Sentences with phrase «using scaled models»

«The next steps should involve experimental tests using scaled models in specialized geotechnical seismic and vibration labs,» said Miniaci.

In the context of her artistic production, Strunz uses scale models to map the exhibition space and experiment with the structure of her final compositions.

James Casebere uses scale models to create the illusion of vast interiors in ruin, and others have piled up intricate arrangements of everything from trash bags to Twinkies.

A look behind the scenes at how Hockney and his studio team prepare for exhibitions using scale models of the spaces in question — in this case, the staircase at Tate Britain, where a selection of Hockney's landscape paintings were hung to complement an exhibition of Turner watercolours that the artist curated in 2007.

Particularly remarkable was his model testing, carried out at a large indoor London skating rink, Empress Hall; Guy used scale models and large fans to obtain vital data without building full - scale prototypes, significantly shortening the design process.

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This counter-intuitive idea is that the use of defensive language can result in outdated mental models that stop you from reinventing today at speed and scale.

The use of a prototype site — a scaled - down working model of the finished product — for pre-launch testing is always a good idea.

At the other end of the spectrum, Mail Boxes Etc. uses a scale of minus 2 to 2 for each of 20 criteria, which are weighted to arrive at a total score; Jinwoong, the sporting - goods marketer, uses an «eight - link chain» model for managing decisions about potential new products; the links detail the company's strengths in eight areas, such as distribution and in - store merchandising.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

Using our interactive models, we find that using our $ 43 target as a take - out price, fairly conservative deal structures and synergy assumptions could result in an accretive deal for direct peers or regional banks, although given the more obvious scale synergies possible with peers the accretion potential would seem higher for that gUsing our interactive models, we find that using our $ 43 target as a take - out price, fairly conservative deal structures and synergy assumptions could result in an accretive deal for direct peers or regional banks, although given the more obvious scale synergies possible with peers the accretion potential would seem higher for that gusing our $ 43 target as a take - out price, fairly conservative deal structures and synergy assumptions could result in an accretive deal for direct peers or regional banks, although given the more obvious scale synergies possible with peers the accretion potential would seem higher for that group.

However, the Facebook data was then used to generate sophisticated models of each of their personalities using the so - called «big five» personality traits and characteristics — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism (known as the OCEAN scale).

Chair Yellen, relying heavily on research by David Reifschneider using the FRBUS model, comes to the relatively serene conclusion that by using forward guidance and QE policies — or LSAP (Large Scale Asset Purchases) in Fed parlance, the Fed will likely able to respond adequately to the next recession with its existing tool kit.

In the UK, the Bank of England also makes extensive use of a large - scale macro-model, and a significant portion of the policy formulation process is taken up with the discussion of the necessary judgmental adjustments to the equations of the model to reflect current developments.

The Bank of England, RBNZ, Riksbank and Norges Bank, inter alia, make significant use of large scale macro-models, whereas the RBA puts greater reliance on single - equation models.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

You can easily scale the systems you used at your first car wash business, modeling them into a larger and more profitable business.

Moving up the complexity scale, non-linear or machine learning models like Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines or Decision Trees can be used to build the investment signal.

Indigenous Business Australia plans to use its first investment in large - scale solar as a model for future injections into other renewables projects across the country.

While the image of the large homogenized denomination is of little use in modeling the unity of the church on a world scale, this version of conciliarity has, I think, considerable potential as a model for what we might eventually seek at the global level.

We used mean difference (MD) with 95 % confidence interval (CI), employing a random - effects model for continuous outcomes measured on the same scales.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Infants were weighed naked to the nearest 10 g by using an electronic scale (model 336; Seca), and recumbent length was measured to the nearest 1 mm by using a measuring board (model 416; Seca).

In Part Two, I explained in detail how using technology to scale meaningful relationships improve upon the organizing model by allowing for complex pathways and institutional knowledge that has never previously been available.

In scaling models, we reduce our corpus of texts to a document - term - matrix (DTM) and consider the variation in term use across the matrix.

The next campaign managers must decide: Follow the online - offline hybrid model used by Obama in 2008, or use technology in new ways to scale grassroots and field organizing beyond what has yet been possible.

Using our model, we predict large - scale transmission will not restart for at least another ten years — until there is a new generation in the population who have not been exposed to the Zika virus.

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

«That may not seem realistic using our «human scale» model,» Hughes said.

To gain more insights into the impact of this favoritism on a large scale, Naudts and colleagues reconstructed 250 years of European forest history using modelling that included forest management factors, such as changes in tree species.

Now, a team of Italian physicists has developed a predictive theoretical model for heat flux in these materials, using atom - scale calculations.

Ultimately, the model could be applied to semiconductors used as high - efficiency thermoelectrics, and to graphene nanoribbons used as heat sinks for so - called ultra large scale integration devices, such as computer microprocessors.

The detailed models produced using the MT imaging data of the southwestern U.S. more accurately portrayed surface structures at a scale of less than 100 kilometers, Liu said, which is important because features like volcanoes and faults are localized phenomena that are harder to predict using larger - scale models.

The researchers found that the rainfall predicted for East Africa on a decadal scale by models using the effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole did not account for as much of the rainfall fluctuations as expected for the past 34 years.

The researchers are now looking into developing a large - scale commercial model of the process, in partnership with Ronin8, a Richmond, B.C. recycling company that separates the different plastics, fibres and metals in electronic waste streams without using toxic chemicals or losing precious metals.

«Key benefits of large - scale use of universal over conventional flu vaccines: Mathematical model reveals potential effects of new vaccines that target multiple flu strains.»

Canup is one of the leading scientists using large - scale hydrodynamical simulations to model planet - scale collisions, including the prevailing Earth - Moon formation model.

Previous studies tend to underestimate such connections as simulated land - atmosphere interaction is also resolution - dependent, which means that the signals for changes in small - scale land use are likely to be much weaker in a coarse resolution model,» says Minchao Wu.

The tech giant is working on large - scale quantum computers, so has put an older, smaller model online for anyone to use

Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.

At present, one of the main methods used by architects to predict the acoustics of a theatre or concert hall is to build scale models.

When projects on the scale of a nuclear power station or THORP are concerned, or the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, to give another example, it is not possible to model them fully in the laboratory using traditional trial - and - error methodology.

Michael Barnhardt, a senior research scientist at NASA ARC and principal investigator of the Entry Systems Modeling Project, said the X-ray work opens a new window into the structure and strength properties of materials at the microscopic scale, and expands the tools and processes NASA uses to «test drive» spacecraft materials before launch.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

The team used DayCent, an ecosystem modeling tool that tracks the carbon cycle, plant growth, and how growth responds to weather, climate and other factors at a local scale.

For example, the model can easily be extended to consider the levels of risk of large - scale industrial or transport disasters, or of injury while using a controlled pedestrian crossing.

They also hope to use what they learn from simple models of different tissue types to ultimately build functional human tissues like lung and kidney and neural circuits using larger - scale techniques.

Using large - scale numerical modeling as well as GPS velocities from the largest GPS data - processing center in the world — the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno — Kreemer and Gordon have showed that cooling of the lithosphere, the outermost layer of Earth, makes some sections of the Pacific plate contract horizontally at faster rates than other sections.

Such large - scale modeling and simulation requires the heft of a supercomputer, and for this effort the team used Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the U. of I.