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New Tool to Eliminate 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Heart Failure Patients
March 10, 2013 Researchers have developed an innovative tool designed to eliminate 30-day hospital readmissions for heart failure patients and improve the quality of medical care a patient receives in the ... > full story -
Engineers Develop Techniques to Boost Efficiency of Cloud Computing Infrastructure
March 7, 2013 Computer scientists have developed a novel approach that allows the massive infrastructure powering cloud computing to run as much as 15 to 20 percent more efficiently. This novel model has already ... > full story -
Statistical Physics Offers a New Way to Look at Climate
March 5, 2013 New research suggests that statistical simulations rooted in basic physics could make for new climate models that are more useful and require less brute-force computing power. A new article shows how ... > full story -
New Research Confirms Plight of Bumble Bees, Persistence of Other Bees in Northeast
March 4, 2013 A new study shows that although certain bumble bees are at risk, other bee species in the northeastern United States persisted across a 140-year period despite expanding human populations and ... > full story -
3-D Atlas of the Human Heart Drawn Using Statistics
February 26, 2013 Researchers in Spain have created a high resolution atlas of the heart with 3-D images taken from 138 people. The study demonstrates that an average image of an organ along with its variations can be ... > full story -
Macroweather Is What You Expect: Should There Be a Distinct Category Between Weather and Climate?
February 25, 2013 While short-term weather is notoriously volatile, climate is thought to represent a kind of average weather pattern over a long period. This dichotomy provides the analytical framework for scientific ... > full story -
Earthquakes in Small Laboratory Samples
February 21, 2013 Mechanical failure of materials is a complex phenomenon underlying many accidents and natural disasters ranging from the fracture of small devices to earthquakes. Despite the vast separation of ... > full story -
Statistics Help Clear Fog for Better Climate Change Picture
February 17, 2013 Statistics is an important tool in sorting through information on how human activities are affecting the climate system, as well as how climate change affects natural and human systems, according to ... > full story -
Climate Change Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition
February 17, 2013 A statistician says that the natural human difficulty with grasping probabilities is preventing Americans from dealing with climate ... > full story -
New Citation Indicators Needed to Measure Research Performance
February 12, 2013 How do you compare the impact of a researcher in chemistry or physics with a molecular biologist who may be working on similar projects? Two experts support the use of citation indicators that are ... > full story
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