Evaluating the suitability of UAV data for mapping dominant plant species in a heterogenous fynbos seep wetland by Musungu, Kevin

“…Of the twenty-seven indices assessed, the Visible Atmospherically Resistant Index (VARI), Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index 2 (MSAVI2) and two indices developed in this study, namely, Red Green Vegetation Index (RG) and Log Red Edge (LogRed) were found to be pertinent for the classification. Three machine learning classifiers comprising Random Forest, K Nearest Neighbour, and Support Vector Machines were used to classify the different plant species across all dates using a dataset consisting of only spectral bands and another consisting of key spectral bands and indices. …”
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Effect of paper mill ash on properties of expansive soils by Byiringiro, Alfred

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Surgical trainee supervision during non-trauma emergency laparotomy in Rwanda and South Africa by Pohl, Linda M

“…Trainees were less likely to perform the operations autonomously for patients who were: age ≥ 60 years, had ASA classification ≥ III, had cancer or TB. Notably, trainee autonomy was not significantly associated with reoperation or mortality. …”
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Approximation approaches for training neural network problems with dynamic mini-batch sub-sampled losses

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