Marcus du Sautoy uses combinations of peaches and plums and a set of scales, to show how simultaneous equations can be solved. This method didn’t appear in the West until the 19th century, but had ...

This paper uses a topic from multivariate analysis, i.e., canonical correlation theory, in the development of a generalized correlation coefficient for simultaneous equation systems. Canonical ...

The advent of next-generation sequencing has made possible genome analysis at previously unattainable depth. Roche, Illumina and Life Technologies, among others, have developed well-established ...

Abstract: In this communication, a domain decomposition method for electromagnetic scatterers is proposed. After dividing the geometry into several domains, the subdomains are divided into near, far ...

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There was a painful recalibration of dog-human relationships in 18th century Britain—any dog, except for the owned, leashed ...