Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 461, No. 2060 (Aug., 2005), pp. 2545-2562 (18 pages) The work presented here shows that the natural frequencies of constrained ...

In 2006, approximately 565,000 Americans will die from cancer, making cancer second only to heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States. 1 Mass screening of asymptomatic ...

The incidence function model (IFM) is a spatially realistic metapopulation model, in which extinction and colonisation probabilities are estimated from empirical data. We tested whether an IFM can be ...