In mathematics, you need at most only four different colors to produce a map in which no two adjacent regions have the same color. Utah and Arizona are considered adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, which only share a point, ...
Mathematics
Mar 10, 2011
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Students' social skills and behaviour in social situations during their university studies contribute to their success in the transition to work. The social strategies adopted during university studies also have an impact ...
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2011
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Internet search engines have become such a helpful fixture of everyday life that it's tough to imagine life before them. They gather information at eye-blink speed, can guess a user's intent and present real-time results ...
Internet
Jan 3, 2011
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Optimism about the U.S. economy has fallen back to recession levels among chief financial officers, who foresee minimal increases in hiring, weak consumer demand and heightened economic uncertainty, finds a Duke/CFO Magazine ...
Economics & Business
Sep 17, 2010
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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology have taken a new approach on examining a proposal to fix the warming planet. So-called geoengineering ideas—large-scale projects to change the Earth's ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an urban area with a lot of traffic, adding a new road to distribute the traffic may seem like a sensible idea. But according to the Braess paradox, just the opposite occurs: a new route added in a transportation ...
Students could use help saving more money, but they don't always know it, says a University of Waterloo study.
Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2010
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Fujitsu and Chuo University of Japan today announced that a team of researchers employed the T2K Open Supercomputer - which was delivered by Fujitsu to Kyoto University's Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies - ...
Computer Sciences
May 28, 2010
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Mixed in with technology innovations at South By South West (SXSW) were reminders that real-world performance facts are vital to thriving on an increasingly crowded Internet.
Internet
Mar 16, 2010
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NEOS, the Network-Enabled Optimization System developed by researchers at the U.S. DOE's Argonne National Laboratory in conjunction with Northwestern University, has reached a new milestone: two million submissions to its ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 17, 2010
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