For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as ...

To make sense of how markets move, it helps to understand the two major kinds of risk in investing: systematic risk and specific risk. Learning how they work can make you a more confident and informed ...

Abstract: Compared with common 3-D measurements technologies, indirect time-of-flight (i-TOF) systems offers significant advantages in volume, cost, power consumption, accuracy, range, and angular ...

Background: Promoting physical activity is a public health priority for managing metabolic dysfunction, yet “lack of time” remains a major barrier to adherence. Sprint interval training (SIT) has ...

To reduce risk, refine their strategies, and optimize adoption at scale, companies need more testing at the organizational level. by Johannes Berndt, Florian Englmaier, Raffaella Sadun, Jorge Tamayo ...

Biomarkers are needed to identify patients with favourable-risk prostate cancers who could benefit from treatment versus active surveillance (AS). MRI-targeted biopsies may allow for better sampling ...

Following the Baltimore Ravens' most recent loss, their second in as many games, players and coaches were asked for their opinions. Almost everyone, to a man, was asked about one bad call or another.

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

1 Department of Pharmacy, Heze Hospital Affiliated of Shandong First Medical University, Heze Municipal Hospital, Heze, Shandong, China 2 Department of Pharmacy, Binzhou People’s Hospital, Binzhou, ...

Lu Yu is a managing director and lead portfolio manager with Virtus Systematic, a division of Virtus Advisers LLC. She has portfolio management and research responsibilities for the Systematic Team.

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...