BY DAVID H. KAYE O ne might expect to hear phrases like ‘‘Not statistical significance there!’’ and, ‘‘There is no way that anybody would tell you that these ten cases are statistically significant’’ hurled by a disgruntled professor at an underperforming statistics student. Yet, in January 2011, they came from the Supreme Court bench during the argument in Matrixx Initiatives Inc. v. Siracusano.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to observe one fact about Mars: it has a lot of rocks. While each is typically given a name based on protocols of scientific classification, many are known by informal, often humorous names like "Grandma" and "Space Ghost." And now on Mars, there’s a rock for fans of Civil War history—"Chamberlain," named of course for Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the her...

This study investigated fast mapping in late-talking (LT) toddlers and toddlers with normal language (NL) development matched on age, nonverbal cognition, and maternal education. The fast mapping task included novel object labels and familiar words. The LT group performed significantly worse than the NL group on novel word comprehension and production, as well as familiar word production. For b...

make us a robust and disease-free people, the prospect would be rosy indeed. A plethora of talk is, no doubt, a necessary evil, and it is only by saying the same thing very often and very loudly that we at last succeed in getting something done, whatever the desired direction. Next month the country will be asked, as it has been asked annually since 1912, for a whole week to talk and write abou...

The robustness of networks is an important problem that has been studied in a variety of situations, see for instance [3] or the survey [5] and the references therein. A milestone in the study of this problem was the discovery by Albert et al. of the dramatic effect of targeted attacks on networks whose vertex degrees follow a power-law distribution, like the Internet and the World Wide Web [1]...

Abstract Let F be a finite extension of ${\mathbb Q}_p$ . $\Omega$ the Drinfeld upper half plane, and $\Sigma^1$ first covering We study affinoid open subset $\Sigma^1_v$ above vertex Bruhat–Tits tree for $\text{GL}_2(F)$ Our main result is that $\text{Pic}\!\left(\Sigma^1_v\right)[p] = 0$ , which we establish by showing $\text{Pic}({\mathbf Y})[p] ${\mathbf Y}$ Deligne–Lusztig variety $\text{S...