Brazilian arnica; campos rupestres; data transformation; deviance analysis; Generalized Linear Models; relative germination An alternative for most species is to quantify the number of seeds with ...

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Abstract: Recent advancements in deep reinforcement learning have demonstrated highly skilled agents that are capable of complex behavior. In video games, such agents are increasingly deployed as ...

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Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

Two parametric risk transfer deals are set to pay out to Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa, according to Willis Re. The hurricane triggered the country’s US$150 million World Bank sovereign bond, ...

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...

Meteorological data collected by some weather balloons has been halted. Statistics for HIV among transgender people were scrubbed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. And ...

Swiss Re’s Property & Casualty Reinsurance (P&C Re) business unit has launched a Parametric Centre of Excellence, led by Marcel Andriesse, to unify and enhance the firm’s capabilities in parametric ...

ABSTRACT: Singh, Gewali, and Khatiwada proposed a skewness measure for probability distributions called Area Skewness (AS), which has desirable properties but has not been widely applied in practice.