This experiment demonstrates Poisson’s Spot, a curious optical phenomenon where light bends around a circular object, creating a bright point in its shadow and revealing wave behavior of light.

This experiment demonstrates Poisson’s Spot, a curious optical phenomenon where light bends around a circular object, creating a bright point in its shadow and revealing wave behavior of light.

When stretching an adhesive specimen along a longitudinal direction, it has a tendency to thin in a lateral direction. Measuring the relationship between how thin a material becomes during stretching ...

The Louis J. Poisson House, built in 1886, is an Italianate-style home located in Wilmington's historic district. Louis J. Poisson, a real estate broker, commissioned the house and lived there with ...

A beloved French cartoon fish is now the internet's latest viral hit, amassing tens of millions of views online. The orange fish, affectionately known as "Le Poisson Steve," has spawned a series of ...

How Steve, a French cartoon with a catchy theme song, became a TikTok star. By Madison Malone Kircher If you have not yet heard the French song about an orange fish named Steve that is currently ...

R package for statistical modeling with the Skellam distribution, supporting inference, random sampling, and regression for differences of independent Poisson counts.

When Motorola introduced its first mobile phone in 1984, the company hoped for a buying frenzy. But even the best marketers couldn’t have predicted the success of mobile phones. Today, mobile phones ...

ABSTRACT: Road traffic flow forecasting provides critical information for the operational management of road mobility challenges, and models are used to generate the forecast. This paper uses a random ...

The Poisson distribution is widely used in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In Bayesian inference, probability distributions often help solve problems that would otherwise be ...

The mainstream media has recently trumpeted the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s estimate that violent crime fell 3 percent nationally from 2022 to 2023. They have largely ignored, however, the ...