The Blackberry Network
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41890557/Blackberry_Game_Changer_BBM_Coming_to_iPhone_Android One of the main reasons people buy Blackberrys is to use Blackberry Messenger(BBM). BBM is an instant messenger application that allows for quick messaging between Blackberry users. Most cell phones deliver text messages through Short Message Service(SMS). Unlike SMS, BBM only users with Blackberry phones can communicate via BBM. BBM on its own creates […]
Sharing Music Made Easier
Everyone can recognize the power of Facebook. Facebook gives us the power to connect with everyone in our lives that uses the service and share our thoughts, opinions, memories, interests, and activities. Recently, the streaming music service Spotify recognized this power as well. In late September, Spotify partnered with Facebook and effectively forced all of […]
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Article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/30/bloomberg_articlesLSBA1T0UQVI9.DTL Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy was implemented last week called “Operation Twist”. What the central bank’s objective is to buy up longer term treasury bonds to decrease long term yields (bonds prices and yields are move inversely) while buying shorter term treasuries, and thereby increasing shorter term yields. The federal reserve intervenes in […]
The Chickens of Congress
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-01/politics/bachmann.debt.vote_1_bachmann-debt-ceiling-campaign?_s=PM:POLITICS During the end of summer 2011, the United States government faced a debt crisis – in order to operate it needed to raise the debt ceiling, or the maximum amount of money the government can owe. Congress is commonly divided on budget plans, resulting in a game of chicken. In this game, a political […]
The Role of Weak Ties in US Terrorist Watch List
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/us/even-those-cleared-of-crimes-can-stay-on-fbis-terrorist-watch-list.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp Recently, The Federal Bureau of Investigation has deemed it acceptable to keep individuals acquitted of terrorism crimes on remain on the government’s terrorist watch list. Though found not guilty in an American court of law, this extension of the Freedom of Information Act enables the government to do anything from investigating these persons with […]
Cooperative Game Theory Leads to More Accurate Leukemia Classification
Flow Cytometry isn’t a word most people hear very often, if at all, but it’s how most cancers are diagnosed in patients across the world. In fact, it is extremely important in the process of accurately recognizing which category of cancers an abnormal blood sample belongs in. In one study out of Tarbiat Modarres University, […]
NBA Players and Owners Currently Involved in Bargaining Games
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) are in a stalemate as they enter the fourth month of an owners’ lockout. With the season set to begin less than a month from now, the players and owners have failed to come to terms on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The presence […]
Pareto Optimal Ensemble Techniques in Systems Biology
Biological systems are a complex network of myriad biomolecular species with thousands of interactions. In order to analyze key properties of this vast web, various techniques have been developed under the discipline of systems biology. These techniques simplify the biological networks, modeling key proteins as nodes and their major interactions as edges. For instance, a […]
Unemployment and Nash Bargaining
A 2006 academic paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that the unsteadiness of unemployment in the United States can be explained through Nash Bargaining. The basic premise of the article is that the repeated Nash Bargaining of wages between firms and workers brings about a volatility in the employment market. This […]
In an article entitled “A competitive network theory of species diversity” published in the April, 2011 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Stefano Allesina and Jonathan Levine investigated how game and network theory can be used to understand interspecies competition and coexistence. Traditionally, species competing for the same resources are […]
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