With growing awareness of societal impact artificial intelligence, fairness has become an important aspect machine learning algorithms. The issue is that human biases towards certain groups population, defined by sensitive features like race and gender, are introduced to the training data through collection labeling. Two directions ensuring research have focused on (i) instance weighting in ord...

Objectives: Despite numerous studies, having the best outcome is challenging after flexor tendon repairs in zone 2. This study were done to test the hypothesis that immediate postoperative active mobilization will achieve similar outcomes to passive mobilization. Methods: Fifty fingers in 38 patients with flexor tendon repair in zone 2 were enrolled in this trial. The patients randomly assig...

Given the recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Previous audience measurement schemes only protect against inflation of audience size. We present the first protocols for audience measurement that...

First principles calculations are carried out for ZnO, MgO and ZnMgO2 in various crystal structures. The nature of the valence band ordering in ZnO is shown to depend strongly on the Zn3d band position. MgO in wurtzitic form is found to gave an unusual 5-fold coordiated structure. The band gap dependence in the alloy system is found to be in fair agreement with experimental data and the band-of...

Abstract We try to make a long way short by proceeding per exempla from Kenneth Snelson’s sculptures and Richard Buckminster Fuller’s coinage of the term tensegrity modern metamaterials. document passage initial interest in frameworks for their visual impact today’s interest, driven peculiar structural performances. In past seventy years, early art pieces roofing complexes have been followed fo...

This paper tries to serve as an introductory reading to privacy issues in the field of ubiquitous computing. It develops six principles for guiding system design, based on a set of fair information practices common in most privacy legislation in use today: notice, choice and consent, proximity and locality, anonymity and pseudonymity, security, and access and recourse. A brief look at the histo...