"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...

Abstract: As industries become automated and connectivity technologies advance, a wide range of systems continues to generate massive amounts of data. Many approaches have been proposed to extract ...

Objective To quantify the time lag between biomedical articles and the studies they describe as “recent,” a term widely used to imply timeliness despite rarely reflecting the actual age of the cited ...

An economic analysis by the Nevada Division of Outdoor Recreation found that outdoor recreation across the state and the Tahoe Basin, including the California side, provided an estimated $24 billion ...

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Eyes with meibomian gland dysfunction are more likely to have increased tears and lower tear film stability, possible signs ...

The standard measure of lesion count may matter less than the underlying biology driving treatment response in ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Ebony Howard is a certified public ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a growing role in remote sensing (RS). Applications of AI, particularly machine learning algorithms, range from initial image processing to high-level data ...