Introduction Timely detection, notification and response are critical for mitigating outbreak impact, yet evidence linking timeliness to public health outcomes is limited.Methods We hypothesised that ...

NATICK, Mass. — Military cooks and chefs often have the daunting task of cooking for hundreds, if not thousands, of their hungry counterparts. Making tasty, innovative and enjoyable meals on a massive ...

Centrality measures allow to identify important nodes in networked systems. An open question in network theory is the empirical observation that a node’s centrality—whose computation requires ...

Abstract: With its inherent causal reasoning and superior capacity for handling uncertainty, the belief rule base (BRB) has been widely applied in complex systems modeling. As a generalization of ...

MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons THE BENDS, PART 3 We've been discussing string bending techniques and the many different melodies, sounds and emotive qualities available to guitarists via different ways ...

Deep beneath Utah’s desert soil, an oil drill bored through the Earth at a blistering pace earlier this spring. Gnarly looking drill bits tore through granite at around 300 feet per hour. It was done ...

Abstract: A combined cryptosystem with symmetric keys for encrypting messages is proposed. Its unique feature is the use of functions of a real variable as keys instead of natural numbers. Eight key ...

Launching from the semester’s end into summer is usually celebrated as a special kind of academic freedom, a chance to get lost in projects and flex your intellectual muscles. But what we’re hearing ...

Is it safe to drink wild water? Discover my approach to finding drinking water in the wilderness and learn about the various methods, including the risks and experiences of getting sick from wild ...