Under current law, participants in (college) student loan program must repay their loan in full regardless of whether they complete college. Dropout rate among college students from low-income background is anywhere between 33 to 50 percent. The combination of lack of family resources, unconstrained access to student loans and high dropout rates means that for a substantial fraction of low-inco...

Utilization of psychiatric services by depressed elderly is low compared to younger adults. Outreach programmes in which treatment is actively offered to depressed elderly in the community can be used to improve access of these elderly to mental health care. In this study a meta-analysis is carried out to study the effectiveness of these outreach programmes. Fourteen studies were found in which...

PURPOSE We aimed to determine 1) whether dropout rate decreased and 2) whether health care providers' perceptions were changed with continued improvements of contents of clinical pathway (CP) for total knee arthroplasty (TKA). MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included two separate analyses of patients and health care providers. In the analysis of patients, dropout rates and reas...

In networked control systems, time delay and data dropout can degrade the performance of the control system and even destabilize the system. In the present paper, the Extended Kalman filter is employed to compensate the effects of time delay and data dropout in feedforward and feedback paths of networked control systems. In the proposed method, the extended Kalman filter is used as an observer ...

Dropout is often used as an outcome measure in clinical trials of antipsychotic medication. Previous research is inconclusive regarding (a) differences in dropout rates between first- and second-generation antipsychotic medications and (b) how trial design features reduce dropout. Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of antipsychotic medication was conducted to compare dropout r...

State requirements that high school graduates pass exit exams were the leading edge of the movement towards standards-based reform and continue to be adopted and refined by states today. In this study, we present new empirical evidence on how exit exams influenced educational attainment and labor market experiences using data from the 2000 Census and the National Center for Education Statistics...

BACKGROUND Neuroleptics are commonly used to treat behavioral disorders associated with dementia. However, their safety and efficacy have not been well established in these patients. METHOD A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled (either placebo or active drug), double-blind trials published since 1966 (N = 16; 499 treated, 112 active controls, and 123 placebo) was conducted. Data were coll...

Dropout is a popular technique for regularizing artificial neural networks. Dropout networks are generally trained by minibatch gradient descent with a dropout mask turning off some of the units—a different pattern of dropout is applied to every sample in the minibatch. We explore a very simple alternative to the dropout mask. Instead of masking dropped out units by setting them to zero, we per...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical performance of 3 new-generation pulse-oximetry signal-processing software systems (Philips FAST, Masimo SET, and Nellcor N-3000) during ambulation after open-heart surgery. DESIGN Prospective, convenience sample. SETTING Cardiac surgical progressive care unit in a 629-bed, not-for-profit, tertiary-care teaching hospital. PATIENTS Status post-cardiac-surger...