The "variable generalised stochastic epidemic" model, which allows for variability in both the susceptibilities and infectivities of individuals, is analysed. A very different epidemic model which ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Sep., 2006), pp. 89-112 (24 pages) Views of mathematical modeling in empirical, expository, and curricular references typically capture a ...

QUT researchers have developed a pioneering mathematical framework to help "pick winners" and maximize limited funding and ...

Using mathematical modeling, new interdisciplinary research determines the best course of action when it comes to walking the line between economic stability and the best possible health outcomes.

Thompson, a senior policy fellow at the London School of Economics, debuts with an eye-opening account of the limits and uses of mathematical models. Thompson explains that models are metaphors for ...

By extending a proof of a physically important behavior in one-dimensional quantum spin systems to higher dimensions, a RIKEN ...

David Randall receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Weather is what you see hour to hour and day to day. Weather involves ...