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Close connections: the architecture of telephone exchange buildings www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An nth-Cousin Mating Model and the n-Anacci Numbers In seeking to understand the size of inbred pedigrees, J. Lachance (J. Theor. Biol. 261, 238–247, 2009) studied a population model in which, for a fixed value of n, each mating occurs between nth c...

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Hidden Markov modelling of spatio-temporal dynamics of measles in 1750–1850 Finland Real world spatio-temporal datasets, and phenomena related to them, are often challenging to visualise or gain a general overview of. In order to summarise information encompassed in such data, we ...

Hidden Markov modelling of spatio-temporal dynamics of measles in 1750–1850 Finland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Computational approaches for QSAR-based prediction of MRSA antimicrobial activity Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of nosocomial and community-acquired infections, with an estimated global death rate of 10 million per year by 2050. This study...

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When Do Zeros of an Exponential Sum have Real Parts that Form a Dense Set? The zeros of exponential sums with complex coefficients and distinct real-valued exponents, also known as exponential polynomials, are among the most intensively studied of all entire functions. Ne...

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Aristotelianism and Hermeticism in Renaissance Naples: Francesco Storella and the Secrets of Alchemy This article examines the role of the logician Francesco Storella (active ca. 1550–1575) in contributing to the intellectual and social legitimation of alchemy in mid sixteenth-century Naples. Stor...

Aristotelianism and Hermeticism in Renaissance Naples: Francesco Storella and the Secrets of Alchemy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Explainable Machine Learning for U.S. Recessions Nowcasting: the Shapley Approach Much of the recession forecasting literature is focused on producing a model for predicting current and future economic states. Nevertheless, the question of why a model predicts a given class (rec...

Explainable Machine Learning for U.S. Recessions Nowcasting: the Shapley Approach

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Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: evidence from 350,757 flips.

That's the title of our paper summarizing ~650 hours of coin-tossing experimentation just published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
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Housing prices and school quality: A quantitative exercise using Greater Boston housing data This article provides a roadmap to explore the relationship between school quality and median single-family town-level home prices, school, and neighborhood characteristics using a unique dataset c...

Housing prices and school quality: A quantitative exercise using Greater Boston housing data

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Investigation of multi-stage desalination using a passive solar-driven membrane (PSDM) system: a critical analysis for Unserved and underserved areas (UUA) in the Philippines The utilization of alternative and sustainable desalination methods geared towards geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas is gaining attention. The Passive Solar Driven Membrane (PSDM) des...

Investigation of multi-stage desalination using a passive solar-driven membrane (PSDM) system: a critical analysis for Unserved and underserved areas (UUA) in the Philippines www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sustainable carbon dots: insights into synthesis methods, properties, and diverse applications Carbon dots (CDs), a novel class of nanomaterials, have gained significant attention owing to their remarkable properties, such as strong fluorescence, biocompatibility, and environmental friendlin...

Sustainable carbon dots: insights into synthesis methods, properties, and diverse applications www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Housing prices and school quality: A quantitative exercise using Greater Boston housing data This article provides a roadmap to explore the relationship between school quality and median single-family town-level home prices, school, and neighborhood characteristics using a unique dataset c...

Housing prices and school quality: A quantitative exercise using Greater Boston housing data

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PRIMUS Teaching Linear Algebra: An International Perspective. Volume 35, Issue 9-10 of PRIMUS

New Release: Volume 35.9-10! This is a special issue on Teaching Linear Algebra: An International Perspective, guest edited by Cronin, McDonald, Quilan, Stewart & Strong.

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A Markovian model for football penalty shootout This paper introduces a Markov transition model to analyse the kick-first effects on a football penalty shootout. Two different penalty shootout rules are considered, the ABAB rule currently used i...

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Reframing the anthropocene Armin Grunwald's article – ‘Toward a “Good” Anthropocene: Navigating the Vicious Circle of Technological Progress and Unintended Consequences' – should be required reading for students of sustainab...

Reframing the anthropocene www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Modeling incubation period and time of exposure using the four-parameter generalized gamma distribution Accurately estimating the time of exposure is crucial for identifying infection sources and implementing public health interventions during infectious disease outbreaks. Conventional methods, which...

Modeling incubation period and time of exposure using the four-parameter generalized gamma distribution www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A solution of the quantum time of arrival problem via mathematical probability theory Time of arrival refers to the time a particle takes after emission to impinge upon a suitably idealised detector surface. Within quantum theory, no generally accepted solution exists so far for the...

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Publishing and Using SCORE Modules in the Classroom In 2021, a group of educators who share a common passion for statistics, reforming undergraduate education, and sports came together to propose the formation of a network of academics, industry, an...

Publishing and Using SCORE Modules in the Classroom

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Rational Arithmetic Functions and Multivariate Fibonacci Polynomials An arithmetic function is a rational arithmetic function of order (r,0), or an r-ic function, if it is the Dirichlet convolution of r completely multiplicative functions. In this paper, we establis...

Rational Arithmetic Functions and Multivariate Fibonacci Polynomials www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎲 What does it feel like to act as a scientist in modern board games?

🎴 In our latest media review, Stefan Sulzenbacher, Stephan Voss, and Michael Penkler review the games "The Search for Planet X", "Alchemists", and "Weather Machine."

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Modular Jump Gaussian Processes Gaussian processes (GPs) furnish accurate nonlinear predictions with well-calibrated uncertainty. However, the typical GP setup has a built-in stationarity assumption, making it ill-suited for mode...

Modular Jump Gaussian Processes

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Dynamical analysis of an age-structured COVID-19 transmission model with voluntary vaccination strategies and evolutionary game COVID-19 infection exhibits significant age-related differences. In this paper, we consider an infectious disease model with age-structure in susceptibility and evolutionary game and analyze the im...

Dynamical analysis of an age-structured COVID-19 transmission model with voluntary vaccination strategies and evolutionary game www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Sad Life of Lattice Triangles This paper treats triangles in the plane whose vertices lie on the integer lattice; i.e., the vertices have integer coordinates. It shows that, apart from trivial examples, the circumcenter, centro...

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Platform for Automated Anomaly Detection in the Mercury Process System at the Target System in the Spallation Neutron Source The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory accelerates proton beams, which are directed toward a mercury target to generate the world’s most intense neutron beams via spal...

Platform for Automated Anomaly Detection in the Mercury Process System at the Target System in the Spallation Neutron Source

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Technology-based versus paper-pencil: sources of mode effects in large-scale assessment As many large-scale tests now use technology-based assessments (TBA), their comparability with traditional paper-and-pencil assessments (PPA) has become increasingly important. This study investiga...

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A brief history of The Mathematical Gazette: thirty years later This article revisits the history of The Mathematical Gazette, extending earlier accounts by examining developments since the publication of Michael Dampier’s ‘The Mathematical Gazette: a brief his...

A brief history of The Mathematical Gazette: thirty years later

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Combustion of cables used in nuclear power plants The combustion and subsequent reactions of cables found in nuclear power plants are investigated, including chlorosulfonated cables (CSPE cables) and a Low-smoke zero-halogen cables (LSZH cables). ...

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New beginning from old roots: Russian mathematicians at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Russia was devastated by the aftermath of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution that started in 1917. As a result, many people, particularly members of the intelligentsia, were forced to...

New beginning from old roots: Russian mathematicians at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond the Yard Line: Accommodating Rounded Sports Data in Statistical Models In American football, rushing, passing, and receiving yards are recorded as whole numbers, but using a unique method of rounding, even though the true yardage is continuous and recorded precisely o...

Beyond the Yard Line: Accommodating Rounded Sports Data in Statistical Models www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Evaluating bias reduction methods in binary Emax model for reliable dose-response estimation The Binary Emax model is widely employed in dose-response analysis during Phase II clinical studies to identify the optimal dose for subsequence confirmatory trials. The parameter estimation and in...

Evaluating bias reduction methods in binary Emax model for reliable dose-response estimation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....