Racial Equity and U.S. Law

History and experience teach us that our Constitution and laws can be instruments of racial discrimination and oppression as well as tools for advancing freedom and equality.The substance of our laws matters, and there is much to be learned from innovative EVERYONE LOTION MINT policies and legal strategies around the country.In addition to laws pro

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Dual-light photodynamic therapy administered daily provides a sustained antibacterial effect on biofilm and prevents Streptococcus mutans adaptation.

Antibacterial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) and antibacterial blue light (aBL) are emerging treatment methods auxiliary to mechanical debridement for periodontitis.APDT provided with near-infrared (NIR) light in conjunction with an indocyanine green (ICG) photosensitizer has shown efficacy in several dental in-office-treatment protocols.In this study

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Is bigger always better? A controversial journey to the center of machine learning design, with uses and misuses of big data for predicting water meter failures

Abstract In this paper, we describe the Removers design of a machine learning-based classifier, tailored to predict whether a water meter will fail or need a replacement.Our initial attempt to train a recurrent deep neural network (RNN), based on the use of 15 million of readings gathered from 1 million of mechanical water meters, spread throughout

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