AN ADAPTIVE SHORTEST-SOLUTION GUIDED DECIMATION APPROACH TO SPARSE HIGH-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR REGRESSION



The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die. By Niall Ferguson. Penguin, New York. 2012. ISBN: 978-1-59420-545-3. 174 pp. Hardcovex. $ 26.95.

Wars, violent revolutions, armed struggles and economic crises constitute a major part of the world history.Many nations and states faced testing times politically as well as economically.If empires grew, economies boomed, ideologies popularized, and systems flourished then there came a time when those empires vanished, economies crippled, ideologi

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Impact of a physician-led exercise programme on quality of life, muscle mass and clinical response in inflammatory bowel disease patients during induction with disease-modifying therapy: a study protocol

Introduction Biologic and small-molecule therapies have revolutionised the treatment of moderate-to-severe inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).A significant proportion of patients experience early or delayed treatment failure.Patients with IBD with greater visceral obesity are less likely to respond to biologics.Sarcopenia has been identified as a pre

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Elastic-plastic responses of ship plates under ice impact loading

Objectives Arctic channel plays an increasingly significant role in ocean transportation.Polar ships inevitably encounter ice floe impacts in the Arctic channel.These impacts may cause some permanent structural deformations, which will result in some negative effects on their work performance.Therefore, to study the plastic deformation damage and e

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