SQL-based analysis of World Bank lending data (1.4M+ records) to uncover global loan distribution, repayment trends, and project funding insights, with a focus on Kenya and Africa. Highlights include borrower rankings, repayment volumes, and sectoral development priorities (⭐ 0)
Given a set of interacting components with non-deterministic variable update and given safety requirements, the goal of priority synthesis is to restrict, by means of priorities, the set of possible interactions in such a way as to guarantee the give...
In this paper, we derive a general representation for the expectation of the Gini coefficient estimator in terms of the Laplace transform of the underlying distribution, together with the mean and the Gini coefficient of its exponentially tilted vers...
We introduce the bivariate unit-log-symmetric model based on the bivariate log-symmetric distribution (BLS) defined in [Vila et al., 2022, Bivariate Log-symmetric Models: Theoretical Properties and Parameter Estimation. Avaliable at arXiv:2211.13839]...
Bone age assessment (BAA) is clinically important as it can be used to diagnose endocrine and metabolic disorders during child development. Existing deep learning based methods for classifying bone age use the global image as input, or exploit local...
In 1999 the author suggested an equation to describe the rate and temporal distribution of battle casualties. This equation was proposed as a replacement for the Lanchester equation. Unlike Lanchester's equation, the author's equation is based on a...
Female body shape or female figure is the cumulative product of a woman's bone structure along with the distribution of muscle and fat on the body. Female
Education and training in digital forensics requires a variety of suitable challenge corpora containing realistic features including regular wear-and-tear, background noise, and the actual digital traces to be discovered during investigation. Typical...
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A content delivery network (CDN) or content distribution network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and corresponding data centers
The delicate equilibrium between user privacy and the ability to unleash the potential of distributed data is an important concern. Federated learning, which enables the training of collaborative models without sharing of data, has emerged as a priva...
Federated learning (FL) attempts to train a global model by aggregating local models from distributed devices under the coordination of a central server. However, the existence of a large number of heterogeneous devices makes FL vulnerable to various...
We analyse velocity, chemical abundance and spatial distribution data for some 1500 K- and M- giants in the Galactic Bulge. The bulge has a well-determined linear rotation curve over the range $\rm 700pc \le R \le 3500pc$ with amplitude ${\rm \sim...
Airport pavement design methods, such as those of the FAA, assume general climatic conditions, although regional temperature variations significantly affect pavement behavior, stress strain distribution, performance, and reliability. With global warm...
We show the vsini distribution of main sequence B stars in sites of various metallicities, in the absolute magnitude range -3.34 < Mv < -2.17. These include Galactic stars in the field measured by Abt et al. (2002), members of the h & chi Per open...
The Bateman-Horn conjecture is a far-reaching statement about the distribution of the prime numbers. It implies many known results, such as the prime number theorem and the Green-Tao theorem, along with many famous conjectures, such the twin prime co...
Non-convex optimization problems often arise from probabilistic modeling, such as estimation of posterior distributions. Non-convexity makes the problems intractable, and poses various obstacles for us to design efficient algorithms. In this work, we...
One of the core problems in statistical models is the estimation of a posterior distribution. For topic models, the problem of posterior inference for individual texts is particularly important, especially when dealing with data streams, but is often...
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