Sentences with phrase «useful model system»

TOKYO — One of science's favorite lab animals, the mouse, is about to become an even more useful model system.

Not exact matches

While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

The Felder - Silverman model of learning styles is based on Myers - Briggs terminology; the site is quite academic and detailed, but has a useful questionnaire to help determine likely styles in this system.

Kristen Rasmussen, who studies flash flooding at the University of Washington in Seattle, says it would be really useful to combine the drone system with existing models that take account of terrain and how the water moves.

Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modelling of many natural systems in physics, chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of those systems.

«It's useful in modeling concepts in neuroscience to have a system that will yield a diverse range of behaviors for small changes of a control parameter, as this may help offer some insights about how the same neural tissue displays different responses,» Alonso said, whose research was funded by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Foundation.

Although useful for making short - term predictions, these models provide little insight into how the higher education system evolves in response to external changes.

The objective of these models would not be to provide a precise forecast of the future (an impossible task), but rather to capture enough of the behavior of the educational system to make useful qualitative predictions.

One particularly useful way to tap their knowledge would be to commission economics - based models of the higher education system with the goal of letting policy - makers examine the effects of funding and policy changes via simulation.

However, he added, the patient - derived iPSCs are highly useful as a model cell system for investigating blood disorders.

He says that besides establishing he shape of known molecules, the system can model the electron clouds of imaginary molecules, which could be very useful in drug research.

«These simple model systems can be useful for identifying new drug combinations that act in the context of the whole body.

Modeling is a useful tool for making predictions about how various biological systems will function over time, Wolz said.

Network models of financial systems are useful for understanding the inter-connectedness of banks and the fragility of the banking system...

The disease progressed very gradually, just as it does in humans, suggesting that the hamsters could provide a useful animal model system.

Predicting these systems through computational models based on data is a powerful tool useful for basic research as well as for commercial biotechnology (such as producing nutraceuticals and biopharmaceuticals).

«Simple models are extremely useful, because analyses and understanding the causes and effects involved is much easier when systems contain few variables,» De Decker added.

When the ACS implemented its model for measuring surgical outcomes in adult surgery in 2004, it quickly became clear that, while that system would be useful in an adult setting, it couldn't be used by pediatric surgeons.

However, hiPS cell - derived hepatocytes are only useful as an in vitro model system and for gene editing applications if they recapitulate critical hepatocyte functions.

We hope that the easy availability of these large datasets will be useful to many yeast (and non-yeast) researchers, and as the authors say, will help to «guide future population genomics and genotype — phenotype studies in this classic model system.»

HIP 64892 is a rare example of an extreme - mass ratio system ($ q \ sim0.01 $) and will be useful for testing models relating to the formation and evolution of such low - mass objects.

Development of a comprehensive system which can enrich hPSC - CMs will be ultimately useful for cell therapy for diseased hearts, human cardiac disease modeling, cardiac toxicity screening, and cardiac tissue engineering.

We present a study of the planetary systems WASP - 45 and WASP - 46, both composed of a main - sequence star and a close - in ho... ▽ More Accurate measurements of the physical characteristics of a large number of exoplanets are useful to strongly constrain theoretical models of planet formation and evolution, which lead to the large variety of exoplanets and planetary - system configurations that have been observed.

Fulton's approach is a useful example because she has focused on creating a teacher evaluation system that models the structures and processes that comprise «best practices» for student evaluations.

Second, proportional growth measures provide useful system - wide instructional signals and allow underperforming schools to seek out high - performing model schools working in similar educational contexts.

Hence, our policy recommendation is that results from a fully - controlled proportional growth model be reported alongside performance against proficiency targets so that no useful information is lost in the accountability system.

The current model of inspection has reached the end of its useful life and now holds the education system back.

Although this system is useful for managing classes, it has serious implications for students who don't fit the model.

In this instance, Ripley uses Poland as a useful model for what the United States» system could and should be.

Dynamic Stability Control, the multi-faceted system that helps stabilize all current BMW models under a wide variety of driving conditions, incorporates many other useful functions — some exclusive to AWD models such as the X5 M and X6 M.

Bottom line, the Toyota Sienna continues this legacy of safety, quality and value in 2017 models with the Toyota Star Safety System and cool, useful features like Driver Easy Speak, which projects the driver's voice to the rear speakers in the back rows.

The more upscale Equus Ultimate model adds in a useful head - up display, dual rear entertainment screens, and an all - glass cockpit display system.

The navigation system maintains a set of locally stored maps, with all the topographic detail and 3D rendered buildings of other Audi models» navigation, useful for people who don't care for the satellite look or who don't want to use a phone's data plan.

It's a feature - packed system, incorporating Apple CarPlay and Android Auto along with the DAB radio that all Golf models enjoy, but also with the ability to be controlled via a smartphone app — useful if you're in the back seat and can't reach the controls on the unit.

Sure, the A5 Cabriolet has the best - looking maps amongst competitive models, and we really like the route guidance, but the navigation system is lacking in some useful features, such as external data sources other than traffic.

Shulk: Only useful in a port of his obscure game on a new model of a system.

«GSSL, GOHC and GOFC derived from in situ observations are a useful benchmark for ocean and climate models and an important diagnostic for changes in the Earth's climate system (Hansen et al., 2005; Levitus et al., 2005).

This describes an improvement on an old method for solving systems of equations which may be useful in computation fluid mechanics, and climate models, according to the paper.

In a non-linear climate system, it would indeed be fortuitious if these compensating errors made the models more useful for projecting out 100 years.

We have learned important lessons about building a sustainable food system, but are adding further capabilities to the model to make it more useful.

ERA - 15 would be useful in assessing observing system variability and the benefits of observation data set «cleansing» / improvement that were brought about from the initial comparisons of older obs to modern models in the pioneering reanalyses (NCEP / NCAR I NCEP / DOE II and ERA - 15).

On a similar & related note, I wonder if anyone has considered a convolutional model to describe the relationship between forcings & outputs & if that is a useful model to describe the climate system.

This is just a modeling exercise, it tells us what's theoretically possible (getting to a useful forecast system requires another step).

Regulatory model evaluation must consider how accurately a particular model application represents the system of interest while being reproducible, transparent, and useful for the regulatory decision at hand.

... Models of our complex and chaotic climate system simply don't make useful predictions after a few days» time.

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.»

Del Genio sums it up: «What we at GISS bring to this effort is not only a useful tool — our global climate model and many of the people who develop it — but also a scientific perspective grounded in many years of thinking about Earth's climate and Solar System climates that we hope will complement the different perspectives of the other NExSS teams.»

As we know for complex systems it's a general truth that no model is right but some models are useful.

Mostly I instinctively agree with kai that the «forcing - feedback - sensitivity model is not so useful for the climate system».