25. A Course in Mathematical Biology: Quantitative Modeling with Mathematical and Computational Methods Gerda de Vries, Thomas Hillen, Mark Lewis, Johannes Müller, and Birgitt Schönfisch 2006 · xii + 309 pages · Softcover · 978-0-898716-12-2 List $74.50 · SIAM Member $52.15 · MM12 ORDER DIRECT at www.siam.org/catalog Bestsellers Top Selling Titles from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mat...

We undertook a long term project, DIRECT, to obtain the direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance ladder – M31 and M33, using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) and Cepheids. While rare and difficult to detect, detached eclipsing binaries provide us with the potential to determine these distances with an accuracy better than 5%. The massive photometry obtained in o...

THEONLINE CATALOG will never be a finished, perfected product. Nor will the library catalog in its many online manifestations ever achieve the universal, familiar uniformity experienced by users of the twentiethcentury card catalog. These twin realities threaten many librarians, represent a myriad of problems for catalog users, and challenge designers and developers of online catalogs to improv...

Acquisition modeling for direct mail insurance has the unique challenge of targeting responsive customers while minimizing risk. In addition, factors such as the probability of a paid premium and customer profitability all effect the Lifetime Value of a prospect. This presentation will detail the steps to develop a Lifetime Value, which can used to optimize the selection of prospects. Topics co...

Abstract. TOPCAT is a widely used desktop application for manipulation of astronomical catalogues and other tables, which has long provided fast interactive visualisation features including 1, 2 and 3-d plots, multiple datasets, linked views, color coding, transparency and more. In Version 4 a new plotting library has been written from scratch to deliver new and enhanced visualisation capabilit...