Could it be that the B.1.1.7 lineage is more deadly?

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The ctenophore lineage is older than sponges? That cannot be right! Or can it?

Recent phylogenetic analyses resulting from collection of whole genome data suggest that ctenophores, or comb jellies, are sister to all other animals. Even before publication, this result prompted discussion among researchers. Here, I counter common criticisms raised about this result and show that assumptions placing sponges as the basal-most extant animal lineage are based on limited evidenc...

Could Skype be More Satisfying?

The phenomenal growth of Skype in recent years has surpassed all expectations. Much of the application’s success is attributed to its FEC mechanism, which adds redundancy to the voice streams to sustain audio quality under network impairments. Adopting the quality-of-experience (QoE) approach, i.e., measuring the Mean Opinion Scores (MOS), we examine how much redundancy Skype adds to its voice ...

Could it be Lyme neuroborreliosis?

Is it possible that human stockbrokers could, one day, be replaced with computer based agent traders

1. ABSTRACT In this paper I discuss the possibility of replacement of human traders in the world’s stock markets, to be replaced with computer based agents. During a recent trading test competition, carried out by Jeffrey Kephart at IBM's research centre in New York between humans and computer agents, it was found that the latter made on average five to seven percent more profit [Kephart et al....