Mike Cripps 1959-2011

Mikael Passare ( 1959 – 2011 )

Mikael Passare was a brilliant mathematician who died much too early. In this chapter we present a sketch of his work and life. Mikael was born in Västerås, Sweden, on 1959 January 01, and pursued a fast and brilliant career as a mathematician. He started his studies at Uppsala University in the fall of 1976 while still a highschool student, merely seventeen and a half. He finished high school ...

Malaria in the Americas: Trends from 1959 to 2011

Malaria has declined in recent years in countries of the American continents. In 2011, 12 of 21 endemic countries had already met their 2015 Millennium Development Goal. However, this declining trend has not been adequately evaluated. An analysis of the number of cases per 100,000 people (annual parasite index [API]) and the percentage of positive blood slides (slide positivity rate [SPR]) duri...

Mike Anderson

Mike Holcombe

The generalized stream X-machines (stream X-machines with basic functions replaced by relations and having as output, strings of symbols rather than single symbols) with output delimiter (any output string has at the right end side a special delimiter) are introduced. It is proved that testing methods similar to those already developed for ordinary determi-nistic stream X-machines may be applie...

Mike Greenberg

Mike Greenberg Harvard Medical School Mike Greenberg grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived and worked in the Boston area for the last 30 years. He is currently the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. His scientific passion is to understand how genes and the environment (nature and nurture) are intertwined at ...