He has pioneered the use of technology to study cancer-associated genes and to construct animal models of many human cancer types, including cancers of the lung, pancreas, brain, and ovaries.

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The institute already uses models to study the short-term dynamics of malaria transmission.

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The University of Alaska Institute for Social and Economic Reform carried out a study into the costs of climate change, based on predictive climate models.

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The study found that the majority of consumers received credit scores that were similar across the different scoring models.

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It is a study in discreet grays, with leather-backed chairs, padding on the walls and stylish photographs of models.

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As Laffer noted in a 1971 Fortune interview, "Thousands of people work days and nights to get those other models out, " and his study was one Nixon's top advisors incorrectly felt they could understand easily.

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In fact, dependability of all-new and redesigned models is at a record high, according to the latest study.

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These models first came to prominence in 2004, when an international team of scientists published a study of more than a thousand species.

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The study found that different scoring models would put consumers in the same credit-quality category 73 percent to 80 percent of the time.

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