Sex differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency hospital admissions, and mortality are well documented. However, little is known about sex differences in idiotic risk taking behaviour. This paper reviews the data on winners of the Darwin Award over a 20 year period (1995-2014). Winners of the Darwin Award must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic manner that their act...

We study the fundamental problem of learning the parameters of a high-dimensional Gaussian in the presence of noise — where an ε-fraction of our samples were chosen by an adversary. We give robust estimators that achieve estimation error O(ε) in the total variation distance, which is optimal up to a universal constant that is independent of the dimension. In the case where just the mean is unkn...

The effect of national quality awards on the market value of the award-winning companies is an ongoing study in many countries, but relevant studies are difficult to find in Taiwan. This study empirically examines the market valuation of firms that undergo effective quality improvement programs (sometimes referred to as Total Quality Management or TQM). We use the Taiwan National Quality Award ...

During the gala dinner at the Nicolaus Hotel Roof Garden the traditional Poster Award winners were announced. Members of the 2013 Poster Award Jury were: Laszlo Vigh (chairman), Hungary, Makoto Ito (Japan), Norma Sterin-Speziale (Argentina), Christian Wolfrum (Zurich), Donatella Caruso (Italy), Emma De Fabiani (Italy) and Chiara Degirolamo (Italy). From about 75 posters, 36 were eligible as fin...