Rodrick Wallace: 10 books
A Mathematical Approach to Multilevel, Multiscale Health Interventions
Pharmaceutical Industry Decline and Policy Response
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book, based on published studies, takes a unique perspective on the 30-year collapse of pharmaceutical industry productivity in the search for small molecule “magic bullet” interventions. The relentless escalation of inflation-adjusted cost per approved medicine in the United States — from...
by Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations. RTW laws forbid requiring union membership even at union-represented worksites. The core of the 22 long-term RTW states was the Confederacy, cultural descendants of rigidly hierarchical agrarian feudal...
Gene Expression and Its Discontents
The Social Production of Chronic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book describes how epigenetic context, in a large sense, affects gene expression and the development of an organism, using the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to construct statistical models useful in data analysis. The approach allows deep understanding of how embedding context...
Clear-Cutting Disease Control
Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.
By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne...
Computational Psychiatry
A Systems Biology Approach to the Epigenetics of Mental Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This book explores mental disorders from a uniquely evolutionary perspective. Although there have been many attempts to mathematically model neural processes and, to some extent, their dysfunction, there is very little literature that models mental function within a sociocultural, socioeconomic, and...
by Rodrick Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The book is a unique exploration of a spectrum of unexpected analogs to psychopathologies likely to afflict real-time critical systems, written by a specialist in the epidemiology of mental disorders. The purpose of this book is to develop a set of information-theoretic statistical tools for analyzing...
An Ecosystem Approach to Economic Stabilization
Escaping the Neoliberal Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The creation of economic institutions that can function well under substantial uncertainties -- Black Swans -- is analogous to the dilemmas confronting our hunter-gatherer forefathers in the face of large-scale ecological unpredictability. The ultimate solution was not the development of a super hunter-gatherer...
Canonical Instabilities of Autonomous Vehicle Systems
The Unsettling Reality Behind the Dreams of Greed
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The asymptotic limit theorems of control and information theories make it possible to explore the dynamics of collapse likely to afflict large-scale systems of autonomous ground vehicles that communicate with each other and with an embedding intelligent roadway. Any vehicle/road system is inherently...
An Information Approach to Mitochondrial Dysfunction
Extending Swerdlow's Hypothesis
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
The monograph applies sophisticated topological symmetry tools to biological applications of information theory, along with a Black–Scholes model invocation of the Data Rate Theorem which links information and control theories. The focus is on statistical mechanics and other models that explore...
Carl von Clausewitz, the Fog-of-War, and the AI Revolution
The Real World Is Not A Game Of Go
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
The language of business is the language of dreams, but the language of war is the language of nightmare made real. Yet business dreams of driverless cars on intelligent roads, and of other real-time critical systems under the control of algorithmic entities, have much of war about them. Such systems,...