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Arizona at it again: Education, age, and politics in immigration
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By now you've undoubtedly heard about Venus Williams' decision to walk away from the U.S. Open because of Sjogren's syndrome. But a lot of people still don't really know what that means or why it can be so debilitating. I asked Steven E. Carsons, MD, internal medicine chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immuno... |
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After someone says “merci beaucoup”, I would like to respond by saying something equivalent to the English phrase “no problem”. I tried google translate, and it gave me “Pas de problème”, but I'm not so sure this is correct. Is it correct? Are there other informal ways of expressing “you're we... |
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Were any South or Central American nations besides Brazil involved (not necessarily officially) in either of the World Wars? If any were, I'd appreciate information on their degree of involvement.
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Would a gentile child - under the age of 13 (male)/12 (female) - that sees/touches wine make it into Yayin Nesech? Or can only an adult make it into Yayin Nesech?
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I saw this approximation for the factorial given by Ramanujan as $$\log(n!) \approx n \log n - n + \frac{\log(n(1+4n(1+2n)))}{6} + \frac{\log(\pi)}{2}$$ in wikipedia, which claims the approximation is superior to Stirling's approximation. I tried to locate the reference but unfortunately I cou... |
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Assume that all the entries of an $n \times n$ correlation matrix which are not on the main diagonal are equal to $q$. Find upper and lower bounds on the possible values of $q$.
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What would be the closed-form expression defining number of all possible labelled connected bipartite graphs given $\mid X \mid = m, \mid Y \mid = n - m $?
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This should be easy to prove but i have no idea how to do it:
If $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$ is borel then $f(X)$ is borel where $f(x,y) = x$
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The following is some version of Tannaka-Krein theory, and is reasonably well-known:
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Most of us go around, doing different physical activities. Whether it is indoors or outdoors, the common factor is that we often sweat, make our muscles, joints, tendons, ligament, etc work harder than normal.
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