There is indeed a vast literature on the design and analysis of decision tree algorithms that aim at optimizing these parameters. This paper contributes to this important line of research: we propose ...

aLeuven Unit for Health Technology Assessment Research (LUHTAR), Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium bAcademic Centre for General Practice, Department of Public ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and genetic testing proved to be lifesaving for the women featured in this story. Jodi Lavery discovered she had a BRCA-2 gene mutation, ...

Weindel et al examine behavioural and EEG data in an innovative contrast comparison paradigm where they vary mean contrast widely while keeping contrast difference constant. As intended, this allowed ...

Squirrels, insects and lightning strikes may be the reason for dead tree branches. Pruning the dead branch will solve the problem in most cases. This has been a long, hot, wet summer and soon fall ...

Collective decision-making is hardly a perfect science. Broken processes, data overload, information asymmetry, and other inequities only compound the challenges that come from large, disparate ...

Component testing involves examining the individual, smallest testable units or modules of an application. Each component, isolated from the rest of the system, is tested to ensure it performs its ...

The revelation raises both legal and ethical questions. Eve Wiley’s story wasn’t always so complicated. She was born in 1987 and grew up in Center, Texas, a small town just a few miles from the ...

Decision Fatigue is a state of mental exhaustion that creeps in when you have had to make too many choices, big or small, over a prolonged period. Our brains have a finite capacity for making good ...