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Lehigh Valley Looks to Send Off Legendary Coach with Victory in American Regions Mathematics League

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среда, мая 29, 2024

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BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On May 31st and June 1st, the Lehigh Valley American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) program will compete in the ARML National Championship, the premier team competition for advanced national math.

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BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On May 31st and June 1st, the Lehigh Valley American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) program will compete in the ARML National Championship, the premier team competition for advanced national math.
The Lehigh Valley teams will compete from the Penn State campus.
Don Davis, an esteemed professor of Mathematics at Lehigh Valley University for 50 years, founded the program in 1993.
To learn more about the Lehigh Valley Program, please visit https://www.lehigh.edu/~dmd1/arml.html .

Go Boldly Where No Math Has Gone Before

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среда, мая 29, 2024

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Her research focused on applying mathematical modeling techniques to study exoplanets' electromagnetic spectra, aiming to understand their composition and potential for life.

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Her research focused on applying mathematical modeling techniques to study exoplanets' electromagnetic spectra, aiming to understand their composition and potential for life.
In her upcoming presentation entitled Go Boldly Where No Math Has Gone Before , Dr. Rooney will bring you on a journey of mathematical progress and share with you the reasons she believes that math is important, exciting, and innovative.
She will continue the discussion as it relates to space exploration, describing her role as a mathematician pioneering the future of space sustainability.
Please email Becky Kerner if you plan to attend and/or would like to interview Dr. Rooney following the talk.

What if Everything You Knew About Winning an Olympic Gold Medal Was Wrong?

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“My personal appreciation of sports has profoundly deepened with my investigations into the mathematics behind sports,” Aftalion said.

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“My personal appreciation of sports has profoundly deepened with my investigations into the mathematics behind sports,” Aftalion said.
Illustrated by Estelle Chauvard, the 10 panels are intended to be printed and displayed in libraries, parks, schools and other public venues.
They serve as a valuable resource for educators, sports enthusiasts and others looking to enrich their communities’ understanding of the science and mathematics of Olympic sports.
Readers can order “Be a Champion: 40 Facts You Didn’t Know About Sports and Science” now in e-book and softcover formats from Springer Link and Amazon link

Northern Trust Names Chandra Dhandapani to Board of Directors

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среда, мая 29, 2024

Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) announced today the appointment of Chandra Dhandapani to its Board of Directors.

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Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) announced today the appointment of Chandra Dhandapani to its Board of Directors.
Dhandapani is currently a senior advisor at CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm.
“We are very pleased to welcome Chandra to our Board of Directors,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Grady said.
She is a Board Trustee member at St. Mark's School of Texas, serving on the Education Committee and Committee on Trustees.

Ihsan Essaid Appointed Chief Financial Officer of QXO

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вторник, мая 28, 2024

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GREENWICH, Conn., May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jacobs Private Equity II, LLC (“JPE”), led by Brad Jacobs, today announced the appointment of Ihsan Essaid as incoming chief financial officer of QXO , Inc., the publicly traded company Jacobs intends to lead in the $800 billion building products distribution industry.

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GREENWICH, Conn., May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jacobs Private Equity II, LLC (“JPE”), led by Brad Jacobs, today announced the appointment of Ihsan Essaid as incoming chief financial officer of QXO , Inc., the publicly traded company Jacobs intends to lead in the $800 billion building products distribution industry.
Brad Jacobs, incoming chairman and chief executive officer of QXO, said, “Ihsan is a heavy hitter in the M&A world with an exceptional track record.
He joins QXO from Barclays, where he most recently served as global head of M&A, following roles as co-head of global M&A and co-head of Americas M&A.
Since joining Barclays in 2021, he has advised on more than $50 billion of transactions across a range of sectors.

ARM & HAMMER™ Baking Soda Takes Off with Odyssey of the Mind and Emily the Space Gal to Inspire Futures in STEAM

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вторник, мая 28, 2024

ARM & HAMMER™ Baking Soda has partnered with MIT engineer turned Emmy-nominated television host and producer, Emily Calandrelli , otherwise known as Emily the Space Gal, to attend the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals on May 24, 2024.

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ARM & HAMMER™ Baking Soda has partnered with MIT engineer turned Emmy-nominated television host and producer, Emily Calandrelli , otherwise known as Emily the Space Gal, to attend the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals on May 24, 2024.
This is ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda’s fifth consecutive year partnering with Odyssey of the Mind to encourage bright futures through scientific experimentation with accessible materials.
“I was proud to attend the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals as an ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda partner to encourage learning opportunities in STEAM for students from around the world,” said Emily Calandrelli.
“ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda is proud of its’ fifth consecutive year of partnership with Odyssey of the Mind to enable further curiosity and learning opportunities among competitors,” said Aaron Greengard, ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda Senior Brand Manager.

Americans break election ties in crazy ways − and jeopardize democracy in the process

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Commentators and observers are concerned about the possibility of a tie in the November 2024 presidential election.

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Commentators and observers are concerned about the possibility of a tie in the November 2024 presidential election.
One possibility is that both major-party candidates end up with 269 electoral votes – one short of the 270 required to claim victory.
In recent decades, election ties have happened all over the country and have been resolved through bizarre, often comical procedures.

Strange tiebreakers

In June 2009, candidates Thomas McGuire and Adam Trenk tied in the race for a City Council seat in Cave Creek, Arizona.
The town judge pulled a deck of cards from a cowboy hat, shuffled it and asked McGuire and Trenk to draw.
Other election ties have been resolved by drawings out of a top hat and a tricorn hat.

A range of rules

The rules for tiebreaking differ from place to place.
In all cases, the course of action is either random, left to personal or political whims, or starts the election process over from the beginning.

More than half the votes?

One of the most bewildering sets of tiebreaker rules applies to the nation’s biggest election, the one for president of the United States.
As initially set out in Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the winner of a presidential election must win more than half of the Electoral College votes.
But if nobody gets a majority, which at present is 270, the decision goes to the House of Representatives.
First, according to the 12th Amendment, the House can choose from the top three finishers in the electoral vote count.
These parallel processes mean that the House could elect a president from one party while the Senate elects the vice president from the other.

Ending in a tie

After Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received 73 Electoral College votes, the 16 states of the Union voted 36 times to elect one of them but ended in a tie themselves.
But Jefferson and Burr had been running mates, not opponents, so the result highlighted a complication in the original Constitution.
Andrew Jackson, who ran as a political outsider, won the popular vote and more electoral votes than the other three candidates, though not a majority.

A key weakness in US elections

The globalization of climate change: amplification of climate-related physical risks through input-output linkages

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To address this shortcoming, this paper for the first

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To address this shortcoming, this paper for the first
time combines country-level GDP losses due to climate-related physical risks with a global Input-Output
model.
More specifically, climate-related GDP-at-risk data are used to quantify the potential direct
impact of physical risks on GDP at the country or regional level.
JEL Classification: E01, Q54, Q56, F18
Keywords: Supply chains, physical risk, climate change
ECB Working Paper Series No 2942

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Non-technical summary
The estimation of real-economic damages due to climate change physical risks remains an important
challenge in the face of global warming.
Many economic models make significant simplifications on
the channels of transmission of climate physical risks across the globe, often giving the impression that
the risks for the Euro Area will be relatively small.
In particular, the role of global supply chains in the
transmission and potential amplification of climate related physical risks has received little attention.
This is relevant because climatologists predict that direct impacts from climate change-induced natural
disasters will materialize mainly outside the Euro Area.
Understanding potential real economy losses would also contribute to better portray the risks which
could spill over into the financial system.
Introduction
Recent estimates of real-economic damages due to climate change physical risks do not appear
incredibly worrying, not at least those for European countries.
The ECB climate stress test of 2022 also finds relatively little impact from physical risks.
Nordhaus? seminal 1991 paper was one of
the first to estimate the effect of climate change on economic output (Nordhaus, 1991).
Second, our paper relates to the literature that has started to analyse the transmission of climate risks
across borders.
In this strand, however, the focus remains mostly on transition risks (Devulder & Lisack,
2020, Frankovic, 2022, Krivorotov, 2022).
Third, we connect to the literature on the study of the propagation of climate physical risks across
borders, which remains underdeveloped.
To
our knowledge this paper is the first to apply IO modelling with physical risks on a global scale.
However, the authors use a general equilibrium modelling approach and estimate
how sectoral changes in productivity due to physical climate risks affect a global, multisectoral,
intertemporal general equilibrium model.
This paper aims at making economic impact assessments of climate change more realistic by
incorporating a key element of globalization.
More specifically, this paper is the first to analyse the
transmission of GDP losses from climate change related physical risks through global country-sector
input-output linkages.
), this paper makes a first important step towards getting a more realistic
picture of the risks arising from climate change.
The natural hazards
influenced by climate change are many and include floods and inundations, droughts, heatwaves,
windstorms, and wildfires.
Importantly, physical risks do not only have a direct impact on the economy, as cascading or amplifying
effects are also possible through input-output linkages.
In general, the global economy is exposed to physical risks which generate GDP losses.
Specifically, SPGlobal GDP-at-risk data are used to quantify the potential
direct impact of physical risks on GDP at the country level.
This is done to account
for the fact that the realization of physical risks from climate change reduces both domestic final demand
and production capacity (Feng and Li, 2021).
Figure 2: GDP at risk from climate change-related physical risks, RCP 8.5 scenario
Source: SP Global and ECB
3.3 Modelling climate shocks
The IO tables system is initially in equilibrium.
ECB Working Paper Series No 2942
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Figure 4: GDP-at-risk resulting from IO amplification of physical risks under the RCP 8.5 scenario.
ECB Working Paper Series No 2942
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Figure 5: GDP-at-risk resulting from IO amplification of physical risks under the RCP 8.5 scenario.
However, not analysing the amplification of climate risks through supply chains for
lack of data could lead to a large underestimation of the risks posed by climate change for economic and
financial stability.
Adams, K. M., Benzie, M. & Croft, S. Climate change, trade, and global food security: a global
assessment of transboundary climate risks in agricultural commodity flows.
In this sense, the
exposure to physical risks of direct trading partners is a limited indicator for the amplification of losses
through global value chains.

Engitix Announces Appointment of Matthew Edwards Ph.D., as SVP Discovery and Emma Huang Ph.D., as VP Data Sciences

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вторник, мая 21, 2024

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He joins Engitix from Johnson & Johnson, where he was the Global Head of Discovery and Translational Sciences for Interventional Oncology.

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He joins Engitix from Johnson & Johnson, where he was the Global Head of Discovery and Translational Sciences for Interventional Oncology.
She joins Engitix from Johnson & Johnson, where she served as Head of Data Sciences for Interventional Oncology.
Dr. Christopher Stevenson, CSO at Engitix, said, “I am delighted to welcome Matt and Emma to Engitix.
We have created the roles of SVP Discovery and VP Data Sciences to expand our leadership team and capabilities.

Children International Hosts Ecuadorian Students in Kansas City for Global Finals of ‘Destination Imagination’ Tournament

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понедельник, мая 20, 2024

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Throughout the event, more than 650 teams will tackle open-ended ‘STEAM’ challenges, encompassing science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics, presenting innovative solutions born of collaborative effort and creativity.

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Throughout the event, more than 650 teams will tackle open-ended ‘STEAM’ challenges, encompassing science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics, presenting innovative solutions born of collaborative effort and creativity.
The Ecuadorian youths, all participants in Children International programs, have demonstrated great resilience and focus in overcoming harsh conditions and other ills to practice and collaborate for the national win that landed them a spot in the global finals, said Paul Hooper, Senior Regional Director for Children International.
These six youths, fluent in Spanish, offer a unique perspective on their journey and the transformative power of programs like Destination Imagination.
DI teams work on one of six competitive challenges that range from science to engineering to improvisation and service learning.