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Q: Why does using pseudo-labeling non-trivially affect the results? I've been looking into semi-supervised learning methods, and have come across the concept of "pseudo-labeling".
As I understand it, with pseudo-labeling you have a set of labeled data as well as a set of unlabeled data. You first train a model on only the labeled data. You then use that initial data to classify (attach provisional labels to) the unlabeled data. You then feed both the labeled and unlabeled data back into your model training, (re-)fitting to both the known labels and the predicted labels. (Iterate this process, re-labeling with the updated model.)
The claimed benefits are that you can use the information about the structure of the unlabeled data to improve the model. A variation of the following figure is often shown, "demonstrating" that the process can make a more complex decision boundary based on where the (unlabeled) data lies.

Image from Wikimedia Commons by Techerin CC BY-SA 3.0
However, I'm not quite buying that simplistic explanation. Naively, if the original labeled-only training result was the upper decision boundary, the pseudo-labels would be assigned based on that decision boundary. Which is to say that the left hand of the upper curve would be pseudo-labeled white and the right hand of the lower curve would be pseudo-labeled black. You wouldn't get the nice curving decision boundary after retraining, as the new pseudo-labels would simply reinforce the current decision boundary.
Or to put it another way, the current labeled-only decision boundary would have perfect prediction accuracy for the unlabeled data (as that's what we used to make them). There's no driving force (no gradient) which would cause us to change the location of that decision boundary simply by adding in the pseudo-labeled data.
Am I correct in thinking that the explanation embodied by the diagram is lacking? Or is there something I'm missing? If not, what is the benefit of pseudo-labels, given the pre-retraining decision boundary has perfect accuracy over the pseudo-labels?

A: What you may be overlooking in how self-training works is that:

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*It's iterative, not one-shot.

*You use a classifier that returns probabilistic values. At each iteration, you only add psuedo-labels for the cases your algorithm is most certain about.
In your example, perhaps the first iteration is only confident enough to label one or two points very near each of the labeled points. In the next iteration the boundary will rotate slightly to accommodate these four to six labeled points, and if it's non-linear may also begin to bend slightly. Repeat.
It's not guaranteed to work. It depends on your base classifier, your algorithm (how certain you have to be in order to assign a pseudo-label, etc), your data, and so on.
There are also other algorithms that are more powerful if you can use them. What I believe you're describing is self-training, which is easy to code up, but you're using a single classifier that's looking at the same information repeatedly. Co-training uses multiple classifiers that are each looking at different information for each point. (This is somewhat analogous to Random Forests.) There are also other semi-supervised techniques -- such as those that explicitly cluster -- though no overall "this always works and this is the winner".
IN RESPONSE to the comment: I'm not an expert in this field. We see it as very applicable to what we typically do with clients, so I'm learning and don't have all the answers.
The top hit when I search for semi-supervised learning overviews is:
Semi-Supervised Learning Literature Survey, from 2008. That's ages ago, computer-wise, but it talks about the things I've mentioned here.
I hear you that a classifier could rate unlabeled points that are  farthest from the labeled nodes with the most certainty. On the other hand, our intuitions may fool us. For example, let's consider the graphic you got from Wikipedia with the black, white, and gray nodes.
First, this is in 2D and most realistic problems will be in higher dimensions, where our intuition often misleads us. High-dimensional space acts differently in many ways -- some negative and some actually helpful.
Second, we might guess that in the first iteration the two right-most, lower-most gray points would be labeled as black, since the black labeled point is closer to them than the white labeled point. But if that happened on both sides, the vertical decision boundary would still tilt and no longer be vertical. At least in my imagination, if it were a straight line it would go down the diagonal empty space between the two originally-labeled points. It would still split the two crescents incorrectly, but it would be more aligned to the data now. Continued iteration -- particularly with a non-linear decision boundary -- might yield a better answer than we anticipate.
Third, I'm not sure that once-labeled, always-labeled is how it should actually work. Depending on how you do it and how the algorithm works, you might end up first tilting the boundary while bending it (assuming non-linear), and then some of the misclassified parts of the crescents might shift their labels.
My gut is that those three points, combined with appropriate (probably higher-dimensional) data, and appropriate classifiers can do better than a straight-up supervised with a very small number of training (labeled) samples. No guarantees, and in my experiments I've found -- I blame it on datasets that are too simple -- that semi-supervised may only marginally improve over supervised and may at times fail badly. Then again, I'm playing with two algorithms that I've created that may or may not actually be good.

A: Pseudo-labeling doesn't work on the given toy problem
Oliver et al. (2018) evaluated different semi-supervised learning algorithms. Their first figure shows how pseudo-labeling (and other methods) perform on the same toy problem as in your question (called the 'two-moons' dataset):

The plot shows the labeled and unlabeled datapoints, and the decision boundaries obtained after training a neural net using different semi-supervised learning methods. As you suspected, pseudo-labeling doesn't work well in this situation. They say that pseudo-labeling "is a simple heuristic which is widely used in practice, likely because of its simplicity and generality". But: "While intuitive, it can nevertheless produce incorrect results when the prediction function produces unhelpful targets for [the unlabeled data], as shown in fig. 1."
Why and when does pseudo-labeling work?
Pseudo-labeling was introduced by Lee (2013), so you can find more details there.
The cluster assumption
The theoretical justification Lee gave for pseudo-labeling is that it's similar to entropy regularization. Entropy regularization (Grandvalet and Bengio 2005) is another semi-supervised learning technique, which encourages the classifier to make confident predictions on unlabeled data. For example, we'd prefer an unlabeled point to be assigned a high probability of being in a particular class, rather than diffuse probabilities spread over multiple classes. The purpose is to take advantage the assumption that the data are clustered according to class (called the "cluster assumption" in semi-supervised learning). So, nearby points have the same class, and points in different classes are more widely separated, such that the true decision boundaries run through low density regions of input space.
Why pseudo-labeling might fail
Given the above, it would seem reasonable to guess that the cluster assumption is a necessary condition for pseudo-labeling to work. But, clearly it's not sufficient, as the two-moons problem above does satisfy the cluster assumption, but pseudo-labeling doesn't work. In this case, I suspect the problem is that there are very few labeled points, and the proper cluster structure can't be identified from these points. So, as Oliver et al. describe (and as you point out in your question), the resulting pseudo-labels guide the classifier toward the wrong decision boundary. Perhaps it would work given more labeled data. For example, contrast this to the MNIST case described below, where pseudo-labeling does work.
Where it works
Lee (2013) showed that pseudo-labeling can help on the MNIST dataset (with 100-3000 labeled examples). In fig. 1 of that paper, you can see that a neural net trained on 600 labeled examples (without any semi-supervised learning) can already recover cluster structure among classes. It seems that pseudo-labeling then helps refine the structure. Note that this is unlike the two-moons example, where several labeled points were not enough to learn the proper clusters.
The paper also mentions that results were unstable with only 100 labeled examples. This again supports the idea that pseudo-labeling is sensitive to the initial predictions, and that good initial predictions require a sufficient number of labeled points.
Lee also showed that unsupervised pre-training using denoising autoencoders helps further, but this appears to be a separate way of exploiting structure in the unlabeled data; unfortunately, there was no comparison to unsupervised pre-training alone (without pseudo-labeling).
Grandvalet and Bengio (2005) reported that pseudo-labeling beats supervised learning on the CIFAR-10 and SVHN datasets (with 4000 and 1000 labeled examples, respectively). As above, this is much more labeled data than the 6 labeled points in the two-moons problem.
References

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*Grandvalet and Bengio (2005). Semi-supervised learning by entropy minimization.

*Lee (2013). Pseudo-Label: The Simple and Efficient Semi-Supervised Learning Method for Deep Neural Networks.

*Oliver et al. (2018). Realistic Evaluation of Semi-Supervised Learning Algorithms.

A: Warning, I am not an expert on this procedure. My failure to produce good results is not proof that the technique cannot be made to work. Furthermore, your image has the general description of "semi-supervised" learning, which is a broad area with a variety of techniques.
I agree with your intuition, I'm not seeing how a technique like this could work out of the box. In other words, I think you'd need a lot of effort to make it work well for a specific application, and that effort would not necessarily be helpful in other applications.
I tried two different instances, one with a banana-shaped dataset like the one in the example image, and another easier dataset with two simple normal distributed clusters. In both cases I could not improve on the initial classifier.
As a small attempt to encourage things, I added noise to all predicted probabilities with the hope that this would cause better outcomes.
The first example I re-created the above image as faithfully as I could. I don't think psuedo-labeling will be able to help at all here.

The second example is much easier, but even here it fails to improve on the initial classifier. I specifically chose the one labeled point from the center of the left class, and the right side of the right class hoping it would shift in the correct direction, no such luck.

Code for example 1 (example 2 is similar enough that I won't duplicate here):
import numpy as np
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn

np.random.seed(2018-10-1)
N = 1000

_x = np.linspace(0, np.pi, num=N)
x0 = np.array([_x, np.sin(_x)]).T
x1 = -1 * x0 + [np.pi / 2, 0]

scale = 0.15
x0 += np.random.normal(scale=scale, size=(N, 2))
x1 += np.random.normal(scale=scale, size=(N, 2))

X = np.vstack([x0, x1])

proto_0 = np.array([[0], [0]]).T # the single "labeled" 0
proto_1 = np.array([[np.pi / 2], [0]]).T # the single "labeled" 1

model = RandomForestClassifier()
model.fit(np.vstack([proto_0, proto_1]), np.array([0, 1]))
for itercount in range(100):
    labels = model.predict_proba(X)[:, 0]
    labels += (np.random.random(labels.size) - 0.5) / 10 # add some noise
    labels = labels > 0.5
    model = RandomForestClassifier()
    model.fit(X, labels)

f, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, squeeze=True, figsize=(10, 5))

axs[0].plot(x0[:, 0], x0[:, 1], '.', alpha=0.25, label='unlabeled x0')
axs[0].plot(proto_0[:, 0], proto_0[:, 1], 'o', color='royalblue', markersize=10, label='labeled x0')
axs[0].plot(x1[:, 0], x1[:, 1], '.', alpha=0.25, label='unlabeled x1')
axs[0].plot(proto_1[:, 0], proto_1[:, 1], 'o', color='coral', markersize=10, label='labeled x1')
axs[0].legend()

axs[1].plot(X[~labels, 0], X[~labels, 1], '.', alpha=0.25, label='predicted class 0')
axs[1].plot(X[labels, 0], X[labels, 1], '.', alpha=0.25, label='predicted class 1')
axs[1].plot([np.pi / 4] * 2, [-1.5, 1.5], 'k--', label='halfway between labeled data')
axs[1].legend()
plt.show()

A: Here is my guess (I do not know much about this topic either, just wanted to add my two cents to this discussion).
I think that you're right, there's no point in training a classical model and using its predictions as data, because as you say, there's no incentive to the optimiser to do any better. I would guess that randomised-starting algorithms are more likely to find the same optimum  because they'd be "more sure" that the previously found optimum is correct, due to the larger data set, but this is irrelevant.
That said, the first answer you received has a point - that example on Wikipedia talks about clustering, and I think that makes all the difference. When you've got unlabelled data, you essentially have a bunch of unlabelled points lying on some shared "latent feature space" as the other labelled ones. You can only really do better than a classification algorithm trained on the labelled data, if you can uncover the fact that the unlabelled points can be separated and then classified based on what class the labelled points belong to, on this latent feature space.
What I mean is, you need to do this:
$$labelled\;data \rightarrow clustering \rightarrow classification$$
... and then repeat with unlabelled data. Here, the learned cluster boundaries will not be the same, because clustering doesn't care for class labels, all it accounts for is transforming the feature space. The clustering generates a latent feature space, on which the classification boundary is learned, and this depends only on labelled data.
Algorithms that do not perform any sort of clustering, I believe, will not be able to change their optimum based on the unlabelled data set.
By the way, the image that you linked does a fair job I think of explaining what's going on here; a decision boundary is learned based solely on the clustering algorithm. You have no idea what the correct classes are here - it may be the case that they're all random - we don't know. All we can now is that there seems to be some structure in the feature space, and there seems to be some mapping from the feature space to the class labels.
Don't really have references but on this Reddit post, as I understand it, there's a discussion about a GAN performing semi-supervised learning. It is a hunch of mine that it implicitly performs a clustering, followed by classification.


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describe SmartIoC::BeanFileLoader do
  before :all do
    SmartIoC.clear

    dir_path = File.join(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)), 'example/admins')
    SmartIoC.find_package_beans(:admins, dir_path)

    dir_path = File.join(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)), 'example/utils')
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    @container.set_load_proc do |location|
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Reinventing Workers for the Post-Covid Economy
Rob Siminoski has been in the theater, in one way or another, since he graduated from college. But after 10 years at the Universal Studios theme park in California, he is only No. 13 on the stage-managing roster. Even if the park, closed since March, reopens some attractions — the WaterWorld stunt show, say, or the Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle — he is unlikely to be among the first to get the call.
His luck is that his union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, offers an apprenticeship program for on-set movie electricians. It takes five years, and Mr. Siminoski, 33, is going to have to brush up his high school algebra to get in. Still, it offers a good balance of risk and reward.
"Everyone needs electricity," he said. "You pull down six figures."
The nation's economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic will hinge to some extent on how quickly show managers can become electricians, whether taxi drivers can become plumbers, and how many cooks can manage software for a bank.
The labor market has recovered 12 million of the 22 million jobs lost from February to April. But many positions may not return any time soon, even when a vaccine is deployed.
This is likely to prove especially problematic for millions of low-paid workers in service industries like retailing, hospitality, building maintenance and transportation, which may be permanently impaired or fundamentally transformed. What will janitors do if fewer people work in offices? What will waiters do if the urban restaurant ecosystem never recovers its density?
Their prognosis is bleak. Marcela Escobari, an economist at the Brookings Institution, warns that even if the economy adds jobs as the coronavirus risk fades, "the rebound won't help the people that have been hurt the most."
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CMS Grants Vistogard® New Technology Add-on Payment Status Effective 1 October 2016
West Conshohocken, PA, BTG plc (LSE: BTG), the specialist healthcare company, today announces that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) for Vistogard®, effective 1 October 2016. The CMS decision means that Medicare will pay up to 50% reimbursement of the cost of Vistogard® within the hospital setting, and it is expected to stay in place for two years until the cost of Vistogard® is included in the recalibration of diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments.
CMS also agreed that Vistogard® will have a unique ICD-10 procedure code XW0DX82 (introduction of Uridine Triacetate into Mouth and Pharynx). This specific procedure code needs to be included by hospital billing within the first 25 ICD-10 procedure codes reported in Field 74 of the CMS-1450 (UB-04) claim form for reimbursement under the NTAP for treatment using Vistogard®.
NTAP payments compensate hospitals for about half the estimated extra cost of using a product that is new and able to demonstrate a substantial clinical advantage compared to existing treatments. Regarding Vistogard®, CMS has established the maximum allowable add-on payment for Vistogard® as $37,500 for a 5 day course of the treatment.
The final rule for Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) for Fiscal Year 2017 is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on August 22, 2016. In this final rule, CMS states that: "After consideration of the information provided by the applicant, we agree that Vistogard® meets all of the criteria for approval of new technology add-on payments for FY2017." The final rule can be found here: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/08/22/2016-18476/medicare-program-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-for-acute-care-hospitals-etc]
As the first and only antidote for overdose and early-onset, severe, or life-threatening toxicities from the administration of fluorouracil or capecitabine – both commonly used chemotherapy treatments – Vistogard® was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2015 for use in adults and children. Vistogard® was developed by Wellstat Therapeutics and BTG holds the rights to market, sell and distribute Vistogard® for this indication in the U.S.
"CMS's decision to make Vistogard® eligible for NTAP recognizes the significant therapeutic advance of this first-of-its-kind life-saving treatment. Up until now, there was no alternative for adults or pediatric patients other than managing the symptoms for treating this rare and often deadly complication from fluorouracil or capecitabine administration," said Christine Coyne, Vice President and US Commercial Lead for Specialty Pharmaceuticals.
"We're proud to have worked with CMS to secure this NTAP status for Vistogard® which will ultimately help improve access to this life-saving treatment in the IPPS hospital setting for Medicare beneficiaries."
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Vistogard® is indicated for the emergency treatment of adult and pediatric patients: following a fluorouracil or capecitabine overdose regardless of the presence of symptoms, or who exhibit early-onset, severe or life-threatening toxicity affecting the cardiac or central nervous system, and/or early-onset, unusually severe adverse reactions (e.g., gastrointestinal toxicity and/or neutropenia) within 96 hours following the end of fluorouracil or capecitabine administration.
Limitations of use:
Vistogard® is not recommended for the non-emergent treatment of adverse reactions associated with fluorouracil or capecitabine because it may diminish the efficacy of these drugs.
The safety and efficacy of Vistogard® initiated more than 96 hours following the end of fluorouracil or capecitabine administration have not been established.
In clinical studies, adverse reactions occurring in > 2% patients receiving Vistogard® were vomiting (10%), nausea (5%) and diarrhea (3%).
One patient receiving uridine triacetate experienced grade 3 nausea and vomiting.
Vistogard® was discontinued for adverse reactions in 2 (1.4%) patients.
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About Vistogard® (uridine triacetate) oral granules
Vistogard® (uridine triacetate) is an orally administered drug approved by the FDA to treat patients following an overdose of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) or capecitabine or in patients exhibiting early-onset, severe or life-threatening toxicity affecting the cardiac or central nervous system, and/or early-onset, unusually severe adverse reactions (e.g., gastrointestinal toxicity and/or neutropenia) within 96 hours following the end of 5-FU or capecitabine administration. Vistogard® received orphan drug designation from the FDA as an antidote in the treatment of 5-FU poisoning and from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as a treatment for 5-FU overdose. In Europe, under a named patient program, Vistogard® is currently provided to patients at risk of excess 5-FU toxicity due to overdose and patients exhibiting severe toxicities to 5-FU within 96 hours of 5-FU administration.
For more information please visit www.vistogard.com.
About 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU)
5-FU is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, a compilation of the most important medications needed in a basic health system. Because 5-FU is administered in different doses and schedules as a frequent component of standard chemotherapy regimens for a variety of cancers, patients can experience dramatically different patterns of toxicity.
Used in combination with other chemotherapy agents and/or radiation, 5-FU has been for decades a mainstay of various treatment regimens for solid tumors, including those of the colon, pancreas, stomach, esophagus, breast, and head and neck. The drug is most commonly administered by infusion pump at or near what is considered the maximum tolerated dose. Expected side effects of 5-FU include myelosuppression (a reduction in white-blood-cell counts and thus increased risk of infection), diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and mucositis (a painful inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the digestive tract). Overexposure to 5-FU can lead to severe myelosuppression, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, septic shock, multiple organ failure, cardiac and neurological complications, and death.
About Capecitabine
Capecitabine is an orally administered chemotherapy prodrug 5-FU that is enzymatically activated within the body and transformed into 5-FU. When capecitabine comes into contact with a naturally occurring protein called thymidine phosphorylase, capecitabine is transformed into 5-FU. Because many cancers have higher levels of thymidine phosphorylase than do normal tissues, more 5-FU is delivered to the tumor than to other tissue.
About Wellstat Therapeutics
Wellstat Therapeutics Corporation is a privately-held biopharmaceutical company located in Rockville, Maryland. Wellstat Therapeutics is committed to discovering, developing and commercializing products that will provide new and improved treatments for patients in the fields of oncology and metabolic, neurometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.wellstattherapeutics.com. Wellstat Therapeutics is part of the Wellstat group of companies (http://www.wellstat.com).
About BTG
BTG is a growing international specialist healthcare company bringing to market innovative products in specialist areas of medicine to better serve doctors and their patients. We have a portfolio of Interventional Medicine products to advance the treatment of cancer tumors, advanced emphysema, severe blood clots and varicose veins, and Specialty Pharmaceuticals that help patients overexposed to certain medications or toxins. Inspired by patient and physician needs, BTG is investing to expand its portfolio to address some of today's most complex healthcare challenges. To learn more about BTG, please visit: www.btgplc.com.
VISTOGARD® is indicated for the emergency treatment of adult and pediatric patients:
following a fluorouracil or capecitabine overdose regardless of the presence of symptoms, or
who exhibit early-onset, severe or life- threatening toxicity affecting the cardiac or central nervous system, and/or earlyonset, unusually severe adverse reactions (e.g., gastrointestinal toxicity and/or neutropenia) within 96 hours following the end of fluorouracil or capecitabine administration
Limitations of use
VISTOGARD® is not recommended for the non–emergent treatment of adverse reactions associated with fluorouracil or capecitabine because it may diminish the efficacy of these drugs.
The safety and efficacy of VISTOGARD initiated more than 96 hours following the end of fluorouracil or capecitabine administration have not been established.
In clinical studies, adverse reactions occurring in >2% of patients receiving VISTOGARD® included vomiting (10%), nausea (5%), and diarrhea (3%).
One person receiving uridine triacetate experienced grade 3 nausea and vomiting.
Wellstat Therapeutics Corporation is a privately-held biopharmaceutical company located in Rockville, Maryland. Wellstat Therapeutics is committed to discovering, developing and commercializing products that will provide new and improved treatments for patients in the fields of oncology and metabolic, neurometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. For more information, please visit the website at www.wellstattherapeutics.com. Wellstat Therapeutics is part of the Wellstat group of companies (www.wellstat.com).
Vistogard® is a registered trademark of Wellstat Therapeutics Corporation. "Wellstat" and the Wellstat logo are trademarks of Wellstat.
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In clinical studies, adverse reactions occurring in >2% of patients receiving VISTOGARD included vomiting (10%), nausea (5%), and diarrhea (3%).
VISTOGARD was discontinued for adverse reactions in 2 (1.4%) patients.
Enroll patients as soon as Vistogard® is initiated by calling BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy of Maryland at 1-844-374-0604.
The Vistogard® Case Management Program is administered by BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy of Maryland on behalf of Wellstat Therapeutics
Benefits of the Case Management Program include:
Facilitate a smooth pathway to transition patients from inpatient to outpatient care
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Adherence calls once per day to ensure completion of the full 20-dose course of therapy (1 dose, every 6 hours, for 5 days)
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Year 7 will focus on disseminating resources and providing training to lSDs, LEAs, and internal MDE staff to support EWIMS implementation in the field. With these tools and resources in place, districts and schools will be able to use the EWS tool and EWIMS process, districts will better identify and support individual students struggling to reach on-time graduation, and the state will be able to achieve its mission of helping all students graduate ready for careers and college.
MDE Strategic Plan goal 4 is to reduce the impact of high-risk factors, including poverty, and provide equitable resources to meet the needs of all students to ensure that they have access to quality educational opportunities that prepare them for careers and college. To realize this goal, MDE will need to address the significant disparities among student subgroups. According to Michigan school data reports, the overall graduation rate was 80 percent in 2016–17; however, the four-year graduation rate was 68.5 percent for African-American students, 73.2 percent for Hispanic students and English learners, 69.3 percent for economically disadvantaged students, and 56.6 percent for students with disabilities.
MDE has improved material capacity to support districts with identification of promising, research-based, evidence-based practices that improve attendance, behavior, and course performance.
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LEAs have increased material capacity to implement EWIMS using Michigan-specific resources.
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When you think of the things that dogs normally get up to when you're not around, you probably assume they run around, jump on things, chew things and then maybe go to sleep but I bet you never thought that you might leave one day for work and come back to find that they've formed a death metal band with their other doggo mates.
Nevertheless, this is exactly what apparently happened when some dude left the house for his job one day, and the dogs even managed to form a music video for their effort too. The song is called 'Who Poo Poo'd In My House?' and is about everything you would expect from a bunch of dogs playing death metal.
Well, that was weird wasn't it? And not really the kind of cute dog video that I expected it to be – it was actually kinda terrifying. I suppose that's what death metal videos in general are like though so I guess you can't blame them for making it authentic though hey? Still a bit much though I reckon.
For more dogs playing death metal, check out this dog rocking out like Joey Jordison. Legend.


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Home » Coast to coast » Mumia red alert!
Stalwart Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters have again issued red alerts during the week of March 13 in the form of e-blasts to constituents urging them to call, fax or email messages demanding that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel and Mahanoy Superintendent Theresa DelBalso stop the state's deliberate foot-dragging and begin treating the world-famous political prisoner.
Mumia has a life-threatening hepatitis-C condition and needs a type of medication proven to have a 99 percent success rate. Deliberate delay continues to severely endanger this heroic freedom fighter's life.
Recent visits by movement leaders Pam Africa, Suzanne Ross and Johanna Fernandez of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Free Mumia Coalition and the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, respectively, confirmed that his life-threatening condition has continued since its discovery last year. In fact, Mumia's physical condition continues to dangerously decline daily.
"3. Vigilant monitoring of Mumia for signs of diabetes — especially his blood sugar, since an attack nearly killed him in the spring of 2015!
"Mahanoy Prison Superintendent Theresa DelBalso, phone 570-773-2158 (expect sandbagging from personal secretary).


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How many species of penguins are there? Do you have a favorite penguin species? Firstly, penguins are some of the most beloved animals on the planet and with good reason! There are 18 different species of penguins, each with its own unique features and personality. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at each of these 18 species and learn more about what makes them so special. We will also discuss the threats that these animals face and what we can do to help protect them. So without further ado, let's get started!
Species of Penguins
Emperor Penguins
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The Emperor Penguin is the largest penguin species, measuring up to 115 cm in height and weighing up to 45 kg. Additionally, these animals are found exclusively in Antarctica and are well-adapted to the icy conditions, with a thick layer of blubber that helps keep them warm. Emperor Penguins are known for their impressive diving abilities and can plunge down to depths of more than 500 meters in search of food.
Gentoo Penguins
The Gentoo Penguin is one of the most common penguin species and can be found throughout the southern hemisphere. Moreover, these animals are easily recognizable by their bright red eyes and orange beak. Gentoo Penguins are well-adapted to cold weather and are capable of swimming long distances in search of food.
Humboldt Penguins
The Humboldt Penguin is a species that is found exclusively in South America. These animals are named after the cold Humboldt Current, which runs along the coast of Chile and Peru. Humboldt Penguins are well-adapted to the chilly waters and can remain submerged for up to 20 minutes at a time.
Adelie Penguins
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The Adelie Penguin is a species that is found in the Antarctic region. These animals are named after Adele Island, which is located near the coast of Antarctica. Adelie Penguins are medium-sized penguins that are well-adapted to the cold weather. However, they are known for their playful nature and are often seen swimming, diving, and playing together in large groups.
King Penguins
The King Penguin is the second-largest penguin species, measuring up to 95 cm in height and weighing up to 25 kg. These animals are found in the sub-Antarctic region of the world and are well-adapted to the cold weather. Certainly, King Penguins are known for their distinctive black and white plumage, which helps them blend in with their surroundings.
Rockhopper Penguins
The Rockhopper Penguin is a species that is found in the sub-Antarctic region of the world. These animals are named after the rocky islands that they inhabit. Rockhopper Penguins are small penguins that are well-adapted to the cold weather. They are known for their lively personality and are often seen hopping along the rocks in search of food.
Magellanic Penguins
The Magellanic Penguin is a species that is found in South America. These animals are named after the Magellan Strait, which runs between Argentina and Chile. Magellanic Penguins are small penguins that are well-adapted to warm weather. They are known for their black and white plumage, which helps them blend in with their surroundings.
Little Penguins
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The Little Penguin is the smallest penguin species, measuring up to 30 cm in height and weighing up to kg. Moreover, these animals are found throughout the world and are well-adapted to a variety of different climates. Little Penguins are known for their playful nature and are often seen swimming, diving, and playing together in large groups.
The Fiordland Penguin is a species that is found in New Zealand. Above all, these animals are named after the Fiordland National Park, which is located in the southwestern corner of the country. Fiordland Penguins are small penguins that are well-adapted to the cold weather. They are known for their black and white plumage, which helps them blend in with their surroundings.
Yellow-Eyed Penguins
The Yellow-Eyed Penguin is a species that is found in New Zealand. These animals are named after their distinctive yellow eyes. Yellow-Eyed Penguins are medium-sized penguins that are well-adapted to the cold weather. They are known for their playful nature and are often seen swimming, diving, and playing together in large groups.
Southern Rockhopper Penguins
The Southern Rockhopper Penguin is a species that is found in the sub-Antarctic region of the world. These animals are named after the rocky islands that they inhabit. Southern Rockhopper Penguins are medium-sized penguins that are well-adapted to the cold weather. They are known for their lively personality and are often seen hopping along the rocks in search of food.
Northern Rockhopper Penguins
The Northern Rockhopper Penguin is a species that is found in the sub-Antarctic region of the world. These animals are named after the rocky islands that they inhabit. Northern Rockhopper Penguins are medium-sized penguins that are well-adapted to the cold weather. They are known for their lively personality and are often seen hopping along the rocks in search of food.
Erect-crested Penguins
The Erect-crested Penguin is a species that is found in New Zealand. These animals are named for their distinctive erect crest of feathers on their head. Erect-crested Penguins are medium-sized penguins that are well-adapted to the cold weather. They are also known for their playful natures and fun group activities!
Macaroni Penguins
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The Macaroni Penguin is a species that is found in the sub-Antarctic region of the world. However, these animals are named for their distinctive yellow crest of feathers on their head.
Chinstrap Penguins
The Chinstrap Penguin is a species of penguin that is found in the sub-Antarctic region of the world. These animals are named for the black band of feathers that runs across their chin.
Snares Penguins
Snares Penguins are a species of penguin that is found in the sub-Antarctic region of the world. These animals are named for the snares that are used to trap them on the islands where they live.
Galapagos Penguins
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The Galapagos Penguin is a species of penguin that is found on the Galapagos Islands. These animals are named for the islands where they live. Galapagos Penguins are small penguins that are well-adapted to the warm weather.
African Penguins
The African Penguin is a species of penguin that is found on the coast of Africa. These animals are named for the continent where they live. Like Galapagos Penguins, African Penguins are small penguins that are well-adapted to the warm weather.
Penguins are a species of bird that can be found all around the world. They live in diverse climates and come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors. Some penguin species have adapted to cold weather while others prefer warm temperatures; some are solitary creatures while others enjoy group activities with other members of their kind. In conclusion, we hope you have enjoyed learning about the 18 different penguin species that can be found in the world today!
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Kendal Calling 2019 is sure to be one of the region's biggest music events of the year.
Ahead of this year's festival, LancsLive, will be your go-to place for all things related to the Lowther Deer Park event.
We'll bring you everything you need to know about the festival. From the line up, set times, travel information and more we'll have every detail covered for you.
This year, the event will welcome headline performances from Sir Tom Jones, Courteeners, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Manic Street Preachers and lots of other big music stars.
Aside from who is playing, a key thing you need to know is what you can and can't take on to the beautiful festival grounds. And, below you'll find our helpful guide to what's banned from Kendal Calling 2019 as well as what security measures are in place.
The festival will take place between Thursday, July 25 and Sunday, July 28.


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Is a professional-level camera required for on-the-go telemedicine consults? The rise of healthcare using mobile devices—known as mhealth—is leading to questions about whether the images taken with smartphones can be trusted for accurate clinical diagnoses.
A recent study, published in Telemedicine and e-Health, indicates that mobile images taken with native smartphone apps can indeed be used for telemedicine consultations. Non-medical participants consistently rated smartphone photos of non-clinical subjects as being of comparable quality to images taken with a professional digital camera.
Three current model smartphones—but not top-of-the-line—were selected because they are more likely to be available in resource-poor settings where a medical consultation may be required. To avoid mixing the concepts of image quality and value in diagnosis, a lay audience was asked to compare the mobile images against photos from the Canon Mark II, which represents the "gold standard" of professional photography. None of the photos were retouched or enhanced. Participants rated the photos on five criteria (focus, composition, resolution, color, and contrast) and chose what they considered to be the best images.
The Apple iPhone 4 earned the highest individual ratings, producing images that were sometimes preferred over the Canon's photos. The Samsung Galaxy S2 and BlackBerry 9800 were judged as being on par with the Canon.
Considering that the quality of mobile images was not significantly different from that of professional photos, the researchers concluded that mobile devices can be an adequate substitute for digital cameras in a telemedicine setting.
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As a leading producer of hydroelectric energy in the world, Canada is home to more than 500 generating facilities that produce over 60 percent of Canadian electricity using hydropower technology.
"Hydropower has been the quiet leader for Canadian electricity consumers for many years," Hydro Review magazine reported. "It is so deeply rooted in Canada that many people use the terms 'hydro' and 'electricity' interchangeably. Canadians often refer to paying their phone bill, their cable bill and their hydro bill."
Hydropower technologies divert the force of moving water through a closed conduit or pipe, known as a penstock, to a scroll case that houses a turbine. The moving water causes blades on the turbine to rotate, which in turn propels a shaft attached to a generator to produce electricity.
"With many rivers across the country, Canada has hydropower in all regions," according to WaterPower Canada (WPC), which is the national trade association formerly known as the Canadian Hydropower Association. "Over the years, hydropower has been the leading source of electricity in Canada and its predominance continues today."
Citing the efficiency of hydropower, the WPC emphasized that modern hydroelectric stations can convert more than 95 percent of the available energy from the river into electricity. That compares to about 60 percent efficiency for fossil fuel power plants.
"Hydropower stations have a very long service life, which can be extended further with refurbishment works," the WPC explained. "In addition to extending the service life of hydropower facilities by decades, the rehabilitation of installations can provide an opportunity to improve the efficiency of facilities and increase their capacity to meet peak power demand."
This year, Canadian electric utility BC Hydro of British Columbia is scheduled to complete 100 major upgrades to its Bridge River hydropower system at a cost of $700 million. The Bridge River complex consists of three dams and stores water for four generating stations, according to BC Hydro. The system uses Bridge River water three times in succession to generate 492 megawatts, or 6 to 8 percent of British Columbia's electrical supply.
The scope of work announced by BC Hydro included replacing generating equipment in the Bridge River 2 powerhouse and relining the entire length of the penstock from its inlet valve down to the end of the scroll case that houses the turbines.
The relining project presented several challenges for Tyler Colby and his 27-man crew from Jewel Holdings of Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The project's remote location required crew members to travel daily over a narrow gravel road or by boat from their lodgings in local towns to the job site where they worked 12-hour shifts. Depending on weather conditions, their commute could take up to 50 minutes one way.
The steel penstock, measuring 10 feet in diameter and approximately 5,000 feet long, descended along a downhill slope that created a demanding work environment for Colby's crew.
"The most difficult part of the job was surface preparation inside the penstock," Colby recalled. "About 60 percent of the interior surface of the penstock was pitted and corroded from deposits of magnetite, which is very difficult to remove. It took a tremendous effort to clean the steel prior to coating."
Inside the scroll case, the coating crew encountered technicians representing several different trades installing the new generators.
"Working among seven or eight different trades in the powerhouse at the same time was like working in a beehive," Colby observed. "That many people in the powerhouse made the surface prep and coating processes very difficult logistically."
As the project progressed into the summer, temperatures inside the penstock reached up to 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees F). To combat the heat, insulation was placed on the exterior of the penstock which was segregated into sections where dehumidification equipment and a 100-ton air conditioning unit were used to cool the interior.
"It was November by the time we finished the project and snow had already hit the ground," Colby noted. "We were getting down to minus 5-degree Celsius temperatures, so we swapped out our air conditioning unit for a 75 KVA inline electric heater until the job was finished."
The coating specification for the project contained very stringent performance requirements, which the coating contractor was able to achieve with technical support from Tnemec and Norm Walline of HDIM Protective Coatings.
"This was an extremely challenging project, but Tnemec tech service staff was on-site helping us with different technical aspects of the job from the time it was awarded to the final hand-over meeting," Colby shared. "Their customer service was very good."
Severely pitted surfaces of the penstock were filled with a trowel-applied coat of Series 215 Surfacing Epoxy, an advanced-generation, 100-percent solids epoxy filler. A specially modified plural component sprayer was used to apply Series 431 Perma-Shield PL, a 100-percent solids high-build modified liner developed for the unique needs of steel and ductile iron pipe.
"The lining material was phenomenal to work with," Colby said. "Using the modified spray equipment, we were able to apply a nice, continuous film with only 2.5 mils deviation in thickness through the entire penstock. That was pretty exciting to us."
Walline estimated more than 6,000 gallons of lining materials were required to achieve the continuous dry film thickness of 45 mils throughout the penstocks.
Both Walline and Colby are looking forward to working on other penstock projects using the same lining system that proved successful at the Bridge River 2 facility.
"It was a very unique project and the first of a substantial recoating program for BC Hydro penstocks for years to come," Walline added. "In British Columbia and Quebec there are close to 30 penstocks that will need recoating over the next several years and we hope to be working with many of those."
BC Hydro is the third largest electric utility in Canada, serving approximately 1.9 million customers throughout the province of British Columbia. The primary source of BC Hydro's generation is several large hydroelectric generating stations combined with water reservoirs located throughout the province.
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By Jennifer Ouellette on July 29, 2011
It's been a few weeks since we had a roundup of Friday Fodder here at the cocktail party, and it's high time we got back on schedule. So here's a sampling of cool physics-y links to liven up your cocktail party conversation this weekend.
Simulating the End of Time. Physicists at the University of Maryland -- the same group that brought you analogues of black holes back in 2006 -- have now used plasmons ("a two-dimensional form of light that moves along the interface between a metal and an insulator") to create analogues of what might happen to spacetime at the end of time itself. According to George Musser of Scientific American, they ended up with some unusual nonlinear effects corresponding to "the creation of particles—basically, Hawking radiation. In short, matter would go haywire at end of time. It would not go gentle into that good night." Or, as Brandom Keim put it over at Wired Science's coverage of the same story, "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a higher harmonic generation." And in other time-related news, physicists re-confirm that time travel is probably impossible.
Oh, the Glare. Chad over at Uncertain Principles wondered how effective polarized sunglasses really are at blocking polarized light. So like any good physicist, he did the experiment.
Naked Science: The Singularity. No, not the kind of singularity futurists are always going on about. Over at io9, physicist Dave Goldberg tells you all about the science of a black hole's singularity -- and whether such a singularity could exist without the "clothing" of an event horizon. If so, then we might one day be able to observe the singularity without, you know, all the dying and stuff. Because once you fall into a black hole, Goldberg warns, "you get killed very quickly — it takes about a tenth of a second between mild discomfort and being ripped to shreds by tidal forces."
Through a Scanner, Lightly. The BBC made an eye-catching video of a multimedia musical performance by the Aurora Orchestra in London's Wilton's Musical Hall. The piece was composed by Mira Calix and Anna Meredith, who got their inspiration from the sounds of an MRI machine. Definitely worth a listen.
Zombie Science of the Week: Over at Scientific American's Science Sushi blog, Nerdy Christie tells you all about soy sauce (or salt in general) and why it seems to reanimate the dead.
Hubble Space Telescope and the Scarlet Letters. Richard Panek at The Last Word on Nothing delves into an intriguing bit of recent space history, looking back to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1986.
The idea was to include a small memento for the mission. Perhaps a pipe belonging to Edwin Hubble himself? Or something better: "What about the photographic plate with which Hubble had made the discovery that essentially began modern cosmology: that our vast menagerie of stars is not alone but is, as we now know, merely one among billions of galaxies clouding the universe as far as even HST would be able to see?"
In Defense of the James Webb Space Telescope. Physicist Lawrence Krauss writes an impassioned essay over at Richard Dawkins' place on why the successor to Hubble is important not just for science, but also for inspiring the public -- and, one hopes, a new generation of scientists.
The cancellation of the JWST would likely herald the beginning of the end of US leadership in Space Science, just as the cancellation of the SSC moved the center of gravity in particle physics to Europe. The JWST was designed to take off where the Hubble Space telescope—which has revolutionized astronomy—has ended, by taking us to the very beginnings of visible structure in the Universe. It was meant to be the centerpiece of astronomy for the next two decades, and without it, the tantalizing hints that Hubble has been able to glean about our beginnings will remain just that for perhaps a generation. ...
But the potential loss of the JWST is far greater than just science. It is hard to think of a single NASA project, exceeding even the Mars Rovers, that has captured the imagination of the public, and in particular children, than the images of the cosmos provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. Whenever I lecture and show a Hubble photo I can be guaranteed to provoke excitement and awe. One can only imagine what inspirations the next generation will miss without another comparable eye in the sky.
The Science of Scotch. Over at Popular Science, reporter Paul Adams samples a bit of aged scotch at the Tales of the Cocktail convention in (where else?) New Orleans. But first, the chosen scotch is fractionated by scientist Dave Arnold: "He has set up his laboratory evaporator and physically separated out the flavor components in a glass of Glenlivet so they can be sipped individually.... The evaporator uses a process of vacuum distillation at room temperature to separate liquids based on their relative volatility."
Hot Enough To Fry an Egg? As the Northeast simmered in record-breaking heat, Alexis Madrigal and his colleagues at the Atlantic wondered if it was really possible to fry an egg on the pavement -- or, even better, on the rooftop of the infamous Watergate Hotel. So they did the experiment. Also? Here's a brief history of the science of air-conditioning.
When Circuits Go Squish. Who knew that PlayDoh could be used to build simple circuits? Lots of folks, apparently. The Exploratorium offers this terrific post and photographs of the museum's first session of summer trainings with its High School Explainers. "We led three workshops on squishy circuits on different days hoping that as many Explainers as possible could try out this activity. The workshops started with the challenge of using the playdough and batteries to turn on an LED and then progressed to free exploration with all the materials."
The Ladies of the Mercury 13. Via Science 2.0 we learned that in the early days of the space race, NASA investigated the possibility of training women rather than men as astronauts for those early Mercury missions. (In other space trivia, apparently the spacesuits worn by the Apollo astronauts were handmade by seamstresses at Playtex.) Meet the 13 women who passed the same rigorous testing procedures as their male counterparts. In the end they didn't go to space, but they definitely brought some advantages.
Their proposition was based purely on physiology and practicality. They recognized that women's lighter weights would reduce the amount of propulsion fuel being used by the rocket's load and that women would require less auxiliary oxygen than men. They knew that women had fewer heart attacks than men and their reproductive system was thought to be less susceptible to radiation than a male's. Finally, preliminary data suggested that women could outperform men in enduring cramped spaces and prolonged isolation.
One-Minute Physics: Dark Matter. Is it possible to summarize the basic physics of dark matter in one minute? Watch the video and decide for yourself!
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Jennifer Ouellette is a science writer who loves to indulge her inner geek by finding quirky connections between physics, popular culture, and the world at large. Follow Jennifer Ouellette on Twitter
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