Biodiversity Information Services: A (not-so-) little knowledge that acts

Planning for life's little and "not-so-little" financial surprises.

2 00 4 A Not So Little Higgs ?

Most recent models assuming the Higgs Boson is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Boson (pNGb) are motivated by the indication from Standard Model fits that its mass is ≤ 200GeV .Starting from a modified SM. of Forshaw et. al. with a triplet boson added and a heavier Higgs Boson, we consider a pNGb model.This differs in several ways from most little Higgs models: apart from using only one loop, the cutof...

Learners that Leak Little Information

We study learning algorithms that are restricted to using a small amount of information from their input sample. We introduce a category of learning algorithms we term d-bit information learners, which are algorithms whose output conveys at most d bits of information of their input. A central theme in this work is that such algorithms generalize. We focus on the learning capacity of these algor...

So Many Hospitals, So Little Information: How Hospital Value Based Purchasing is a Game of Chance

As part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicare hospitals have part of their Medicare reimbursements withheld and then redistributed to hospitals based on quality performance. The Hospital Value Based Purchasing payment reimbursement plan relies partly on ordinal rankings of hospitals to determine how money is redistributed. We analyze the quality metric distributions u...

sudden cardiac death in athletes: big trouble, not so little asia