Hundreds of tents and abandoned vehicles now dot major streets and neighborhoods of the Bay Area. Unfortunately, this problem is expected to worsen as the housing market skyrockets and the cost of living becomes unattainable for most Americans. | By Magaly Muñoz Hundreds of tents and abandoned vehicles now dot major streets and neighborhoods of the Bay Area. Unfortunately, this problem is expected to worsen as the housing market skyrockets and the cost of living becomes unattainable for most Americans. As one of California's biggest public policy challenges, over the past four years, the
Electronic healthcare (e-healthcare) system has brought great convenience for people to seek medical treatment. However, data security, user privacy and online diagnosis efficiency have also aroused widespread public concern. In this paper, we propose an efficient and privacy-preserving online diagnosis scheme for e-healthcare system based on federated learning mechanism (FLM). Specifically, we first transform the data owner's data sharing problem into machine learning problem through using FLM. By sharing calculated local model parameters instead of actual data, the privacy of training data sets can be well protected. Then, we use a homomorphic cryptosystem and the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm to classify patients' physiological data efficiently without leaking their privacy. Furthermore, we design a novel approach to recover decision function of SVM model, which can efficiently prevent model parameters from leaking. Security analysis shows that the proposed scheme
Fertility Counts seeks to highlight the socio-economic impact of low birth rates on Asia-Pacific (APAC) economies. New Fertility Policy Toolkit, designed by Economist Impact and supported by Merck, proposes evidence-based policy interventions to build more family-friendly societies in APAC. LONDON, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ Merck, a leading science and technology company, today launched a new initiative, Fertility Counts, which seeks to address the social, economic and societal challenges associated with low birth rates in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The initiative is designed to provide research and resources to support policymakers to identify policy interventions that will be effective in building family-friendly societies. The birth rates of many APAC countries have dramatically declined in the last 70 years, impacting both population size and structure. Across the region, the average number of children born per woman has dropped threefold since 1960, from 5.4 in 1960 to 1.8
the pragmatism and experience over conservatism. and rick santorum and gingrich believe true conservatism and electability go hand in hand. i spoke at cpac a short while ago and many conservatives there seem a little bit worried about this divide. they worry that the g.o.p. is about to blow its opportunity to defeat president obama. i have to say i think all this anxiety is a bit misplaced. let s not forget in 2008 democrats were genuinely divided between those who wanted to stick with the clintons and those who wanted to go with obama. now, that dispute took months to resolve but when it was over, the clinton supporters they had to admit that they had been given a fair hearing. now, it s the g.o.p. that has its own very important issues to decide. some of these are substantive. the conservatives think that the country has serious fiscal problems that need to be addressed right away. and they also think obama care is a time bomb that could destroy our he healthcare system while moderat
over conservatism. and rick santorum and gingrich believe true conservatism and electability go hand in hand. i spoke at cpac a short while ago and many conservatives there seem a little bit worried about this divide. they worry that the g.o.p. is about to blow its opportunity to defeat president obama. i have to say i think all this anxiety is a bit misplaced. let s not forget in 2008 democrats were genuinely divided between those who wanted to stick with the clintons and those who wanted to go with obama. now, that dispute took months to resolve but when it was over, the clinton supporters they had to admit that they had been given a fair hearing. now, it s the g.o.p. that has its own very important issues to decide. some of these are substantive. the conservatives think that the country has serious fiscal problems that need to be addressed right away. and they also think obama care is a time bomb that could destroy our he healthcare system while moderates think that our problems, th