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China home prices fall again in AprilNew home prices in nearly two-thirds of China's major cities fell again in April as the country continued its initiatives to regulate the real estate market, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 11:53
For her last time, class is dismissed for Cape Coral High School instructor
Marcia Fain, long time Cape High teacher retiring: Marcia Fain, long time Cape Coral High School math teacher retiring.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 07:48
Statistics: 64% of Jerusalem's Population is Jewish
In honor of Yom Yerushalayim which will be marked on Sunday, the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies released on Thursday some statistics from the past two years about the holy city.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 03:33
Stearns High School announces honor parts
MILLINOCKET, Maine - Lillian N. Dow, daughter of Donald Dow III and Nichole Jamo, has been named valedictorian of her class.
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 23:25
Davao is country's 5th richest city
DAVAO City has been cited as the fifth richest city in the whole country with an average income of P3,534,206,628, making it the lone city from outside Luzon that has been included in the top five richest cities, based on the cities' income for the years 2007-2009. In its March report, Romulo A. Virola, secretary general of the National Statistical ... (more)
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 19:10
Cooperation to ease tensions between district, charterA schools
The Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science is one of the schools involved in new district-charter collaboration.
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 15:05
Man issues mathematical challenge to obesity
Carson C. Chow deploys mathematics to solve the everyday problems of real life. As an investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, he tries to figure out why one in three Americans are obese.
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 10:55
Northwestern-Argonne Institute Co-Directors Announced
Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have appointed Peter W. Voorhees, the Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern, and Pete Beckman, director of the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne, as co-directors of the Northwestern-Argonne ... (more)
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 06:41
University of Maine at Presque Isle, Maine School of Science and Mathematics unveil new partnership
Luke Shorty , executive director of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, speaks at a press conference at the school on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, as Don Zillman, president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, and Michael Sonntag, UMPI provost and vice president for academic affairs, listen.
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 02:26
Overall crime down in South Bend
With all the recent media attention and meetings on youth violence, residents may be under the impression that overall crime is at an all-time high in the city.
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 01:26
Ariola: For Mamang
SOME call her Mommy. Others prefer to call her Mama . To those of Hispanic stock, they like the Spanish version Mama` with accent on the first syllable.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 23:21
Household Spending Growth in Bulgaria Outpaces Income Growth in Q1, 2012
Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Household spending in Bulgaria increased by nearly 15% in the first three months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, according to data of the ... (more)
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 19:07
Engineering - Mechanical
In more recent years, the event has expanded to include ... With almost 100 papers and six keynote contributions, this volume details the state of the art with regard to numerous aspects of advanced micro technologies dealing with metals, polymers, ceramics, and the development of new production platforms for micro systems-based products.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 15:02
The Mathematics of Obesity
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Carson C. Chow, an MIT-trained mathematician and physicist, has taken a new look at America's obesity epidemic and found that a food glut is behind America's weight problem , with the national obesity rate jumping from 20 percent to over 30 percent since 1970.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 12:57
FTSE plummets ahead of expected gloomy Bank of England assessment and ...
The number of people out of work for more than 12 months has risen to the highest level in 16 years, official figures showed today.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 11:58
Global warming: New statistical analysis trys to pinpoint temperature increases by region and season
This year, 22 American-led coalition service members have been killed by men in Afghan uniform, which the military calls "green on blue" attacks.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 09:48
World's Subways Converging on Ideal Form
Sample of subway network structures from Shanghai, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and Barcelona.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 05:33
APSU has 20 Faculty chosen as Summer Faculty Research Fellows
Clarksville, TN - Austin Peay State UniversityA had twenty faculty membersA chosen as awardees in the 2012 Summer Faculty Research Program , which encourages the development of research/creative activity projects at the University.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 01:23
Statistical analysis projects future temperatures in North America
They performed advanced statistical analysis on two different North American regional climate models and were able to estimate projections of temperature changes for the years 2041 to 2070, as well as the certainty of those projections.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 22:19
Statistical mechanics of directed models of polymers in the square lattice
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General , Vol. 36, No. 15. , R11, doi:10.1088/0305-4470/36/15/201 Directed square lattice models of polymers and vesicles have received considerable attention in the recent mathematical and physical sciences literature.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 20:14
Mathematics
This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 16:04
Politics of Data Models and Mining
Private Cloud: Top 5 Trends : There's no shortage of talk on cloud computing. But Gartner analyst Thomas J. Bittman recently cut through the hype to determine the five key trends that are influencing private cloud computing.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 16:04
Effort + fun = payoff
Shaviatia Jefferson, 17, a junior at Mansfield Senior High School, works out a problem in math class Monday afternoon.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 13:59
Hollande sworn in as French president
Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the Elysee Palace after the handover ceremony while new President Francois Hollande, top right, and his companion Valerie Trierweiler look on.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 13:00
2010 Census Figures Still Not Ready ? Gss
The Ghana Statistical Service has postponed the release of the final results of the 2010 Population and Housing Census, which had been scheduled to be announced today, April 30.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 11:00
Annual Church Profiles reflect stagnant growth for 2011
OUTDOORS First Baptist Church in Hibernia is one of many Florida Baptist churches which uses area ponds, rivers or lakes-or even the beach to baptize believers outdoors.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 11:00
Canadians's diet recipe for disaster
Canadians have made slight progress in the battle to combat chronic disease through diet choices even as the nation's children fall even further behind, a study from an independent think tank suggested Monday.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 06:50
Will women determine 2012 race?
Will the women's vote finally determine the outcome of the presidential election? Since women first got the vote, with the 19th Amendment in 1920, presidential politics has awaited this climactic moment.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 06:50
Over 100 graduate at James Sprunt
James Sprunt Community College held its graduation ceremonies Thursday evening, May 10 at the Duplin County Events Center in Kenansville, North Carolina.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 02:40
Akademgorodok, Siberia: A hotbed of education in a very cold place
The name Siberia evokes an image of snow, ice and cold. But in Russia, the Siberian city of Akademgorodok is known as a hotbed of education.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 01:35
Mathematicians come closer to solving Goldbach's weak conjecture
One of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics is also among the easiest to grasp.
Topix.net | 14-May-2012 23:30
Smart Seaweed Uses Laws of Fluid Dynamics to Survive Big Waves | Discoblog
Seaweeds showing off their drag reducing skills.
Littered with the dehydrating corpses of seaweeds, beaches after a big storm are a reminder that life can be tough out there in the crashing waves. But seaweeds aren’t totally defenseless. A recent study in the American Journal of Botany studied two different strategies that seaweeds use to reduce drag so that fast-moving waves don’t uproot them.
Drag is proportional to the total area of the seaweed multiplied by drag coefficient, which depends on the seaweed’s shape. (For example, a boxy school bus has a higher drag coefficient than a race car.) That means seaweeds can either get smaller or more streamlined to ride out the waves.
Sea plants have adopted two main shapes—bladed and branched—to pursue these two strategies: Smoothly shaped bladed seaweeds crumple into smaller shapes when a wave hits them, while branched seaweeds fold their many (drag-generating) fronds into a more streamlined shape. The two approaches aren’t mutually exclusive, but they do manipulate different physical characteristics. Seaweed’s long, trial-and-error evolution has devised the same drag-reducing strategies that engineers have come up with.
Image courtesy of P. Martone et al. / American Journal of Botany
discovermagazine.com | 14-May-2012 20:23
Significance testing of information theoretic functionals
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Topix.net | 13-May-2012 14:10
NPP Advices Government Statistician
The New Patriotic Party has charged the acting Director of the Ghana Statistical Service to stay away from dabbling in partisan politics and concentrate on providing reliable statistics to guide the nation's development planning.
Topix.net | 13-May-2012 10:06
Network-Based Models as Tools Hinting at Nonevident Protein Functionality
Network-based models of proteins are popular tools employed to determine dynamic features related to the folded structure.
Topix.net | 13-May-2012 05:51
Comprehensive literature review and statistical considerations for GWAS meta-analysis
While debate continues about how to get the most out of these studies and on occasion about how much value these studies really provide, it is clear that many of the strongest results have come from large-scale mega-consortia and/or meta-analyses that combine data from up to dozens of studies and tens of thousands of subjects.
Topix.net | 13-May-2012 01:41
Sri Lanka: Japanese professor emphasizes statistical analysis of Tamil inscriptions
Presenting a statistical analysis of Chola inscriptions, he demonstrated how hitherto unknown information and perspective could be obtained on village community and challenges to caste system among medieval Tamils.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 21:27
Bulgarians Spend Almost Entire Income to Meet Consumer Needs
Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Close to 84% of the income of Bulgarians is being spent in covering basic consumer needs, according to official statistics revealed Saturday.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 17:08
Fluctuation geometry: a counterpart approach of inference geometry
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical , Vol. 45, No. 17. , 175002, doi:10.1088/1751-8113/45/17/175002 Starting from an axiomatic perspective, fluctuation geometry is developed as a counterpart approach of inference geometry.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 12:58
2010 Census Figures Still Not Ready ? Gss
The Ghana Statistical Service has postponed the release of the final results of the 2010 Population and Housing Census, which had been scheduled to be announced today, April 30.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 08:59
Addiction diagnoses could see spike
In what could prove to be one of their most far-reaching decisions, psychiatrists and other specialists who are rewriting the manual that serves as the nation's arbiter of mental illness have agreed to revise the definition of addiction, which could result in millions more people being diagnosed as addicts and pose huge consequences for health ... (more)
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 04:54
Crunching the environmental numbers
ECONOMICS has had an uneasy relationship with the environment. If economists thought about it at all, they considered the environment as part of the macro-economy - a mine, a forest, a fishery - rather than a fragile natural system.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 00:39
Teacher's math "phobia" equals poor applied math scores
David Thomas, director of education at the Upper Canada District School board, spoke at the Arklan Community Public School in Carleton Place on May 2. Desmond Devoy "We've got to get those kids earlier, in Grades 3 and 4," said David Thomas, director of education at the Upper Canada District School Board during the bi-annual Carleton Place and ... (more)
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 20:30
Number of Women Not in Labor Force Hits Historic High
The civilian labor force consists of all people in the United States 16 years or older who are not in the military, a prison, or another institution such as a nursing home or mental hospital and who either have a job or are unemployed but have actively sought work in the previous four weeks and are currently available to work... This year , only ... (more)
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 16:20
Flight academy camp teaches teens math, science
The panicked voice came into Ambition's air traffic control room - one of the aircraft carrier's young pilots was in trouble."Dude, my nose is down," the pilot shouted as he struggled to regain control over his X12 experimental Triad aircraft.There was no real danger, however: The planes are imaginary and Ambition is a simulated aircraft carrier, ... (more)
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 12:05
Let's Ghanaians judge if there's single digit inflation - " Bawumia
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the NPP vice-presidential candidate, has indicated that even though he does not doubt the credibility of the Ghana Statistical Service, the single digit inflation touted by the government is questionable.
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 12:05