In this paper we propose, develop, and test a new single-feature evaluator called Significant Proportion of Target Instances (SPTI) to handle the direct-marketing data with the class imbalance problem. The SPTI feature evaluator demonstrates its stability and outstanding performance through empirical experiments in which the real-world customer data of an e-recruitment firm are used. This resea...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) replicates in peripheral tissues and forms latent infections in neurons of the peripheral nervous system. It can be reactivated from latency by various stimuli to cause recurrent disease. During lytic infection in tissue culture cells, there is a well-described temporal pattern of (i) immediate-early, (ii) early, and (iii) late gene expression. However, latency is cha...

The differential effects of parental divorce and marital conflict on young adult children’s romantic relationships were examined in this short-term longitudinal study. Using a sample of 285 young adults, structural equation modeling supported the hypothesis that parental divorce and marital conflict were independently associated with young adult children’s romantic relationships through differe...

The phenomenon of digital differentiation, or stark variations in ability to access Internet hardware and/or infrastructure, has been a feature provision since its early days. This article explores the impact differentiation on two groups young people, England and Germany. It is based fieldwork that took place during academic year 2018-2019, just before global pandemic threw issue equality into...

Woods SJ, Waite AC, O’Dea KP, Halford P, Takata M, Wilson MR. Kinetic profiling of in vivo lung cellular inflammatory responses to mechanical ventilation. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 308: L912–L921, 2015. First published March 13, 2015; doi:10.1152/ajplung.00048.2015.—Mechanical ventilation, through overdistension of the lung, induces substantial inflammation that is thought to increase ...

A cross-cultural comparison between U.S. and Hong Kong preschoolers examined factors responsible for young children's analogical reasoning errors. On a scene analogy task, both groups had adequate prerequisite knowledge of the key relations, were the same age, and showed similar baseline performance, yet Chinese children outperformed U.S. children on more relationally complex problems. Children...