Amid growing concerns about the poor design of animal experiments and its implications for the translatability of experimental results, Michael F. W. Festing thinks it's time we do something about it.

The application of experimental design methods to practical engineering problems is illustrated by an example involving road tests to measure how elevation affects octane requirements of automobiles.

Since modern medicine is based substantially in clinical medical research, the flaws and ethical problems that arise in this research as it is conceived and practiced in the United States are likely ...

One of the hottest debates in evolutionary biology concerns the origin of behavior: is it genetically encoded or do animals and birds copy their parents or other individuals? A classic experiment ...

We investigate two new strategies for the numerical solution of optimal stopping problems in the regression Monte Carlo (RMC) framework proposed by Longstaff and Schwartz in 2001. First, we propose ...

This PhD programme aims to train a new generation of researchers capable of embracing the opportunities offered by the convergence of design, art, social sciences, humanities and technology, ...

A revised edition of IAEA Technical Reports Series No. 480, this publication includes all the data from the first edition, augmented with fourteen new benchmarks. It provides a set of experimental ...