Predicting the Direction of a Time Series -- On the Variability of Timing in a Spatially Continuous System with Heterogeneous Connectivity -- First Passage Time Problem: A Fokker-Planck Approach -- First- and Last-Passage Algorithms in Diffusion Monte Carlo -- An Updated Review of the LLS Stock Market Model: Complex Market Ecology, Power Laws in Wealth Distribution and Market Returns -- Patterns, Trends and Predictions in Stock Market Indices and Foreign Currency Exchange Rates -- Toward an Understanding of Financial Markets Using Multi-agent Games -- Towards Understanding the Predictability of Stock Markets from the Perspective of Computational Complexity -- Patterns in Economic Phenomena -- New Algorithms and the Physics of Protein Folding -- Sequence Alignment in Bioinformatics -- Resolution of Some Paradoxes in B-Cell Binding and Activation: A Computer Study -- Proliferation and Competition in Discrete Biological Systems -- Privacy and Data Exchanges -- Statistical Physics and the Clustering Problem -- The Challenges of Clustering High Dimensional Data -- Some Statistical Physics Approaches for Trends and Predictions in Meteorology -- An Initial Look at Acceleration-Modulated Thermal Convection.