Abstract: The symbol-pair simplex codes were introduced by the authors recently, and these codes play a similar role as simplex codes with respect to the Hamming metric. Among other things, the ...

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Indonesia’s long-delayed overhaul of its criminal justice system took effect last week, with the government hailing the “historic” change that would usher in a “more humane” era of law enforcement, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The world according to Jim: • It’s time. It’s past time, in fact. Time not only to change the process of deciding a college football champion, but time to change the entire face of the sport, after a ...

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Holistic chiropractor Nelson (The Emotion Code) and his wife, Jean, deliver an empowering guide to breaking down emotional walls to improve one’s overall health. The authors posit that to protect ...

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...

The changes Louisiana lawmakers made to state tax policy last fall will reduce the overall burden on most households by double-digits compared with prior sales and income tax rates, according to a ...