Almost all reporting Parties mentioned the need for capacity building in the use of sophisticated sectoral impact models and integrated models.

About six years ago, I bought one of these CNC mills, to just replace, kind of, young people cutting their fingers off all the time building models.

Models of Madness

Although computer models are important, the process of building the capacity of local experts is imperative in the exercise of mitigation assessments At the outset of a modelling exercise, there should be a clear distinction between generating information for the models and the actual work in computer modelling.

Such models are familiar in the linguistic as models of the speech act.

It can quickly scale up and make large investments in new markets including for education without bureaucratic delays, while building on proven models and international experience.

Possible models

And I also bought a laser cutter and started to fabricate within my own shop, kind of, large scale building elements and models, where we could go directly to the tooling.

Building on successful models of joint United Nations programming, UNICEF will continue to support the increasing types and instances of collaborative approaches with United Nations agencies, donors, civil society and the private sector.

Models Behaving Badly

Various computational flood models have been developed in recent years either 1D models (flood levels measured in the channel) or 2D models (variable flood depths measured across the extent of a floodplain).

And they're scientific models?

Testing some Realpolitik Models.

Capitalizing on cooperatives successes and learning from their mistakes can help us to expand the menu of options as we search for more inclusive and sustainable models of development, and new ways of building and sharing knowledge.

Partnership building is progressing on the basis of existing coordination mechanisms, although consistency in these partnership models has yet to be achieved and assistance by cooperation agencies often does not link up with NAP initiatives.

Some even displayed astrological models of the universe.

The discovery that the models of Ibn al Shatir are mathematically identical to those of Copernicus suggests the possible transmission of these models to Europe.

Now both models have derailed.

We can grade models, whether it's financial models in a business class or physical models in a science or engineering class and we can grade some pretty sophisticated programming assignments.

The application models are saved as a set of XML files, each containing the details of all models in a certain package within the project.

Over periods of several years, our models do better.

The grassroots has been strengthened through the social power of sharing and they are challenging the old models, the old analog models of control and command.

Putting Economic Models in Their Place

Other countries adopted slightly different models.

Financial Mechanism Models Function and Administration

Indeed, one can argue that if the models constantly get something wrong, it is probably because the models are wrong.

The Hanging Chain models of Antonio Gaudi, the Catalan architect.

To change the modus operandi, shifting responsibilities and resources to lower levels, sustained and comprehensive inputs will be required from UNICEF and other external support agencies for the necessary capacity building, role definition and identification of appropriate national models.

(d) Appropriate rationalization of field presence, using experience from post conflict countries, joint office models and other models of closer United Nations teamwork, including increased sharing of operational services

Models may be created automatically or manually.

Alternative models do not provide that synergy.

The need to adopt new business models

India reported atmospheric and climatic research that focuses on developing customized general circulation models (GCMs) and regional circulation models for South Asia.

Most of the economic models are built around scarcity and growth.

You know there are two models of quality assurance in catering.

But the share of models developed by Chinese carmakers is negligible.

Terrorists have been better at capitalizing on models of distributed operation.

A variety of models exist depending on the region and municipality.

Today, 3D models are used in a wide variety of fields.

The application of regional climate models was reported by many Parties.

Of course, econometric models do not much interest most of the public.

All of these models assume outcomes on the basis of existing policies.

Most of the reporting Parties used both internationally developed methodologies and national models, ranging from sophisticated computer models to qualitative assessments based on expert judgement and literature review.

UNICEF, with its track record of working with government and non government actors at all levels, is well positioned to support the scaling up of sustainable models for service delivery, which involves four interlinked steps demonstration, advocacy, capacity building and continuous monitoring of new approaches.

It uses models to root out logical inconsistency.