Distributed classification with variable distributions by Quach, Vinh Thanh

“…However, current explorations implicitly assume that all parties receive data from exactly the same distribution of data. …”
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Finite element analysis of expandable bi-leaflet heart valves for infants by Sin, Jonathan Junyao

“…The computer-aided design software, Solidworks, was used to draw the heart valves and their surrounding conduits. …”
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A scheme of pairwise feature combinations to improve sentiment classification using book review dataset by Abubakar, Haisal Dauda, Huspi, Sharin Hazlin, Mahmood Umar, Mahmood Umar

“…Although the approaches to achieve the goals may vary, Machine Learning (ML) methods are gradually becoming the preferred method because of their ability to automatically draw useful insight from data regardless of their complexity. …”
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Breaking permutation-based mesh steganography and security improvement by Wang, Yimin, Kong, Lingsheng, Qian, Zhenxing, Feng, Guorui, Zhang, Xinpeng, Zheng, Jianmin

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Atomic Habits : Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results : An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones / by Clear, James, author 656048

“…You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. …”

Press ECCS to Doubt (Your Causal Graph) by Markakis, Markos, Zhang, Ziyu, Shahout, Rana, Gao, Trinity, Liu, Chunwei, Sabek, Ibrahim, Cafarella, Michael

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Membrane structure-dependent limiting flux behavior and membrane selectivity loss during gypsum scaling : implications for pressure-retarded osmosis operation and membrane design by Fei, Jingyuan, Mai, Weiting, Cheng, Pak Shing, Shi, Jeffrey, Liu, Zongwen, She, Qianhong

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Mitigating marine megafauna captures in fisheries by Arlidge, W

“…</p> <p>Throughout the fishery case study, I draw on established decision-making processes to better understand the conservation issue at hand and to develop an understanding of what is necessary to empirically calculate net outcomes in data-poor fishing systems using the proposed framework. …”

The unintended consequences of improving police recording of rape in England and Wales by Lovett, Jo, Kelly, Liz, Vera-Gray, Fiona

“…A strong focus in recent policy and media coverage has been the increase in reporting of rape coupled with an associated fall in the charge rate, often attributed to victim withdrawal. …”
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Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…The best approaches to study causal effects are natural experiments, longitudinal data, and randomised controlled trials of interventions. This thesis combines all these approaches to examine the relationship between bullying and mental health across different contexts.…”

The Relationship between Linguistic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks by Kauf, Carina

“…This thesis work makes progress on all three questions by combining evidence from neuroimaging, behavioral research, and computational modeling. …”
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Engineering pressure retarded osmosis membrane bioreactor (PRO-MBR) for simultaneous water and energy recovery from municipal wastewater by Liu, Shuyue, Song, Weilong, Meng, Manli, Xie, Ming, She, Qianhong, Zhao, Pin, Wang, Xinhua

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Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…Flexible wall falling-head permeability test was used to determine the saturated permeability of the soil in the laboratory. …”
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Memory Checking Requires Logarithmic Overhead by Boyle, Elette, Komargodski, Ilan, Vafa, Neekon

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Memory Checking Requires Logarithmic Overhead by Boyle, Elette, Komargodski, Ilan, Vafa, Neekon

“…The bound applies to any scheme with computational security, completeness $2/3$, and inverse polynomial in $n$ soundness (all of which make our lower bound only stronger). …”
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A finer-grain analysis of the leakage (non) resilience of OCB by Berti, Francesco, Bhasin, Shivam, Breier, Jakub, Hou, Xiaolu, Poussier, Romain, Standaert, François-Xavier, Udvarhelyi, Balasz

“…Thanks to this comprehensive analysis, we draw concrete requirements for side-channel resistant implementations of OCB3.…”
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Adoption of ZakaTech in the Time of COVID-19: Cross-Country and Gender Differences by Nashwan, Saeed Awadh, Ismaiel, Abdelhamid Elsayed A., Muneeza, Aishath, Isa, Mohamad Yazid

“…To validate the research model and draw significant insights, SmartPLS structural equation modeling was used. …”
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Assessing the impact of a sport for development and peace intervention on the mental and physical health of adolescents in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka by Hamilton, A

“…</p> <p><b>Results:</b></p> <p>Successive adaptations improved the intra-tester agreement for the SLIPS-C (Kilinochchi ICC = 0.701, Mullaitivu ICC = 0.878) and all variables showed a good level of reliability (ICC&amp;GT;0.75). …”

Multi-scale and multiphase modeling of abrasive flow machining process with experimental validation by Mohamed Adel Abdelhakem Amen

“…Here, the study established all the simulations using complex shape for surface and basic to complex shapes for the particle. …”
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Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty intervals (UIs) were calculated for every metric using the 25th and 975th ordered values from a 1000-draw posterior distribution. <p><b>Findings</b></p> Global all-cause mortality followed two distinct patterns over the study period: age-standardised mortality rates declined between 1950 and 2019 (a 62·8% [95% UI 60·5–65·1] decline), and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic period (2020–21; 5·1% [0·9–9·6] increase). …”