BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New England Regional Information Office issued the following report on the county employment and wages in Maine for 4th quarter 2019: Maine's only large county, Cumberland, reported an employment gain of 1.1 percent from December 2018 to December 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2018.) Regional Commis  more

CAMBRIDGE, England, July 27 -- Cambridge University Press will publish the following book in November 2020 titled "Origametry - Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding" by Thomas C. Hull: The publisher provided this outline of the work: Origami, the art of paper folding, has a rich mathematical theory. Early investigations go back to at least the 1930s, but the twenty-first century has seen a remarkable blossoming of the mathematics of folding. Besides its use in describing origami and designing  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 27 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A University of Rhode Island natural resource economist has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to create a new way of documenting where commercial fishing is conducted in southern New England waters. The project is aimed at reducing conflict between the fishing industry and offshore wind farm developers. "I'm exploring a new way of improving spatial planning for of  more