Within a few generations, Babylonian astronomers had achieved the ability to predict the behaviour of the Moon and the planets.
And, as voters in Britain, Colombia and Hungary have shown in recent months, trying to predict the behaviour of voters in referendums is never easy anyway.
Mrs Ostrom, besides poring over satellite data and quizzing lobstermen herself, enjoyed employing game theory to try to predict the behaviour of people faced with limited resources.
"Because of that, everything spiralled down much faster".While better information may be compressing the response, it has not been good enough to predict the behaviour of buyers.
This instability is amplified by currency and commodity speculation, and by the 'herd mentality' of hedge funds, that often just follow or try to predict the behaviour of other investors.
In the article Jenkins also wrongly conflates the technical responsibilities of a cook or an engineer with those of scientists charged to predict the behaviour of systems that science readily acknowledges it does not fully understand.
In many cases grading and staging schemes can help to predict the behaviour of a tumour and thus aid in determining a patient's prognosis and the most-appropriate approach to treatment.
This point is worth emphasizing because it enshrines the principle of dynamic similarity, which is heavily relied on by engineers whenever they use results obtained with models to predict the behaviour of much larger structures.
use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs.
Understanding of the coal structures helps to predict the behaviour of coal at various processes.
The model presented in Section 4 is able to predict the behaviour of the code.
