News tagged with modeling tools
New mathematical model aids Big Bang supercomputer research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have made many discoveries about the origins of our 13 billion-year-old universe. But many scientific mysteries remain. What exactly happened during the Big Bang, when rapidly evolving ...
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Predicting burglary patterns through math modeling of crime
Pattern formation in physical, biological, and sociological systems has been studied for many years. Despite the fact that these subject areas are completely diverse, the mathematics that describes underlying patterns in ...
May 31, 2012 |
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From beaker to bits: Collaboration creates computational model of human tissue
Computer scientists and biologists in the Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a rare collaboration between the two very different fields to pick apart a fundamental roadblock to ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Trail of 'stone breadcrumbs' reveals the identity of one of the first human groups to leave Africa
A series of new archaeological discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman, nestled in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, reveals the timing and identity of one of the first modern human groups to migrate out of Africa, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Eighteenth century minister's mathematical theorem helps scientists map out cell signalling pathways
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow have successfully exploited statistical inference and mathematical modelling to discover how cells communicate.
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Energy Efficient Separations: Researchers Use Computational Modeling to Design Improved Membrane Technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational modeling tools developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology could accelerate development of a new type of membrane technology that will boost the efficiency of energy-related ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Feet may be the key to hand evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Canada have used a mathematical model to simulate the evolution from an ape-like hand to the modern-day human hand, and discovered that changes in our fingers and hands developed ...
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Social scientist suggests new research framework to study complex systems
The often-used one-size-fits-all approach to policies aimed at achieving sustainable social-ecological systems needs to be updated with a diagnostic tool to help scholars from multiple disciplines better frame the question ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Fighting the swine flu pandemic with mathematics
As swine flu spreads across America, good data can make all the difference in controlling it.
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Precise molecular surgery in the plant genome
Crop plants have always been adapted to the needs of man by breeding for them to carry more fruit, survive droughts, or resist pests. Green biotechnology now adds new tools to the classical breeding methods ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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A new approach to molecular plant breeding
(Phys.org) -- A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has shown researchers and plant breeders a better way to handle the massive amounts of data being generated by plant molecular studies, using ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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NASA views our perpetually moving ocean
(Phys.org) -- The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of ocean currents.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Less is more in the fight against terrorism
Terrorist networks are complex. Now, a mathematical analysis of their properties published this month in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, suggests that the best way to fight them is to iso ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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'Main Street' economic conditions misread by GDP
Traditional gauges of economic activity severely overstate the standard of living as experienced on 'Main Street,' say University of Maryland researchers, who have worked with their state officials to apply ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 18, 2010 |
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