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Multi-Objective Optimization for Privacy-Utility Balance in Differentially Private Federated Learning Open

Kanishka Ranaweera, David Smith, Pubudu N. Pathirana, Ming Ding, Thierry Rakotoarivelo , et al. · 2025

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, making it a promising approach for privacy-preserving machine learning. However, ensuring differential privacy (DP) in FL pre…

Starlink: Revolutionizing Internet Connectivity Open

Sayan Chatterjee, Monica Colberg, Jilly John, David Smith, Anthony Stallion · 2025

Two observations of rescue behavior in wild Asian elephants Open

Arjun Kamdar, Samshul Ali, Hiten Kumar Baishya, K. Barua, Rangjalu Basumatary , et al. · 2024

We report two instances of rescue behavior in wild Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) in Northeast India. Adult males assisted adult females sedated during GPS‐collaring efforts, pushing them away from perceived threats. These behaviors m…

AI in bioscience education and assessment Open

David Smith · 2024

The landscape of bioscience education has changed dramatically over the last few years, first due to the COVID pandemic and now with the explosion of artificial intelligence. David Smith, Professor of Bioscience Education at Sheffield Hall…

Determining the Best Policies for Second-Chance Tests for STEM Students Open

Chinedu Emeka, David Smith, Craig Zilles, Matthew West, Geoffrey Herman , et al. · 2024

In this research paper, we examine various grading policies for second-chance testing. Second-chance testing refers to giving students the opportunity to take a second version of a test for some amount of grade replacement. Second-chance t…

“Making the News”: Management Control Systems and Organizational Improvisation in a Newsroom” Open

Maria Cadiz Dyball, David Smith · 2024

Consistency Examination of a Systematic Review and Data Analysis Report for a Social Justice Study—A Mixed Research Model Open

Zhidong Zhang, David Smith · 2023

This study aimed to investigate an approach for assessing the quality of doctoral dissertations, specifically focusing on the consistency between essential elements, namely the literature review and quantitative analysis results. To accomp…

Composition and Deformance: Measuring Imageability with a Text-to-Image Model Open

Si Wu, David Smith · 2023

Although psycholinguists and psychologists have long studied the tendency of linguistic strings to evoke mental images in hearers or readers, most computational studies have applied this concept of imageability only to isolated words. Usin…

Navigating the Triumphs and Tribulations of a University-Community Children’s Mental Health Partnership: Reflections on the First Year as Told by Graduate Students Open

Bianca D’Agostino, Amanda Krause, Amy Klan, Briana J. Goldberg, Jessica Whitley , et al. · 2022

This paper describes a newly established community-based participatory research partnership that brings together professionals from several disciplines to gain greater insight into the needs of children and the families of children seeking…

Karta Polaka, Poland and its Co-ethnics Abroad Open

Andreea Udrea, David Smith, Karl Cordell · 2021

A review of the broader European picture, however, shows that kin-state engagement can also have a positive societal impact. The involvement of international organisations, such as the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Organisation of Securi…

Minority Protection and Kin-State Engagement: Karta Polaka in Comparative Perspective Open

Andreea Udrea, David Smith · 2021

In this article, the authors propose a new normative approach that recognises and responds more adequately to the quadratic political reality of kin-state—kin minorities relations. The authors' point of departure is the dual contention tha…

Multipopulational Transcriptome Analysis of Post-Weaned Beef Cattle at Arrival Further Validates Candidate Biomarkers for Predicting Clinical Bovine Respiratory Disease Open

Matthew A. Scott, Amelia R. Woolums, Cyprianna E. Swiderski, Andy Perkins, Bindu Nanduri , et al. · 2021

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) remains the leading infectious disease in post-weaned beef cattle. The objective of this investigation was to contrast the at-arrival blood transcriptomes from cattle derived from two distinct populations t…

Altruism: Scoping review of the literature and future directions for HIV cure-related research Open

Karine Dubé, Kelly E. Perry, Kushagra Mathur, Megan Lo, Sogol Stephanie Javadi , et al. · 2020

Looking Behind the Numbers: How Narratives Strengthen and Weaken the Persuasiveness of Accounting Numbers Open

Robert H. Chenhall, Matthew Hall, David Smith · 2019

In recent times, the persuasiveness of accounting information has received increasing attention in the literature. Prior research has focused on the persuasiveness of accounting numbers, either ignoring narratives or focusing on how they a…

Responsible gambling and gambling harm minimisation research gap analysis. Open

Sharon Lawn, Candice Oster, Ben J. Riley, Michael Baigent, David Smith · 2019

Speculative Futures and Futurism in Appalachia Open

Liz Pavlovic, Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman, David Smith, Baaria Chaudhary , et al. · 2019

What if we thought of Appalachia as futuristic? Could the mountains be the setting for imagining better, maybe weirder, futures? Artists, writers, and game designers have been asking just those questions, speculating through science fictio…

Student knowledge creation for assessments in higher education Open

Muhammad Asim Qayyum, David Smith · 2018

This paper focuses on the use of an information tool by novice and experienced university students to gain and create knowledge for their assessment tasks.

Extracting Value From Complex High-Frequency Multivariate Water Quality Data: Exploring Routinely Collected Operational Data Open

Josie Ashe, Emilie Grand‐Clement, David Smith, Richard E. Brazier, Dragan Savić · 2018

Drinking water treatment works are increasingly placed under external stressors including climatic variability, land use and management, and pollution incidents. Routine high-frequency water quality monitoring is an integral part of operat…

Children and the Gods of War Open

David Smith · 2018

A recent United Nations study on the effects of the arms race on daily life should invite us to think about the relationship between increasing global militarism and children. In 1981 , $1 million was spent on weapons every minute of every…

Estonia: A Model for Inter-War Europe? Open

David Smith · 2018

While Estonia's 1925 Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities is often cited as a rare functioning example of Renner and Bauer's non-territorial autonomy scheme, there has until recently been comparatively little research on…

Individual human non-click data Open

Kurtis Gruters, David L. K. Murphy, Cole D. Jenson, David Smith, Christopher A. Shera , et al. · 2018

These are the individual human data sets for non-click trials. Run the script EMREO_STATS_PNAS to re-create the summary statistics file using various processing options.

Summary Data Files Open

Kurtis Gruters, David L. K. Murphy, Cole D. Jenson, David Smith, Christopher A. Shera , et al. · 2018

These are the summary data files for both human and monkey data. See the user guide for individual descriptions.Control data summaries can be generated with the scripts provided in this collection (see user guide).

Using visualisation software to improve student approaches to HE online assessment Open

David Smith, Muhammad Asim Qayyum, Natascha Hard · 2017

Studying via the Internet using information tools is a common activity for students in higher education. With students accessing their subject material via the Internet, studies have shown that students have difficulty understanding the co…

Model-based image analysis of a tethered Brownian fibre for shear stress\n sensing Open

Meurig T. Gallagher, Cara Victoria Neal, Kenton P. Arkill, David Smith · 2017

The measurement of shear stress acting on a biologically relevant surface is\na challenging problem, particularly in the complex environment of, for example,\nthe vasculature. While an experimental method for the direct detection of wall\n…

Stability conditions, $\\tau$-tilting Theory and Maximal Green Sequences Open

Thomas Brüstle, David Smith, Hipolito Treffinger · 2017

Extending the notion of maximal green sequences to an abelian category, we\ncharacterize the stability functions, as defined by Rudakov, that induce a\nmaximal green sequence in an abelian length category. Furthermore, we use\n$\\tau$-tilt…

EFECTO DE LA GRAVEDAD DEL TRASTORNO RESPIRATORIO DEL SUEÑO SOBRE EL DESEMPEÑO COGNITIVO EN UNA COHORTE DE NIÑOS EN EDAD ESCOLAR Open

Stephanie A Hunter, David Gozal, David Smith, Mona F. Philby, J Kaylegian , et al. · 2017

Comentario de experto 80Tal como ya se ha mencionado, los trastornos respiratorios del sueño (TRS)se asocian con una alto riesgo de desarrollar alteraciones cognitivas en los niños.Sin embargo no está claro si la asociación es dependiente …

The expressive role of performance measurement systems: a field study of a mental health development project Open

Robert H. Chenhall, Matthew Hall, David Smith · 2017

The management control systems (MCS) literature has long recognized the importance of values and beliefs (e.g., Ouchi, 1979; Simons, 1995). However, in this literature, values and beliefs are typically presented in the context of mission s…

An intuitive approach to learning delivery in Higher Education Open

David Smith · 2016

Preparing and teaching subjects in the Higher Education environment has been attracting much attention over the past decade as the sector diversifies and adds online instruction to its on campus delivery to cater to the increased demand fo…

Aiding mutual recognition of laboratory animal science courses through the ETPLAS initiative, the Education & Training Platform for Laboratory Animal Science Open

David Smith · 2016

Using Technology To Enhance The Student Assessment Experience Open

David Smith, Muhammad Asim Qayyum · 2015

The use of information tools is a common activity for students of any educational stage when they encounter online learning activities. Finding the relevant information for particular learning tasks is the topic of this paper as it investi…

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