It took half a century to solve the mystery of Missouri’s deadly snake panic

That kicked off one of the most bizarre animal panics in American history.
KHQ

FDA approves new lenses for kids' nearsightedness correction

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new tool to assist children with nearsightedness. Special lenses designed to correct vision and slow the progression of ...
MedPage Today on MSN

First Approval of Eyeglass Lenses for Children With Myopia

The FDA granted a first-ever market authorization for eyeglass lenses for children with myopia, or nearsightedness, the ...

FDA authorizes first eyeglass lenses to slow nearsightedness in children in the US

The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized marketing of the first eyeglass lenses that not only correct nearsightedness in children, they can slow the progression of the condition.
WENY News

Corning Museum of Glass to host event to look at the creation of the world's largest convex mirror

The Corning Museum of Glass announced on Friday, Sept. 26 that it is hosting a special look at an observatory in South ...
IEEE

Combining Convex–Concave Decompositions and Linearization Approaches for Solving BMIs, With Application to Static Output Feedback

Abstract: A novel optimization method is proposed to minimize a convex function subject to bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraints. The key idea is to decompose the bilinear mapping as a ...
IEEE

Pairwise Matching for 3D Fragment Reassembly Based on Boundary Curves and Concave-Convex Patches

Abstract: We present a simple pairwise matching method for 3D fragment reassembly that uses boundary curves and concave-convex patches to accelerate and optimize the matching. Given the boundary ...
C&EN

Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Responses and Concave–Convex Interactions of Size-Selective Fullerenes/Corannulene Recognition Pairs: The Effect of Fullerene Size

† Institute of Functional Material Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, Jilin, China ‡ Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023 ...
SciELO

Defining the target population of environments (TPE) for enviromics studies using R-based GIS tools

We present an R-based function for defining TPE as GIS-polygons, intended for use in enviromics studies. It offers customizable parameters, such as pixel size, buffer boundaries, and concavity, ...