Among the controversies arising from the 2000 Presidential election was the accusation that media networks called, or projected, a winner faster in those states won by Albert Gore than in those states won by George W. Bush. We investigate this accusation by estimating a Tobit model of the length of time between states’ poll closing times and the times at which CNN projected a winner. Our result...

It was the first election of the new century. The race had been tight and close. The incumbent party might not be able to hold the presidency, despite relative prosperity in the nation. For weeks and weeks, the nation waited without knowing who would be President. No candidate had a clear majority of the electoral votes. The Electoral College might have been designed to insure a smooth election...

Normal albino rats were placed on a standardized vitamin A-deficient diet. The rate of rod outer segment renewal and removal was determined at varying levels of vitamin A deficiency by autoradiography. Increasing vitamin A deficiency causes a decreasing rate of photoreceptor outer segment renewal. The removal of rod outer segment material by the pigment epithelium normally takes ten days. The l...

Churchill, Surgn.-Col. A. F., m.d., a.m.s., is brought on the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, vice Surgn -Col. E. C. Markey, c B., who has reverted to the home establishment. Dated 22nd May 1895. Gallwey, Bde.-Surgn.-Lieut.-Col. M. M., M.D., A.M.S., to the Admtve. Medl. Staff of the Army, with the tempy. rank of Surgn -Col., vice Surgn.-Maj.-Genl A. A. Gore, M.D., appointed P. M. O., H. M.'s F...

We show that uniform families of ACC circuits of subexponential size cannot compute the permanent function. This also implies similar lower bounds for certain sets in PP. This is one of the very few examples of a lower bound in circuit complexity whose proof hinges on the uniformity condition; it is still unknown if there is any set in Ntime (2 O(1) ) that does not have nonuniform ACC circuits.

The American electorate intuitively senses the phenomenon of complexity of mental processing (CIP) in political candidates. Without exception, American voters elected the presidential candidate with higher CIP, or current potential, in the cases studied. When current potential proved equal, the candidate with higher future potential (the younger of the two) emerged victorious. When current pote...

abstract  introduction: chest pain in unstable angina is associated with ekg changes in t-wave and st-segment, which may help diagnose the disease. based on certain references ekg changes prolonged for more than 12 hours may be suggestive of non-q myocardial infarction. this study was conducted to assess the mean duration of ekg changes in patients with unstable angina. methods: this cross-sect...