The Straits Times

‘Some flourish while others struggle’: NIE study finds five different paths of lower-income students

SINGAPORE – A local study has found that secondary school students from lower-income families are not a homogeneous group held back by a lack of resources. Researchers from the National Institute of ...
IEEE

Iterated Watersheds, A Connected Variation of K-Means for Clustering GIS Data

Abstract: In this article, we propose a novel algorithm to obtain a solution to the clustering problem with an additional constraint of connectivity. This is achieved by suitably modifying K-Means ...
Electronic Design

Can EIS Measure Self-Discharge of a Lithium-Ion Battery Cell?

Self-discharge is a normally occurring phenomenon in lithium-ion battery cells. A normal cell may have a self-discharge rate of 1% state of charge (SOC) per month. The normal self-discharge rate is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Process Variation In The Era Of Scaling: Improving Uniformity With Dummy Fill

As semiconductor patterning continues to scale, even small layout nonuniformities can lead to noticeably different process outcomes. Real chip layouts contain a mix of dense regions, large open ...
qualitysafety.bmj

Grand rounds in methodology: four critical decision points in statistical process control evaluations of quality improvement initiatives

Quality improvement (QI) projects often employ statistical process control (SPC) charts to monitor process or outcome measures as part of ongoing feedback, to inform successive Plan-Do-Study-Act ...
The Conversation

Silicon Valley’s AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ obsession has a big problem – and philosophers saw it coming

Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI). Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, ...
The New York Times

It’s Still Demoralizing to Teach a Classroom of Scrolling Students

Dr. Oster is the founder and chief executive of ParentData and a professor of economics at Brown University. In the past several years, about three dozen states have instituted phone bans in schools, ...
Paste

If Dave Grohl is telling the truth, my otolaryngologist is lying to me

I have had, in all honesty, a pretty rough week. I’ve had a bad sore throat for some time now, but woke up this past Saturday with three egregiously large, firm lumps on my neck. I’ve seen three ...
Investopedia

Measure Stock Volatility with Historical Data: A Practical Approach

Troy Adkins has 15+ years of residential property investment analysis experience and over a decade of institutional investment consulting experience. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an ...
UNDP

Human Development Data

Global, regional, and country/territory-level data on key dimensions of human development, with interactive insights and publications. The human development data are globally comparable, linked to the ...
qualitysafety.bmj

The problem with red, amber, green: the need to avoid distraction by random variation in organisational performance measures

Centre for Diagnostic Investigatin, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Dr Jacob Anhøj, Centre for Diagnostic Investigatin, Rigshospitalet, University of ...
Investopedia

Understanding Liquidity and How to Measure It

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...