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Wasserstein β-Diversity Metrics over Graphs: Derivation, Efficient Computation and Applications

Creator:

McClelland, Jason

Abstract:

Microbial ecology has been transformed by metagenomics, the study of the genetic in-formation in entire communities of organisms. In the following we develop metagenomic tools arising from the classic Wasserstein metric as applied to questions regarding the diversity between microbial communities. We provide a novel proof of the characteriza-tion of...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Modeling Porosity: The Visco-Elastic Edition

Creator:

Holland, Eleanor

Resource Type:

Dissertation
A Ross-Macdonald Model with Vector Demography

Creator:

Reyes Grimaldo, Ricardo Noe Gerardo

Abstract:

Malaria is a vector-borne disease that has affected humans and other animals for a long time and which has shown high prevalence among different populations. During the beginning of the 20th century, Sir Ronald Ross and George Macdonald developed a model that represents the spread of malaria through the interaction...

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Masters Thesis