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World Futures: Statistics (And Probability) – Part 10

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By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute
 
In the previous columns we explored different areas where statistics are used for scientific purposes, management purposes. operational decisions and intellectual purposes. For example, measuring the cross sections of a Uranium atom (a statistical measurement) allows for the design of a nuclear reactor.
But how do you measure what people want both individually and collectively? As a collection of individuals we want and need things, the driving desires that support consumption, purchasing and demand for business enterprises.
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Environmental Management Assistant Secretary White Focuses On Collaboration In Japan Visit

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EM Assistant Secretary Anne White speaks during the fifth meeting of the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation Aug. 8 in Tokyo. Courtesy photo
 
EM News:
 
Following is a first-person account by Environmental Management Assistant Secretary Anne White on her trip Aug. 7-10 to Japan as part of a delegation attending the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation, the U.S.-Japan Decommissioning Forum, and a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi Site.
 
I had the honor of traveling to Japan proudly representing EM, while accompanying Deputy
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Los Alamos Educators And Students Help Deliver School Libraries To Rural Kenya … And More!

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Courtesy photo
 
By SHARON ALLEN
Los Alamos
 
School was out for the summer but these local educators were not slowing down one bit! In mid-June Nicole McGrane and Audrey Juliani (Barranca teachers), Petra Pirc McDowell (former LAPS physical therapist), Sharon Allen (retired teacher), Nicole’s daughter Kaitlyn (LAHS sophomore), and Petra’s daughter Hailey (LAMS 8 th grader) headed to far western Kenya to some small, remote islands off the shores of Lake Victoria, near the Uganda border.
 
Undaunted by the challenges of traveling in over-packed vans on unpaved, washed out
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LANL: High-Impact Los Alamos Innovations Honored As R&D 100 Award Finalists

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Ten Los Alamos National Laboratory innovations are finalists for the 2018 R&D 100 Awards, including the Universal Bacterial Sensor developed by the team led by Harshini Mukundan. The sensor mimics biological recognition of bacterial pathogens to identify infections even before the patient’s symptoms are evident. Courtesy/LANL
 
Cristian Pantea and Dipen Sinha with the Acoustic Collimated Beam (ACCObeam). Courtesy/LANL
 
LANL News:
 
Ten Los Alamos National Laboratory innovations are finalists for the 2018 R&D 100 Awards, which honor the top 100 proven
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CIR: Tickets Available For Journalism Under Fire

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By SANDY CAMPBELL
Santa Fe Council on International Relations
Executive Director
 

The Santa Fe COuncil on INternational Relation (CIR) has annouced that tickets for Journalism under Fire are now on sale with early bird ticket available until Oct. 15. All tickets are available here; a conference website (which is being added to) is available here.

Essential to Journalism under Fire is the participation of New Mexico journalists and New Mexico students. The 50+ journalists coming through the State Department create a unique opportunity for a global-local industry meeting, and CIR Read More

NIST: Many Arctic Pollutants Decrease After Market Removal And Regulation

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Persistent Organic Pollutants, also known as POPs, can having lasting impacts on both people and wild animals in the Arctic. Research shows some POPs are decreasing in the region after being pulled from market or regulated around the globe. Courtesy/Arturo de Frias Marques (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_Bear_AdF.jpg)
 
NIST News:
 
Levels of some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulated by the Stockholm Convention are decreasing in the Arctic, according to an international team of researchers who have been actively monitoring the northern regions
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NIST: Graphene Quantum Dot Structure Takes Cake

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Illustration of the wedding cake structure formed by electrons magnetically confined within tiny regions in graphene. Photo by C. Gutiérrez/NIST
 
NIST News:
 
In a marriage of quantum science and solid-state physics, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used magnetic fields to confine groups of electrons to a series of concentric rings within graphene, a single layer of tightly packed carbon atoms.
 
This tiered “wedding cake,” which appears in images that show the energy level structure of the electrons, experimentally confirms
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AGU: Acceleration Of Mountain Glacier Melt Could Impact Pacific Northwest Water Supplies

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Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. Courtesy/National Park Service
 

The Olympic Mountain Province rises to an elevation of 7,980 feet. The higher peaks are covered with glaciers and snowfields, feeding the many rivers that radiate outward from the center of the range. Courtesy/Washington State Department of Natural Resource

 
The Nisqually Reach region has been identified as an area important for fish, aquatic mammals, and benthic habitats and an area of unique geologic processes. Courtesy/Washington State Department of Natural Resources
 
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LANL Director Terry Wallace Rocks Crowd With Cosmic Mystery Of Minerals Presentation At Fuller Lodge

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LANL Director Terry Wallace listens as UNM-LA Advisory Board President Steve Boerigter delivers an introduction of Wallace laced with hilarity ahead of Wallace’s presentation on ‘The Cosmic Mystery of Minerals’ during the UNM-LA fundraiser Aug. 15 at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com 

LANL Director Terry Wallace cracks up as he is being introduced with some geeky humor by Lab physicist Steve Boerigter during the UNL-LA fundraiser Aug. 15 at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com 

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Strem And UbiQD Of Los Alamos Sign Distribution Agreement For Cadmium-Free Quantum Dots

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An example of UbiQD’s innovative quantum dot (QD) technology. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc.

STREM CHEMICALS, INC. News:

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. – UbiQD, Inc., a nanotechnology company in Los Alamos, has signed an agreement with Strem Chemicals, Inc. to allow distribution of their innovative quantum dot (QD) technology.

Strem, a manufacturer and distributor of specialty chemicals for research and development, will now offer six new products in collaboration with UbiQD. These copper indium disulfide/zinc sulfide quantum dots are available with a range of peak emission wavelengths from 550nm Read More