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2007
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Biological processes are very complex, and mathematical models of such processes are at best just a crude approximation. Nevertheless, one can gain some useful knowledge from the models. In this talk, I...
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Many drugs have different profiles in different people. At least some of this variability can be explained by genetic differences between individuals. In many cases these differences lie along ethnic...
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As the number of bonds connecting the sites on a regular lattice is reduced, one eventually reaches the "percolatio point" at which the last path connecting one side of the lattice to the other disappears...
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In the last twenty years there have been many connections discovered between fractal geometry and harmonic analysis. One such connection is a Fourier transform formula for the energy integral of a measure...
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Human idiopathic-type scoliosis (IS) accounts for 80% of all cases of spinal curvature, with an average incidence of 3-4% among school-age children. Since the deformity was first described by Hippocrates...
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The success of biological organisms in solving problems encountered in their environments is attributed to the process of natural selection, whose primary metric is survival. Such biological solutions...
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Different metrics are used to set access targets for acute or hospital care in the healthcare system. The three most commonly used metrics are the target time for access (TTA), target access ratio (TAR...
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The influence of the computer on mathematics might be compared to the influence the discovery of the microscope had on biology, or the telescope on astronomy. Like those sciences we now have a tool that...
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A (3,6)-Fullerene is a 3-regular planar graph whose faces are triangles and hexagons. Being variants of Buckyballs, these graphs are of interest to chemists. It was conjectured (P.~Fowler, 1995) that the...