Abstract: In probability theory the expected value of functions of random variables plays a fundamental role in defining the basic characteristic measures of probability distributions. For example, ...

Sri Lankans should celebrate Christmas this year with compassion and restraint, said the Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, as the country continues to deal with the effects of one of ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

A male northern cardinal seen recently on Grassy Key. MARK HEDDEN/Keys Weekly In empirical terms, the male northern cardinal is a spectacular bird. Flaming red with a punker’s crest on top of its head ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church. At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an ...

UNLIKE Hudibras, who could, as we are told, “extract numbers out of matter,” Mr. Hopkins proposes in the essay before us to extract matter from numbers, or, as he says in the preface, “to show that ...

During the halftime ceremony to retire his No. 3 jersey – currently worn by standout senior running back Jamarion Parker, a University of Nebraska pledge – Williams soaked it all in, filming a ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, walks through the ruins of buildings in Gaza City. He visited northern Gaza Strip May 16-19, 2024, during Pentecost. At a press ...