Putting people in ‘boxes’ based on their demographics can miss some of the individual quirks that have a greater bearing on their behaviour and preferences, says Bethan Blakeley. I know – what I’m ...

Motion capture technology has applications in a wide range of fields, including entertainment, medicine, and sports, to name a few. But what if the measurements these systems were based on were rooted ...

This example illustrates the PERT statistical approach. Throughout this chapter, it has been assumed that the activity duration times are precise values determined uniquely. In practice, however, each ...

The assumption that threat actors won’t make use of timely, topical, socially relevant content to pique interest or exploit emotions The assumption that threats only involve their computer and other ...

Given the disparities in health outcomes for Indigenous populations in Canada, He and colleagues’1 work into infant morbidities in Quebec populations is an important contribution to the understanding ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC's researchers are finding that people who know the results of London Olympics events before they are shown on tape delay are more — not less — likely to watch them. The ...

The study challenges previous assumptions about gender and earnings within marriages. The long-term dynamics of married couples' earnings and financial responsibilities within marriages have important ...

This is the second in a series of posts that discusses false and unacknowledged assumptions that are rampant in the personality disorders research literature and which lead to false or misleading ...

Although American politics today are defined by sharp, bitter disagreement, a bipartisan US grand strategy for great-power competition has emerged. This report makes explicit 17 critical assumptions ...