You can order your own blood work now. Interpreting the results is another story

Firms like Function Health and Oura market regular blood tests to people wanting to take their health into their own hands.
eLife

Beyond the Focus of Expansion: Retinal curl as a functional signal for heading estimation

This study provides an important and biologically plausible account of how human perceptual judgments of heading direction are influenced by a specific pattern of motion in optic flow fields known as ...

New methods can help study the phenomenon of turbulence

In his doctoral thesis, Michael Roop develops numerical methods that allow finding physically reliable approximate solutions ...
eLife

Serotonergic modulation of motor subspace dynamics drives a sleep-independent quiescent state

The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) serotonergic (5-HT) system has been implicated in regulating sleep and motor control; however, its specific role remains controversial. In this study, we found that ...
Central Illinois Proud

Psilocybin mushrooms are going mainstream, but research and regulation lag

Amid a renaissance in the science of psychedelics, public interest in psilocybin – or magic mushrooms, as they’ve long been ...
How-To Geek on MSN

These 8 useful Bash patterns are hiding in real projects—here's how to use them

Discover the techniques that help popular scripts succeed.
BMJ Open

Global prevalence and risk factors of probable sarcopenia in older adults: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction With the acceleration of the global ageing trend, sarcopenia has become a major public health problem. Probable sarcopenia, characterised primarily by decreased muscle strength, ...
Investopedia

Simple Random Sampling: 6 Basic Steps With Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
IEEE

The Ratios of Functions of Random Variables

Abstract: Given the joint probability density function (pdf), pX(xl, ..., xN), of the random variables x1, xN, a new method is developed for determining the pdf of the ratio f(X)lg(X) where f and g ...
Oak Ridge National Lab

Expressiveness of Commutative Quantum Circuits: A Probabilistic Approach

This study investigates the frame potential and expressiveness of commutative quantum circuits. Based on the Fourier series representation of these circuits, we express quantum expectation and ...
Geeky Gadgets

Build Faster Excel Workflows Using FILTER, IFS, XLOOKUP, and LET for Real-World Data

What if you could transform hours of tedious spreadsheet work into just minutes of streamlined efficiency? Simon Sez IT takes a closer look at how Excel’s most powerful functions can transform the way ...
IEEE

Characteristic Functions of the Product of Two Gaussian Random Variables and the Product of a Gaussian and a Gamma Random Variable

Abstract: We derive the characteristic function (CF) for two product distributions—first for the product of two Gaussian random variables (RVs), where one has zero mean and unity variance, and the ...