Experts warn against cutting NOAA Space Weather Center

Failed vaccine campaigns may lead to polio resurgence, experts warn.

823 Experts have said that the failure by the four remaining countries where polio is endemic to wipe out the disease could cause a resurgence of more than 250 000 cases a year. Polio remains endemic in Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. “It would be a humanitarian catastrophe not to complete polio eradication now that we are so close ... to the finish line,” said Robert Scott, chairman...

Reproductive health experts warn women not to abandon birth control.

Forecasting Space Weather

Forecasting space weather events presents the ultimate challenge to a space physics model. Not only should physical constraints be satisfied, but also practical issues such as timeliness, accuracy, and reliability must be adequately addressed. To address these needs, modern space weather forecasters and users rely on a great variety of space weather models, ranging from simple regressions and e...

Analytic Center Cutting-Plane Method

Predicting Italian Wines Quality from Weather Data and Experts’ Ratings

In this paper we examine how the weather determines the quality of wines produced in the Barolo and Barbaresco regions of Italy. Since pricing data are not widely available for these wines, we measure wine vintage quality by a variety of subjective measures of quality taken from the published opinions of several experts. Since these measures of quality are only ordinal, we estimate their determ...