{"id":80,"date":"2005-06-09T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T10:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T07:13:13","slug":"math-optimizes-kidney-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/math-optimizes-kidney-matches-80","title":{"rendered":"Math Optimizes  Kidney Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting 'real-life' application. <\/p>\n<p>There are currently about 90,000 patients waiting for a kidney donation in the US. Donated kidneys cannot be given to anyone who wants them - there are many factors in compatability, including physical distance between donor and recipient.<\/p>\n<p>This article shows an interesting algorithm that has been developed to help the kidney donation process: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2005\/06\/050608054631.htm\">Math Optimizes Kidney Matches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting 'real-life' application. There are currently about 90,000 patients waiting for a kidney donation in the US. Donated kidneys cannot be given to anyone who wants them - there are many factors in compatability, including physical distance between donor and recipient. This article shows an interesting algorithm that has been developed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12348,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/12348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}