Roll the Dice

Roll the Dice

In the 2014 annual meeting of the Korean Society of Mathematical Biology, the managing editor proposed an interesting idea: viewing problematic gambling as a contagious disease [1]. One article was then submitted and enlisted in the June issue of this journal [2]. As part of our efforts to imprint a unique feature to the readers of biomedical journals by publishing at least one mathematical mod...

Reflections on abortion: a roll of the dice in Louisiana.

Roll the DICE Again: Economic Models of Global Warming Chapter 9

Viruses Roll the Dice: The Stochastic Behavior of Viral Genome Molecules Accelerates Viral Adaptation at the Cell and Tissue Levels

Recent studies on evolutionarily distant viral groups have shown that the number of viral genomes that establish cell infection after cell-to-cell transmission is unexpectedly small (1-20 genomes). This aspect of viral infection appears to be important for the adaptation and survival of viruses. To clarify how the number of viral genomes that establish cell infection is determined, we developed...

On the Forged Dice

It is a well{known exercise in elementary probability that it is impossible to forge two ordinary dice with numbers 1;. . .; 6 in such a way that when one throws both and takes the sum one gets the numbers 2; 3;. . .; 12 all with the same probability. preceding assertion is just the statement that for m = 10, k 1 = k 2 = 5 there are no such probabilities. It will be shown how the k 1 ;. . .; k ...