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One of the most important moments in the history of science and technology happened 40 years ago on Thursday.
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The legendary mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss considered his alleged discovery of statistical regression “trivial.”
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Eighteen mathematicians spent four years and 77 hours of supercomputer computation to describe this structure, with the results unveiled yesterday at a talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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List of Yellow Herbicides
"Yellow" herbicides inhabit the lateral root development of plants. Their main ingredients interfere with the process of cell division, according to the University of Tennessee Weed Science Department. These popular herbicides are used to kill annual grass and small-seeded broadleaf weeds. Al... |
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Structure and Function of the Cranial Meninges
Today we will look at the layer of supportive and protective tissue that separates the skull and the brain.
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Whether they're called credit crunches, panics, or financial crises, large negative moves in financial markets have been occurring since free-market trading began. In the markets, emotion sometimes overcomes reason and rational decision-making gives way to greed or fear. Excessive greed leads to bubbles and sows the se... |
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In recent months New York City hospitals have had a run of well-publicized trouble. A young Hasidic scholar died after emergency-room doctors had failed to notice a stab wound in his back. A prominent Harlem lawyer died of a bleeding ulcer after waiting almost 11 hours in the emergency room and then being sent home, an... |
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The Riemann Hypothesis has become the Holy Grail of mathematics in the century and a half since 1859 when Bernhard Riemann, one of the extraordinary mathematical talents of the 19th century, originally posed the problem. While the problem is notoriously difficult, and complicated even to state carefull... |
Law Craft Game Play Strategies
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The abbreviated mental test score (AMTS) was introduced by Hodkinson in 1972[1] rapidly to assess elderly patients for the possibility of dementia. Its uses in medicine have become somewhat wider, e.g. to assess for confus... |
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The amortization repayment model factors varying amounts of both interest and principal into every installment, though the total amount of each payment is the same.
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Aurangabad is one of the historical cities of the Deccan, India. It is well known for its literary and cultural traditions. As this city was the stronghold of the Mughals, a number of civil and military officers, men of letters, citi... |
Group actions III — what’s the point of them?
Somebody told me recently that a few years ago they had a supervision with a colleague of mine (who shall remain nameless, but he or she is an applied mathematician) and asked what the point of group actions was. “I have absolutely no idea,” was the response, and the impli... |
Stats: Scheffe' and Tukey Tests
When the decision from the One-Way Analysis of Variance is to reject the null hypothesis, it means that at least one of the means isn't the same as the other means. What we need is a way to figure out where the differences lie, not just that there is a difference.
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Shalom (שלום) is a Hebraic word which means "peace". Like in English, it can mean the peace between two parts, as well as an inner peace, being calm or the quietness of a person. It is also used as a method of greeting like "hello", "good day (morning, ... |
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Cheap, Portable MRI
A new device uses inexpensive, low-power magnets and lasers to create images for materials and biomedical applications.
Researchers have come up with a new technique for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that’s much cheaper and more portable than current technology. Although it’s not feasible for m... |
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A focus on perception was both the strength and the weakness of Huxley's approach to religion
The question: Is there a perennial philosophy?
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