The natural aging process results in much more than just changes to one’s physical appearance – it also brings chronic health ...

Randall Morck of the Alberta School of Business says economists too often regard people as "dynamic, stochastic optimization ...

New research has uncovered a critical challenge in solar energy with the discovery that a considerable number of solar panels ...

Abstract: This article presents a problem on model uncertainties in stochastic control, in which an agent assumes a best case scenario on one risk and at the same time a worst case scenario on another ...

When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

We asked U.S. teens how common a variety of problems are among students at their school. Anxiety and depression tops the list, with 30% of teens saying it’s extremely or very common at their school.

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

In psychology, the classic chicken-or-egg conundrum boils down (sorry) to the question of whether thoughts precede feelings or feelings precede thoughts. That is, do feelings generate thoughts or do ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

In January 2020, just eight months into her tenure as CEO of Best Buy, Corie Barry learned about a novel coronavirus spreading in China. By early March, Barry was getting reports that the virus was ...

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