Abstract: The Negative Binomial distribution (NBD) is used for modeling many types of count data, including gene expression counts obtained by RNA sequencing technologies (RNA-Seq). Finding outliers ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. — Wednesday night, the shelves were bare again at the Salvation Army of Jefferson County — but this time, for all the right reasons. A year after a fire destroyed their food ...

After years behind a paywall, Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett’s “The C-Word” podcast is breaking free. Radio broadcast and podcast company Audacy inked a deal with Dunham and Bennett to handle sales ...

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Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

U.N. trucks delivering food to Gaza were stopped and looted overnight, Gaza residents and merchants said on Wednesday, hours after desperate Palestinians overran a distribution site run by a ...

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Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

Abstract: In CRYPTO 2013, Ducas et al. introduced a bimodal discrete Gaussian distribution into the Fiat-Shamir with abort paradigm, proposing a signature scheme called BLISS, which significantly ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.