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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 ...
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Bacteria offer insights into human decision making
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that ...
Severity of H1N1 flu in US during current flu season may be less than feared
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A new study from researchers at the UK Medical Research Council and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) projects that the severity of the H1N1 flu during the autumn-winter flu season in the U.S. will likely be less ...
Creativity in mathematics
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"Mathematics links Art and Science in one great enterprise, the human attempt to make sense of the universe." So writes Abel Prizewinner and Fields Medalist Sir Michael F. Atiyah in the January 2010 Notices of the American Ma ...
Coin tosses can be easily rigged: study
Dec 07, 2009 |
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The ubiquitous coin toss is not so random after all, and can easily be manipulated to turn up heads, or tails, a Canadian study has found.
Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...
Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation ...
Space technology optimises windmill efficiency
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...
Study helps advance heart-related research
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of heart cells.
Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according ...
CSIRO researchers create giant waves -- virtually
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have created 'rogue waves' more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas production platforms to compare different mooring designs.
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