Wood sold for burning must meet “Ready to Burn” standards, meaning it has a moisture content of 20% or less. Burning wet or ...

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Log tables, invaluable in science, industry and commerce for 350 years, have been consigned to the scrap heap. But logarithms remain at the core of science, as a wide range of physical phenomena ...

Let $(X, \mathscr{A}, P)$ be a probability space and $\mathscr{C}$ a collection of measurable sets. Suppose $\mathscr{C}$ is a Donsker class, i.e., the central limit theorem for empirical measures ...

A commercial fisherman guilty of breaching fishing laws has wildly accused a prosecutor of being ‘a man of Satan’, a Magistrate of being ‘not who he claims’ and said the world had ‘18 hours’ until it ...