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...said. “Even though their record isn’t that good this year, they have always been a problem, so we always look out for them.”Yale is the best free throw shooting team in the Ivy League, posting 72.7 percent from the charity stripe. The Bulldogs have also built a wall around three point land, holding its opponents to 28 percent from beyond the arch. In its last meeting with Yale, the Crimson didn’t score a single three pointer. The game should break down as a typical offense vs. defense...
...differs from existing methods that examine only the effect of a single factor, instead allowing researchers to study the interaction of multiple genes. The study, released last month, found the formula could predict a person’s risk for the most common stroke in the U.S. with 86 percent accuracy—which the researchers said was a significant improvement over previous models, which only predicted risk with 50 percent accuracy. Originally used for artificial intelligence, the Bayesian network was used to screen 1,313 genes in 569 individuals and turned up 37 that worked collectively to forecast...
...United States currently faces an approximately 20 percent probability of entering into an economic depression, according to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by Harvard Economics professor Robert J. Barro. Drawing upon the financial statistics of 251 previous stock-market crashes and 97 depressions, Barro wrote that “the odds are roughly one-in-five that the current recession will snowball into the macroeconomic decline of 10% or more that is the hallmark of a depression.” Barro also wrote that he was skeptical about the effectiveness of the current federal stimulus package...
University-wide budget cuts, due to a predicted drop-off in endowment value, have prompted the creation of early retirement packages, and 1600 workers are currently eligible. Administrators estimate a 30 percent fall in endowment value by the end of the fiscal year...
...recent study conducted by researchers at Harvard-affiliated hospitals and the University of Colorado found that people with low levels of vitamin D are 40 percent more likely to report respiratory infections such as colds and flu. The study analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, in which 19,000 participants were tested for their blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D—a precursor of the vitamin that is considered the best measure of its concentration. Study participants with the lowest vitamin D blood levels were found to be much more likely to report having...