A new UCLA study reveals that a widely used federal hospital safety metric is fundamentally flawed when applied to emergency stroke care, potentially creating incentives that may discourage hospitals ...

Strengthen your product positioning and message before you scale ads, so more of your traffic turns into sales instead of wasted clicks. Follow a simple pre-marketing flow: define the exact buyer, ...

Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

Converting a PDF to Word should be seamless, but anyone who deals with documents regularly will know how fickle the outcome can be. A well-set-up PDF can become a Word document with broken tables, ...

Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

Abstract: We study policy optimization problems for deterministic Markov decision processes (MDPs) with metric state and action spaces, which we refer to as metric policy optimization problems (MPOPs) ...

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Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

In several of my columns, I have pointed out the advantages of Roth conversions from traditional IRAs. If you anticipate that you will not access the converted amount for several years, the advantages ...

Many marketing teams are missing out because they think that conversion rate is just one metric. It’s not. Conversion rate (CR) is the Swiss army knife of metrics, one which can morph and change to ...