Current tendencies of mathematical research

Prophylaxis of infective endocarditis: current tendencies, continuing controversies.

Infective endocarditis is a severe disease with high mortality, and results most often from the combination of bacteraemia (sometimes provoked) and a predisposing cardiac condition. Prophylaxis for infective endocarditis has been recommended by different countries on the basis of the supposed pathophysiology of the disease, although no randomised clinical trial has confirmed its efficacy. We re...

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Current Trends in Mathematical Cosmology

We present an elementary account of mathematical cosmology through a series of important unsolved problems. We introduce the fundamental notion of a cosmology and focus on the issue of singularities as a theme unifying many current, seemingly unrelated trends of this subject. We discuss problems associated with the definition and asymptotic structure of the notion of cosmological solution and a...

Historic Mortars: Characterization and Durability. New Tendencies for Research

A mortar is a material resulting of the intimate mixture of sand grains, a binder (lime, cement, etc.) and water. The properties and characteristic of the mortars mainly depend on the nature of the binder component. That is the reason for which, its evolution with time has been very related to the development of artificial cementitious materials. So, with the consolidation of the Roman civiliza...

Mathematical Models for Immunology: Current State of the Art and Future Research Directions

The advances in genetics and biochemistry that have taken place over the last 10 years led to significant advances in experimental and clinical immunology. In turn, this has led to the development of new mathematical models to investigate qualitatively and quantitatively various open questions in immunology. In this study we present a review of some research areas in mathematical immunology tha...