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NPZ Model: Maturity in the Juvenile Zooplankton

Planktonic ecosystems make up the bottom nutritive levels of aquatic food webs, providing a vital source of food to many large marine organisms.

SIAM Unwrapped – March 2016

The weather is heating up (!) and so is the action happening at SIAM and in our community.

How do people in social networks behave? How do online networks influence individuals? Can math help answer these...

Check out these three "Nugget Bytes" about recently-published SIAM journal papers.

A statistical hierarchical Bayesian model can consolidate climate change information from observation-based data...

Digital technologies such as tomosynthesis can produce 3D image information of breast cancer tumors via modified...

A mathematical model can describe the evolution of an epidemic in regions connected by international flights.

Yuxiang Zhang and Xiao-Qiang Zhao propose a reaction-diffusion model to study transmission dynamics of Lyme disease...

Read about a partial differential equation model governing the value of a defined pension plan, including the option...

One way to study criminal behavior and predict a criminal’s next move is by analyzing his/her movement via a mathematical model.

Social and geographical patterns that provide information about communities or gangs is a popular subject for...

Chris Howcroft, Bernd Krauskopf, Mark Lowenberg, and Simon Neild study the dynamics of aircraft landing gear using...

Mathematical models can analyze viral dynamics in the early phase of HIV, thus offering insights into therapeutic and prevention strategies.

The silent stages of recurrent infection are hard to study with experimental models. Mathematical analysis can help...

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