The new modeling enhancements provide real-time views of grid activity to help properly align electricity generation with demand .
She began a modeling career around the same time and then went on to be a television co-host and actress.
But with virtually no financial aid from Jamaica's cash-starved Olympic movement, she had to work part-time, including modeling swimwear for Canadian sportswearmaker Louis Garneau.
The cycle thus continues over time, suggesting that modeling agencies in the year 3000 will have a glut of applicants and cosmetic surgery will be a more-subtle affair, if it exists at all.
Analysts who use quantitative analysis (aka computer modeling) tend to perform better over time.
This is an interesting way of using the power of crowdsourcing to cut costs and increase the turn-around time of weather and climate modeling.
At the same time retailers are using sophisticated modeling to schedule employees, using data points like weather and morning sales traffic to develop last minute employee shifts.
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Vujevic thought she would have a stretch of time for lunch -- modeling makes her hungry, she says -- but as she's leaving the studio, her agency sends an e-mail letting her know that she has a fitting for Gerlan Jeans, so she heads downtown.
Over time, an integrated approach to modeling and risk management can provide firms with better abilities to identify and predict risk.
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Although she had been generating income from selling her own calendars and modeling for catalogues, she hit the big time by creating her own fashion line--for which she still models--and licensing her name and image to 16 manufacturers that sell her products at 50, 000 locations in 15 countries.
The analytics include statistical modeling, functional grouping, multiple regress analysis and time series analysis, she said.
It also launched the modeling career of Elizabeth Hurley, who, at the time, was known primarily for being Hugh Grant's girlfriend.
These same feminine qualities would later catch the eye of a modeling scout while Pejic was working at his part-time job at McDonald's.
Now, she spends less time in front of the camera and more time campaigning for the country she loves, using her modeling experience to stage fundraising events for her foundation.
Unbeknownst to most sunbaked tourists, the Happiest Place on Earth is an enclosed universe of monitoring systems that continually cull customer surveys and use computer modeling to predict everything from how many people will eat at any one time to passenger loads on the Jungle Cruise boats.
In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will let drivers quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, and save time and fuel.
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