Title of Thesis: SCHOOL DROPOUT AND SUBSEQUENT OFFENDING: DISTINGUISHING SELECTION FROM CAUSATION Gary Allen Sweeten, Master of Arts, 2004 Thesis directed by: Professor Shawn D. Bushway Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Past research on the relationship between school dropout and offending is inconclusive. In explaining their findings, researchers have focused on strain and control...

Color dropout refers to the process of converting color form documents to black and white by removing the colors that are part of the blank form and maintaining only the information entered in the form. In this paper, no prior knowledge of the form type is assumed. Color dropout is performed by associating darker non-dropout colors with information that is entered in the form and needs to be pr...

Regularizing neural networks is an important task to reduce overfitting. Dropout [1] has been a widely-used regularization trick for neural networks. In convolutional neural networks (CNNs), dropout is usually applied to the fully connected layers. Meanwhile, the regularization effect of dropout in the convolutional layers has not been thoroughly analyzed in the literature. In this paper, we an...

We explore a recently proposed Variational Dropout technique that provided an elegant Bayesian interpretation to Gaussian Dropout. We extend Variational Dropout to the case when dropout rates are unbounded, propose a way to reduce the variance of the gradient estimator and report first experimental results with individual dropout rates per weight. Interestingly, it leads to extremely sparse sol...

Dropout is a method that prevents overfitting when training deep neural networks. It involves sampling different sub-networks by temporarily removing nodes at random. Dropout works well in practice, but its properties have not been fully explored or theoretically justified. Our project explores the properties of dropout by applying methods used in optimization such as simulated annealing and lo...

UNLABELLED Study Type--Therapy (outcomes) Level of Evidence 2a. What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a well known implication of radical prostatectomy (RP). Despite the search for technical improvement in the surgical procedure (e.g. nerve-sparing surgery, robot-assisted RP), many patients still suffer from an inability to achieve a satisfactory...

Dropout is a common problem in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses including bipolar disorders (BD). The aim of the present study is to investigate illness perceptions of dropout patients with BD. A cross sectional study was done on the participants who attended the Mood Disorder Outpatient Clinic at least 3 times from January 2003 through June 2008, and then failed to attend clinic till to ...

The analysis of longitudinal repeated measures data is frequently complicated by missing data due to informative dropout. We describe a mixture model for joint distribution for longitudinal repeated measures, where the dropout distribution may be continuous and the dependence between response and dropout is semiparametric. Specifically, we assume that responses follow a varying coefficient rand...

Dropout from school hinders development as it makes human potentialities unexplored. This creates all round backwardness. Muslim communities are more backward particularly in Malda district, W.B., where the dropout rate is high. Parental decision to dropout their wards from primary education does not depend upon gender, but depend upon their economic status. Poverty influences the parents to wi...