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As statisticians, the authors are less confident in the predictive value of statistical models and indices for individual survival times.

QUESTION: My wife and I are headed back to Las Vegas in November. I'm going to play some three-card poker during the trip.

Major Alexei Dymovsky's website, where he has been airing claims of police corruption / dymovskiy.ru Officer claims widespread corruption Fired from job after YouTube videos More: Technology news and reviews A FORMER Russian policeman who accused officers in his home town of corruption says he wants to discuss the affair with Prime Minister ...

The new headmaster for Webb School is from Massachusetts, but he won't need a guide when he moves to Bell Buckle next spring.

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'A mathematics library is what a laboratory is to a chemistry department. It's essential.

The Oct. 29 commentary by George Will demonstrates that the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy cannot be expected to reach correct conclusions through the use of data analysis.

Israel Gelfand left Russia in 1989 and moved to the United States, taking up posts at Harvard and MIT.

Eighth-graders in Steve Vancil's geometry class at Gardiner Middle School in Oregon City are eager to put their knowledge of alternate interior angles, linear pairs and related concepts to use in his class.

The Michigan Department of Education is subtracting certain state requirements for Algebra II course work, and some Bay County schools are adjusting their math classes accordingly.

For folks interested in the intersection of arts and science, the PBS series Independent Lens is presenting a fascinating in-depth look into origami titled Between the Folds .

On a lazy afternoon, Ryan MacLeod enjoys a little shoot 'em up action on his Xbox 360.

Distinguished Computer Scientist and 1996 Turing Award Recipient succumbs to brain hemorrhage on November 2 NYU Department of Computer Science Professor Amir Pnueli died on November 2 of a brain hemorrhage.

We used to hear quite a bit about the Bush administration's supposed 'war on science.' What about the Obama administration's war on mathematics? Every time somebody tries to test the logic of the president's economic policy using actual numbers, the White House starts screaming about space aliens.

Could Dr. Kim Rossmo's ground-breaking geographic profiles be instrumental in locating Somer Thompson's killer? The pilot episode of hit TV show,"Numb3rs" was based on Rossmo's accomplishments.

"One of the most pressing economic and corporate governance issues of the day is how to determine fair pay packages for CEOs," said Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a professor of chemical engineering.

Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on [see also Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on] , Vol.

This model is applied to the problem of pesticide resistance management. Just as in Munro , we consider three main types of interactions: a large pest population reduces economic revenues, economic activities select for resistant genes and the spread of resistant genes affects the size of the pest population.

Articles 22:22 11/02/2009 Reflections on Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' Michael Moore critiques the so-called free-enterprise system.

Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002.