While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Catastrophizing is fixating on the worst possible outcome of a situation, even if unlikely. The author shares personal experiences with catastrophizing, particularly regarding a recent health ...

Continuous-variable quantum cryptography has emerged as a significant branch of quantum cryptography, with continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) at its core. However, compared to ...

While some of these indices are much more attractive in terms of yield than they were over most of the past decade, none of these yields are especially attractive to those who need income. After all, ...

U.N. trucks delivering food to Gaza were stopped and looted overnight, Gaza residents and merchants said on Wednesday, hours after desperate Palestinians overran a distribution site run by a ...

May 27 (UPI) --Thousands swarmed two food distribution sites in Gaza on the first day that a U.S.-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began delivering humanitarian assistance on Tuesday. A new ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WMBF) - Some Coastal Carolina students are raising alarms through a campaign about how their tuition money is being spent. Students are calling the movement “The Coastal Problem.” Flyers ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of designing nonlinear discrete-time dynamical systems for prospective use in low-complexity random signal generators. Drawing upon ergodic systems theory, ...

A new study from University of Toronto Engineering researchers points to practical strategies to prevent deaths from opioid poisoning by optimizing the distribution of naloxone kits. In a paper ...