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Substance use Among Street Children in Tehran, Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, 2015 Introduction: Children, who work or live at streets, are one of the HIV high risk groups in Iran, with no comprehensive preventive programs. This study intended to assess substance use among street children in Tehran, Capital of Iran. Methods: This paper
Masoumeh Dejman +8 more
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Social Welfare Maximization in Cross-Silo Federated Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 As one of the typical settings of Federated Learning (FL), cross-silo FL allows organizations to jointly train an optimal Machine Learning (ML) model. In this case, some organizations may try to obtain the global model without contributing their local training, lowering the social welfare. In this paper, we model the interactions among organizations in
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Alliance Makes Difference? Maximizing Social Welfare in Cross-Silo Federated Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 As one of the typical settings of Federated Learning (FL), cross-silo FL allows organizations to jointly train an optimal Machine Learning (ML) model. In this case, some organizations may try to obtain the global model without contributing their local training power, lowering the social welfare.
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District-Fair Participatory Budgeting [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Participatory budgeting is a method used by city governments to select public projects to fund based on residents' votes. Many cities use participatory budgeting at a district level. Typically, a budget is divided among districts proportionally to their population, and each district holds an election over local projects and then uses its budget to fund
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Maximizing Social Welfare and Agreement via Information Design in Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Games [PDF]
, 2021 We consider linear-quadratic Gaussian (LQG) games in which players have quadratic payoffs that depend on the players' actions and an unknown payoff-relevant state, and signals on the state that follow a Gaussian distribution conditional on the state realization.
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Malaria Journal, 2021 Background Extensive malaria control measures have been implemented on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea over the past 16 years, reducing parasite prevalence and malaria-related morbidity and mortality, but without achieving elimination.
Vicente Urbano Nsue Ndong Nchama +36 more
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Adaptive maximization of social welfare [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We consider the problem of repeatedly choosing policies to maximize social welfare. Welfare is a weighted sum of private utility and public revenue. Earlier outcomes inform later policies. Utility is not observed, but indirectly inferred. Response functions are learned through experimentation.
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Archives of Public Health, 2023 Background Migration affects the health of children worldwide. Therefore, school nurses who encounter these children as part of their everyday practice need support from guidelines on how to promote the health of children who have migrated or whose ...
Emmie Wahlström +4 more
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Good-enough principles for welfare [PDF]
, 1999 The aim of this article is to widen the grounds of the debate on the relationship between values, social change and welfare reform. In the public debate on welfare reform and the Third Way the significance of the welfare politics and campaigns of civil ...
Williams, F.
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background Women in precarious conditions in their countries of origin, especially those who have left the country as refugees, may have been victims of serious mental and physical violence.
Satu Majlander +6 more
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