News tagged with mathematical approaches


Game provides clue to improving remote sensing

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.





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Algebra adds value to mathematical biology education

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

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 ...


Combination of old and new media deepens mathematical understanding

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

By combining the trusty old book, pen and paper with the possibilities offered by the computer and the interactive whiteboard, ICT can help to improve students’ understanding in maths education. So conclude a team of researchers ...


New treatment model for HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 13, 2007 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Treatment of HIV patients must balance the need to suppress viral replication against the harmful side effects and significant cost to the patient of antiretroviral therapy.


Systems biology recommended as a clinical approach to cancer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Four researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and their colleagues at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine are advocating the use of systems biology as an innovative clinical approach ...


Key to future medical breakthroughs is systems biology, say leading European scientists

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Crucial breakthroughs in the treatment of many common diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's could be achieved by harnessing a powerful scientific approach called systems biology, according to leading scientists from across ...


Sophisticated soil analysis for improved land use

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 30, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Soil variation occurs across multiple geographic scales ranging from vast climatic regions of the Earth to a 50 acre farm field to the molecular world of soil nano-particles in a pinch of soil.


Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

CSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good.


Finding out what the Big Bang and ink jets have in common

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 03, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 0

It often turns out there is more to commonplace everyday events than meets the eye. The folding of paper, or fall of water droplets from a tap, are two such events, both of which involve the creation of singularities requiring ...


Biologists consider unifying framework to explain evolutionary puzzles

Biology / Evolution

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Birds are commonly thought of as being the paragon of monogamous fidelity, staying true to their mate for life. Yet, in most bird species, some nests contain offspring of individuals other than the one's tending the nest.


Making waves: Mathematicians crack quantum chaos conjecture

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (69) | comments 3

The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number ...



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