A Primer on Explosives

A PRIMER ON FUZZY OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

Fuzzy Linear Programming models and methods has been one ofthe most and well studied topics inside the broad area of Soft Computing. Itsapplications as well as practical realizations can be found in all the real worldareas. In this paper a basic introduction to the main models and methods infuzzy mathematical programming, with special emphasis on those developedby the authors, is presented. As ...

A Primer on Bioethics

A Primer on Metagenomics

Metagenomics is a discipline that enables the genomic study of uncultured microorganisms. Faster, cheaper sequencing technologies and the ability to sequence uncultured microbes sampled directly from their habitats are expanding and transforming our view of the microbial world. Distilling meaningful information from the millions of new genomic sequences presents a serious challenge to bioinform...

A Primer on Inequalities

When working in the set of real numbers, we have a law of trichotomy. Given x, y ∈ R exactly one of these is true: x < y, y < x, or x = y. This (almost) defining characteristic of the real line means that inequalities are a valuable tool in calculus and calculus’ big brother, real analysis. At our level it’s hard to give authentic examples of why inequalities are important, but here’s a couple ...

A Primer on Probability

Example 3. A coin toss is an example of a Bernoulli trial, which in general is an experiment with only two possible outcomes: success, which occurs with probability p; and failure, which occurs with probability q := 1 − p. Of course, success and failure are arbitrary names, which can be changed as convenient. In the case of a coin, we might associate success with the outcome that the coin comes...