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Critical patch size generated by Allee effect in gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.) by Vercken, E, Kramer, A.M, Tobin, P.C, Drake, J.M

“…Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 179-186 ABSTRACT: Allee effects are important dynamical mechanisms in small-density populations in which per capita population…”
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Frontal and occipital horn ratio: A linear estimate of ventricular size for multiple imaging modalities in pediatric hydrocephalus by O'Hayon, B B, Drake, J M, Ossip, M G, Tuli, S, Clarke, M

“…Measurement of ventricular size is important in pediatric patients with hydrocephalus, especially those who are being followed with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)…”
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Chemical and Biological Microstructures as Probed by Dynamic Processes by Drake, J. M., Klafter, J., Levitz, P.

“…The dynamic process of electronic energy transfer is shown to be an important tool for probing the microstructure of molecular systems, particularly those in…”
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The mismatch of narratives and local ecologies in the everyday governance of water access and mosquito control in an urbanizing community by Evans, M.V., Bhatnagar, S., Drake, J.M., Murdock, C.C., Rice, J.L., Mukherjee, S.

“…Mosquito-borne disease presents a significant threat to urban populations, but risk can be uneven across a city due to underlying environmental patterns. Urban…”
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Global hot spots of biological invasions: evaluating options for ballast-water management by Drake, J.M, Lodge, D.M

“…Biological invasions from ballast water are a severe environmental threat and exceedingly costly to society. We identify global hot spots of invasion based on…”
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Demography in an increasingly variable world by Boyce, Mark S., Haridas, Chirakkal V., Lee, Charlotte T., the NCEAS Stochastic Demography Working Group

“…Recent advances in stochastic demography provide unique insights into the probable effects of increasing environmental variability on population dynamics, and…”
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Distributed, collaborative software inspection by Mashayekhi, V., Drake, J.M., Tsai, W.-T., Riedl, J.

“…The Collaborative Software Inspection (CSI) tool, which provides a distributed, structured environment for performing inspections on all software-development…”
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Allee Effects, Propagule Pressure and the Probability of Establishment: Risk Analysis for Biological Invasions by Drake, J.M, Lodge, D.M

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Evaluating an invasive species policy: ballast water exchange in the Great Lakes by Costello, Christopher, Drake, John M., Lodge, David M.

“…Improvements in environmental policy require an accurate diagnosis of the shortcomings of existing policy. We develop a model for assessing the efficacy of…”
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Extinction times in experimental populations by Drake, John M.

“…Predicting population extinctions is a key element of quantitative conservation biology and population ecology. Although stochastic population theories have…”
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Immigration events dispersed in space and time: Factors affecting invasion success by Drury, K.L.S., Drake, J.M., Lodge, D.M., Dwyer, G.

“…Classical models of biological invasions generally assume that introductions consist of single releases of organisms, whereas in nature successful invasions…”
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Demographic Stochasticity, Environmental Variability, and Windows of Invasion Risk for Bythotrephes Longimanus in North America by Drake, J.M, Drury, K.L.S, Lodge, D.M, Blukacz, A, Yan, N.D, Dwyer, G

“…Biological invasions are a leading threat to freshwater biodiversity worldwide. A central unanswered question of invasion ecology is why some introduced…”
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The constitutive properties of the brain parenchyma by Kohandel, M., Sivaloganathan, S., Tenti, G., Drake, J.M.

“…In this paper we study several constitutive equations for the brain based on the strain energy density function. We use the polynomial function and…”
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Use of a multivariable model to estimate the probability of discharge in hospitalized foals that are 7 days of age or less by Rohrbach, B.W, Buchanan, B.R, Drake, J.M, Andrews, F.M, Bain, F.T, Byars, D.T, Bernard, W.V, Furr, M.O, Paradis, M.R, Lawler, J

“…Objective-To create a mathematical model to assist in early prediction of the probability of discharge in hospitalized foals less than or equal to 7 days old…”
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A viscoelastic approach to the modelling of hydrocephalus by Sivaloganathan, S., Stastna, M., Tenti, G., Drake, J.M.

“…In earlier work [Appl. Math. Comput. 94 (1998) 243, Can. Appl. Math. Quart. 7 (1999) 111], we modelled the brain as a porous elastic medium containing an…”
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A viscoelastic model of the brain parenchyma with pulsatile ventricular pressure by Sivaloganathan, S., Stastna, M., Tenti, G., Drake, J.M.

“…In this paper, we present an extension of the model developed by Sivaloganathan et al. [Appl. Math. and Comput., to appear], which is of more physical…”
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Biomechanics of the brain: A theoretical and numerical study of Biot's equations of consolidation theory with deformation-dependent permeability by Sivaloganathan, S., Stastna, M., Tenti, G., Drake, J.M.

“…Various mathematical models of hydrocephalus and other brain abnormalities have appeared in the literature over the past 2 decades. In this paper, we study a…”
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Mathematical pressure volume models of the cerebrospinal fluid by Sivaloganathan, S., Tenti, G., Drake, J.M.

“…Numerous mathematical models have emerged in the medical literature over the past two decades attempting to characterize the pressure and volume dynamics of…”
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Real-Time Modelling of Distributed Component-Based Applications by Lopez, P., Medina, J.L., Drake, J.M.

“…This paper presents a modular modelling methodology to formulate the timing behaviour of real-time distributed component-based applications. It allows to build…”
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Enabling Model-Driven Schedulability Analysis in the Development of Distributed Component-Based Real-Time Applications by Lopez Martinez, P., Drake, J.M., Medina, J.L.

“…This work presents a strategy to include temporal behaviour models in deliverable software components in order to develop hard real-time component-based…”
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