An experiment by Proietti et al. purporting to instantiate the ‘Wigner’s Friend’ thought is discussed. It pointed out that stated implications of regarding alleged irreconcilability facts attributed different observers warrant critical review. In particular, violation a Clauser–Horne–Shimony inequality experimental data actually shows attribution measurement outcomes “Friends” (modeled internal...

Recent studies in financial economics suggest that technical analysis may have merit to predictability of stock. When attempting to create an efficient portfolio of stocks, there are numerous factors to consider. The problem is that the evaluation involves many qualitative factors, which causes most approximations to go off track. This paper presents a genetic programming approach to portfolio ...

Despite the current practice of re-keying most documents placed in digital libraries, we continue to try to improve accuracy of automated recognition techniques for obtaining document image content. This task is made more difficult when the document in question has been rendered in letterpress, subjected to hundreds of years of the aging process and been microfilmed before scanning. We endeavor...

Earlier this year, a team of researchers from Austria found in a case – control study that women who produced more of the cytokine interleukin 10 (IL-10) due to a genetic variation or polymor-phism had a lower incidence of breast cancer. " The mechanism remains to be determined but may include antiangiogenic functions of IL-10, " said study leader Uwe Langsenlehner, M. Austria. " If this result...

As Jin Ma and colleagues observe, an unfettered market approach in China has reduced access to care, increased patients' financial burden, and reduced emphasis on prevention and may have caused declines in quality and outcomes. A major driving force was that perverse incentives altered physicians' behavior toward self-interest at the expense of patients, even where professional ethics dictated ...

Measures of psychological attributes abound in the social sciences as much as measures of physical properties do in the physical sciences. However, there are crucial differences between the scientific underpinning of measurement. While measurement in the physical sciences is supported by empirical evidence that demonstrates the quantitative nature of the property assessed, measurement in the so...