we report engineering experiences from the critical task of relief well installation under high artesian flow conditions at the downstream toe of the karkheh earth dam, iran. due to the establishment of excessive uplift pressure at the downstream toe of the karkheh dam, installation of a series of new relief wells was considered to permanently relieve part of these pressures. the mentioned upli...

Feature weighting in supervised learning concerns the development of methods for quantifying the capability of features to discriminate instances from different classes. A popular method for this task, called RELIEF, generates a feature weight vector from a given training set, one weight for each feature. This is achieved by maximizing in a greedy way the sample margin defined on the nearest ne...

Masquerading as legitimate help are companies that target forty-four million borrowers owing over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. “Relief” purport to borrowers struggling repay loans but, fact, inflict irreversible financial harm by charging borrowers unlawful fees. Often pretending be affiliated with the U.S. Department of Education (Education Department), relief falsely claim they can...