Thank you for printing the lively article “A Storied Approach to Operations Research” (Notes from Academe, June 14), about Gene Woolsey of the Colorado School of Mines. ... I was especially struck by ...

Credit card issuers first assign the account numbers and then compute steps one through three of the Luhn algorithm to determine the appropriate check digit. In this case, the card number should have ...

MINNEAPOLIS, March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A simple treatment algorithm may help reduce treatment disparities for Hispanic and Black people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a preliminary ...

Plerixafor, a reversible CXCR4 antagonist, significantly increases the yield of CD34 + peripheral blood cells in randomized studies, thereby enabling more patients to proceed to autologous transplant.

The author presents a rapidly convergent algorithm to solve the general portfolio problem of maximizing concave utility functions subject to linear constraints. The algorithm is based on an iterative ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 46, No. 3 (1997), pp. 399-409 (11 pages) In this paper we propose a simple algorithm for computing maximum likelihood ...