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Robust skill-building and reinforcement of key mathematical concepts lie beneath the excitement of these games.

The decline in religiosity over the past 15 years is twice as great as the decline in 1960s and 1970s. An update through 2013 is now available here. Religiosity in the United States is in the midst of ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Here’s how Beaufort & Jasper County school districts scored in the latest SC READY assesments Compassionate Eye Foundation/Rob Getty Images With the 2025-2026 school year in full swing, the South ...

The identification of geographical patterns in microbial distributions has begun to challenge purely ecological explanations of biogeography and the underlying principle of “everything is everywhere: ...

Abstract: Next Point-of-interest recommendation involves modeling user interactions with Point-of-interests (PoIs) to analyze user behavior patterns and suggest future scenarios. Data sparsity ...

WASHINGTON — A decade-long slide in high schoolers' reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders' scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, ...

Abstract: Based on the P-type composition of Petri nets (PNs) defined in this paper, a framework for a structural control of discrete event systems (DESs) is constructed such that a closed-loop PN is ...

In this paper, we propose the first framework that enables solving graph learning tasks of all levels (node, edge and graph) and all types (generation, regression and classification) using one ...

Mathematics and computing is the study and analysis of abstract concepts, such as numbers and patterns. Mathematics is the language of choice for scientifically describing and modelling the universe ...