News tagged with quantitative model
New mathematical model explains how hosts survive parasite attacks
In nature, how do host species survive parasite attacks? This has not been well understood, until now. A new mathematical model shows that when a host and its parasite each have multiple traits governing their ...
Mar 04, 2012 |
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To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach
A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Best 'sweet spots' on the backboard
According to Larry Hunter, the act of banking a basketball off the backboard and into the hoop is becoming a lost art.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 10, 2011 |
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After 5 years, free systems biology markup language has proven popular
A scientific paper that describes a file format used by scientists to represent models of biological processes has exceeded 500 citations in the ISI Web of Knowledge, an online academic database that documents the impact ...
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth
There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.
Apr 07, 2009 |
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