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Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies Are Bright Star Clusters

A new statistical study sheds light on the so-called 'ultra-compact dwarf galaxies' (UCDs). A team of astronomers has investigated how many of these UCDs exist ...  > full story

Tool Detects Patterns Hidden in Vast Data Sets

Researchers have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called ...  > full story

New Method in Spectral Analysis: Measuring the Distance of Processes

A milestone in the description of complex processes -- for example the ups and downs of share prices -- has been reached ...  > full story

Studying Random Structures With Confetti

Chance and probability play a natural role in statistical physics. Inspired by confetti, researchers in Sweden are gaining better understanding ...  > full story

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  Barriers to the Use of Fingerprint Evidence in Court Is Unlocked by Statistical Model

  February 9, 2012 — Fingerprints that are potential key pieces of evidence in court currently are not being considered due to shortcomings in the way this evidence is reported. Now, a statistical model has been ... > full story
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  Facebook Is a Community

  January 25, 2012 — Researchers in Italy have used two high-speed computer algorithms to analyze the connections between a large sub-set of the more than half a billion users of the social networking site Facebook to ... > full story
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  Protecting Confidential Data With Math

  December 16, 2011 — With the computerization of databases in healthcare, forensics, telecommunications, and other fields, ensuring security for such databases has become increasingly important. Researchers have now ... > full story
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  New Components for Future Computer Memories

  November 3, 2011 — The European TRAMS (terascale reliable adaptive memory systems) consortium investigates the impact of statistical NanoCMOS variability on terascale embedded static random-access memories (SRAMs) ... > full story
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  Mathematically Detecting Stock Market Bubbles Before They Burst

  October 31, 2011 — From the dotcom bust in the late nineties to the housing crash in the run-up to the 2008 crisis, financial bubbles have been a topic of major concern. Identifying bubbles is important in order to ... > full story
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  Social Media Sites May Reveal Information About Problem Drinking Among College Students

  October 3, 2011 — Social media websites, such as Facebook and MySpace, may reveal information that could identify underage college students who may be at risk for problem drinking, according to a new ... > full story
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  Tracing an Elusive Killer Parasite in Peru

  September 27, 2011 — Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms -- some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced ... > full story
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  Researchers Develop Optimal Algorithm for Determining Focus Error in Eyes and Cameras

  September 26, 2011 — Researchers have discovered how to extract and use information in an individual image to determine how far objects are from the focus distance, a feat only accomplished by human and animal visual ... > full story
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  Financial Crisis: Calculating the Probability of Extreme Events

  September 26, 2011 — It had to happen: the property bubble burst and the global financial market experienced its biggest crisis in the last hundred years. In retrospect, many suspected it was coming, but nobody could ... > full story
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  Sifting out Genetic Defects from Mounds of Data

  September 20, 2011 — Within a decade, a combination of advanced measurement techniques and statistics will enable scientists to develop methods to diagnose serious diseases caused by genetic defects. Ten years after ... > full story

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