Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) director, Dr Carissa Etienne, is warning that lifting COVID-19 restrictions too soon could accelerate the spread of the virus and open the door for a dramatic upsurge in countries of the region. The warning...

California, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are among states that are loosening coronavirus restrictions Friday to gradually revive their economies.

Dougherty County, a largely black school district in an region heavily affected by coronavirus, is no longer subject to desegregation orders first imposed in 1963.

Washington lawmakers last week reached a deal to lift the state's "levy lid," blunting tighter limits on voter-approved local taxes for schools that were set to take effect this year. Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, was expected to sign the legislation that Republicans had criticized.

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Uplift modeling is a predictive modeling technique that estimates the user-level incremental effect of a treatment using machine learning models. It is often used for targeting promotions and advertisements, as well as for the personalization of product offerings. In these applications, there are often hundreds of features available to build such models. Keeping all the features in a model can be costly and inefficient. Feature selection is an essential step in the modeling process for multiple reasons: improving the estimation accuracy by eliminating irrelevant features, accelerating model training and prediction speed, reducing the monitoring and maintenance workload for feature data pipeline, and providing better model interpretation and diagnostics capability. However, feature selection methods for uplift modeling have been rarely discussed in the literature. Although there are various feature selection methods for standard machine learning models, we will demonstrate that those methods are sub-optimal for solving the feature selection problem for uplift modeling. To address this problem, we introduce a set of feature selection methods designed specifically for uplift modeling, including both filter methods and embedded methods. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed feature selection methods, we use different uplift models and measure the accuracy of each model with a different number of selected features. We use both synthetic and real data to conduct these experiments. We also implemented the proposed filter methods in an open source Python package (CausalML).

With no new infections reported in Hubei province in recent days, restrictions are easing up—but experts worry about possible 'second wave' of cases

BIS Press Release - Easing trade tensions lift sentiment: BIS Quarterly Review, 8 December 2019

Bold steps can be taken by the EU to ease sanctions while not rewarding recalcitrant behaviour by Zanu-PF leadership

Australia's central bank has predicted that the country is facing its biggest economic contraction on record.

RESEARCHERS have called for a two-track approach to easing lockdown which would strengthen protection for the most vulnerable but relax restrictions for the majority of the population.

Dougherty County, a largely black school district in an region heavily affected by coronavirus, is no longer subject to desegregation orders first imposed in 1963.

Some educators and advocates fear the rule will dissuade immigrants from seeking certain government benefits, and that further burdens will fall on schools.

On the currency market, the rand traded softer against the greenback as it slipped to a session low of R18.77/$.

All the state universities in West Bengal will implement the academic calendar in their respective institutions within a month after the lockdown is lifted, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said...

Like the Renault Kwid, the Datsun Redi-Go will be getting a makeover soon with a new design and some feature updates. We now have a glimpse of what it may look like.

It seems like the season of BMW product leaks. After the new iX3 and the 2 Series models being leaked online, another one has surfaced and this time it’s the newer version of the popular 5 Series sedan.

The Skoda Superb facelift has a 2.0-litre petrol engine and Matrix LED headlights while its competitor will be the Toyota Camry hybrid.

The new Nissan Kicks facelift might just be the shot in the arm for the Japanese manufacturer and could come with really competitive pricing.

The detailed list of equipment that the 2020 Datsun Redi-Go will offer once it is launched has been leaked online which has revealed that the Redi-Go will feature a new dash that offers an 8-inch touchscreen infotainment system.

The upcoming Datsun Redi-Go has been teased, but the styling of the little city hatchback has been leaked online. And now we also know what new features it will offer and with which variant it will be offered in.

Preparing your car for post-lockdown: You may be itching to get behind the wheel again and so you shall. But before you set off, for your safety and that of the car, there are some very simple things you must pay attention to.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Cynthia Cavett, Marketing Specialist & Public Information Officer Delaware Office of Highway Safety Cynthia.Cavett@delaware.gov 302-744-2743 DUI Initiative Running From July 3rd Through July 7th DOVER, De. (July 1, 2019) – The Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS) is pleased to announce that it is reactivating its SoberLift program, in partnership […]

Media Advisory:  November 22, 2019 Initiative reinforces the importance of safe driving behaviors during one of the busiest times of the year WHAT: The Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS) is launching its new Safe Family Holiday Campaign, as well as reactivating the SoberLift initiative ahead of Thanksgiving weekend. Through a combination of tactics – traditional […]

Campaigns reinforce increased dangers associated with holiday driving during one of the busiest travel times of the year and the importance of safe driving behaviors.

Office of Highway Safety Activates  SoberLift® Program for St. Patrick’s Day  *MEDIA ALERT* Friday, March 13, 2020  Statewide DUI initiative to run from March 13 through March 18 WHAT:     The Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS) is re-activating the SoberLift program, in partnership with Lyft® over St. Patrick’s Day weekend, statewide. The program will begin […]

Office of Highway Safety Suspends SoberLift® Program for St. Patrick’s Day *MEDIA ALERT* March 15, 2020  WHAT: The Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS) is suspending its SoberLift program as of 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, through Wednesday, March 18 at 2 a.m., statewide, due to growing concern for the health and safety of […]

The facelift infuses life into the Mahindra TUV300 and makes it a more feature-rich SUV than what it was before. We have listed out the pros and cons of this SUV in the video.

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India's batting wilted under pressure as a superb Bangladesh bowling attack shot the defending champions out for a paltry 177.

Overwhelmed by the occasion, India crumbled to 99 all out in front of a turnout of 86174 at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground, a record in women's cricket history.

As many as 10 rapid testing booths will be set up at industrial estates and state borders, the health minister said.

Loans and advances grew 60% year-on-year during 2019-20, from Rs 44,776 crore in March 31, 2019. Its total deposits grew 32% y-o-y to Rs 57,073 crore during the fiscal ended March, 2020. The bank had total deposits of Rs 43,232 crore as at end of March 2019.

The loan moratorium, as suggested by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last month and subsequently implemented by various lenders across the country, might be able to provide some temporary relief for now but could also play a hand in changing the credit landscape of the banking sector.

tock markets snapped a three-day losing streak Tuesday and oil was on its longest run of gains in nine months as moves to ease major economies out of their coronavirus lockdowns lifted sentiment.

Hello everyone, today I’d like to talk to you about the recent enhancements to Die export in the Virtuoso RF Solution, most of which were released in ICADVM 18.1 ISR10. What’s the background for these enhancements? Exporting an abstract of a Die, which basically represents the outer boundary of the Die with I/O locations, as an intermediate file to exchange information between various Cadence tools (i.e., the Innovus, Virtuoso, and Allegro platforms) is not a new feature. This capability existed even prior to the Virtuoso RF Solution. However, the entire functionality was rewritten from scratch when we first started developing the Virtuoso RF Solution because the previous feature was deemed archaic, its performance and capacity needed to be enhanced, and use model needed to be modernized. This effort has been made in various phases, with the last round being completed and released in ICADVM18.1 ISR10.(read more)

The internet is a scary enough place as it is, and now with the added misinformation and panic surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, it's even scarier. Thanks to the United Nations and dozens of artists, however, the internet just got a little more beautiful. 

In late March, the UN put a call out to artists to help combat the spread of COVID-19. They sought creatives to create content around six areas of WHO and UN priority actions: personal hygiene, social distancing, knowing the symptoms, spreading kindness, myth-busting, and doing more/donating. Tens of thousands of artists answered the call in two weeks, and now the COVID-19 Response Creative Content Hub is available for browsing.  Read more...

Liftango technology enables shared mobility today for a better transport future and more liveable cities tomorrow.

Over 30 tonnes of fresh South Australian produce, seafood and meat is now on its way to Asia under a new agreement with Singapore Airlines that will see local businesses once again have a direct freight route into key export markets.

Case comment: (1) Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and (2) Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Lancashire County Council [2018] EWHC 200 (TCC) Summary In a recent judgment of the new head of the TCC, Fraser J, Lancashire County ...

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A growing number of people in Germany are resisting lockdown measures imposed to contain the coronavirus. The rift between those who support the measures and those who are critical of them is growing.

On 27 June 2017, the court ordered the lifting of the automatic suspension in the case of Alstom Transport UK Limited v London Underground Limited [2017] EWHC 1521 (TCC). The resulting judgment includes some interesting comments on the correct test ...

The United States (“US”) Government announced on 17 April 2019 that it would not renew a waiver to Title III of the US Helms-Burton Act 1996 (“Title III”) that had effectively prevented former owners of property confiscated f...

(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) Riyadh, May 9, 2020, SPA -- An official source at the Ministry of Interior stated that, in light of the health authoriti... ......