Familial patterns of the occurrence of breast cancer were studied in a population-based case-control series of black women from the Cancer and Steroid Hormone study. The risks of breast cancer among relatives of breast cancer cases were compared to those of controls who were matched for age and locale. Using the term "proband" to indicate either case or control status, significant predictors of...

Energy aware routing protocols can be classified into energy saver and energy manager. Energy saver protocols decrease energy consumption totally. Most of them try to find the shortest path between source and destination to reduce energy consumption. But energy manager protocols balance energy consumption in network to avoid network partitioning. Finding best route only based on energy balancin...

The details of the future will remain forever veiled to us. But give a gypsy seer a Ph.D. in economics and arm her with statistics and mathematical models, and people suddenly start taking her seriously. She will be invited to testify before Congress and held up by State TV as an expert in business forecasting. But from an analytical point of view, what she does is no different from what she di...