The Yagi antenna optimized for the Arecibo feed problem shows how the GA can change conventional designs, using them with unusual parameters, to solve unconventional problems.
other NSF program officers, many of whom, at a given time, have just rotated in for 1- to 3-year stints, to understand that research in Africa poses unconventional problems (by American standards) which might call for unconventional solutions.
First visualized as menacing monsters or Nietzschean supermen, the genetically altered were increasingly seen as people with unconventional personal problems.
The SSAT also demands that the student think more creatively, utilizing unconventional word problems, analogies, and various types of passages from nonfiction, fiction, and poetry (the ISEE's reading is comprised of nonfiction only).
The practices and habits of 'positive deviants' in the community enable them to beat heavy odds and find solutions, however unconventional, to problems that are common in their lives.
Shifting to dramatically more sustainable systems is an unconventional or wicked problem, encompassing multiple actors, disciplines, and values.
Recently, a novel error representation using (unconventional) pseudo-dual problems for goal-oriented adaptivity in the context of frequency-domain wave-propagation problems has been developed.
With the simulator we developed, various conventional and unconventional reservoir simulation problems with large-scale geological models can be achieved on parallel computers within practical computational time.
Calling the threat posed by nuclear and other unconventional weapons "the ultimate problem" confronting mankind, Mr. Buffett said yesterday that he had decided to give the group, the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, $2.5 millioverver five years and become an adviser to its board.
More specifically, they identify those with the physical and, above all else, psychological qualities necessary for special operations work, such as levelheadedness in times of exceptional stress, intelligence, maturity, and an ability to solve problems in unconventional ways.
