News tagged with mathematical analysis
Synchronized swimming of algae
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Using high-speed cinematography, scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that individual algal cells can regulate the beating of their flagella in and out of synchrony in a manner that controls their swimming trajectories. ...
FDA ignores critical information on home HIV tests
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 29, 2009 |
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Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (May 29, 2009) The FDA is ignoring critical information in deciding whether to approve an over-the-counter, rapid HIV test for home use, according to a recent article ...
Dream of quantum computing closer to reality as mathematicians chase key breakthrough
Dec 22, 2008 |
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The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come closer following recent progress with some of the remaining underlying ...
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NIST releases preview of much-anticipated online mathematics reference
Jun 27, 2008 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a five-chapter preview of the much-anticipated online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF). In development for over a decade, the DLMF is ...
Yale Professor wins Godel Prize for showing how computer algorithms solve problems
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 13, 2008 |
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Daniel A. Spielman, professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for developing a technique, known as Smoothed Analysis, that helps predict the ...
New tool could unpick complex cancer causes and help sociologists mine Facebook
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Warwick's Department of Statistics and Centre for Complexity Science have devised a new research tool that could help unpick the complex cell interactions that lead to cancer and also allow ...
Mathematical modeling predicts response to Herceptin
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Cancer researchers are turning to mathematical models to help answer important clinical questions, and a new paper in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, illustrates how the techni ...
Algebra adds value to mathematical biology education
Jul 30, 2009 |
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As mathematics continues to become an increasingly important component in undergraduate biology programs, a more comprehensive understanding of the use of algebraic models is needed by the next generation of biologists to ...
Fuel cells, energy conversion and mathematics
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Concerns about dwindling fossil fuel resources, current levels of petroleum consumption, and growing pressure to shift to more sustainable energy sources are among the many factors prompting the transition from our current ...
Systems properties of insulin signaling revealed
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Jun 20, 2008 |
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A team of Swedish researchers has characterized novel systems properties of insulin signaling in human fat cells. Their mathematical modeling, described in an article published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Co ...
A crystal that nature may have missed
Jan 03, 2008 |
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For centuries, human beings have been entranced by the captivating glimmer of the diamond. What accounts for the stunning beauty of this most precious gem? As mathematician Toshikazu Sunada explains in an ...
New Book Uses Physical Reasoning to Solve Mathematical Problems
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Mark Levi, professor of mathematics at Penn State, has authored a book titled "The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems," soon to be published by Princeton University Press. The book, which is ...
Opals set to shine with new grading technology
Aug 31, 2009 |
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CSIRO and a consortium of Australian Opal miners (Opal Producers Australia Limited) have unveiled the world's first automated device to grade opals using image analysis, at the 2009 National Council of Jewellery ...
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