ACKNOWLEDGMENT It is said that attitude and not aptitude, determines ones altitude. In research, a person can reach higher altitudes only by determination and perseverance. These are qualities which need to be sustained over the period of research, and I find that I have the satisfaction of having achieved this in my research, thanks to people around me. My Adviser, Professor Ron Schrimpf, has ...

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...

This paper demonstrates the use of numerical simulation data, depending on behavior a low voltage dropout regulator, for reliability performance estimation based accelerated degradation test data. The regulator was designed using Cadence Virtuoso software in 180 nm AMS CMOS technology, and simulated to evaluate its output variations both temperature input voltage. data were generated according ...

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...

We show how to adjust for the variance introduced by dropout with corrections to weight initialization and Batch Normalization, yielding higher accuracy. Though dropout can preserve the expected input to a neuron between train and test, the variance of the input differs. We thus propose a new weight initialization by correcting for the influence of dropout rates and an arbitrary nonlinearity’s ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to use pretreatment and treatment factors to predict dropout from residential substance use disorder program and to examine how the treatment environment modifies the risk for dropout. METHOD This study assessed 3649 male patients at entry to residential substance use disorder treatment and obtained information about their perceptions of the treatment envir...

Regularization for matrix factorization (MF) and approximation problems has been carried out in many different ways. Due to its popularity in deep learning, dropout has been applied also for this class of problems. Despite its solid empirical performance, the theoretical properties of dropout as a regularizer remain quite elusive for this class of problems. In this paper, we present a theoretic...

Distance Education courses are present in large number of educational institutions. Virtual Learning Environments development contributes to this wide adoption of Distance Education modality and allows new pedagogical methodologies. However, dropout rates observed in these courses are very expressive, both in public and private educational institutions. This paper presents a Learning Analytics ...