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Research shows brain cells make clever connections
Jun 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has revealed that growing nerve fibres may navigate by using a clever mathematical trick.
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Model against unnecessary use of antibiotics
Oct 15, 2008 |
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Patients in intensive care units are often administered antibiotics against ventilator-associated pneumonia, "to be on the safe side." Dutch researcher Stefan Visscher has developed a model that can quickly establish whether ...
Astronomers predict the future health of unborn babies
Jun 25, 2007 |
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Astrophysicists at the University of Sussex are using their statistical expertise to help save the lives of unborn babies.
Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles
Jun 01, 2007 |
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A team of biomedical engineers has developed a computer model that makes use of more or less predictable “guesstimates” of human muscle movements to explain how the brain draws on both what it recently learned and what ...
Predicting risk of stroke from one's genetic blueprint
Feb 25, 2009 |
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A new statistical model could be used to predict an individual's lifetime risk of stroke, finds a study from the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP). Using genetic information from 569 hospital patients, the researchers ...
Game provides clue to improving remote sensing
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE© could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives.
25 years of conventional evaluation of data analysis proves worthless in practice
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 03, 2008 |
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So-called 'intelligent' computer-based methods for classifying patient samples, for example, have been evaluated with the help of two methods that have completely dominated research for 25 years. Now Swedish researchers ...
Latest Electoral College forecast shows McCain ahead by as many as 27 votes
Sep 17, 2008 |
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A new approach to determining which candidate will win the most electoral votes in the U.S. Presidential race factors in lessons learned from the 2004 election and uses sophisticated math modeling. The research will be presented ...
What you see affects what you hear (Videos)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Understanding what a friend is saying in the hubbub of a noisy party can present a challenge - unless you can see the friend's face.
How cells deal with uncertainty
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Apr 20, 2007 |
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Researchers at McGill University have found that cells respond to their ever-changing environment in a way that mimics the optimal mathematical approach to doing so, also known as Bayes’ rule; an application of probability ...
Researchers strive to make robotic systems more decisive
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The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is a partner in the Integrated Research Project BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems), which is being sponsored by the EU and will run until 2010. ...
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