Digital data trails from disparate sources covering different aspects of student life are stored daily in most modern university campuses. However, it remains challenging to (i) combine these obtain a holistic view student, (ii) use accurately predict academic performance, and (iii) such predictions promote positive engagement with the university. To initially alleviate this problem, article, m...

  Background and purpose: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) include blood-borne viruses that have infected millions of people worldwide. During haircut or shaving, barbers may accidentally expose their clients’ blood, transmit their own infection to them, or transmit the infection from one client to another. Hence, the knowledge of barbers toward topics related to AIDS is of great importa...

Due to privacy or legal issues, aggregate data publication is a common practice in healthcare and medical research. However, to find out valuable individual level relationships from the aggregate data, many data mining algorithms suffer from the aggregation bias and the information loss, or require rather strict assumptions, which are usually unverifiable. Furthermore, even if individual level ...

A study on the impact of the phase errors distribution on the performances of the phased array systems has been produced using a complete behavioral model for radiation-pattern characteristics. The main purpose of the study is to demonstrate that the rms phase error is a valuable figure of merit of phased array systems but it is not sufficient to completely describe the behavior of a real syste...