As a result, the Islamic population will rapidly increase its share in the world population. The world population will increase by 1.7 Billion between 2004 and 2030. On this amount, Muslims will bring 780 million ( 46% ). Today, Muslims represent 24% of world population ( One man out of four). This figure will attain 29% in 2030 ( One man out of three ).

A group of six emerging market countries— Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Russia—will account for half of global economic growth in 2025, a new report from the World Bank said on Tuesday

How to control complex networks

May 13, 2011 by Editor

A new computational model developed by MIT researcher Jean-Jacques Slotine and colleagues allows better control of complex networks, such as the genes that regulate cellular metabolism, by identifying critical points that can be used tocontrol the entire system.

The number of points that need to be controlled to influence the system depends on whether the network is densely or sparsely connected, they report in the May 12 cover story of Nature.

The model predicts that controlling sparse networks like gene regulatory networks requires control more than 80% of all points in the network, while controlling dense networks like neural networks in the brain requires only 10%.

This latest improvement on the half-century old field of control theory will have diverse applications for controlling any network through carefully targeted inputs.