An image can undergo a visually imperceptible change and yet get confidently misclassified by a trained Neural Network. Puzzled by this counter-intuitive behaviour, a lot of research has been undertaken in search of answers for this inexplicable phenomenon and more importantly, a possibility to impart robustness against adversarial misclassification. This thesis is a first step in the direction...

OBJECTIVES No data exists for nutritional status of female adolescent school dropouts despite one in seven adolescent girls in Sri Lanka being an early school leaver. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of working and non-working female adolescent school dropouts. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used to recruit 613 female adolescent school dropouts, aged 15-19 year...

There is little available information on the factors that influence relapses and dropouts during therapy for pathological gambling (PG). The aim of this study was to determine socio-demographic, clinical, personality, and psychopathological predictors of relapse and dropout in a sample of pathological gamblers seeking treatment. A total of 566 consecutive outpatients diagnosed with PG according...

OBJECTIVE To summarize remission rates and dropouts due to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) or lack of efficacy (LoE) of serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in treating major depressive disorder. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, IPA, and the Cochrane International Library from 1980-2005. M...

Dan Bloom of MDRC examines policies and programs designed to help high school dropouts improve their educational attainment and labor market outcomes. So called "second-chance" programs, he says, have long provided some combination of education, training, employment, counseling, and social services. But the research record on their effectiveness is fairly thin, he says, and the results are mixe...

BACKGROUND Many mathematical models have investigated the population-level impact of expanding antiretroviral therapy (ART), using different assumptions about HIV disease progression on ART and among ART dropouts. We evaluated the influence of these assumptions on model projections of the number of infections and deaths prevented by expanded ART. METHODS A new dynamic model of HIV transmissio...

This paper is admirable in that it presents a general framework that allows the user to focus on the pharmacokinetic modeling rather than on the computational and statistical details of estimation. The authors set up a reasonable-seeming model and obtain a good t to the pain-relief data with plausible parameter values, while accounting for the kind of complications that typically arise in clini...