Small size, big joy — A pediatrician’s life!

Cornell Big Red: Small-Size-League Winner

systems engineering concepts and practices to students to prepare them for designing, integrating, and maintaining highly complex systems. Another objective of the project is to explore the interplay between AI, dynamics, and control theory. This article describes the Cornell RoboCup team, which won the RoboCup-99 small-league championship in Stockholm, Sweden. T he Cornell RoboCup Project was ...

A joy for (the science of) life!

Spindle Size: Small Droplets and a Big Step Forward

The spindle is a micron-scale structure that assembles from nanometer-sized tubulin building blocks. How does the spindle know what size to be? Changes in cytoplasmic volume are shown to be sufficient to modulate the size of the spindle.

Does size matter? Authorship attribution, small samples, big problem

The aim of this study is to find a minimal size of text samples for authorship attribution that would provide stable results independent of random noise. A few controlled tests for different sample lengths, languages and genres are discussed and compared. Although I focus on Delta methodology, the results are valid for many other multidimensional methods relying on word frequencies and "nearest...

Size matters: just how big is BIG?

BACKGROUND Despite earlier doubts, a string of recent successes indicates that if sample sizes are large enough, it is possible-both in theory and in practice-to identify and replicate genetic associations with common complex diseases. But human genome epidemiology is expensive and, from a strategic perspective, it is still unclear what 'large enough' really means. This question has critical im...