Sentences with phrase «underlying physical understanding»

It is well known that curve fitting to a series of chaotic signals can lead to apparent periodicities, but that these have no value for prediction unless they are supported by an underlying physical understanding.

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Coloroso, Barbara THE BULLY, THE BULLIED AND THE BYSTANDER HarperCollins, 2003 A must - read for all parents concerned about their child's emotional and physical wellbeing, Barbara Coloroso gives the reader a clear understanding of the underlying dynamics between the bully, the bullied and the bystander.

As one can classify the shapes of objects based on the mathematical concept called topology, an exotic phase of quantum matter can be understood with underlying topology and symmetry in physical materials.

Metaphors, such as a «rough» day and a «warm» smile, reflect the «real underlying ties between physical experience and mental understanding,» Ackerman says.

The author offers a comprehensive account of his perspective on our understanding of the physical behavior of the universe and the mathematical theory that underlies it.

Two physicists at ETH Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a novel machine - learning algorithm that analyses large data sets describing a physical system and extract from them the essential information needed to understand the underlying physics.

It is important to reveal the origin of these high - energy cosmic neutrinos in order to better understand the underlying physical mechanisms that produce neutrinos and other extremely high - energy astroparticles and to enable the use of neutrinos as new probes of particle physics in the universe.»

Scientists need to understand their underlying chemical and physical mechanisms in order to better integrate them into climate change models.

They have developed methods to counter the spontaneous loss of magnetisation, based on their understanding of the underlying physical phenomenon.

«But if we don't understand the underlying physical basis for that behavior, it's difficult to say that willpower alone can solve it.»

He uses this background to predict new observational phenomena as well as to understand the key underlying physical mechanisms responsible for current observations.

Research at EMSL, located on the PNNL campus, focuses principally on developing a molecular - level understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that underlie the nations» most critical environmental and energy challenges.

Understanding the role of these underlying physical factors — dehydration and phase separation — could enable scientists to engineer improved plants and pretreatment processes and ultimately bring down the costs of biofuel production.

The integrative medical model of medicine understands that healing can occur on many levels (physical, emotional / feelings, mental / thoughts and beliefs, etc.) and disease and stress may be the result of underlying imbalances.

My research interests consist in understanding physical mechanisms underlying cloud responses to the global warming.

I have a hard time understanding how students in climatology could not wonder about the physical and statistical basis underlying these claims.

The most important one is an understanding of physical mechanisms underlying the empirical relationship.

It is not a prediction — independent of the underlying physical causes of Pacific climate variability, an understanding of the PDO and ENSO as behaving like a complex and dynamic system in chaos theory emerged from a 2007 study by Tsonis et al..

Physicists can contribute in significant ways to understanding the physical processes underlying climate and to developing technological options for addressing and mitigating climate change.

Anastassia Makarieva asserts: «To understand [our derivation] requires a deeper insight into the underlying physics mathematics, not merely manipulating with the continuity equations physical ideas.»

Links between interannual variability of extreme precipitation and temperatures offer possible observational constraints, especially since the underlying physical mechanisms are relatively well understood (e.g., O'Gorman and Schneider, 2009).

Incomplete understanding of three key properties of the climate system — equilibrium climate sensitivity, rate of ocean heat uptake and historical aerosol forcing — and their underlying physical processes lead to uncertainties in our assessment of the global - mean temperature evolution in the twenty - first century 1,2 6.

To get some appreciation for «stable» climate see Easterbrook» sSHORT - TERM WARM / COOL CYCLES FROM THE GREENLAND ICE CORE A scientific model may be effective in calculation without any understanding of the underlying physical cause.

Given the large uncertainty that remains about tipping elements, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms determining their behavior, so that policy makers are able «to avoid the unmanageable, and to manage the unavoidable» (112).

Eminent scientists who queried the IPCC line — which is based on models rather than clear understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms — and eminent economists and statisticians who argued that the case for net costs from any warming had never been demonstrated — were vilified.

The underlying physics of physical climate feedbacks are relatively well understood so they are comparatively well represented in models.

On the other hand, the climate researcher does not focus on forecasting but rather applies the scientific method to understanding the underlying physical processes and causes of climate variability.

To understand the underlying physical mechanisms by which solar variability affects climate, as well as to assess the relative strengths of solar variability versus greenhouse gases, requires computer models of Earth's climate system.

Understanding the underlying physical mechanism is indeed the key, I never disputed that.

I wholeheartedly agree that understanding the underlying physical mechanisms is key, and this seems to be missed by VS. I think the physics of the problem bounds the temperature to such a degree that it is not properly characterized as a stackable random component, though I'm not a statistician by any means.

He has worked tirelessly and effectively to broaden the understanding of what constitutes viable rural health services, shifting the debate from the conventional narrow focus on doctors and medical services, to one that also encompasses the innate structural factors that underlie health in rural areas, the impact of health workforce issues on access and equity, and the need for service provision models that provide safe and viable services that meet cultural, as well as physical needs.