Sentences with phrase «useful models for»

It's also what makes them useful models for human disease,» she said.

Physiological similarities between dogs and humans, and conserved genetics between some dog and human cancers, can allow pet dogs to serve as useful models for studying new cancer drugs, he said.

Pigs are useful models for studies relevant to human health because they have some of the same nutrient and metabolic requirements as humans, Mudd said.

But Franklin and others suspect that in their zeal to clean up, facilities may have wiped out some of the microbial complexity that makes mice useful models for human disease.

One of the most useful models for evaluating the personal effects of religious television programs is found in Television and Human Behavior by George Comstock and his associates.

This is a very useful model for understanding where business education can & should go to properly support entrepreneurship!

Podemos, minus the Marxist language and with its most radical policies toned down for a centre - left Labour Party, may actually be a useful model for Labour.

Whales and dolphins could provide a useful model for research into such impacts, largely because their sounds are relatively easy to study: They are among the loudest noises any animal has ever made, reaching as much as 188 decibels in the blue whale.

For this study, the team of researchers used the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster — a particular useful model for biomedical research.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

A useful model for answering that question is the Frizzled6 mouse, a mutant breed born with permanently messy hair.

These data suggest that increased inhibitory synaptic transmission may contribute to human ASDs and that the R451C knockin mice may be a useful model for studying autism - related behaviors.

Patients with Diamond - Blackfan anemia (DBA)-- an inherited disorder which disrupts the development of red cells in affected patients, but which does not affect the development of other blood cell types — offer researchers a particularly useful model for the study of these proteins.

The mammalian skull is a useful model for tackling these questions as it is a simple sheet - shaped tissue that expands, and like many tissues, does so anistropically.

Animals provide a useful model for diseases found in both humans and other animals.

It's this that makes sheep a useful model for studying brain diseases such as Huntington's disease and Batten disease that affect the basal ganglia and cerebral cortex.

Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, a nematode parasite of rodents, has a parasitic life cycle that is an extremely useful model for the study of human hookworm infection, particularly in regards to the induced immune response.

Treatment of C3H mice with ceftriaxone is a useful model for investigation of post-treatment persistence of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi.

Mice are a useful model for studying how the human body functions due to the fact that there are various important physiological and biological similarities that mice and humans share.

The content list is broad enough to accommodate teachers» judgment and creativity, and is a good and potentially useful model for basic content standards in other Coalition schools.

The political strategy adopted by Uber provides a useful model for ed reformers.

The initiative provides a useful model for how researchers and administrators can work together to design, test, and refine low - stakes measures of student mindsets, using them to provide struggling schools with additional resources instead of sanctions.

Many teachers use this approach implicitly, and we think it is a useful model for early reading assessment.

Pounder et al. test a model of the influence of principals, teachers, parents, and secretaries on a number of mediating variables, as well as a range of school outcomes, providing a useful model for our approach a decade later.

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

This is a useful model for any writer in self - evaluation and gauging a way forward.

Russeth writes that the show «is joyous and illuminating, filled with rarely seen pictures that elegantly make the case that [Stettheimer] is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and could serve as a useful model for those of the 21st.»

The measures taken by Tokyo, one of the world's largest cities, to secure the health and safety of its citizens could become a useful model for other Asian countries.

When I first saw it I thought that this would be a useful model for other publishers to use, not only because it covers OUP content, but because it also indexes the content of 14 other academic presses now hosted by OUP via University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO)[1].

His point is that whether it's applicable or not the 6 D's framework «provides a useful model for imagining the kinds of changes that could take place in our industry...»

The Committee considered that the Canadian Aboriginal Healing Foundation may provide a useful model for the establishment of that Fund.

Not exact matches

Blank suggests a number of other start - up metrics are useful for tracking how well the company's proposed business model is holding up.

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.

Researchers have found that the Pareto distribution is a useful tool for modeling incomes above a certain (high) threshold.

The most useful mental models and rules of thumb, in other words, are often dead simple, which is why an interview Adam Bryant of The New York Times did with Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston earlier this year is so helpful (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).

And it may get even more useful for them after Apple's expected unveiling of its latest watch model, the Series 3, on Tuesday.

It might take a bit to get used to, but it should be useful for those who use an iPhone Plus model, which can be unwieldy for those without huge hands.

«Nowcasting models are useful for summarizing large amounts of high - frequency data,» Ménard said.

[For mathematically inclined clients, a simplistic, but useful way to see this is to examine the dividend discount model: Price = Dividend / (k - g) where g is the long - term growth rate of dividends and k is the long - term return required by investors, written as the sum of the risk free rate and a risk premium (k = Rf + z).

In contrast to claims being made for his technology in the 2014 contract, Kogan himself claimed in a TV interview earlier this month (after the scandal broke) that his predictive modeling was not very accurate at an individual level — suggesting it would only be useful in aggregate to, for example, «understand the personality of New Yorkers».

In summary, available evidence suggests that a simple model of Bitcoin price based on Metcalfe's Law is useful for understanding and perhaps predicting Bitcoin price.

This model is especially useful when facilitating payments for each transaction is challenging.

I think by «right» here they mean the most useful choice for their business (as in decisions based on the business model — ie: profit at some point as noted in the saying).

Actually, I think it's useful to think of «Big Bang» as a short - hand for «That point in the past when the energy density becomes so high that our current models of physics can't describe what happened».

However, while it is useful as a heuristic in developing models of reaction mechanisms, it has been shown to fail as a criterion for selecting among some selected published models.

Ephesians gives us a different model for relationships: «Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.»

Also, me and - Doc, are not denying that as you can see, at least from my posting above, that the AA «model» can be useful for some people at times.

The Intentional Marriage Model The Intentional Marriage (or Relationship) Model is an extremely useful technique for couples already in an ongoing relationship or perhaps contemplating one.

The problem is that while the imitation model may be useful and perhaps even accurate in particular individual situations, it is totally inadequate as a model for policy - formulation on a societal level.

Building attractive models could well be our most useful style for the end of this decade and into the next.