In Star Trek lore, the Kobayashi Maru is the infamous, rigged training simulation that places command cadets in a scenario ...

Speculative activity should face tighter oversight, but the question is whether all proprietary activity should be viewed ...

A study by Spanish ophthalmologists found that children who spend at least 7 hours a week outdoors halve their risk of developing myopia. The researchers, reporting in Frontiers in Medicine from the ...

Abstract: When solving constrained optimization problems by evolutionary algorithms, an important issue is how to balance constraints and objective function. This paper presents a new method to ...

Abstract: Service function chain placement is crucial to support services flexibility and diversity for different users and vendors. Specifically, this problem is proved to be NP-hard. Existing deep ...

Learn how to solve problems using linear programming. A linear programming problem involves finding the maximum or minimum value of an equation, called the objective functions, subject to a system of ...

The Election Commission of India functions as a multi-member body consisting of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners. Decisions of the Commission are taken collectively, ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

For centuries, the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" has dominated discussions of aesthetics. This adage suggests that beauty is entirely subjective—what one person finds attractive, ...

Though magnesium has long been seen as a potential sleep aid, the authors say the new form of magnesium salt may provide a clearer benefit. Corresponding author, Heather A. Hausenblas, PhD, ...