The First Lady Phenomenon

The First Digit Phenomenon

If asked whether certain digits in numbers collected randomly from, for example, the front pages of newspapers or from stock-market prices should occur more often than others, most people would think not. Nonetheless, in 1881, the astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb published a two-page article in the American Journal of Mathematics reporting an example of exactly that pheonomenon. Newco...

The First Digital Phenomenon

Frank Benford introduced the significant-digit logarithmic law which stresses that certain digits in numbers collected randomly can occur often more than other numbers. Such logarithmic phenomenon has been recognized and accepted by many mathematicians. Such logarithmic law can be applied in detecting accounting fraud or fabrication of data in financial documents, predicting stock indices and i...

First Evidence of a Volatile Sex Pheromone in Lady Beetles

To date, volatile sex pheromones have not been identified in the Coccinellidae family; yet, various studies have suggested that such semiochemicals exist. Here, we collected volatile chemicals released by virgin females of the multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas), which were either allowed or not allowed to feed on aphids. Virgin females in the presence of aphids, exhibite...

The Lady Almoner

j'HOUSANDS of patients pass through the doors of a great hospital every year, and not all are ln-patients. Many receive advice and treatment ^hich can be carried out at home, and in every hospital the out-patient department is very important. Long hours are devoted by skilled physicians and surgeons to the treatment of out-patients, but having given their help, what is impossible to the medical...

The Hon. Lady Darwin