In fact, there is a dynamic interplay between experimental and observational data and theoretical work, the latter involving mathematical modelling using advanced algebraic and computational techniques.

Working in the boundaries of Einstein's relativity, theoretical physicists have recently put forward the Conformal cyclic cosmological model that demonstrates how the end of one universe becomes the Big Bang of the next in an endless cycle.

Now we are working to achieve 20 percent oil — the theoretical limit, according to our computer models — and targeting this oil accumulation to the stem of the plant, where it is more accessible than in the leaves.

When Douglas MacMartin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena approached the National Science Foundation for support on a modeling effort on [albedo modification], officials told him the work was too theoretical for the engineering division and too applied for the atmospheric science program.

In recent years, scientists — often working on their own time — have published hundreds of theoretical or modeling papers on sun - blocking or carbon removal.

«I came to Berkeley Lab 21 years ago to work on supernova radiative - transfer modeling and now for the first time we've used these theoretical models to prove that we can do cosmology better,» says Nugent.

But Ángel Rubio believes these applications are a long way off because he sees limitations in the design of the observers: «We have worked from a theoretical perspective in which we have proposed a simple model and the theory can be easily verified because all the energy and entropy flows are preserved.

And while Ellner's work has not touched on variability in human success, «for birds and shrubs, and in the theoretical models we've looked at, the answer is, it's best to be above average and be lucky.»

«I decided to calculate a bunch of theoretical stellar models, looking to see what range of forces gave me working stars,» Adams continues.

How it works: The program matches theoretical projections to real data and creates model universes.

Ormerod surveys some of the key works that have outlined the limitations of the competitive model at a theoretical level.

«My work is looking at developing theoretical models to explain trailing - edge noise.»

And finally, after decades of work developing theoretical models and computer simulation techniques, along with laboratory experiments to reproduce new molecules, astrochemists are putting names to many of those unidentified lines.

Basing their work on the theoretical modeling, the chemists studied the bonds using nuclear magnetic resonance, which makes it possible to visualise the molecules and the transformations in their structure.

The famously incomprehensible Onsager, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for earlier work but also lost two faculty jobs, showed that the 2D Ising model does have a phase transition — the first seen in a theoretical model.

«We are working on similar principles,» he says, using particle image flow cytometry and high - speed cameras to try to reverse engineer a theoretical model.

Their work provides the first experimental verification of the theoretical model of DNA origami.

The Fermi - Hubbard model was developed by Philip Anderson, Princeton's Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his work on theoretical investigations of electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.

Using a combination of careful anatomy, light measurements, and theoretical modelling, it was found that the mantis shrimp polarizers work by manipulating light across the structure rather than through its depth, which is how typical polarizers work.

They've been working on their theoretical model of graphene, on and off, ever since.

The yellow and pink areas in these images show wind moving away from the radar; green shows wind moving toward it The really original thing here, says Straka, is that we were able to get that close to a tornado and see that all the theoretical models that we've developed over the past 20 years really do work.

The theoretical work, led by Fabris, allowed the researchers to develop a «system model» on the computer able predict the behaviour of the material.

The Carnegie Mellon University researchers, who have worked with Goldman on relating the locomotion of other animals to robots, demonstrated that theoretical models developed to describe the complex motion of robots can also be used to understand locomotion in the natural world.

Working with Neil Burgess, he has used computational models of the cognitive map to generate theoretical predictions of hippocampal function.

She uses a new ultra-fast microscopy technique to record the activity in the whole fly brain and works closely with theoretical neuroscientists to analyze the data and model network activity.

Henn's work will therefore initially focus on the mathematical structure of theoretical models and their simplification.

The mission of this program is to develop theoretical models that draw upon and advance KICPs experimental work.

When studies have a cross-disciplinary nature, such as modeling, novel methods, or theory applied to a biophysical research problem, authors are encouraged to suggest potential referees with the requisite expertise to assess both the technical / theoretical merits and the significance of potential applications of the work.

He has worked on a range of topics in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, focusing recently on modeling the formation of the first stars and supermassive black holes within the first billion years after the Big Bang.

AA: Continuing on Terry's earlier thread, in 2004, David Goldberg, a student in my lab did some theoretical work to model information transmission in a spiking axon, the canonical structure in the brain through which neurons communicate with each other over long distance.

Theoretical and empirical work on relationships between teachers and children relies on developmental systems theory as the foundational conceptual model, drawing heavily from basic work in

The primary requirements of the work are (a) professional competence in applying the theoretical foundations of computer science, including computer system architecture and system software organization, the representation and transformation of information structures, and the theoretical models for such representations and transformations; (b) specialized knowledge of the design characteristics, limitations, and potential applications of systems having the ability to transform information, and of broad areas of applications of computing which have common structures, processes, and techniques; and (c) knowledge of relevant mathematical and statistical sciences.

Unfortunately, Fed governors generally believe in their own power not because they actually understand that «power» as insiders, but because as outsiders, they worked on theoretical models of «economies» where the links between Fed actions and market interest rates, bank lending, and overall GDP could simply be assumed by writing down one or more algebraic equations.

If Shiller's theoretical model for understanding how stock investing works is on the mark, there never will be one.

On Weaving offers a model for how to write in a way that incorporates theoretical examination alongside practical content; in it Anni Albers provides valuable — and often overlooked — thoughts on art and creative work.

Building on recent theoretical and modeling work, Oliver et al. lay out a mechanism that could explain the observed cooling.

However, Svensmark and colleagues, not wanting to wait for the credible quantitative results to come in, instead short circuited all of that tedious follow - up work, scaling up to realistic conditions, theoretical and modelling studies demonstrating that their effect was indeed viable, and simply declared in their press materials that the team had «discovered that cosmic rays play a big part in the everyday weather» and «brings to a climax a scientific quest that has lasted two centuries».

However, the magnitude of the correlation can not yet be explained in terms of our basic theoretical understanding, and is significantly stronger than some modelling work has suggested it should be.

You didn't need to understand the physics of how a theoretical climate model works to understand the picture that our hockey stick was telling about the unprecedented nature of climate change; it represented a potent icon and it was attacked.

This work integrates laboratory experiments, field observations, and spatially explicit modeling to explore theoretical mechanisms of disease - induced extinction and the influence of fishing on the spread of disease.

The department carries out research in both dynamical and physical meteorology with a broad range of topics covering field work, lab work, theoretical and numerical modelling and has about eight or nine NERC studentships available each year.

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/787family/programfacts.html I think that makes David Young 2 % correct: — RRB - More generally, of course any strong scientific research program is going to combine observational analysis with theoretical / modelling work.

«how it is supposed to work» = according to non-real-world theoretical models that say CO2 molecules that are spaced together 1/20, 000 ths more closely today than they were in 1990 function just like a blanket draped over the ocean waters, and this CO2 blanket determines the net heat changes in the depths of the ocean more so than variations in direct shortwave radiation absorption does.

While the theory gets the sign right, the mismatch in the magnitude of the effect means that the existing theory does not provide a satisfactory explanation and there is still much theoretical / modeling work to be done to explain the observed relationship.

The results, to be published next year, will validate what has already been learned about cool roofs through theoretical and modeling work and will also provide important guidance to policymakers and planners as they decide where cool roofs would be most strategically deployed.

Her work includes computer simulation modeling of vegetation dynamics coupled to atmospheric general circiulation models (GCMs), occasional fieldwork, and theoretical studies on the thermodynamic efficiency of photon energy use in photosynthesis.

We hope the website will illuminate the challenge of integrating theoretical models and the practical advantages of doing so, aware that all who review our work can not fail to be impressed with how much there is still to discover and understand.