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Harvard would have been helped out significantly had the women’s selection criteria been more like the men’s. Unlike the women’s committee, the men’s committee uses as the main selection criteria an adjusted rating-percentage-index that additionally rewards good wins and penalizes bad losses. Since Harvard had no bad losses and Rhode Island had several, Harvard would have been clearly helped by that format...
Record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and Ratings Percentage Index (RPI)—These three are primary criteria in all sports. RPI is a weighted average of a team’s record, its opponent’s records, and its opponent’s opponent’s records. SOS is a weighted average of the latter two. An important note—teams with records below .500 are not considered for selection...
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...site index greets viewers with a picture of Britney lounging in her typical sultry, seductive, “come-hither” fashion. The cartoon bubble emanating from her mouth holds one of the many equations for the Density of States, one the most ubiquitous required formulas in the field. The site has a Google search engine option, cleverly altered to “Booble,” not to mention various indexes with payloads worth of textbook information on semiconductors. And of course, every page of equations has—you guessed it—random pictures of Britney...
...experimental. One of the fondest dreams of law-enforcement officials is to build a national computer system that holds the fingerprints and DNA of every known felon and the ballistic signature of every gun ever used in a crime. Early versions of each of these databases--the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN) and the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)--already exist, but they are not yet all fully operational...