October is the fairest month …

Immunization action month, October 1973.

Committee on Infectious Diseases The Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a recent session, unanimously approved a resolution supporting Immunization Action Month, October 1974, in order to stimulate a more widespread immunization of American children against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, rubella, mumps, pertussis and tetanus. It is completely appropriate , therefore, that the...

X Which Is the Fairest ( Rent Division ) of Them All ?

What is a fair way to assign rooms to several housemates, and divide the rent between them? This is not just a theoretical question: many people have used the Spliddit website to obtain envy-free solutions to rent division instances. But envy freeness, in and of itself, is insufficient to guarantee outcomes that people view as intuitive and acceptable. We therefore focus on solutions that optim...

Interpolating Splines : Which is the fairest of them all ?

Interpolating splines are a basic primitive for designing planar curves. There is a wide diversity in the literature but no consensus on a ―best‖ spline, or even criteria for preferring one spline over another. For the case of G-continuous splines, we emphasize two properties that can arguably be expected in any definition of ―best‖ and show that any such spline is made from segments cut from a...

October: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

This month in Aerospace medicine history--October 2004.

Up until 1905 all airplane flights lasted less than 30 minutes. However, on October 4 of that year, Orville Wright kept his aircraft in the air for 33 minutes and 17 seconds, becoming the first pilot to stay aloft for over half an hour (7). Fifty Years Ago Simulating rocket flight in a human centrifuge (Division of Applied Physics, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, and the Aero Medical...