In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

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Objective: People often have their decisions influenced by rare outcomes, such as buying a lottery and believing they will win, or not buying a product because of a few negative reviews. Previous ...

Institute for Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Department for Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, ...

It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

Abstract: Sampling trajectories from a distribution followed by ranking them based on a specified cost function is a common approach in autonomous driving. Typically, the sampling distribution is hand ...