The Role of the Characteristic Line in Financial Analysis

A characteristic line, which is used in regression analysis, represents a security's systematic risk and return. Learn how it functions in financial assessments.
Scientific American

How to find pi in randomness all around you

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something circular, like a cup, measure the distance around the circle, and divide ...

Tudor's tactics: Pinpointing how his choices have made things worse

After Tottenham's Champions League collapse on Tuesday, the appointment of Igor Tudor and the tactics employed increasingly ...
IEEE

Multiscale Feature Line Extraction From Raw Point Clouds Based on Local Surface Variation and Anisotropic Contraction

Abstract: Recent 3-D scanning techniques can produce various kinds of digitized 3-D data. Most of these scanned data are in a format of unstructured point clouds. Such low-level representation of 3-D ...

Tapping into the inner workings of long-distance animal calls

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Animals can talk over huge distances – but humans might be changing their range

Animals on land and sea use sound for different purposes – and alterations in their environment can change the effect it has ...
IEEE

A Real-Time Stereo Visual-Inertial SLAM System Based on Point-and-Line Features

Abstract: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is widely used in various fields, such as unmanned driving, robotics, and VR. The SLAM system with multiple landmarks is also a research hotspot ...