The real problem with new economic geography, they believe, is its obsession with mathematical modelling.

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They want the new qualification to focus on statistics, mathematical modelling of real-life problems and general mathematical fluency.

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Scientific research based on mathematical modelling indicates that restricting travel will be of limited or no benefit in stopping the spread of disease.

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Mathematical modelling suggests that if microbicides were used by only 20% of women at risk, and were used only half the time, this would still prevent more than 2.5m infections over three years.

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Dr Bilham and Vinod Gaur, from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore, writing late last year in Current Science, said that until recently Indian seismological research has neglected a technique known as geodesy, which measures the strains accumulating in, and distorting the surfaces of, plates.

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