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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"scientific modeling"”.
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A Collection of Scientific Modeling Incorporated Units for Chemistry
… grasp. With content that deals with the unseen, modeling practices let students visualize the scientific concept being described in an additional manner. The Units that follow, incorporate modeling practices into the curriculum in order to allow students to access material that involves higher …
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Reconsidering Similarity in an Agent-oriented Account of Scientific Modeling
In this thesis, I present a novel account of scientific modeling that achieves the stability and generalizability of static approaches with the flexibility and practical relevance of diachronic approaches. In this account, modeling is characterized by the use of a similarity relation for the …
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Interpretable Physics-informed Machine Learning Methods for Scientific Modeling and Data Analysis
… opportunities to use machine learning in scientific research, including for modeling and data analysis. Machine learning has the potential to become an indispensable tool for scientific discovery, but it is often difficult to directly apply to scientific problems. Especially in the case of …
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Exploring teachers' learning: a teacher's experiences integrating scientific modeling in the science classroom
… inquiry into the teaching of models and modeling in an elementary science classroom, explores a teacher’s growth in pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) as she implemented a novel curriculum adapted from the MoDeLS (Modeling Designs for the Learning of Science) project. The purpose of the …
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Making Models Work
<p>Scientific models are used to investigate reality. Here “model” refers to a representation which is created by an agent for a particular inferential purpose. These purposes include but are not limited to explanation, prediction, exploration, classification, and measurement. Through modeling, …
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Machine Learning for Computational Optimization
… critical challenge for applications like climate modeling, where accurate simulations could require orders of magnitude more computing power than currently available. This limitation drives researchers to develop approximations that trade computational cost for solution quality. This thesis …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… decade, there has been a growing interest in scientific practices as a reform focus in K-12 science education of the United States. In this context, scientific practices refer to practices that have family resemblance to scientists' professional practices and simultaneously are pedagogically …
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Automated Telescience: Active Machine Learning Of Remote Dynamical Systems
… and advancements brought forth by the scientific method, it is a process that is fundamentally driven by human insight and ingenuity. Automated science aims to develop algorithms, protocols and design philosophies that are capable of automating the scientific process. This work presents …
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Temperature- and pressure-induced protein dynamics from microseconds to minutes
… the high school and undergraduate levels about scientific modeling and other basic concepts in physical chemistry and statistics. The ultimate goal of these endeavors is to map out the energy landscapes of proteins and to generate ''molecular movies'', which reveal protein (mis)folding dynamics …
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Creating a modeling culture : supporting the development of scientific practice among teachers
… in classrooms. It describes the Adventures in Modeling Workshops, which we designed and created to introduce teachers to the process of conceptualizing, building, and analyzing their own models of complex, dynamic systems. The Workshops facilitate the growth of a modeling culture among teachers …
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A novel framework for data-driven modeling, uncertainty quantification, and deep learning of nuclear reactor simulations
… presents a novel and modern method for reactor modeling, simulation, and uncertainty characterization through an integrated framework developed under the terminology of combining four fundamental principles in scientific modeling and computing: Physics, Models, Data, and UQ (Uncertainty …
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Aviation environmental policy and issues of timescale
… of this thesis are threefold: 1) to advance the modeling tools used to calculate and value aviation's impact on the environment; 2) to analyze realworld aviation environmental policies and advance policy decision-making support; and 3) to explore the underlying issues of timescales in policy …
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La modelización computacional con diagrama AVM y su contribución para el aprendizaje significativo de conceptos físicos y el desarrollo de una visión crítica sobre la ciencia y la modelación científica
Teniendo en consideración que la formación integral de un profesor de Física implica que éste tenga un dominio de su campo disciplinar, una concepción crítica sobre la ciencia que enseña y su enseñanza; se presenta en este trabajo el diseño e implementación de una propuesta didáctica que tiene como …