Ministers said that computer modelling shows that offering the checks to those aged 40 to 74 - approximately a third of the population - will save 2, 000 lives a year and prevent 9, 500 heart attacks and strokes.
Still, the Basle Committee is wise to hold out the promise that proper modelling is the ultimate goal.
Regulators, quite rightly, retort that such modelling techniques are still in their infancy.
Dr Meyer's flight of fancy shows that such computers could also operate comfortably in the area of game theory, with all that implies for modelling complex systems and, presumably, for games themselves.
Crossbencher and Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Grey-Thompson sought to dispel some "myths" surrounding transport and the Games, telling peers Transport for London and Network Rail had conducted modelling that showed queuing at key stations would be manageable.
Now, new modelling reveals that if the Earth had a much faster spin before the impact, the theory fits the chemistry.
Scientific research based on mathematical modelling indicates that restricting travel will be of limited or no benefit in stopping the spread of disease.
Computer modelling suggests that as ageing stars throw off their outer layers and lose mass to become a dwarf, they destabilise the environment around them.
Modelling suggests that a world where additional greenhouse warming has been cancelled out this way will still be warmer at the poles and cooler at the tropics.
But computer modelling revealed that most of the asteroids ejected by Jupiter and Saturn quickly dive into the sun, and thus cannot account for the large number of known Earth-crossers.
One way of doing that is by computer modelling.
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Mathematical modelling suggests that if microbicides were used by only 20% of women at risk, and were used only half the time, this would still prevent more than 2.5m infections over three years.
Indeed, Warner Marzocchi and Anna Maria Lombardi of the INGV showed that a few hours before the earthquake actually struck modelling would have suggested the chance that a powerful quake would occur within 10 kilometres of L'Aquila within three days rose from one in 200, 000 (the background level) to about one in 1, 000.
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Recent modelling studies show that the flux to remote areas of contaminants associated with micro-plastics is small compared with that from oceanic and especially long-distance atmospheric transport processes.
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In reply, Dr Toepfer said analysis of whaling records and modelling studies showed that Antarctic sea ice had retreated south by 2.8 degrees of latitude between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s.
Dr Murray stressed there was no direct evidence these stars did have Earth-sized planets in orbit about them, but modelling had shown that if sufficient terrestrial material existed in a system it would eventually clump together into bodies as big as the Earth.
Agent-based modelling does not assume that the economy can achieve a settled equilibrium.
Previous modelling work has indicated that removing just a few key items each year could have a significant limiting effect on the growth of debris.
He went on to state that I did this by simultaneously modelling the technological, spatial and climate components of agricultural yield, instead of separating out technological components first.
Almost as odd is that it is an "initial modelling result", with a promise to publish more material in due course, once it has crunched through some more numbers.
One night in Kenya (I was there), a comely woman at the peak of her beauty, lent across the dinner table and told Teller that she used to do life modelling.
Obviously, Sybase is not enough to make SAP entirely relevant in scope and scale (and it goes without saying that in this land of giants, Sybase was not large enough to survive on its own.) But it picks up a solid asset, with businesses in financial modelling and mobile databases that are essential for SAP to stay in the game.
Computer modelling of the impact suggests that the plume will reach a maximum altitude of 500km about 17 minutes after the impact.
The software lets the fire brigade use a technique known as modelling regression to target places that register as at high risk for fire.
I've again looked at the modelling and it does show that at some stations such as London Bridge, organisers need a 50% drop in "background" commuters.
Last year, bakers at the British Sugarcraft Guild were reportedly told that using Olympic symbols in icing and marzipan modelling would breach copyright.
Banks and rating agencies were gripped by the pretence that all finance can be calculated by risk-modelling eggheads.
It also means smaller incisions are necessary, says Andy Christensen of Medical Modelling, the Colorado-based company that modelled the Egyptian twins.
It is, though, just a bet, and despite a lot of financial modelling before the change, he admits that he can only guess at the outcome.
Yet who can deny, as the geographers complain, that at the frontier of research, abstract economic modelling and the real world have moved dispiritingly far apart?
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