News tagged with statistical probability


Study Shows Bank Risk-Assessment Tool Not Responding Adequately to Market Fluctuations

Other Sciences / Economics

created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that regulators need to do more to ensure that banks are adequately computing their Value-at-Risk (VaR) to reflect fluctuations in financial markets. ...





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Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors ...


Wizard at circuits, physics

Wizard at circuits, physics

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.


Protein Markers Predict Risk of Melanoma Recurrence

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new prognostic tool that can determine the risk of recurrence in melanoma patients has been developed by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The technology, based on five proteins expressed in melanoma tissue, ...


San Andreas fault

Quake prediction model developed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.


No widespread impact of wind power projects on surrounding residential property values in the US

Technology / Energy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A major new Berkeley Lab report finds that proximity to wind energy facilities does not have a pervasive or widespread adverse effect on the property values of nearby homes.


Rural America more prosperous than expected

Rural America more prosperous than expected

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For many people "rural" is synonymous with low incomes, limited economic opportunity, and poor schools. However, a recent study at the University of Illinois found that much of rural America is actually prosperous, ...


Alcohol companies target youths with magazine ads, new study shows

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Alcoholic beverages popular among youths are more likely to be advertised in magazines with high youth readership than alcoholic drinks consumed mainly by adults, resulting in disproportionately high youth exposure to such ...


Research Suggests New Approach to Using Assessment Results to Improve Classroom Instruction

Research Suggests New Approach to Using Assessment Results to Improve Classroom Instruction

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Education researchers at the University of Arkansas have taken an important first step toward better understanding both formative assessment and how to get the information teachers need to ...


Digital avalanche rescue dog

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel geolocation system makes use of signals from Galileo, the future European satellite navigation system, to locate avalanche victims carrying an avalanche transceiver or a cellphone, to the precision ...


Fear of anxiety linked to depression in above-average worriers

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Anxiety sensitivity, or the fear of feeling anxious, may put people who are already above-average worriers at risk for depression, according to Penn State researchers. Understanding how sensitivity to anxiety is a risk factor ...



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