SRC Holdings: Winning The Game While Sharing The Prize

Winning the Accuracy Game

T homas Edison famously stated that genius is "one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." In crop science, as in many other fields of research, investigators find much truth in this proverb. The discovery of an improved variety of corn, wheat or soybeans is very much a numbers game. The standard varieties already incorporate many genetic refinements from monumental breeding ...

The Relationship between Parental Coat Colour and Prize-winning Palominos

Although various combinations of parental coat colours can produce a Palomino foal, examination of records of the British Palomino Society suggest that many animals registered with the society resulted from matings which maximise the likelihood or even guarantee a Palomino foal. When show records were examined, it was clear that the colouration preferred by judges corresponds to that of the onl...

Winning the Turf Game Second Edition

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The Best of the Brightest: Definitions of the Ideal Self among Prize-Winning Students

Forty Years of Unimodal Dynamics: on the Occasion of Artur Avila Winning the Brin Prize

The field of one-dimensional dynamics, real and complex, emerged from obscurity in the 1970s and has been intensely explored ever since. It combines the depth and complexity of chaotic phenomena with a chance to fully understand it in probabilistic terms: to describe the dynamics of typical orbits for typical maps. It also revealed fascinating universality features that had never been noticed b...