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- Paper
- Overhead projector sheet or tracing paper
- Permanent marker
- Pens or textas
- A copy of the arrow maze [pdf, 7kB]
Solving an arrow maze
Although it might not look like it, this puzzle is a type of maze. The rules are quite simple:
- Start at the box labelled ‘In’.
- There are arrows in the box. Follow one of them to the next box.
- This box also has arrows. Pick one and follow it. Keep following arrows until you get to the box labelled ‘Out’.
- This maze has a loop from which you cannot escape – if you end up in the loop, you’ll have to start again!
Today, one of the biggest prizes in mathematics will be awarded. The organisers have already announced the winner of the 2013 Abel prize – the Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne.
Pulsing Coral
A scientific project which is aimed at facilitating research and innovation in Croatia received funding on Friday as indicated in the press release issued on the international financial institution web site. The project received the funding amounting to EUR 20 million which is an equivalent of USD $ 26.24 million which was approved by the World Bank’s through its directors on Friday. The project is aimed to assist the innovators and researchers in Croatia. Among those that will benefit from the project include public institutions involved in research work, scientific communities, scientists and upcoming researchers whose eligibility for the funds and implementation of the projects funded by EU.
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Six is an interesting number. If you add its factors 1, 2 and 3 together, you get 6. This is a neat trick that only works for some numbers, and mathematicians describe these numbers as perfect.
Many life sciences companies from all over the world and within the European Union region are gearing up in the rush to beat the July 1st compliance and regulations deadline. According to EU European Medicines Agency (EMA) standards, all such companies are required to have their product labels, information and documentation translated to the official language of the European Union member country in which they operate, on or before the day such a country gets EU accession. It is for this reason that Moravia, an internationally recognized company seeks to position itself in good time to offer guidance to life sciences sector companies in Croatia.
Often called the “Pearl of the Adriatic”, Dubrovnik is a seaport city, located at the southern end of 
You’ve probably heard the words probability and statistics being used in papers or on the news. You might have heard them in school. Even though they are common words, they can be hard to understand.
Science is a well-established way of testing ideas. Scientists have an idea, and then run an experiment to test it. Then they look at the result, to see if they correctly predicted what happened. In many fields of science, including medical science where consequences can be harmful, what happens is so complex it’s impossible to observe everything. To help make sense of it all, scientists use statistics.
