The differential rates at which children of color, and particularly children who are AfricanAmerican, are identified and placed in special education in the United States (U.S.) is well documented in a variety of sources. U.S. policy, authorized by Congress in December of 2004, acknowledges differential rates of identification and placement by requiring states to review annually student identification data from all local education agencies to identify and address disproportionate representation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Yet, little is known about the interaction between families who are culturally and

Comorbidities, dietary supplement use, and prescription drug use may negatively (or positively) affect mental health in cardiovascular patients. Although the significance of mental illnesses, such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, on cardiovascular disease is well documented, mental illnesses resulting from heart disease are not well studied. In this paper, we introduce the risk factors of mental illnesses as an exploratory study and develop a prediction framework for mental illness that uses comorbidities, dietary supplements, and drug usage in heart disease patients. Particularly, the data used in this study consist of the records of 68,647 patients with heart disease, including the patient’s mental illness information and the patient’s intake of dietary supplements, antibiotics, and comorbidities. Patients in age groups <61, gender differences, and drug intakes, such as Azithromycin, Clarithromycin, Vitamin B6, and Coenzyme Q10, were associated with mental illness. For predictive modeling, we consider applying various state-of-the-art machine learning techniques with tuned parameters and finally obtain the following: Depression: 78.01% accuracy, 79.13% sensitivity, 72.65% specificity, and 86.26% Area Under the Curve (AUC). Anxiety: 82.93% accuracy, 82.86% sensitivity, 83.35% specificity, and 88.45% AUC. Schizophrenia: 87.59% accuracy, 87.70% sensitivity, 85.14% specificity, and 92.73% AUC. Disease: 86.63% accuracy, 95.50% sensitivity, 77.76% specificity, and 91.59% AUC. From the results, we conclude that using heart disease information, comorbidities, dietary supplement use, and antibiotics enables us to accurately predict the mental health outcome.

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Major disruptions in tokamak plasmas need to be identified well before their occurrence and appropriately mitigated. Otherwise, it may dump the heat and electromagnetic load to the vessel and its surrounding plasma-facing components. A predictor system based on precursor diagnostics may help in forecasting the disruptive events in tokamak plasma and raise the alert beforehand to take necessary actions to prevent the major damages inside the vacuum vessel. This paper describes a predictor system built with a few selected diagnostic signals from the ADITYA tokamak and trained on a time-sequence long short-term memory network to predict the occurrence of disruption to 7-20 ms in advance with an accuracy of 89% on the testing set of 36 disruptive and 6 non-disruptive shots. This real-time network can infer to one time-step results under 170 µs on an Intel Xeon processor running python, suggesting minimal computation cost and best suited for the real-time plasma control applications.

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