CBS News

American Airlines stops offering miles and other rewards for basic economy fares

Members of American Airlines' loyalty program will no longer earn miles or other travel rewards when purchasing a basic economy ticket. People enrolled in the carrier's AAdvantage program previously ...
Wall Street Journal

The Curriculum Flowchart That Has Texas Professors Up in Arms

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...
IEEE

Improved Multi-Dimensional Holomorphic Embedding-Based Approximate Dynamic Programming for Stochastic Optimal Power Flow of Active Distribution Network

Abstract: The optimal power flow (OPF) problem of active distribution network (ADN) is a stochastic, nonconvex, and nonlinear problem. Although several algorithms have been presented to solve this ...
IEEE

Distributed Slack-Bus Based DC Optimal Power Flow With Transmission Loss: A Second-Order Cone Programming Approach and Sufficient Conditions

Abstract: This paper proposed sufficient conditions of the zero duality gap for the second-order conic programming approach of the DC optimal power flow that quadratically embeds the transmission loss ...
Lowy Institute

The Marshall Islands’ experiment with a universal basic income

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is embarking on one of the world’s most ambitious experiments in universal basic income (UBI). Beginning on 26 November 2025, the government introduced a ...