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32-1056: M3 Challenge awards $ 100,000 in scholarship prizes each year to the top teams. Additional incentives are expenses-paid trips for top performing teams to the final event in New York City each April, and media recognition that the winning teams receive. Some examples of recognition: the winning paper from 2008 was published in the College Mathematics Journal . A representative from High Tech's team appeared on FOX Business Channel , 2010 winners were interviewed by Pimm Fox of Bloomberg radio, presented its findings at Lockheed Martin's Data Capture Center, and met with U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr. Robert Groves . Many Champion teams have had their solution papers and research published in SIAM's undergraduate publication, SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (SIURO). The 2011 and 2012 winners were interviewed by Pimm Fox of Bloomberg radio, and

64-581: A backlist of over 140,000 titles available in print and digital formats. It uses the Routledge imprint for its publishing in humanities, social sciences, behavioural sciences, law and education, and the CRC Press imprint for its publishing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. As the academic publishing arm of Informa, Taylor & Francis Group accounted for 30.2% of group revenue and 38.1% of adjusted profit in 2017. Taylor & Francis

96-787: A hand pouring oil into a lit lamp, along with the Latin phrase alere flammam – "to feed the flame [of knowledge]". The modern logo is a stylised oil lamp in a circle. The group has about 1,800 employees in at least 18 offices worldwide. Its head office is in Milton Park , Abingdon in the United Kingdom, with other offices in Stockholm, Leiden , New York, Boca Raton , Philadelphia, Kentucky , Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei , Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, Tokyo and New Delhi. Taylor & Francis reported

128-518: A mean 2017 gender pay gap of 24.2% for its UK workforce, while the median was 8%. The fact that the average pay for women is significantly worse than the median pay (compared to men's) shows that women are underrepresented in the positions with the highest pay. As of May 2022, 836 Taylor & Francis journals are listed in the Norwegian Scientific Index of which 753 have a rating of "level 1" (meets academic standard), 70 have

160-438: A rating "level 2" (the highest level, indicating rigorous academic quality), one has a rating of "level X" (decision on rating in progress), and 13 have a rating of "level 0" (indicating non-academic quality). Taylor & Francis has faced criticism for its use of author licensing agreements, and several of their journals have been criticized or retracted papers due to concerns over review and publishing practices. In 2013,

192-499: A social construct" that had previously been rejected by another Taylor & Francis journal, Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies , which suggested the study would be a good fit for Cogent Social Sciences. When the authors announced the hoax, the article was retracted. In 2018, another Grievance studies affair article "Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon"

224-553: Is Higher Education Really Worth? 2016 Problem – Share and (Car) Share Alike – Modeling New Approaches to Mobility 2017 Problem – From Sea to Shining Sea: Looking Ahead with the National Park Service 2018 Problem – Better Ate Than Never: Reducing Food Waste 2019 Problem – One is Too Many and A Thousand Not Enough: Substance Use and Abuse 2020 Problem – Keep On Trucking: U.S. Big Rigs Turnover From Diesel to Electric 2021 Problem – Defeating

256-523: Is a practice that can inflate the seeming prestige of a journal or group. In 2020, six T&F journals were found by analytics company Clarivate that exhibited unusual levels of self-citation , and as a consequence they were suspended from Journal Citation Reports and saw a drop in their journal impact factors . An April 2022 article in the T&;F journal Accountability in Research outlined some of

288-682: Is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals . Its parts include Taylor & Francis, CRC Press , Routledge , F1000 Research and Dovepress . It is a division of Informa plc , a United Kingdom -based publisher and conference company. The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis joined Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor had founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences. Francis's son, Richard Taunton Francis (1883–1930),

320-614: Is generally considered the smallest of the 'Big Four' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) publishers ( Reed-Elsevier , Wiley-Blackwell , Springer , and Taylor & Francis). Informa (including the Taylor & Francis imprint) was ranked by Simba Information as the leading global academic publisher in the areas of humanities and social sciences, in Global Social Science & Humanities Publishing 2016-2020 . The company's journals are delivered through

352-427: Is held annually on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in late February or early March. Students choose which day and what continuous span of 14 hours that they wish to work over Challenge weekend. All teams will work in, or convert their local time to, Eastern Standard Time. Once the problem is downloaded, the clock starts and it cannot be paused; students should download the problem with at least fourteen hours before

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384-594: Is open to high school juniors and seniors or sixth form students (age 16-19) in eligible areas as well as to homeschooled and cyber schooled students. Teams consist of three to five students and one coach, who must be a teacher at their school. Each school can have a maximum of two teams. There is no cost to register or participate in the Challenge. High schools in the U.S. (including US territories and DoDEA schools) are eligible. Schools with sixth form students (age 16-19) in England and Wales are eligible. The M3 Challenge

416-488: The Mathematical Association of America and is a continuation of Two-Year College Mathematics Journal . It covers all aspects of mathematics. It publishes articles intended to enhance undergraduate instruction and classroom learning, including expository articles, short notes, problems, and "mathematical ephemera" such as fallacious proofs, quotations, cartoons, poetry, and humor. Paid circulation in 2008

448-1055: The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and The Publishers Association (PA). Taylor & Francis is a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact , and has taken steps to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These include replacing plastic with responsibly-sourced paper packaging to mail journals and achieving CarbonNeutral® publication certification for their print books and journals. The old Taylor and Francis logo depicts

480-579: The 2014 winners were interviewed by both Pimm Fox and Carol Massar on Bloomberg radio. Many local and regional TV and radio stations interview top teams; and in 2021 both NPR and the BBC interviewed top teams about their work and the problem topic of defeating the digital divide and making internet accessible to all. MathWorks took over sponsorship of the competition, formerly known as the Moody's Mega Math (M³) Challenge, from Moody's Foundation in 2017. Registration

512-471: The Challenge problem. Students have no knowledge of the problem before they download it on Challenge weekend. To solve the problem, they are allowed to use any inanimate and publicly available sources. They cannot have any outside help from anyone, including their teacher-coach. A helpful discussion forum leading up to the problem release, a practice problem with live text chat discussion, can be found here . Below are previous problems: 2006 Problem – Solving

544-573: The Digital Divide: Internet Costs, Needs, and Optimal Planning 2022 Problem – Remote Work: Fad or Future 2023 Problem – Ride Like the Wind Without Getting Winded: The growth of E-Bike use Ph.D.-level applied mathematicians judge the contest in three phases. In triage, each paper is read through at least two times, and as many as five times, before being eliminated or passed on to

576-1002: The Social Security Stalemate 2007 Problem – Beat the Street! 2008 Problem – Energy Independence Meets the Law of Unintended Consequences 2009 Problem – $ 787 Billion: Will the Stimulus Act Stimulate the U.S. Economy 2010 Problem – Making Sense of the 2010 Census 2011 Problem – Colorado River Water: Good to the Last Acre-Foot 2012 Problem – All Aboard: Can High Speed Rail Get Back on Track? 2013 Problem – Waste Not, Want Not: Putting Recyclables in Their Place 2014 Problem – Lunch Crunch: Can Nutritious Be Affordable and Delicious? 2015 Problem – Stem Sells: What

608-592: The Taylor & Francis Online website and its ebooks through the Taylor & Francis website. Taylor & Francis offers Open Access publishing options in both its books and journals. Its digital content services include Routledge Handbooks Online, the Routledge Performance Archive, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Taylor & Francis is a member of several professional publishing bodies including

640-478: The decision. Previous instances of Taylor & Francis journals discriminating against Iranian authors were reported in 2013. In 2022 there has been much debate about the Accelerated Publication service offered by Taylor & Francis for some of its biomedical journals. For $ 7,000, a scientist can expedite the peer review process and be published in as few as three weeks. Self-citation

672-617: The entire board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned in a dispute over author licensing agreements. In 2016, Critical Reviews in Toxicology was accused by the Center for Public Integrity of being a "broker of junk science ". Monsanto was found to have worked with an outside consulting firm to induce the journal to publish a biased review of the health effects of its product "Roundup" . In 2017, Taylor & Francis

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704-477: The factors leading to consistent suspension from Journal Citation Reports. In September 2024, Lucina Uddin , a neuroscience professor at UCLA , sued Taylor & Francis along with five other academic journal publishers in a proposed class-action lawsuit, alleging that the publishers violated antitrust law by agreeing not to compete against each other for manuscripts and by denying scholars payment for peer review services. In 2024, Taylor & Francis

736-984: The final event. Judging is blind, with teams known only by a unique team ID number, until the validation and presentation round during the final event. Finalist and Technical Computing Awardee teams present their papers live to a panel of judges during the final event. Following the presentations, judges rank the teams and a formal award ceremony takes place. All students who submit a viable solution paper receive certificates of participation, which are mailed to their teacher-coach. Coaches also receive certificates. Judges award additional semi-finalist and honorable mention team awards in amounts of $ 1,500 and $ 1,000 per team, respectively. Semi-finalist prizes are awarded to teams whose papers were highly ranked and underwent in-depth, specific discussion by judges. Honorable mention prizes are awarded to teams whose papers are judged to be worthy of recognition for their superior efforts. The top six teams' schools are awarded trophies. Scholarship prizes for

768-467: The firm end of Challenge weekend to have use of the full fourteen hours allowed. They can work from any location they choose. Teacher-coaches are not required to be physically with or near the team during Challenge weekend. Team members may not discuss any aspect of the problem with, nor seek help from via any means or method, the coach or anyone other than their teammates over Challenge weekend. Professional Ph.D.-level applied mathematicians devise and write

800-1025: The same year bought its academic publishing rival Routledge for £90 million. Acquisition of other publishers has remained a core part of the group's business strategy. It merged with Informa in 2004 to create a new company called T&F Informa, since renamed back to Informa . Following the merger, T&F closed the historic Routledge office at New Fetter Lane in London, and moved to its current headquarters in Milton Park, Oxfordshire. In 2017, T&F sold assets from its Garland Science imprint to W. W. Norton & Company and then ceased to use that brand. In 2017, after collaborating for several years, T&F bought specialist digital resources company Colwiz . In January 2020, T&F bought open research publishing platform F1000 . In 2018 Informa PLC reported that Taylor & Francis publishes more than 2,700 journals, and about 7,000 new books each year, with

832-530: The second round. The triage round of judging eliminates two-thirds or more of the submitted papers. In the second round of judging, papers are read up to an additional twelve times each, and the top papers emerge. The top six papers overall become Finalists and go on to the final event and presentation round of judging. The M3 Challenge Technical Computing Scholarship Award, begun in 2018, honors teams for an outstanding use of computer programming (other than spreadsheets); these awardees also are invited to and present at

864-402: The top six finalist teams and the technical computing awardees are as follows (GBP equivalent for U.K. winning teams): Here are some helpful resources: College Mathematics Journal The College Mathematics Journal is an expository magazine aimed at teachers of college mathematics, particularly those teaching the first two years. It is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of

896-547: Was 9,000 and total circulation was 9,500. The MAA gives the George Pólya Awards annually "for articles of expository excellence" published in the College Mathematics Journal . This article about a mathematics journal is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Taylor %26 Francis Taylor & Francis Group

928-418: Was criticized after selling access to its authors' research to Microsoft as part of an AI partnership. The deal, which allows Microsoft non-exclusive access to content and data to improve AI systems, was made without informing or seeking consent from the authors whose work was involved. Academics expressed surprise and concern upon learning about the agreement, citing issues of transparency, fair compensation, and

960-550: Was published in Gender, Place & Culture , which was also retracted later that year. In December 2018, the journal Dynamical Systems accepted the paper Saturation of Generalized Partially Hyperbolic Attractors only to have it retracted after publication due to the Iranian nationality of the authors. The European Mathematical Society condemned the retraction and later announced that Taylor & Francis had agreed to reverse

992-504: Was sole partner in the firm from 1917 to 1930. In 1965, Taylor & Francis launched Wykeham Publications and began book publishing. T&F acquired Hemisphere Publishing in 1988, and the company was renamed Taylor & Francis Group to reflect the growing number of imprints . Taylor & Francis left the printing business in 1990, to concentrate on publishing. In 1998 it went public on the London Stock Exchange and in

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1024-493: Was strongly criticized for removing the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health , who accepted articles critical of corporate interests. The company replaced the editor with a corporate consultant without consulting the editorial board. In 2017 as part of the Grievance studies affair hoax articles, the T&F journal Cogent Social Sciences accepted one of "The conceptual penis as

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