Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. Rent stabilization is a form of control over ...

The human resources department incredibly gives to a company's ethnicity. If HR is deadly, employees will be disheartened and less likely to check with HR for help, either with career-linked issues or ...

Abstract: This paper investigates how to define and construct a Lyapunov function for Boolean networks, and presents a number of new results based on the semi-tensor product of matrices. A proper form ...

Abstract: Dirac delta functions are introduced to students of signal processing in their sophomore year. Quite understandably, Dirac delta functions, which should be more aptly called generalized ...

A payment gateway is a technology that allows businesses to capture, authenticate, and encrypt online payment information from customers. If you want to accept payments online as a business, you’ll ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a harbinger of other diseases, not a disease in itself. The idea of obesity as a ...

What Is a VPN? Definition, How It Works, and More Your email has been sent A VPN (virtual private network) encrypts your internet traffic and protects your online privacy. Find out how it works and ...

You’re probably familiar with weighing things on a bathroom scale or kitchen scale, but do you know about a spring balance? Spring balances are simple yet clever tools that have been around for ...

Texting abbreviations have been around for decades, since texting itself. And now, more abbreviations and slang words continue to crop up as Gen Z enters adulthood and Gen A gets old enough to have ...

Researchers have developed a discovery platform to probe the function of genes involved in metabolism -- the sum of all life-sustaining chemical reactions. The investigators used the new platform, ...

Letter writing has been an art form for many centuries. From "x" and "o" meaning "hugs and kisses," respectively, to the intricacies of deciding what salutation to use in a letter, it may take some ...