Resiliency training and other popular staff retention approaches will not solve the problem of desperately overworked staff.
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New simulation tools open the door for objective nurse workload management — a missing key to a healthy health-care system.
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Any plan to dam or extract water from some of Australia’s last wild rivers must carefully consider the consequences. Prawn, mud crab and barramundi fisheries could suffer in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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From more accurate climate modelling to the prospect of truly creative computers, the brain’s use of noise has a lot to teach us.
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Our ability to use mathematical modelling is accelerating breakthrough discoveries in health care and biotechnology.
The UK has fewer critical care beds per capita than the European average.
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Faced unexpected rises in COVID-19 admissions, computer models can help senior managers plan the use of hospital beds.
An Indonesian island was home to H. Floresiensis – but how did the dwarfed human species evolve?
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New research models how the Homo floresiensis species could have evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island.
Lynx were driven to extinction in the UK during the Medieval period.
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Computer modelling has confirmed that Scotland’s West coast could support and sustain a reintroduced lynx population.
Research published in Science Translational Medicine in February 2019 used a virtual patient to test the drug, Fevipiprant.
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Asthma affects around 339 million people worldwide. A new drug promises to lower risks of asthma attack and may eventually allow patients to reduce their dependence on steroids.
A critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle.
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Mathematic models are becoming more sophisticated and now they could actually predict how likely a species is to die out.
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Daily routine affects how much polluted air we breathe.
Whether it’s birds in a flock or drivers in traffic, agent-based modelling can describe complex phenomena by applying a simple set of rules to each individual’s behaviour.
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By identifying and applying the key rules governing the behaviour of each individual, agent-based modelling offers insights into complex phenomena like traffic jams and flocking.
How unique is our universe?
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New research on parallel universes forces cosmologists to come to an uncomfortable conclusion.
Snow on the ground after a winter storm.
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Why can’t meteorologists call the weather correctly every time? Blame the battle of the weather models.
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There’s a surprising amount in common between ancient ways of thinking about the future and the techniques we use now.
How can geometry track with our political values?
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Gerrymandering is being hotly debated around the US. Can math help us figure out how to divide the country up fairly?
People currently speak 7,000 languages around the globe.
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There’s little research into origins of the geographic patterns of language diversity. A new model exploring processes that shaped Australia’s language diversity provides a template for investigators.
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Repetitive patterns from windows, blinds and stairs are really uncomfortable to look at.
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The in depth story of a student project that paved the way for a society-level shift in how we use computers.
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Scientists are using detailed computer models of the ocean to trace debris back through the currents to the potential crash site.
Don’t worry, I’ve run the mathematical simulations.
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It’s 30 years since the release of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Here’s why he got away with it.