The Straits Times

‘Some flourish while others struggle’: NIE study finds five different paths of lower-income students

SINGAPORE – A local study has found that secondary school students from lower-income families are not a homogeneous group held back by a lack of resources. Researchers from the National Institute of ...
IEEE

Iterated Watersheds, A Connected Variation of K-Means for Clustering GIS Data

Abstract: In this article, we propose a novel algorithm to obtain a solution to the clustering problem with an additional constraint of connectivity. This is achieved by suitably modifying K-Means ...
Electronic Design

Can EIS Measure Self-Discharge of a Lithium-Ion Battery Cell?

Self-discharge is a normally occurring phenomenon in lithium-ion battery cells. A normal cell may have a self-discharge rate of 1% state of charge (SOC) per month. The normal self-discharge rate is ...
The Conversation

Silicon Valley’s AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ obsession has a big problem – and philosophers saw it coming

Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI). Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, ...
Space.com

Astronomy has a major data problem – simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms

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qualitysafety.bmj

The problem with red, amber, green: the need to avoid distraction by random variation in organisational performance measures

Centre for Diagnostic Investigatin, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Dr Jacob Anhøj, Centre for Diagnostic Investigatin, Rigshospitalet, University of ...
Investopedia

Understanding Liquidity and How to Measure It

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Medical News Today

What to know about heart rate variability

Heart rate variability (HRV) is the variation in the time between two consecutive heartbeats over a specific period. Doctors may use HRV as an indicator for certain aspects of a person’s health, ...
C&EN

Using Analytic Autoethnography to Characterize the Variation in the Application of the Resources Framework: What Is a Resource?

Fine-grained constructivist frameworks such as the resources framework have been applied as a theoretical lens broadly across education research disciplinary contexts, with a recent increase in its ...
UNDP

Human Development Data

Global, regional, and country/territory-level data on key dimensions of human development, with interactive insights and publications. The human development data are globally comparable, linked to the ...
IEEE

Three-Dimensional Unstructured Finite Element Modeling of Magnetotelluric Problems Allowing for Continuous Variation of Conductivity in Each Block

Abstract: At present, the 3-D magnetotelluric (MT) unstructured finite element modeling approaches often adopt the block-wise uniform conductivity parameterization method, in which the Earth ...
The Conversation

The ‘average’ revolutionized scientific research, but overreliance on it has led to discrimination and injury

When analyzing a set of data, one of the first steps many people take is to compute an average. You might compare your height against the average height of people where you live, or brag about your ...