The CDC study relied on scientific methods to extrapolate total illnesses from disease outbreaks that were reported and monitored, said Patricia Griffin, chief of the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch at the CDC and one of the authors of the new study.

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In 1965 he persuaded the Survey to create an astro-geology branch, and began a methodical study of the moon which showed that its craters were forged almost entirely by impacts.

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Radiologist Robert Gatenby has used a branch of mathematics known as catastrophe theory, previously used to study things like bridge collapses, to examine why tumors often come roaring back after first responding to chemotherapy.

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To do the study, Abraham gathered data from a large bank where 44% of branch managers were women.

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