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In a previous report, The Iowa Independent detailed the criminal case of a Bremer County man who was charged and convicted to 25 years in prison under the state's criminal HIV transmission law.

Peter McBurney grew up in Australia, and was torn between studying pure mathematics and English literature.

The Kentucky State Police of Post 2 in Madisonville have released their statistical report for the month of June.

MOST young people jailed for breaching bail conditions have not committed another crime but have broken curfews or failed to stay with parents, a controversial report by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research shows.

Back to School is a time that many children eagerly anticipate - catching up with old friends, making new ones and settling into a new daily routine.

For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved.

NEW NEW Abstract Although genome-scale technologies have benefited from statistical measures of data quality, extracting biologically relevant pathways from high-throughput proteomics data remains a challenge.

It's a horrible thought but another 291 persons will be murdered somewhere in Trinidad and Tobago before Old Year's Day 2009.

Georgia Tech researchers illustrate how their new statistical technique improves measurement of nanostructure properties by correcting data errors.

REvolution Computing, the leading commercial provider of software and support for the "R" statistical computing language, announced the release of 3 new packages for R designed to allow all R users to more quickly handle large, complex sets of data: iterators, foreach and doMC.

A bill aimed at reducing racial disparities in the imposition of the death penalty advanced another step in the N.C. General Assembly yesterday.

Updated: 6/30/2009 3:26:52 PM Posted: 6/30/2009 3:24:02 PM Most Americans are likely to get married at some point in their lives, according to new federal data that show the probability of being married by age 40 is over 80 percent For men, the likelihood of a first marriage by 40 is 81 percent for women, it's 86 percent.

There is no way to know how the newest strain of the H1N1 influenza virus will behave in the future.

Jun 25, 2009 - The use of adiponectin, a hormone derived from fat cells, was confirmed as a robust biomarker predictive of glycemic efficacy in Type 2 diabetes and healthy subjects, after treatment with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-agonists , but not after treatment with non-PPAR drugs such as metformin.

Officials who falsify economic data could face the sack under a new law aimed at wiping out fraudulent figures.

Profession : Mathematician, Harvard University Education: BA, 1969, Chinese University of Hong Kong; PhD, 1971,University of California, Berkeley Awards: Fields Medal , 1982; the U.S. National Medal of Science, 1997 Contribution : Professor Yau has made profound contributions to mathematics, which have influenced a wide range of scientific ...

People in the North East are more likely to be victims of violent crime than anywhere else, figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal.

China's top legislature adopted Saturday a revision to the Law on Statistics, which is intended to prevent the falsification of official data.

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