Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a method that can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment will become pregnant.

Forget about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or John McCain's war record. If you tell me how the economy is doing now, I'll tell you who will be president next January. Unfortunately for John McCain's chances, the economy is very weak, and almost everything else is going against him as well, which means Barack Obama will almost certainly be elected president.

Using the most updated information on the supply of physicians over a 20-year period, the size of the future global need for, demand for and supply of physicians is projected to 2015, the target date for the Millennium Development Goals.

Sulpicio Lines filed a civil case against the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) and two of its officials for "gross negligence and incompetence" in forecasting the path of typhoon Frank, which it blamed for the sinking of its ship M/V Princess of the Stars.

In this issue we have: Forecasting with the age-period-cohort model and the extended chain-ladder model ; Stubborn Sell-Side Stock Analysts ; Interest Rate Forecasts ; On Forecasting Daily Stock Volatility ; The Role of Implied Volatility in Forecasting ; Forecasting Bankruptcy and Physical Default Intensity.

Or could we simply be at the end of forecasting’s beginning – with unforeseen potential ahead? Thornton May, Executive Director and Dean at the IT Leadership Academy, discusses the idea that forecasting, as we know it, is coming to an end.

Vertical ad network management company Adify is expected to launch an inventory forecasting module for vertical ad network builders to predict supply and demand across the publishers in their networks.

In this issue we have: An Hourly Periodic State Space Model for Modelling French National Electricity Load ; Forecasting Random Walks Under Drift Instability ; Short-term forecasting of GDP using large monthly datasets - a pseudo real-time forecast evaluation exercise ;Partial Likelihood-Based Scoring Rules for Evaluating Density Forecasts in Tails ; Diachronic Behaviour of the OECD Forecasts for Greece ; and more.

The International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) is a leading journal in the field of Forecasting and is an official publication of the International Institute of Forecasters. There will be special issues of IJF on Tourism Forecasting and Forecasting with artificial neural networks and computational intelligence.