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 ...

The efficiency of Monte Carlo simulations is significantly improved when implemented with variance reduction methods. Among these methods, we focus on the popular importance sampling technique based ...

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We present a method for sequential estimation of the state of infestation of an agricultural crop by a pest arthropod. The method, which is based on Bayesian statistical theory, establishes stopping ...

Not only is breast cancer more than one disease, but a single breast cancer tumor can vary within itself, giving the potential for very different patient treatment plans depending on the tumor sample ...

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A salt marsh harvest mouse walks across the bulrush at Grizzly Island Wildlife Area in San Francisco. (Cody Aylward/UC Davis) From species of marmots to moles, shrews and mice, many of the world’s ...

Hollow nanosized needles, or nanostraws, are a promising tool for opening up tiny, temporary holes in cell membranes to deliver molecules or sample a cell’s contents. Nanostraws could also deliver ...

Collecting genetic samples for small mammals can be tricky, but scientists found a noninvasive way to do it for San Francisco's endangered salt marsh harvest mouse. From species of marmots to moles, ...