Interesting Experiments in Germination

Evaluating test statistics to select interesting genes in microarray experiments.

A randomization procedure to evaluate the significance level and the false-discovery rate in complex microarray experiments is proposed. A related graph can be used to compare different test statistics that can be used to analyze the same experiment. This graph is closely related to receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves. The proposed method is applied to a subset of the data from a cell...

Diapresentation of interesting cases of paraneoplastic syndromes

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SOME INTERESTING AGARICS FROM IRAN

An account of nine Agarics, namely, Macrolepiota procera, M. rhacodes. Lepiota leprica, L. holospilota, Coprinus comatus, C. plicatilis, C. scobicola, C. disseminatus and C. flocculosus, were collected from different localities that is Noor city of Mazandaran, Maragheh city of East Azarbaijan and Karaj and Varamin cities of Tehran province are described in details. Species namely Lepiota lepric...

Living in interesting times.

Interesting Questions in Freakonomics

Freakonomics is more about “entertainment” than it is a serious attempt at popularization. Consequently, rather than conduct a comprehensive fact check, I use the book as a springboard for a broader inquiry into social science research and take issue with the book’s surprising premise that “Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting que...