For an academic researcher who first trained as a philosopher, then as a psychologist, Robyn Dawes was a practical fellow. He would tell a story from his time working in a psychiatric ward in the ...

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how ...

Abstract: In this letter, a highly accurate approximate approach for the sum of arbitrary correlated Weibull random variables is proposed. Specifically, closed-form approximate expressions for the ...

Introduction: The prevalence and risk factors for postoperative incisional hernia (IH) following cytoreductive surgery combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC) remain ...

Abstract: In this paper, an efficient hybrid reliability analysis (HRA) method and a hybrid reliability-based design optimization (HRBDO) approach are proposed for realistic complex engineering ...

Background Despite progress in reducing global maternal mortality in recent decades, low- and lower-middle-income countries ...

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.

Background Acute kidney injury requiring dialysis (AKI-D) is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality worldwide, with ...

The Dell Pro Max 18 Plus wants to give you all the desktop-tier firepower in the world. In return, you must be ready to bear ...

The 1989 Nissan Skyline GT-R sits in a rare sweet spot: it’s old enough to feel truly mechanical, yet advanced enough that ...

Objective Unlike several other fields of healthcare, little is known about the size of ‘therapist effects’ on patient ...

A buffer overflow happens when a program writes more data into a memory buffer than the buffer can hold. The extra bytes land in adjacent memory, corrupting whatever was there. If an attacker controls ...