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unusual facts about Modeling



AIMMS

Alstom Grid uses AIMMS as the modeling and optimization engine of its energy market clearing software.

Amon Mwareka

Born in Nyanga, Mwareka was educated at a mission, and began modeling clay and carving wood as a hobby early in life.

Barbara Minty

Barbara was signed with power modeling agents Eileen Ford and Nina Blanchard and became an in demand model, gracing the covers of dozens of magazines as well as advertisement in the 1970s.

Braess's paradox

In 2012, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization demonstrated through computational modeling the potential for this phenomenon to occur in power transmission networks where power generation is decentralized.

Brandywine Asset Management

The basic research and portfolio modeling concepts Brandywine uses today were developed through a major research project conducted from 1987 to 1991 using staff researchers and students and faculty from several universities, including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, and West Chester University.

Carlson Twins

As with the Brewer twins, the Carlson twins first received public attention after modeling naked for photographer Bruce Weber.

Claudia Lizaldi

Although only being 1.57 her beautiful face and curves have boosted her career in modeling, she has posed for several men's magazines, including H Para Hombres.

Colleen Corby

Two weeks after walking into Eileen Ford's modeling agency (ostensibly to look for a summer job).

Conway Publishing

Whilst still committed to producing specialist maritime books, Conway have broadened their catalogue to incorporate general, military and aviation history, exploration, as well as railway and scale modeling (with Hornby and Airfix), amongst other related topics.

Cyrine Abdelnour

In 1992 Abdelnour started her modeling career and modeled for the fashion designers Feliciana Rossi, Zuhair Murad, Abed Mahfouz, Renato Balestra, Mireille Dagher, and Thierry Mugler.

Daniel Junas

Junas has also dabbled in modeling, landing campaigns for Ford, Honda and Kenvelo.

David Taylor Model Basin

The new navy modeling facility — named for David Taylor — was built in 1939 in today's community of Carderock just west of Bethesda, Maryland in Montgomery County.

Deeksha Seth

During her first year at college in 2009, she was spotted by a Femina Miss India contest scout during an NSS event, who persuaded her into modeling and to participate at the beauty pageant.

Dirk Blaauw

Currently, he is CEO of Blom, a leading European service provider within acquisition, processing and modeling of geographic information.

Donald Firesmith

OPEN Modeling Language (OML) Reference Manual, Cambridge University Books, ISBN 1-884842-75-5, with Brian Henderson-Sellers and Ian Graham

Dylan Kuo

He signed under well known Taiwan modeling agency Catwalk Production House and became a highly sought after model due to his 6' 2" (1.87cm) height frame and having Eurasian looking looks even though he is a full blooded Chinese.

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium

Willem Buiter of the London School of Economics has argued that DSGE models rely excessively on an assumption of complete markets, and are unable to describe the highly nonlinear dynamics of economic fluctuations, making training in 'state-of-the-art' macroeconomic modeling "a privately and socially costly waste of time and resources".

Fender Vibratone

Today, many modeling devices, such as the Line 6 POD and Fender Cyber Twin, depict the sound of the Fender Vibratone.

Forbes March

He soon started working as a model and did print work for Armani, Tommy H. and Marlboro Clothing, later quitting modeling to attend the Lee Strasberg Acting Institute on a full scholarship.

Griffon Nivernais

The breed was reconstructed beginning in 1925, by some hunters in Morvan, modeling on the ancient types that came to Europe with the Crusaders and the type called "Canes Segusii" or the Celtic Hound by early dog writers.

HindIII

They have proven to be ideal modeling systems for the study of protein-nucleic acid interactions, structure-function relationships, and the mechanism of evolution.

Inbal Gavrieli

In 2004, Gavrieli together with Adi Barkan, Israeli fashion photographer and owner Barkan Modeling Agency in Tel Aviv, successfully submitted legislation to Israel's Parliament requiring all Israeli modeling agencies to use the body mass index (BMI) as a pre-requisite for employment, a first of its kind in the world.

Independent Energy Partners

On March 1, 2006, IEP concluded negotiations with Battelle Memorial Institute, the operator of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for development of the Geothermic Fuel Cell prototype and in September 2008, they signed agreements for modeling, analysis, design and engineering to commercialize this technology and related applications.

Janice Cruz

She is also the dialog/music editor, sound designer and music director for the Nick Jr. shows Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! and is signed to New York based modeling agency Click.

Julia Voth

Voth's modeling career has included photo shoots and commercials for brands such as Calvin Klein and Shiseido.

Kasie Head

Apart from her game show modeling and pageant appearances, Head also had a small role on The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Just My Luck.

Kathleen Bryson

Bryson has done some part-time modeling, and had appeared both in Rankin's SNOG art exhibition in Brick Lane, London 2000 and in his Snog book as well.

Kaya Wittenburg

He worked for a number of designers while modeling including, Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, and Hugo Boss.

Marina Tsintikidou

Aside from a modeling career, Tsindikidou also tried her skills in acting, appearing in various TV shows and movies as well as in the Greek version of the theatrical play "Look Who's Here" by British playwright Ray Cooney.

Matt Stephens

DDT and the ICONIX modeling process have been adopted in a variety of large-scale software projects e.g. the image processing software in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

Mercure

MERCURE, an atmospheric dispersion modeling CFD code developed by Électricité de France

Meta model

Metamodeling a modeling methodology used in software engineering

MFCC

Mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients, mathematical coefficients for sound modeling

Michael Maron

He became a professional portrait artist at the age of twelve, dabbled in acting and modeling, appeared in television commercials, and hosted his own radio show on KCRW National Public Radio.

Mugdha Godse

In 2004, Godse took part in the biggest modeling contest in India, the Femina Miss India contest.

Multivariate testing

#Discrete choice and what has mutated to become choice modeling is the complex technique that won Daniel McFadden the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000.

P Tech

Ptech, American provider of business process modeling software

PERCS

Major deployments have been for network-intensive and memory-intensive applications (as opposed to FLOPS-intensive), such as weather & climate modeling (ECMWF, UKMO, Environment Canada, Japan Meteorological Agency), and scientific research (University of Warsaw, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and several other government laboratories in the U.S., and other countries).

QuakeSim

Okada-based elastic fault modeling methods (Disloc, which is a forward model, and Simplex for inverting geodetic data).

Rogemar Mamon

Mamon is known for his contributions to the developments and applications of regime-switching framework useful in economic, financial and actuarial modeling.

Rosalie van Breemen

While still in high school, she won a modeling contest for the Dutch magazine Panorama.

Sainik School, Amaravathinagar

Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir

Sibyl Buck

Born in Versailles, France, Buck started her modeling career in 1992 and has worked for Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, and many other fashion houses.

Stan Malinowski

Malinowski has traveled all over the world and worked with some of the biggest names in modeling including Christie Brinkley, Cindy Crawford, and Gia Carangi.

Suffolk, Virginia

Other large employers in the City of Suffolk include Unilever, Lipton Tea, Wal-Mart, Target, QVC, and two major modeling and simulation companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

Taems

Task analysis environment modeling simulation (computer science), a multi-agent task modeling language

Television content rating systems

Currently, only StarHub TV's and Mio TV's self-packaged non-regional Pay TV channels ( e.g. StarHub TV's E City and Sensasi and Mio TV's FashionTV HD and FashionTV HD On Demand, both of which features modeling nudity in certain programmes ) are enabled to carry NC16 and M18 rated content.

Trefftz method

The hybrid Trefftz method is also being applied to some fields, e.g. computational modeling of hydrated soft tissues or water-saturated porous media, through ongoing research project at the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal.

UML

Unified Modeling Language, an object modeling and specification language used in software engineering

Wireless ad hoc network

Unlike traditional AI systems with Intelligent agents, agent-based modeling is similar to the real world.


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