1 Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Medical Initiatives, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Visiting Researcher, Japan Medical Association Research Institute (JMARI), Tokyo, Japan ([email protected]). 2 Executive Board Member, Japan Medical Association, Tokyo, Japan ([email protected]). The outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) expanded fiercely ...

Recall the online learning model we discussed in the previous lecture: N = # experts For t = 1, 2, . . . , T rounds: 1) each expert i, 1 ≤ i ≤ N , makes a prediction ξi ∈ {0, 1} 2) learner makes a prediction ŷ ∈ {0, 1} 3) observe outcome y ∈ {0, 1} (a mistake happens if ŷ 6= y) With this framework in hand, we investigated a particular algorithm, Weighted Majority Algorithm (WMA), as follows: N ...

PRISON HUNGER STRIKES PRESENT CLINICAL, ETHICAL, LEgal, and human rights challenges to physicians who care for hunger strikers. Controversy continues over the care of prisoners who are hunger striking at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The World Medical Association (WMA) has updated the Declaration of Malta with guidelines on care of hunger strikers, and recent court opinions in the ...

The WMA is a federation of National Medical Associations (NMA) representing over 8 million physicians in >85 countries around the world. It was founded in 1947 with the mission to “serve humanity by endeavoring to achieve the highest international standards in medical education, medical science, medical care, and medical ethics, and health care for all the people of the world”. Despite the enor...

However, the annual event rate rose after the first 3 years, indicating that in patients with persistent or recurrent stable chest pain syndrome and initially negative stress testing, repeated DCMR diagnostic procedures might be warranted. Furthermore, early revascularization either by PCI or CABG both improved clinical outcome only in patients with inducible WMA by DCMR, whereas patients who u...

Previously, we introduced the best-expert problem, and we proved a O(ln K) mistake bound for the majority vote algorithm when a perfect expert exists, i.e., there is an expert that never makes mistakes. Now let us turn to the more realistic case where there is no perfect expert among the committee. We extend the majority vote algorithm with a confidence weight. At each round, we maintain a weig...

Bituminous binders constitute 4-7% of the flexible pavements by weight play an important role on structural and functional performance pavements. Traditional hot mix asphalt (HMA) production is done at 150-190 °C that results high-energy usage, smoke odor emission therefore significant cost loss environmental damage. Increasing awareness has questioned whether HMA can be produced lower temperat...