Tag: Algorithms/Models

March 29, 2019

RIT associate professor Elizabeth Cherry helped develop the cardiac dynamics modeling method You can now perform supercomputer simulations of the ...

Study highlights need to increase diversity within genetic data sets

March 29, 2019

Diversifying population-level genetic data beyond Europeans will expand the power of polygenic scoresCredit: Susanna M. Hamilton, Broad Communications Polygenic scores ...

RIT, zoo researchers capturing sights, sounds and insects of Madagascar

March 28, 2019

Professor Anthony Vodacek helps lay groundwork for new virtual reality experience Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Seneca Park ...

Dramatic housing transformation in sub-Saharan Africa revealed for first time

Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living ...

RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume the hunt for ripples in space and time

Advanced LIGO's third observing run will provide scientists new data on gravitational waves The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for ...

Artificial intelligence can predict premature death, study finds

Computers which are capable of teaching themselves to predict premature death could greatly improve preventative healthcare in the future, suggests ...

Kids store 1.5 megabytes of information to master their native language

New research suggests language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition rather than something humans are ...

UTEK joins co-creation laboratory as 5TONIC takes to the ocean

New project tests 5G radio waves for maritime applicationsCredit: © IMDEA Networks Institute UTEK, a Spanish start-up company backed by ...

Biophysicists use machine learning to understand, predict dynamics of worm behavior

Biophysicists have used an automated method to model a living system -- the dynamics of a worm perceiving and escaping ...

In the tree of life, youth has its advantages

Credit: A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius. Gabriel Barathieu, Wikipedia. It's a question that ...

Yellowstone elk don’t budge for wolves say scientists

Credit: Matt Metz Elk roam the winter range that straddles the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park with little regard ...

Smart wristband developed by Lithuanian researchers can alert about dangerous health conditions

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania researchers are developing a smart wrist-worn device for monitoring of atrial fibrillation - a ...

Sound sense: Brain ‘listens’ for distinctive features in sounds

University of Pittsburgh researchers explore how the auditory system achieves accurate speech recognitionCredit: Shi Tong Liu/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (March ...

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