Alcohol and the heart: To abstain or not to abstain?

Alcohol and the heart: to abstain or not to abstain?

Alcohol has been consumed by most societies over the last 7000 years. Abraham Lincoln said "It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing." Light to moderate alcohol consumption reduces the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic stroke, peripheral arterial disease, CHD mortality, and all-cause morta...

Learning to Abstain from Binary Prediction

A binary classifier capable of abstaining from making a label prediction has two goals in tension: minimizing errors, and avoiding abstaining unnecessarily often. In this work, we exactly characterize the best achievable tradeoff between these two goals in a general semi-supervised setting, given an ensemble of predictors of varying competence as well as unlabeled data on which we wish to predi...

Learning to Abstain via Curve Optimization

In practical applications of machine learning, it is often desirable to identify and abstain on examples where the a model’s predictions are likely to be incorrect. We consider the problem of selecting a budget-constrained subset of test examples to abstain on, with the goal of maximizing performance on the remaining examples. We develop a novel approach to this problem by analytically optimizi...

An exploration of adolescent's decisions to abstain or refrain from alcohol consumption in Australian social settings - a qualitative systematic review.

Cellular Energetics: Actin and Myosin Abstain from ATP during Starvation

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