Thank you for printing the lively article “A Storied Approach to Operations Research” (Notes from Academe, June 14), about Gene Woolsey of the Colorado School of Mines. ... I was especially struck by ...

Everyone hates traffic. Big cities in particular are plagued by an overabundance of vehicles, turning a simple crosstown ...

Credit card issuers first assign the account numbers and then compute steps one through three of the Luhn algorithm to determine the appropriate check digit. In this case, the card number should have ...

The author presents a rapidly convergent algorithm to solve the general portfolio problem of maximizing concave utility functions subject to linear constraints. The algorithm is based on an iterative ...

MINNEAPOLIS, March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A simple treatment algorithm may help reduce treatment disparities for Hispanic and Black people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a preliminary ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 46, No. 3 (1997), pp. 399-409 (11 pages) In this paper we propose a simple algorithm for computing maximum likelihood ...

A simple checklist of seven clinical signs and symptoms could be used to identify sick neonates during the first week of life with potentially life-threatening illnesses requiring referral to hospital ...