Opinion

I’ve Been Teaching For 15 Years. I’ve Never Been Afraid In Class Until Now.

I scan the space, trying to see faces and checking for my blind spots. Concealed carry is legal in Wisconsin, but getting shot at isn’t my greatest fear...” ...

The Four Gene Roddenberry Rules That Guided Star Trek's Starship Designs

When Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek" in the 1960s, he instituted several rules for starship design that are still ...
University of Nevada, Reno

What Botox, rat poison and venoms can teach students about science – and careers

What do Botox, rat poison, weight-loss drugs and a fictional murder investigation have in common? At the University of Nevada ...
IEEE

GAN-Based Inter-Class Sample Generation for Contrastive Learning of Vein Image Representations

Abstract: Biometric vein recognition using deep learning has shown promising performance recently. However, due to the lack of vein image training data, the performance is greatly limited. Although ...
IEEE

Exploratory Under-Sampling for Class-Imbalance Learning

Abstract: Under-sampling is a class-imbalance learning method which uses only a subset of major class examples and thus is very efficient. The main deficiency is that many major class examples are ...