Experts want Big Tobacco on trial

Experts want Big Tobacco on trial.

Ecstasy experts want realistic messages.

BETHESDA—As the popularity of the drug ecstasy (MDMA) continues to climb—11% of high school seniors have tried it, according to a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) survey— behavioral researchers are recommending control strategies that may seem antithetical to ever-expanding law enforcement efforts. Instead of focusing on eradication and punishment, these social scientists take another ta...

Big marijuana--lessons from big tobacco.

highly efficient vector, a nonimmune population, and mining conditions that encouraged both vector breeding and malaria transmission fueled recurrent epidemics of malaria, which apparently started in the 1940s or early 1950s; 80% of the cases were P. falciparum. In 1955, public health authorities in Pailin began distributing chloroquine to workers daily; later, the frequency was reduced to twic...

Big Tobacco is trying on the "Russian style".

An Efficient Mixture of Experts Method for Big Data Applications

We introduce a new combination approach for the mixture of adaptive filters based on the set-membership filtering (SMF) framework. We perform SMF to combine the outputs of several parallel running adaptive algorithms and propose unconstrained, affinely constrained and convexly constrained combination weight configurations. Here, we achieve better trade-off in terms of the transient and steady-s...