First, Chinese are good at improving existing models, a different, more practical type of creativity, he wrote, adding that this practicality was noted by the British historian of Chinese science, Joseph Needham.
A former chief of staff for Putin, Ivanov is "passionate about the environment" and a "very hands-on, practical type of person", Pugh says.
But that's just not a very practical type of measurement when we're dealing with all the plumbers and contractors and security staff and reporters and other non-wealthy service personnel we have to give instructions to.
The propagation model is verified by comparison to experimental data on a perforated metal tube and is applied to a practical type of permeable fabric tube.
We consider parameterized families of discrete-time systems and concentrate on a semiglobal practical type of stability that naturally arises when an approximate discrete-time model is used to design a controller for a sampled-data system.
So she pursued a Ph.D. in solid state chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena working in the labs of Nathan Lewis and Harry Atwater. "It was a very practical type of thing, but it wasn't a save-the-world kind of application," she says.
