Functional statistics is a new technique for dealing with data that can be viewed as curves or images. Parallel to this approach, the Near-Infrared Reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy methodology has been used in modern chemistry rapid, low-cost, and exact means of assessing an object’s chemical properties. In research, we investigate quality corn cookie dough by analyzing spectroscopic using certai...

We examine the problem of pushing all the points of a planar region into one point using parallel sweeps of an infinite line, minimizing the sum of the lengths of the sweep vectors. We characterize the optimal 2-sweeps of triangles, and provide a linear-time algorithm for convex polygons.

In 2002, the European Union (EU) introduced the ePrivacy Directive to regulate the usage of online tracking technologies. Its aim is to make tracking mechanisms explicit while increasing privacy awareness in users. It mandates websites to ask for explicit consent before using any kind of profiling methodology, e.g., cookies. Starting from 2013 the Directive is mandatory, and now most of Europea...

Nurse educators face the ongoing challenge of presenting increasingly complex nursing research methods to undergraduate and graduate students. The cookie experiment, a unique teaching strategy developed more than a decade ago by Thiel, has been refined and expanded to include hands-on quantitative and qualitative components while also serving as a way to lessen students'phobias about research. ...