Integrating ESG Into A Flagship U.S. Equity Benchmark: The Russell 1000 Blossom Indexes

Environmental, social and governance considerations have evolved from niche allocations to core drivers of investment ...
CNBC

Some U.S. allies see higher duties under new tariffs, rivals see relief, trade body says

Allies like the U.K., EU, Japan and South Korea face trade-weighted tariff increases under Trump’s new 15% global duties. Brazil and China are set to see sharp reductions after the Supreme Court ...
NBC News

Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S.

Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi on Tuesday became the first Muslim American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects.
Scientific Research Publishing

Teitz, M.B. and Bart, P. (1968) Heuristic Methods for Estimating the Generalized Vertex Median of a Weighted Graph. Operations Research, 16, 955-961.

ABSTRACT: This research investigates the impact of the road network topological structure on facility location modeling. We create four types of road networks, i.e., the radial, the grid, the ring, ...
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Combinatorial Maximum Flow via Weighted Push-Relabel on Shortcut Graphs

Abstract: In this talk, I will present a new combinatorial algorithm for maximum flow that is based on running the weighted push-relabel algorithm introduced in [BBST ...
IEEE

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Weighted Graph Sparsity

Abstract: Graph has been proven to be an emerging tool for spectrum sensing (SS), with detection performance closely related to the graph characteristics. Existing graph-based SS has been mainly ...
Wired

Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a ...
The Conversation

JD Vance is no pauper − he’s a classic example of ‘poornography,’ in which the rich try to speak on behalf of the poor

JD Vance has climbed to his current position as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, in part, by selling himself as a hillbilly, calling on his Appalachian background to bolster his ...