In recent years crowdsourcing has become the method of choice for gathering labeled training data for learning algorithms. However, in most cases, there are no known computationally efficient learning algorithms that are robust to the high level of noise that exists in crowdsourced data, and efforts to eliminate noise through voting often require a large number of queries per example. In this n...

Warning: notes are incomplete and unchecked for correctness 1 Prediction with expert advice Algorithm 1 Protocol for online decision-making with expert advice 1: for t = 1 to T do 2: Receive experts' recommendations: b t,i ∈ {±1} for i ∈ [N ]. Recall that the " Follow the weighted majority " algorithm has the following guarantee. Letting M T denote the number of mistakes made by the learner in ...

Shannon • Editorial O medical education (OME) is making great strides on many fronts. The colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) are growing in number and size, producing more osteopathic medical graduates than ever before. Osteopathic medical education is transforming the profession from one with a limited regional presence to one with not only a wider presence, but also greater national acce...

The effects of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) in 125I brachytherapy dose enhancement on choroidal melanoma are examined using the Monte Carlo simulation technique. Usually, Monte Carlo ophthalmic brachytherapy dosimetry is performed in a water phantom. However, here, the compositions of human eye have been considered instead of water. Both human eye and water phantoms have been simulated with MCNP5 ...

CONTEXT Candidates taking the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination-USA Level 2-Performance Evaluation (COMLEX-USA Level 2-PE) are currently evaluated on their ability to document clinical findings using a handwritten postencounter note. However, keyboard data entry is increasingly used for medical documentation. OBJECTIVE To determine the use and perception of keyboard data...

PURPOSE To investigate mathematically and experimentally the sources of errors in localization of COMS-type plaques in melanoma brachytherapy when using ultrasound and transillumination and to give recommendations to avoid such errors. METHODS A computer-aided simulation tool was developed to model the errors seen in the patient images when using ultrasound imaging and transillumination durin...

Context. The abundances of deuterated molecules with respect to their main isotopologue counterparts have been determined be orders magnitude higher than expected from the cosmic abundance deuterium relative hydrogen. increasing number singly and multi-deuterated species detections helps us constrain interplay between gas-phase solid-state chemistry understand better fractionation in early stag...