Especially mysterious is a low-lying piece that resembles a small pile of melting snow but is actually a model of a very small island made entirely of marble off the coast of Patagonia.
At the garden estate there are also displayed marble banners, statues of Shen Kuo, and a model of an armillary sphere; a small museum gallery depicts Shen's various achievements.
The largest is, somewhat unexpectedly, a polystyrene wig block, the middle one a plaster-of-Paris cast made for a special effect in a film, and the smallest a model of a baby's head made by Williams's grandmother.
The book's final pages, which are almost unbearably poignant, seem to offer a model of resistance, a small gleam of hope.
Jessica Lynch, he writes: "The rescue was a model of how a small-scale military operation should be conducted.
But each decade was also accompanied by a large photo of a model and a small insert of a nonmodel (half of whom were former models) representing her age group.
Additionally, the common spread of actives can have a positive impact on the interpretability of a model because the chance of overfitting a model on a small cluster of similar actives is minimized.
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What Dr Singh and his colleague and namesake Onkar Singh have done is to elaborate "a mathematical model of a small capacity compressed air driven multivane air turbine" (here is the paper's abstract).This is in no way to detract from their fascinating work.
A mathematical model of a small satellite with a hyperspectral imaging spectrometer system is developed.
